ALC-Review

All right ready. All right. Alright members the for by Glenn take your seats we're gonna go ahead and get this meeting started. Want to welcome our by to the review subcommittee meeting looks like we have a fairly light agenda today and so forth when a bill to get ourselves through this and started off we do have an item on the supplemental agenda so members I will need a motion to suspend the rules a motion. second all in favor say aye. Closed motion carries all right miss Kathy thank you Mr chairman so the first thing we'll do is take up that supplemental agenda item it is from Arkansas state university on page two of the packet you'll see a letter from a issue of it is talking about a leak in some problems that they're having with the roof on their health professions education and sport sciences complex on page three is a letter from DFA accounting and then on page four is the actual method of finance again of its two hundred eighty thousand dollars and they note that they have university reserves to cover the cost of the of this they want to go ahead and get this repair work done so that they don't have any additional problems in the fall with the rain so that's the first method of finance we have on today's agenda all the regular part of the agenda we have some additional methods of finance starting in your be packet the letter from the FAA we have three then on page two of the packet the first two are for Arkansas tech university these are both far various auxiliary of and improvements on the campuses for three million dollars H. and that they know that they have farms funds reserve from a facility repair and renovation to cover those expenses and then number three is UAMS for the freeway medical fifth floor rob to relocate their dental hygiene clinic how they note that job it does not provide during this time uh know if. Space between the individuals in the exam or aims and so they have a million two hundred eighty five thousand seven hundred eighty nine dollars in order to fix that problem to ensure safety for their staff and patients and they have revenue and reserves to cover that project those are the methods of finance on today's agenda. Our members anybody have any questions. All right seeing none without objection the subtle stands reviewed. Mister chairman the next group of items have to do with the discretionary grants the first group comes from the health department topsy one in your packet the first one is a grant for title five sexual risk avoidance education of program will provide education to youth ages ten to nineteen years old the second one. Also the health department is for with the Arkansas foundation for medical care to work with designated healthcare systems to conduct quality assurance quality improvement and this is a practices necessary to improve breast and cervical screening rights and implement evidence based interventions number three is an amendment to a grant for the health department this one is for increasing public access to breast feeding support to the provision of a state wide telephone based counseling and support system toll free system number four on the next page is an amendment to a grant for centers for youth and families this is for implementation of the personal responsibility education program which is in evidence based program for asked at risk youth ages eleven to nineteen who were in schools foster care and that also for adjudicated youth number five an amendment to a grant for the Arkansas children's hospital this is for the office the oral health the children's hospital was selected to establish school based see what projects in primary schools this is in an effort to provide preventive oral health services to underserved children. Number six three eight these are all grants to contract with license dental hygienist and they'll provide time bill will work to deliver a fluoride varnish tool kit provide in hall office trainings and training certification that number's six through eight number nine on page three is with exit as life and this is to provide funds to hire peer recovery support specialist to continue to work with participating emergency departments to gain access to overdose patients in crisis and to support them throughout treatment. Those are the grants FOR the department of health the next grants beginning on page four or for the department of Human Services numbers one through thirty six which will take is the page fifteen these are all going to be the same type of grant they're all emergency solutions grants to provide funding for operation of emergency shelters and FOR the provision of housing and relocation and stabilization services as well as rental assistance again that's one through thirty six and that takes us over to page fifteen in the DHS. Grants. So grant number thirty seven. Is DHS with Arkansas foundation for medical care it's an amendment to an existing grant this one is to continue supporting a statewide data sharing infrastructure with the single repository database accessible lot by law enforcement criminal justice and health care stakeholders to promote coordination of opioid use disorder prevention and treatment interventions number thirty eight thirty nine of these are both the same there of grants to provide early head start community hub services statewide. Number forty through number sixty these are all going to be the same they're all going to be amendments for emergency food assistance programs and commodity programs and that will take us to number sixty one that one is on. Page twenty four. This is an amendment of with the Dollywood foundation this is to continue their support for the Arkansas imagination library operational budget and grant program and number sixty two is a grant amendment to help a child support children ages zero to five living in poverty through the early steps to school