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Consider recommendations regarding a Landscape Maintenance Contract for County Parks Facilities, as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with ValleyCrest Landscape Maintenance, Inc. of Ventura (a local vendor) in the annual amount of $186,753.00 to provide landscape maintenance services to eighteen Community Services Department parks and open spaces located throughout the County for a period of twenty-four (24) months beginning July 1, 2014, and ending June 30, 2016, with two (2) additional two (2) year extension options; and
b) Determine that the approval and execution of the Agreement is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), pursuant to Section 15301 of the State Guidelines for the Implementation of CEQA, which consists of the operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, leasing, licensing, or minor alterations of existing public or private structures, facilities, mechanical equipment, or topographical features involving negligible or no expansion of existing use, and approve the filing of a Notice of Exemption on that basis.