(Public Comment Period)
1.
9:00
a.m. Recognition of the Health and Human Services Agency for receiving the California
State Association of Counties Replicability Award for the Youth Transition
Program.
9:30 A.M. – TIMED ITEMS
(Timed Items)
2.
PUBLIC
HEARING: Request from Resource Management Agency to waive the second
reading and adopt an Ordinance adding Section 18.8 Planned Community Zone to
Ordinance No. 352 of the Tulare County Zoning Ordinance pertaining to planned
communities. Direct the Clerk of the
Board to publish the summary Ordinance within five (5) days and to post a
certified copy of the complete Ordinance within fifteen (15) days. Approve the Notice of Exemption for the
proposed Ordinance and find that the adoption of the proposed Ordinance is
exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act.
(Consent Calendar)
CONSENT CALENDAR (Number 3 through 16)
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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
Background information
has been provided to the board on all matters listed under the Consent
Agenda, and these items are considered to be routine by the Board. All items under the Consent Agenda are
normally approved by one motion. If
discussion is requested by any Board members on any item, that item will be
removed from the Consent Agenda if separate action is required.
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Board of Supervisors
3.
Approve
a legislative letter regarding the impending water crisis facing Tulare County.
County Counsel
4.
Authorize
the issuance and sale of 2007 Grant Anticipation Notes in the name of the
Exeter Union High School District.
Approve in form the 2007 Grant Anticipation Note.
County Administrative Office
5.
Accept
the Countywide Preliminary Facilities
Condition and New Civic Center Master Plan Final Report.
Fire Department
6.
Approve
an agreement with the City of Farmersville for the donation of a 2000 Ford
Expedition to the City of Farmersville that is no longer useful to the Fire
Department.
7.
Approve
an agreement with the Camp Nelson Volunteer Fire Company to accept the donation
of a 1989 Ford Fire Patrol Truck to provide the Tulare County Fire Department
with a very mobile emergency response vehicle for use in the Camp Nelson area.
Health & Human Services Agency
8.
Reaffirm
Declaration of State of Emergency in the Tulare County Winter Freeze 2007.
9.
Ratify
and approve an agreement with CF Merced, LLC d.b.a. Country Villa Merced
Behavioral Health Center, a licensed skilled nursing facility in the amount of
$550,000, to provide stabilization and long-term maintenance for mentally
disabled clients of Tulare County, retroactive to July 1, 2007 through June 30,
2008. Find that the Board had authority
to enter into the proposed agreement as of July 1, 2007 and that it was in the
County's best interest to enter into the agreement on that date.
10.
Ratify
and approve an amendment to Agreement No. 22895 between Tulare County Health
and Human Services Agency, Department of Mental Health and Tulare County Alcoholism
Council, Inc. d.b.a. New Hope in the amount of $198,034, for the continued
provision of concurrent drug and alcohol treatment and mental health services,
retroactive to July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008. Find that the Board had authority to enter into
the proposed Agreement as of July 1, 2007 and that it was in the County's best
interest to enter into the Agreement on that date.
11.
Ratify
and approve the Annual Certification Statements for California Children's
Services and Child Health and Disability Prevention respectively, retroactive
to July 1, 2007. Find that the Board had
authority to approve the annual Certification Statements as of July 1, 2007 and
that it was in the County's best interest to approve the statements on that
date.
Human Resources & Development
12.
Ratify
and approve the Side Letter of Agreement between the County of Tulare and the
Professional Association Tulare County Physicians concerning on-call
compensation for Obstetric and Pediatricians/Family Practice/Internal Medicine
Staff Physicians. Find that the Board
had authority to enter into the proposed agreement as of September 10, 2007 and
that it was in the County's best interest to enter into the agreement on that
date.
13.
Approve
the recommendation of Human Resources & Development and the Health Plan
Advisory Group to enter into an agreement with Health and Human Resource
Center, Inc. (dba Horizon Health EAP-Behavioral Services) to provide an
Employee Assistance Program to Tulare County employees and their dependents for
the period of November 1, 2007 through December 31, 2008 with option to renew
for two additional one-year periods. Approval to be contingent upon Health and
Human Resource Center, Inc. securing a panel of providers acceptable to the
County of Tulare. Approve the change in
the Employee Assistance Program plan design from three visits per incident per
person to six visits per incident per person.
14.
Request
the California State Association of Counties Excess Insurance Authority allow
the County to add an additional health plan option, mirroring the Self-Insured
Schools of California Blue Shield of California High Deductible Health Plan -
Plan B to be integrated with and made a part of our multi-choice plans in the
pooled Excess Insurance Authority medical insurance program; and, further that
the Excess Insurance Authority actuarially establish a premium structure for
such plan. Authorize staff in concert
with Gallagher Insurance Services to negotiate management fees with Wells Fargo
Bank to serve as the County's recommended Health Savings Account vendor. Authorize Human Resources and Development to
pay for water, coffee, tea and/or fresh fruit or cookies at open enrollment
meetings.
15.
Approve
a memorandum of understanding with the California State Association of Counties
Excess Insurance Authority for participation in the California State
Association of Counties Excess Insurance Authority Pooled Health Insurance
Benefit Program. Ratify the selection of
Chimienti and Associates as the designated eligibility and billing
administrator for Tulare County effective September 1, 2007.
Resource Management Agency
16.
Approve
an amendment to Agreement No. 22877 with the State of California which extends
the agreement to February 16, 2009 to allow the purchase of one 26-passenger
Compressed Natural Gas transit bus.
(Items Not Timed)
ITEMS NOT TIMED
Items not specifically timed may be
taken in any order
17.
Request
from County Administrative Office to consider, modify as needed, and approve
responses to the 2006/2007 Grand Jury reports:
a) How are Tulare County Schools Dealing With Gang Members?; b) Your
Health, Your Heart - AEDs in Tulare County; c) Juvenile Mental Health Care; d)
Tulare County Office of Emergency Services; e) Agricultural Code Compliance; f)
Mooney Grove Park - Diminishing Valley Oak Trees (Quercus Lobata); g)
Non-Compliance of Land Use Ordinance (Miramonte Sanitation); h) Tulare County
Juvenile Detention Facility Staff Safety; and i) How Safe are our Cities? -
Vicious Animal Control. Authorize the
Chairman to sign each of the responses.
18.
Public
Comments.
19.
Board
of Supervisor matters.
(Closed Session)
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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
CLOSED SESSIONS
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 the closed session will be made in accordance with Government Code
sections 54957.1
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CLOSED SESSION
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
Details
(Government
Code Section 54956.9(b)(1).)
Significant
Exposure to Litigation
Number of
Potential Cases: 3
ACS/
Restrictions Re: Hiring
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ITEM
B
CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL
COUNSEL - ANTICIPATED LITIGATION
Details
(Government
Code Section 54956.9(b)(1).)
Significant
Exposure to Litigation
Number of
Potential Cases: 6
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ITEM
C
CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL
COUNSEL - ANTICIPATED LITIGATION
Details
(Government
Code Section 54956.9(b)(1).)
Significant
Exposure to Litigation
Number of
Potential Cases:
Ordinance
Amending Sec. 18.8 Plan Community Zone
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ITEM
D
CONFERENCE WITH LABOR
NEGOTIATOR
Details
(Government
Code Section 54957.6)
Agency
Designated Representative: Tim Huntley, Jean Rousseau
Employee
Organization: All Certified Employee Organizations
Unrepresented
Employees: All Unrepresented Employees except Elected
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