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Consider recommendations regarding a Resolution authorizing an application for the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) Bond Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program (BHCIP) Round 1 Launch Ready Program grant funds, as follows:
a) Adopt a Resolution that:
i) Authorizes and directs the County’s submission of multiple applications for the California DHCS Bond BHCIP Round 1 Launch Ready Program grant funds being administered by Advocates for Human Potential, Inc. for new construction and expansion of services at a location to be determined within the Second District and at a location to be determined within the Fifth District; and
ii) If one or more Applications are approved, authorizes and directs the Director of the Department of Behavioral Wellness or designee to execute the Program Funding Agreement for the total award amount and all other documents required or deemed necessary or appropriate to secure Bond BHCIP Round 1 grant funds and participate in the Bond BHCIP Program;
b) Direct the Director of the Department of Behavioral Wellness, or designee to return to the Board for further direction prior to exercising the authority delegated under Recommended Action item a) ii) above; and
c) Determine that the above actions are government funding mechanisms or other government fiscal activities that do not involve any commitment to any specific project that may result in a potentially significant physical impact on the environment and are organizational or administrative activities of the government that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment and are therefore not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15378(b)(4) and (b)(5) of the CEQA Guidelines and are otherwise activities that are exempt from CEQA review per CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3) since it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility the recommended actions may have a significant effect on the environment.