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Consider recommendations regarding Agreements with Fighting Back Santa Maria Valley (FBSMV) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025-2026, and with Community Solutions Inc. (CSI) for FYs 2025-2027, as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor (Agreement) with FBSMV, a local vendor, to provide a program of targeted interventions for youth in the Santa Maria area, Cannabis Education classes and related services to youth with a qualifying citation in the Santa Barbara, Lompoc, and Santa Maria regions, conflict mediation services utilizing a restorative approach at the Juvenile Justice Center (JJC), Restorative Justice Mediation services to youth in Lompoc, Santa Maria, Buellton, Santa Ynez, Orcutt, and Guadalupe, and re-entry services to youth housed at the JJC, with a total contract amount not to exceed $914,317.00, from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026;
b) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement with CSI to develop, implement and provide age-appropriate education, programming, recreational activities, educational support and assistance, and other services to youth detained in the JJC, with a total contract amount not to exceed $252,849.00, from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2027;
c) Authorize the Chief Probation Officer or designee to approve subsequent changes to the agreements including authorizing additional services, amending program staffing requirements, amending service locations, and adding programs goals, outcomes, and measures, and reallocation of funds between funding sources. Authorize the Chief Probation Officer or designee to approve line-item budget changes to Attachment B-1 of the Agreement in an amount not to exceed 10% of the stated line-item budgeted amounts for each service. Immaterial changes can be made as long as the total contract amount of the Agreement is not increased, and subject to the Board's ability to rescind this delegated authority at any time, and provided that...
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