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Consider recommendations regarding the County of Santa Barbara Job order Contract Program Service Provider, as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a Professional Services Agreement (Agreement), with The Gordian Group Inc., a Georgia corporation registered to do business in California as The Mellon Group (Gordian), with a Base Contract Amount of $1,250,000.00, and a Supplemental Services Allowance of $125,000.00, for a Maximum Compensation Limit up to and not to exceed $1,375,000.00, to provide Job Order Contracting administration services, for a contract term of five (5) years;
b) Authorize the Director of the County’s General Services Department, or his Assistant Director designee, to issue Change Orders to order Supplemental Services under the Agreement in a maximum aggregate amount not to exceed $125,000.00; and
c) Determine that the recommended actions are not a project subject to environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(4) as the actions are the creation of government funding mechanisms or other government fiscal activities which do not involve any commitment to any specific project; and Section 15378(b)(5), as the actions are the organizational or administrative activities of governments that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.