Consider recommendations regarding a First Amendment to the Fiscal Years (FYs) 2022-2024 Services Agreement for Mental Health Services with Casa Pacifica Centers for Children and Families, as follows: a) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Chair to execute a First Amendment to the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with Casa Pacifica Centers for Children and Families (not a local vendor) to update staffing requirements for both Exhibit A-3 Mental Health Services (MHS) In-Home Therapeutic Programs and Exhibit A-5 MHS SB163 Wraparound, add a new Suicide Prevention Services program, implement California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) Behavioral Health Payment Reform changes, to add contingency payment and cost settlement provisions, and incorporate Medicare Practitioner billing and California Department of Health Care Services rate changes for FY 2023-2024, and to increase the FY 2023-2024 amount by $689,153.00 for a new total contract maximum amount not to exceed $8,730,613.00, inclusive of $4,020,730.00 for FY 2022-2023 and $4,709,883.00 for FY 2023-2024, for the period of July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2024; b) Delegate to the Director of the Department of Behavioral Wellness or designee the authority to suspend, delay, or interrupt the services under the Agreement for convenience per Section 20 of the Agreement; make immaterial changes to the Agreement per Section 26; authorize additional services per Exhibits A-2 through A-6; amend program staffing requirements per Exhibits A-2 through A-7; reallocate the subsidy and funds between funding sources, revise or waive the County Maximum Allowable rate, and reallocate between the contract allocations in the Exhibit B-1 MHS to increase or decrease the incentive payment with discretion per the Exhibit Bs; incorporate new codes and make fee-for-service rate changes or updates and to reimburse on a cost reimbursement basis for Medi-Cal fee-for-service programs per Exhibit B MHS; and amend the program goals, outcomes, and measures per the Exhibit Es, 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 c) Determine that the above actions are government funding mechanisms or other government fiscal activities that 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.

Administrative Item Agenda Ready Introduced June 7, 2024

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