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1.
Board of Supervisors matters.
2.
Receive an update from the Health & Human Services Agency on
COVID-19 status and response efforts in Tulare County.
3.
Public Comments.
9:30 A.M. – TIMED ITEMS
(Timed
Items)
4.
PUBLIC HEARING: Request from the Solid Waste Department
to consider a Special Handling fee of $250 for each livestock carcass disposed
at the Visalia Landfill to take effect June 2, 2020. Approve disposal of
livestock carcasses pursuant to Emergency Waiver of Standards dated May 5,
2020. Approve one-time event Wednesday, June 24, 2020 for disposal of livestock
carcasses. Authorize the Department to dispose livestock carcasses from
approved list of dairies affected by the emergency declaration.
(Consent Calendar)
CONSENT CALENDAR (Numbers 5 through 30)
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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
These items are
routine and usually approved by one motion. Before action by the Board, the
Chairman will ask the Board Members and the public if they wish to remove any
item from the Consent Calendar for separate consideration. Items removed from
the Consent Calendar may be heard immediately before or after the approval of
the Consent Calendar, or may be set aside until later in the morning.
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Clerk of the Board
5.
Approve the new Conflict of
Interest Code adopted by Monarch River Academy.
6.
Approve the amended Conflict of
Interest Code adopted by Kaweah Delta Health Care District.
County Counsel/Risk Management
7.
Approve an agreement with
Thomson Reuters for a subscription to Westlaw for print publications, for the
County Counsel’s Office, in an amount not to exceed $65,000, effective July 1,
2020 through June 30, 2024.
General Services Agency
8.
Approve an adjustment to the
Facilities budget for Fiscal Year 2019/20 in the amount of $769,900. Approve
the necessary budget adjustment (4/5ths vote required).
9.
FOR INFORMATION ONLY: Bid Opening for Tulare County Courthouse
Electrical Project.
CONTRACTOR BID
AMOUNT
Lee Construction $418,343.21
A-C Electrical Company $234,555.00
Engineer’s Estimate $130,000.00
Health & Human Services Agency
10.
Approve the Capital Asset
purchase of an Ultra-Low Temperature Freezer needed to support essential
laboratory procedures in an amount not to exceed $11,000. Approve the necessary
budget adjustments (4/5th vote required).
11.
Authorize the Health &
Human Services Agency to accept COVID-19 Emergency Homelessness Funding grant
allocation in the amount of $304,808.84 from the Kings/Tulare Continuum of Care
for the purposes of leasing hotel space for those impacted by COVID-19. Approve
the Allocation Agreement with the Kings/Tulare Continuum of Care effective June
2, 2020 through June 30, 2020 for the provision of temporary, emergency housing
to homeless residents impacted by COVID-19. Approve the necessary budget
adjustment (4/5ths vote required).
12.
Ratify and approve the Program
Participation Agreement with the California Department of Health Care Services
for the School-Based Medi-Cal Administrative Activities reimbursement program
under California’s Medi-Cal program, effective July 1, 2020 until termination
by either party. Ratify and Approve the Data Use Agreement and Business
Associate Addendum thereto with the California Department of Health Care
Services, as required for participation in the School-Based Medi-Cal
Administrative Activities reimbursement program under California’s Medi-Cal
program, effective July 1, 2020 until termination of the Participation
Agreement, or three years from the date the Data Use Agreement is executed,
whichever event occurs later. Ratify the Chair of the Board’s signatures on the
Program Participation Agreement, Data Use Agreement, and the Business Associate
Addendum to the Data Use Agreement.
13.
Approve an agreement with
Aspiranet in the amount not to exceed $2,350,000 for the provision of
Wraparound services as an alternative to placing children in high-level group
home care, effective July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021.
14.
Approve a Land Use Covenant and
Agreement with the Department of Toxic Substances Control to allow for
restricted use of county owned property, effective June 2, 2020. There is no
cost associated with this agreement.
15.
Approve a Memorandum of
Understanding with Proteus, Inc. to allow the use of a delivery service funded
through Proteus, Inc. to assist the Tulare County Human Services Branch within
the Tulare County Health and Human Services Agency, retroactive from April 16,
2020, through August 31, 2020. There is no cost associated with this Memorandum
of Understanding.
