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Consider recommendations regarding a Fourth Amendments to the Telecare Corporation and Crestwood Behavioral Health, Inc. Fiscal Year (FY) 2018-2021 Adult Crisis Residential Mental Health Services Agreements and Amendment to the FY 2018-2019 Mental Health County Maximum Allowable (CMA) Rate; as follows:
a) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Chair to execute a Fourth Amendment to the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with Crestwood Behavioral Health, Inc., a Delaware corporation (not a local vendor), for the provision of adult crisis residential mental health services in south Santa Barbara County, to extend the contract through June 30, 2021 and increase the contract amount by $463,628.00 for FY 2020-2021 for a maximum contract amount not to exceed $3,010,247.00 for the period of May 28, 2019 through June 30, 2021, inclusive of $228,479.00 for FY 2018-2019, $1,390,884.00 for FY 2019-2020, and $1,390,884.00 for FY 2020-2021;
b) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Chair to execute a Fourth Amendment to the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with Telecare Corporation, a California corporation (not a local vendor), for the provision of adult crisis residential mental health services in north Santa Barbara County, to extend the contract through June 30, 2021 and increase the contract amount by $1,024,456.00 for FY 2020-2021, for a maximum contract amount not to exceed $6,147,509.00 for the period of May 28, 2019 through June 30, 2021, inclusive of $168,894.00 for FY 2018-2019, $2,905,248.00 for FY 2019-2020, and $3,073,367.00 for FY 2020-2021;
c) Approve and authorize the Director of the Department of Behavioral Wellness to remove the CMA Rate for FY 2018-2019, with no change to the maximum contract amounts, for the following Mental Health providers:
i) Crestwood CRT; and
ii) Telecare Corporation CRT;
d) Delegate to the Director of Behavioral Wellness or designee the authority to reallocate funds between funding sources with discretion during the term of the Agreements and in the year end cost settlements of the Agreements; increase or remove the CMA rates based on operating needs for FY 2020-2021; amend the program goals, outcomes, and measures in Exhibits E of the Agreements; and make immaterial changes to the Agreements, all without altering the maximum contract amounts of the Agreements and without requiring a formal amendment to the Agreements, subject to the Board’s ability to rescind this delegated authority at any time; and
e) Determine that the above actions are government fiscal activities, which do not involve any commitment to any specific project that 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.