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Votes at a glance: Calaveras County Board of Supervisors action summary — March 25, 2025
Summary
The Board of Supervisors on March 25 approved several administrative and program items, including a health officer contract, public-works budget adjustments and a REAP 2 competitive grant program; the meeting also included informational presentations on EV charging and child-welfare prevention services.
The Calaveras County Board of Supervisors took the following formal actions on March 25, 2025. This roundup lists each action, the agenda item number and the outcome as recorded during the meeting. Details follow the summary.
Summary of actions
- Item 13 — Public Health: Approve agreement and reappoint Renee Ramirez, M.D., as county health officer for 07/01/2025–06/30/2026 (contract not to exceed $166,400). Outcome: Approved.
- Item 15 — Public Works: Approve budget adjustments to cover outside plan-check engineering services for the Public Works Project Delivery Division (FY 2024–25). Outcome: Approved.
- Item 16 — Public Works: Adopt a resolution approving the list of projects proposed to receive SB 1 (Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Act) funding for FY 2025–26. Outcome: Approved.
- Item 20 — Economic and Community Development: Approve a notice of funding availability and competitive grant program for REAP 2 funds (regional early action planning); approximately $1,171,142 available for subaward. Outcome: Approved.
- Consent agenda: Most consent items were approved in a single vote; one board member recorded an abstention on item 7 when the consent agenda passed. Outcome: Consent agenda approved with recorded abstention on item 7.
Selected details
Item 13 (agenda item 13) — The board authorized the board chair to sign a contract with Renee Ramirez, M.D., to serve as Calaveras County health officer from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, not to exceed $166,400, and adopted a reappointment resolution. The board discussed pursuing a competitive recruitment process in the future but approved the contract to ensure continuity of public-health leadership.
Item 15 (agenda item 15) — Public Works Director Michael Martin asked for additional budget authority to cover expenses associated with outside plan-check engineering services for complex submittals; the board approved the requested budget adjustments.
Item 16 (agenda item 16) — The board adopted the list of projects proposed for SB 1 road maintenance and rehabilitation funding for fiscal year 2025–26. The county will return in April with the capital improvement program for additional context, and supervisors asked staff to consider geographic distribution of SB 1 funds.
Item 20 (agenda item 20) — The board approved release of a notice of funding availability and a competitive grant program for REAP 2 funds. The grant program targets infill housing and predevelopment needs, the total grant award from the state was $1.7 million and the agenda identified approximately $1,171,142 available for subawards; all awards must follow prevailing-wage rules and be expended by June 30, 2026.
Recording and legal notes
Where the meeting transcript did not record individual roll-call votes for every item, this roundup reports the recorded outcomes as announced by the chair during the meeting. If a tally or named roll call was not provided in the transcript, the vote counts are noted as not specified in the actions detail below.
