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Consider recommendations regarding a Reservation Letter for Opioid Settlement Funding for the Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse (CADA) for the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) Bond Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program (BHCIP) Round 1 Launch Ready Program Grant Application, First District, as follows:
a) Approve a reservation of $800,000.00 in Opioid Settlement Funds, which will serve as matching funds required under the California DHCS Bond BHCIP Round 1 Launch Ready Program Grant application for development of a facility to expand adult residential treatment beds in the First District of Santa Barbara County by CADA;
b) Authorize the Behavioral Wellness Director, or designee, to execute a Reservation Letter in a form substantially similar to the CADA Reservation Letter;
c) Direct staff to return to the Board with a funding agreement if CADA is awarded Bond BHCIP Round 1 Launch Ready Program funds; and
d) Determine that the above actions are government funding mechanisms or other government fiscal activities that do not involve any commitment to any specific project that may result in a potentially significant physical impact on the environment and are organizational or administrative activities of the government that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment and are therefore not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15378(b)(4) and (b)(5) of the CEQA Guidelines and are otherwise activities that are exempt from CEQA review per CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3) since it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility the recommended actions may have a significant effect on the environment.