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HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding a response to the 2016-2017 Grand Jury Report: Managing Regional Water Supplies, as follows: (EST. TIME: 15 MIN.)
Acting as the Board of Supervisors:
a) Consider and adopt responses as the Board of Supervisors’ response to the 2016-2017 Grand Jury report entitled "Managing Regional Water Supplies, Are There Better Solutions?";
b) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a letter and forward the letter and responses to the Presiding Judge of Santa Barbara County Superior Court;
c) Determine pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guideline 15378(b)(5) that the above actions are not a project subject to CEQA review because they are organizational or administrative activities that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes to the environment; and
Acting as the Board of Directors, Water Agency:
d) Consider and adopt responses as the Water Agency Board of Directors’ response to the 2016-2017 Grand Jury report entitled "Managing Regional Water Supplies, Are There Better Solutions?";
e) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a letter and forward the letter and responses to the Presiding Judge of Santa Barbara County Superior Court; and
f) Determine pursuant to CEQA Guideline 15378(b)(5) that the above actions are not a project subject to CEQA review because they are organizational or administrative activities that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes to the environment.
COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S RECOMMENDATION: APPROVE