File #: 17-00297    Version: 1
Type: Agenda Item Status: Passed
File created: In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 5/2/2017 Final action: 5/2/2017
Title: HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding Cachuma Project - Water Service Contract Renewal, as follows: (EST. TIME: 45 MIN.) Acting as the Board of Directors, Water Agency: a) Approve and authorize the Chair to sign a letter to the United States Bureau of Reclamation to request renewal of the Water Service Contract for the Cachuma Project and initiate negotiations with the United States Bureau of Reclamation; and b) Find that the recommended action a, to authorize the Chair to sign a letter to request renewal of the Water Services Contact for the Cachuma Project and to initiate negotiations with the United States Bureau of Reclamation, is organizational or administrative activities that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes to the environment and therefore do not constitute a "Project" within the meaning of the California Environmental Quality Act, as set forth in 14 CCR 15378(b)(5). COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER'S RECOMMENDATION: APPROVE
Sponsors: PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, BOARD OF DIRECTORS, WATER AGENCY
Attachments: 1. Board Letter, 2. Attach A- Letter to the USBR, 3. Attach B Cachuma Contract with USBR, 4. Public Comment - Ruiz, 5. Public Comment - Santa Ynez River Water Conservation District, 6. Public Comment - City of Santa Barbara, 7. Presentation

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HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding Cachuma Project - Water Service Contract Renewal, as follows: (EST. TIME: 45 MIN.)

 

Acting as the Board of Directors, Water Agency:

 

a) Approve and authorize the Chair to sign a letter to the United States Bureau of Reclamation to request renewal of the Water Service Contract for the Cachuma Project and initiate negotiations with the United States Bureau of Reclamation; and

 

b) Find that the recommended action a, to authorize the Chair to sign a letter to request renewal of the Water Services Contact for the Cachuma Project and to initiate negotiations with the United States Bureau of Reclamation, is organizational or administrative activities that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes to the environment and therefore do not constitute a “Project” within the meaning of the California Environmental Quality Act, as set forth in 14 CCR 15378(b)(5).

 

COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S RECOMMENDATION: APPROVE