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Consider recommendations regarding Agreements for Juvenile Probation Services for Fiscal Years (FY) 2023-2024 and 2023-2025, as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with Family Services Agency (FSA) (a local vendor) to provide the Strengthening Families Program to probation supervised youth and their families, residing in the Santa Maria, Santa Barbara, and Lompoc regions, with a total contract amount not to exceed $152,555.00 from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2025, (Agreement);
b) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with Community Action Commission of Santa Barbara dba CommUnify (a local vendor) to provide the Seeking Safety treatment intervention and the El Joven Noble curriculum to probation supervised male youth at medium and high risk of re-offending, residing in the Santa Barbara, Lompoc and Santa Maria regions, and detained at the Los Prietos Boys Camp (LPBC) and Santa Maria Juvenile Justice Center (JJC), and to provide mentoring services to probation supervised youth at medium and high risk of re-offending, residing in the Santa Barbara, Lompoc and Santa Maria regions, with a total contract amount not to exceed $526,580.00 from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2025, (Agreement);
c) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with Fighting Back Santa Maria Valley (FBSMV) (a local vendor) to develop and provide a program of targeted interventions to probation supervised youth in the Santa Maria and Lompoc regions, and Cannabis Education classes and related services to youth with a qualifying citation in the in the Santa Barbara, Lompoc and Santa Maria regions, with a total contract amount not to exceed $278,033.00 from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024, (Agreement);
d) Authorize the Chief Probation Officer or designee to approve subsequent immaterial changes to the agreements including authorizing additional services, amending program staffing requirements, amending service locations, and adding programs goals, outcomes, and measures, and reallocation of funds between funding sources. Authorize the Chief Probation Officer or designee to approve line-item budget changes to the Agreement in an amount not to exceed 10% of the stated line-item budgeted amounts for each service. Immaterial changes can be made as long as the total contract amount of the Agreement is not increased, and subject to the Board’s ability to rescind this delegated authority at any time, and provided that in no event shall any such amendment extend the term of the agreement; and
e) Determine that the above actions are government fiscal activities of funding mechanisms which do not involve any commitment to any specific project which 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.