16.
Approve an agreement with
Tulare County Superintendent of Schools for the Emergency Child Care Bridge
Program for Foster Children in the amount of $988,301 in State and Federal
funds, effective July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021.
17.
Approve a Memorandum of
Understanding with the Superior Court of California, County of Tulare to
provide monitoring and evaluation of clients in Mental Health Court in an
amount not to exceed $25,285, retroactive from July 1, 2019 through June 30,
2020.
18.
Authorize the submission of a
grant proposal for funding from Health Resources & Services Administration
for Fiscal Year 2020/2021 in an amount not to exceed $199,474 to expand testing
capacity for Coronavirus in the Tulare County Health Care Centers.
Information & Communications
Technology
19.
Approve an amendment to
Agreement No. 28110 with ISI Telemanagement Solutions, LLC, to extend the term
of the Master Services Agreement for the monthly managed services and quarterly
true-up billings in an amount not to exceed $197,992, effective September 1,
2020, through August 31, 2021.
Resource Management Agency
20.
Approve an agreement with
Dokken Engineering to provide Professional Engineering Consulting Services for
the M109 over White River Bridge Project, located near the community of
Fountain Springs, in an amount not to exceed $452,626.92, effective June 2,
2020 through December 31, 2026.
21.
Approve an agreement with
Dokken Engineering to provide Environmental Consulting Services for the M109
over White River Bridge Project, located near the community of Fountain
Springs, in an amount not to exceed $367,424.59, effective June 2, 2020
through December 31, 2026.
22.
Approve an agreement with the
State of California, Department of Transportation, for cost reimbursement of
transit operating expenses under the 5311 Program, in the amount of $360,325,
retroactive from July 1, 2018 through July 31, 2020.
23.
Approve the submission of a
Federal Aviation Administration Airport Grant application to fund airport
operations at Sequoia Field Airport under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and
Economic Security Act in the amount of $20,000.
24.
Approve a two-year Extension of
Time EOT 20-007 for Tentative Tract Map No. TM 785 to August 26, 2022, for
applicant Ray Di Carlo, for the division of 67.2 acres into 54 single-family
residential lots in the PD-F-M Planned Development-Foothill Combining-Special
Mobilehome Zone, located on the south side of Avenue 176 Frazier Valley Drive,
approximately ½ mile west of Road 320, west of Springville, generally described
as a portion of Section 17, Township 21 South, Range 29 East, Mount Diablo Base
and Meridian, Springville.
25.
Authorize Zone Change
Initiation No. PZC 20-005 (Hein/Visalia) to proceed as a Zone Change from
Exclusive Agriculture - 20 acre minimum (AE-20) to General Commercial with a
Mixed-Use Overlay Combining Zone (C-2-MU) on a 25,034.75-square foot parcel,
Assessor’s Parcel Number (APN) 126-390-018, located at 27210 Road 108, on the
northeast corner of the intersection of Avenue 272 and Road 108 (S. Demaree
Street), approximately 1,727 feet south of the City of Visalia.
26.
FOR INFORMATION ONLY: Bid opening results for Avenue 80 Railroad
Crossing Improvement Project.
Contractors Bid
Estimate
Mac General Engineering
$167,947.00
Dawson-Mauldin LLC $204,401.50
American Paving Co. $208,546.00
Romanazzi General
Engineering $217,185.45
Avison Construction
Inc. $231,659.00
Bush Engineering $234,760.00
Engineer’s
Estimate $261,704.00
Sheriff/Coroner
27.
Authorize the submission of a
grant application for federal funding from the Bureau of Justice Assistance and
administered by the California Board of State Community Corrections for Fiscal
Year 2020/21 to assist with the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for State
Prisoners Program in the amount of up to $235,534. Certify the grant funds
received shall not be used to supplant expenditures controlled by this body.
Agree to provide the 25% matching funds, up to $78,512, required for the
Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners Program and abide by
the statutes and regulations governing the federal Grants Program as well as
the terms and conditions of the Grant Agreement as set forth by the California
Board of State Community Corrections.
28.
