ALC-Review

To get started on time today. Before we get on a sea of my co chair presented Bragg has any comments represent bragging thing going to good to go all right well. First of all we're going to the motion for suspension of the rules for you have a community college down and hope to take that up under the in the west but. Got a motion second all in favor. Posed motion carries all right Kathy. Thank you Mr chairman the first item on the agenda is going to be under B. it's a timber sale notification with the Arkansas department of Human Services and if you'll turn in your packet to page one of B.. This is of at the Booneville Human development center the The. DHS development disabilities has arranged for the sale of timber they do this occasionally they work with the the agro department to price it into. I densify the trees that are to be sold you'll see the information on the project and then also we would provided the committee on page ten of B. is the of the ad that was developed then there's a copy of the bill in the appropriation bill for developmental disabilities it talks about them being able to sell the timber and they use the funds from the timber sales in a capital improvements and then you'll see the last of section starting on page fourteen is the actual information about the of the space it's going to be harvested so this is just a review of the timber sale or DHS all right members or any questions. All right see nuns and without objection the sandals and review review is chairman the next group of items are methods of finance in the packet C. item see a page one is the letter from DFA then on page two is the chart the methods of finance today include the first one a issue baby for their student one stop shop this is five hundred seventeen thousand nine hundred seventy six dollars and they have cash reserves to cover that a issue Mountain Home FOR and amp theater we included a covered stage six hundred fifty thousand dollars they know that they have a majority of the funding is coming from a foundation transfer as well as a present from institutional reserves number three Phillips community college of for miscellaneous repairs and replacements a little over two million dollars they have operating reserves that are all grants and private donations number four south Arkansas community college advanced manufacturing training center and expansion enclosing outdoor space or their welding classroom lab this is revised to one point two million dollars they have an oral grants from the delta regional authority the department of labor as well as bank funds to cover that project and then south Arkansas community college also has the transportation tax center alterations this is their automobile bill lab and I they're renovating and upgrading existing facility seven hundred seventeen thousand on that revised MOF they have funds from the Division of higher ed regional work force grants as well as bank funds on the next page is UAMS the first one is the bio med first floor Aerium this is for accommodating animal testing a little over ten million dollars they have federal grants as well as reserves and revenues and then the UAMS. microbiology lab it's a clinical lab open space to accommodate hoods an intake a little over four hundred thirty three thousand they have reserves to cover that and then in your supplemental agenda the one that Senator Flippo mention is you a community college hope Texarkana on the first page is a letter from the agency from the you a community college and they note that they have been working on this bid revised the bid amount of working and they were unable to make the original time frame was flat we did it as a suspension and then on the third page you'll see the actual method of finance for their H. back system replacement and this is for him state hall on the hope campus and this is the. Still and he that they use for a variety of a meetings and performing arts it is being revised to a million nine and forty four thousand seven oh seven they know that they have arpa federal grants for the majority of it as well as agency reserves those are all today's methods of finance all right members or anyone with any questions all right seen none without objection these items will stand is reviewed item D. was up alternative delivery that is been pulled by the agency still skip over that will go now to grants and we have grants on today's agenda under ET E. one or the grants from the department of health there are two of the first one is a federal grant to increase the capacity and improve walkability in communities across date they're going to train fellows to enhance their skills and knowledge around creating safe and accessible communities for all I also. Health staff will be trained to manage the Arkansas walking college in future years of the second one also a federal grant for statewide prevention control and treatment of sexually transmitted infections so those are the two grant St health department on the next set you too are DHS grants numbers one through four these are all going to be the same they're all federal grants for supporting the peers achieving collaborative treatment project which provides vital peer recovery support services there cross agency collaboration with law enforcement prisons drug court reentry programs housing situations an emergency reckons numbers five and six of the same there to assist in increasing the availability of quality early care and education and communities with and identified shortage are no services for infants toddlers toddlers and school age children and then on page four is a grant for the division of workforce services with children's advocacy centers of Arkansas again another federally funded grants for providing funding for the children's advocate advocacy centers of Arkansas to serve child victims and their families and to expand services to unreached areas within the state those are today's grants on the agenda all right members anybody have any questions RSNO questions without objection these idols will stand as reviewed. Mr chairman the next group of items are contract on the in the aft section on the first page is the letter from us Secretary rouse of it of office of state procurement noting that none of the contracts that they are providing appear to have been procured in violation of the procurement law then on page two of this section or the construction related contract there two of them the first one south Arkansas community college for on call architectural design and then the second one you A. M. S. and this is the architectural engineering services for