ALC-Review

All right with that Kathy I think we're ready to start thank you Mr chairman we're going to start today with methods of financing that the packet of your agenda on the first page of the letter from accounting of the methods of financing their standing over today for legislative review and on the next page the first one is a issue Jonesborough for the F. and B. arena eighty eight U. replacement this is the air handler unit replacement eight hundred thirty thousand nine hundred fifty three dollars and they know they had university reserves to pay for that next a issue Jonesborough for the student union controls up grade of upgrade of their H. back control system in the state unit three hundred ninety nine thousand seven eighty one again those or university reserves two more for a issue Jonesborough the first when the C. O. B. BA you replacement this is the ventilation air unit in the college of business building five hundred twenty nine thousand one fifty and finally a issue Jonesborough for A. B. I. first floor exhaust upgrades in the Arkansas bioscience institute building eight hundred ninety three thousand sixty two dollars again a issued notes that they have you know the RC reserves for all of those projects number five and six are both for essay you tech the first one is for architectural study of that pro baseball field this is to design and study of building a baseball field to be constructed at the essay you tech campus of regionally they had asked for a ten thousand dollars to explore this and now they're coming back with a revised request of three hundred thousand dollars they know they have auxiliary fees private donations and plant funds to cover it. There other project is this U. maker Barrick's restoration environmental assessment window repairs and other rehab work on that building two million ninety six thousand two seventy five and for this they've received a grant from the Arkansas natural cultural resources. Next is U. a CCM for H. back replacement renovation project this is nine hundred eighty five thousand dollars the college of has college operating reserve funds as well as federal funds from Parker for this project on the next page you a division agriculture for greenhouses to construct two new greenhouses nine hundred eighty five thousand dollars and they have agricultural sales and plant reserves for that number nine U. a fateful for the Mullins library renovations of first and second floors thirty five million dollars and they had university reserves as well as a little bit gifts to cover that we're also going to see the alternative delivery construction project for this contract as well as the architect later on on the agenda and then finally we have United in mass or the northwest Arkansas main building a fifth and sixth floors for general re fresh of those floors which those are leased by the Arkansas state veterans home that will be four hundred forty three thousand seven hundred eighty four and they know that there are university reserves as well as revenues to cover that project cost those are the methods of finance on today's agenda all right members you've heard an explanation of these MOFs are there any questions all right seen done without objection these out of the that is reviewed the next item Mr chairman is the alternative delivery construction project these are for over five million dollars and there's the one project from you about a system for the Mullins library renovation of the first and second floors and they give detail about what they plan on doing removing asbestos upgrading aging building systems they have selected con real is the contractor they received nine of proposals and they interviewed five contractors of. A design professional which will also see a contract for later own is with Kennedy and they estimate they're going to complete this by January of twenty twenty five to the total project is thirty five million five hundred thousand dollars and they know that they have university funds to be reimbursed by bond proceeds as well one percent gives in three percent university cast funds and that's the only alternative delivery on today's agenda. All right members you for an explanation see no questions and without objections these items will stand is review the next group of items are discretionary grants in the first one R. for the department of health numbers one through thirteen these are all going to be for the same thing they're all going to be original new grants to support the smooth transition of dealing with stroke patients in the hospital setting back home an ambulance services and as I said that's number one through thirteen that takes over to grant number fourteen on page five this one is an amendment to the grant that they have with the Arkansas cancer coalition it's a hundred sit there only funded and it's to help support the technical assistance to reduce the burden of cancer by implementing the Arkansas cancer plan of the next one is the Northeast Arkansas regional aids network a hundred percent federal grant and this one is to maintain resources for direct housing subsidy and appropriate supportive services to provide a collective process for linking eligible clients to appropriate HIV case management care retention and advocacy as well as wraparound services on the next page grants number sixteen through thirty one these are all going to be with medical clinics in these are to assist terrible clinics in providing basic primary care dental pharmacy optometry and behavioral health services for free or at low cost to persons unable to pay for medical care and just strength in the healthcare systems and services at the local level that takes this route to grant number thirty two that grant is on page eleven. It's an amendment to an existing grant adding two hundred twenty nine thousand five sixty four to that grant with a FMC to provide substance use disorder awareness and education implement tools and processes of designated to address an issue D. obtain resources treatment it cetera that next one DHS with I mean health department with the Arkansas state chamber of commerce foundation said amendment to an existing grant adding a hundred six thousand eighty seven dollars to conduct a statewide digital outreach and awareness campaign targeting employers and employees and create a short video on each element of the campaign editorial and feature coverage about the campaign and finally for the health department with the women's council of amendment one adding a hundred forty four thousand three fifty eight or in compensation to continue to improve barriers to reduce access to prescription drugs in targeted communities the next group of grants are from the Department of Human Services starting due to page thirteen grants numbers one through eight are all going to be amendments with of triple A.'s and these are to help improve the quality of life for adults with disabilities Texas down to number nine on page sixteen numbers nine and ten or amendments to existing grants for the early head start community hub assistance numbers eleven and twelve or a great amendments are emergency food assistance programs number thirteen. Of is far an amendment for commodity supplemental food program again these are federal funded grants number fourteen is for us statewide Alzheimer's and dementia caregiver's respite care program number fifteen and sixteen R. or supportive services for children and children and families and those are all the grants for DHS. The next group of grants R. four U. eight P. B. and this is for the sub recipient grant office this these are grants that are funded by master settled but back money and there are eleven grants total and they for or for a variety of programs to improve the quality of life our cases through educational programs tobacco free programs cessation programs X. and they of. Have the detail about what they are for in the amount on each one of these grants and again I said there are eleven of those. Through you a P. B. and then D. for is the Arkansas historic preservation program they're gonna be ten grants on this page these are funded through the real estate transfer tax and a little over four hundred ten thousand seven hundred fourteen dollars you'll see the organization name the project of the amount that they are funding and the location and finally D. five or beginning on page twenty six the division of workforce services has three grants the first one with the Arkansas State Bank hundred percent federally funded in this is far ten of state statewide COVID relieve emergency summer food box initiative a network of six speeding America but but the banks and faith based partners to provide families with children boxes of food primarily during the summer when schools are not in session of the second one is with United Way of Fort Smith and this is to extend the restore hope one hundred families initiative and white Lasky counties it works with local partners to serve ex offenders and their families for providing support services dropped training case management and job placement services and then the third one is with the Arkansas line to boys and girls clubs of this within hundred