Meeting Name: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Agenda status: Approved
Meeting date/time: 2/14/2012 9:00 AM Minutes status: Approved  
Meeting location: JOSEPH CENTENO BETTERAVIA GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION BUILDING BOARD HEARING ROOM 511 EAST LAKESIDE PARKWAY, SANTA MARIA
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12-00118 A-1)Honorary ResolutionAdopt a Resolution of Commendation honoring Lori Simmons of the Santa Maria Adult Mental Health Clinic as the February 2012 County of Santa Barbara Employee of the Month.Pass Action details Not available
12-00131 A-2)Honorary ResolutionAdopt a Resolution of Commendation celebrating the Santa Barbara County Farm Bureau.Pass Action details Not available
12-00123 A-3)Honorary ResolutionAdopt a Resolution of Commendation recognizing the Prince Hall Masonic Lodge No. 109 of Lompoc for 44 years of dedicated service to Santa Barbara County and the communities of Lompoc, Orcutt and Santa Maria.Pass Action details Not available
12-00124 A-4)Honorary ResolutionAdopt a Resolution proclaiming Sundays as “Eat local and buy California-grown” days in Santa Barbara County.Pass Action details Not available
12-00125 A-5)Honorary ResolutionAdopt a Resolution of Commendation honoring the Community Action Commission Santa Barbara County Youth Corps for their service to the community.Pass Action details Not available
12-00126 A-6)Honorary ResolutionAdopt a Resolution of Commendation honoring Dorothy Laine upon her retirement from the Santa Barbara County Agricultural Advisory Committee.Pass Action details Not available
12-00117 A-7)Agenda ItemConsider recommendations regarding appointments to the Agricultural Advisory Committee, as follows: a) Approve the appointment of Claire Wineman as a regular member, nominated by the Grower-Shipper Association; and b) Approve the appointment of Richard Quandt as an alternate member, nominated by the Grower-Shipper Association.Pass Action details Not available
12-00128 A-8)Agenda ItemSanta Barbara Unified School District - Approve the request of the Santa Barbara Unified School District to call and give notice of an election to approve a secondary education parcel tax, to establish specifications of the election order, and to request consolidation with the presidential primary election to be held on June 5, 2012. (APPROVE AND REFER TO THE COUNTY CLERK-RECORDER-ASSESSOR)Pass Action details Not available
12-00139 A-9)Agenda ItemSanta Barbara Unified School District - Approve the request of the Santa Barbara Unified School District to call and give notice of an election to approve an elementary education parcel tax within the boundaries of the former Santa Barbara Elementary School Dustrict, to establish specifications of the election order, and to request consolidation with the presidential primary election to be held on June 5, 2012. (APPROVE AND REFER TO THE COUNTY CLERK-RECORDER-ASSESSOR)Pass Action details Not available
12-00135 A-10)Agenda ItemConsider recommendations regarding Dahlia Court II (Expansion) HOME Investment Partnerships Act (HOME) and Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Assignment, Assumption and Modification Agreement, First District, as follows: a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute an Assignment, Assumption and Modification Agreement to add an additional $226,000.00 of HOME Funds to the Dahlia Court II Project and to make other minor amendments to the executed HOME loan documents; and b) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute an Assignment, Assumption and Modification Agreement to add an additional $125,000 of CDBG Funds to the Dahlia Court II Project and to make other minor amendments to the executed CDBG loan documents.Pass Action details Not available
12-00120 A-11)Agenda ItemApprove and authorize the Chair to execute an Amendment to Contract with Outside Counsel for Professional Legal Services between the County of Santa Barbara and Nye, Peabody, Stirling, Hale & Miller, LLP for Pending Litigation related to Terris v. County of Santa Barbara, Superior Court Case No. 1339241, increasing maximum payments from $250,000.00 to $410,000.00.Pass Action details Not available
