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CONTRA COSTA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

Supervisors J. Gioia, G. B. Uilkema, D. Gerber, M. DeSaulnier, and F. D. Glover Clerk of the Board, John Sweeten (925 335-1900)

9:00 A.M. Convene and announce adjournment to Closed Session, Room 105. There were no closed session announcements.

9:30 A.M. Call to order and opening ceremonies.

Inspirational Thought - "A day without laughter is a day wasted." ~Charlie Chaplin

CONSIDER CONSENT ITEMS - Items removed from this section will be considered with the Short Discussion Items. Approved as listed except as noted: C.42, C.63

SHORT DISCUSSION ITEMS - The Board will consider and take action on the following items:

DELIBERATION ITEMS - The Board will consider and take action on the following items:

Closed Session

(Items are subject to removal from Consent Calendar by request of any Supervisor or on request for discussion by a member of the public).

C.1 DENY claims of S. Jaramillo; B. Rubini; J. Batres; A. Sillard; C. Weaver; T. Davidson; Contra Costa County Schools Insurance Group; C. Simpson; DENY Application to File Late Claim of D. Pascoe.

C.2 RECEIVE report concerning the final settlement of Carol Missaggia vs. Contra Costa County and AUTHORIZE payment from the Workers’ Compensation Trust Fund in the amount of $34,000, as recommended by the County Administrator.

C.3 FIX March 26, 2002 at 9:30 a.m. for a public hearing on entering into an energy services contract for heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) replacement at 1122 Escobar, Martinez, California. (District II)

C.4 ADOPT Resolution No. 2002/120 declaring March 2002 as "Professional Social Work Month" in Contra Costa County, as recommended by the Employment and Human Services Director. (All Districts)

C.5 REAPPOINT Russell Roe to the District II seat on the Aviation Advisory Committee, as recommended by Supervisor Uilkema.

C.6 APPOINT Kathi McLaughlin to the District II Consumer seat on the Mental Health Commission, as recommended by Supervisor Uilkema.

C.7 APPOINT Sterling Stevenson to the District V Family Member seat on the Mental Health Commission, as recommended by Supervisor Glover.

C.8 APPOINT Patrick Inthavisay to the At Large Alternate seat on the Alcohol and Other Drugs Advisory Board, as recommended by the Internal Operations Committee.

C.9 APPOINT Frank Gordon and REAPPOINT Scott Anderson, Ric Bonner and Michael Polkabla to the Hazardous Materials Commission, as recommended by the Internal Operations Committee.

C.10 DECLARE vacant the Hazardous Materials Commission’s City Seat #2 Alternate position, held by Rosemary Corbin, and DIRECT the Clerk of the Board to post the vacancy, as recommended by the Commission.

C.11 DECLARE vacant the seat held by Carl Doolittle on the Managed Care Commission and DIRECT the Clerk of the Board to post the vacancy, as recommended by the Health Services Director.

C.12 APPROVE the Medical Staff appointments and reappointments as recommended by the Medical Executive Committee on February 25, 2002.

C.13 SUPPORT ACR 124 (Harman), which enjoins the Governor to ensure that local governments continue to be fully reimbursed for the revenue losses associated with the vehicle license fee offset. (All Districts)

C.14 SUPPORT AB 1878 (Leslie), which modifies the Surface Mining And Reclamation Act of 1975 with regard to the time frame and criteria for local agency remediation of any deficiency. (All Districts)

C.15 SPONSOR SB 1343 (Torlakson), which would ensure that Contra Costa County is not retroactively penalized for a state calculation error in establishing the County’s revenue maintenance of effort under the Trial Court Funding Act of 1997. (All Districts)

C.16 SPONSOR AB 2936 (Aroner), which would expand the use of park dedication fees to include preparation of plans for park and recreational facilities, including master plans for new parks. (All Districts)

C.17 SPONSOR AB 2510 (Canciamilla), which would regulate reimbursement rates for emergency hospital services provided to specified Medi-Cal beneficiaries. (All Districts)