percent federally funded is for you development services in Arkansas for a variety of programs that support you in achieving positive outcomes in their three priority areas of academic success good character and citizenship and healthy lifestyles those are the grants on today's agenda all rights Senator Rice see recognized for a question if you can tell us what's program that was for DHS aging adult and behavioral health services. You'll give us your names and positions for the record thank Mister mark white chief staff DHS J. hill director of raging don't ever tell local gentleman's Senator Rice you're recognized procedure question thank you thank you gentlemen and now. J. A. Clark got one question answered for me would run out of time for committee started up just touch on briefly we're talking about two hundred million four eight entities and. Your knowledge they do great work The simple. State this is improve the quality of life for adults with disabilities how often. is valuation of spending is it like the other contracts that you see that goes a certain number of years and renewed or any other thing is spending able to be. Flaxton massaged or is it like one size fit all across the state if you I don't get into a long day on I get with you later I thought it might be helpful for the committee because things were just changing I mean I may be our aging population than anything but gross but are you know how how do you handle that for oversight sure if I can add some additional information and then direct real can mass past misinformation to add to that so we do look at this on a regular basis a good portion of this funding and and we have the motivation behind it is it's federal funding for the old Americans Act that comes to us from the feds in several different buckets from the fence for different programs every week every five years we do a state plan that goes the fast outlines how we're planning to use the money over the next five years and what to look that every so often in the triple A.'s they report back to us on how they use that money we're looking for that to see what what they're achieving missiles how it compares back to the overall state plan in addition to that each triple a has to develop and submit to us their own individual plan for how those how they'll use that funding there is some flexibility for how these split that money up and how they spend that money the overall distribution is government funding formula and so what we could change that funding formula if we went back and changed that rule and also got permission from the fence that's what governs how much distributed to each part of the state as a former based on populations of of senior citizens and low income senior citizens and all also minority senior citizens. But even though which is basically a five year deal it's look at annually yes the okay you know that if I might you senator for instance in the past two years there been opportunities where the senior centers that operate within the catchment areas of the triple A.'s have been closed they've not been able to do congregate meals and so what we have we do have the abilities and have been able to shift funding from France's congregate bills to home delivered meals so there is a great deal of flexibility within that to use the funding to best service centers in those areas well I appreciate you bringing that up because that is one of the changes we're in right now is the fact that they have to be flexible in some things in there some of them even through co we did some things like outdoor parking lot activities I was told but we have the meals being delivered. At the gas cost and some of them are owned vehicles it's on the end of the rope in the home and wrote quite a while and then we're dealing with the the wage inflation so that's what I was kind of getting in on the flexibility and the need to look at it continually because we change a lot within the last year and I'm hoping that to continue to be looked at yes Sir Mr explanation thank you Mr thank you Senator all right Senator Mark Johnson you're recognized for a question Sir. Thank you Mr chairman and I I want to say to the people I want to single out I'm not picking on you this is kind of collected for this whole group of grants are so grants I see all these the. The back cessation grants and their own around seventy five thousand dollars and I I read the actual narrative of what's gonna be done with them and here's one that proposes media projects on billboards radio ads and social media with such communications is a are you the don't campaigns too young to dis kids music therapy. Album let's E. A. T. engage and each podcast with prevention messages to demoralize and the glamorize tobacco use and vaping devices and it goes on and then here's another one it says the this will be done during code community and faith based education prevention interventions voluntary smoke free policy enactment. Whatever that is and legislative advocacy to increase awareness and educate state lawmakers on the negative impact that tobacco use and addiction has all minority constituents and use of. I've actually heard something about tobacco being bad for you my mother died of lung cancer so I'm personal experience with it mark I'm not picking on you served at the my question is better directed for you eighty B. what else I'm not picking on the specific agency I just want to know do we cross the line it's when we're talking about legislative advocacy with this type of money Mr chairman okay I think that somebody from you if you might be best equipped to address questions Senator thank you Mr. Good afternoon welcome to give us your name your position for the record that Senator you're recognized proceed. If you miss Johnson if you hit your the microphone there's a button right there in front of you. Hello can you hear me now yes management good R. Ruthie Johnson I am projects specialist with the minority initiative so recipient grad office on the campus of U. APP. Senator Johnson you're recognized procedure questions yes ma'am and again I I'm not the only these particular agencies but of. You know we Bartlett Mossos already heard the tobacco is bad for you and and this there's you know seventy five thousand years seventy five thousand there some of these going in my district I'm just curious. Are we really making good use of these funds especially when you talk about legislative advocacy which is basically lobbying the General Assembly unless there's something I'm missing on that can you explain that I can wear when we're talking about advocacy we're really talking about educating our legislators we are taught and we teach us of grantees that lobbying is a no no so they are directed not to do that and they know not to do that you know the definition of it and that's not just not a part of of what I said grantees do they educate as best they can they get into their communities they work with their churches as far as we've been dealing with told me for the past two and a half years so a lot of the work has been done B. as some meetings to try to get to individuals that we will need to touch so we do the best that we can with the dollars that we get it may seem like it's a lot of money but when you have to have someone to implement the program then you have to have monies to make sure that you have equipment to do those things that you need to do sometimes you need of promotional items in order to get to people a lot of people identify with those things that they can get but even with those items we make sure that there is a smoking prevention message related that we label that and we do the best that we can to get the word out about the dangers of smoking and vaping and all of those things I hope that answers your question yes ma'am when you say items I assume you mean like T. shirts and pins and things that promotional advertising type is that what you mean well small things T. shirts we don't allow that but like peons maybe stress balls. You know things the little things not anything big or are up that's you know that that's that know that something with the slogan on it something that the slogan on something that they can take away and remember the organization I remember that smoking is bad for them okay thank you Mister Johnson thank you Mr thank you senator thank you Mister Johnson you're excused all right members say no further questions without gestiones these items will stand as reviewed. Mr chairman the next group of items on our agenda will be the contract under section each of your agenda the first pages the letter from Mr Mitch rouse of the office of state procurement and the notes that none of the contracts that they submitted appear to have been procured in violation of Arkansas procurement law the first group of contracts that we look at our construction related contracts beginning E. one on page two the first one is career ad we have services and this is their own call architectural content contract of the second one education department this is a contract for architectural services for the new school for the blind school for the deaf Health Services building numbers three and four are for