ALC-Review

All the meeting to order review subcommittee. Pleasure to be here with all you today I'm gonna open up the my care for my words of wisdom from my colleague Senator Flippo anything. Thank you Mr chairman the words of wisdom a relatively of sparse today someone with that asset over let's get started. Alright. All right you're going to go and tell some of the rules I guess get started. Thank you Mr chairman the first thing on your agenda today will be adoption of rules for this specific subcommittee these are the same rules that the committees had for the last several years they have to do with placement of items on the subcommittee agenda of the monthly report to the committee can expect to see as well as any consideration of any of office of state procurement for for up procurement rules that would come before this committee prior to going for rules so that would be the if you have any questions I'll be glad to go into more detail but in the again these are the rules that we've had for the subcommittee for the past several years. Thank you got to members any questions on the rules. All right seeing nine we're gonna go ahead moved down to item be methods of finance at the Mr chairman are methods of finance this is a in an instance when I an agency needs to by lander building structure or utility system over two hundred fifty thousand dollars and it's not previously come before the legislature then they must submit a method of finance we receive it these from the office of accounting they review them and send them over and the higher education projects are foreseen by higher ed coordinating board prior to being sent to DFA the first thing in the packet will be the letter from DFA noting the that is a finance that they're sending over for today's review and if you'll turn to page two of that packet the first one is a issue Jonesborough this is for their Arkansas biosciences institute cage washer five hundred sixty thousand two ninety nine and they plan to use university funds to cover for that project the second one is Arkansas tech this is for their student recreation center and student union it's a revised method of financial see it over there toward the last of those columns little over forty nine million dollars they know that they have river facilities repaired where the renovation reserves forty percent to cover that cost as well as bond proceeds that that sold sixty percent of it will be covered by that next you have Black River technical college they have to the first one is the welding renovation capacity project of five hundred forty four thousand that plant funds for that and the next one is there Black Hawk walking trail seven hundred what ninety one thousand six eighty eight and they have a grant from are not as well as plant funds to cover that project number five on that same page is north Arkansas college with these has to do with the energy performance contract and this is being funded from a federal grant as well as unrestricted cash reserves it's a little over. One point five million dollars for that project revised you a fait it bill for read hall window replacement two million dollars they have housing resident revenues to cover that on the next please be on the next page you a division of agriculture for the don Tyson center at grass science lab three hundred twenty four thousand four seventy five they have agriculture sales and plant reserves you a fable for the biology greenhouse renovation one million seven hundred twenty two thousand to sixty they know that they have university reserves to cover the entire cost of that project at this time you a fable chemical vapor lab reactors a installation two point six million dollars and they have a federal grant to cover that and then on the next page UALR the promenade odd and library plaza renovation. Thirteen million nine seventy seven eight thirty seven that's coming from foundation gifts as well as cash funds on hand you A. L. R. for the student union a re roofing of that building eight hundred sixty thousand four forty is the revised amount it's all being funded by cash funds of the jacks Steven center chiller replacement four hundred thousand dollars cash funds and the general campus wide renovations and improvements three million five hundred eighty five thousand that also is being funded by cash funds on page five of your methods of finance the UALR the top of that page new fraternity chapter clubhouse seven hundred eighty six thousand seven sixty cash funds and then the rentals building carpet and chairs seven hundred one thousand five eighty five again cash funds to cover that expense you A. P. B. for the last in hall renovation eight million five hundred twenty nine thousand eight thirty five they have federal grants and then you A. P. the for their fine arts centre repairs this is due to a fire damage little over five million dollars they had insurance proceeds from that fire damage to cover sixty two percent of the cost and Plant reserves and then UA Pulaski tech or various deferred maintenance projects two million eight hundred fifty five thousand coming from plant funds and federal grants those are the methods of finance on today's agenda. I members any questions on any of these items. All right seeing none men without objection these I will stand reviewed. Mr chairman the next thing we look at our discretionary grants and these are going to be in the grants over ten thousand dollars where the recipient or the formula for the grant was not specified in legislation or the grant these are submitted directly to the committee by the different agencies the first group C. one is from the health department of the first one is an original grant it's going to be twenty five thousand dollars it's a hundred percent federally funded and this is going to be four stroke and TIA patients transitioning from hospital setting back home number two is you'll notice its an amendment out of point out it's amendment five and the amount of this amendment is two hundred ninety nine six twenty five they this is for strategies with statewide youth coalitions number three is These are type had paid for these two are paid part by tobacco prevention and cessation funds number three is also an amendment to an existing contract this is four goals of the Arkansas cancer plan protect the back of control activities on the next page is an amendment to an existing grant for implementation of a well coordinated infant child death review program the next one is amendment to out for number five for increased breast cancer screenings of the a mobile unit number six is for increased resting and cervical cancer screenings to uninsured and under insured that's an amendment to that grant on the next page you have number seven is an amendment to a grant for direct housing subsidies and support services number eight and nine are both going to be grants for back up call centers for the Arkansas lifeline call center on the next page those are all for health of the health department and on the next page starting on page four you start the grants for DHS Human Services number one through number eight are all going to be amendments to existing grants to area agencies and these are going to be for improving quality of life for adults with disabilities that's going to take us over to grant number nine and that's owned of page