C.18 SPONSOR SB 1495 (Torlakson), which would amend the grant criteria for the Jobs-Housing Balance Improvement Program to take into account incorporations and annexations as well as the impact of smart growth policies and general plan amendments. (All Districts)

C.19 AUTHORIZE the Chair, Board of Supervisors, to sign letters to the appropriate legislators requesting federal funding for ship channel navigation projects (dredging and disposal): Suisun Bay Channel/New York Slough - $6.5 million, Pinole Shoal Maintenance dredging - $4 million, and San Francisco to Stockton (Baldwin) Ship Channel (Avon Turning Basin and salinity study) - $2.3 million, as recommended by the Transportation Water and Infrastructure Committee. (All Districts)

C.20 AUTHORIZE the Chair, Board of Supervisors, to sign letters to agencies associated with the Long Term Management Strategy for Dredging (LTMS), requesting their participation in a collaborative process outlined by the Marine Transportation Research Board and the National Research Council in the "Process for Setting, Managing and Monitoring Environmental Windows for Dredging Projects," as recommended by the Transportation Water and Infrastructure Committee. (All Districts)

C.21 INCREASE hours of one Board of Supervisors Assistant-Special Assistant position from part time (20/40) to part time (32/40) in District III. (Budgeted) (District III)

C.22 ADD one Deputy County Counsel-Deep Class position and CANCEL one Assistant County Counsel position in the County Counsel Department. (Cost savings) (All Districts)

C.23 REALLOCATE the salary of the County Administrator’s Office classes of Cable TV Administrator and Budget System Administrator on the Salary Schedule. (Budgeted) (All Districts)

C.24 ADD one Clerk-Senior Level position in the Health Services Department. (100% revenue offset, budgeted) (All Districts)

C.25 ADD one Administrative Services Assistant II position in the Health Services Department. (100% revenue offset, budgeted) (All Districts)

C.26 INCREASE the hours of three part time Registered Nurse–Advanced Level positions: one from 24/40 to 32/40, one from 24/40 to full time, and one from 32/40 to full time; five part time Registered Nurse-Experience Level positions: two from 24/40 to 32/40, one from 28/40 to 32/40, one from 20/40 to 32/40, and one from 20/40 to 30/40; and REALLOCATE the hours of three Permanent Intermittent Registered Nurse–Experienced Level positions to part-time (32/40) in the Health Services Department. (100% revenue offset, budgeted) (All Districts)

C.27 RECLASSIFY one Licensed Vocational Nurse position to Registered Nurse-Beginning Level in the Health Services Department. (100% revenue offset, budgeted) (All Districts)

C.28 AMEND Personnel Adjustment Resolution 19120, which established the class of After School Program Teacher and transferred 15 After School Program Teacher-Project positions into the Merit System, to transfer three positions back into the class of After School Teacher-Project in the Health Services Department. (No fiscal impact) (All Districts)

C.29 RECLASSIFY one Mental Health Community Support Worker II position to Mental Health Specialist I in the Health Services Department. (100% revenue offset, budgeted) (All Districts)

C.30 ADD one Personnel Services Assistant III position and CANCEL one Human Resources Program Coordinator position in the Health Services Department. (No cost increase) (All Districts)

C.31 ADD one Clerk-Experienced Level position in the Health Services Department. (100% revenue offset, budgeted) (All Districts)

C.32 APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Chief Information Officer, or designee, to execute a contract with the City of Pittsburg in the amount of $25,000 to assist with the replacement and enhancement of the City’s police radio system. (District V)

C.33 APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Employment and Human Services Director, or designee, to accept California Department of Aging fiscal year 2001/2002 additional funds for Title III and Title VII of the Older Americans Act in the amount of $294,770 for a total contract revenue amount of $2,809,127 for health and welfare services to senior citizens. (No County match) (All Districts)

C.34 APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Employment and Human Services Director, or designee, to accept California Department of Aging funds in the amount of $1,736 for one-time only costs related to the California Senior Legislation. (All Districts)

C.35 APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Sheriff-Coroner, or designee, to execute a contract amendment with Richard D. Jones, Jones and Mayer (formerly Mayer and Coble), to extend the term from October 1, 2001 to June 30, 2002 with no increase in the payment limit, for legal services.

