File #: 24-00927    Version: 1
Type: Administrative Item Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 9/4/2024 In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 9/10/2024 Final action: 9/10/2024
Title: Consider recommendations regarding the creation of a Farmworker Living Wage Temporary Ad Hoc Advisory Committee, as follows: a) Create a temporary ad hoc advisory committee to work on an information item regarding farmworker wages in Santa Barbara County and appoint Supervisor Das Williams and Supervisor Joan Hartmann to the ad hoc committee; and b) Determine that the proposed action does not constitute a "Project" within the meaning of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), pursuant to Section 15378(b)(5) of the CEQA Guidelines, because it consists of an organizational or administrative activity of government which will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.
Sponsors: SUPERVISOR WILLIAMS, SUPERVISOR HARTMANN
Attachments: 1. Board Letter, 2. Attachment A - Harvesting Dignity - The Case for a Living Wage for Farmworkers, 3. Public Comment - Group 1, 4. Public Comment - EconAlliance, 5. Public Comment - SB County Flower and Nusery Association, 6. Public Comment - COLAB, 7. Public Comment - SB County Farm Bureau, 8. Public Comment - SB County Taxpayer Advocacy Center, 9. Public Comment - Group 2, 10. Public Comment - Niehaus, 11. Minute Order

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Consider recommendations regarding the creation of a Farmworker Living Wage Temporary Ad Hoc Advisory Committee, as follows:

 

a) Create a temporary ad hoc advisory committee to work on an information item regarding farmworker wages in Santa Barbara County and appoint Supervisor Das Williams and Supervisor Joan Hartmann to the ad hoc committee; and

 

b) Determine that the proposed action does not constitute a “Project” within the meaning of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), pursuant to Section 15378(b)(5) of the CEQA Guidelines, because it consists of an organizational or administrative activity of government which will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.