ALC-Review

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The error review committees call order Senator you have any comments okay we'll get started okay thank you Mr chairman we're going to start today's meeting with methods of finance I'll be in your agenda packet the first pages the letter from DFA of the methods of finance they're sending over for today's review on the next page you'll see the first one is for the Arkansas school for mathematics sciences and the arts for the chapel the convent renovation design and renovation they're expanding student housing and they share common space there were advising this to five point nine million dollars and they know that they have some reserve some rainy day funds as well some general revenue reimbursement to cover it as well as long Foundation funds for this project next you have to for Arkansas tech university the first one is information technology infrastructure upgrades two million six hundred seventy eight thousand two seventeen this is coming from the federal funds of arca funds as well as reserve funds that they have for repairs and renovations the third one also for Arkansas tech is for H. back projects improvements in their H. back system this one's being revised to six million three hundred fifty thousand again they have some federal arpa funds that they're using quite a bit for this project as well as the reserves of from their facilities and repair and renovation number for a issue Jonesborough for Wilson at advising renovation a new counseling center this is six hundred two thousand five sixteen at university reserves to cover it number five is East Arkansas Community College for student welcome center this is to rehabilitate the former of Crowley's Ridge building and repurpose the facility as a one stop student center they are revising this to. It's four million five hundred seventy eight thousand two hundred sixteen two or sixty dollars excuse me with ninety one percent coming from plant funds and then nine percent from general improvement funds on the next page north Arkansas college as to the first one for energy performance contract of or campus capital improvements dealing with H. back equipment a million five hundred seventy four thousand eight eleven they have arpa funds as well as unrestricted cash reserve and then their next project number seven is the art facility expansion project this is new construction and instructional classroom facility four hundred thirty nine thousand six hundred they've received private donations that will cover ninety one percent of this as well as unrestricted cash reserves next is you a fable with Four new. The finance for a job order contracting for their various projects as needed number and those are all for ten million dollars each and they had university reserves that will cover that a number twelve and thirteen year for U. N. S. number twelve is for radiation oncology relocation expansion to allow for future growth and this is sixty five million dollars revised amount and they have bond proceeds for that as well as the next one number thirteen also for UAMS for parking deck of this has to do with that being adjacent to the pine cedar Boulevard twenty six million six hundred thirty eight thousand four eighty five and they have bond proceeds for that project as well. You see a has a couple they have the the first two there at the bottom of the page for our for various campus improvements nine point five million dollars including walkways lighting improvements they have bank funds to cover that and then they have a new fine arts building this is being revised to forty six million one hundred sixty two thousand one sixty five they know that they have bond proceeds and capital reserves on the next page two more for UCLA join a renovation for health science a facility and that one is revised to one point five million with bond proceeds and then they're using private funds for men's basketball remodel for the men's basketball space in the fair center and those are today's methods of finance on the agenda. Sir Hammer you're recognized. Thank you Mr chair of can I get Arkansas tech if they're in the room please. Someone from Arkansas tech. If you would identify yourself please for the record. Jamie Fisher assistant vice president of admin and finance you're recognized thank you Mr a recent issue should you got the HVAC project project this seems to be the biggest on them I'm involved in a construction project right now we're contractor called me yesterday and said we need to adjuster HVAC prices up twenty five percent as of yesterday because the federal administration has decided expedite initiating new free on that's going to be more economic be up friendlier to the environment I'm just curious the the price you've got what has it what was the date of which she got the price and what it what do you have anticipated as far as increased cost because of the direction of a down. So I would say so this is inclusive of six buildings I would say that four of the six buildings equipment has already been in process and on purchase so some of these are ongoing projects since we got the extension of the her funds this is continuation of those existing projects with the addition of a couple of others that have not yet started so several of these already have had the purchases made and are on order and and some of them are nearing completion so so far we haven't been impacted by that and are not anticipating that okay we've actually recognize some savings on a few of the projects that's great thank you thank you Mr. That's all right saying no more questions these items will stand review. Mr chairman the next group of items are discretionary grants starting with the health department C. one. the first one is amendment to existing grant for the Arkansas cancer coalition for educational and screening opportunities number two also an amendment to this one is far I prostate prostate