eighty Q. and these are on call engineering contract number five is military department this is for maintenance of properties that the military departments responsible for number six through eleven these are all the envelope call contracts that the military department has put in place to have available to them number twelve as you a faithful this is the Mullins library project that we talked about we saw the alternative delivery contract earlier in the method of finance number thirteen UAMS and fourteen or both on call contracts for you a M. S. providing additional funds to those contracts contracts number fifteen through thirty four these are offer you CA and these are all on call architectural land surveying engineering services those types of contract again for you CA and that is all of the con a construction related contracts. All right members say no question some of the objections these items will stand as reviewed the next group of contractor in a governmental contracts contracts that are procured using the intergovernmental procurement of the first one is education career and rehab services and the first one is up for education for teachers in medical profession and one specializing in business focused on logistics provider credit classes and pre emptive pre employment transition services to students with disabilities looking at primary instructors for certified nursing assisting in France for Tatian and distribution the second one career read rehab services for career counseling services the third one also career it re have of for ongoing program evaluation and research support activities number four is the corrections department with UAMS and this is for providing risk assessments of juvenile sex offenders and providing written report and recommendations to the juvenile courts whether the offender should register and if so the level of community notification warranted number five education department and this is for a contract amendment for assessments to students in grades three through high school provide training modules and manuals number six start the contract for the health department the person with UAMS this is part of a you a message system professor to work as deputy science officer for the department of health number seven on page fourteen is far developing a community health worker infrastructure in Arkansas number eight the health department with you a in this this is for substance misuse in injury and prevention grants management of the prescription drug monitoring program making available a dock. After to work as the medical director of that the a number nine is far the contract amendment for the senior physician specialists to continue to service the office of preparedness and emergency response systems medical director number ten health department with you a in this this is for medical director for the all for the department of health for the office of health information technology in this state health alliance for record exchange. A number eleven also with UAMS is far deputy director of science to continue to promote professional is professional development and to further scientific analysis and investigations of various sources of data statewide and the health department with UAMS to identify health policy solutions establishing the statewide healthy active Arkansas plan that will benefit all our cans and statewide that is a new contract for that number thirteen starts of contracts for DHS the first with you a message for protective services for adult female victims of domestic abuse and their children. Number fourteen is a new contract for emergency medical or surgical services for Arkansas state hospital patients number fifteen a new contractor clinical education services also for the Arkansas State Hospital number sixteen as an amendment to an existing contract for continuing early childhood technical assistance services number seventeen on page twenty is for a new contract with the Arkansas partnership for public child welfare also through that was the U. a fait it bill the next one eighteen is with you A. L. R. it's for parenting education services number nineteen DHS with you A. L. R. or a positive parenting program of for approved parent program. I'll call the triple P.. Number twenty is a new original contract DHS with you A. L. R. or staff education and training for DCFS staff foster parents and students preparing for employment with DCFS and quality assistance in public child welfare number twenty one DHS contract amendment with UAMS for continued family treatment service incest offers Sir treatment and non officer caretaker treatment services DHS with UAMS or design and evaluation of family first services and prevention act services. Number twenty three is a new contract DHS with UAMS for continued sexual rehabilitative program diagnosis diagnosis assessment and outpatient therapy and that's where the C. F. S. client statewide number twenty four DHS with you a message for continuation of child abuse neglect training services for helping professionals number twenty five DHS to provide supplemental nutrition assistance program number twenty six a new contract for autism waiver program number twenty seven DHS with UAMS for a new contract to continue services for diagnosis and treatment. Development rehabilitation nurse practitioners and infection infection control quality control for individuals at the various human development centers number twenty eight is the new contract for assessment of children with special healthcare needs number twenty nine is a new contract with the Department hell with the F. from DHS for health information exchange of PC M. H. program DHS the new contract for the Medicaid evidence based review project number thirty one DHS with UAMS for financial reporting and analysis for Medicaid programs waivers and grants number thirty two and we're on page twenty five this is DHS with UAMS this is a new contract for angel program and savings programs number thirty three is DHS with you a message or position program development. Number thirty four new contract with UAMS for performing health related data analysis number thirty five this is a new contract between DHS and UAMS for behavioral health in psychiatric consultation services number thirty six is an amendment to the existing contract that they have for programming and coordination with the Jefferson county juvenile justice center number thirty seven DHS with UAMS for a new contract for coordination and outpatient sex offender assessment treatment and case management for referred DYS juveniles number thirty eight is the tobacco settlement commission with you CA and this is to do the evaluation of the seven programs of the services funded by the tobacco settlement commission through tobacco proceeds Act of two thousand. In. Of the next one re referred rehab services. Was that all yeah that's it that's it okay I have a page two stuck here. You're fine you're fine it's five nine well that was all of the. Your government contracts Kathy we're giving you more grace than anybody else I can assure you that all right so do not see anybody in the queue. I'm just checking you represent cannot make sure paying attention all right reserved cap all you're recognized for a question thank you Mr chair actually have two questions the first one is for DHS division of child and family services and the second is DHS medical services. All right mark whiting crew. We. Okay. I thank Mr Clark Y. dot DHS. Mr Martin Division of Children and Family Services director DHS. Christian Harper assistant director Division of Children and Family Services welcome representative Cavenaugh recommend. my question is going to be on page twenty item number seventeen it is it just it's a new contract that we kinda understand what it's for it says establish a new contract for management of the Arkansas partnership for public child where failed so what is that and what does it do sure can what partially explained just because I'm mostly because the supplies to several these in the package today for normal procurements typically they can only go a maximum of seven years in theory that limit doesn't apply to enter government contracts are practices be and always do a new contract in the seven years for inter governmental as well so that's that's what this is here it's an ongoing program this is been seven years since the last contract we're starting over the new contract okay. What does it do shore and so the partnership is actually been in existence since nineteen ninety one and has grown to now be a consortium of nine universities and colleges throughout the state and they largely focused on providing fuel training to our new family service workers as well as our new supervisors that feel training also referred to as on the job training and last for the first year of employment for family service workers in a brand new supervisors so really what it's doing is trying to transfer the knowledge they're gaining in their classroom training into the field so it's one on one training designed to meet the needs of a particular FS W. or supervisor in addition to that the partnership works on and using child welfare and ideas