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HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding an application for SB1022 State Financing for Northern Branch Jail Project expansion, as follows: (4/5 Vote Required) (EST. TIME: 1 HR.)
a) Receive a presentation and report from Sheriff Bill Brown on the opportunity to expand the Northern Branch Jail using funding provided by SB1022;
b) Consider an addendum to the Final Subsequent Environmental Impact Report (State Clearinghouse No. 2007111099) that the Board of Supervisors certified on March 11, 2008;
c) After considering the Final Subsequent Environmental Impact Report (SEIR), State Clearinghouse No. 2007111099, that the Board of Supervisors certified on March 11, 2008, the December 6, 2011 SEIR addendum, and the SEIR addendum, adopt the CEQA findings, and determine, pursuant to 14 CCR 15162(a), that no subsequent EIR or Negative Declaration is required for this project because:
i) No substantial changes are proposed in the project which require major revisions of the 2008 Final Subsequent EIR;
ii) No substantial changes have occurred with respect to the circumstances under which the project is undertaken which require major revisions of the 2008 Final Subsequent EIR; and
iii) No new information of substantial importance concerning the project's significant effects or mitigation measures, which was not known and could not have been known with the exercise of reasonable diligence at the time that the Final Subsequent EIR was certified in 2008, has been received that requires a subsequent EIR or Negative Declaration;
d) Receive the Planning Commission's report that construction of the proposed 228-bed facility is consistent with the Comprehensive Plan of the County of Santa Barbara pursuant to Government Code section 65402;
e) Adopt a Resolution to act as follows:
i) Authorize the Sheriff to submit an Application under SB1022 for beds and program space, for funding the expansion of the Northern Branch Jail project in the...
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