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Chief Administrative Office recommending the Board consider the Draft Board of Supervisors Responses to the 2025-26 Grand Jury Final Reports for Case 26-05, El Dorado County Code Compliance, A Study of Communication, Contracts, Code Enforcement, and Data Compliance and Case 26-06, Investigation of Charter Section 504 Executive Salary Linkage Practices, Efficiency, Equity and Governance, and take one of the following actions:
1) Direct staff to make changes and return to the Board with a final report(s) by August 25, 2026; or
2) Approve the report(s) as the Final Report(s) and authorize the Chief Administrative Office to submit them to the Presiding Judge.
FUNDING: N/A
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
The 2025-26 Grand Jury published two Final Reports which require a response from the Board of Supervisors:
1) Case 26-05, El Dorado County Code Compliance, A Study of Communication, Contracts, Code Enforcement, and Data Compliance, published on May 27, 2026; and
2) Case 26-06, Investigation of Charter Section 504 Executive Salary Linkage Practices, Efficiency, Equity and Governance, published on June 24, 2026.
In addition, the 2025-26 Grand Jury issued one Final Report for which the Board of Supervisors was invited, but not required, to respond to Findings 8-9 and Recommendations 8-9:
1) Case 26-04, Mosquito Fire Protection District, Serving the Community, published on June 10, 2026;
As a response is not required in regard to Case 26-04, the County defers to the Mosquito Fire Protection District to respond.
Under the California Penal Code section 933 (c), the Board of Supervisors must provide a response to the Presiding Judge of the Superior Court within 90 days of the date that a Final Report is made available to the public. The response to Case 26-05 is due by August 25, 2026, and the response to Case 26-06 is due by September 22, 2026. The proposed responses are therefore being submitted to the Board for approval.
The attached draft responses have been prepared in the form prescribed by Penal Code section 933.05 and addresses the findings and recommendations of the Grand Jury for which the Grand Jury requested a response from the Board of Supervisors.
ALTERNATIVES
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PRIOR BOARD ACTION
Legistar file 26-1013 - July 21, 2026 - The Board approved the final responses for the 2025-26 Grand Jury reports 26-01, 26-02, and 26-03.
OTHER DEPARTMENT / AGENCY INVOLVEMENT
The response has been prepared in conjunction with affected departments/agencies.
FINANCIAL IMPACT
There is no direct financial impact related to the consideration of the responses. There may be financial impacts associated with implementing certain Grand Jury recommendations; however, these will be identified as staff evaluates the needs for future actions and will be presented in subsequent staff reports prior to any approval or implementation.
CLERK OF THE BOARD FOLLOW UP ACTIONS
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STRATEGIC PLAN COMPONENT
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CONTACT
Grant Webber, Principal Management Analyst