cancer for screening and educational information about that resources number three is health department and this is to continue to improve a breast and cervical screening practices and that's an amendment to that grant on the next page number four is an amendment to the grant for breast cancer screening via mobile mammography number of five is of increasing breast and cervical cancer screenings to uninsured and underinsured. Number six is an amendment to a grant for continuing to engage in strategies with statewide you'd coalition's dealing with second hand smoke number seven is an amendment to a grant for assisting in a back operation mentions a session program developing and implementing a valuation of a state wide project prevent coalition number eight is amendment to odd to a grant to continue to support and strengthen the capacity of Arkansas's immunization action coalition number nine is an amendment for a continuing to expand access and strengthening of substance use disorder and opioid use disorder education from mention and recovery services number ten is an amendment to a grant for existing substance use disorder opioid use disorder service delivery providing peer recovery counseling and support. At the next one number eleven Amendment for grant for deploying strategies in specific activities to establish an evidence based model that will address the lack of linkage to care and access number twelve is a grant Amendment for expanding extensive induction treatment and recovery programs number thirteen is a of. This is a new of now this is an amendment and the new amendment it looks like for a program director and to peer recovery support specialist of for implementation program operations dealing with NexTech recovery housing staff and volunteers so those are the department of health next on page six we start to grants for DHS the first one is an amendment to an existing grant that they have or are working with improving quality of life for adults with disabilities numbers two three and four are all going to be amendments to grants for. Supporting Arkansas senior Medicare patrol to the power seniors number five seniors farmers market nutrition program. Number six of amendment for the Arkansas senior Medicare patrol. Number seven is for an amendment to a grant for senior community service employment program number eight is for educating and training employees are working with families and individuals with a potentially experiencing mental health crisis across state number nine is FOR nami Arkansas and will be a sub grant of for dealing with mental illness number ten is for persons in suicidal crisis project that's a new con at numbers eleven through fifteen of these are all going to be of grants for thank you based treatment initiatives. That takes this over to number sixteen which is a needs assessment and analysis number seventeen is of amendment to a grant for employment and training services to snap number eighteen is an amendment to a grant for performing outreach services for senior adults in obtaining snapped. numbers nineteen and twenty are both going to be for providing employment training services to snap program recipients number twenty one is an amendment to a grant for the Arkansas disability coalition project delivery of cop chronic care and number twenty two is an amendment to the grant for the family to family health information center and we have one other grant I'll go ahead and go over it with the vision of work for services it's for funding and support to United Way of Fort Smith to continue development and expansion of the restore hope one hundred families initiative so those are the grants on today's agenda. Senator Rapert you're recognized thank you number seven if somebody could answer questions. Somebody here from Human Services. Yes. Which will see the health council. Senator Rice center ice which number seven was a. The number seven thank you right Page HBO okay. No. Our. Introduce yourself please for the record thank you Mr Clark quite warm Human Services. J. hill department Human Services agent or whatever else Senator recognized thank you this is a hundred percent federal grant through the American Indian center Arkansas I just pulled up on aligned hearing and no sense for native Americans and also for Alaska natives but only this section for the senior community service employment program that keeps the administer that to any races at eight fifty five or over is that just for central Arkansas is that statewide. If it is state wide can you tell me how. Hello and they had a program that show statewide success before. But it is a statewide program center this is a new vendor our previous fender is is no longer serving serving here in our state and it is open to seniors fifty five and older it is an education program seniors are taught a. A new a new job a new career path and then given opportunities for employment. I'm I'm very often with C. sep or with vendors that that partner with them for job training I'm all for that what I'm wondering is. If the House excess will you saying this is a new vendor is there any record of success for these programs going out further than Central Arkansas. I understand it's open to that is there any success story in that happening. Yes I believe there is and I can provide you with that I can get if you got some just a defined appreciate. Thank you Mr. Represent love you're recognized. Thank you Mr chairman so I'm looking in the grants that were. eleven through fourteen I believe. There's a faith based grants. In so mark I'm going to read this description so that you can. Got me through this is to create a subprime for faith based treatment. Initiatives to provide residential services and then it says thanks services. So my question is are we making it a requirement. Then someone who receives assistance from these programs also participate in their faith based services I mean there thanks services. Representative