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Consider recommendations regarding the Project Roomkey COVID-19 Homeless Task Force Response and Request to Ratify Execution of a Contract with Santa Barbara Hotel Group and a First Amendment of an Executed Professional Services Contract with PATH, as follows:
a) Approve and ratify the Emergency Occupancy Agreement between the County and the Santa Barbara Hotel Group for use on a month-to-month basis of a hotel located in Southern Santa Barbara County as non-congregate sheltering in response to COVID-19;
b) Authorize the Director of Emergency Services, or designee, until otherwise ordered by the Board, to continue utilizing the Emergency Occupancy Agreement to provide non-congregate sheltering in response to the COVID-19 pandemic for payments due under Section 4, in an amount not to exceed $900,000.00;
c) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the First Amendment to the PATH Agreement increasing the PATH Agreement by $74,000.00 to a not to exceed amount of $111,000.00;
d) Ratify receipt of State Project Roomkey Funding from the California Department of Social Services in an amount of $400,000.00; and
e) Determine that the recommended actions are not the acceptance and approval of a project that is subject to environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(4), finding that the project is a creation of government funding mechanisms or other government fiscal activities, which do not involve any commitment to any specific project which may result in a potentially significant physical impact on the environment; and that the actions are exempt from CEQA pursuant to Guidelines Section 15269(c) as they consist of specific actions necessary to prevent or mitigate an emergency and direct staff to file a Notice of Exemption on that basis.