success services and those are all the grants FOR the department of Human Services next in items the page twenty five is of these are grants FOR the Arkansas department of higher education they are now providing the americorps grants and these are all grants with americorps programs within the state majority of these are going to provide tutoring and educational programs and mentoring programs so that takes you over to page twenty eight and twenty eight we have a grant here today from the Arkansas beef council and this is a grant for programming by the Arkansas learning center operated by the four states bear and this conduct year round advance and special programs related to both the beef industry and the base product nutrition and those are all the grants on today's agenda. Alright members us in a question here up Senator Irvin I think that is you. The yes you're recognized for a question though eight grant number four department of health. You have a page that is at yes I'm on page two inch to. Davis my from point a healthcare. All right if you all. You're sure names for the record. Magie aux more part of health. Christy sellers the department of health. Thank you Senator Irvin you're recognized procedure question thank you my main and you may get this information to me if you don't have it that's fine but I'm interested in this grants for others you might have similar to this and how you are collecting information I'm or data based on the inter action that you're having with this out risk youth youth and the reason I'm asking is because you know a lot of lot of times. Kids that are in this at risk youth population has have had trauma and done to them and and what I'm interested in is and how we are able to talk about that with them and collect that information and then how then do we help them if it's something that needs to be investigated how we are able to do that The and the reason I'm asking is because according to the national human trafficking reports that have come down we have a increased volume call volume to the hot lines about child sex trafficking and That but that's not really leading to investigations and prosecutions so I know at the federal level they are they are prosecuting everything that is being sent to them but at the state level we're not really seen that and so I'm just curious if there's and capacity within a grant program like this or a contract to be able to talk about those things and try to help identify if that's happening and then are there tools that we can take from that to lead to investigations and to help these minors that might be victims of that. The seller's might wanna add more to it I would think that AT and she knows what we're of this and I do but they would have to report if they're aware of something but as far as the data that we collect do you know anything as far as. Individual situations We I don't know what kind of data for gathering all of that depending on who is providing that and education to them but it is something that we can look into see if someone is gathering at what we what numbers we have or it could be something for not getting that we could look at getting yeah I would I would really appreciate knowing more about that and how we can better utilize some of these programs and some of these grants that were receiving in order to really lead to action to really change the dynamic and the reality of what's going on out there so I would love to work with you all on that and I know this is something and the DHS space to and I've talked to them but I really want to figure out current vehicles and current grants that were using and how we can kind of fit them to meet this new challenge thank you for. Thank you service. Alright members anybody of sunny questions dark used thank you all right see no further questions these items will stand as reviewed. Chairman of the next item our our contracts beginning in the deep packet in your agenda on page one is the letter from the office of state procurement and Mr arms from those that none of the of contracts that they are presenting today seem to be of unlawful or conflict of interest the first group of contracts we look at own D. one page two is considered the construction related contracts and we only have two I believe on today's agenda they're both for parks and tourism the first one is adding seven hundred three dollars to an existing contract in this is finishing up work it looks like on the large kitchen roof repair I'd like a queen Wilhelmina state park in the next one for parks and tourism is just a contract for their architectural contract for ongoing projects within the state park system so those are the contracts construction related contracts on today's agenda. Alright members the questions. All right seeing none without objection these animals that is reviewed a day to on page four of the packet the packet is U. A L. R. this is an inter governmental contract with the university of Wyoming it's the only inter governmental contract we have on today's agenda and this is an amendment this program is intended to prevent the onset and reduce the progression of substance abuse and its related problems specifically underage drinking and marijuana use in you ages nine to twenty well strengthening prevention capacity and infrastructure at the state and community level again that's all the inter governmental contracts. Alright members any questions comments. Senator Teague. I'm not saying thank you senator. There you go. You're recognized for a question Sir thank you chairman did did she say this was with the university of Wisconsin or missile mean while me and why are we doing it instead of one of our institutions add Senator say I don't know about the les Aspin by thank. We get somebody from the USA. Are you scared B. U. L. U. A L. R.. Perfect. It should be a quick answer that we've just made a