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Consider recommendations regarding the first amendment to an agreement with Thomas Ramirez d.b.a. Southern Coast Janitorial, Fiscal Years (FYs) 2020-2023, as follows:
a) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Chair to execute a first amended agreement for services of independent contractor with Thomas Ramirez d.b.a. Southern Coast Janitorial (a local vendor) for FYs 2020-2023 to increase the contract amount by $75,000.00 for furnishing additional detailed sanitation cleaning services at Behavioral Wellness clinics necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic in FY 2020-2021, with a total Maximum Contract Amount not to exceed $600,000.00, inclusive of $250,000.00 for FY 2020-2021, $175,000.00 for FY 2021-2022, and $175,000.00 for FY 2022-2023, for the period of July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2023;
b) Determine that the County’s economic interests are served by such a contract, pursuant to Government Code Section 31000, since there are not County employees available to perform these maintenance or custodial matters; 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.