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Consider recommendations regarding eight (8) contracts to Senior Meal providers using American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds, as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute agreements (Agreements) with the following eight (8) organizations to provide senior nutrition services to County residents using an aggregate of two-hundred eighteen thousand dollars ($218,000.00) in ARPA funds:
i) Atterdag at Home, Inc. - $30,000.00;
ii) Food from the Heart - $30,000.00;
iii) Organic Soup Kitchen - $30,000.00;
iv) Santa Barbara Meals on Wheels - $30,000.00;
v) Santa Maria Valley Meals on Wheels - $30,000.00;
vi) Santa Ynez Valley People Helping People - $30,000.00;
vii) Santa Ynez Valley Senior Advisory Council (Solvang) - $8,000.00; and
viii) Santa Ynez Valley Senior Citizen Foundation (Buellton) - $30,000.00; and
b) Determine that the activity is not a “Project” subject to California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) review per CEQA Guideline Section 15378(b)(4), the 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 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 environments.