File #: 14-00605    Version: 1
Type: Agenda Item Status: Passed
File created: In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 7/8/2014 Final action: 7/8/2014
Title: Consider recommendations regarding Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparity (RED) Grant, as follows: a) Authorize the Chief Probation Officer to submit an application and if granted, Probation will come back before the Board for approval to execute the Grant Award Agreement, and accept the anticipated funding of the 2015 Board of State and Community Corrections, Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparity (RED) Grant in the amount of $200,000.00 for the period covering October 1, 2014, to September 30, 2015; and b) Determine that the approval of the Agreement is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3), finding that this activity is covered by the general rule that CEQA applies only to projects which have the potential for causing a significant effect on the environment, and where it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that this activity may have a significant effect on the environment, the activity i...
Sponsors: PROBATION DEPARTMENT
Attachments: 1. Board Letter, 2. Notice of Exemption
Title
Consider recommendations regarding Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparity (RED) Grant, as follows:
 
a) Authorize the Chief Probation Officer to submit an application and if granted, Probation will come back before the Board for approval to execute the Grant Award Agreement, and accept the anticipated funding of the 2015 Board of State and Community Corrections, Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparity (RED) Grant in the amount of $200,000.00 for the period covering October 1, 2014, to September 30, 2015; and    
 
b) Determine that the approval of the Agreement is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3), finding that this activity is covered by the general rule that CEQA applies only to projects which have the potential for causing a significant effect on the environment, and where it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that this activity may have a significant effect on the environment, the activity is not subject to CEQA, and direct staff to file a Notice of Exemption.