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Consider recommendations regarding a Behavioral Wellness Personnel Resolution to add nine (9) FTEs (Supplemental Funding to the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant and the Community Mental Health Services Block Grant), as follows:
a) Adopt a Resolution, effective November 15, 2021, to add nine (9) legal positions, totaling 9.0 FTEs, to the Department of Behavioral Wellness, consisting of:
i) Two full-time (2.0 FTE) Alcohol and Drug Service Specialists (ADSS);
ii) One full-time (1.0 FTE) Administrative Office Professional (AOP) for Alcohol and Drug Programs;
iii) Three full-time (3.0 FTE) Peer Recovery Assistants;
iv) One full-time (1.0 FTE) Case Worker for Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT);
v) One full-time (1.0 FTE) Psychologist for long-term care team; and
vi) One full-time (1.0 FTE) Practitioner for First Episode Psychosis (FEP); and
b) 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 potential physical impacts on the environment, and therefore not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15378(b)(4) of the CEQA guidelines.