File #: 18-00498    Version: 1
Type: Agenda Item Status: Passed
File created: In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 6/19/2018 Final action: 6/19/2018
Title: Consider recommendations regarding a contingent fee contract with the Law Firm of Baron and Budd, P.C., For Litigation Services in County of Santa Barbara v. Plains Pipeline, L.P. et al., as follows: (4/5 Vote Required) a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a contingent fee Professional Services Contract with the law firm of Baron and Budd, P.C., for the handling of the litigation entitled County of Santa Barbara v. Plains Pipeline, L.P. et al., Case No. 2:17-cv-09304-PSG-JEM, to recover damages from the May 2015 Refugio Oil Spill; and b) Determine that the above action is not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Sections 15378(b)(4) and 15378(b)(5) because it consists of government administrative or fiscal activities that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.
Sponsors: COUNTY COUNSEL
Attachments: 1. Board Letter, 2. Contract

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Consider recommendations regarding a contingent fee contract with the Law Firm of Baron and Budd, P.C., For Litigation Services in County of Santa Barbara v. Plains Pipeline, L.P. et al., as follows: (4/5 Vote Required)

 

a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a contingent fee Professional Services Contract with the law firm of Baron and Budd, P.C., for the handling of the litigation entitled County of Santa Barbara v. Plains Pipeline, L.P. et al., Case No. 2:17-cv-09304-PSG-JEM, to recover damages from the May 2015 Refugio Oil Spill; and

 

b) Determine that the above action is not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Sections 15378(b)(4) and 15378(b)(5) because it consists of government administrative or fiscal activities that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.