into the curriculum at the colleges and universities that are members of the partnership it also is a way for us to recruit and interns to have placements in our county offices and that includes a stipend for the students and the amount of five thousand dollars that's a high level overview of this contract okay if you don't mind if you can get me some information I would appreciate the information I would like to know is how much we're actually spending. And I would say the last five years on these types of programs for this training the other thing I would like to know is how many employees have been trained that way. And how many of the five thousand stop and has been given out. And please list all of the colleges that are involved in this and how much each one of them get. And then if you could also if you don't mind one thing you said kind of stuck in my mind is that you tried to influence maybe what the curriculum is being caught at the colleges so that that kind of reflect more what's really going out. In the I guess the counties in the operations can you in this report just give us some kind of example of what you mean by that so we can kind of understand what the because I could be a lot of different things would come like to understand what what that enters yes ma'am okay consent that the staff and they can get that out to all members of the committee that would be great thank you and then I can get back in the queue for my second question that's all I had for the okay thank representative. All right Senator Rice you're recognized for a question Sir mines for the tobacco settlement commission okay well let me just restrict their friend represent cattle what's your question for for DHS as well okay we'll just start which is keeping the table I'm sorry guys and just. Yeah. Medical services. I know that rotating chairs Erickson from are quite easy on my present. All right sick of me. We don't get sick of him high and Elizabeth had been with the Division of Medical Services Walker Mr representative Cavenaugh you're recognized procedure second a final question. Thank you for months my apologies. this is going to be dealing with Page twenty five number thirty two and it's the initial agreement to continue some educational and learning about strokes virtual emergency support can you just try to explain what this contract actually does for us sure would you like me now two thousand so this is one of those contracts that mark just talked about this isn't really a new contract but it's starting at seven year cycle again this is the angels program with UAMS and it is providing senpai technical at telemedicine services in upstate tricks strokes for people in rural areas so they're able to use that telemedicine I mean it's been an effective program that's been in place for for quite some time now. Okay and happy to get more with more information than that am I reading that right it's thirty seven million dollars a year yes okay what I would like to know for this contract is if you can give me the number of facilities participate in this program also the number of patients they've been able to assist in this program. The number of facilities in the number of patients yes and on our each individual facility actually paid a certain amount is that is that what is also you. You know so that we fund UAMS to to do this program with other providers across the state okay can there's a way to get the of the thirty seven million contract how much went to each provider throughout the state is that something that we can get from UAMS. We're not sure available check and see okay if you could I'd appreciate if you get that to the staff and they can give it out to us. Thank you thank you representive. And mark I'd run with the getting is good. Thank you Mr. Senator Rapert you're recognized for a question yes tobacco settlement commission okay. Our good friend Matt Gilmour come on down that. Back in one of our health. Senator is recognized for C.. Thank you just be consistent and. Legislative concerns regarding tobacco settlement funds this hundred seventy five thousand evaluate seven programs how often does that come up. As far as the contractor the evaluation the evaluation so they do quarterly reports that we provide to the public health committee on one quarterly basis and then we also do an annual report by the public health committee and also a body or report it does it have value way to spending of the money it does it looks at how they spend it and also looks at you know indicators that show you know there's different priorities in the tobacco settlement act regarding seniors regarding Medicaid regarding regarding the smoking tobacco usage regarding the of different populations in Medicaid so it looks those different populations and and there's indicator seven ACT and it follows indicators okay and and although it it does a lot more than just by the way how the dollars spent how many dollars overall spent is this hundred seventy five thousand. We'll be looking at. So the annual tobacco settlement payment is around fifty million eight years so this under twenty five is look at that per year. I brought this up in the committee and I talked ready even like me have some creative ideas I'll just say this because I had a friend that that recently had surgery or going and doing real well I came but for the first time I don't know how on several I have been a few years I saw a commercial the show the people that. The the truck. And one to talk about your you can't go much higher thank you JB phase in another one that you got to put your finger. To me that resonates and while that may not be this well I hope that can be incorporated there's got to be a little shock. In this specially for young people to understand there is a cost to play it's come and it's not a whether it's going to it's coming. The hi I'd like to see that corporation Arkansas thank yous the spending and the results the overall buying is is when you get their attention not just say don't smoke it's bad for you because at some time as a so would you you don't hear. So. Worsened thank you Mr for the day. Thank you senator Matt let's see one respond your be welcome to leave I'm good I appreciate centers comments we will we will organise things we talked about you're every bit as smart as you look Mr Gilmour. Thank you all right members C. saying no further questions without objections these items will standards review. Mr chairman the next group of contracts of the out of state contracts that begin on page twenty eight of the each packet the first one is state wide shared services with computer rate incorporated out of the office of state procurement is responsible for system administration and support of the New Arkansas by our by each requirement system which is far contract staff augmentation during the start up and initial production support period so this is the contract for that second was a issue Jonesborough with laundry services and equipment for university housing at a issue Jonesborough the third one was Black River technical college and this is for custodial services number four is the career and rehab services this is a contract for providing necessary maintenance and support our rehab services but we have case management platform number five is the department of corrections this is their big contract for medical services with wealth Act this is an amendment to add to that existing contract number six department of corrections JFA associate Mrs are preparing an annual report regarding compliance with the departures from the standards including assistance in maintaining the database revising copies of the sentencing order and analyzing data for the select to distill district number seventy eight J. DFA management services with computer raised this is for IT staff augmentation FOR IT development and problem resolution DFA revenue services for the driver's license credentials and ID cards program number nine on page thirty two is our economic development commission side improvement evaluations and so. I economic impact analysis number TN Sturch son contract for the education department the first one is for the new statewide education assessment system number eleven is education or child nutrition reviews number twelve there is education with college entrance exam board this is far school testing for a. Adding the tenth grade to that school testing program number thirteen education or assessment testing and this is for K. through to public three through a public and three through eight non public private parochial school. number fourteen is the health department and this one is a contract for assisting in migrating data from centers for disease control and prevention national like electronic disease surveillance system that a system database to conduit any number fifteen health department or continuation of services maintenance and technical support of the Arkansas state health alliance and records exchange share number sixteen is DS is the health department's contractor career services number seventeen is the health department for providing data management reporting services with the share it of state health alliance for records