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HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding a response to the 2018-2019 Grand Jury Report: The Cachuma Project Contract and Management, as follows: (EST. TIME: 30 MIN.)
Acting as the Board of Supervisors:
a) Consider and adopt the responses as the Board of Supervisors’ and the Santa Barbara County Water Agency’s combined response to the 2018-2019 Grand Jury report entitled “The Cachuma Project Contract and Management. Whiskey Is For Drinking - But MUST We Fight Over Water?”;
b) Authorize the Chair to sign the letter and forward the letter and responses to the Presiding Judge of Santa Barbara County Superior Court; and
c) Determine pursuant to California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines 15378(b)(5) that the above actions are not a project subject to CEQA review, because they are government administrative activities that does not result in direct or indirect physical changes to the environment; and
Acting as the Board of Directors, Water Agency:
d) Consider and adopt the responses as the Board of Supervisors’ and the Santa Barbara County Water Agency’s combined response to the 2018-2019 Grand Jury report entitled “The Cachuma Project Contract and Management. Whiskey Is For Drinking - But MUST We Fight Over Water?”;
e) Authorize the Chair to sign the letter and forward the letter and responses to the Presiding Judge of Santa Barbara County Superior Court; and
f) Determine pursuant to CEQA Guidelines 15378(b)(5) that the above actions are not a project subject to CEQA review, because they are government administrative activities that does not result in direct or indirect physical changes to the environment.
COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S RECOMMENDATION: POLICY