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HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding the Agricultural Worker Transportation Program, Third, Fourth and Fifth Districts, as follows: (EST. TIME: 1 HR.)
a) Receive and file a progress report from the Public Works Department regarding the County’s Agricultural Worker Transportation Program (AWTP);
b) Receive a presentation from Ron Hughes, Executive Director of Kings County Area Public Transit Agency regarding CalVAN, a State-wide Vanpool Agency;
c) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a letter requesting that the SBCAG Board of Directors consider participation in CalVAN as the region’s designated ride-share authority;
d) Direct staff to return to the Board of Supervisors in the spring of 2011 with a report from Caltrans on procedures for concluding the AWTP in an orderly manner, including directions on how to surplus or transfer assets and vans by June 30, 2011; and
e) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute Amendment No. 2 to the Contract with the Santa Maria Organization of Transportation Helpers (SMOOTH), extending the contract term to June 30, 2011.
COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S RECOMMENDATION: APPROVE