seven number nine is for senior community services employment program that's an amendment to that one number ten also an amendment for transformation transfer initiative number eleven on the next page is an amendment to the grant for head start early head start community delegate agency assistance numbers are number twelve then is a new grant to facilitate collaboration among a head start agencies numbers thirteen and fourteen or amendments to grants for employment and training services for snap recipients number fifteen. He is a grant for emergency solutions program this provide services to homeless individuals number sixteen and seventeen you're both going to be grants for homeless in management information systems special projects number eighteen is going to be a grant for Arkansas disability coalitions project delivery of chronic care number nineteen is far on amendments to the grant for family to family health information center number twenty is an amendment or Alzheimer's and dementia caregiver's respite care program the pilot program and number twenty one for DHS is for career technical education for a juvenile assessment and treatment center those are the grants for DHS the next set of grants beginning on page twelve are going to be costs a grants and casa is the Arkansas court appointed special advocates it's a program in Arkansas to recruit train supervise community volunteers to advocate for best interest of the views and the glass it children. Excuse me the state costs and grants of allow local programs to pay for salaries and related costs out recruit supervise and manage volunteers we have several pages from page twelve over two Page fourteen it looks like that show the various casa programs the counties they serve the grant amount from the state the percentage of that from there for their state budget and other funding sources the total of all of these grants from casa will be for a million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars that Texas over to a Page fifteen this is C. for these this is the Arkansas soybean program and they do projects for soybean research and promotion the total of their grants is a little less than half a million four hundred ninety seven thousand fifteen dollars in this you'll see the first one on page sixteen is for up for state fair Texarkana for the agricultural learning center the second one is for research projects in collaboration with other states number three is for membership in the United States soybean export council number four is for grow the green yield contest number five on page eighteen is for membership dues and also an additional eighteen thousand dollars in education and marketing for biodiesel products number six is for expanding the number of US solely international markets number seven is for leadership programs for young emerging producers and number eight is for research project of those or the solely be promotion grants number of the next page on page twenty will be the grants for you A. P. B. of the minority initiative sub recipient grant office receives funding from the tobacco master settlement agreement and they look at various community. D. based programs and make Awards that there are nine awards that they're bringing to the committee for review today totaling. Six hundred sixty three thousand nine sixty one again these are paid for under master settlement agreement funds there for educational programs to back on tobacco dangers media projects programs to promote quitting of their community based programs so that takes this over to the last grant which is for the division of workforce services on page twenty four a federally funded grant for use development services for achieving positive outcomes in areas of academic success good character sedition chip and healthy lifestyles and again that is ten of funded a division of workforce services those of the grants on today's agenda. I want to drink water okay yes Sir. Some question representative Vaught I believe sixty seventy four you're recognized thank you Mr chair I'm is somebody here with DHS on aging adult. The triple A.'s. I have questions. Good afternoon to you just introduce yourself for the record then you can answer representative office questions. Thank you Mr Clark quite warm Human Services. J. held for him services thank you Mr chair thank you guys for being here today so I know it's a constant talk about but senior citizen centers across the state in rule Arkansas are by far not being able to meet the needs of our areas as I was looking through this I see like twenty two thousand twenty or twenty two twenty seven. Twenty one and then you go down here and there's a forty six million. Dollar one on page six number seven and I'm wondering why that one is so much greater than all the rest when we know that rule Arkansas is definitely suffering from. I mean they have to do fund raisers and they'll have to do all this stuff to try to feed Sanders and they're not even open five days a week people enroll Arkansas we have a lot of senior citizens that live in rural Arkansas that need these services and it seems like we're always getting shafted in money whenever it comes to triple A.'s and the senior citizen centers coat so can you explain to me maybe why this one is way I'll. Everything seems to be half of that. The representative of the funding that goes up for the triple A.'s is divided based on a fine on it federal funding formula the the triple a that you're referencing is here in Little Rock and the Democrat or the the the demographics that are used to divide that money very much attention on population and on the numbers of elders that are for instance sixty five plus seventy plus the number of persons the number of minorities that live within the catchment areas the triple a server obviously the more people the larger larger population the more funding that is allocated to that area and I would just add to that that the funny four was amended back in early twenty eighteen precisely for this purpose because recognizing that more more funds for going to the north west certain parts of the state and so we did revise it to take give more of a for like better word advantage to rule Arkansas and rule setters help ensure more equitable distribution of funding around the state. Do you a follow up Mister chair you don't have that's going to go ahead thank you Sir so do you know how much of the funds that we see and go to actual administration and how much actually goes towards food and is there a way for us to get those numbers so that we can see what is happening in our areas as far as where the money is actually going there is there's a limitation on administration fees that are allowed to be there allowable for triple a to pull off and I can send that to you I would appreciate that I'm sure the chair would rather you send it to them and then let them send it out my final question would be and what do we tell our rural communities who continue to suffer from lack of funding from their areas where you do have the majority is elderly. People who live in those areas I mean it it it is what it is that's where they live that's what they want to live they can't live maybe here in Little Rock or there's more funding for those areas so what we go tell our people back home I'm sorry you don't have enough people living in our districts