Placer County Grand Jury
• 2011-2012
The Fair and the unfair: a History of Continuous Neglect
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Findings and Recommendations 7 findings
F1
The current contract that the County has with the Association to run the County Fair is illegal because it violates the five year limitation for such contracts contained in §25905. The County has a history of failing to comply with this same statutory limitation. A preceding
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R1
operate and manage the Fair, including the Speedway, because it violates the five year contract limitation contained in §25905.
F2
contract that the County had with the Association to run the County Fair stayed in effect from January 1, 1983, through June 30, 1993, a period of ten years and six months. Accordingly, this preceding contract also violated the five year limitation for such contracts contained in §25905. The County has been negligent in failing to comply with the five year contract limitation
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R2
The Board of Supervisors immediately explore the availability of an alternative non-profit corporation or association to operate and manage the Fair, including the Speedway, by soliciting proposals from alternative groups.
F3
contained in §25905. The County has been negligent in failing to appoint a County employee to monitor the
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R3
The Board of Supervisors refuse to approve any new contract to operate and manage the Fair, including the Speedway, unless the contract includes the safeguards, controls, and oversight thought necessary by County officials to protect the public.
F4
Association's compliance with the terms of the current contract to run the Fair. This negligent lack of oversight allowed the Association to wrongfully make the major
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R4
The Board of Supervisors immediately adopt a policy applicable to all contracts that mandates designation of a specific County employee to monitor compliance with the terms of the contract by each of the parties.
F5
structural modifications to the Speedway that produced the numerous environmental problems that the County now faces. The County's continuing failure to enforce the five year contract limitation and the County's
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R5
The Board of Supervisors direct County Counsel to verify that all future contracts submitted to the Board for approval fully comply with the provisions of the statute that authorizes the contract. The Board of Supervisors not provide additional financial support, including a line of credit, for
F6
failure to terminate the contract for a major breach of its provisions, has allowed the Association to benefit from its own wrongdoing. The contract continues to be in effect indefinitely; the Association continues to resist any of the safeguards, controls, or oversight the County believes necessary to deal with the environmental problems created by these wrongful modifications, and the Association has shifted responsibility for the cost of the environmental studies that it should have borne, had it sought proper approval, to the County taxpayers. The termination of State financial support for the Placer County Fair threatens the ability of the
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R6
the annual Placer County Fair unless proper environmental protections deemed necessary by the County to deal with Speedway generated environmental problems are incorporated into the contract to run the fair.
F7
Association to conduct, manage, and operate the annual Placer County Fair without significant additional financial support from Placer County.
No recommendations for this finding