so so these are voluntary programs very often individuals are not the man of a comfortable they may not want to go to one of our state funded providers they look for a faith based program of for instance it may be a Christian faith based substance abuse program and so it's a purely choice but when they enter the program if participation in those in their service discretion in their faith based efforts initiatives would probably be part of the daily regimen but it would be on a voluntary basis okay well and I just wanna make sure it's on a voluntary basis is not necessarily a requirement for them to receive the service. Okay what does this just make sure because when I read that in in doesn't read like that so it's just ensure that but other than that I mean I'm I'm fine. I just don't want to have them making it a requirement to participate in the program to get receive the service. Thank you Mr. Senator Hammer you're recognized thank you Mr on page six number sixteen. Can you tell me what a resource bank is going to look like and what you just described to me how that's going to shape up please. Sure server for different population subsets they may have differences in terms of what what the needs are around mental health services as well as what's available for them and so this just under a grant to help catalogue what's out there in terms of services and identify any gaps where there may meet the there there may need to be some additional services provided for particular that particular population subset. So is this gonna involve mental health services yes Sir will face base be a component of that I don't see it listed on there so would faith based be a component of that I believe unless some wrongly that we beat they'll be cataloguing all available services that would include faith based services yes yes in which agency at DHS is gonna House this and where where would you go to fund. It's will the the grand as provided through the division of aging adult your health services will be actually the work we've done bond on me which the nonprofit organization and look at here in Arkansas okay thank you. As saying no more questions these items will stand review thank you thank you. Thank you Mr chairman the next group of items on our agenda are contracts beginning in the packet D. E. the first to pages the letter from iOS P. from Mr Mitch rouse the new director and it notes that none of the contracts that they're submitting I have been procured in violation of Arkansas procurement law do want to point out that on page twenty three contract number five when we get there will be for at the end of that there will be a letter identifying that they did a contract for services without soliciting competing quotes and the literal explain the the circumstances of that when we get to that contract but first we have our construction related contracts beginning in the one community correction has an on call architectural contract amendment corrections department has an amendment for their own call architectural services numbers three and four are both going to be far departments transformation shared services for ABA and these are for critical maintenance projects for any of the ABA owned or operated facilities as they are needed number five is the contract that DHS has and this is for a new dorms at the United health center in Boonville number six through twenty six these are all going to be Military Department they're all going to be on call professional design services architects engineers so that six through twenty six they're all for one million dollars on an as needed basis number twenty seven parks and tourism this is for design of the delta heritage trail. Amendment to that existing grant a contract using number twenty eight parks and tourism with Polk Stanley this is for the new visitor center located at pinnacle mountain state park number twenty nine this is war of contract for state police that they've been engaged in for their architectural engineering services this was for the troop headquarters at four sites around the state this contract is about to be finished up their finishing those projects number thirty is you a fateful this is for the on call architectural services contract number thirty one issue a LR this is their on call contract. Amendment and number thirty two is also UALR and this is for the UALR Trojan way Prambanan in library plaza renovation project so those are the construction related contracts on today's agenda. Saying no questions these items will stand review. Next or inter governmental contracts the first one is career read rehab services this is a new contract with UALR this will be for services for blind comprehensive statewide needs assessment number two is education department with UAMS and this is the four of the final year of the contract agreement for federal notice of funding opportunity nexus health department with you a LR and this one is for collaborating collaborating with the school of social work mid south of team technical services for the implementation of women infants and children baby and me parenting program next is health department with UAMS and this is for implementing the continuing education through learning sessions for Arkansas clinical transformation program number five on page seventeen is health department with UAMS and this is for funding to tobacco treatment specialist positions House at UAMS number six health department with you a message this is for compensation to continue to increase breast cancer screening the mobile mammography during after hours weekends and at off site work could be all right events and activities number seven health department with UAMS this is far of providing a position consulting and technical assistance clinic coordination of referrals and tracking and monitoring services from the department of pediatrics and the Arkansas children's hospital and hospital newborn screening clinic nexis number