C.36 APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Employment and Human Services Director, or designee, on behalf of the Workforce Development Board, to execute a contract amendment with the Oakland Private Industry Council, Inc. (OPIC), to increase the payment limit by $400,000 to a new payment limit of $450,000 to act as contracting and pay agent for training vendor services, through June 30, 2002. (100% Federal funds) (All Districts)

C.37 APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Employment and Human Services Director, or designee, to execute a contract amendment with Bay Area Vital Link, Inc., to increase the payment limit by $30,000 to a new payment limit of $89,000 for communication devices under Multipurpose Senior Services Program (MSSP) Service Code 9.2 through June 30, 2002. (100% State/Federal funds, budgeted) (All Districts)

C.38 APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Employment and Human Services Director, or designee, to execute a contract with Christopher Parkhurst in the amount of $77,500 for consultation and technical assistance to the Department’s Contracts and Grants Unit for the period April 1, 2002 through March 31, 2003. (20% County, 40% State, 40% Federal) (All Districts)

C.39 APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the General Services Director to execute the First Amendment to the consulting services agreement with Clayton Environmental Consultants to increase the payment limit by $50,000 to a new payment limit of $150,000 for industrial hygiene services for miscellaneous building projects. (Charges to user departments) (All Districts)

C.40 APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the General Services Director to execute the Fourth Amendment to the consulting services agreement dated August 17, 1999 with Artech Design Group, to increase the payment limit by $45,920 to a new payment limit of $755,150 to provide additional architectural design and construction management services including plans and specifications for 79 workstations for the new office building at 4549 Delta Fair Boulevard, Antioch, for the Employment and Human Services Department. (Bond Proceeds-80% State/Federal reimbursed) (District V)

C.41 APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Employment and Human Services Director, or designee, to execute a contract amendment with STAND! Against Domestic Violence, to extend the term from February 28 to June 30, 2002, with no change in the payment limit, for continuing placement of CalWORKs domestic violence liaisons at four County locations and maintenance of existing CalWORKs and Children and Family Services client support groups. (No additional cost) (All Districts)

C.42 APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Chief Information Officer, or designee, to execute a contract with ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute) in an amount not to exceed $110,000 for the development, implementation, and knowledge transfer of a web-based Geographic Information System (GIS) Parcel Viewing System and Floodplain Information System for the period April 1, 2002 to April 1, 2003. (Department GIS Contributions) (All Districts)

C.43 APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Building Inspection Director to execute a contract with Advance Title Research (ATR) in an amount not to exceed $49,000 to provide preliminary title searches, drive-by appraisals and abatement reports for the Property Conservation Division through December 31, 2003. (CDBG Funds) (All Districts)

C.44 APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Assessor, or designee, to execute a contract amendment with Vestra Resources, Inc., to increase the payment limit by $20,000 to a new payment limit of $69,600 and to extend the term through December 31, 2002 for project coordination and implementation support services. (AB 719 Property Tax Administration Revenue) (All Districts)

C.45 APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the County Counsel to execute a contract with Catherine Beller to provide professional legal services to be paid in accordance with a specified fee schedule through August 31, 2002. (Budgeted) (All Districts)

C.46 APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Community Services Director, or designee, to execute a contract amendment with Macias, Gini & Company LLP to extend the term from December 31, 2001 to March 15, 2002 and to increase the payment limit by $6,000 to a new payment limit of $29,000 for auditing services to the Community Services Department’s Child Development Program. (100% State Child Development Fund, budgeted) (All Districts)     

C.47 APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Community Services Director, or designee, to execute a contract amendment with Judy Ann Ventling, L.V.N., to increase the payment limit by $6,000 to a new payment limit of $27,000 to provide continuing tuberculosis testing and health screening training to the Community Services Department's staff, through June 30, 2002. (100% State Child Development Fund, budgeted) (All Districts)     