for us to be able to get more funding or how do we fix this situation that we've got going on where we've got people that are ninety eight years at home ninety eight years old at home you can't drive can't do anything and yet they still can't get that. These people deserve to be fed. Well it we we certainly are always on the lookout for the possible divisional funding by the end of the day it's we've got funds are made available to us which we then in turn around make available to senior centers federal funding has been is it's been up and now it's come back down because of the fact pandemic there's a lot of one time money that came down from the fence during the pandemic which we float along to this centers but course now they're saying that drop out because it was one time funding no certainly the federal government increases when they provide we will pass that along we we don't keep that for our admin weeks passed along to the centers and certainly no in here the state twenty no the governor and legislature if you all decide to make some funding available or other sources we're always happy to look at any of those possibilities to create more opportunities mob I look forward to having more discussions about this I know you'll probably get tired of it I think a representative to fight not both fact this fact every single session where we don't think that there's enough money going toward rule Arkansas so I appreciate it thank you Mr chair thank you president of the German if you would get that information to staff will get it passed out to the committee members Mr. All right members any other questions on the discretionary grant. Currency number that objection these items stand reviewed takes us to item D. this service contracts. Yes Sir Mick of the next item is our services contracts and we're gonna be looking at contracts with the threshold of over fifty thousand dollars in any one year all other contracts are going to be reported in we'll see them later on on the committee meeting the first page of the item D. is going to be a letter from the office of state procurement and the office of state procurement takes a look at all of these contracts before sending them over and they will point out to the committee any contracts that have Something unusual about them today that Mr Armstrong is pointing out that there's a contract will see it on page fifty five that Was not written new properly they had of anticipated this contract being for two years however when they did the paperwork they only did it for one year and so they of this is considered an administrative oversight but we did want to bring it to the legislators tension when we're looking at these Mr Armstrong knows that all the other contracts appear to have been procured not in violation of any state procurement law so we'll start with construction related contracts and these are going to be any of the contracts that would be used for architectural or engineering those type of services are for a specific construction projects. So on page two the first one of the first two are for community correction that first one is going to be with Wittenberg the Loni and Davidson I'll tell you a little bit more about this of for those of you that might be new to the committee but we're looking at the most recent of action this is amendment three that we're looking at it's adding two hundred and seventy five thousand dollars to the existing contract this contract originally began July one of twenty twenty and you can see it's a new expiration date is June thirtieth of twenty four you'll see the type of funding sources that are being used to fund this of contract you'll also see the type of procurement that was used to procure this this was done through using ABA criteria and this particular contract is for an on call architectural services contract again the action that the committee is taking today's just on Amendment three but we provide you with the detail in history of the entire lifetime of the contract contracts can be renewed up to seven years so we want to provide you with all that detail of information so you see what's going on year after year and I'll call contracts or contracts that they put in place to have in place if they have an emergency come up the second one for community correction we'll see this one is an amendment amendment one adding a hundred eighty three thousand dollars and this one is for a specific project is for the structural mechanical civil and engineering services that are going to be used at the White River juvenile detention center this being built in Batesville number three is correction apartment and this one is and the amendment to adding additional to her fifty thousand dollars for on call architectural services number for correction department this one is far specific project it's more roof renovations or their warehouse in annex building number for. Five is DFA revenue services this is a contract amendment and this is for design professional services for various things including instant installation of any emergency generators addition of loading dock at their lead better building cooling tower telecommunications ally system upgrades and other projects that are noted in the beginning of that contract number six is Department of transformation and shared services this is a professional consulting services contract for A. B. A. owned buildings and operated facilities number seven three nine are all going to be a continuation of a building authorities contract these are going to be for multiple up critical maintenance projects at yet the buildings that they are responsible for taking care of. Hi number ten and this is on page six is education department this is a contract that they have for their on call engineering services number eleven is Emergency Management they actually have number eleven and number twelve they're both original contract meaning they're just beginning after the review by this legislature with vertical structures they're both being funded by bond proceeds the first one for nine hundred seventy five thousand dollars is for engineering design services of for their a wind towers in the second one is also for a winter hours in speaking with the agency the second one is for for new sites that are being built and the first one is for all the existing sites for repairs and they noted there were like four hundred eleven of those moving on to page seven number thirteen is DHS This Is there engineering design services on call number fourteen is there call architectural design services an amendment and number fifteen is the architectural design services this is for specific projects at the bill billion for human development centers on the next page of parks and tourism amendment three this is for fabrication installation of the exhibits at their new Bester center pentacle mountain state park number seventeen this is black see technical college this is there original on call architectural services contract number eighteen is for you a fait it bill this is for our professional services for the Walton college space use and physical development study number nineteen is you a fable for an amendment to their own call geotechnical engineering contract to complete projects number twenty U. a fable on car architectural services this is for the school for math and sciences