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To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Chad Godoy, Director of Agriculture/Weights & Measures
Date:	June 21, 2016

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

Consider accepting "2015 Annual Crop Report" and approval to submit the report to the California Department of Food and Agriculture

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 06/21/2016

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Mary N. Piepho, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

ABSENT:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor

Contact:

646-5250

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: June 21, 2016
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

ACCEPT the "2015 Annual Crop Report" and give approval to submit the report to the California Department of Food and Agriculture.

FISCAL IMPACT:

There is no fiscal impact.

BACKGROUND:

Sections 2271(a) and 2279 of the California Food and Agriculture Code require the County Agricultural Commissioner to submit an annual report to the State Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture regarding the condition, acreage, production and value of agricultural products in the county. An annual report shall also include what is being done to eradicate, control or manage pests and actions relating to the exclusion of pests or quarantines against pests. The report may include information about organic farming, biotechnology, integrated pest management and biological control activities in the county. The 2015 Crop Report provides core agricultural statistical data and programmatic information about Contra Costa County. It contains information about the many sources of food production in the county, including commercial and small-scale diversified farms, community and school gardens, nurseries, and livestock production. In addition, articles on drought, native plants, cherry production, urban agriculture and the work being completed by Weights and Measures staff, it illustrated the diversity of farming in the county and the work that the County Agricultural Commissioner's office does to support a robust agricultural industry.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

The annual filing of a county crop report is required of the Agricultural commissioner per sections 2272(a) and 2279 of the California Food and Agricultural Code. A negative action would delay filing or prevent submission.

CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:

None