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Consider recommendations regarding a First Amendment to the Behavioral Wellness Staffing Contract with LocumTenens.com, LLC Fiscal Year (FY) 2020-2022, as follows:
a) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Chair to execute a First Amendment to the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with LocumTenens.com, LLC (not a local vendor) to increase the Agreement amount for FY 2020-2021 by $330,000.00 due to increased utilization of locum tenens physicians, for a new total Maximum Agreement Value not to exceed $2,130,000.00, inclusive of $1,230,000.00 for FY 2020-2021 and $900,000.00 for FY 2021-2022, for the period of July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2022;
b) Delegate to the Director of the Department of Behavioral Wellness or designee the authority to make immaterial changes to the Agreement per Section 25 of the Agreement without requiring formal amendment of the Agreement, subject to the Board’s ability to rescind this delegated authority at any time; and
c) Determine that the above actions are government funding mechanisms or other 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 is therefore not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to section 15378(b)(4) of the CEQA Guidelines.