exchange program. Number eighteen starts contract for DHS that first one with the lawyer for providing support for Amazon web services number nineteen a contract amendment for continuing temporary employment services or finance and accounting number twenty is far John technology services for adult protective services advance reporting. Number twenty one is a contract for patients food and nutrition services or the Arkansas State Hospital twenty two is far telephone answering services number twenty three on page thirty eight is our psychological evaluations number twenty four also is a contract or psychological evaluations number five is for qualified residential treatment program number twenty six is for therapeutic foster care service and and this is adding respite to the scope of work number twenty seven is therapeutic foster care number twenty eight is a contract for structured decision making assessment system number twenty nine is for drug screening supplies and confirmation and challenge testing number thirty is for intensive in home services for DCFS clout client's number thirty one actually number thirty one through thirty five are all going to be for comprehensive residential treatment services. number thirty six is for intensive in home services number thirty seven also for intensive in home services or DCFS. Number thirty eight is a contract or temporary staffing thirty nine is a contractor Medicaid dental vision unit staffing augmentation number forty is on page forty four as a contract for staffing for Arkansas Medicaid enterprise project SharePoint administrator number forty one is for behavioral health clinician dealing with prior authorization utilization review number forty two data mining and program evaluation contract number forty three consultant agreement pass a contract number forty four preparation training and review of the cop a completion of the centers for Medicare Medicaid services reports number forty five as external quality review organization contract number forty six the this is a contract for non emergency transportation services however this is a no calendar being added to this contract but because there is a change in the revised rate sheet the contract is for review and not reporting. Number forty seven DHS's contract with right of passage this is the contract they have or residential facility management services and substance abuse treatment facility. number forty eight is the DHS contract for support of cost allocation systems and processes number forty nine national park community colleges is their cloud based customer relations management software and with the intention and support services number fifty is northwest Arkansas community college this is a contract this one is done as a special procurement so we have a letter on it in the pink packet today this is being done for study of services for six months and in order to avoid a lapse in janitorial services they are allowing that that time to complete their a competitive bid for those services so number fifty one is are you a Fort Smith this is for an amendment to the contract they have for services for operation of on site university student health clinic number fifty two is UAMS for on site mental health services. Number fifty three U. A. B. R. Aleutian enterprise system and Microsoft three sixty five environment number fifty four as Veterans Affairs and this is going to be for nursing services for their North Little Rock in fable nursing home and I will note that there's gonna be a lot of more these efforts in state all I number fifty five I'll start contractor workforce services the first one is a new contract with computer aided Court rated for I. T. managed out augmentation has to do with our winds aided B. E. eight S. W. O. T. C. a variety of different programs that they have that they work with number fifty six is work for services and this is the contract for the new hire registry and those of the out of state contracts on today's agenda all right. Representative Cavenaugh you're recognized for a question thank you Mr chair I actually have two questions the first one is for DFA Revenue Service and the second one we for education department okay we get different a revenue up here than education department on deck. Good afternoon Mr chairman Charlie Collins the commission revenue deafening. All right let your colleagues join Juventus themselves for the record. My name's mark Regev CIO thank you thank you Melanie Hey so the departments in a minute all right and Rep reserve account alternate right over here that's right reserved super question this is going to be on page thirty one item number eight this is dealing with the driver's license credential and ID card system I noticed in this it says that includes hardware and software infrastructure. My question is for the two point one million dollars in Lawrence County we don't have a driver's license machine it's been down for weeks with we've been told we don't know when it's coming in we can get a replacement so everybody and Lawrence counties having to drive to Craighead Jackson Randolph or somewhere else to renew their driver's license. If we're paying someone to point one million dollars to do all software and hardware how can we can't get a driver's license machine one is broke. So representative thank you very much for sharing that with me I will look into this the first time here and that this has had this much of a problem with the machine Lawrence County so I'll definitely find out what the specifics are there I I just don't know the answer to it but we ought to be able to get things are placed on a reasonable time cycle there is a generic trouble with supply chains I don't know if that has anything to do with this or not but I will definitely check into it and let you know yes you would it just seems that we should have some back ups I know in our business we keep a backup in case something goes down we've got one that we can replace but if we could check on that that was that was a big concern for my people because they're having to drive somewhere else to be able to get a driver's license yes ma'am I appreciate that thank you. All right thank you guys and then somebody from education department I believe. Subdirector preserve capital yes Sir okay. Thank you Greg Rogers farm education. Thank you it's gonna be page number thirty two at number ten this is for the statewide education assessment system it looks like its proximity about eighteen million dollars a year for the system. And my question is what's the difference between this assessment plus the other assessments that we pay like item number thirteen the curriculum associates where they actually help with the assessments. And I think last month I ask god provided the for how much we're actually spending on assessments and we all came up with the number which was different from what B. L. R. was able to provide me your number was lower than what bill ours number was and so I guess what I'm really want to know is what is the total amount of money that we're spending on assessments. Whether you're paying it to a consultant or you're paying seventeen million dollars a year for this system. How much are we paying for assessments and how many students are we actually assessing. And if you could just explain the difference between the two types. Before serving gauge the other two to introduce themselves for the record real quickly. Sherri bear program manager of assessment. Abortion as a program director okay now you're recognized to answer RepresentativeHouse question. Sure so the difference is that the contract that you have first reference is a seven year contract section about ten million dollars a year and over the ads to ten million over the seven year seventy one million over the seven years he's made that assessment is specifically for grades three through ten it provides classroom assessments interim assessments and required state submitted assessments which is a federal requirement we have to provide the state assessments of that ten million every year approximately five million is federal dollars and the rest of state dollars we spent on that particular Cessna the other specimens you reference are the case to assessments those are given to students in grades K. through to every year as required by state law that's approximately sure is it two million per year. Yes. Referred to former. On that one. Thank. This one actually says it's K. twelve minutes three through eight so it's more than just cater to arrest me I was referencing the wrong at the wrong but I mean the SO are they the same type of assessments just provided by different sources yes so there are different types of assessments that we provide and the one that you're speaking to that's the case and twelve that's going to provide services to students in grades K. three those are interim assessments of their given throughout the year and those are utilized across the state to monitor progress of students in grades K. through two districts are required to use one in grades three through eight districts have the option to use one of those assessments if they choose and there is a line at I don't know which