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Consider recommendations regarding Covid-19 Testing Contracts and Supplemental Paid Sick Leave (SPSL), as follows:
a) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Director of the Human Resources Department to execute a Memorandum of Understanding with the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) to utilize the State’s Valencia Branch Laboratory for expedited COVID-19 testing beginning September 30, 2021 and terminating when the County of Santa Barbara local declared emergency regarding COVID-19 is no longer in effect as determined by the Board of Supervisors or as may be earlier revoked by the Board;
b) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Director of the Human Resources Department to execute a Master Agreement with Aptitude Clinical Laboratories LLC, located in Goleta, California, for expedited COVID-19 testing beginning January 25, 2022 and terminating when the County of Santa Barbara local declared emergency regarding COVID-19 is no longer in effect as determined by the Board of Supervisors or as may be earlier revoked by the Board;
c) Adopt a Resolution, effective January 1, 2022 authorizing and ratifying action to grant a bank of up to 80 hours of additional County paid leave to regular employees and pro-rated for part time and extra help employees (up to 112 hours to Fire Department employees in 112 hour per pay-period shift assignments) to implement California Senate Bill 114; and
d) Determine that the recommended actions are not a “Project” that are subject to environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(5), because they are organizational or administrative activities of the government that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.