C.48 APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute a contract with Louis Klein, M.D., Inc., in an amount not to exceed $70,000 to provide professional obstetrics/gynecology services for the Contra Costa Health Plan for the period February 1, 2002 through January 31, 2003. (Enterprise II Budget) (All Districts)

C.49 APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute a contract with Romax Development, LTD., in an amount not to exceed $105,000 to provide continuing consultation and technical assistance to the Department with regard to the Computer Output Laser Disc (COLD) Onbase System, for the period March 1, 2002 through February 28, 2003. (Enterprise I Budget) (All Districts)

C.50 APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute a contract amendment with Contra Costa Cardiology Medical Group, effective March 1, 2002, to increase the payment limit by $15,000 to a new payment limit of $36,000 to provide an additional level of service to include clinical coverage, through June 30, 2004. (Enterprise I Budget) (All Districts)

C.51 APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee to execute a contract amendment with HWW, Inc. (dba Ad Club Advertising Services), effective March 31, 2002, to increase the payment limit by $100,000 to a new payment limit of $300,000, to provide additional hours of advertising services, through June 30, 2002. (Enterprise I Budget) (All Districts)

C.52 APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute a contract with Diablo Valley AIDS Center in an amount not to exceed $173,000 to provide continuing coordination of food services for persons with HIV disease and their families for the period March 1, 2002 through February 28, 2003. (100% Ryan White Care Act funds, budgeted) (All Districts)

C.53 APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute a contract amendment with Surgical Nurse, LLC, effective March 1, 2002, to modify the Service Plan to allow the contractor to provide an additional level of registry services to include Pediatric and Labor and Delivery Nurses, with no change in the original payment limit of $175,000, through June 30, 2002. (Enterprise I Budget) (All Districts)

C.54 APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute a contract with Paula J. Melone, D.O., (dba Bay Area Perinatal Consultants, Inc.), in an amount not to exceed $378,000 to provide continuing maternal fetal medicine services for Contra Costa Regional Medical Center for the period April 1, 2002 through May 31, 2005. (Third Party Revenues) (All Districts)

C.55 APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute a contract with Cynthia Lai in an amount not to exceed $62,400 to provide Echocardiogram services for Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, including on-call coverage services, Diagnostic Cardiac Ultrasound, and EKG's for the period March 1, 2002 through February 28, 2003. (Enterprise I Budget) (All Districts)

C.56 APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute a contract with Muir Orthopaedic Specialists in an amount not to exceed $340,000 to provide continuing professional orthopedic services, including clinic coverage, consultation, training, and/or medical procedures for the period March 1, 2002 through February 28, 2003. (Third Party Revenue) (All Districts)

C.57 APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute a contract amendment with Community Alert Network, Inc., effective January 1, 2002, to increase the payment limit by $75,000 to a new payment limit of $529,315 to provide additional emergency community notification services, through December 31, 2003. (HazMat Inspection fees) (All Districts)

C.58 APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute a contract with Aaron P. Kling in an amount not to exceed $26,086 to provide continuing technical assistance to the Department with regard to County's Office for Consumer Empowerment for the period April 1, 2002 through March 31, 2003. (100% Mental Health Realignment funds) (All Districts)

C.59 APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute a contract amendment with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Northern California Health Care System to increase the payment limit by $6,500 to a new payment limit of $34,400 for additional Oncology services, through September 30, 2002. (Enterprise I Budget and Third Party Revenues) (All Districts)

C.60 APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the General Services Director to execute a license with CUNA Mutual Life Insurance Company for placement of County-owned telecommunications equipment on the roof of the premises located at 2120 Diamond Blvd., Concord, for use by the Health Services Department-Environmental Health Division. (Budgeted) (District IV)

C.61 ACKNOWLEDGE receipt of report from the County Construction Administrator regarding the status of juvenile hall construction. (All Districts)