mistake. Senator the chairs and ask that you not lied have any leading questions I appreciate that. Thank you if you'll give us your names and positions for the record. I'm Johnny leave Russians are for university affairs at you a little rock. I'm Adam Baldwin administrator with you a little rock prevention programs right well under you committee is Senator Teague you're recognized proceed reader question why are we going out of state. A fair question the center I'm sorry I can't give you the answer that you were looking for the the reason that we've contracted this with Wyoming is they actually have the best prevention evaluation team in the country and so with these grants which. Sorry well how to bring these master. with these grants as chairman he jokes a lot of people up yeah. with these grants with a prevention monies a question we received these from the state and oversee them and implement them and we have a number of contractors at around the state for a PF fast and FOR block grants and so the evaluation as I you probably know senator from overseen from monitoring other grants like this is a pretty involved complicated process is not something that we can really do internally and it's something that we're charged with you and by deliverable from the funders to to get an outside about a waiter and so for you because we need to have an outside of the US and specifically because our work in this field we discovered that the prevention unit at Wyoming university there Weiss act is is the leading evaluators for this kind of work and are in the country. That's Fishin Sir. Yes thank you for the sake. Senator Teague I'm sure they're gonna have to get with you off line and go into excruciating detail thank you Mr chairman. All right number I see. Think this is you senator hammers at thanks thank you Mr chair. You're recognized for a question Sir fee you could answer quicker I go look it up is why only a state that has legalize recreational marijuana. I want to say I don't think so but. Thanks. If they get back to the table can ask you another question. I might have dismissed your prematurely. Senator hammer has your Google search confirmed Not yet okay. All right but if they had I would want to give me money. The. Specifically is says specifically under age drinking and marijuana use use in use nine through twenty shows this technology in that we have that problem in the state of Arkansas that we're having to hire a firm to come in and give us expertise that they have that were issuing this contract A I think I understand your question senator so the the work of the grants is carried out by Arkansas providers we have a network of thirteen providers here in the state and so all that money stays in state this is one component of the grant which is the evaluation as of right technical annual sorry the server technical annual component where we have to bring in an outside group and access outside group experts and doctor Rodney one beam if you if you I think that's in the materials but if you want to look him up for we give you more material on him he's the head of this program and so all they do for us is just evaluate this work that this is part of the P. FS grant the comes to the state to dabs into the drug director's office and so all the work of the grant working with targeting under age drug use a ninety twenty is through our P. FS grants you'll also be aware that and this is not here today but our block grant which we oversee for the state a portion of it actually does the same work but for adults so we have the whole the whole spectrum covered and all of that work with the block grant is similarly done by in state providers when do you expect to report to be back as far as what they're contracted to do one of the guys start feeding the information back to you. For the purposes of evaluation yes they already have started survey doctor runny one being originally contracted with us to come into the state to monitor these programs and to visit with folks all around the state and then that was right before the pandemic and so he has we switch gears and he's done virtual visits with most but not yet all of the sites and so after each one we do a debrief and start to collect some of that information but his final report will be later this year and we can provide that your course okay thank you thank you Mr thank you and Senator hammer for what it's worth we just got confirmation that marijuana be IT medicinal or recreational is indeed still legal in Wyoming. And that has been confirmed. All right only prematurely again now I'll make sure. Okay casino for questions these items will stand as reviewed. Mister chairman the next group of contracts or out of state contracts beginning on page five item day there are two there for the agriculture department the first one is for mobile device data collection services in the second one for his upper agricultural chemical disposal service. Number three is Arkansas tech university and this is a contract that they have for providing interim professional staffing appointments for the Russell and Ozark campuses number four number five these are both for a issue Jonesborough and these are for providing temporary staffing services one of these will be for athletic event staffing and one will be for campus operations in office staffing number six our career education department this is to maintain a set of reports to meet the reporting requirements force CTP number seven this is community correction of this is a contract for transitional housing to provide comprehensive community based treatment services I will note that community correction has several more of these that will find on the in state contracts DFA management services has a. Contract with computer eight incorporated this is for staff augmentation to maintain and enhance the DFA I. T. system number nine is education