one it is that you're privy to date that references a three ten system that's what can be assessments that will actually replace those Interim assessment they workplace ACT aspire to replace the interim that you're speaking to that are giving back for different vendors so the goal is to move to a more seamless system and that's that in the assessment system. At seventy one million across seven years. Okay so we're going to try to replace these black curriculum associates you go to this Cambrian assessment is that what we're trying to do is replace those that have been biting those sort of assessments and try to go to this one vendor that's going to provide all the assessments in part yes so we will still have the case to assessments will still have the four separate vendors for Kate to to meet that requirement okay Katie the cambium assessment will replace three three ten all the options and three through ten will will be there okay and on this it says the original term projected costs to be seventy one million and it shows to be seven one of twenty two through six thirty of twenty six that's not ten years should be seven years so ten million a year across seven years I'm can do pledge on the form that's not what the art of peas that's not what it says so when I did my math that's four years that's where I came up with eighteen million dollars approximately. So can we just get a clarification on that Kathy if you can give me a clarification of this seventy one million is really for four years or is it really for seven. If someone can get that clarification. Yes okay yeah we can get that but it is for seven years but we okay okay Cathy she just sent out the members yep it's seven is it seventy one is that going to be more or is that seventy one just for the for or what it is but if you get that assessment total I'm really still trying to find out the real number that we're spending on assessments per child. I don't know what was sent to use but I'll check on that because. The there's a difference between what we budget on here because as we have the three different sizes for that they can use we have to budget for that but then we pay this aspect companies we only paid and for how many students actually took their assessment so that's what I think that's what I was looking for is what we've actually paid what we've actually paid. Per child for assessment that's what I'm kind of get that the broken down by each assessment company that we used to okay thank you so much if the staff needs to get out to everybody on the committee correct thank you thank you represent are up okay all right thank you for luminizer Elliott. With that Senator Elliot you're recognized your question ma'am all right thank you for the the new test the cambian tests that we're going to be using Trying to figure out what that cost is one thing but I'd like to be able to get to compared to what we spent on S. S. fire over the years can you get K. do you know offhand how much we see how many years have we use fire how much did we spend on it on that contract. So we've got a fire for about seven years and it's been about it's been fairly equivalent it's been about ten million a year this year specifically of the cost was less because the periodic assessment that has gone away and so but in previous years where we had of more through comprehensive assessment grades three through ten it was pretty quick once about ten million dollars all right and did was seven U. how do we determine the seven years as it was or something in the procurement that. Also say go to seven years as opposed to the same committee for whatever how do we get to that. Yes procurement allows you to do a contract for seven years with each annual urinals so we did the original contract because it helps the process when you have states had a stable for the contract even though it has to be reviewed each year but that typically as DHS has finally we we did a seven year contract for pricing that's just typical yes if you say and also to I ask for some information about the cambian contract regarding the use of the value added part of this and I I did get the information I want to thank whoever sent it to him because it was what I wanted when I was looking for and I was just one clarification I wanted to make it appears to me from reading the information that. The value added part of this is not going to be a part of any teacher evaluation is that correct. That is correct okay thank you very much that's that's my question those are my questions here I had a question for Department of caught up Correct okay in the back of the you senator okay which questions answered thank you. Senator Rice you're recognized for a question minus four number forty six nonemergency transportation services that are excused. Thank you all. So forty six nonemergency transportation to be DHS to see mark on his way up. I Mister Clark what it just allows men Division of Medical Services. Senator you're recognized for circulation of two questions one is help me understand a little more staff said the disciplinary anymore money which what it shows but it adds coke and revised rate she also. A. Looking at this I guess twenty nineteen when we had a big shake up on the non emergency the. Transportation in it that time Borst concerns about whether things might be under bed and going to need more money and like we've seen in different segments of government in and what I'm looking at this time line I see amendment three updated projected cost amendment four add phones amendment five add funds in an adding scope and revised revision a revised rate sheet now. Is that what happened on this or I don't want to take the committees along time uh but that that was a big concern at that time and that's kinda looks like what it is can you give me that and I would like to know what this means without more funding what it's going to actually do yes Sir if you want me to answer that question first and then I'll answer that second piece of that I'm sorry this amendment here is not adding funding it is and we have to negotiate rates under the managed care rules with we have to have actuarial sound reads for this type of program and they have to be redone every year so we were negotiating the rates with the vendors and that is what is a tax year is that new rate sheets the contract cycle in this contract is actually January first to December thirty first which is why you see that we've added money in December in previous years and and why this is not adding any funding at this time because at this time the contract doesn't need any additional funding that we did have to amend the rates for the managed care plans the additional scope is also to make sure that we're in compliance with those as CMS managed care roles. And so as to the funding issue I mean is it to subcontractors on the annual calendar year cycle so we do go in an ad funding almost every year to make sure that the contract is fully funded for the next year of services we continue to monitor the delivery of those services and right now course gas prices are getting higher so we are looking at what impact that might have to actually going forward the way these rates are set they look at previous history so you know we will continue to look at that monitor that and take that into account and but we've set the rates for this year at this time and continue to monitor the quality of the service being provided through a a vendor that we have a FMC. We know the environment we're in right now it has to have substantial changes but since twenty nineteen have we seen that we were two lane. In this what we were trying to deliver before this latest inflation. I would say from what I'm saying no Sir I think it's what was sent in which would normally expect in the year by your progression of this type of con con contract given the federal requirement that we have to go back to reduce the rate each year okay thank French my questions. Right thank you guys thank you senator rice all right. Representative Cavenaugh you're recognized for a question. Okay all right the what that. Senator Elliot you're recognized for a question. Mr my questions for the parchment of correction okay we guess my from park ridge is up here. If you'll give us your names and positions for the record and be recognized procedure questions Senator. Thank you Mr they need to go head to discuss Melissa Moore a medical services administrator for the department of corrections. Roaring Griffin deputy director health care programs. Laura Johnson procurement minister eight thank you all for being here senator Elliott you're recognized proceed thank you For each one of these that says it provides each one of these injuries is amendment provides comprehensive services. And then the very last amendment talks about delivering comprehensive medical dental pharmaceutical services Sir could I just I want to just get a sense of especially on the medical dental pharmaceutical services If. What we have funded here it is sufficient I'm asking this because I keep hearing from people that they're not getting something they need to get an. I just want you to talk to me about that. Lowery said It should be