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File #: 25-1093    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Informational Report Status: Passed
File created: 9/2/2025 In control: County Administrative Office
On agenda: 9/23/2025 Final action: 9/23/2025
Title: Fiscal Year 2024-25 Grand Jury Responses: "Sempervirens Psychiatric Health Facility: A Key Support System for Humboldt County," "Humboldt County Sheriff's Office - Coroner: Serving the Community, Involving the Community," "Humboldt County Animal Shelter: Animal Shelter + Animal Rescue = Lifesaving Paw-tnership," "Locked Up But Not Locked Out: Inmate Voting Rights in Humboldt County," and "Pension Tension Relieved?: An Investigation into the County's Unfunded Accrued Pension Liabilities"
Attachments: 1. Staff Report, 2. Sempervirens Report, 3. Sempervirens Report - Board of Supervisors Response, 4. Coroner Report, 5. Coroner Report - Board of Supervisors Response, 6. Animal Shelter Report, 7. Animal Shelter Report - Board of Supervisors Response, 8. Inmate Voting Rights Report, 9. Inmate Voting Rights Report - Board of Supervisors Response, 10. Unfunded Accrued Pension Liabilities Report, 11. Unfunded Accrued Pension Liabilities Report - Board of Supervisors Response, 12. Humboldt County Sheriff’s Response to Coroner Report, Animal Shelter Report and Inmate Voting Rights Report, 13. Executed - Coroner Report - Board of Supervisors Response, 14. Executed - Inmate Voting Rights Report - Board of Supervisors Response, 15. Executed - Sempervirens Report - Board of Supervisors Response, 16. Executed - Unfunded Accrued Pension Liabilities Report - Board of Supervisors Response, 17. Executed - Animal Shelter Report - Board of Supervisors Response

To: Board of Supervisors

From: County Administrative Office

Agenda Section: Consent

Vote Requirement: Majority

SUBJECT:
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Fiscal Year 2024-25 Grand Jury Responses: "Sempervirens Psychiatric Health Facility: A Key Support System for Humboldt County," "Humboldt County Sheriff's Office - Coroner: Serving the Community, Involving the Community," "Humboldt County Animal Shelter: Animal Shelter + Animal Rescue = Lifesaving Paw-tnership," "Locked Up But Not Locked Out: Inmate Voting Rights in Humboldt County," and "Pension Tension Relieved?: An Investigation into the County's Unfunded Accrued Pension Liabilities"
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
Recommendation
That the Board of Supervisors:
1. Review and modify as necessary the proposed Grand Jury responses from the Board of Supervisors (Attachments 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10); and
2. Approve the documents, as may be modified, as the response; and
3. Direct the Clerk of the Board, within five working days, to submit two copies of all attached responses to the County Clerk/Recorder, together with a copy of the original reports; and
4. Direct the Clerk of the Board, within five working days, to submit two copies of attached responses to the Clerk of the Court, one of which will be forward to the State Archivist, together with a copy of the original reports.
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STRATEGIC PLAN:
This action supports the following areas of your Board's Strategic Plan.

Area of Focus: Core Services/Other
Strategic Plan Category: 9999 - Core Services/Other

DISCUSSION:
The Humboldt County Civil Grand Jury investigates and reports on the operations, accounts, and records of the officers, departments or functions of the County of Humboldt and other local government agencies. The county sincerely thanks the Grand Jury for its hard work and efforts they have put forth in their 2024-25 Grand Jury reports.

To date, the Humboldt County Civil Grand Jury has submitted nine reports to the Presiding Judge of the Superior Court, of which eight per...

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