TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Sheriff-Coroner
MEETING DATE: July 10, 2018
DEPARTMENT CONTACT:
Timothy Pearce
PHONE:
463-4559
ITEM TYPE: Consent Agenda
TIME ALLOCATED FOR ITEM: N/A
AGENDA TITLE:
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Adoption of Resolution Approving and Adopting a Negative Declaration and an Addendum Thereto for the Expansion of the Mendocino County Jail
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RECOMMENDED ACTION/MOTION:
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Adopt Resolution approving and adopting a Negative Declaration and an addendum thereto for the expansion of the Mendocino County Jail; and authorize Chair to sign same.
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PREVIOUS BOARD/BOARD COMMITTEE ACTIONS:
Resolution 15-120 authorized an application for funding under SB 863 to support construction of a jail project. Resolution 17-019 authorized an application for funding under SB 844 to support construction of a jail project. $1,046,740 has already been set aside by the Board into BU 1712 as local match for this project. On 12/19/2017, the Board approved an Agreement with Nacht & Lewis in the total amount of $2,910,000 for architectural services related to this project.
SUMMARY OF REQUEST:
The Mendocino County Sheriff's Office obtained a consultant to prepare an Initial Study pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act for the proposed expansion of the Mendocino County Jail. The Initial Study was prepared and circulated in 2014, which reached the conclusion that a Negative Declaration could be adopted.
The location studied for the jail expansion was located between current inmate Housing Units 1 and 2. Following several attempts at securing grant funding for the jail expansion, the Sheriff's Office and its architect, Nacht & Lewis, have determined that a more appropriate location for the jail expansion would be the existing parking lot that currently serves the County's Facility and Fleet division.
Staff has prepared an Addendum to the previously prepared Negative Declaration to address the revised location of the jail expa...
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