sufficient because they provide anything that's medically necessary and it has brought to our attention and. Inmates calls come to Melissa formal grievances come to me and we certainly can have them provide what they need now I can dental if they're just missing like a front to to want to replace for cosmetic reasons they wouldn't do just that that are making sure they have enough to eat I take it easy a properly. And pardon me you if they have enough teeth they could eat appropriately but they're state missing one somewhere that you determine is not affecting their ability to each that would not be addressed my interpreted that correctly if you have one missing job opportunities that they would replace it is what I'm saying or a bridge or crown or implant. And in the Senate in our last contract and course you know where you just finish up writing a rough draft of the new R. P. and as it comes out for the next ten years we can put in a anyway we want to when warranted anyway we want a and may we need to beef up the dental section. No I I'm not specifically honing in on what it anyone thing I've just taken by the example you gave which had never occurred to me I'm just asking about the entire Amendment the one that that's in that section you're talking about I've just wanted to know. Do we have the standard of care and the ability to deliver the care that people need that's what I was asking you just give me an example of what them all morning and I'm sorry okay the answer is yes we do and. I can give you an example that's kinda evidence of it if you want me to like the number of grievances four years ago compared to now they get appeal to me's drastically reduced so what yes we have the capability to provide needed services. Okay thank you for that and if you have if you have any kind of rubric that of something that spells out if I do for example have Even if it were dental issue how do the the how did the folks who are House in prison know what to expect this at all explain to them when they get there is something on a periodic basis. All the details are not explained but there have access in the library to several and probably most of our policies and the dental policy and procedure medical dental part of procedure lines out very detail of everything I told you plus a lot more is that somewhere on the website resents I don't think public website however I could not I could find that out for you senator Elliots all right I'm I might might last question has to do with a mental health services and I'm for year after year you know we talked about what they're not we have what we need for mental health services and as things have gotten worse during COVID have we been able to keep up with making sure we have care for folks who live there in a way that is fulfilling the needs we do provide care for the folks that are there but it is no secret to that we're not able to fill all of our mental help positions because we have to go by you know the state OPM's. Budget amount for that position. And it's hard for us to recruit. Licensed master social worker certified elastomers glasses based stars were compared to what the community pays and that in fact we are writing this sort of paid to contract out medical's mental health services. And we actually did it have a smaller degree mental we contracted out East Arkansas which we were never able to feel by far the positions there and there are more up to about like ten or eleven and one or two positions. All they need so they were recruiting and pay they did a lot better job than we could. So so you said you think the biggest problem with that is what we pay in order to recruit the people we need to provide the services or is to yes to get in on what the the license so mental health staff it is what we pay. My daughters just give our school in the morning you're making seventy thousand we can't touch that. So it is a huge impact on what we can recruit when you can go somewhere else and not have to work in a prison. Being on yeah where did you hear your hotel and you want to stay. And and last last question is if we were not if we don't have the ability to provide the mental health services. that we need to what what are your thoughts about or do you know anything about how that affects Discipline our issues. In the system itself any questions I think we provided now it may require overtime of our staff or shifting around and staff but were were meeting and have the people to to run all of our programs without a doubt in the metal mental health they're not they're not not getting seen by what's required whether it's ninety days thirty days all that is happening we just do it was shorter staff and they were on or more are we shipping around in this unit to help with this what if we have to. So you're telling me despite the short staff we everybody gets the services that they need to get her I'm not I'm not being up you but is that possible because again it just in the wide world itself we don't have the folks to provide mental health services that that we have but that manifests itself someplace else is what I'm worried about your. So yeah I'm sorry your exactly right and it does with fatigues staff burnout if you're if the cover all these areas if we have a particular unit is down and nursing you know say for staff and we'll see of nurses around I don't have over time from other units to come and help that's not ideal but if you give me a I've got a set number of employees and but these all these guidelines for ACA in and the criteria we have to meet have to be followed. All right thank you thank you so much a lot of this is information for me before so that I can understand what's happening when I hear from people many times I I appreciate that and and I I just don't know if we have a contract that is we maybe we have a good contract we just can't find the people to provide the services we need to provide either way they don't get provided but I understand transputer one and what you can. Thank you it's always a pleasure Senator Elliot sure thing thank you senator Mr chan all right members seen over other questions without objections these idle stand is reviewed. Mr chairman the last group of contracts or the in state contracts and they're going to start on page fifty three of this packet. The first one Arkansas heritage central administration of this is or consider it continued projects and tasks in natural areas number two career add rehab services to provide on the job training and follow along services to we have clients with significant and most significant disabilities ages eighteen to thirty five number three career and rehab services for paid work experiences number four. Is department education or court reporting services number five Department parterre Cajun tourism this is for print and mailing services. Number six DFA management services for DMZ hosting number seven also for DFA revenue services for technical services for our store streamline of auto. Renewal services I number eight is education department this is a contract that is been done as a special procurement it is on pages three through six in your pink packet there's a a request for it in this is for modifications updates and maintenance of software programs and this company wrote the software and so that contract for modifications updates and maintenance and the high cost of a software program is that creation of it so they've already created this so they want to go ahead and maintain it the same company to maintain the project and asking for seven years approval to go forward with this contract and then the second letter is from Mr rouse with OSP. Number nine is in AD EQ environmental quality for electronic waste contract administrator number ten and eleven or both health department contracts and these or for technical and operational improvements services or small water systems to produce water that complies with the with the it's safe drinking water act requirements number twelve health department with health care pharmacy this is for pharmacy medication services contract number thirteen health department for armed security guard services number fourteen start contracts for DHS in the first one is for qualified residential treatment program number fifteen is far forensic for community mental health center contract and also forensic funds for that number sixteen eight through eighteen are contract amendments for mental health services contract number nineteen is a contract operator yet yes to provide physical and occupational therapy services or the Arkansas State Hospital numbers twenty through twenty seven these are also the contract amendments for mental health services Texas over to contract number twenty eight. And that contract is found on page sixty eight this is a contractor therapeutic foster care services and they're adding respite to the scope of work to that contract number twenty nine is DHS with Arkansas children's hospital a contract amendment for health and well being program numbers thirty and thirty one R. for developmental disability services number thirty two qualified residential treatment program contract number thirty three is specialized private