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Mariposa supervisors approve consent items, return trail funds and clear contracts in unanimous votes
Summary
At their March 11 meeting the Mariposa County Board of Supervisors approved the bulk of the consent agenda, approved an airport on-call engineering contract, and authorized a $37,240 memorandum of understanding returning accumulated grazing-lease funds to the Lake Don Pedro Trail Blazers. Multiple personnel reclassifications and new peer-support positions in behavioral health also passed 5–0.
The Mariposa County Board of Supervisors on March 11 approved a series of routine and personnel items, returning several funds to local groups and updating county job classifications.
The board approved most of the consent agenda in a single motion, with several items pulled for separate consideration. The consent motion — moved by Supervisor Manitra and seconded by Supervisor Kaiser — carried unanimously, 5–0.
Among individual votes the board approved an amended five-year on-call agreement with Tartaglia Engineering for airport design and planning work (Public Works corrected a clerical compensation error before the vote), and unanimously authorized a $37,240 memorandum of understanding with the Lake Don Pedro Trail Blazers to purchase equipment for trail maintenance out of grazing-lease proceeds that had accumulated in county coffers.
The county indicated the Lake Don Pedro funds would be paid by check following approval and that the source fund will be closed until a future revenue source returns. Assistant CAO Lee Westerlund noted the money came from a grazing lease and had built up while the nonprofit was not actively using it.
The board also approved a slate of personnel and classification actions: reclassifying a Planner I to Administrative Analyst I/II; creating three Peer Support Specialist positions (a new classification for the county that is Medi‑Cal billable after state-required training); renaming Engineering Technician classifications to Public Works Inspector with revised salary ranges; and two reclassifications in the Sheriff’s Office. All these actions passed by unanimous votes.
Several items were handled differently: CA7, a request to retain outside counsel to analyze a proposed modification of Burns Dam on Burns Creek, was withdrawn from today’s agenda to allow staff to supply fuller briefing and minutes from the Water Agency Advisory Board; staff will return the item when the board sits as the Water Agency.
What happens next: the county will cut the Trail Blazers’ check, file the updated library policy with the state librarian, post job-class changes and recruit under the revised classifications. The board also reported it met in closed session on potential litigation and gave direction to legal counsel.