department also with computer aided cooperated and this is four C. A. I. project of their database and maintenance and support number ten is the health department and this is a contract to provide analytical services to propel the water quality monitoring requirements as required or as mandated by the EPA number eleven Henderson state university this is to provide a contract for consulting services for a professional placement firm that will be capable of providing a pool of free from qualified candidates for an interim provost and VP of academic affairs this is a temporary one your present position of number twelve this is DHS and this is the contract for the provision of supervised independent living programs for youth ages eighteen to twenty one who elect to participate in extended foster care services number thirteen DHS our electronic benefit transfer services contract number fourteen with Optum this is the DHS independent assessment and transformation support program number of fifteen on the next page this is parks and tourism this will be a contract to design fabricate and install exhibits in the new visitor center located at pinnacle mountain state park number six A sixteen is an amendment to a contract for the public service commission to provide legal services to the commission number seventeen issue a fable with education elements of this one is a special procurement you have a letter in your packet it's that golden rod colored letter of a note that to education was doing some work with these provide this provider all. On some training and then with coded they needed them to come on board and they were approved for us special procurement to provide coaching and support to Arkansas district per this initiative re entry planning support services for the Arkansas ready for learning we have you a fate bill also an amendment to an existing contract provide strategic leadership of this state ability consortiums European operations UA Fort Smith has a contract to provide a pre qualified candidate who is immediately available to fill the vacancy of CFO on the U. a Fort Smith campus the candidate will be appointed to serve as Enron Tosh channeler vice chancellor for finance administration and number twenty this is you see a this is an amendment to an existing contract that they have for liquidation of their Perkins program these laws are being moved to the department of education and this additional money will help you see a to finalize that move it transferring those loans to the department that you cation those are the out of state contracts on today's agenda. All right thank you Kathy and we got a few questions were start with senator Chesterfield you're recognized for a question. Thank you Mr chair I guess I'm wondering if there's nobody in the state of Arkansas who can do which can a company which can operate that will provide folks with the names of people eligible for positions. And if not then I think we need to work on that because we always go out of state to get people to come in to try to find the correct personnel to feel positions either in our colleges are in our K. through twelve administrative ranks so that's just a statement but I'd like to know why Aurora eight issue number for the purpose is to provide clerical administrative the vent temporary one second center we get somebody from AS you appear and real quickly. Shame Broadway they issue system. Senator you're recognized procedure question thank you Sir why do we need an out of state company from a roar to provide clerical administrative event temporary staffing services FOR issue Giles four is an art piece senator has to responded and and received the award based on they are at the so it's we would prefer obviously to have an in state company but it was but. Issue RFPs for all of okay well that answers my question thank you so much. Thank. All right. Six seven eight to think that's the Representative Vaught. Mr Speaker. You are recognized for a question Sir thank you Mr chairman I guess of I have a question for the U. of a fable. Okay. See Mr back a command down. Welcome back to back it's been a while at sea while. Thank you the bill Recca Haley a university of Arkansas Fayetteville Mr Speaker you're recognized proceed Sir thank you just had a question what is the sustainability consortium I noticed on item eighteen it looks like the funding source is the sustainability consortium but then the the contract providing for providing strategic leadership and other things to that consortium so I'd just like to know a little more about that yes Sir this state ability consortium is in our long college of business it is a nonprofit organization in a partnership with us in Arizona State University is jointly owned by both but it is conduct oversight three the university of Arkansas and it's a global organization transforming the consumer goods industry to deliver more sustainable consumer product in Europe and here in the US as well so this is the European operation. And the that's a great answer I appreciate you being prepared to to answer that so that the to clarify it is actually a consortium that the you of A is running the owner ma'am yeah whatever how do you get jointly own it with Arizona State University so that consortium and it's also made up the you know Kellogg's a Walmart multiple fortune five hundred companies thank you thank you. Thank you Rebecca thank you. All right C. number sixty six. The Representative Eubanks. Thank you Mr chair my questions from number eleven hinders Henderson state university from. Henderson Mr Broadway. Shame Broadway with the issue system. Representative Eubanks you're recognized procedure questions thank you this. Temporary position one year contract yes what's that position pay. one zero. One seventy I think. It looks like we're spending a lot of money to find somebody for one years. It's really about