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Consider recommendations regarding Shelter Operations General Fund Agreements for the People Assisting the Homeless (PATH) Santa Barbara Emergency Shelter and Good Samaritan Santa Maria Women’s Shelter; Warming Centers General Fund Agreement for the Unitarian Society Freedom Warming Centers, as follows:
a) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Chair to execute a Shelter Operations General Fund Agreement with PATH to support and maintain service levels at the PATH Santa Barbara Emergency Shelter for the period of July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2018 in an amount not to exceed $98,868.00;
b) Direct staff to execute a Change Order to Unitarian Society’s September 1, 2017 through June 30, 2018 Warming Center Service Contract to increase the contract amount by $8,458.00 to an amount not to exceed $58,458.00;
c) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a Shelter Operations General Fund Agreement with Good Samaritan to operate the Santa Maria Women’s Shelter for the period of January 15, 2018 to March 1, 2018 in an amount not to exceed $8,458.00; and
d) Determine that the approvals and execution of the Shelter Operations General Fund Agreements are not the approvals of projects that are subject to environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(4), finding that the projects are a creation of government funding mechanisms or other government fiscal activities, which do not involve any commitment to any specific project which may result in a potentially significant physical impact on the environment, and direct staff to file a Notice of Exemption.