eight health department UAMS or delivery of comprehensive and risk appropriate maternity care to low income women throughout Arkansas and number nine of starched contracts for DHS the first with UAMS is an amendment to. Support healthy childcare Arkansas program number ten on the next page an amendment for providing training and technical assistance to early care and education providers focused on family engagement number eleven is a contract amendment for the all payer claims database number twelve is state police with you a fateful this is the dealing with the Arkansas state police highway safety office number thirteen is Veterans Affairs and this is with UAMS this is for the medical director to work at their facility in Fayetteville and number fourteen Veterans Affairs with UAMS and this is for occupational physical and speech therapy for the residents also at the veterans home in Fayetteville those are the inter governmental contracts. Saying no questions these items will stand reviewed. Next group of contracts the three are out of state contracts beginning on page twenty two the first one is going to be four Arkansas heritage central administration of this is for the amendment to the contract for their exhibit design fabrication for the first lady's of Arkansas exhibit number two is a issue Jonesborough this is an original contract provide a water treatment program and services for a issue Jonesborough. Number three is career and rehab services for armed security guard services number four is a contract for department corrections in this is contractor will develop a ten year projection of adult correction populations number five this is the contracted Mr rouse pointed out in the his. Original letter and this is by development finance authority with TDA consulting a hundred thousand dollars and on page one of your letters in the goldenrod packet they know that they failed to use the seal competitive bid process for their federal head treasury home A. R. P. contract of the day were looking for a vendor with expertise in federal policies and procedures they didn't have an estimate on what the cost would be in the total projected came in over seventy five thousand dollars and so it would have required to seal competitive bid process they didn't realize this until they were submitting it for approval in the portal through as the and so they need to have the contractor crews of the vendor can begin work on guidelines for disbursing federal home American recovery plan program funds that will be used to help meet unmet needs and gaps in affordable housing that's why it's being recommended for ratification on today's agenda. A based on this letter number six through eight these are gonna be disability determination and these are all going to be for medical consultants who work with that agency to determine disability number nine D. T. S. S. the. The transformation and shall serve services this is for an armed guards services at the B. G. Hendrix building in Fort Smith the next one for them also is the Building Authority is for waste disposal for services at thirteen Division Building Authority locations number eleven is education department this is a contract amendment for the ACT assessment testing grade eleven number twelve is the A. C. T. S. buyer testing grades three through ten of then on page thirteen that first contract for education they I received a phone call the best pull that contract until later so we will be reviewing that today number fourteen is education department college entrance exam this is amendment six adding four point two million dollars and this is for a College Board Advanced Placement program exams to Arkansas students number fifteen education department this is the vendor to design and provide training on YP it Y. P. Q. a design and usage. Set an assessment of that program number sixteen is education school for the blind this is or physical occupational speech therapy to their students number seventeen is the health department all this is a new contract for security monitoring types of services number eighteen is the health department this is an amendment to a contract for removal and disposal of hazardous waste number nineteen of start to a couple contracts for Highway and Transportation Department their of retirement division this is for the first one is an amendment to the existing contract for investment management services and number twenty on the next page is a custodial bank services of for that same division. Number twenty one is starting the DHS contracts the first when there is an amendment to the existing contract they for or have or US systems integrator or integrated eligibility bility and benefits management services number twenty two is for laundry services for the state hospital as an amendment to that contract number twenty three is emergency shelter services number twenty four quality service reviews number twenty five is for home studies for DHS number twenty six is for all of. Affordable Care Act provider requirements related to minimum essential coverage of filling that obligation number twenty seven is for ark Arkansas Works program evaluation number twenty eight of is an amendment to an existing contract for evaluation the state's nursing facility reimbursement methodology and the provision of provider incentive program management system and portal. number twenty nine is a contract amendment for Medicaid enterprise Medicaid management information system pharmacy system number thirty is continuation of a contract for actuarial services number thirty one for DHS is a contract amendment for enterprise project project management officer number thirty two is a contract amendment for DHS for independent assessment and support programs number thirty three is far decision support and management administrative reporting of systems and services. Next is number thirty four and thirty five witcher for information systems the first one is