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Consider recommendations regarding the Contract with Ventura County Workforce Development Board (VWDB) to receive High Road Construction Careers, Coastal Counties BuildForward Program (CCB) grant funds and the Agreement with Eckerd Youth Alternatives, Inc. dba Eckerd Connects to operate the CCB, as follows:
a) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Director of the Santa Barbara County Department of Social Services, or designee, to accept the High Road Construction Careers: 2026 Program on behalf of the Santa Barbara County Workforce Development Board, and authorize the Chair to execute the contract with the Workforce Development Board of Ventura County to receive $200,000.00 to provide High Road Construction Careers Bridge Funding Program known as CCB for the period starting July 1, 2026 and ending March 31, 2027;
b) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Chair to execute an Agreement with Eckerd Youth Alternatives, Inc. dba Eckerd Connects (not a local vendor), to provide High Road Construction Careers Bridge Funding Program known as CCB services for a total contract amount not to exceed $162,785.00 for the period of July 1, 2026 through March 31, 2027;
c) Authorize the Director of the Santa Barbara County Department of Social Services, or designee, the authority to adjust the term start date, under the terms of the High Road Construction Careers Bridge Funding Program known as CCB contract with Workforce Development Board of Ventura County as amended, so long as there is no change to the maximum contract amount;
d) Authorize the Director of the Santa Barbara County Department of Social Services, or designee, to adjust the Line Item Budget of the Eckerd Youth Alternatives, Inc. dba Eckerd Connects for High Road Construction Careers Bridge Funding Program known as CCB without exceeding the total contract amounts;
e) Authorize the Director of the Santa Barbara County Department of Social Services, or designee, to extend the High Road Construction Careers Bridge Funding Program known as CCB contract with Workforce Development Board of Ventura County and Agreement with Eckerd Youth Alternatives, Inc. dba Eckerd Connects, and to allocate the amount of unused funds from the previous Fiscal Year budget to the next Fiscal Year budget, subject to appropriations and budget approval;
f) Authorize the Director of Social Services or designee, subject to appropriations and budget approval, to amend the Agreements with Eckerd Youth Alternatives, Inc. dba Eckerd Connects for High Road Construction Careers Bridge Funding Program known as CCB by increasing the maximum contract amount in an amount not to exceed amount of unused funds from previous Fiscal Year to the next Fiscal Year, subject to appropriations and concurrence by County Counsel and the Auditor-Controller; and
g) Determine that the activity is not a “Project” subject to California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) review per CEQA Guideline Section 15378(b)(4), the creation of government funding mechanisms or other government fiscal activities which do not involve any commitment to any specific project which may result in a potentially significant physical impact on the environment; and per CEQA Guideline Section 15378(b)(5), since the activity is an organizational or administrative activity of government that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.