ALC-Review

We're gonna go ahead and begin this meeting so first of all seat Mike co chair has anything he let the state or any comments represented brands good to go all right members were that we're gonna start review subcommittee meeting with that entered ordinance catchment. Thank you Mr chairman the first items on our agenda will be the methods of finance in your packet under be the first pages the letter from the DFSA of listing the methods of finance that they're sending over for today's review and then on the next page the first one you have is for the Arkansas department of correction this is a little over eighteen point six million dollars for energy partners project implementation of a conservation measures and improvements that will be for the Tucker and Max units they plan to use bond proceeds for that project a issue Jonesborough Kays hall shower valves three hundred twenty five thousand three eighty four university reserves of a issue Jonesborough miscellaneous building site demolition of lower four million dollars and a issue stadium west parking lot lighting to provide cameras and lighting in the west parking lot of also two hundred ninety seven thousand and that one all of those projects were a issue will be university reserves number five is north Arkansas college the center for robotics in manufacturing innovation eight point five million dollars and they have a variety of funding sources including restrict your reserve funding federal grants bond proceeds private donations unrestricted cash reserves for this project. Number six is UALR for the eleventh straight demolition this is a a property adjacent to the Bowen School of Law in Little Rock have forty fifty thousand dollars cash funds to fund that project UALR for Education building demolition six hundred sixty eight thousand one twenty five cash funds for that one and the last one for you A. L. are also using cash funds will be there student union I read resting project seven hundred forty one thousand then the number nine as you a division of agriculture for clean plant research greenhouse a million dollars and they know that they have agriculture agricultural sales implant reserve for the project those are the methods of finance on today's agenda. All right so let's see representative Cavenaugh to my surprise has a question. Get it care my question is going to be on number one for the department of corrections all right can because of I've or corrections appear. it before she has three questions. I don't know how to take that. Complement of course. All right there we have anybody from department of corrections. I I tell you what representive Cavenaugh I don't see anybody might be next door thank god by okay. Welcome to give us your name and position who you're with for the record represent cannot be recognized procedure question thank you Mr Lamar women on the chief finance officer for the department corrections. I'm over here to your right well it runs right over there. my question is we're asking you to an eighteen point six million dollar project that falls to be for energy savings do we have how much energy savings were getting off of these projects. I know within the last fiscal year we've saved about of seven hundred thousand. But I can get with the The the actual organization they send the same quarterly statements and I can get you what you need as far as how much would actually save on the total project okay because if it's eight it looks like this is eighteen million dollars for a year and for only savings seven hundred thousand. That the eighteens with a total project. Okay. And what what do you may have followed Mister recognized for follow up and what are you doing in this project. Yeah I'm sorry if you give us your name and position for the record yes Richard Cooper I'm assistant director over construction maintenance for department of corrections. what we're doing is lighting. Attention question lighting of water conservation we did a composting segment of this element. Of and we're also Doing a wastewater renovation okay. Mister chair if they can if you would give us the information about how much this project is has saved you and this is projected to save you if you could send that out if you can get that the staff of the week it dispersed that to members. Thank you thank you very much thank you representative Cavenaugh. All right members are there any further questions. All right see non without objections these items that is reviewed. Mr chairman the next group of items on the agenda would be discretionary grants and the first one in the seed packet these are from the department of health number one and number two are both going to be for primary care clinics that to participate in the Arkansas clinical transformation project number three is an amendment to a grant it's a hundred percent federally funded and this is for establishing school based sealant projects in primary schools where the student population in the free and reduced meal program is a minimum of fifty percent and this is in an effort to prevent oral health services to underserved or to provide oral health services to underserved children number four is conjure a grant for charitable clinics to provide a primary dental pharmacy and said or services and then numbers of five that was number four number five is an amendment to a grant for providing non clinical services for during the recovery process for individuals and those are all of the health department's grants the second of group of grants beginning on page three these are for the partner of Human Services numbers one through sixteen or all going to be for emergency food programs are commodity supplemental food programs I do want to note that number sixteen of we noticed that the counties for that or incorrect we talked with a DHS about that but that is before that the bank of north central Arkansas numbers seventeen through twenty three these are all going to be grants to assisting for increasing the availability of quality early care and education in communities with an identified shortage or no service or. Infants toddlers and school age children. And then on page eleven is the final grant this is for work for services and this is part of their temporary assistance for needy families the tan of funds one point seven million dollars of federal funding to go into the Arkansas State Bank and its to ponder and