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Consider recommendations regarding Fiscal Year (FY) 2025-2026 and FYs 2025-2027 Agreements for Probation Services, as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with Good Samaritan Shelter (Good Sam) a local vendor, to provide enhanced treatment services and related recovery and re-entry services; recovery residences; shelter beds; Recovery Oriented System of Care (ROSC) group services; pretrial services navigator positions to provide case management supportive services; services to assist persons in overcoming obstacles to obtaining a valid California Driver’s License (CDL); a Holistic Reentry Early Access and Diversion for You (READY) pretrial navigator to provide case management supportive services; Community Service Navigators (CSN) to provide case management supportive services; and Care Managers (CM) to provide discharge planning services focusing on coordination of service for clients prior to and upon discharge from the jails and the preparation of a discharge plan. The population served under this Agreement are individuals under the supervision of the Probation Department, including realigned clients, standard probationers, post release community supervision clients, clients supervised on felony probation, clients with acute needs, clients incompetent to stand trial, high-risk clients not on pretrial supervision and clients released to the Pretrial Supervision Program (PTS), with a total contract amount not to exceed $1,953,562.00 from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026;
b) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with Community Solutions Inc. (CSI), to provide Reasoning & Rehabilitation, a cognitive behavioral treatment program; Coping with Anger, a cognitive behavioral intervention and anger management program; Courage 2 Change (C2C), a cognitive behavioral Motivational Interviewing infused journaling curriculum to address and target criminogenic needs; and Batterer’s Intervention Programming (BIP) to adult clients who are under the supervision of the Probation Department, including realigned clients, clients supervised on felony probation, realigned domestic violence clients and indigent clients with a total contract amount not to exceed $776,910.00 from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026;
c) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with SCRAM of California, to provide Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitoring (SCRAM) that includes equipment, installation, and removal of equipment, monitoring, training, and support for juvenile and adult clients who are under the supervision of the Probation Department, including realigned clients, and pretrial defendants released to the PTS, with a total contract amount not to exceed $854,000.00 from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026;
d) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc. dba SCRAM Systems (AMS) to provide Global Position Systems (GPS), and Remote Alcohol Breath on Demand Testing, leased equipment, and monitoring services for the enhanced monitoring of adult and juvenile clients who are under the supervision of the Probation Department, including adult pretrial clients released to the PTS and those in the Alternative Sentencing Program (ASP) as identified by the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Office and monitored by the Probation Department, and training and support regarding the use of leased equipment, associated systems, and software with a total contract amount not to exceed $320,784.00 from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026;
e) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with CommUnify a local vendor to provide Telephone, Texting/Short Message Service Helpline and Webpage to assist connecting probation clients re-entering the community from incarceration with obtaining resources that may include basic needs, employment, health, substance abuse information, education, and transportation of probation clients with a ridesharing service, and data collection, and reporting on 211 Health and Human Services Helpline calls and texts with a total contract amount not to exceed $60,008.84 from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2027;
f) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with Goodwill Industries of Ventura and Santa Barbara, (Goodwill) (a local vendor) to provide employment preparation, occupational skills training, job development, and placement services, job retention and support services, and subsidized employment services to probation clients with a total contract amount not to exceed $359,752.00 from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2027.
g) Authorize the Chief Probation Officer or designee to approve subsequent changes to the agreement, including authorizing additional services, amending program staffing requirements, amending service locations, and adding program goals, outcomes, and measures, and reallocation of funds between funding sources. Authorize the Chief Probation Officer or designee to approve line-item budget changes to Attachment B-1 of the Agreements in an amount not to exceed 10% of the stated line-item budgeted amounts for each service. Changes can be made as long as the total contract amount of the agreement is not increased, and subject to the Board's ability to rescind this delegated authority at any time, and provided that in no event shall any such amendment extend the term of the agreement; and
h) Determine that the above actions are government fiscal activities of funding mechanisms which do not involve any commitment to any specific project which may result in a potentially significant physical impact on the environment and are therefore not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15378(b)(4) of the CEQA guidelines.