down in hot springs. Number twenty one you a fateful for The Arkansas union and this is for a tenant infill project drop or provisional professional design services for that number twenty two U. a fateful for design services for the integrated and innovative research to just to a distinctive research institute number twenty three U. a fait it bill this is engineering services on call amendment to existing contract number twenty four U. a faithful for design services for recall window replacement number twenty five U. a fateful for the northeast rice research and extension center in green way building in Harrisburg Arkansas on this is for us some of the credit construction at that Site number twenty six on page eleven is going to be you a pine bluff this is for professional design services for the Hathaway Howard fine arts project. Those are gonna be all of the construction related contracts on today's agenda. All right members any questions on these items. Senator dis recognized thank you Mr. At first time on this committee but I hear a lot on call on call on call million dollars million dollars million dollars I would just love to know are we actually call in and these folks. Are they provide service I'm sure we are but I would love some description of that if you. Take any sector I read for me. Is there any specific agency you want to talk to or you won't have staff to answer that question let's let's just go with the C.. I believe there was a the universe of Arkansas had quite a bit there I know we had a. Human Services department. I just like to have a of a clarification of how that works all right you want University of Arkansas great guys one from a university. Before he comes up with things I want to point out to you is that one of the things that we provide to you in the summary of those contracts is paid to date so in those columns there I'll like looking at number twenty two on page well it's not on call and let me try out of. Okay look at contract number twenty three it's an on call engineering services contract it was originally done for two hundred fifty thousand dollars when it was renewed for an additional twenty five two hundred fifty thousand dollars all that have been spent on that contract was thirty eight thousand dollars so I wanted to point that out to you so that you would see even though you all are reviewing money for contract does not necessarily mean that money has been spent on that. Interviewed introduce yourself for the record yes Sir good afternoon my name is Scott Turley I'm associate vice chancellor for facilities at the federal campus of the university glad to try to answer some questions these would you mind report required re phrasing your question to the guest please sure thank you thanks for being here I just continue to hear on call on call services with contracts in well over a million dollars multiple times could you help me understand how often are we actually using that service of of calling the on call services so Any project release for the for the sample campus of the university system that's less than a million dollars that's over a million dollars us go the board we have to do a selection for a consultant but any project that's under a million dollars. And we need design services this is how we get those designs accomplished so we have civil mechanical architectural and so any project that may come through this less than a million dollars we call on these on call of services as. It was pointed out these are contract pass cities not necessarily expenditures In our case we renew these about every four years so we don't we try to let different folks participate in that process and so if we need to pass a renewal And so so it as is a follow up with your is there a cost just for retainer there's not okay. Thank you so much. Thank you senator members any other questions this guest. Same thank you for coming down yes. Members any other questions for item D. one. seeing none without objection this item stands reviewed taxes to D. to enter government inter governmental contracts. These begin on page twelve Mister chairman the inter governmental contracts and these are gonna be contract between state agencies that have been procured using inter governmental procurement method the first one is education department with UAMS and this is an original contract for the coordinated school health aware trainings number two is health department with UAMS and this is an amendment to an existing contract that they have for a professor to serve as the deputy science officer for the health department number three on the next page is health department UAMS and this is for the medical director to work with the department of health number four is health department you a mess and this is an update of an amended contract for increased breast cancer screening the a mobile ma'am my graffiti during an after hours and weekends number five is health department UAMS and this is the contract amendment that they have for delivery of comprehensive at risk you and risk appropriate maternity care to low income women number six health department UAMS this is an amendment to the contract they have to improve the health of our Kansans through evidence based health policy research number seven health department UAMS with to provide medical ABSTRACTERS' to conduct rapid surveillance of mother baby pairs number eight starts of contracts for DHS the first one I'll also first one with UALR is for continuing substance abuse block grant prevention services across the state number nine on page sixteen is DHS with UAMS for providing all emergency medical or surgical services beyond the scope of what they're able to handle at the Arkansas State Hospital number ten is DHS UAMS or clinical education services at the Arkansas State Hospital number let. One is a DHS you with UAMS for an array to elevate social and emotional learning in Arkansas. twelve the I just contract with you a message for providing training and technical assistance to early child care and our other education providers focused on family engagement number thirteen on page eighteen this is an amendment to the contract EHS has with you A. L. R. for parenting education services number fourteen DHS with UAMS or the Amendment for continued family treatment service. Services a number fifteen on page ninety nineteen is an amendment to the contract for design and evaluation of family first services and provision prevention act services number sixteen is DHS grant with you a fateful to administer the autism waiver program number seventeen DHS with Oregon health and science university this is a contract they have for Medicaid for the evidence based review project number eighteen DHS with UAMS for providing financial reporting and analysis or Medicaid programs waivers and grants number nineteen this DHS with UAMS this is for positions regarding collaborative program developing an integrated advocacy of public policy issues number twenty is DHS with UAMS for providing behavioral health in psychiatric consultation services number twenty one DHS with UAMS and this one is for coordination of outpatient sex offender assessment treatment and case work for referred Division of Youth Services juveniles number twenty two is insurance department and this was you UAMS is is an amendment to the contract they do on data