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Consider recommendations regarding CenCal Health California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) Enhanced Care Management (ECM) Implementation and Acceptance of CenCal Health Incentive Payment Program (IPP) Funding, as follows: (4/5 Vote Required)
a) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement with the Santa Barbara San Luis Obispo Regional Health Authority DBA CenCal Health to implement delivery of CalAIM ECM services with a term of three years beginning upon execution and approval by the Department of Health Care Services;
b) Approve and authorize the Director of Public Health to enter into an agreement with CenCal Health to accept IPP funding of $950,499.00 to support the development and expansion of sustainable ECM services for CenCal Health members. Funds must be expended within twenty-four months of receipt;
c) Approve and adopt a Salary Resolution, which allocates to the Public Health Department one (1) 1.0 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff Nurse, Supervisor legal position, and three (3) 1.0 FTE Health Service Aide legal positions;
d) Approve Budget Revision Request No. 0009551 to establish appropriations for $950,400.00 of unanticipated revenue from CenCal Health to increase Salaries and Benefits, Services and Supplies, and Other Costs for Fiscal Year 2023-2024 in the County’s financial system; and
e) Determine that the recommended actions are not a “Project” within the meaning of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the actions are exempt per CEQA Guideline Section 15378(b)(5), since the recommended actions are an organizational or administrative activity of the government that will not result in direct or indirect physical change in the environment