PROCEEDINGS OF THE
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
VOLUME 99, NUMBER 24
SEPTEMBER 28, 1999
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ACTION SUMMARY MINUTES
VOTING KEY: A = Almquist, B = Beautz, C = Campos;
S = Symons, W = Wormhoudt; first initial indicates maker
of motion, second initial indicates the "second"; upper
case letter = "yes" vote; lower case letter = "no" vote;
() = abstain; // = absent
1. All Supervisors present
Moment of Silence and Pledge of Allegiance
2. Consideration of Late Additions to the Agenda
3. Additions and Deletions to Consent Agenda
4. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS - No one addressed the Board (An
Oral Communications sign-in sheet will be filed with
Written Correspondence for the Board's next meeting.)
5. Additions and Deletions to Regular Agenda
CONSENT AGENDA
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6. APPROVED claims as submitted by the Auditor-Controller
7. ITEM DELETED
8. ACCEPTED AND FILED notification of continuing
contracts received during the period of September 20,
1999 through September 24, 1999 and approved upon
adoption of the 1999/00 continuing agreements list to
comply with Section 300 of the County's Procedures
Manual, Title I, as recommended by the Clerk of the
Board
9. APPROVED annual certification of financial
responsibility for underground storage tanks
containing petroleum and authorized the County
Administrative Officer to sign the certification, as
recommended by the Personnel Director
10. APPROVED an extension of an existing lease agreement
with James Fenton Co., Incorporated, for office space
for the Sheriff's Aptos Community Policing Service
Center at a cost of $1,200 per month through September
30, 2002, as recommended by the Sheriff-Coroner
11. ADOPTED RESOLUTION NO. 406-99 approving the final
budget for fiscal year 1999/2000 as compiled by the
Auditor-Controller for the County funds and Special
Districts governed by the Board of Supervisors;
adopted RESOLUTION NO. 407-99 establishing the
1999/2000 appropriations limitations; and approved
related actions, as recommended by the Auditor-
Controller
12. ACCEPTED AND FILED audit report on the Agricultural
Commissioner's Special Fund for the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1999, as recommended by the Auditor-
Controller
13. APPROVED and authorized the Chief Probation Officer to
sign an agreement for fiscal year 1999-2000 with Fouts
Springs Ranch Youth Facility, as recommended by the
Chief Probation Officer
14. APPROVED transfer of $2,500 within the County Clerk's
budget to provide for the purchase of a personal
computer for ballot counting purposes, as recommended
by the County Clerk-Recorder
15. DENIED claim of Mark Mendez, Rhonda Mastropaolo and
Alexia Mastropaolo, No. 899-153 (B) and referred to
County Counsel
16. DENIED claim of Mark L. Natale No. 900-029 and
referred to County Counsel
17. DENIED claim of Mary V. Walsh No. 900-039 and referred
to County Counsel
18. DEFERRED report on reporting authority of
decentralized personnel staff until October 26, 1999,
as recommended by the Personnel Director
19. APPROVED the Job Creation Plan for CalWORKs recipients
and directed the County Administrative Office to
submit it to the State by September 30, 1999; directed
the County Administrative Office to return by June 27,
2000 with an amended Plan incorporating activities
from the economic cluster analysis and forum process;
and approved related actions, as recommended by the
County Administrative Officer
20. ADOPTED ORDINANCE NO. 4560 amending Section 2.84.030,
2.84.040, 2.84.050 (C)(2) of the Santa Cruz County
Code relating to the membership of the Alcoholism and
Drug Abuse Commission
21. ACCEPTED nomination of Steven R. Tronick, Ph.D., as an
at-large appointee to the Hazardous Materials Advisory
Commission (in the category of chemistry or chemical
engineering), for a term to expire April 1, 2003, with
final appointment to be made October 5, 1999, as
recommended by Chairperson Almquist
22. APPROVED appointment of Captain Dave Stuflick,
Commander, Santa Cruz Area, California Highway Patrol,
as the representative of the Law Enforcement Chiefs'
Association to the Emergency Medical Care Commission,
for a term to expire April 1, 2003, as recommended by
Chairperson Almquist
23. SEE ITEM NO. 48.2, REGULAR AGENDA
24. SCHEDULED public hearing for October 19, 1999 for the
morning agenda beginning at 9:00 a.m. to consider a
resolution relating to holding periods for animal
control as required by SB 1785, as recommended by the
County Administrative Officer
25. ADOPTED RESOLUTION NO. 408-99 amending salary
Resolution No. 279-75 to implement various
classification and compensation actions, as
recommended by the Personnel Director
26. ACCEPTED AND FILED report on Animal Control Services;
authorized the County Administrative Officer to sign
an agreement for Animal Control Services with the
Santa Cruz SPCA for October 1 through June 30 of
fiscal year 1999/2000 and July 1 through June 30 of