12-00062 A-12)Agenda ItemConsider recommendations regarding the Ellwood Pipeline, Inc. Line 96 Modification Project and Ordinance/Franchise CEQA Findings, Third District, as follows: a) Consider the adoption (second reading) of an Urgency Ordinance, to be effective immediately, granting the Public Pipeline Franchise to EPI to facilitate EPI’s Line 96 Modification Project; b) Pursuant to California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), find and approve action, as follows: i) Find that the Ellwood Pipeline Company Line 96 Modification Project Final Environmental Impact Report FEIR 09-EIR-00000-00005 (Ellwood FEIR) was reviewed, considered and certified by the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission on August 3, 2011 and is on file with the State Clearinghouse as file No. 2009111034; ii) Determine that the issuance of the Public Pipeline Franchise is within the scope of the project for which the Ellwood FEIR was certified; and iii) After reviewing and considering the Ellwood FEIR that the Board of Supervisors adopts CEQA findings and, pursuant to 14 CCR (CEQA Guideline) 15162, determines that no suPass Action details Not available
12-00119 A-13)Agenda ItemConsider recommendations regarding the Santa Maria Courthouse Hazard Mitigation Program, Project No. 8518, Fifth Supervisorial District, as follows: a) Authorize the Chair to execute the attached Amendment No. 1 to the contract with Diani Building Corp., Inc., a local vendor, for the Santa Maria Court Complex Hazard Mitigation Program project in the amount of $35,707.25, for a total amended contract amount of $580,706.25; b) Re-authorize the Director of General Services, or his designee, to approve additional changes to the contract of an amount not to exceed 10% of the first $250,000.00 of the original contract plus 5% of the remaining contract amount, or $39,750.00 for this contract; and c) Find that a Notice of Exemption under CEQA Guidelines Section was filed with the County Clerk’s office on November 18, 2009, and that the contract amendment for the previously-approved project is therefore an administrative activity not constituting a “Project” within the meaning of CEQA, as set forth in 14 CCR 15378(b)(2).Pass Action details Not available
12-00022 A-14)Agenda ItemConsider recommendations regarding an Ordinance for Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Agency Fees, as follows: a) Consider the adoption (second reading) of an Ordinance to increase fees for EMT certification, re-certification, and EMT-P accreditations; and b) Determine that these activities are exempt from California Environmental Quality Act review per CEQA Guideline Section 15061(b)(3), since it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the activities may have a significant effect on the environment.Pass Action details Not available
12-00061 A-15)Agenda ItemConsider recommendations regarding an Ordinance amending the Animal Services Fee Schedule, as follows: a) Consider the adoption (second reading) of an Ordinance amending the Animal Services Fee Schedule; and b) Approve the filing of a Notice of Exemption pursuant to CEQA Guidelines.Pass Action details Not available
12-00133 A-16)Agenda ItemConsider recommendations regarding parking restrictions on various roads, First, Second, Third and Fourth Districts, as follows: a) Adopt a Resolution to rescind Resolutions No. 72-1, 74-544,78-89 and 98-2 , which established “no parking” zones on San Ysidro Road in the Montecito area, First District; b) Adopt a Resolution establishing a total of thirteen (13) new “no parking” zones on San Ysidro Road in the Montecito area, San Marcos Road in the Goleta area, Trigo Road in the Isla Vista area, and Bradley Road and Patterson Road in the Orcutt area, First, Second, Third, and Fourth Districts; c) Find that the proposed action is for the operation and maintenance of existing public facilities, involving negligible, or no expansion of use beyond that which presently exists, that the proposed action is therefore exempt from CEQA pursuant to 14 CCR 15301; and d) Approve the filing of a Notice of Exemption on that basis.Pass Action details Not available
