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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />NOVEMBER 21, 2017 <br />TITLE: <br />APPOINT MEMBER TO THE ORANGE <br />COUNTY VECTOR CONTROL BOARD <br />(STRATEGIC PLAN NO. 5, 1) <br />r <br />ITY MANAGER <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />•r• o <br />❑ As Recommended <br />❑ As Amended <br />❑ Ordinance on 1s' Reading <br />❑ Ordinance on 2nd Reading <br />❑ Implementing Resolution <br />❑ Set Public Hearing For <br />CONTINUED TO <br />FILE NUMBER <br />Select a member to the Orange County Vector Control and appoint for either a two (2) or four (4) <br />year term expiring in January. <br />DISCUSSION <br />The term of current board member, Cecilia Aguinaga will expire in January of 2018. She was <br />appointed in February of 2017 to fill the unexpired term of former Councilmember Roman Reyna. <br />Ms. Aguinaga has expressed an interested in continuing to represent the City, if so desired by <br />the City Council. <br />The Orange County Mosquito and Vector Control District (District) is a special district and is one <br />of over 100 agencies statewide specifically dedicated to protecting public health by controlling <br />rats, flies, mosquitoes, Red Imported Fire Ants and other vector related problems. <br />The District was formed in 1947, originally as the Orange County Mosquito Abatement District, in <br />accordance with local authority provided by the Mosquito Abatement Act of 1915 and further <br />supported by the California Health and Safety Codes. The District was responsible for protecting <br />the growing population of Orange County from mosquitoes and mosquito -borne diseases. In <br />1975, the Orange County Board of Supervisors conducted an efficiency study that concluded <br />that the District could effectively assume the responsibility for comprehensive vector control. <br />Consequently, fly and rat control, formerly part of the Orange County Health Department, was <br />transferred to the District. At that time the name of the District was changed to the Orange <br />County Mosquito and Vector Control District. In 2004, the District reestablished a Red Imported <br />Fire Ant program after the State stopped funding the program they had established in 2000. <br />60A-1 <br />