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Consider recommendations regarding a Behavioral Wellness Staffing Contract Fiscal Year (FY) 2018-2019 First Amendment and extension into FY 2019-2020 - Traditions Psychology Group dba Traditions Behavioral Health, as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a First Amendment to the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with Traditions Psychology Group, Inc., a California corporation, dba Traditions Behavioral Health (not a local vendor) to provide psychiatry services at Behavioral Wellness facilities, for a total amount not to exceed $1,676,223.00 for FY 2018-2019 and $1,676,300.00 for FY 2019-2020 for a total contract amount of $3,352,523.00 for the period of July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2020;
b) Approve and authorize the Behavioral Wellness Director (or designee) to make immaterial changes to the First Amendment to the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor in accordance with Section 25 of the Agreement, subject to the Board’s ability to rescind this delegated authority at any time; and
c) 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 potentially physical impact on the environment, and are therefore not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to section 15378(b)(4) of the CEQA guidelines.