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Board of Supervisors June 23, 2020 #Fresno Among the Agenda items:approve stopgap budget between July and September; continue to have board members participate by “telephonic” means.Among the Closed Session are two separate cases where churches are suing: 1)UU Church v Registrar

of Voters Brandi Orth 2) Cross Culture Christian Center v Gavin Newsom. Some selected Consent Calendar items: 22. Adjourn in Memory of Francis Correia, a long-time resident of Caruthers and farmer who will be
remembered by many as a man who lived and worked to better his family

and community;
28.Agreement with VMS Family Counseling Services, Professional Corporation which is an established vendor that understands the unique stressors associated with the law enforcement community.

32.
2020-21 Veterans Memorial Museum Funding Agreement for the solicitation of promotion, improvement, operation and maintenance of the Veteran’s Memorial Museum

37.Agreement with Reading and Beyond for Supervised Child Care Services County locations for both the Department of Behavioral Health (DBH) and the Department of Public Health (DPH), “Supervised Children’s Rooms” housed at the Heritage Centre and the West Fresno Regional Center

46. 46. Approve and authorize the Chairman to execute a Second Amendment to Agreement No. 15-523
with Unilab Corporation dba Quest Diagnostics, to extend the term for a sixth year, increase compensation, and revise the scope of work and rate schedule to include COVID-19 testing

, effective July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021 ($3,065,000).

(ACLU article leading up to lawsuit by UU Church in Fresno aclunc.org/our-work/legal…

(Article on Cross Culture Church lawsuit) californiaglobe.com/fr/u-s-distric…

Anyone find the live video stream? Please send it to me if you do. Thanks!

Thanks @mmwpro63 for the video link!

CAO speaking on budget cuts 5.0 **Approve a Recommended Budget (including Capital Projects budgets) for the period between July
1, 2020 and adoption of the FY 2020-21 Final Recommended Budget. This item will provide the mechanism for departments to continue to operate until the

Final Recommended Budget is adopted in September 2020. The fiscal impact will be determined at that time.
Adoption of the Final Recommended Budget in September provides the mechanism for a more accurate estimate of year-end fund balance and the impact of the State of

California’s Budget on Fresno County. It is anticipated that most of the information will be available in time to produce a Final Recommended Budget by the end of August 2020. Fresno County budget hearings are scheduled to commence September 14, 2020, which is enough time to

address potential year-end issues. CAO speaking of how to use COVID dollars and hope for Federal Government to provide more dollars too. He will bring more info back to Supervisors at a later meeting. Buddy Mendes believes City of Fresno is spending money that may me not eligible

to be Covid dollars. CAO: we won’t take any chances. Brandau: City made motion Yesterday to use $30 M for infrastructure. CAO: City wants to buy a hotel for homeless bit he doesn’t think property is worth due to poor condition. Mendes: never discount a circus act CAO:

@stevebrandau : we need to start testing in rural parts of County as that is where the spike is located. @LincolnSeward Magisg:what consumes largest of $30 million? Staff: spread out. Q:County a Medical? A: maintain public medical programs @BuddySupervisor CARES act left small

counties behind. Maybe compromise is to use it for budget shortfall? CAO/ we need to spend $$ transfer first before we apply for this other money stream. ($80+ million). Good partnership with City on temporary Homeless housing. We found prepay that cost too. Approved.

6.0 *Amendment to the Master Schedule of Fees, Charges, and Recovered Costs Section 4300 - Information Technology Services Fees needed be adjusted to fully recover costs. Approved

7.0 *Amendment to the Master Schedule of Fees, Changes, and Recovered Costs Section 3800 - General Services. Robert Bash: again an increase to recover full actual cost. example Replacing vehicles. @LincolnSeward Magsig : can we buy Hertz vehicles as they are bankrupt? Bash: we

never buy used cars. We lease or purchase new but we could look into Hertz. Approved

8.0 Update to Assembly Bill 109 Community Corrections Partnership Plan and Associated Salary Resolutions
On March 09, 2020, in order to reduce the usage of the Fund Balance in the Public Safety Realignment Act of 2011 (AB 109) fund, the Community Corrections

Partnership Committee (CCP) eliminated and reduced programs beginning in FY 2020-21. The reductions will result in the deletion of vacant AB 109 funded positions from the District Attorney, the Public Defender, the Sheriff’s Office, and Probation. Looking at budget outlook we

are deleting 9 vacant positions. This will save $2 million. We were planning this even before Covid as budget outlook was starting to look worse. Hopefully some State dollars will becoming available. Magsig: Reintegration Program being cut? Six Month to get inmates ready to be

released. Probation Head Kyle Hines : Court has to decide how long of sentence would be in jail and how much out. Made it hard to Figure out if they could use program. Approved

9.0
Board Agenda Item 9

*Application and Receipt of Senate Bill 2 Permanent Local Housing Allocation Grant Application
For the current program year, the County is eligible, based on its population, to receive $1,643,348 through a non-competitive formula grant process

Used for low income housing. A five year grant. Magisg: can money be used to rehab homes ? Lead abatement? A: we do work in partnership with other agencies. One multi family complex will be built first year with 36 units. Possible to do similar over the next five years. Depending

on size it could generate two complexes. May generate prevailing wages from State. Partner cities have access to these funds. Mendes: great shortage in rural areas. Magisg: when have we last updated our shortage ? A: beginning now. Approved.

Board Comments: Magisg thanks Brandeau and Pacheco for checks Sent to small businesses. For some they are what will keep them open or not. New staff: Air Force cadet Nathanial Torres. Brandau: checks are going out now. Took ten days longer than we thought it would take.

Mendes: mentions Airforce cadet’s father is a sheriff deputy. Mendes: we did a better job getting checks out than City of Fresno due to us having an elected Financial person like Oscar Garcia.Quintero: unsure when I will be able to return to coming to meetings due to Covid.

Mendes:Quintero sounds better. We may not get good quality sound When/ until we Remodel this building. We are running on bearskins and sticks jokes Mendes. Quintero: we are not using 72” social distancing or plexiglass so it makes it impossible for me to come back as Covid -#’s

are spiking. Mendes: I have two of the conditions that make me susceptible to Covid but “if I die in the saddle I die in the saddle that is just how I am. Not a knock on Quintero not being here in person. “ Public comments: none present. Going to Close Session now.

NEXT MEETINGS:
July 7, 2020 - 9:00 AM August 4, 2020 - 9:00 AM

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Outcome of the Closed Session