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Consider recommendations regarding the Advocates for Human Potential, Inc. (AHP) Behavioral Health Justice Intervention Services (BHJIS) Grant Agreement, Fiscal Years (FYs) 2021-2023, as follows:
a) Approve, ratify and authorize the Director of the Department of Behavioral Wellness or designee, to execute the BHJIS Grant Agreement 7460-CA Mobile Crisis-SBCBWell-01G with AHP, a Massachusetts for profit entity (not a local provider), serving as the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) administrator for “Behavioral Health Mobile Crisis and Non-Crisis Services (Mobile Crisis)” Project No. 21-10349, for the provision of community collaboration to support individuals with mental and substance use disorders who can be diverted from criminal justice involvement in the amount of $700,000.00 for the period of February 15, 2022, through February 14, 2023;
b) Delegate authority to the Director of the Department of Behavioral Wellness, or designee, to act on behalf of the County in the implementation of the BHJIS Program and make immaterial changes to the Agreement without requiring the Board’s approval of an amendment of the Agreement, subject to the Board’s ability to rescind this delegated authority at any time; and
c) Determine that the above actions are government fiscal activities or funding mechanisms which do not involve any commitment to any specific project which 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.