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right members chairrities of corps and we're gonna call
the executive subcommittee to order first on the agenda is the waiver request tipswaver by Stuttgart school district. I guess we're going to see Mr. Jeff McKenney. Mr McKenn if you would come have a seat and introduce yourself for the record and then you can give us an idea of what you're asking for
Speaker 10
3:37
ir hit your button there right in front of you there you go you hear me now good I'm Jeff McKenney superintendent Stuggart school district good afternoon and thank you guys for your time and opportunity to explain our decision to pursue the turf replacement project through the interlocal purchasing system tips rather than the traditional competitive bid process the district contacted with Louis Elliootttadden architects to oversee the design and procurement process the firm was engaged to ensure the project specifications were appropriate
and that the procurement process was conducted properly particularly due to the concerns regarding the field base and drainage system in January2026 architect Clayton Baden and his firm issued a request for proposals for the turf replacement project bis were opened on February 10,2026 in accordance with Arkansas bid law and three bids were received after reviewing the proposals it was determined that none of the bids met the required specifications outlined in the RFP. The first bid was
rejected because the company was a construction management firm rather than turf vendor and did not meet the projected specifications the second bid was rejected because it offered an eightyear turf warranty while RFP required tenyear turf. and the third bid was initially rejected because it provided3 million in construction insurance while the RFP required5 million. after reviewing the bids, Mr Baden in communication with the district determined that none were fully complied with the specifications following his guidance the district entered discussion with the United Turf and Track, the third bidder
while their proposal was approximately $153,000 higher than the lowest bid their system met the district's requested 10 year warranty specifications the insurance issue has since been resolved and the company has confirmed it will provide the required5 million in construction ins insurance coverage. the district has also worked with United Turf and Track over the past two years to perform repairs and maintenance on plane surfaces to keep the field safe for competition during that time the district paid a little over $25,000 for
services and the company demonstrated professionalism and reliability in the work with the district based on the architect's recommendation the district determined that proceeding through the tips cooperative purchasing process would allow the project to move forward while still ensuring a fair competitive price United Turf and Track has also agreed to honor pricing submitted in the original bid supporting the district's belief that the cost remains reasonable. Finally timing is critical approval and execu execution of
the contract must occur soon in order to allow adequate time for summer installation completing the project during the summer will ensure construction does not disrupt spring or fall athletic programs for these reasons the district believes the tips process is the most practical and responsible way to complete this project. thank you for your time. all right thank you sir. Members any questions? no questions we have a motion to approve we have a second second all those in favor
signify by saying aye pose guysy have it. thank you sir it's approved. thank you you bet our members that takes us down to item C. This is a consideration of a consultant services agreement betweenblr and Worked consulting we have senator
Jane English and Representative Mary Bentley and misshayer
good morning, evening, afternoon, whatever good day. just introduce yourself for the record and you can go ahead. Representative Mary Bentley
Speaker 17
7:25
Senator Jane English jillhayer Bureau of Legislative Research. thank you
Speaker 19
7:30
all so much for being us here today. We you
Representative Mary Bentley
Unverified
7:34
were gracious enough to give us a this consultant Georgia institute to help us with our audit and the audit findings I don't know if you guys have had a chance to look at them but they were very