collection number twenty three UALR an amendment to the contract they have with university of Wyoming for US strategic prevention framework. And those are all of the inter governmental contracts on today's agenda. All right members any questions on these items. Maxine nine without objection these I'll stand review takes us to item D. three out of state contracts the out of state contracts begin on page twenty four the first one is with Arkansas heritage this is a. An amendment to a contract they have for the first lady's of Arkansas exhibit at the Old State House Museum number two is a issue Jonesborough with Smith group and the this one is for updating of the original master plan I want to point out one of the other things that we do is if there are new contracts and this is an original new contract but you'll notice the procurement is being used on this contract is sole source justification so if their sole source are there special of procurement I provide the committee with a letter of what that information is from the And that today it's on the golden rod paper so this is on pages one and two of those letters and basically what it says for their justification is that Smith group did the existing plan back in two thousand thirteen and so it's cheaper to continue to go with them on this project on the next page department of corrections as an amendment to a contract for ten year projection of adult correctional prop populations number four is DFA revenue services this is for the software and hardware infrastructure for the driver's license and ID cards number five disability determination on page twenty five this is a contract for a medical consultant in this is who what they use for determining disability number six is education department this is an original contract and on this contract this is for the special education portal software school districts use this to enter all their information for IDPs and other information pertaining to special ed students. Next is education department with pace analytical this is that amendments to the existing contract and this is a to accomplish a federal grant the facilities division received a of funding to test water in older school buildings for lad all new buildings are required to have them built with New equipment that has special filters and water bottle fillers but this grant is more retro fitting all the old buildings and also getting in compliance with new safety equipment nexus education department this is an amendment to for professional development contract on the next page number nine Page twenty seven this is education department with triad of transmit student information from schools to institutions of higher education so this is when the school district uses to send transcripts AT ACT scores SAT executive colleges on behalf of students number ten on the next page page twenty eight is education school for the blind this is for physical occupational speech therapy services for their students number eleven is Emergency Management this is another contract dealing with a wind with the radio communication site inspections number twelve is health department this is an original contract for laboratory onboarding number thirteen is the health department this is amendment to this particular contract amendment is not that adding any additional money the amount is zero we're you're seeing this because they're amending the scope of work and this particular contract has to do with the Arkansas cancer RES a registry number fourteen is the health department this is for I. T. services number fifteen on page thirty. He is health department and providing data management and reporting services for the Arkansas state health health alliance records exchange that's ninety share number sixteen is the health department to implement evidence based project for tobacco services targeting pregnant women and their families number seventeen is Highway and Transportation Department this is the retirement program. This is funded by trust funds and this is for investment management services number eighteen is DHS and this is for legal case management solution and implementation services number nineteen of which is on page thirty one is a DHS or jump technology services for adult protective services advanced reporting number twenty is DHS of for environmental and janitorial services the Arkansas State Hospital and number twenty one is for the laundry services at the same Asher's number twenty two is for providing laboratory diagnostic testing services that **** State Hospital and number twenty three is for their patient food and nutrition provisions there as well number twenty four as DHS and this is an amendment to the existing contract they have or psychological evaluations number twenty five is for quality service reviews number twenty six is a contract that they have for qualified residential treatment services number twenty seven on page thirty five is for specialized private license placement agency this is dealing with sibling groups of three or more over the age of twelve and children transitioning from qualified residential treatment program number twenty eight is DHS for therapeutic foster care services number twenty nine is an amendment to the contract they have for development council profiles number thirty is a contract amendment for the STM S. D. M. assessment system. Structured decision making assessment system number thirty one is for home studies Amendment number thirty two is an amendment for continuing supervised independent living. Contract number thirty three through thirty six these are all DHS and they're all going to be our continuing comprehensive residential treatment services and this is for you under the age of twenty one number so that takes over the page forty item number thirty seven this is for eligibility operation support for DHS number thirty eight is for psychological services at the moon full human development center number thirty nine on page forty one is for continuing to fill all our S. affordable Care Act provider requirements related to minimum essential coverage number forty is DHS and this is an amendment for asset verification services contract number forty one is DHS for Medicaid third party liability automated data matching program on the next page up page forty three of contract number forty two this is the last one for DHS in out of state contracts this is for actuarial services on the next page of information systems of this is the original contract that they have for implementation of the service now technology service model management module of service now number forty four and forty five or both for insurance department forty four is for workers compensation telephone nurse triage and number forty five is for data handling could pass capability in the health insurance area number forty six as natural resources this is an original contract they have for financial advisors Services for the clean water state revolving fund and drinking water state revolving fund bond programs number forty seven is parks and tourism this is out of contract original contract for a investigation based on Investigating and testing units of land based on location number forty eight also for parks and tourism is in a contract for reporting crime information through the new records management software system or the