for security monitoring system and number thirty five is an amendment to an existing contract for additional software but not previously requested on the contract managing services for IBM Z. systems. Number thirty six is insurance department with this is for market place plan review number thirty seven parks and tourism this is a contract for strategic planning and consulting services number thirty eight state police for if they a required inspections of their bell helicopter and number thirty nine state police for Medicare part D. and retiree subsidy services teacher retirement home has a couple contracts the first one for actuarial services in the second one of four consumer consulting services for evaluating legislative proposals and other special projects for the teacher retirement system number forty two also for teacher retirement is for institutional investment services you a fateful forty three and forty five are both going to be sole source justification and they're found in your goldenrod packet unders pages two through four and then five three six but there for the same thing of they are both named in the grant so that is the justification is provided in the letters but they are the first one is for details school finance data and analysis is important research project and then the second one of comprehensive details school finance day that same type of thing so those are the two contracts that are sole source justification then numbers forty four forty six and forty seven of these are all actually for you a system and they all deal with audit services. Number forty eight is UA Fort Smith this is a new contract for I. T. services for lift and shift number forty nine UALR this is a contracted amendment for federal government relations services number fifty is that earns affairs with health dimensions this is a contract amendment for providing financial billing accounting and consulting services to the state veterans homes in North Little Rock and bailable and those are the out of state contracts. President Cavenaugh you're recognized thank you Mr I have a question for DCFS on contract number twenty three page thirty. Okay if you would recognize yourself again for the record please. Thank you Mr Clark white part of your services. Megan bush Division of Children and Family Services you're recognized thank you Mr chair on this is for a emergency shelter for children my question is how many emergency shelters do we have left in the state. We have a seven contracted shelters local state. Where where are they located at. Little Rock. Northwest Arkansas Charles then. Monticello. And. Garland County hot springs. The reason I ask is if I memory serves me correctly we're supposed to be trying to keep those children in the counties I belong in. If we only have seven emergency shelters were not doing that. And Furthermore. In Greene County we're having children spend the night again in the DHS offices. I'm gonna say from someone who's worked with the emergency shelters in the past DHS's made it impossible for a lot of shelters to exist. Because the regulations that you set out for them and how you changed your goal so now we're back to the problem that we had in the beginning. There are not enough foster care. COVID has shown us that we miss so much abuse because kids were not saying. And then when I say post. People begging to take these children out of the DHS office this is happening in Greene County. Now that's unacceptable. These children have had the most dramatic time of their lives and they're pulled from the fan only family that they know in their states all or very well there the local to those families. We have no place to taken. We've got to do something I agree that maybe at the shelter is not the best place for but I can tell you it's a lot better place and leave in a minute DHS office or not. Not I get pretty passion about this every time I talk about it because that's where my heart's at because I've worked with these children I know what they're experiencing. And when we've made it difficult for shelters to survive and what I mean by difficult is you've made it impossible for them to survive you know how many is closed because of of decisions that DHS's might. And there was nothing wrong with the shelters they were providing the service that we know we need it because we know that we didn't have enough foster care. But we lost side again in the H. S.. Of what the goal of DHS was which was to take care of the child. So. I'm guess my point is I'm highly disappointed in the fact that you come to me and the only time we have seven shelters that we can take these kids. We don't want to mean the offices anymore the kids don't want in there the workers don't want on there they know that's not where they need to be. DHS in Little Rock is failing our children. I will say again you're failing them. And I know it's a tough thing but I also know that we have got to do better we have no other option. I will try to get off my soapbox but this is a huge issue that we saw coming down the line we when the shelter started closing. So we need to work together. To find a way to get the shelters back up so that we don't have this problem because we're never going to happen of foster care parents were never. It in and call that has made it even worse and I realize that so what I'm saying is will you agree to work with me to find a way that we can again have shelters where these kids don't have to be moved and they don't have to work and live chat site and IT office until they can be placed in foster care. Can I get a commitment from you that we will work with on that because I'm just on the it's too heartbreaking. Absolutely will certainly will be glad to work with you on that because you are absolutely right that the last place a child needs to spend the evening is of the chess Office and that's something that we've only done was actually necessary but it's not something we want to