license placement agency contract number thirty four is for improved kinship and fictive kin care opportunities number thirty five private licensed foster homes a contract for that number thirty six on page seventy one is to establish a new contract for comprehensive residential treatment services or used under the age of twenty one number thirty seven is for qualified residential treatment program services number thirty eight therapeutic foster care services number thirty nine is a contract for DHS for American Sign Language interpreter services. Number forty qualified residential treatment program services forty one is for acute psychiatric inpatient hospital services for children in the custody of DHS number forty two is contract for comprehensive residential treatment services number forty three therapeutic foster care and again it's adding respite scope of work number forty four a qualified residential treatment program number forty five and this is on page seventy five per conference of residential treatment services number forty six qualified residential treatment program number forty seven copper isn't a residential treatment services number forty eight is a contract amendment for home studies and home services number forty nine is a contract amendment for qualified residential treatment program number fifteen is that contract for psychological evaluation services number fifty one is a contract for counseling services fifty two on page seventy seven is for therapeutic foster care services fifty three is a contract for outpatient and are residential substance abuse treatment services to DCFS students I mean clients number fifty four is a contract amendment for residential treatment program services number fifty five four therapeutic foster care services number fifty six qualified residential treatment program fifty seventh comprehensive residential treatment services fifty eight and fifty nine or both contracts for psychological evaluations number sixty is a contractor comprehensive residential treatment. Sixty one is a contract for a therapeutic foster care services sixty two through sixty five are all going to be for comprehensive residential treatment services contract number sixty eight were on page eighty two is for qualified residential treatment program sixty seven is conferees it operates a residential treatment services sixty eight through seventy are qualified residential treatment programs that takes us to seventy one on page eighty four this contract is for dental services for the Arkadelphia human development center number seventy two is a pharmacy services in that for all five of the human development centers throughout the state seventy three is for prior authorization and utilization review retrospective review and medical review services contract that's with AFMC number seventy four is for Medicaid quality improvement program seventy five is for a beneficiary relations are works pass of provider relations dental connect care education outreach nonemergency transportation of various service centers. Contract amendment number seventy six on page eighty seven with palco this is a contract amendment for the physical employer agent services for self directed financial management services number seventy seven juvenile justice community based reentry and vocational and career start support services contract and that's the same for number seventy eight as well. Number seventy nine is. Cost for Neil Services for the civilian student training program at DHS number eighty is the insurance department with central Arkansas area on aging to provide free in depth one on one assistance to Medicare beneficiaries hi their families number eighty one Military Department for the youth challenge student mill of program number eighty two national park community college to provide armed and uniformed security guard services to the college campus all in gas has a contract number eighty three on page ninety for well plugging Services number eighty four public service commission for consulting services for the commission number eighty five as you a community college based full for their state mental health counseling services number eighty six this is you a fable program designed for three phases of innovation mythology applied in bio design models this is also done is a sole source justification and so that so sources pages seven eight of the contra of the pink packet and they know that this is the only support organization conducting an annual accelerator in the healthcare industry and therefore the reason for the justification of using that particular vendor number eighty seven is for student counseling a clinic for you a Fort Smith eighty eight U. A. L. R.. For providing solid waste disposal contract number eighty nine through one of one oh four these are all you A. M. is and these are for those on site mental health services that takes us to contract number one oh five and that is on page ninety six of your packet this is going to be you CA with startup junkie this is to accelerate the development of the university's new start up and maintaining of the operation of the CIA's makerspace number one oh six as you see a our employee benefits consulting services one oh seven is that earns affairs and actually this is going to be these are all for nursing services and so it's one oh seven through two. One twelve then a contract number one thirteen for Veterans Affairs is pharmacy care of Arkansas this is for there's pharmacy services for the veterans home and then we go back to two more contracts for BA for nursing services number one sixteen on page ninety eight has been pulled by the agency so we won't be reviewing that contract today but they have to other contracts workforce services for janitorial services number one seventeen and one eighteen is our printing and mailing services for workforce services unemployment insurance program those are all the in state contracts in today's agenda all right members needs well see question is that represent of hawk over there yes okay representive you're recognized for a question thank you chairman I just had a question on number one that heritage. We get somebody from. I heard it all burns. This is quite different from all the other description of programs we've been reading but I just wondered if the sales representative is real quickly if you let them have a seating that introduce themselves and their positions for the record and you'll be recognized Percy and. Hi I'm bill Holloman Director Arkansas natural heritage commission. I'm Leslie Fisk in Chief of legislative affairs for parts here to deter them thank you representante you're recognized particular question thank you so much I apologize so I was just because we've heard recently other states have have had severe fire wildfires due to control birds that have gotten out of control and I'm all for controlled burns I think it's really important force management tool that we have what I just wanna make sure is that are contractors of liability insurance when they're doing controlled burns in their certification is renewed and you know that kind of thing we just ate I thoroughly trust our forestry division I know they do controlled burns but I've just when we're working with other consultants and things is that something we've at absolutely and we've been working with this company for about twenty years and The owner of the company is from solemn springs grew up in that area he's an expert in a habitat and so forth and that's the big thing that we will work with him on he puts in fire lines and then he does prescribed burning he does other things as well but safety is a top thing for us we very concerned with that would make sure that they're burning under the right conditions we don't want fire sticks gate for causing any damage we also reckons it's important for the health of our forces you talked about and it also helps reduce danger of fire wildfires catastrophic wildfires to surrounding landscape for and I know that the number of these are now close to urban areas and urbanized areas as well so I just wanna make sure are we the ones that cover the liability for any damages or does the contractor contractors have engines so they are required to have insurance that covers any potential damage right you. I'll double check that if I see anything different I'll let you know that thank that is that is my honor and thank you. And if you can just let me find something different if you can just let staff know they can send that out to the rest of the members on the committee right thank you very much all right members enough for the questions without objections these items will stand as reviewed. Mr chairman the last items on the agenda reports that the committee receives each month the first report that you see our contract renewals with no material change of then you'll see a report of any executed contracts that up all the low the threshold for review and then finally the third set of reports are critical emergency procurements that are provided to the committee those are all the reports on today's agenda. All right members that concludes our business agenda and with that we are adjourned.