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Consider recommendations regarding Fiscal Year (FY) 2023-2024 and 2023-2025 Agreements for Adult Probation Program Services, as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with Good Samaritan Shelter (Good Sam) a local vendor, to provide substance abuse treatment; sober living services, detoxification and withdrawal management services; Recovery Oriented System of Care (ROSC) group services; case management, pretrial services navigation; and services to assist persons in overcoming obstacles to obtaining a valid California Driver’s License (CDL) with a total contract amount not to exceed $1,034,587.35 from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024;
b) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with Community Solutions Incorporated (CSI) a local vendor, to provide cognitive behavioral treatment program and related recovery and re-entry services, case management, and Batterer’s Intervention Programming (BIP), in Santa Maria and Santa Barbara, with a total contract amount not to exceed $655,284.00 from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024;
c) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse (CADA) a local vendor, to provide
enhanced treatment services and related recovery and re-entry services, including a cognitive behavioral treatment substance abuse program, intervention, and support to substance abusing individuals through gender-responsive groups, enhanced outpatient treatment services and related recovery and re-entry services, and ROSC services, with a total contract amount not to exceed $185,624.96 from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024;
d) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with Goodwill Industries of Ventura and Santa Barbara, Inc. (Goodwill) a local vendor, to provide employment preparation, occupational skills training, job development and placement services, job retention and support services, and subsidized employment services with a total contract amount not to exceed $307,664.00 from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2025;
e) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitoring (SCRAM) of California, a local vendor, to provide SCRAM that includes equipment, the installation and removal of equipment, monitoring, training, and support for adult clients who are under the supervision of the Probation Department, including realigned clients, and pre-trial clients released to the Pre-Trial Supervision program with a total contract amount not to exceed $605,000.00 from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024;
f) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with PATH (People Assisting the Homeless) a local vendor, to provide transitional living services with a total contract amount not to exceed $65,325.00 July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024;
g) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with The Salvation Army operating at its Hospitality House, a local vendor, to provide transitional sober living services, with a total contract amount not to exceed $30,000.00; from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024;
h) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with Community Action Commission of Santa Barbara County (dba CommUnify), a local vendor, to provide telephone, texting/short message service, helpline and webpage services, transportation, and data collection and reporting for probation clients, with a total contract amount not to exceed $57,400.00 from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2025;
i) Authorize the Chief Probation Officer or designee to approve subsequent immaterial changes to the agreement including authorizing additional services, amending program staffing requirements, amending service locations, and program 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
j) 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.