see happen ever and we will do everything we can to make sure that is no longer necessary well we'll see I know the bill or transition around many this place was the last few years because the changes in federal law we've had to adapt to but we we are working to create new placements different kinds of placements to help address this need and make sure we have placement the bill or the skills but yes ma'am will certainly be glad to work with you on that in just one final thing Mister chair I want to say this again let's stop following the federal calendar and figure out how we can get the federal calendar and forgetting what's best for the child use some of our general revenue to do what we're supposed to do which is take care of those that can't take care of themselves thank you. Represents love. You're recognized thank you Mr I think that I want to talk about the development finance authority. Okay. They have and I hear. Okay if you would introduce yourself for the record. I Mark on on president Arkansas development finance authority. I'm raring to in a Director of homeownership public finance for the Arkansas development finance authority okay you're recognized okay gentleman I'm up here to your left so. I guess I want to kind of walk through this process because we're looking at I guess almost establishing a precedent if we allow you all to do this so. Committee how do we have been how do we have this we have one person. That you are I guess wanted to work with and then they came in over the threshold that we establish for from. The now so kind of walk me through that yeah yeah so what this is part of the American rescue plan funds and we were awarded they're called home dollars and so they come from hood and so there specifically for housing purposes and and these particular funds deal with that to have a domestic violence or homelessness attachment to it and your okay and so we receive these funds by thirty eight million dollars and so one of the things he did was they came out and said we you have to craft a plan and here are the things that we want to see in the plan it's it's couple hundred pages you know worth of dialogue that you have to look through and so as we were going through that we said you know it's probably best for us to our of P. and try to get a consultant housing consultant to help us develop this plan and so we wanted that we issued a RP we received one response and so what we did when we receive that response we reached out to another few vendors to three other vendors that we thought would respond to the RP but they did not and just said Hey are you guys interested in this you know we only received one response are if the and they said well we're really not familiar with that program and so that's why we didn't respond and so we said okay when we went out with that R. P. we had no idea about the pricing to end it this contract for a hundred thousand dollars is not going to come anywhere close to that over two year period but we we had no idea what was going to be and we're kind of under a crunch time line and I wear them for significant going on the limit I don't if I'm not mistaken the staff say the. I thought that they did not go out from be it but they do go out from being it's just that one person responded is that. Yes Sir in the letter it it said it was of a they fail to use sealed competitive bid process but they did do an RFP and ask for a request for proposals they had no idea of the front and how much that proposal might be and it was over the threshold for the way they procured it the way I understand it okay but you that you try to use it but you do try to procure somebody and they just did not respond that's right I have no more questions thank you. Senator Hammer. You're recognized. There thank you my questions for DHS okay. DHS him I'm sorry I missed your signal ago. You're you're done when a DHS backup thank. One more time. Thank you Sir Clark quite or Human Services okay recognized thank you Mr Page thirty five third account contract number thirty two. For the record would you give us an update we're often is as far as their independent assessments and the timeliness of which they are responding for independent assessments at this time. Sure so how often performs couple different types of assessments force they do it in process but related to eligibility for several of our programs are a long term service to support things like ARChoices which serves physically disabled the elderly living choices which are assisted living program and also pace which is a Medicare program for seniors they also do the in process but that is for determine whether individuals should be put into a house for their care and determine whether they have social devices necessary for that so with that said the last report I had was that they are they are timely on their assessments and doing well but I'm going to look back and make sure I'm saying that correct yes yes they are timely on those are would you define timely is at like thirty days or less or how to how do you define timely I don't recall the specific contract requirements and they're different for each program a different any on the circumstances but they are meeting all other contract requirements okay so that they are in compliance with the requirements of the contract as of as of today yes all right thank you okay. Representative Cavenaugh you're recognized thank you Mr chair mine's gonna be with the University of Arkansas dealing for the sole justification. So source justification. If you would state your name for the record please. Rebecca Haley University of Arkansas government relations you're recognized thank you Mr chair just wanna make sure I understand on these two particular grants that were done I guess from the Walton family foundation in the city fund they specifically told us what vendors we needed to use inside those grants to be able to get the money that they had yes ma'am okay