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Consider recommendations regarding agreements for Youth Reinvestment Grant (YRG) Diversion and Program Evaluation Services, as follows: (4/5 Vote Required)
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with the Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse (CADA) (a local vendor) to provide grant-funded diversion services to youth in the community and their families countywide, with a total contract amount not to exceed $894,593.00 (the Agreement) from July 1, 2019 through February 28, 2023, the period of the grant term;
b) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to provide pre-adjudication diversion program evaluation of the state YRG diversion program, with a total contract amount not to exceed $80,000.00 (the Agreement) from July 1, 2019 through February 28, 2023;
c) Approve Budget Revision Request No. 0006602 recognizing $220,920.00 of Fiscal Year (FY) 2019-2020 YRG State grant funds and increasing appropriations by $276,150.00; and
d) 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 a potentially significant 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.