Votes at a glance: Board approves skilled-nursing renewal, lighting-assessment resolution and routine consent items

The Imperial County Board of Supervisors took several ministerial and contract actions during its July 8 meeting, approving routine consent items and a one-year renewal and assessment actions described below.

Imperial Manor skilled nursing renewal The board authorized the chairman to sign a one-year renewal agreement with Imperial Manor skilled nursing facility to provide specialized services for adults (18 and older) with serious mental-health diagnoses who require skilled nursing-level care. County staff said the contract covers 28 beds and that funding for the renewal is covered by realignment and Medi-Cal. The staff presentation included numerical figures that are internally inconsistent in the meeting record; county staff are the source for the funding statement but the per-night rate and the total figure recorded in the transcript appear garbled and were not independently verified in open session. The board approved the renewal by motion (mover: Supervisor Martha Cardenas Singh; second: Supervisor Escobar) and the motion carried.

Imperial Center Lighting, Landscape and Maintenance District assessment The board adopted the engineering report and levy for the Imperial Center Lighting, Landscape and Maintenance District for fiscal year 2025-26, a routine annual action required to set assessments. Deputy directors from Public Works said the district fund balance is approximately $961,000 and referenced an estimated assessment figure (spoken in the record as about "174 per year"). The item passed by motion (mover: Supervisor Escobar; second: Supervisor Cardenas Singh).

Consent calendar and minutes The board carried a series of consent items and approved official proceedings for July 1 and a July 3 special meeting, all by voice/roll-call motion as recorded in the meeting minutes.

Closed-session additions and reports The board approved an urgency addition to closed session to confer with legal counsel on existing litigation (Acosta v. County of Imperial, Imperial County Superior Court case number ECU004161); the motion to add the item was made by Supervisor Escobar and seconded by Supervisor Price and carried. Following closed session, the board reported that direction was given on multiple closed-session matters (existing litigation, anticipated litigation, real property negotiations and labor negotiations) and that no reportable action was taken in open session on those items.

Votes recorded at the meeting matched the procedural motions on consent items and the two action items summarized above.