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Consider recommendations regarding the authorization of an Agreement for Services with AMEC Environment and Infrastructure, Inc. to complete an Environmental Impact Report for the Amendments to the County Comprehensive Plan and Land Use and Development Code (CP/LUDC) and Cuyama Solar Facility Project, First District, as follows: (4/5 Vote Required)
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute an Agreement for Services with AMEC Environment and Infrastructure, Inc. to complete an Environmental Impact Report for the Amendments to the Comprehensive Plan and Land Use Development Code and Cuyama Solar Facility Project for the period of October 8, 2013 through October 8, 2014 in an amount not to exceed $99,042.00, which includes a base cost of $86,124.00 as proposed by the contractor and a 15 percent contingency cost of $12,918.00;
b) Approve Budget Revision Request No. 0003129 increasing Account 7510, Contractual Services, offset by an increase to revenue Account 5101, Environmental Resource Service, in Planning and Development in the amount of $99,042.00; and
c) Determine that this action is exempt from CEQA pursuant to Section 15378(b)(5), which are organizational or administrative activities of governments that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes to the environment.