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Consider recommendations regarding actions to assist employees affected by the Thomas Fire, as follows:
a) Adopt a Resolution:
i) Granting, under section 27-12, subdivision (i) of the Santa Barbara County Code, eighty (80) hours of paid leave to employees whose homes were destroyed in the fire, and up to forty (40) hours of paid leave to other employees absent from work because of mandatory evacuation; and
ii) Authorizing Human Resources to purchase Ventura County Transportation Commission monthly bus passes and provide a monthly pass, free of charge, to employees lacking transportation to work because of the fire;
b) Find, pursuant to County Code Section 27-12(i), that the above action is in the best interest of the County, and does not amount to a gift of public funds prohibited by the California Constitution, because it serves public purposes which include retaining qualified and competent public employees;
c) Receive information on other actions that staff is pursuing or implementing; and
d) Determine, pursuant to California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines Section 15378(b)(4), that the above action is a government fiscal activity which does not involve any commitment to any specific project which may result in a potentially significant physical impact on the environment, and therefore is not a project subject to environmental review.