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Consider recommendations regarding the Child Welfare Services Differential Response and Front Porch Program, as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute an agreement with Community Action Commission (CAC) in the amount not to exceed $128,000.00 to provide direct early intervention and prevention (Differential Response / Front Porch Program) services to clients in the Santa Maria and Lompoc areas for the period July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017;
b) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute an agreement with Child Abuse Listening and Mediation (CALM) in the amount not to exceed $145,000.00 to provide direct early intervention and prevention (Differential Response / Front Porch Program) services to clients in the Santa Barbara, Santa Maria and Lompoc areas for the period July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017; and
c) Determine that the approval and execution of the Agreements are exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to the CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3), finding that the execution and approval 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.