the only option you've got at the moment especially as it relates to code This is this firm and this is actually how we have the interim chancellor came from this firm to registry is kind of the. The model that everyone uses around the country it's rude usually retired administrators who are still available to come in on a temporary basis and so we've had the the last in room Chester just retired again and so we need somebody to come in for this year to evaluate all the programs that Henderson I don't need to recount the. Issues that they face for you but our hope is to bring in someone who's been involved in a campus. This place some of the issues that Henderson is placing now and help us to be able to restructure the academic programs so we we have an interim chance for through this group and the hope is to bring in an interim provost for this year as well as you system doesn't have anybody that could. No physician on an interim basis we don't have a system provost. You couldn't do that for you. Those. Thank you for the company is Like a lot of money to spend for. A one year position the the way the the way it's structured we paid the. They are an employee of the registry we pay the registry and do not pay benefits insurance or retirement their employees the registry so it may be why it looks maybe higher than what will actually pay. Senate this state that the the Fijian this contracts for includes the salary for the position okay all right that explains that thing okay. Mr Broadway thank what my esteemed colleague represented Eubanks trying to say that he will do it for half I'm sure that the can you start tomorrow. We can almost guarantee it. A bill you Mr chairman thank you Sir. yes all right I think I got the senator. Hammer. Thank you Mr recognized for questions regarding. Yes number seventeen you of a of a all right Rebecca if you want to. Thank you Rebecca Haley university of Arkansas Fayetteville. Senator hammer you're recognized procedure question Sir thank you Sir what's the value of this or what's the contract amount for this eighty one thousand dollars. Okay and I notice that it gets said that they needed to have their implementation plans on the website by September first so what is the and I've read it as quickly as I could but what's the value of the purpose of having this group provide the services so originally Sir we had them on a different contract coming in for a conference or education summit this summer and with Kopet they've had to shift impaired that because obviously the school districts that need that they needed the one on one coaching the re implementation plans so we got with AT and noted the grant and so this part is the long term support student focused learning systems you know either blended or virtual. So some of this intended to address what was delayed during the summer because they were not able to attend or get the information out yes Sir and that the man the man for the more one on one coaching and that reentry plan as you're talking about or thank you thank you Mr. All right thank you Rebecca. All right I don't see senator Hickey in here so we will go to senator Chesterfield you're recognized for a question ma'am yes on number fourteen please. Services department Human Services okay marking on whip. The western more quality just. Senator Chesterfield you're recognized proceed with your question alright thank you Mr chair mark has often given us great services in the past. It's we've been we've been happy with the results we have some difficulties and we did work through those at one point we did impose a penalty on them which we took out of their invoices and collected last year but over the last several months we've been seeing they've been meeting their marks they've been being Thomas measures of over ninety percent and so we it has been improving we've been satisfied enough to continue all right because for awhile that's all I heard yes ma'am optim. Yes ma'am and I I will say that from the complaints that operate have dropped dramatically over the last six months certainly if your still hearing any please let us know but I don't I think it's been awhile since I've gotten an issue from a member or from one of our decision services folks. Well I would ask missed your that we continue to monitor this because often has been on our radar for a long time as to not providing the services that we need for our constituents but if you're happy with it we will. So how often do you monitor them DO summative evaluations of their work we want them on monthly basis thank you thank you Mr thank you center more just real briefly what does that a violation you know and tail is looking at the looking at our performance in terms of were not there meeting the metrics that metrics run timeliness or on quality run staffing and so we're just we're checking every month and scene where they at a comparison to those required metrics they have to meet for use in a sample of the cases that they're happy into in some cases that would look a sample in other cases like timeliness we look at everything yes look at their top Thomas over all okay alright thank you. members on this anybody see center there all right so see no further questions and without objection these items will stand as reviewed. Mister chairman the last group of contracts or in state contracts beginning on page eleven in your daily package numbers one thirteen and these are all going to be for community correction as I mentioned earlier these are their contracts they have for true a traditional housing and re entry housing programs that takes us through number ten number eleven has been pulled from the agenda by the agency number twelve is the FH also for support enforcement this is for of twelve and thirteen or both for child support enforcement these are for process servers education school for the blind has a contract