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Consider recommendations regarding the Institute for Mental Disease Contract Renewal: Merced Behavioral Center Fiscal Year (FY) 2020-2023, as follows:
a) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Chair to execute an Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with CF Merced Behavioral, LLC dba Merced Behavioral Center, a California limited liability company (not a local vendor), for the provision of mental health services and residential treatment services for a total contract amount not to exceed $1,500,000.00, inclusive of $500,000.00 per FY, for the period July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2023;
b) Delegate to the Director of the Department of Behavioral Wellness or designee the authority to make immaterial changes to the Agreement; reallocate funds between funding sources or programs or agree to rates other than the Per Diem Rates for special circumstances during the term of the Agreement as long as there is no change to the Maximum Contract Amount; and amend the Program Goals, Outcomes, and Measures in Exhibits E of the Agreement, all without requiring formal amendment thereto and subject to the Board’s authority 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 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.