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Consider recommendations regarding an update on the 2015-2016 El Niño Winter Season Homeless Warming Center and Day Center programs, Modification to Warming Center Activation Criteria, and Increase in Warming Center funding from $50,000.00 to $70,000.00 (Countywide), as follows:
a) Modify the Warming Center weather activation criteria for the Warming Centers to only operate when either:
i) An overnight temperature of 35 degrees or less is predicted; or
ii) There is greater than 50 percent chance of rain predicted for 1 day;
b) Approve and authorize the Purchasing Agent to execute a First Amendment to the Agreement with the Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara (USSB) for its Warming Center program to revise the activation criteria and increase the program budget by $20,000.00, for a total of $70,000.00 for Fiscal Year (FY) 2016-2017;
c) Approve Budget Revision No. 0004833 to increase appropriations of $20,000.00 in Housing and Community Development’s General Fund for Other Charges funded by savings within Salaries and Employee Benefits. Overall Department budget will remain unchanged. (BJE-0004833); and
d) Determine that these actions are exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to the CEQA Guidelines Section 15061 (b) (3), finding that the execution of these actions are 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 the activity may have a significant effect on the environment, the activities are not subject to CEQA.