Memorandum
Date: July 12, 2022
To: The Honorable Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Scott DeLeon, Public Works Director
Subject: Approve use of PG&E Settlement Funds for Various Road Projects and Authorize the Public Works Department to Include Appropriations in the FY21-22 Budget
Executive Summary:
In April, your Board considered the distribution of funds received from PG&E as part of a settlement following the Sulphur Fire in 2017. During this discussion, your Board approved the allocation of one million dollars from the settlement funds to be used on a pavement rehabilitation project for roads that were impacted by the fire. The Board memo prepared for that discussion inadvertently only specified FY 22-23 for the use of funds, and the Department of Public Works is not being reimbursed for expenses incurred during FY 21-22. Today’s agenda item is intended to request your Board’s approval of expanding the use of the PG&E settlement funds to FY 21-22, which will allow the reimbursement from Budget Unit 1920 to Budget Unit 3011 in the amount of $423,926.36 for the purchase of Hot Mix Asphalt from the only material source, Granite Construction, for the aforementioned project.
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Recommended Action: Staff recommends that the Board of Supervisors approve the use of PG&E Settlement Funds for the Sulphur Fire road rehabilitation project, and authorize the Public Works Department to be reimbursed for material expenses incurred during FY 21-22