HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 10202015 - C.34RECOMMENDATION(S):
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Agricultural Commissioner, or designee, to execute an agreement with the
California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) for an amount not to exceed $60,262 to perform and provide
quarantine response and regulatory enforcement activities in compliance with the requirements on behalf of the
California Department of Food and Agriculture for the period of October 1, 2015 through September 30, 2016.
FISCAL IMPACT:
#15-0465-SF provides reimbursement for County expenses not to exceed $60262 incurred during the period October
1, 2015 through September 30, 2016 for quarantine response and regulatory enforcement activities performed on
behalf of California Department of Food and Agriculture. No county match.
BACKGROUND:
The Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM) was first detected in Contra Costa County in March 2007 and subsequently
the county has become generally infested. As multiple detections of LBAM continued, the California Department of
Food and Agriculture (CDFA) imposed emergency adoption of Section 3434, Light Brown Moth Interior Quarantine,
eventually adding the entirety of Contra
APPROVE OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
Action of Board On: 10/20/2015 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: R. Crosby (925)
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: October 20, 2015
David Twa, County Administrator and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
By: Chris Heck, Deputy
cc:
C. 34
To:Board of Supervisors
From:Chad Godoy, Director of Agriculture/Weights & Measures
Date:October 20, 2015
Contra
Costa
County
Subject:#15-0465-SF Light Brown Apple Moth Program Regulatory
BACKGROUND: (CONT'D)
Costa County. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a Federal Domestic Quarantine Order
(DA-2007-42), regulating the interstate movement of host material from the infested areas of California and Hawaii.
This regulation requires all nurseries, green waste facilities, community gardens and harvest host plant commodities
within the infested areas be issue quarantine compliance agreements and be inspected every 30 days.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
A negative action will result in failure to meet state mandates and reduced revenue to the department. This would also
negatively impact the county's nursery industry and some growers as they would not be able to meet the requirements
to ship host material to non-infested areas outside the county.
CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:
none