it's it's specified within the grant okay applied for are there a lot of grants that require us to be able to use this they tell us who we have to use as a vendor not not typically but in grants like this went still with education reform there's only a select number of vendors out there and when it comes to that sometimes yes means if you don't mind on just summed is no Biggie but if you could just give me a list of contracts that you know you had to do whether it whatever it is that they tell us inside that grant process what vendor to use yes ma'am okay thank you thank you. President Scott you're recognized. You. In my. Okay thank you Mr chairman of Mr white can you come to the per second. Just a quick question I was wondering if I can I'm over here. What the plans are I appreciate rendering him her represent a representative Cavenaugh Some of the concerns with the kids are staying in DHS overnight. That's very troubling can I meet with the offline to just kind of get some real specifics about how often it's happening how many kids. Is staying with them are we paying the staff to stay with them and I I got I need a lot of questions kinda answered about that so if mean you can just kinda scheduled meeting I would appreciate that certain or whatever I need to talk to about that yep I appreciate will will you give me incentive for you with our folks talking that I appreciate that thank you so much thank you. Maybe that'll do it. Saying no more questions these items will stand reviewed. Mr chairman under D. for we have our in state contracts of beginning on page forty two the first one is for agro Department this is an amendment to an existing contract I have or fire suppression services number two and three are both going to be for Arkansas heritage central administration and these are both going to be for controlled burns number four and five or for a issue Three Rivers the first one is for building maintenance agreement custodial services and number five is for cleaning services for their selling county career technical center number six is a correction department for crop hauling services an amendment to that contract number seven is an amendment to the contract they have that does the performance improvement peer review and utilization review for their correction healthcare services system and number eight is for aerial applications services number nine is DFA child support enforcement is for maintenance and support of the Arkansas child support information system and number ten DFA revenue services that's for janitorial services. Number eleven and twelve or both for disability termination these are going to be medical consultants to work to determine disability determinations hi number thirteen of the Division of transformation in church services billing authority for windows and glass of washing Services at their buildings number fourteen education department this is an eight amendment to an existing contract for COVID nineteen rise smart data data dashboard number fifteen education school for the deaf this is far physical therapy services for their students number sixteen health department with children's hospital this is far program for planning and management services to maintain the Arkansas home visiting network to provide effective and coordinated home visiting services for at risk families in Arkansas number seventeen is a also with children's hospital by the health department this is a new contract and it's a sole source justification on pages seven three TN in your A. Goldenrod package is the information about the about this contract it's actually of any expansion of the above contract so it's a was approved for sole source justification because they currently use children's hospital for the program so this expansion would be done for that it's going to involve more training of our home visiting staff in support and of supplies to these individuals. Next is a health department with Cranford this is their statewide media campaign promoting the Arkansas department of health of office of communications tobacco prevention and cessation programs. Numbers nineteen and twenty R. goes both going to be for highway and transportation there for the retirement of services or investment management services an actuarial services number twenty one starts the contracts for DHS the first one is for employee drug screening for new hires and Drake random drug screenings. Up next there are four contracts scattered throughout here that deal with drug alcohol safety education program there are eleven contracts that deal with their beauty counseling services of contract number thirty three is for supervised independent living. There are six contracts of for counseling services of number contract number thirty five is for rehab services number thirty seven is far parenting training services thirty eight is for supervised independent living for extended foster care there are two emergency shelter services there are two parenting training services contracts up number contract number forty three is for acute psychiatric services inpatient of there are two substance abuse services contracts contract number fifty two is a contract that adds respite care to provide of private license placement services and contract number fifty five is far home studies that's going to take us over to Page. Yes sixty seven I believe. Contract number. Fifty six. Sorry. Number fifty seven is DHS with Housley counseling services it's a special procurement found on pages eleven through fifteen in your packet this is for intensive family services. Of number fifty eight is for DHS immerse Arkansas it's the including life based team program pursues supervised independent living I number fifty nine is far DHS and that we need independent case management for development of disability services up Oster homes number sixty of DHS for structured analysis Family evaluation of that's home studies in home services number