very thorough and gave us a chance to see that our workforce system in the state is really not efficient not effective and we have many of our Kansans that are not getting trained they could be trained and so now we have seen what the problem is but we would ask assistance from this group to help us figure out the solution to get moved forward so that we have good legislation for the 2027 session and we'll need to start soon with meeting with a stakeholders and they will help us with that with zooming in and help us to make sure we have very good plan moving forward to really reform our workforce system I'm excited about this group and
they've been very effective and so with that we'll let Senator anguish and Jill share some
Senator Jane English
Unverified
8:22
details so we are fortunate all of a sudden a couple of really great things have happened that helps us along this pathway and one of them is the president's big beautiful bill which required folks to be able to draw medicaid and or snap and some other programs
to be able to work first rather than applying for benefits. The other is that the department of laborbor has said what we've been doing for 50 years in working and states have an opportunity to build a new system a workforce system and that's something I think that we're going to be
Representative Keith Brooks
Unverified
9:09
working on I'll just give you a couple of details about the contract Mr Chair. the contract will be between the bureau andorked consulting and
this will be for the use of the hospital medicaid developmental disability subcommittee as they complete their study required under actct 145. if this is approved the term of the contract will begin on Friday after full council approval and we'll continue until June30th of 2027. this will allow the consultant to assist the members with any legislation that may come out of the study and the total maximum contract amount will be $158,000 and
worked has indicated as you'll see in the scope of services attached to the contract that they're going to utilize a few subcontractors and they are the same individuals that assisted the committee already with the Georgia Center for Opportunity. so the rest of it is our standard language. I'll take any questions. All right, Senator Gilmore you recognize thank you Mr chairir just for the edification of
Senator Ben Gilmore
Unverified
10:10
the committee would y'all talk about some of the work that this group has done in some other places I know they've done some work in some other states
Senator Jane English
Unverified
10:20
right now they they have been worked with Louisiana and they're moving in they passed all their legislation and they're moving to a new one door and workforce services type of arrangement they're also working with West Virginia and Mississippi and Virginia on the same types of things that we're looking at and I would
say chairman they're really the lead people at this point across the nation the
Representative Mary Bentley
Unverified
10:45
ones they're really they're the leading source of getting states to where they need to be with this
with this system so I think they're very the experts that we need to really move forward in the short window that we've got
Senator Jane English
Unverified
10:58
to get this done and I think the other thing is that the mason bishop was with the state of Utah 30 years ago when they put this into effect. so he's got lots of background you
have a question so the Georgiaenter is the consultant that we used to sort of dig pretty deep into what the issues were with how we were currently
doing things this group is gonna be the one that's gonna hopefully tell us how we can fix it and get better at it so help me understand there you mentioned they're gonna hire some of the same people at Georgia Center to help them with this. Is this not something Georgiaenter can do on their own or how does that how does that subcontracting work and why is that necessary with this
consultant? there are there are Mason actually works
Representative Mary Bentley
Unverified
11:43
for both mason Bishop and he's the lead for this workedid group so he's worked with the Georgia Institute so he's actually part
of the group that was here and so this kind of his he's really been the main focus working on the legislation and moving things forward with the subcommittees and the groups that we need to move forward so it's really his expertise that we're getting when we're
usingorked. all right thank you for that memberers any questions? all right seeing none what's the will of the committee we have a motion we have a 2nd 2nd all any discussion right seeing none all those in
favor signify by saying aye oppose the ayes have it. thank you thank you gentlemen we appreciate it
members that takes us down to item D Miss Thayer's gonna stay there and talk to us about a contract withblr and pur andight.
