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C. 22

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Date:	February 10, 2015

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

MID-TERM APPOINTMENTS TO THE CONTRA COSTA COUNTY EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND BAYRICS BOARD OF DIRECTORS

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 02/10/2015

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Mary N. Piepho, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

ABSENT:

Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor

Contact:	JOHN GIOIA (510) 231-8686
cc:	Retirement Administrator CAO Supervisor Andersen Clerk of the Board (Maddy Book) Undersheriff Asst. Sheriff Warren Sheriff

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: February 10, 2015
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

1. ACCEPT resignation of Supervisor Karen Mitchoff from the Board of Supervisors Appointee 6 seat on the Contra Costa County Employees Retirement Association Board of Trustees, effective February 28, 2015, and APPOINT, effective March 1, 2015, Supervisor Candace Andersen to complete the unexpired seat term ending June 30, 2017.

RECOMMENDATION(S): (CONT'D)

2. ACCEPT resignation of Supervisor Candace Andersen from the BayRICS (Bay Area Regional Interoperable Communications Systems) Authority Board of Directors, effective February 10, 2015 and APPOINT, effective February 11, 2015, Undersheriff Mike Casten to complete the unexpired seat term ending December 31, 2015; and APPOINT Assistant Sheriff Elise Warren as his alternate.

3. ADOPT Resolution No. 2015/28, superseding and replacing Resolution No. 2015/1, to update the Board's master list of Board of Supervisors committee assignments.

4. DIRECT the County Administrator to update the County's California Fair Political Practices Commission Form 806: Agency Report of Public Official Appointments to reflect the change in assignment.

FISCAL IMPACT:

No fiscal impact.

BACKGROUND:

Members of the Retirement Board have fiduciary responsibility for the assets, investments of monies, and administration of the Retirement System. The assets of the Retirement System are trust funds. The members of the Retirement Board must discharge their duties with the care, skill, prudence, and diligence that a prudent person acting in the same capacity and familiar with these matters would use. The Retirement Board’s duty to its participants and their beneficiaries takes precedence over any other duty. As fiduciaries, members of the Retirement Board have a loyalty to members of the Retirement System. Persons appointed to the Retirement Board must be prepared to spend the amount of time necessary to properly perform their fiduciary duties.

Supervisor Mitchoff, who has served on the Retirement Board of Trustees as the Board of Supervisors Member representative since May 2013, will be resigning from the Board of Trustees effective February 28, 2015 to permit her to focus on her new responsibilities as a member of the Bay Area Air Quality District Board of Directors. As it is critical for the Board of Supervisors to be fully represented on the County Retirement Board, I am nominating Supervisor Candace Andersen to fulfill the remaining term of Seat #6, through June 30, 2017.

The Bay Area Regional Interoperable Communications System (BayRICS) is a 13-member Joint Powers Authority (JPA), representing the San Francisco Bay Area. BayRICS is responsible for funding, policy and oversight of regional public safety communications projects. BayRICS initially partnered with the private sector to build an independent public safety broadband network for Bay Area first responders. The subsequent creation of FirstNet, a nationwide wireless broadband network for public safety, ended the regional project (known as BayWEB) before it was completed. However, extensive work on BayWEB has laid the groundwork for implementing the FirstNet network in the Bay Area.

As the BayRICS Board of Directors is composed mostly by local law enforcement officials, Supervisor Andersen has resigned from the BayRICS Board to allow representation of our County by the Sheriff's Department. Consequently, I am recommending that Undersheriff Mike Casten be appointed to represent the County on the BayRICS Board of Directors with Assistant Sheriff Elise Warren serving as his alternate.

CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:

N/A