LAKEPORT, Calif. – This week the Board of Supervisors will consider signing on to support a statewide wildfire strategy and discuss an appointment to a local water board.
The board will meet beginning at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 3, in the board chambers on the first floor of the Lake County Courthouse, 255 N. Forbes St., Lakeport.
The meeting can be watched live on Channel 8 with the video available online at http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Government/Boards/Board_of_Supervisors/calendar.htm . Accompanying board documents and the agenda also are available at that link.
In an untimed item, the board will consider the Rural County Representatives of California, or RCRC, wildfire strategy and resolution, which advocates for adequate federal funding and commitment to wildfire prevention.
A report to the board from county Senior Administrative Analyst Jill Ruzicka explains that the wildfire strategy resolution was first introduced in August 2014 at the RCRC Board of Directors meeting.
“Currently 18 of RCRC's 34 member counties have passed this resolution,” Ruzicka wrote. “RCRC has requested that the County of Lake pass this resolution in support of efforts to launch a refocused wildfire advocacy strategy to key policy and decision makers in California.”
She explained that the RCRC 2014-15 Wildfire Strategy “outlines a proactive outreach effort to communicate and demonstrate the multi-level issues associated with current forest management practices, and foster a cultural or, if needed, structural shift within the United States Forest Service and other state and federal agencies in order to better manage California's forests and wildlands.”
Ruzicka continued, “With this plan, RCRC endeavors to ease statutory, regulatory, and legal barriers to fire-prevention project completion, and create innovative new approaches to increasing the pace and scale of vegetation management and forest restoration in California.”
Also on Tuesday, in another untimed item, the board will consider reappointing incumbent Fran Ransley to the Lower Lake Waterworks District One Board of Directors.
The full agenda follows.
CONSENT AGENDA
7.1: Approve minutes of the Board of Supervisors meeting held Jan. 27, 2015.
7.2: Authorize extension of reduced public hours (i.e., 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday) at the Lake County Animal Care and Control shelter through February 2015.
7.3: Adopt proclamation designating the month of February as Black History Month and celebrating Martin Luther King's birthday.
7.4: Sitting as the Lake County Air Quality Management District Board of Directors, reappoint Roger Bakke, PE Professional Engineer to the LCAQMD Hearing Board pursuant to Health and Safety Code.
7.5: Approve contract between the county of Lake and Lake County Office of Education for Foster Youth Services, V-1 for the duration of Sept. 1, 2014, through June 30, 2015, in the amount of $39,492.50 and authorize the chair to sign.
7.6: Approve agreement between Lake County Social Services Department and UC Davis Extension for FY 14/15 Peer Quality Case Review, in the amount of $18,500, and authorize the Social Services director to sign said agreement.
7.7: Approve agreement with Forensic Medical Group Inc. for forensic pathology services, from July 1, 2014, to June 30, 2016, with one-year extensions, amount undetermined, and authorize the chair to sign.
7.8: Approve out-of-state travel for Water Resources staff Chris White and Mark Miller to attend “Aquatic Invasive Species Prevention Project” program administered by the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission.
7.9: Approve contract between the county of Lake and Cathy Ferron and Associates for the Child Welfare Services Title IV- E Waiver Project Evaluation, from Jan. 1, 2015, through June 30, 2016, in the amount of $30,000, and authorize the chair to sign.
TIMED ITEMS
8.2, 9:10 a.m.: Presentation of proclamation designating the month of February Black History Month and celebrating Martin Luther King's Birthday.
8.3, 9:15 a.m.: Presentation of 2014 Public Works Project Summary and Upcoming Project Plan.
8.4, 9:30 a.m.: Consideration of request for waiver of construction traffic mitigation fees for Joe Gonsalves.
NONTIMED ITEMS
9.2: Consideration of Rural County Representatives of California Wildfire Strategy and Resolution advocating for adequate federal funding and commitment to wildfire prevention.
9.3: Consideration of appointment to the Lower Lake Waterworks District One Board of Directors.
9.4: Consideration of Resolution Amending Resolution No. 2014-112 Establishing Position Allocations for Fiscal Year 2014-2015, Budget Unit No. 1341, Human Resources.
9.5: Consideration of contract between the county of Lake and Redwoods Children’s Services Inc., for Family Wraparound Service from Jan. 1, 2015, through June 30, 2019, entire term amount not to exceed $2,001,000, and authorize the chair to sign.
CLOSED SESSION
10.2: Conference with legal counsel: Existing litigation pursuant to Gov. Code Sec. 54956.9(d)(1): Gleason v. Bowen.
10.3: Public employee performance evaluations title: Registrar of Voters Diane Fridley and Agricultural Commissioner Steve Hajik.
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Supervisors consider supporting wildfire strategy resolution, waterworks board appointment
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