Representative Keith Brooks
Unverified
12:38
Misss there you're recognized you Chairjill Thayer Bureau of Legislative Research. You should all have in your packet a copy of an actuarial and consultant services agreement this is reupping our our contract with perite umkyle Haleles as you'll remember is the lead contact for them and he
this will provide us with continuing actuarial services related to the new property insurance the captive that you all set up last year and so Kyle will be available for any of the subcommittees that were requested but primarily the state insurance properties oversight subcommittee similar to what Seegal does for that subcommittee related to Ebd so this contract again attachment A has the hourly rates thaty's group
will charge. it also includes the full scope of services it would be effective april firstt and continue through December31st of 2027 to get them on the regular biennial schedule that we have with our other actuarial consultants the maximum contract amount for this 1 is475,000 dollars but just a reminder that with that the bureau only pays the actual hourly rates that are utilized and charged plus
travel expenses and then the rest of this is just our standard language so I'll be happy to take any questions. Senator Hester
Senator Bart Hester
Unverified
14:12
you recognize when we made this decision did we budget in last year when we decided to go to the captive did we budget in for this s actuarial year after year after year yes the bureau has
Representative Keith Brooks
Unverified
14:22
that in our budget so so yeah but I guess when
Senator Bart Hester
Unverified
14:25
we made the decision we knew we were gonna keep this we were gonna have somebody on staff advising us or doing the
actual am my my that was my understanding answer that
Senator Ben Gilmore
Unverified
14:36
Mrenatorilmore yes sir that that's been the discussion from day one and I know we have Senator Petty who chairs the insurance subcommittee and he may want to offer any comment he's welcome but yes that was factored into the captive overall. and so this is something we would expect to have is
Senator Bart Hester
Unverified
14:53
is at any point our insurance provider could offer this service to us as well or that would not be
appropriate it needs to be separate I guess it does need to
Senator Ben Gilmore
Unverified
15:04
be separate generally your actuarial would be a separate entity from the broker or the other person but ok thank you they typically submit invoices
on a monthly basis or do they do work every month or just only as needed? No sir it's just as
Representative Keith Brooks
Unverified
15:17
they do work and with Seegal we it'll be it may be months in between. All right. uhpresentative Brooks you're recognized
Speaker 31
15:23
thank you Mr chairir appreciate the latitude to ask a question Misshayeryer, thank you for
Representative Keith Brooks
Unverified
15:31
the informationu question where does some of this agreement where does it overlap with what our current broker and captive manager doing just looking at what the scope is captive rates, deductibles, policy terms contractual agreements are all things that that Stteens and Will Sowerswatson are are also likely doing so just trying to see kind of what the overlap is and and what the benefit is to having a the additional consulting services given that we also have the actuar advantage under contract as well
yes sir so this contract will be solely for the use and benefit of the members of the general assembly those contracts are for the captive and used by the executive branch and this will be your own actuary that can give you an independent look at anything that's going to come before you as you request it. they won't do it on their own every time something comes up it'll only be as that subcommittee asks for it or individual members. guess my my question was looking at what we were
compensating actuarial advantage in terms of hourly rates significantly less than what potentially might compensate per night um7:3 an hour is a pretty solid rate if you can get it. so just wanted to kind of see how how you know how that might compare to the other actuary service that we've already entered into in terms of the captive
Speaker 47
16:53
and and I haven't compared their rates but the overlap I would
Representative Keith Brooks
Unverified
16:57
say doesn't exist and that they're doing separate services separate types of
services entirely. thank you chair thank youpresentative members
any other questions all right seeing what's the will of the committee we have a motion we have a second a second all those any discussion excuse me right seeing none all those on paper sayy aye impose the eyes haven't passed takes us down to
Speaker 53
17:25
item E Miss Ggarrity thank you marty errty with the bureau of legislative Research. this is a request of the bureau in its appropriation
every year has $205,000 for committee room expenses. this generally goes between the house and the senate. at this time there has been no request but I would like to request the use of those monies to renovate committee room C which is on the fourth floor of the Big Mac building. the Av is out of date. it's just not a useful room as it's set up and I think it goes back to the seventiess original everything so in keeping with the renovations that the house did
and their offices and the fifth floor this would tie it all in members any questions seeing
none whatsoable the committee we have a motion in 2nd 2nd all those in favor say aye all those opposed the guys have it passes. Members thank
you for your participation seeing no other business we are adjourned
Agenda
A. Call to Order
B. Consideration of a Waiver Request for Cooperative Purchasing Construction Services: Stuttgart School District.
C. Consideration of a Consultant Services Agreement between BLR and WorkED Consulting, LLC, for the use of the ALC-Hospital, Medicaid, and Developmental Disabilities Study Subcommittee.
D. Consideration of an Actuarial and Consultant Services Agreement between BLR and Perr & Knight.
E. Director's Report
F. Other Business
G. Adjournment
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Speakers
Representative Les D. Eaves Chair
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Speaker 10
Speaker 17
Speaker 19
Representative Mary Bentley
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Senator Jane English
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Representative Keith Brooks
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Senator Ben Gilmore
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Senator Bart Hester
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Speaker 31
Speaker 47
Speaker 53