To: Board of Supervisors
From: Kristin Connelly, Clerk-Recorder
Report Title: Approve and Authorize Contract with Regents of the University of Minnesota
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Clerk-Recorder, or designee, to execute a contract with the Regents of the University of Minnesota, a Minnesota Constitutional Corporation, in an amount not to exceed $112,400 to identify, map, and redact unlawful restrictive covenants within the Clerk-Recorder office's historical property records and document indices for the period October 8, 2024 through June 30, 2027
FISCAL IMPACT:
100% County General Fund through Measure X revenue allocation. The costs of this agreement are within the Department's operating budget.
BACKGROUND:
California Assembly Bill 1466 requires County Recorders to establish a restrictive covenant program to assist in the redaction of unlawfully restrictive covenants, the University of Minnesota's Mapping Prejudice Project was identified as a capable and cost-effective provider of such services, and the Department's proposal to work with the University was approved by the Board of Supervisors in September 2023. The Clerk-Recorder's property image indices will be shared with the University of Minnesota, for their software to identify, map, and redact unlawful restrictive covenants based on race, and to the best of their ability unlawful restrictive covenants based on age, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, familial status, marital status, disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, national origin, source of income, or ancestry. Property record images analyzed shall include, but not be limited to, deeds, Torrens certificates, agreements, restrictions, plat maps, and any other relevant miscellaneous portion, piece, view, duplication, copy, or sampling, of said document images.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGA...
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