Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Fred Crowder, Agricultural Commissioner / Sealer of Weights & Measures
Jim Eggemeyer, Director, Office of Sustainability
Peggy Jensen, Interim Parks Director
Steve Monowitz, Community Development Director
James C. Porter, Director of Public Works
Subject: Memorandum of Understanding with the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy for the preparation of a Fine-scale GIS mapping of physical and natural landscapes of San Mateo County
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing:
A) The President of the Board of Supervisors to execute a Memorandum of Understanding with the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy for the preparation of a county-wide fine-scale vegetation map and landscape database, with a term expiring July 1, 2022, and a not-to-exceed amount of $229,500; and
B) The County Manager, or their designee, to execute amendments to the Memorandum of Understanding to modify the County's maximum fiscal obligation by no more than $25,000, and/or modify the Memorandum of Understanding's terms and/or services, so long as the modified term(s) and/or services is/are within the current or revised fiscal provisions.
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BACKGROUND:
The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy (Conservancy) is interested in collaborating with partners from San Mateo County to obtain high quality, countywide GIS data. The GIS data to be collected includes location and extent of communities and species of vegetation, surface characteristics, landscape-level hydrology, topography, and fire fuels (Project). With this information, users will be able to classify all impervious and non-impervious ground surfaces; model watershed boundaries, stream centerlines, and subsurface flows; identify fire fuels and areas of high risk for fire spread; and determine relative cover of forest stands.
Due to the value of this information, multiple entities are interested in...
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