sixty two counseling services sixty sixty one sixty two emergency services emergency shelter services. I think I've I am repeating myself and I apologize. The I'm just gonna carry on number sixty four counseling services number sixty five substance abuse treatment services these are all DHS amendments number sixty six is for home studies and home study updates number sixty seven is for substance abuse treatment services number sixty eight is outpatient and residential substance abuse treatment number sixty nine is a contract amendment for supervised independent living of numbers. Seventy is also for that number seventy one is therapeutic foster care seventy two supervised independent living services seventy three is intensive family services seventy four is security alarm system for the Division of County operations seventy five and seventy six these are both of a contract for nerd non emergency transportation services and we'll see another one on that for next month number seventy seven through eighty three these are all the H. S. youth services and they're all for continuing continuing their juvenile justice community based re entry and vocational rehab of a career support services that takes is over two number eighty four which is also for DHS this is for criminal background checks. Of the now numbers eighty five to eighty eight are going to be for nest nursing board these are all amendments to existing contracts for nursing vested Gators I do want to point out number eighty eight of. These are all fifty one thousand five hundred number eighty eight is for seventy five thousand dollars because this is the main investigator and he does a majority of the cases in the others on that have contracts have limited case loads number eighty nine is parks and tourism for advertising and promotion for Arkansas department of parks and tourism. Number ninety is parks and tourism this is for the keep Arkansas beautiful commission for their advertising marketing and public relations numbers ninety one three one twenty three are all going to be parent council representation in a dependency neglect cases of cases these are all for public defender commission there is one contract number one twelve for them that is for the deputy director of the parent council Commission that takes is over a contract number one twenty four and this is on page eighty nine of this is the state police in this is an amendment to the contract they have for advertising and marketing services number twenty five is an amendment to an existing contract or ongoing solid waste disposal for UALR campuses or campus skews me you APB has a contract there with less waste management for of solid waste disposal and recycling and landfill usage services for them and finally of Veterans Affairs has a contract amendment for laundry services for their state veterans home and viable those are the in state contracts. Senator Rapert you're recognized. Health department number eighteen. You would state your name for the record please. Good afternoon make Merrill director of communications for the health department. Hello I'm John Thompson chief financial officer department you're recognized thank you this is a question heard asks and I ask you when I first came down here. Can you give us something more major role. These dollars are doing good I've been kind of a little bit surprised lately I hear. A commercial I guess that's what this is spent on I hear commercial but the only time I hear anything about the commercial is it and when it says I need for by your tobacco settlement funds I believe is the the caption at the end I didn't hear one thing. The commercial say about it maybe because it's in model town. In. Our smokers here to. If you got any that I've already again Menasco bank every year I've been down here. Can you show us something is or something better we can do two million dollars won't go very far but I have somebody get a hospital it wouldn't quit smoking day had to have a hole in his neck. And hopefully they'll say the but. You know that is it too late we're just spending a lot of money and I'm. If you can show me result I'd like to see and we ask for Malta. Sure in in addition to the monthly reports we get from the vendor you might. Sure. In addition to the monthly reports that we get showing you know who saw the ads how many people and all that and we will Arkansas recently enrolled there ten thousand Parkinson in the program which is a great milestone are at percentages of tobacco nicotine users are going down it got down silly we're launching programs like the well baby and things like that so we're and we're trying to reach our Kansans as much as possible happy to answer questions about any specific ads our our be well ads have got national recognition for their testimonial style the that really no one else is doing right now so and we we do have reason to believe they're working you say you are doing ads with testimonial. Yes Sir okay I guess I'm just not heard does the ones I'm not hearing are the ones that are just again just monotone I don't I can't see how anybody would pick up on it It I'm not saying they're paying me to shop factor but only as it probably does need a shock factor you know I was somebody that was going to die fighting quit smoking or something but you gotta get people's attention to at. I just wanted to jump into probably about five six years and Bassil one exam I ask again thank you. Thank you for saying no more questions these items stand review that's all. Mister Mister chairman the last items on our agenda are reports the first report that you receive is all the services contracts that are of being renewed without a material change the next group of contracts are executed contracts below the threshold and then finally there are critical emergency procurements these reports all provided by wispy and those of the all the items on today's agenda. Saying no more business will stand adjourned.