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Consider recommendations regarding an Agreement for Professional Legal Services with Outside Counsel (Rutan and Tucker, LLP) for Consultation on Highway 101 Construction, as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement for Professional Legal Services between the County of Santa Barbara and Rutan and Tucker, LLP, in an amount not to exceed $40,000.00; and
b) Determine that the above action is not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Sections 15378(b)(4) and 15378(b)(5) because it consists of government administrative or fiscal activities that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.