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Consider recommendations regarding an Agreement with Arbor Education & Training, LLC dba ResCare Workforce Services for California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) Welfare-to-Work (WTW) Program Employment Services, as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute an Agreement with Arbor Education & Training, LLC dba ResCare Workforce Services (ResCare) (not a local vendor) to provide CalWORKs WTW Program Employment Services, for the period of July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2019, in an amount not to exceed $4,303,162.00 (Fiscal Year 2016-2017 the contract amount shall not exceed $1,365,000.00; for Fiscal Year 2017-2018 the contract amount shall not exceed $1,433,250.00; and for Fiscal Year 2018-2019 the contract amount shall not exceed $1,504,912.00); and
b) Determine that the approval and execution of the Agreement is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3), finding that the execution of the Agreement is covered by the general rule 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 the activity may have a significant effect on the environment, the activities are not subject to CEQA.