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Consider recommendations regarding an agreement with Child Abuse Listening Mediation (CALM), Inc., a local vendor, and Santa Maria Valley Youth and Family Center (SMVYFC), a local vendor, and St. Vincent’s Institution for Targeted Community-Based Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Services, as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute an Agreement with CALM to provide Targeted Community-Based Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Services for the period of July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017, in an amount not to exceed $239,324.00;
b) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute an Agreement with SMVYFC to provide Targeted Community-Based Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Services for the period of July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017, in an amount not to exceed $147,000.00;
c) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute an Agreement with St. Vincent’s Institution, a local vendor, to provide Targeted Community-Based Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Services for the period of July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017, in an amount not to exceed $25,500.00; and
d) Approve funding recommendation in the amount of $100,000.00 (24%) from the Children’s Trust Fund, which include the following:
i) $60,000.00 to CALM as partial funding source for the agreement recommended in (a) above; and
ii) $40,000.00 to SMVYFC as partial funding source for the agreement recommended in (b) above; and
e) Determine that the approvals and execution of the above Agreements are exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3), finding that the approvals and execution of the Agreements are 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.