administer the Arkansas tanap emergency school food pantry project those are all the grants on today's agenda all right members are there any questions. All right C. nine without objection is not official centrifuge. The next group our our contract so beginning in the deep packet of first we have a letter from secretary Mitch rouse with the Department of transformation and shared services and also with OSP noting that none of the contract that they had a sent over for your review have been procured in violation of Arkansas up procurement law so we start with the construction related contracts of this is on page two a vitamin D. these are the contract for construction related of services the first one Arkansas tech this one is for planning and architectural services for the doc Bryan student services roofing project number two a issue Three Rivers for architectural engineering services number three community she got correction and this is four hundred eighty seven thousand to provide structural mechanical so civil engineering services required in the renovation of the White River juvenile detention center that's located invites bill number for natural resources this is for professional engineering services in the flood risk analysis number five is of for you a fable this is an on call architectural services contract number six also for you a fable is for the Anthony timberlands project comprehensive design services and numbers seven through nine of these are all for you a fable and these are some of their on call architectural services contract and number ten is with the UALR and this is for their own call architectural services contract those are the construction related contracts on the agenda today all right members are there any questions. All right C. nine and without objection these items will stands reviewed the next group of contracts Mr chairman or inter governmental contracts and they begin on page six Economic Development Commission with UAMS and this is for broadband review and monitoring services three point six million dollars number two is DHS with Jefferson County this is for programming coordination of the Jefferson County juvenile is a juvenile justice center number three DHS Pulaski County and this is for the juvenile detention center programming services number for state police for development and maintenance of move our of the mobile officer virtual environment of Arkansas System those are the I'm sorry next page number of pages eight number five workers compensation commission with the Department of transformation and shared services this is ninety minutes and operational services that are provided by the Building Authority to the workers compensation commission of their property located on Springs three those are the inter governmental contracts. All right members the current explanation contracts but Senator Rice. Thank you just for staff own number one was that the R. for funds that the reviewed previously and they're just now going through yes sorry yes thank you. Thank you Senator Rice. All right members are there any other questions all right scene and without objection is I'm just as reviewed the next group of items are out of state contracts and they begin on page nine the first one is Arkansas heritage this is far interpreted master plan for the mosaic Templars cultural center it's an amendment to that existing contract number to the department of public safety this is the implementation of next generation nine one one and GIS data validation tools and services which will roll support the operation of the state's emergency services IP network and associated next generation core services on the next page number three DFA management services and this one is for annual software maintenance and support for the Arkansas integrated Revenue Service. Number four disability determination this is a contract they have or medical consultant who deals with making disability determinations number five is the health department of this one is a contract amendment for level three and level four Arkansas trauma centers to utilize digital innovation trauma registry for risk adjusted reporting and trauma analysis. Number six health department and this is amendment to an existing contract they have for data operations. Number seven is DHS and this one is an amendment to the contract they have for laundry services for the state hospital number eight is DHS contract with the lawyer this is adding a little over twenty three point five million dollars to the existing contract and this is to continue the information technology consulting for the Department of Human Services number nine natural resources this is a new contract for clean water needs survey number ten teacher retirement this is an amendment to their contract for consulting services. Number eleven you a fait it bill this is continuing as services for tax consulting international tax consulting accounting and bookkeeping and payroll in there up in only office you a fait it bill Robert painting this is a contract for whole. Projects or in connect number fourteen you a fait it bill and this one's a contract amendment for slate information management services and number fifteen is you CA this is the original contract to provide remote transcription services for their students who are deaf and are hard of hearing those are the out of state contracts on today's agenda. All right members are there any questions any at all. Well representative Cavenaugh. You're recognized for a question thank you Mr chairman my question is on number eight for Department of Human Services okay. Mr Clark what come on down. Thank you Mister Moore quite DHS representative Cavenaugh recognized for C. thank you on this contract on number eight this was a contract that we did not review was not reviewed during two ILC and also notice that the total authorized for a two hundred twenty two million dollars but after this review is going to be up to hundred and forty five million. For a contract we didn't review and it's gone over the amount that was projected why. Well this contract this is for our primary IT support and so they do a lot of work with us in terms of help us maintain our IT systems doing programming and generating you know software for us in other words a lot of work was done on it back in twenty seventeen we first did this they won the bid there's another better that contested I don't