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Consider recommendations regarding agreements with Managed Care Solutions, SPC for America’s Job Center of California Operator, and Adult and Dislocated Worker Career Services Provider in Santa Barbara County, and Comprehensive and Accessible Reemployment through Equitable Employment Recovery National Dislocated Worker Grant project Provider, as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute an agreement with Managed Care Solutions, SPC (not a local vendor), to assume the role of America’s Job Center of California Operator, and Adult and Dislocated Worker Career Services Provider in Santa Barbara County for a total contract amount not to exceed $3,164,904.00 which includes $90,000.00 Direct Job Seeker Costs contingency training funds for the period of July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2025;
b) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute an agreement with Managed Care Solutions, SPC (not a local vendor), to provide Comprehensive and Accessible Reemployment through Equitable Employment Recovery National Dislocated Worker services for a total contract amount not to exceed $1,468,353.00 for the period of July 1, 2022 through September 23, 2023;
c) Authorize the Director of Social Services, or designee, to extend the Comprehensive and Accessible Reemployment through Equitable Employment Recovery National Dislocated Worker Agreement and allocate the amount of unused funds from the previous Fiscal Year budget to the next Fiscal Year Budget, subject to appropriations and budget approval;
d) Authorize the Director of Social Services, or designee, to adjust the Line Item Budget of the Managed Care Solutions, SPC for America’s Job Center of California Operator, and Adult and Dislocated Worker Career Services Provider, and Equitable Employment Recovery National Dislocated Worker Grant Agreement and the Comprehensive and Accessible Reemployment through Equitable Employment Recovery National Dislocated Worker services Agreement, without exceeding the total contract amounts;
e) Authorize the Director of Social Services or designee, subject to appropriations and budget approval, to amend the Agreements by increasing the maximum contract amount in an amount not to exceed the amount of unused funds from the previous Fiscal Year to the next Fiscal Year; and
f) Determine that the activity is not a “Project” subject to California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) review per CEQA Guideline Section 15378(b)(5), since the activity is an organizational or administrative activity of government that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.