F. B. I. numbers forty nine through seventy five are all going to be for public employee retirement and these are all going to be for investment management and banking services so that's going to take us over to page fifty five again that's a number of contracts but if you look on page fifty five. Contract number seventy six of begins up Lasky technical college this is a contract for online services for twenty four seven crisis hotline again this is a contract that will original contract and is the sole source the justification is Pat found on pages three and four of your gold package and basically what they say is this is the provider that can brought provide this twenty four hours a day seven day a week service what they're using is our government justification for that number seventy seven at the bottom of page fifty five is the contract with Southeast Arkansas college this is the contract that Mr Armstrong pointed out had and administrative oversight there's a letter on page five in your gold packet that basically says that it was due to be renewed in January of this year and they fail to do that and so this is for strategic enrollment management and performance generated metrics contract they anticipated the contract being two years that the paperwork just did not reflect that on the next page contract number seventy eight to eighty eight are all going to be teacher retirement and these are all going to be for it investment management and consulting services that's going to take us over to contract number eighty nine which is on page sixty four this is for janitorial services for you a community college baseball number ninety UALR this is an amendment to an existing contract that they have for their federal government relations services contracts so those are all of the out of state contracts on today's agenda. Senator Hammer you're recognized thank you share can we get DHS to the table please. Mr would staff identify which one was the income verification contract you may which one that will drop off. You will get that for just a second thanks. Thank you Mr Clark well I by this bill. We're going to try to find that for senator Hammer we just give me just a second can go and ask questions what she's looking okay go ahead thanks and that had to be late the just update on the enrollment coming off the Medicaid rolls and the income verification of give the factor renewing a contract with titles two things together and give a brief update please yes Sir and Williams the second about her I just cause I know not all members are as familiar this is others during the pandemic federal government put in place a rule that said the for Medicaid we had to keep individuals on the rolls even when they become an eligible the idea was to continue that health coverage as long as there's a pandemic going on and so we did that as a result our Medicaid rolls significantly more than two hundred and fifty thousand people that were added to the rolls over that period of time now that the federal government has ended the public health emergency that requirement has not lifted and now under federal law we are required to start winding those people off the rolls and so we started that process which we we've been preparing for this process for more than a year now done very extensive work to put our plans together to make sure work with to do that as well as educating clients and communicate with them about what's coming and what they need to do to ensure their coverage continues if they're eligible with that said we started rolling people off the rolls as of April one I during the month of April we had I believe this problem across the seventy two thousand individuals who were removed from coverage that would include both those who were rolled off through this effort as well as those who in a normal pre pandemic month would have rolled off the rules anyway but total since two thousand and we'll have additional people coming off the roles in the coming months. Follows Mr great thanks the thank you the one of the things was that we gave a contract where we staffed up we're supposed to have and I came or which company we give that contract to to staff up is that in any way related to this contract or are because I know some people are you know they got the letter that in fill out whatever the reason may be so are we responding. In a timely manner and is the company that we gave the contract that to that was both supposed to provide the staff to take care it adequately and quickly is where we on that yes Sir so those are two separate contracts and I believe the numbers you're looking at number forty and forty one R. with health management systems those relate the income verification asset verification and that's just part of our normal eligibility requirements obligations the one you're thinking of is maximus which is contract or thirty seven and that is progressing we are leveraging their capabilities to help us to some of the work around the eligibility process there. And that's for the twenty five percent federal and twenty five percent state right yes seven. Anticipation how long we're gonna have to keep in mind when would we be able to start cutting back based on where we are right now as far as giving maximus on right we we will continue to use them over the six months that we have under state law to unwind everyone that started April one so they'll progress three October one after that I know in the past or intention has been to keep maximus on at least in a small capacity so that if we have some situation in future where there is a backlog develops or something else we can rapidly staff up and bringing that capacity to make sure that we keep on top of everything but that's the stuff and we we have discussed that actively in the last couple of months in central will circle back or in the conversation here the next few months thank you thank Mr. Senator Hammer looks like the item related to asset verification would be one of them was item forty starting on page D. forty one. That representative Wardlaw you're recognized. Okay somebody from Pulaski tech please Sir. Thank you mark for coming down the. Then go ahead. Have somebody ready from Southeast Arkansas college as well please. All right. He said Southeast. Yeah the to sole source contracts Southeast Arkansas collagen Lasky to Southeast Arkansas called we next we have Pulaski up now if you would introduce yourself for the record you go ahead and start yes Sir Melissa rest with university of Arkansas system. Looking through this thank you Mr looking to the sole source letter really generic to put on here that Google searches were conducted I mean is that the only way we look for vendors for competition at the United. No Sir it's not I don't to Obviously wasn't involved in the in the search relative to this particular process but it's my understanding that campus officials were looking for someone that could provide mental health services both online tell us here the and there were a number of providers that could provide that kind of service right they were struggling and finding a company that could also provide crisis intervention services that would be twenty four seven and so it's my understanding they did look from internet search basis I don't know what other Avenue se may have looked in order to ultimately resulting in Wanted