I don't recall if they filed a formal bid protest at the very least they did they were very vocal about their disappointed having lost the bid is presented to the review committee at that time and the review committee this decline to review it at that point the governor decided to go ahead and stop it so that will make a twenty seventeen is progress since then we're closing in on the last year this contract or to put out for bid again but as this is just our normal I. T. work that supports our systems throughout the agency I'm thanks for the explanation. Do you know why it's gone over twenty million more than what was projected yes I Jeff dean is R. C. I comparing us more detail on that thank you. Representative Cavenaugh the chairs and give you broad latitude for follow up. Thank you. Thank you under this yourself and give us your name and Jeff Teague DHS CIO correct representative recognized proceed. So so to your question on the the cost so the original submission to the portal. The total seven year of all the extensions Millions of the original contract that we were replacing with this R. and B. was. And so I guess it would the total projected cost it that was very on in the process we're we're years. And if I can add to that if I'm reading correctly and as as to the total projected costs which I believe goes back to the earlier time is still a hundred sixty nine million and will still be shorter that on what's authorized. Okay that's not the numbers we got better on the report that. Okay thank you the if I'm reading it wrong but. No represent tell it go ahead and process of those okay so the authorized chose to be one hundred twenty two million dollars on our report and it shows after this review be a hundred and forty five million I. Yes Markkula Charlie before you do. Kattegat. Yes. Right wife thank you Kathy so if you go to the next out the next line down. Total projected total reject the hundred six nine million and. Because I can remember this contract really well okay all right thank you all right thank you represent thank you gentleman thank you. All right members are there any further questions. All right seen done without objection these items that is reviewed. The next group our our in state contracts and they begin on page fifteen the first one is correction department and this is amendment to the existing contract they have to continue crop hauling services for their Tucker unit number two three seven these are all going to be for DFA child support enforcement and they are all for process servers that takes you over to page sixteen DFA management services with Mangum Holcomb partners and this is for comprehensive advertising marketing and public relations services number nine is education school for the deaf this is for audiology services number ten is DHS so this is you services and this is their mail services for this a billion student training program number eleven is parks and tourism of this is adding one point six million dollars to a contract they have with Cranford Johnson Robinson woods for advertising and promotion they receive some additional grant funds that they are rolling into this contract for that up project number twelve is state police with delta dental and this is for administration of their dental and vision insurance for the uniformed health plan and number thirteen you a community college at Batesville this is a contract amendment using their higher education relief fund of funds and it is to obtain professional healthcare workers To work in their clinic and what they are wanting to do is to increase the percentage of payment each year because they're of a hard time getting of workers from two percent to three percent of the getting September the first and so those are all the in state contracts on today's agenda. All right members are there any questions. Senator Irvin you're recognized for a question question number eleven okay well at what age he was at center parcs on terrorism okay he's one of our stores and. When introduce yourselves and gives your positions for the record and be recognized for C.. Travis number director tourism under parks here just. Not where it should pop if you want to turn the microphone to your left is still on he said that button right there published and feedback there you go. I don't know you use a middle one just turn that one off and got. You're good thing or not this was one we can actually do not my name I'm chief of legislative affairs for parks heritage and tourism this is can these mice of stump the best of us. Thank you senator you're recognized process just two quick questions one is and when it says eighty nine percent of this is funded by the trust could you describe what what trust is that. Cases on yeah that is our two percent trust fund which is collected two percent on primarily lodging but it also applies to marinas and the attractions and a couple other small things. Okay and then this contract at the started in twenty nineteen is it on a schedule to we keep extending it but is there ever the opportunity to put this back out for bid or and could you just describe where we are with with his it's a large contract which sure they do great work but. Correct it comes under evaluation every year and I think they have room for. One or two more extensions and then it'll go for the full bid process again a process. All right thank you thank you thank you senator. All right members are there any questions all right C. nine without objection these animals has reviewed. Mr chairman the next items on our agenda are reports we have two reports today the first one easy one is contracts that are been previously reviewed by this committee and there's no material change in the contract of there being revised and then starting on page for each two of these are contracts under the threshold of for review and so we have a group of those there's no review of these items they are just presented to the committee. For your information. All right members and so are there any questions on this these are not subject to review just reporting all right C. nine we will continue Mr chairman we have two more items under other business the first one G. one this is a disclosure from Department of transformation and shared services on the first page you have a letter from secretary rouse noting that there is a contract with a member of the General Assembly and they are required