fiscal years 2000/01 and 2001/02, and approved related
actions, as recommended by the County Administrative
Officer
27. ACCEPTED AND FILED report on Sheriff's South County
Service Center, as recommended by the County
Administrative Officer and the Sheriff-Coroner
28. ACCEPTED AND FILED the annual itemized report of
revenues and expenditures for the Inmate Welfare Fund,
as recommended by the Sheriff-Coroner
28.1 DIRECTED the Agricultural Commissioner and the County
Fire Chief to assemble a Scientific Task Force that
includes various representatives with knowledge of the
causes and threats to woodlands, as outlined, and
report back to the Board on December 14, 1999, with a
status report and recommendations on what the County
can or should do to respond to the epidemic of oak
infestation, including environmentally sound measures
that are available to property owners, with additional
directive to include on the Task Force, the City
Arborist, as requested by Councilman Matthews, City of
Santa Cruz and Laura Kuhn, Planning Director, City of
Scotts Valley, as requested by City of Scotts Valley;
and further directed that Mr. Karl Kolb also be added
to the Task Force
29. ACCEPTED AND FILED report on the need to continue the
state of local emergency relative to the transmission
of HIV through contaminated needles, as recommended by
the Health Services Agency Administrator
30. ACCEPTED AND FILED the Ninth Annual Report on
Comprehensive Interagency System of Care for Children
and Youth, as recommended by the Health Services
Agency and Human Resource Agency Administrators and
the Chief Probation Officer
31. AUTHORIZED payment of claims totaling $15,275.20 from
Smithkline Beecham Clinical Lab for contract services
provided to the Watsonville clinic from 1996 through
1998; and directed the Health Services Agency to work
with the Auditor-Controller to pay final reconciled
amount, as recommended by the Health Services Agency
Administrator
32. SEE ITEM NO. 48.1, REGULAR AGENDA
33. DIRECTED the Human Resources Agency Administrator to
return on November 2, 1999 with an analysis and
recommendation regarding the City of Santa Cruz
request for assistance with the Homeless Community
Resource Center renovations, as recommended by the
Human Resources Agency Administrator
34. CONTINUED TO OCTOBER 5, 1999 consideration to accept
and file report on the Intrastate Funding Formula
Allocation to the local Area Agency on Aging
35. DEFERRED report on the CalWORKs program to October 19,
1999, as recommended by the Human Resources Agency
Administrator
36. ADOPTED RESOLUTION NO. 409-99 accepting unanticipated
revenue in the amount of $110,644 from the State
Department of Housing and Community Development for
the provision of emergency shelter services for fiscal
year 1999/2000, approved the proposed multi-year
agreement in the amount of $258,400 with the Homeless
Service Center/Interfaith Satellite Shelter Program,
and authorized the Human Resources Agency to sign the
agreement, as recommended by the Human Resources
Agency Administrator
37. APPROVED revised Community programs agreements for
fiscal year 1999/2000 and authorized the Human
Resources Agency to sign, as recommended by the Human
Resources Agency Administrator
38. ACCEPTED AND FILED report on Community Programs'
responses to corrective actions, as recommended by the
Human Resources Agency Administrator
39. APPROVED federal funding program supplement for the
Soquel Drive Bridge and Aptos Overhead Seismic
Retrofit Project; adopted RESOLUTION NO. 410-99
authorizing the agreement between the State of
California and the County of Santa Cruz for the
seismic retrofit project reimbursement; authorized the
Director of Public Works to sign program supplement;
and approved related actions, as recommended by the
Director of Public Works
40. APPROVED the establishment of a new project advocacy
line item in the Zone 7 budget and the associated
transfer of funds, as recommended by the Director of
Public Works
41. CONTINUED TO OCTOBER 5, 1999 consideration to approve
fiscal year 1999/2000 Work Program for the Advanced
Planning Section of the Planning Department
42. DEFERRED progress report on water resource management
to October 19, 1999, as recommended by the County
Administrative Officer
43. ACCEPTED AND FILED the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and
History's 1999-2000 work plan, as recommended by the
Director of Parks, Open Space and Cultural Services
44. ACCEPTED AND FILED report on lifeguarding staffing at
Simpkins Family Swim Center, with additional directive
for a report back at first meeting in April, 2000 on
lifeguarding staffing during the summer
45. AS THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY,
SCHEDULED a closed personnel and litigation session as
follows:
CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL - EXISTING LITIGATION
Case Name/No.: Soderman v. County of Santa Cruz, et
al. (Federal District Court Case No. C-98-20907); In
Re Samuel L. (Santa Cruz Superior Court Case No.