to go forward with this particular company but that's my understanding of the process that that was utilized it in my tenure here and working with review a subcommittee it's funny how many people show up when you put an RFP out and doing so sources say and we Google search I mean I don't know how the rest committee feels but that's not an adequate answer from university the other side of that is if you look at the contract it looks like this the initial contract with this company and. Reading the sole source letter it reads as if you have done this before with them I'd like to know if you don't it before what those amounts were and what that contract look like. The only thing that I can tell you is it based upon the information that I have this is an initial contract with this particular company I'll be happy to check and see if I can get some additional information to know whether or not they contract with this firm before but it's my understanding this is an original contract with this particular provider. Okay Mr president everyone else as questions for Klasky tech all yield until southeast can come to the table. Representative Springer is your question for Pulaski tech. No I'll get back to you in just a second and representative Wardlaw staff was telling me that. The other sole source contract apparently with item to a issue Jones Burrel says Southeast Arkansas college so Pitsch Adam D. page fifty five number seventy seven fifty five yep. Actually the next contract on the page that just looked a represent Wardlaw that was done as an R. F. P. That one is of the one that I was pointing out that Mr Armstrong said was administrative error where they failed to extend the contract that done as an RFP the other sole source contract that you're that was on the group that I did was I number two a issue Jonesborough where they stand with the Smith group where they had done the existing plan back in two thousand thirteen so they said it was cheaper to stay with them then to switch that up yes ma'am I saw that Mister is proper time I have a motion and did you want to go ahead bring southeast no Sir I'm satisfied okay thank review will thank you sure representative Springer you're recognized. Afternoon thank you Mr chair my question was for Mr why he and I have had some conversations about the Medicaid beneficiaries who have been terminated and I had specifically asked him about bycounty of those seventy two thousand. Whose benefits were terminated I just want to follow up to see what we are with respect to that if you fit the opportunity to. Yes ma'am Marxuach the ages yes ma'am are reporting team they are working on that report now is take some time to pull that much data system but it's it's in process thank you thank you Mr. Thank god you okay thank you mark. Representative Wardlaw did you have a motion On one of the items in the three. Your record. You're recognized one like to read I'll talk to you. Thank you yes Mr I make a motion to review all contracts of the number seventy seven Pulaski tech college I'd like to hold at least till Friday to get some questions answered if not a month if those questions aren't able to be answered. I remember you heard a motion to review all of the items on D. three with the exception of the plastic Pulaski tech holding that over until Friday we have a motion representative Wardlaw is second. Second all those in favor signify by saying aye. Oppose aren't the ayes have it thank you representative that moves on to item D. for in state contracts. Mr chairman the D. for in state contracts begin on page sixty six of your packet the first one is Arkansas heritage here's another contract amendment for the first lady's of Arkansas exhibit of for completion and work on that project number two and three or both Arkansas heritage and these are both going to be amendments to contracts that they have forced to reduce services or control Bayern's number four is a S. U. B. B. for janitorial services number five is a correction department this is an amendment for monitoring and analysis of performance improvement peer review utilization review programs number six is the department of corrections and this is the original contract for a collaborating in establishing a nutrition goes with medical staff and offenders number seven is development finance authority this is a contract for identifying and evaluating and screening potential investments in funds and companies number eight DFI child support enforcement this is at original contract I want to point out that this contract is for more than a year it's going through twenty six so it looks like it's for three years and this is a contract for operations maintenance support and enhancement of the Arkansas child support enforcement system number nine on page sixty nine is DFA management services or DMZ hosting number ten also management services for the state message and messenger services number eleven. Is DFA revenue services this is with the Arkansas information consortium for the R. star streamline auto renewal number twelve is disability determination another contract for medicals consultant to work with them on making disability determinations number thirteen is building up already this is for window and glass cleaning services at thirteen of their buildings education department has a contract there for professional development training up for the leadership academy and then education has an amendment number fifteen for the public school academic facilities and Transportation tracker and master plan tracker education school for the deaf number sixteen for audiology services number seventeen for physical therapy services also for the school for the deaf number eighteen is the health department this is with Arkansas children's hospital this is also so source justification on pages six through twelve of your packet of this is for supporting the home visiting activities with the Arkansas children's hospital home visiting network in the air justification they know that this particular agency's been providing this service since that two thousand eleven and noted as the only source to provide that number nineteen is the highway to and Transportation Department retirement four investment management services then number twenty begins number of contracts that will help them DHS of the first twenty three twenty two are going to be with community providers or mental health services that Texas over to page seventy five contract number twenty three and this is for consulting services an amendment to that contract number. Twenty four as an amendment for DHS for physical and occupational therapy services at this children at the Arkansas state hospitals using our numbers twenty five through twenty nine or going to be continuation of the community based services that they provide mental health services are going on that takes is over to contract number thirty and that's going to be on page eighty. This is an amendment to an existing contract for supervised independent living number thirty one is for specialized private license placement agency services thirty two is for private licensed foster homes services number thirty three is an amendment for DD services for the children and family services clients number thirty four is for qualified residential treatment program a contract amendment number thirty five is