amendment there for security guard services number fourteen and number fifteen is education school for the deaf FOR their security guard services number sixteen is DHS this is with centers for youth and families for therapeutic counseling services of four individuals without insurance or any other payor source number seventeen is for DHS for extended foster care services number eighteen is DHS this is to discover and improve of opportunities through two case mining efforts for referrals across state number nineteen is DHS on this is to establish of supervised independent living programs for youth ages eighteen to twenty one who elect to participate in extended foster care number twenty and twenty to twenty five these are all going to be for DHS and these are going to be specialized development developmental disability not to be number twenty is for specialized developmental disability emergency program services then number twenty one through twenty five these are all for supervised independent living programs for eighteen to twenty one year old number twenty six is the H. S. and this is for continued language in. Transportation and transcription services both oral and written written and this is for individuals with limited English professor proficiency number twenty seven DHS this is to support the Arkansas coalition for obesity prevention as partner of the governor's healthy active Arkansas plan number twenty eight twenty nine these are both for the insurance department and these are contracts for one on one assistance to Medicare beneficiaries number thirty is national park community college this is for their providing their armed and uniformed security guard services for their campus number thirty one and thirty two these are both for the nursing board and these are both to provide contracts for investigator nurse investigator and reporting you I fate will of this is a contract for brokerage services I including identifying exposure to loss and other services number thirty four is U. A L. R. thirty four thirty five these are for comprehensive alcohol and other drug abuse prevention services. Number thirty six UAMS this is a contract to provide advice on structure preparation and agreements research negotiation or other matters related for a transaction number thirty seven U. A. T. B. I this is their marketing and communications services are to enhance the image and communication systems for the for that university number thirty eight U. A. P. B. this is for providing as supplementary services to the campus of a number thirty nine of the eighty this is for housekeeping services at the veterans common fate bill and those are all of the in state contracts on today's agenda. Alright members are there any questions. Comments. All right seeing none these items will stand as reviewed. Mister chairman under our of reports the first report eighty one our previously reviewed services contracts are these are those contracts that have been reviewed by the subcommittee and there be extended and the amount is not changing from the previously I'm review to mail out then that takes is over to E. to. And that begins on page. Item eighty two page one of these are the executed contract these are all the contracts that are under the threshold for legislative review that are being reported to the committee the next report that we have of would be emergency procurements and these are going to be of contracts that have been entered into E. three that are being done as a critical emergency procurement majority these if not all of these deal with some type of situation where code nineteen is requiring an emergency service and is being done that way then the next thing I want to report to you is item G. two of this is a new report for the committee this is following the procurement study a couple years ago legislation was passed the change the report on purchases from a cooperative contract to an annual report instead of a quarterly report the office of state procurement compiles a report of all agencies within the aces system and those agencies Including colleges and universities that are outside of the ace agent of the asus system are asked to submit a report directly to the ledge legislature previously before this was being done those colleges and universities were up preparing reports sending it to Alice P. and I was pea was compiling it of but I wispy sent out a notice after the law was changed and several months ago the law details the information is to be included in the report I will say that these reports are rather large we have compiled a listing of all the reports that we've received these reports are available to members if they're interested I can provide you a link I can email those to members for any or all of these report then I'll page two of the report is a listing of some of the institutions of higher education that did not follow or an annual report and we are going to be contacting those agencies to confirm if they have nothing to report are to provide them with information on how to submit this new annual report but again this is a new report out of the procurement study and this is just to show you the institutions as well as the office of state procurement that it provided this report and again if any of you want to see any of this information I'll be more than happy to provide you with a link to it and those of the items on today's agenda in all right thank Kathy members you your heart cath if you'd like to have any of the corresponding information if you just give her a call or shoot her an email once you will be happy to get that to you. Use me. Senator Chesterfield about to yes I would like in the past I've asked for a break down of these contracts by gender and by race may have those when he gets a chance. Gender and race. Yes. Yes ma'am thank you. Alright members and seeing that we are adjourned.