File #: 17-00547    Version: 1
Type: Appointment/BOS item Status: Passed
File created: In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 7/11/2017 Final action: 7/11/2017
Title: Consider recommendations regarding a Resolution declaring that the County of Santa Barbara will continue to support climate action to meet the Paris Agreement and directing the County Executive Officer (CEO) to register the County of Santa Barbara as a signatory to the "We Are Still In" open letter to the international community and parties to the Paris Agreement from U.S. State and Local Governments, Universities, and Businesses, as follows: a) Adopt a Resolution in support of the Paris Climate Agreement and the "We Are Still In" effort; b) Direct the CEO to register the County of Santa Barbara as a signatory to the "We are Still In" effort; and c) Determine that the above actions are organizational or administrative activities of government that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment and are not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to section 15378(b)(5) of the CEQA Guidelines.
Sponsors: SUPERVISOR WILLIAMS, SUPERVISOR HARTMANN
Attachments: 1. Board Letter, 2. Attachment A - Resolution, 3. Attachment B - We Are Still In Press Release

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Consider recommendations regarding a Resolution declaring that the County of Santa Barbara will continue to support climate action to meet the Paris Agreement and directing the County Executive Officer (CEO) to register the County of Santa Barbara as a signatory to the “We Are Still In” open letter to the international community and parties to the Paris Agreement from U.S. State and Local Governments, Universities, and Businesses, as follows:

 

a) Adopt a Resolution in support of the Paris Climate Agreement and the “We Are Still In” effort;

 

b) Direct the CEO to register the County of Santa Barbara as a signatory to the “We are Still In” effort; and

 

c) Determine that the above actions are organizational or administrative activities of government that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment and are not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to section 15378(b)(5) of the CEQA Guidelines.