Memorandum
Date: April 28, 2020
To: The Honorable Moke Simon, Chairman, Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Brian L. Martin, Sheriff/Coroner/OES Director
Subject: (a) Approve Agreement between the Lake County Sheriff's Office and U.S. Forest Service for FY 20/21 annual operating and financial plan in the amount of $11,000 for Pillsbury Patrol; (b) Approve Grant Modification Agreement in the amount of $52,420 for the purchase of equipment for the Goat Mountain joint repeater project; (c) Adopt the Resolution to allocate Unanticipated revenue and authorize the Sheriff and the Chairman to sign
Executive Summary: The Sheriff's Office requests approval of the attached agreements from the U.S. Forest Service for enforcement services on Forest Service lands.
Revenue for fiscal year 2020/21 in the amount of $11,000 for Pillsbury Patrol Operations has been included in FY 2020/21 Sheriff/Coroner budget 2201. Revenue in the amount of $52,420 to be allocated in the Sheriff/Central Dispatch budget 2202, object code 62.74 for the purchase of equipment for the Goat Mountain repeater site. There are four originals attached to this agreement and will require a total of eight signatures. The USFS monies are already budgeted in the 2019/20 budget. Monies in the amount of $52,420 are being allocated with the attached resolution. It is expected this project will be carried over to fiscal year 2020/21 due to the complexity of this installation.
Members of the fire agencies in Lake County and the Lake County Sheriff's Office have been working tirelessly on improving two way radio communications for several years. A few years ago we learned that placing a two way radio repeater on Goat Mountain in the Mendocino National Forest would greatly enhance our ability to communicate and thus hopefully make their jobs safer. Currently the ability to communicate via two-way radios in the vast majority of the Mendocino National Forest is almost non-existent.
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