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Consider recommendations regarding Child Welfare Services Differential Response/Front Porch Program, as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute an Agreement with Community Action Commission (CAC) in an amount not to exceed $116,000.00 to provide direct early intervention and prevention service delivery to the target population and/or provide clients with referrals to appropriate local community based organizations to meet the requisite need of clients in the Santa Maria and Lompoc areas for the period July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014;
b) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute an Agreement with Child Abuse Listening and Mediation (CALM) in an amount not to exceed $130,000.00 to provide direct early intervention and prevention service delivery to the target population and/or to provide clients with referrals to appropriate local community based organizations to meet the requisite need of clients in the Santa Barbara, Santa Maria and Lompoc areas for the period July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014; and
c) Determine under CEQA Guidelines Section 15061 (b) (3) that this activity is exempt from review on the basis that it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the activity may have a significant effect on the environment.