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Consider recommendations regarding a First Amendment to the Santa Barbara County American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Subrecipient Agreement with Santa Barbara Partners in Education for Digital Literacy Programs and services supporting residents impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic, as follows:
a) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Chair to execute a First Amendment to the Subrecipient Agreement with Santa Barbara Partners in Education to administer a digital literacy program from February 7, 2023 to June 30, 2025, modifying the line item budget but not changing the ARPA-funded total maximum contract amount, $375,000.00;
b) Delegate to the Director of the Child Support Department or designee the authority to reallocate at his/her discretion between budgetary line items without altering the maximum contract amount, subject to the Board’s ability to rescind this delegated authority at any time; and
c) Determine that the above actions are government funding mechanisms or other government fiscal activities, which do not involve any commitment to any specific project that 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.