File #: 20-00343    Version: 1
Type: Administrative Item Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 5/8/2020 In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 5/19/2020 Final action: 5/19/2020
Title: Consider recommendations regarding an Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with Ortiz Schneider Interpreting and Translation Services, Fiscal Year (FY) 2019-2020 as follows: a) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Chair to execute an Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with Ortiz Schneider Interpreting and Translation, a California Corporation (and local vendor), to provide translation and in-person and over the phone interpretation services to the Department of Behavioral Wellness clients, for a new total contract amount not to exceed $330,000.00 for FY 2019-2020 through June 30, 2020, inclusive of $200,000.00 under Purchase Order CN23088, but which otherwise cancels, nullifies, and supersedes Purchase Order CN23088; b) Approve and authorize the Chair to delegate to the Behavioral Wellness Director, or designee, the authority to make immaterial changes to the agreement, without needing to return to the Board for a formal amendment to the Agreement, subject to ...
Sponsors: BEHAVIORAL WELLNESS DEPARTMENT
Attachments: 1. Board Letter, 2. Attachment 1 - Ortiz Schneider FY 19-20 Board Contract, 3. Attachment 2 - Ortiz Schneider Interpreting and Translation FY 19-20 Purchase Order and contract executed (CN23088), 4. Executed Agreement, 5. Minute Order

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Consider recommendations regarding an Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with Ortiz Schneider Interpreting and Translation Services, Fiscal Year (FY) 2019-2020 as follows:

 

a) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Chair to execute an Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with Ortiz Schneider Interpreting and Translation, a California Corporation (and local vendor), to provide translation and in-person and over the phone interpretation services to the Department of Behavioral Wellness clients, for a new total contract amount not to exceed $330,000.00 for FY 2019-2020 through June 30, 2020, inclusive of $200,000.00 under Purchase Order CN23088, but which otherwise cancels, nullifies, and supersedes Purchase Order CN23088;

 

b) Approve and authorize the Chair to delegate to the Behavioral Wellness Director, or designee, the authority to make immaterial changes to the agreement, without needing to return to the Board for a formal amendment to the Agreement, subject to the Board’s authority to rescind this delegated authority at any time; and

 

 

c) Determine that these activities are exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) per CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(4) since the recommended actions are government fiscal activities which do not involve commitment to any specific project which may result in potentially significant physical impact on the environment.