for specialized private license placement agency services number thirty six is for supervised independent living programs and this is going to be for youth ages eighteen to twenty one who elected to participate in extended foster care number thirty seven is for comprehensive residential treatment services and this is you under the age of twenty one number thirty eight is for qualified residential treatment program an amendment to that contract with the boy shelter number thirty nine and forty are both going to be these begins on page eighty five for therapeutic foster care services. Number forty one is for legal representation services or DHS number forty two is for qualified residential treatment program services number forty three is for comprehensive residential treatment services number forty four on page eighty seven is for therapeutic foster care an amendment to that contract number forty five is for qualified residential treatment program number forty six will be for comprehensive residential treatment services again under the age of twenty one number forty seven is for therapeutic foster care services number forty eight is for specialized private license placement agency. Services number forty nine on page ninety is for qualified residential treatment program services number fifty. Is for supervised independent living programs for youth eighteen to twenty one who elect to participate in extended foster care number fifty one is for comprehensive residential treatment services number fifty two is an amendment to an existing contract the DHS has for counseling services number fifty three is an existing contract for structured analysis Family evaluation safe home studies number fifty four is for supervised independent living services number fifty five developmental disability services for foster homes number fifty six is for structured analysis Family evaluation that again as those safe home studies numbers fifty seven through fifty nine are going to be for qualified residential treatment program programs amendments to those existing contract number sixty is for comprehensive residential treatment services and this is for individuals under the age of twenty one number sixty one is for psychological evaluations for services for children and family services number sixty two again is for the safe home studies number sixty three is psychological evaluation services number sixty four sixty five comprehensive residential treatment services number sixty six is for outpatient and are residential substance abuse treatment. Moving on page ninety nine a contract sixty seven three sixty nine are all going to be for a residential treatment services for comprehensive treatment services for youth under age twenty one. Number seventy is for qualified residential treatment program seventy one is for supervise independent living program for you these are gonna be community based programs for a variety of services for DHS number seventy two as comprehensive residential treatment services seventy three qualified residential treatment program services again number seventy four as for that supervised independent living services number seventy five is there a few foster care for seventy six qualified residential treatment services that number seventy seven it is supervised independent living services number seventy eight home studies seventy nine is qualified residential treatment program services number eighty is continuing a Quitman provision installation and ongoing maintenance and monitoring of the security alarm system and this is for all of the D. H. S. County operation offices number eighty one is physical server services at Conway human development center number eighty two is the dental services at the mobile Human development centers number eighty three is the original contract the H. S. is entering into for psychiatric services at the bumble Senator number eighty four as far psychologist services that Southeast Arkansas Human development center number eighty five respiratory therapy services at Conway human development center number eighty six physician services of a residence at Southeast Arkansas development center and number eighty seven is for occupational therapy services at Jones were you developed center. Number eighty eight is on page one nine is a continuation of some human development center staff it's occupational therapy services at Conway and then number eighty nine is for pharmacy services for the residents of all five of the human development centers so that's an amendment to that existing contract number ninety is occupational therapy services at Southeast Arkansas Human development center and number ninety one this is the last contractor DHS's for neurological services at Conway human development center then we have insurance department number ninety two on page one eleven it is or call center and navigator program number ninety three is one on one assistance to Medicare beneficiaries number ninety four is the military department and this is a contract original contract they have for the distribution services for the youth challenge program. Number ninety five as natural resources commission and this is for bond counsel number of ninety six and ninety seven are both going to be for the nursing board these going to be for private of private investigations private investigators number ninety eight is parks and tourism this Is of contract for marketing and advertising for the keep Arkansas beautiful commission number ninety nine public employee retirement this is for investment of services number one hundred also for public employee retirement investment management services Pulaski tech on page one fourteen for prevention preventive maintenance and service and reporting an emergency response repair to all heating ventilation and air conditioning equipment at UA Pulaski tech number one oh two is a soybean promotion board this is a contract that they have for public relations Services number one oh three is teacher retirement for investment management fees. And services numbers one oh four through one sixteen you're all going to be UALR and these are all going to be continuations of contracts they have for substance abuse prevention services Texas over to contract number one seventeen and that's going to be on page one twenty four and that you see a this is the final in state contractors for janitorial cleaning services the original contract for you CA those are all the in state contracts. All right members any questions on these items. You saying none without objection these items will stand reviewed thanks down the E. one. Services contract. Okay. Mr chairman the only other thing we have left on our agenda now or the reports and these are the monthly reports that the committee will say the first report of reports in the one that you see our services contract amendments without a material change a report of those and then you have a report of any executed contracts that are under the threshold which I mentioned earlier was fifty thousand dollars and finally E. three are critical emergency procurements that are reported to the committee and those are all the reports on today's agenda. Members any questions or comments on these reports. All right seeing none we have no other business cochair Flippo yelling you like that jerk all right with that we are adjourned.