File #: 21-00201    Version: 1
Type: Administrative Item Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 2/26/2021 In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 3/9/2021 Final action: 3/9/2021
Title: Consider recommendations regarding a Contract for Outside Counsel with Strumwasser and Woocher LLP, as follows: a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute an Agreement for Professional Legal Services with Strumwasser and Woocher LLP, with a not-to-exceed amount of $200,000.00 and a term ending April 30, 2022, for independent legal counsel to the County of Santa Barbara Citizens' Independent Redistricting Commission; and b) Determine that the above actions are not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15378(b)(5) of the CEQA Guidelines, because they consist of administrative activities of government that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.
Sponsors: COUNTY COUNSEL
Attachments: 1. Board Letter, 2. Attachment A - Agreement for Professional Legal Services - Strumwasser & Woocher, LLP, 3. Public Comment - DHILLON LAW GROUP, 4. Public Comment - Law Office of Philip A. Seymour, 5. Public Comment - Law Office of Scott J. Rafferty, 6. Public Comment - Caldwell, 7. Executed Agreement, 8. Minute Order

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Consider recommendations regarding a Contract for Outside Counsel with Strumwasser and Woocher LLP, as follows:

 

a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute an Agreement for Professional Legal Services with Strumwasser and Woocher LLP, with a not-to-exceed amount of $200,000.00 and a term ending April 30, 2022, for independent legal counsel to the County of Santa Barbara Citizens’ Independent Redistricting Commission; and

 

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