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Consider recommendations regarding Project Roomkey COVID-19 Homeless Task Force Response and Request to Increase the Not to Exceed Amount with Santa Barbara Hotel Group and Novation and Amendment to Consolidate Daily Food Service Contracts, as follows:
a) Authorize the Director of Emergency Services, or designee, until otherwise ordered by the Board, to increase the not to exceed amount for payments due under Section 4 of the previously approved Emergency Occupancy Agreement with Santa Barbara Hotel Group to $1,550,000.00 (Previously $900,000.00) for the provision of non-congregate sheltering in response to the COVID-19 pandemic;
b) Approve, ratify and authorize the Chair to execute a Novation and First Amendment to Daily Food Service Agreement with Hardy Diagnostics to provide meal services at the County’s Project Roomkey South facility for the period July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021, (Previously January 1, 2021 to June 30, 2021) in an amount not to exceed $450,000.00; and
c) Determine that the recommended actions are not the acceptance and approval of a project that is subject to environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(4), finding that the project is a creation of government 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; and that the actions are exempt from CEQA pursuant to Guidelines Section 15269(c) as they consist of specific actions necessary to prevent or mitigate an emergency.