the bio medical building which was listed in the MOFs back number six on page three so those are the construction related contracts. All right members not see any questions and without objection these items will stand as reviewed we have one inter governmental contract on page three it is between the health department and UAMS and it is to provide medical ABSTRACTERS' to conduct rapid surveillance of mother baby pairs that are at increased risk of severe illness from covid by looking through their medical records and so that's the only inter governmental contract of the day's agenda all right members not seen any questions and without objection these idols has reviewed. F. three on page four begins the out of state contracts the first one is for the crime information center this is for of an amendment to an existing contract of four arrests disposition recovery services number to start some for the crime lab the first one is for outsourcing of a property cases reading residential and commercial burglary cases of to look at DNA and blood number three is a crime lab for D. in a sexual assault kit processing and number four is another contracted of this one again for looking at up to a thousand property cases residential commercial burglary cases number five is department of finance administration or financial ability assessment for rural hospitals number six is Department transformation shared services Building Authority this is far armed security guards at six of their facilities and Little Rock number seven education TV. This is an amendment for providing computer science technology online courses to Arkansas educators through the ideas portal maintained that ATN number eight is eighty Q. with the Loit this is a new original contract working with the governor's infrastructure and planning advisory committee is seeking support with internal and external transparency are dealing with the infrastructure investment and jobs act. Number nine on page six starts the DHS contracts the first one is far an amendment to the STM assessment system. Number ten on the next page is an amendment or one of the providers who provides direct day treatment transportation services to children in need of early intervention number eleven is an amendment for with DHS or prior authorization and rector St retrospective review far to certain Medicaid populations. Number twelve is a DHS contract this one has to do with comprehensive dental managed care program not adding any money but they're changing the performance indicators so it requires review. on the next page number thirteen is DHS contract another other non emergency transportation services contracts Number fourteen on page nine. Is a new original contract for all and gassed Commission and this is for to execute of the Davis bacon compliance monitoring program to monitor contractor and subcontractor wages throughout the duration of the CFTA grant. Number fifteen you a fait it bill this is for original contract for strategic communications publicity and dissemination support for the production release of four policy reports regarding public charter school funding and number sixteen UAMS this is contract original contract large strategic federal funding engagement plan with UAMS leadership and of this is to elevate the profile of the University on Capitol Hill so those are all of the out of state contracts all right members not seeing any questions without objection these items will stand as reviewed. On page eleven we start the in state contracts the first one is aeronautics department into regional contract for airport feasibility study number two is community correction of this one is not adding any money to the existing contract but this is or mate they're adding the solar systems to their energy savings performance contract number three is corrections with waste pro for waste disposal services from Grimes and make their sense unit. Number four crime information system for AMF system maintenance and support number five DFA racing this is of attorneys for their legal services number six C. DFA revenue services for shredding services number seven Department transformation shared services building authority this is an original contract for janitorial services to the Arkansas Agra building. number eight is health department and this is an amendment to an existing contract for lab information management system. number nine begins contract for DHS number nine is the amendment to the existing contract that they have with Tankersley speeds for storage use distribution services number ten DHS are pursue provides independent living program for youth ages eighteen to twenty one elect to participate in extended foster care number eleven on page fourteen is out patient in our residential substance abuse treatment services or DCFS client number twelve is a DD services foster homes for DCFS clients number thirteen is for an original contract for a position to serve as medical director at the Conway human development center number fourteen is an original contract and this is for the speech therapy services contract for the southeast Human development center. Number fifteen DHS this is a a contract for day treatment transportation services to children in need. Number sixteen also is one of the transportation contracts for day treatment transportation. Number seventeen is a DHS or dental services for individuals with developmental and behavioral disabilities at the Johns for a human development center and that's an original contract number eighteen on page seventeen is or non emergency transportation services number nineteen DHS's an amendment to an existence in texting contractor beneficiary relations. Number twenty is the I nonemergency transportation services contract. Number twenty one on page nineteen is an amendment to an existing contract for comprehensive dental managed care program again this is one of the contracts that no additional monies being added but like the previous contract they're updating the form it's indicators number twenty two is the H. as with how code this is amendment to the existing contract for a physical employer agent services for self directed financial management services number twenty three DHS or continuation of pharmacy consultant services. Number twenty four is the state police and this is our health plan administrative services for their health plans number twenty five is teacher retirement with Arkansas capital corporation you may remember a couple of months ago this contract was held in this committee and they have re worked this out is now for three hundred sixty thousand dollars or