Memorandum
Date: May12, 2020
To: The Honorable Moke Simon, Chair, Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Steven Hajik, Agricultural Commissioner/Sealer of Weights and Measures
Subject: Adopt Resolution Adopting Agreement No. 19-0994-005-SF with California Department of Food and Agriculture for compliance with the European Grapevine Moth detection program and authorization execution thereof
Executive Summary:
I would like to ask the Board to adopt the attached Resolution approving the agreement with the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) for the trapping and detection of European Grapevine Moth (EGVM) in Lake County from January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020. The agreement amount is $30,810.00.
This is a joint federal (USDA), state and county program which can detect early infestation of European Grapevine Moth. The USDA provides funding for the state, and state then distributes a portion of those funds to the counties. The counties are responsible for implementing the EGVM trapping program. The traps being deployed are meant to detect EGVM.
The program begins March 1st and ends on August 31st. All traps must be checked and serviced bi-weekly. Lake County employs two Extra Help Trappers to deploy/check the traps and the state supervises the counties. There have been no detections during my tenure as an Agricultural Commissioner.
This program is critical to Lake County's agricultural industry. Without a detection program grapes would not be able to be shipped to other parts of the country or internationally due to quarantine requirements.
Should the board adopt this Resolution, please have the chair sign and return one copy of the agreement, one copy of the board resolution and return them to the Department of Agriculture for processing. A signed complete copy will be returned for your records.
Fiscal Impact: ? None ? Budgeted ? Non-Budgeted
Estimated Cost: ________ ...
Click here for full text