12-00134 A-17)Agenda ItemConsider recommendations regarding construction of 2010/11 Countywide Preventive Maintenance Application of Scrub Seal and Micro-Surfacing, County Project No. 820621, First, Second, Third, and Fourth Districts, as follows: a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Statement of Final Quantities for work performed and materials supplied for this project by the Contractor, Windsor Fuel Company (not a local vendor), located at P.O. Box 1029 in Pittsburg, California 94565, in the amount of $2,884,422.48; b) Find that the proposed action does not constitute a project within the meaning of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), pursuant to 14 CCR 15378 (b)(2); continuing administrative or maintenance activities, such as purchases for supplies, personnel-related actions, general policy and procedure making; and c) Approve the filing of a Notice of Exemption on that basis.Pass Action details Not available
12-00051 A-18)Agenda ItemConsider the adoption (second reading) of an Ordinance amending Ordinance No. 4440 of Chapter 2, Article XII, of the Santa Barbara County Code; to add sections 2-93.2, 2-93.3, 2-93.4 and 2-93.5 relating to the Sheriff’s Electronic Monitoring Programs.Pass Action details Not available
12-00127 A-19)Appointment/BOS itemApprove the appointment of Carolyn Wood to the Mental Health Commission as an alternate member, term ending August 1, 2014, First District.Pass Action details Not available
12-00122 A-20)Appointment/BOS itemApprove the appointment of Ms. Alice J. Villarreal-Redit to the Mental Health Commission, term ending June 30, 2013, Second District.Pass Action details Not available
12-00137 A-21)Agenda ItemHEARING - Consider the Planning Commission’s recommendation for denial of the Key Site 3 project, Case Nos. 06GPA-00000-00016, 06RZN-00000-00007, 06DVP-00000-00015, 06TRM-00000-0004/TM 14,714, and 10CUP-00000-00001, APN 129-151-026, located approximately 0.5 miles south of the Clark Avenue /U.S. Highway 101 intersection in the Orcutt area, Fourth District, as follows: (EST. TIME: 1 HR. 15 MIN.) a) Make the required findings to deny the project specified in the findings; b) Determine the project to be exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guideline Section 15270 of CEQA; c) Approve the filing of a Notice of Exemption; and d) Deny the project, Case Nos. 06GPA-00000-00016, 06RZN-00000-00007, 06DVP-00000-00015, 06TRM-00000-00004/TM14,714, and 10CUP-00000-00001. COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S RECOMMENDATION: POLICYPass Action details Not available
12-00130 1)Agenda ItemHEARING - Consider recommendations regarding Fire Department Deployment Study Results, as follows: (EST. TIME: 45 MIN.) a) Receive and file the Fire Service Deployment and Departmental Performance Audit for the County of Santa Barbara, conducted by Citygate Associates, LLC; and b) Approve a request that the Fire Chief return to the Board in sixty (60) days with an operational response plan. COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S RECOMMENDATION: APPROVEPass Action details Not available
12-00121 2)Agenda ItemHEARING - Consider recommendations regarding the annual State Legislative Report and Contract renewal, as follows: (EST. TIME: 15 MIN.) a) Receive and file the annual State Legislative Report from Governmental Advocates, Inc.; and b) Approve the renewal of the contract with Governmental Advocates, Inc. for state advocacy services for the period of January 1, 2012 through December 31, 2012 in the amount of $58,700.00. COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S RECOMMENDATION: APPROVEPass Action details Not available
12-00140 3)Agenda ItemHEARING - Provide direction to the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors - California State Association of Counties (CSAC) representative regarding a position on the Governor’s proposed ballot measure, entitled TEMPORARY TAXES TO FUND EDUCATION, GUARANTEED LOCAL PUBLIC SAFETY FUNDING INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT (the Schools and Local Public Safety Protection Act of 2012), proposed to grant constitutional protections for county realignment funding. (EST. TIME: 10 MIN.)Pass Action details Not available
11-00823 4)Agenda ItemHEARING - Consider recommendations regarding the crude oil production tax proposal follow-up, as follows: (EST. TIME: 1 HR.) a) Receive and file the follow-up crude oil production tax staff report on the impact to property tax revenue, tax application methodology options, economic analysis on price and jobs, estimates of staff time and cost estimates for getting such a tax measure on the ballot; and b) Provide staff with direction on how to proceed. COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S RECOMMENDATION: POLICYPass Action details Not available