institutional investment services and so those are the in state contracts on today's agenda. All right Senator Rice. You're recognized for a question Sir thank you my questions on the. The H. yes the the day treatment okay transportation. Mark Wallace a. I believe it's number fifteen sixteen. All right members is our numbers contractors fifteen sixteen and. All right. And ten and ten. And welcome if you'll give us your name and position for the record and Senator you're recognized Percy. Thank you unless the weather ten developmental disability services at DHS welcome list of senator recognized procedures thank you for being here can you give the committee what you can where this is that with this one we. Wrestle with originally and the only thing I saw on here I'd like update on like committee no. Is what are the assessments of the current providers are they getting the job done are they being. finder site shin for. Noncompliance or or whatever you call it not being able. The get the job done if you're kind of thank you so much. Happy tenth so as you guys probably remember we have Two different contracts we have the same three brokers and they provide non emergency transportation and that's not what I'm here to talk about I'm here to talk about the same three brokers who have separate contracts that DDS manages to pick up clients with developmental disabilities and delays that are both children and adults and they take them to day treatment programs so before you today our. Only back at back in twenty eighteen we pulled and that was rides out of non emergency transportation I was sued and we and all that entered a settlement agreement and set up special contracts for one year. And twenty nineteen we are moving forward with doing a full line pet care meant that was going to be put out for bid in twenty twenty of course that became it rate was based on utilization utilization completely changed as you guys know in twenty twenty so you have graciously been approving one year and special contracts for for this service since that time. We are finally at a point where we have put out of procurement it is in blackout period right now so I can't discuss that but we hope to have that up in operational at the beginning of the fiscal year which is why you see that I'm here today asking for a request for yet another special from January the first until the end of June so that the full blanket procurement can be up and running on July one. we are also asking for some additional funding to get us to the end of the year so I'm sure you will see that answer you can see that in the paper work that you have so I do want to point that out that this they have taken on more work and for us this year than was anticipated so that dollar amount is also before you today as far as corrective actions and sanctions I will not speak to nonemergency transportation a statement is here if you have questions on that contract but as far as these contracts that we manage we have had to do corrective actions on southeast trans to date we sanction them back in Jan thirty thousand dollars for failure to pick up clients and it did get to the point and although their response probably is has some legitimacy that they're having a hard time finding the work force and finding new vans when they're bands get damaged or opt or not operable but still the bottom line is they want complying with the contract and the contract says you're going to pick up the stable clients and take them to their day treatment program so back in June we find them thirty thousand dollars and we have recoup that money from their billing I will say that they also just received a nother corrective action that was a cumulative report for the fall of this year so I believe it included and September Mysterons October Mr as in November Mysterons now a wheels practices and saying they've not had an opportunity to come back and the gate what we said in this letter because the time has not run out but we are asking for. Our sanctioning another about one million fifty thousand and if we succeed on this most recent sanction the total sanctioning amount will be one million eighty five thousand five hundred dollars. Today. For this year. I'm happy to answer questions. And just to follow up and I appreciate you. Given the Committee that'll committee to. I understand has been we've been through this once it is important but. From being in business I also know the challenges you've got leads that you can even replace some vehicles right now because you can't get him you've got increased labor cost if you can find drivers and also I just want to committee where that. They have challenges but they've got a contract holder holding to the contract there's need for an extension and you're saying where you can have it in place first fiscal year that includes coming back to the legislature with those contracts thank you thank you thank you Mr thank you senator rice all right Melissa I think you're good no more questions all right members. When. Unless there's any objection that these contracts will stand as review. Mr chairman we have reports up to you have to report to your packet there's report of the contracts that are previously reviewed contracts and then you have a report of executed contracts under the threshold there's one other piece of business under other business we have a disclosure of the lease agreement we receive information from Building Authority they are leasing a building with a for the criminal justice institute and are disclosing that representative Andrew Collins is our chief operating officer of that and so it requires a in a prequel from this committee as well as from the governor we've received the letter from the governor is part of the package on page nine you'll see the the letter signed off by the governor and so the lease agreement is provided and Building Authority is here to answer any questions that the committee might have. All right members loss any questions level Senator proved and then just a moment a personal privilege I do want to thank my esteem co chair representative Bragg this is last meeting and representative that has been a pleasure serving with the culture Review Committee in one thank you for your service in the state of Arkansas please. Thank you it's been a pleasure no one will experience to to serve the people and and working with you thank you thank you for. Mister Speaker I will expect of should the senator I state that for me to share this committed you know expect somebody the representative Brax stature or higher in the National Assembly thank you Sir. And with that we're adjourned.