Approve an agreement between
the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office and College of the Sequoias to provide
emergency dispatch services to the College of the Sequoias in an amount not to
exceed $6,904, effective July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021.
29.
Approve the capital asset
purchase of a canine to support the day-to-day operations of the Tulare County
Sheriff’s Office Canine Unit, in an amount not to exceed $15,809. Approve the
necessary budget adjustments (4/5ths vote required).
Workforce Investment Board
30.
Approve the Budget Adjustment
of $107,186 as a result of funding received from the Employment Development
Department (EDD) to provide services under the National Dislocated Worker Grant
(NDWG) (4/5ths vote required).
(Items Not Timed)
ITEMS NOT TIMED
Items not specifically timed may be taken in
any order
31.
Request from the Board of Supervisors' staff to approve
sending a response letter to the California Office of Emergency Services
regarding the Board of Supervisors’ action on May 19, 2020 to amend staff’s
letter of support of the local regional variance process. Authorize the Chair
to sign the response letter.
32.
Request from the Solid Waste Department to approve and
award a construction contract to the lowest responsive, responsible bidder,
Sukut Construction LLC, in the amount of $8,132,806 for the Visalia Landfill
Phase 4 Expansion Project. Approve Contingency Funds in the amount of $813,281
to cover the cost of unexpected construction conditions.
33.
Request from the Resource Management Agency to have the
Board of Supervisors provide direction as to which of the two options staff
should pursue with regard to membership in the Tulare County Economic
Development Corporation (EDC). Option1: Choose to pay the public sector fixed
membership level of $50,000 for population over 100,000 or Option 2: Choose not
to continue membership in the EDC.
BOARD MEMBER REQUESTS
34.
Board members may make a referral to staff to have a matter of
business be considered for a future agenda (Gov. Code, sec. 54954.2, subd.
(a)(3)).
(Closed Session)
CLOSED SESSION
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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
CLOSED SESSION
As provided in the
Ralph M. Brown Act, Government Code sections 54950 et seq., the Board of
Supervisors may meet in closed session with members of its staff, county
employees and its attorneys. These sessions are not open to the public and
may not be attended by members of the public. The matters the Board will
meet on in closed session are identified below or are those matters
appropriately identified in open session as requiring immediate attention and
arising after the posting of the agenda. Any public reports of action taken
in closed session will be made in accordance with Government Code section
54957.1.
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It is the intention of the Board to meet
in closed session concerning:
Sitting
as the Tulare County Board of Supervisors
ITEM
A
CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL – ANTICIPATED
LITIGATION
Significant Exposure to
Litigation (Government Code Section 54956.9(d)(2))
Number of Potential Cases: 1
See today’s public agenda item pertaining to
the public hearing to consider a Special Handling fee for livestock carcasses
and approval of a one-time event for disposal of livestock carcasses.
ITEM
B
CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL – INITIATION OF
LITIGATION
(Government Code
Section 54956.9(d)(4))
Number of Potential Cases: 1
ITEM
C
CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL – ANTICIPATED
LITIGATION
Significant Exposure to
Litigation (Government Code Section 54956.9(d)(2))
Number of Potential Cases: 1
ITEM
D
THREAT TO PUBLIC SERVICES OR FACILITIES:
(Government Code
Section 54957)
Consultation with: Tulare County Sheriff Staff
ITEM
E
CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL – EXISTING
LITIGATION
(Government Code
Section 54956.9(d)(1))
Name of Case: Duran, Santiago G. v. Anthony
Lucky, et al.
U.S. District Court Eastern District of
California Case No: 1:20-CV-00643-NONE-SKO
ITEM
F
CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL – ANTICIPATED
LITIGATION
Significant Exposure to
Litigation (Government Code Section 54956.9(d)(2))
Number of Potential Cases: 1
Liability Claim of Jennifer Hillan
ITEM
G
CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL – ANTICIPATED
LITIGATION
Significant Exposure to
Litigation (Government Code Section 54956.9(d)(2))
Number of Potential Cases: 1
ITEM
H
CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS
(Government Code Section 54957.6)
Agency Designated Representatives: Tony
Stevens, Jason T. Britt
Employee Organizations: All Certified Employee
Organizations
Unrepresented Employees: All Unrepresented
Employees.
