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CONSENT CALENDAR |
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11. |
Consider Approval To Purchase Expendable PIT Tags and OTHEr
DISPOSABLE Tagging Supplies for the remAINDER OF Calendar Year 2018 |
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Meeting
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June 18, 2018 |
Budgeted: |
Yes |
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From: |
Dave Stoldt, |
Program/ |
Aquatic
Resources/ |
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General Manager |
Line Item No.: |
Fisheries 2-3-1 H |
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Prepared
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Kevan Urquhart |
Cost Estimate: |
$20,000 |
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General Counsel Approval: N/A |
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Committee Recommendation: The Administrative Committee reviewed this
item on June 11, 2018 and recommended approval. |
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CEQA Compliance:
This action does not constitute a project as defined by the California
Environmental Quality Act guidelines section 15378. |
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SUMMARY: The District has been cooperating with the National
Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center (NMFS-SWFSC) since
2013 to tag juvenile steelhead with half-duplex (HDX) Passive Integrated Transponder
tags (PIT-tags). Additional tags, tag
injectors, needles, scalpels and other such disposable/expendable field
supplies are needed in order to tag juvenile fish this upcoming summer rescue
season, and during fall population monitoring.
We need up to a total of 6,000 PIT tags of two sizes (12 & 24 mm),
~3,000 of each size per year, as well as the associated tagging supplies. The tags alone run approximately $1.70-$2.25
each, plus tax and shipping, for an estimated $12,000/year, that does not include
additional supplies necessary to complete the tagging process.
In August 2017, the board approved a not-to-exceed
amount of $8,500, and then approved an additional $3,200 in April 2018 solely
for the purchase of major items of equipment, hardware and tags. These authorized amounts did not include
ongoing minor supplies billed to the same Line Item. We have not had to purchase any PIT tags to
date, as they were supplied by NMFS, but stocks of those tags are almost
depleted, and we have begun the annual Fish Rescue Season. To date we have
spent approximately $19,000 of the $65,000 budget on all items related to the
program, leaving up to $46,000 to be authorized. The additional expendable/disposable supplies
needed to continue tagging fish this Calendar Year, is estimated at $20,000,
allocated as $12,000 in the remainder of Fiscal Year (FY) 2017-2018, and $8,000
in next FY 2018-2019. Any additional
major hardware or equipment expenses for FY 2018-2019 will be proposed and
documented in an additional Staff Note, next FY.
RECOMMENDATION: Staff
recommends that the Board authorize additional expenditure of budgeted
funds in the amount of $12,000 for
FY 2017-2018 and $8,000 for FY 2018-2019 to cover solely the costs of expendable/disposable
PIT tags and tagging supplies, not including other miscellaneous ongoing
operational expenses to support the program.
IMPACT TO STAFF/RESOURCES: The Fiscal Year
2017-2018 Budget includes $65,000 and the Fiscal Year 2018-2019 Budget is
proposed to have $45,000 for these ongoing studies to monitor steelhead related
to our impending NMFS ESA Section 10(A)(1)(a) permit.
EXHIBIT
None
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