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Consider recommendations regarding a Second Amendment to the Family Service Agency (FSA) Agreement: Housing for the Harvest Program expansion and Latinx and Migrant COVID-19 Task Force and Language Justice Project, as follows: (4/5 Vote Required)
a) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Chair to execute the Second Amendment to the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with FSA (a local vendor) to update the Scope of Work for the Housing for the Harvest program to add expanded COVID-19 support services. The Second Amendment increases funding by $186,476.00 for a revised total amount not to exceed $1,293,376.00. There is no change to the period of performances or to the Scope of Work for the for the Latinx and Migrant COVID-19 Task Force;
b) Receive and file an executed Memorandum of Understanding between the County Public Health Department and the County Department of Social Services that establishes a collaboration to address the Housing for the Harvest program expansion, and for the Department of Social Services to serve as a pass-through of funding to the Public Health Department;
c) Approve Budget Revision Request No. 0007500 in the amount of $775,300.00 to increase appropriations in the Public Health Department Health Care Fund, funded through new funding provided by the California Department of Social Services and passed through the County Department of Social Services, for an expansion of the Housing for the Harvest program; and
d) Determine that the above recommended actions are not a “Project” within the meaning of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), pursuant to Section 15378(b)(4) of the CEQA Guidelines, since they consist of the creation of governmental funding mechanisms or other government fiscal activities which do not involve any commitment to any specific project which may result in a potentially significant physical impact on the environment.