to make that known to this legislative body and of for review by the Legislative Council so this is a contract for advertising services submitted by the Arkansas insurance department and it has to do with the Arkansas senior health insurance information program and a contract with Hammer advertising and also note that own pages of the next two pages are the details of the contract it's a six month contract with of senator Hammer so that is a disclosure of that contract for this committee. All right got representative gene is in the queue for a question and do you have anybody from the insurance department here please come up. three with Arkansas insurance department general counsel I'm Carol asked and I'm the director of the Arkansas ship program okay thank you gentlemen. The gene you're recognized procedure question Sir well my question is actually to senator Hammer. Digital contact centre Hammer even public you. Or going on the table that might be a better idea. All right center. Kim Hammer state senator all right representative you're recognized pretty much chairman senator how are you doing today I'm doing good thank you. as you know. The the old always been under on family members and contract like this is just questions that I thought I think I need to ask you that if you write out public is this the only contract you have with the state yes and like you for the thanks for the question and may expand on the US service center you're recognized expound upon that thank you and and representative Jane thank you for the question I just want to give the committee members will background as far as how I got where I am today city before you a first of all when I was asked about the particular item that offering just for full transparency the item that all for under my advertising umbrella is that I'm going to grocery stores and when you're in the checkout line and you want to separate your groceries from the person in front of you you grab that will divide our state what I do is a place that divider sticking grocery stores and then I sell the advertising on the divider stake it's kind of a unique item not totally a hundred percent unique but it is unique and so opportunity was presented the first thing I did I went talk to Steve cook counsel for the Senate because as you know we have Senate rule twenty four regarding ethics went spoke to Steve cook got guidance from him to make sure the first thing I would do is not violate any ethics from rule twenty four that we have on the Senate in the next thing I did was I had a meeting also that involve Graham Sloan because I want to be above reproach I want to be transparent want to be out in the open but I am free market or take advantage of an opportunity if it's presented to me and so I talked to Graham Sloan to make sure that there was nothing that I was doing is inappropriate the third thing that I did and this was all in the process I consulted within a legal counsel generator with the agency to make sure that I was within compliance and make sure that I was walking the line that I'm supposed to be walking as a public servant but I do have that sideline business and then Arkansas. What to do with boots ran who's now of the council I thank the took Jim's place and had a meeting with the director in with the agency and what I said to him is I do not want to be in trouble and I want you to make sure that I do not do anything that is going to pull me blind below the line of full of reproach because I want to be above reproach because and I understand what you're saying I don't I don't want to fall in a category that brings any shame or dishonor upon this fine institution and so I appreciate the question to be able to answer okay and this is the only state contract that you have so it's a contract about thank you Sir appreciate your entered your openness thank you for the question thank you representative Jane thank you Senator Hammer for your for your operation I'm asking there any other members that have any questions. Any comments. All right share the Senator Hammer you're recognized for this remarks yes because I wanna make sure everything's on the table this is and perhaps they would be the ones that would be more appropriate to answer it but I wanna make sure I'm way out there yes Sir answering questions this is not a contract to control in value this is a very limited contracted is a closed end contractor doesn't go belong to be on the terms that is stated in the paperwork and it is very narrowly tailored to make sure there's no possibility to expanded under this contract all that on the open appreciate you bringing that up Senator it is my understanding that if there any material changes contract it would have to come back before this committee before could before so yes Sir forty seven dollars for the period of six months correct anything about me on top come back before this committee yeah okay that's my understand is well right center thank you for your time thing for the clarification thank you thank you gentlemen all right members see no further questions. We are journey okay let's get to me no no we're not no no. Jumping the gun. Mr chairman we have one other item of this is why have you got the. This is in April A. L. C. added to the responsibilities for this committee and change the rules and ask this committee to conduct a state law with the office of state procurement about regarding development of a state wide contractor Savy and so we had Mitch rouse here today is the Secretary of transformation and shared services to visit with us about that project thank you Kathy Mr out of you will come on up. Representative Wardlaw J. to be recognized before Mr also the chance to okay. Mr rouse your introduce yourself is the agency or whether your position to be recognized for C.. A mentor else secretary of department of transmission shared services and director of the office of state procurement this should be short there was an interim study proposed We are comfortable with not moving forward with that interim study if this body so chooses all right all right I think we're going to be good holding off until the next General Assembly to move forward with the proposed changes so Mr rouse with that I appreciate that members are there any questions or comments. All right C. nuns Ross thank you very much. And with that Kathy make sure I'm not looking. We are officially adjourned.