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C. 68

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Chad Godoy, Director of Agriculture/Weights & Measures
Date:	September 13, 2016

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Costa

County

Subject:

MOU between CA Agricultural commissioners and Sealers Assn. (CACASA) and the Agricultural Commissioner of CCC

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 09/13/2016

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Mary N. Piepho, 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: September 13, 2016
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 $6372 to provide pesticide use reporting activities for the period July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017.

FISCAL IMPACT:

The Agricultural Department will be reimbursed in an amount not to exceed $6372 for activities related to pesticide use reporting. There is no county match of funds. The amount has been anticipated in the FY16/17 budget.

BACKGROUND:

The California Department of Pesticide Regulations 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 program 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:

A negative vote would cause the department to lose revenue for the pesticide use reporting program.

CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:

none