File #: 23-01067    Version: 1
Type: Administrative Item Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 10/30/2023 In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 11/7/2023 Final action: 11/7/2023
Title: Consider recommendations regarding a Third Amendment to the Agreement for Professional Legal Services with Outside Counsel Rutan and Tucker, LLP, as follows: (4/5 Vote Required) Acting as the Board of Directors, Flood Control and Water Conservation District: a) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Chair to execute the Third Amendment to the Agreement for Professional Legal Services between the Santa Barbara County Flood Control and Water Conservation District and attorney Douglas Dennington, of the law firm Rutan and Tucker, LLP, to increase the maximum contract amount by $125,000.00 for a new maximum contract amount not to exceed $575,000.00 and extend the contract term to June 30, 2024; 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 chan...
Sponsors: COUNTY COUNSEL
Attachments: 1. Board Letter, 2. Attachment A - Third Amendment, 3. Attachment B - Second Amendment, 4. Attachment C - First Amendment, 5. Attachment D - Agreement, 6. Executed Amendment, 7. Minute Order

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Consider recommendations regarding a Third Amendment to the Agreement for Professional Legal Services with Outside Counsel Rutan and Tucker, LLP, as follows: (4/5 Vote Required)

 

Acting as the Board of Directors, Flood Control and Water Conservation District:

 

a) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Chair to execute the Third Amendment to the Agreement for Professional Legal Services between the Santa Barbara County Flood Control and Water Conservation District and attorney Douglas Dennington, of the law firm Rutan and Tucker, LLP, to increase the maximum contract amount by $125,000.00 for a new maximum contract amount not to exceed $575,000.00 and extend the contract term to June 30, 2024; 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.