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HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding funding requests from outside agencies, as follows: (EST. TIME: 20 MIN.)
a) Receive and file a report and provide direction to staff regarding options to address funding requests from outside agencies during the budget process, as follows:
Option 1:
i) Continue the existing process but post information early and enforce deadline for submission of requests; or
Option 2:
ii) Require all outside agency requests be reviewed by Human Services Commission (for human service-related requests) and County Executive Office and/or other department staff (for other requests), with information provided to the Board for decisions at the June budget hearings; or
Option 3:
iii) Direct that a defined level of discretionary General Fund be allocated for all outside agency funding requests and require that all outside agency requests be evaluated through a formal Notice of Availability (NOFA) process, using the Human Services Commission (for human service-related requests) and County Executive Office (for other requests) staff, who would make recommendations on the allocation to outside agencies at or before budget hearings; or
iv) Provide other direction to staff as appropriate; and
b) Find that the proposed actions are not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Sections 15378(b)(4) and 15378(b)(5) of the CEQA Guidelines, because they are government fiscal, organizational, or administrative activities that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.
COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S RECOMMENDATION: POLICY