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C. 45

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Matt Slattengren
Date:	August 1, 2017

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Costa

County

Subject:

CACASA - County Pesticide Use Reporting MOU

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 08/01/2017

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:

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: August 1, 2017
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Agricultural Commissioner, or designee, to execute a Memorandum of Understanding with the California Agricultural Commissioners and Sealers Association (CACASA) in an amount not to exceed $3,186 to provide pesticide use reporting activities for the period July 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017.

FISCAL IMPACT:

The Agriculture Department will be reimbursed an amount not to exceed $3,186 for activities related to pesticide use reporting. There is no county match of funds nor grant monies involved. The amount has been anticipated and budgeted for FY 17/18.

BACKGROUND:

The California Department of Pesticide Regulations (CDPR) no longer offers individual data submission contracts to counties and has contracted with CACASA to provide the data storage, software and data communication infrastructure for the reporting of pesticide use data. CACASA has simplified the overall process of the stat submission contracts and is providing the online support to maintain the enhanced reporting capabilities. In order to ease the transition from county personnel inputting the data to the user of the pesticide inputting the data, CACASA is providing funding to counties during the transition period, in return for county agricultural commissioner's efforts to provide on-going data input and training to submitters of data to use the new online submission program.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

If this request is not approved, the Department of Agriculture will not be reimbursed for the pesticide use reporting program.