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Consider recommendations regarding an agreement for professional services with Maxim Healthcare Staffing Services, as follows:
a) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Chair to execute an agreement for professional services with Maxim Healthcare Staffing Services to provide substitute and temporary health care personnel for the period of September 1, 2020 through June 30, 2022 for a total Agreement amount not to exceed $250,000.00;
b) Approve and authorize the Public Health Director, or designee, to: (1) sign Assignment Confirmation Letters or Placement Orders in accordance with Section B, Exhibit A in the Agreement; (2) add positions and/or approve rate changes not to exceed 10% of the rate currently stated in Exhibit B-1, subject to the procedures set forth in Exhibit B, Section B; and (3) make immaterial changes to the agreement so long as the total contract maximum is unchanged, subject to the Board’s ability to rescind this delegated authority at any time; and
c) Determine that the proposed actions do not constitute a “Project” within the meaning of California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), pursuant to Section 15378(b)(4) of the CEQA Guidelines, because they consist of 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 impact on the environment.