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C. 33

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Matt Slattengren, Ag Commissioner/Weights & Measures Director
Date:	October 12, 2021

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

Light Brown Apple Moth (Regulatory) Agreement

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 10/12/2021

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Diane Burgis, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

Contact:

Stephanna, 9256086600

I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: October 12, 2021
Monica Nino, County Administrator

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Agricultural Commissioner, or designee, to execute an agreement with the California Department of Food and Agriculture to reimburse the County an amount not to exceed $35,244 to provide Light Brown Apple Moth quarantine response and regulatory enforcement activities for the period July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022.

FISCAL IMPACT:

This agreement provides reimbursement for County expenses not to exceed $35,244 incurred during the period July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022. There is no county match or grant monies involved.

BACKGROUND:

The Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM) was first detected in Contra Costa County in March 2007 and over time the County has become generally infested. California Department of Food and Agriculture imposed the LBAM Interior Quarantine, for the entirety of Contra Costa County. The United States Department of Food and Agriculture issued a Federal Domestic Quarantine order regulating interstate travel of host materials. This regulation requires all nurseries, green waste facilities, community gardens, harvest host plants and commodities within the infested areas be issued quarantine compliance agreements and be inspected every 30 days. The Department of Agriculture performs quarantine-related regulatory and enforcement activities in the County.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

If unapproved, the Department will be unable to meet State mandates and will not received budgeted revenue. This would also negatively impact the County's nursery industry and growers as they would not be able to meet the requirements to ship host material to non-infested areas outside the county.