File #: 19-00742    Version: 1
Type: Administrative Item Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 8/16/2019 In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 8/27/2019 Final action: 8/27/2019
Title: Consider recommendations regarding an agreement with Transitions - Mental Health Association for Growing Grounds Farm in Santa Maria Staffing, as follows: (4/5 Vote Required) a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute an Agreement with Transitions - Mental Health Association (a local vendor), to provide Growing Grounds Farm Santa Maria staffing for a total contract amount not to exceed $150,173.00 for the period September 1, 2019 through August 31, 2020; b) Approve Budget Revision Request No. 0006549 to transfer funds and appropriations from Fund 0055 to Fund 0058 for Services and Supplies in the amount of $150,173.00 The expenditures are funded by existing fund balance in Fund 0055; and c) 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...
Sponsors: SOCIAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT
Attachments: 1. Board Letter, 2. Agreement - TMHA Growing Grounds FINAL 8-12-19, 3. BJE - 0006549, 4. Executed Agreement, 5. Minute Order

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Consider recommendations regarding an agreement with Transitions - Mental Health Association for Growing Grounds Farm in Santa Maria Staffing, as follows: (4/5 Vote Required)

 

a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute an Agreement with Transitions - Mental Health Association (a local vendor), to provide Growing Grounds Farm Santa Maria staffing for a total contract amount not to exceed $150,173.00 for the period September 1, 2019 through August 31, 2020;

 

b) Approve Budget Revision Request No. 0006549 to transfer funds and appropriations from Fund 0055 to Fund 0058 for Services and Supplies in the amount of $150,173.00 The expenditures are funded by existing fund balance in Fund 0055; and

 

c) 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. Determine that the activity is not a “Project” subject to CEQA review 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.