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Consider recommendations regarding Maddie’s Fund - No Place Like Home Challenge Grant Award, as follows: (4/5 Vote Required)
a) Approve the acceptance of a $3,000.00 grant award from the Maddie’s Fund® No Place Like Home Challenge to be paid by the Michelson Found Animals Foundation and authorize Maddie’s Fund® to distribute and/or include information about this grant in public reports, press releases and other public or private communications with input from the County;
b) Delegate to the Director of Animal Services the authority to provide input to Maddie’s Fund® on the use of the County’s name and/or logo in public reports, press releases and other public or private communications in accordance with the County of Santa Barbara Brand Guidelines and subject to the Board’s ability to rescind this delegated authority at any time;
c) Approve and authorize Animal Services to acknowledge the grant by using the hashtag #ThanksToMaddie in social media posts about this grant or activities funded by this grant; and
d) Determine that these activities are not the approval of a project subject to environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(4), finding that the action is not a project as it is the creation of a government funding mechanism or other government fiscal activity, which does not involve any commitment to any specific project which may result in a potentially significant physical impact on the environment.