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Consider recommendations regarding a Sixth Amendment to an Agreement with Good Samaritan Shelter, Fiscal Years (FY’s) 2018-2021, as follows:
a) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Chair to execute a Sixth Amendment to the FY’s 2018-2021 Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with Good Samaritan Shelter (a local vendor) (Board Contract No. 19-152) to update the Program Summary and services provided at Alcohol and Drug Program (ADP) sites for Outpatient Services and Intensive Outpatient Services as well Residential Treatment, with no change to the ADP Maximum Contract Amount; to allow Graduate Student Interns or Trainees to provide Mental Health Homeless Clinicians services in accordance with applicable law; and to add the provision of mental health diversion Safe and Stable Housing services, effective November 1, 2020, for select Felony Mental Health Diversion clients and other justice-involved clients dealing with mental illness and/or substance abuse in the implementation of the Department of State Hospitals AB 1810 Diversion Program, with an increase of $243,636.00 of Mental Health Services (MHS) funds for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020-2021, for a new, total maximum contract amount not to exceed $14,866,267.00, inclusive of a new MHS contract maximum amount not to exceed $737,636.00 inclusive of MHS funds of $247,000.00 for FY 2019-2020 and $490,636.00 for FY 2020-2021 and ADP funds of $14,128,631.00 inclusive of ADP funds of $2,582,003.00 for FY 2018-2019, $5,410,976.00 for FY 2019-2020, and $6,135,652.00 for FY 2020-2021 from December 1, 2018 through June 30, 2021; and
b) Determine that the above action is a government fiscal activity or funding mechanism, which does not involve any commitment to any specific project that may result in a potentially significant physical impact on the environment and is therefore not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to section 15378(b)(4) of the CEQA Guidelines.