TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Brian D. Bordona, Director of Planning, Building and Environmental Services
REPORT BY: Jamison Crosby, Natural Resources Conservation Manager
SUBJECT: Approval of Amendment No. 1 to Joint Powers Agreement 230100B with the Napa County Resource Conservation District
RECOMMENDATION
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Approve and authorize Amendment No. 1 to Joint Powers Agreement No. 230100B with the Napa County Resource Conservation District (RCD) for a maximum of $595,000 per fiscal year through June 30, 2025, for continued support related to watershed health, forest health, wildfire resilience, climate action and sustainability. (Fiscal Impact: $595,000 Expense; General Fund and GSA Special Revenue Fund; Budgeted; Discretionary)
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BACKGROUND
The Conservation Division and Natural Resources Division within the Department of Planning, Building and Environmental Services (PBES) are charged with carrying out various long term natural resource management and protection actions including: groundwater sustainability, watershed monitoring, natural resource inventory and assessment, vineyard erosion control, forest health and wildfire preparedness, climate action and sustainability and community outreach and engagement around all these efforts. As a partner agency of the County, RCD shares many of the same resource management and protection goals and is an ideal collaborator to achieve them.
Public agencies independently having the power to engage in services within their respective jurisdictions are permitted by the Joint Exercise of Powers Act (Government Code section 6500 et seq.) to provide, by a Joint Powers Agreement (JPA), services for the mutual benefit of both agencies. To that end, the County and the RCD have been engaged in developing and implementing JPAs for many decades with great success. The proposed JPA Amendment supports the conservation and natural resource objectives of the County as well as the mission of the RCD.
The Director of PBES reques...
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