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Consider recommendations regarding a Behavioral Wellness Healthcare Recruitment and Staffing Contract with Barton and Associates, Inc. for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021-2022, as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute an Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with Barton and Associates, Inc., a Delaware corporation, d.b.a. Barton Medical, Inc. (not a local vendor), for the provision of locum tenens psychiatry, and physician assistant services, for a total contract maximum not to exceed $1,800,000.00 for the period of July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022;
b) Delegate to the Director of the Department of Behavioral Wellness or designee, to suspend the agreement per Section 20 of the Agreement, the authority to make immaterial changes to the Agreements per Section 26 of the Agreements; amend Exhibit A-2 (Statement of Work) and Exhibit B-1 (Schedule of Fees) of the Agreement to add positions and/or approve rate changes not to exceed 10% of the rate currently stated in Exhibit B-1, subject to the procedures set forth in Exhibit B, Section 2, without returning to the Board with a separate amendment, so long as the maximum contract amount is unchanged, subject to the Board’s ability to rescind this delegation 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 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.