The board meets at 9 a.m. in its basement-level chambers, 1010 10th St, Modesto. Today’s agenda includes a side range of items:

• A proclamation to designate December 2002 as Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention Month in Stanislaus County.
• Approval of a project agreement for environmental monitoring at the closed Geer Road landfill.
• An ordinance to add no-parking zones in Denair on the east side of Merced Avenue south of Zeering Road.
• A measure authorizing the chairman of the board to send a letter supporting the formation of the San Joaquin Valley Conservation and Development Council by the United States Department of Agriculture, as well as taking all necessary steps to ensure the inclusion of Stanislaus County as a participant on the council.
• A project to make improvements to the Fishing Access at the east end of Turlock Lake, including work such as road improvements, nature walkways, culverts, signs, picnic tables and litter receptacles.
• Approving the closure of all libraries at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2002, in observance of New Year’s Eve.
• Permission to submit a preliminary $100,000 budget to the California Family Health Council for a Peer Provider Teen Clinic, which is charged with the mission of reducing unwanted teen pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases and to be located at the Paradise Medical Offices; and to additionally begin providing such services at the Hughson Medical Office.
• Adding a chapter to the Stanislaus County Code to raise the fingerprinting fee from $5 to $10 within 30 days.

Reprinted by permission of the Turlock Journal.