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Consider recommendations regarding a Transitions - Mental Health Association First Amendment for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020-2021 and Renewal Agreement for FYs 2021-2024, as follows:
a) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Chair to execute a First Amended Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with Transitions - Mental Health Association (BC 20-028), a California nonprofit organization (not a local vendor), to add nursing/psychiatric technician staff positions and medication support services to Exhibit A-3 Lompoc Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Program, relocate funds in the amount of $51,000.00 between programs, and to extend the Agreement term to July 7, 2021 for the limited and sole purpose of transferring administrative information to the County with no other services being delivered beyond June 30, 2021 and with no change to the total Maximum Contract Amount not to exceed $2,670,927.00 for the period of July 1, 2020 through July 7, 2021;
b) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a multi-year Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with Transitions - Mental Health Association, a California nonprofit organization (not a local vendor), for the provision of adult and transition age youth specialty mental health services for FYs 2021-2024, for a total Maximum Contract Amount not to exceed $5,271,572.00, consisting of $1,763,100.00 for FY 2021-2022, $1,741,196.00 for FY 2022-2023 and $1,767,276.00 for FY 2023-2024, for the period of July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2024;
c) Delegate to the Director of the Department of Behavioral Wellness or designee the authority, for the FYs 2021-2024 Agreement, make immaterial changes to the Agreement per Section 26 of the Agreement; authorize additional services per Exhibits A-2 through A-5 of the Agreement; amend program staffing requirements per Exhibits A-2 through A-5 of the Agreement; reallocate funds between funding sources per Exhibit B of the Agreement; adjust the provisional rate per Exhibit B of the Agreement; and amend the program goals, outcomes, and measures per Exhibit E of the Agreement, all without altering the Maximum Contract Amount and without requiring the Board’s approval of an amendment of the Agreement, subject to the Board’s ability to rescind this delegated authority at any time; and
d) 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 are therefore not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to section 15378(b)(4) of the CEQA Guidelines.