C.62 ACKNOWLEDGE receipt of the Treasurer’s Reconciliation Report as of January 31, 2002, as requested by the 1992 Audit Management Letter of December 30, 1992 from KPMG Peat Marwick. (All Districts)

C.63 REFER the following items to the Transportation Water and Infrastructure Committee: progress on the Habitat Conservation Plan; activities of CalFED projects proposed or underway in the County; funding sources for parks and open space projects; and legislation affecting "smart growth" issues, as recommended by the Committee. (All Districts)

C.64 DIRECT the Community Development Department, pursuant to Ordinance Code Chapter 418-6, Mandatory Subscription, to forward to the County Recorder the assessments for specified persons and premises, for the purpose of levying liens on the 2002/2003 Tax Bills. (Districts I, II)

C.65 ADOPT Resolution Nos. 2002/132 and RA 2002-1 approving and authorizing the Redevelopment Director to proceed with an amendment to the Redevelopment Plan for the Rodeo Redevelopment Project Area extending the power of eminent domain for 12 years; concurring in the designation of the County as the Lead Agency and the Redevelopment Agency as the Responsible Agency for the environmental review process for the adoption of the Redevelopment Plan amendment; determining that a project area committee is not required for the amendment and adopt a community participation process; and authorizing future transmittal of the proposed Redevelopment Plan amendment, the Negative Declaration and other documents and notices required under Community Redevelopment Law. (District II) (See C.74)

C.66 CONTINUE the emergency action originally taken by the Board on October 26, 1999 on the Emergency Upgrade of County telecommunications Infrastructure. (All Districts)

C.67 CONTINUE the emergency action originally taken by the Board of Supervisors on December 14, 1999 based on the increasing/epidemic number of AIDS/HIV and Hepatitis C cases among injection drug users in Contra Costa County. (All Districts)

C.68 CONTINUE the emergency action originally taken by the Board of Supervisors on November 16, 1999 regarding the issue of homelessness in Contra Costa County. (All Districts)

C.69 AUTHORIZE the Auditor-Controller to remit payment in the amount of $90 to the Estate of Robert Dyer, to reimburse the United States Department of Veterans Affairs for an overpayment of the Veterans Administration Pension, as recommended by the Health Services Director. (All Districts)

C.70 ACCEPT status report on the implementation of the multi-language capabilities of the Community Alert Network (CAN) emergency telephone notification system, and continue this item as a referral to the Internal Operations Committee, as recommended by the Internal Operations Committee. (All Districts)

C.71 ACCEPT status report on the development of a training program and web page for advisory bodies of the Board of Supervisors, and continue this item as a referral to the Internal Operations Committee, as recommended by the Internal Operations Committee. (All Districts)

C.72 ACCEPT report from the Treasurer-Tax Collector on County Investments from October 1, 2001 through December 31, 2001.

C.73 RESCIND action of the Board of Supervisors taken on March 5, 2002 (Item C.25), which authorized the Chair, Board of Supervisors, to sign a letter to the National Endowment for the Arts in support of the application by the Contra Costa County Arts and Culture Commission for $10,000 in grant funds for the Afterschool4All Education Project, as recommended by the County Administrator. (Item to be resubmitted at a later date.) (All Districts)

C.74 ADOPT Resolution Nos. 2002/132 and RA 2002-1 approving and authorizing the Redevelopment Director to proceed with an amendment to the Redevelopment Plan for the Rodeo Redevelopment Project Area extending the power of eminent domain for 12 years; concurring in the designation of the County as the Lead Agency and the Redevelopment Agency as the Responsible Agency for the environmental review process for the adoption of the Redevelopment Plan amendment; determining that a project area committee is not required for the amendment and adopt a community participation process; and authorizing future transmittal of the proposed Redevelopment Plan amendment, the Negative Declaration and other documents and notices required under Community Redevelopment Law. (District II) (See C.65)

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The Transportation, Water & Infrastructure Committee (Supervisors D. Gerber and F. D. Glover) - meets on the fourth Monday of the month at 10:30 A.M. in Room 105, County Administration Building, 651 Pine Street, Martinez.