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Consider recommendations regarding Fiscal Years (FYs) 2023-2025 Agreement with Northpointe doing business as (d/b/a) Equivant, as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with Northpointe, Inc., d/b/a Equivant, for the term of December 1, 2023 through November 30, 2025 to provide risk and need assessment instrument software training, a multi-pronged research study, and software subscriptions, maintenance and support services, with a total contract amount not to exceed $282,427.00;
b) 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, as long as the total contract amount of the Agreement is not increased and the total budgeted amounts by each funding source are not exceeded, and subject to the Board’s ability to rescind this delegated authority at any time; and
c) Determine that these activities are exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3), finding that these activities are covered by the common sense exception that CEQA applies only to projects which have the potential for causing a significant effect on the environment, and where it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that these activities may have a significant effect on the environment, the activities are not subject to CEQA.