DP000086)
CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL - ANTICIPATED LITIGATION
Initiation of litigation was considered pursuant to
subdivision (c) of Government Code Section 54956.9 for
one potential cases
CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL - ANTICIPATED LITIGATION
Significant exposure to litigation was considered
pursuant to subdivision (b) of Government Code Section
54956.9 for one potential case
CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATOR
Agency negotiator: Personnel Director
All Employee Organizations
REPORT OF COUNTY COUNSEL - The Board of Supervisors
authorized the County to join in the Amicus Brief to
be filed by the County of Riverside in support of the
appeal in the decision of trial court which upheld the
Diamond Bar Redevelopment Project in the case of
Beach-Courchesne et al. v. All Persons Interested In
Diamond Bar Redevelopment project (Court of Appeal
Case No. B130244)(BSWCA)
45.1 ADOPTED RESOLUTION NO. 411-99 providing for zero
property tax exchange for LAFCO No. 866 - Anna Jean
Cummings Park, as recommended by the County
Administrative Officer
45.2 AS THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE SANTA CRUZ COUNTY
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY, ACCEPTED AND FILED report on the
status of the Anna Jean Cummings Park Project, as
recommended by the Redevelopment Agency Director
45.3 ADOPTED RESOLUTION NO. 412-99 urging Governor Davis to
sign Senate Bill 1135 (Murray) which allows
jurisdictions to conduct elections by all-mail ballot;
adopted RESOLUTION NO. 413-99 vetoing Assembly Bill
917 (Hertzberg) which requires voting for special
vacancy elections for Congress, State Senate and
Assembly; and adopted RESOLUTION NO. 414-99 vetoing
Assembly Bill 709 (Cardenas) which changes the time of
polls closing on election day from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.,
as recommended by the County Clerk
45.4 ACCEPTED AND FILED report on property tax exchange for
LAFCO No. 855-Freedom/Carey Reorganization-Phase I;
adopted RESOLUTION NO. 415-99 providing for the
property tax exchange as outlined; and approved
related actions, as recommended by the County
Administrative Officer
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REGULAR AGENDA
46. Introduced Laura Tourte, the new County Director of
Agriculture Extension
47. Presentation made of Certificate of Appreciation from
the California Integrated Waste Management Board
48. Public hearing held to establish the year 2000 Growth
Goal; closed public hearing; referred matter to the
Planning Commission for consideration and
recommendation to the Board of Supervisors; and
continued public hearing on this matter to December 7,
1999, with direction to staff to return with the
recommendation of the Planning Commission and a
resolution for final action by the Board of
Supervisors
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48.1 ACCEPTED AND FILED report on youth drug treatment
services and directed Health Services Agency in
conjunction with Human Resources Agency to provide a
further update on November 9, 1999, as recommended by
the Health Services Agency Administrator
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48.2 CONSIDERED adoption of resolution accepting and
(1) appropriating unanticipated revenue in the amount of
$12,500 from the United States Department of Justice;
(2) authorized the Sheriff/Coroner to sign the Cannabis
Eradication Program grant amendment increasing the
grant award by $12,500 in FY 1999/2000
(1) SCBwa (motion failed, required 4/5's vote for
adoption)
(2) SCBwa
Approved:
Chair, Board of Supervisors
Attest:
Clerk of the Board
Date:
NOTE: This set of Board of Supervisors Minutes is scheduled to
be approved by the Board on October 19, 1999