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everybody would find their place we got about a minute
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rightembers take your seats review subcommittee come to order cochair
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Kavanaugh do you have anything? right thank you all for attending and if we can
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just go to the met method of finance if you would thank you
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Mr Chair Katiealden Bureau of Legislative Research fiscal division good afternoon members Beginning on item
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B for methods of finance
you'll see the letter that we received from Mr Daniel Brassert from DFAcounting. They are presenting five methods of finance for your review today on the next page you'll see a detailed schedule of those requests. I'll go over them with you now. Number one is from AU Jonesboro. this is an increase to an existing MOF for clock tower and audio upgrades they're increasing this MOF by42,000 dollars and they use all university reserves.umber 2 also with AU Jonesboro
this is a new MOF for valued at $10.5 million. they're using a combination of hired grants and university reserves funding and this is for the careersearducation and Skills training Center. ber3 with AU Jonesboro this is the AA state meat lab meat lab snackick line. this is a new MOF for750,000 dollars using a grant they received from the office of Skills Development? ber 4 is with the University of Arkansas for Medical
Sciences. This is a $1.7 million MOF they're going to use UAMs revenues and this is related to expenses for the separation of their retail pharmacy and specialty pharmacy they want to enclose the specialty pharmacy into a closed door facility of approximately6,500 square feet. Number5 is with Ua Monticcelo. this is a new MOF valued at496,000 dollars using private gifts for the installation of new scoreboards. These are the methods of finance, Mr Chair.
Senator Terry Rice
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Senator Rice Now I'm on. thank you. Thank you Mr Chair. I don't have any opposition to this could should staff tell me what that number3 was again I wanted to hear that 11 more
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time This is the A state meat lab snackick line that's good
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Anybody else have any questions on B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 seeing no questions without objection these items are reviewed see under discretionary grants see one thank you Mr Chair. this takes us to the discretionary grants and item C of your packet Item C1
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or two grants that we received from the department of healthalth
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these are two both federal funded grants one is to the Arkansasrural Health Partnership and the others to engaging Arkansas communities the first one is for coverage and services relating to hypertension and high cholesterol prevalent areas in the state and service provision in that area and the second one is for quality improvement and performance improvement support and expertise by participating in the AR primary care registry programme, which is the state portal for the American Board of
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Family medicine prime registry. these are the grants for Department of
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Health any questions from members on C1 seeing none without objection
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we'll consider that reviewed go to C2 Department of humanman Services thank you Mrir. C2 are the DHS
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subgrants they're quite a few but I will try to group them if for like
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purpose beginning on item C page two
you'll see there are grants number one through number6 are all
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with DHS division of agging Adults and Behavioral Health Services to various service providers around the state to provide for the implementation of theartnership for Success programme and these are all to help reduce the onset and progression of substance abuse in the state as well as providing mental health promotion services so that takes us over to page4 in item C grant number7 is also
with DHS division of agging Adults and Behavioral Health. This is a grant toenters for youth and familiesmilies I'll also mention grant's number 8 and number 9 are also to other service providers in the state. all three of these are for assisting homeless individuals who have serious mental illness to obtain adequate housing takes us
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over to item C page5 number 10dhS division aggingdults andhavioral healthalth. This is a $2.5 million grant for intensive
in-home services to families going through addiction recovery Number 11, division of agging Adults and Behavioral Health with the alcoholism and drug counselors incorporated. This is to work towards medicaid billing for peers, peer support ethics testing and certification of drug counselors and alcohol counselors. Number 11, division of agging Adults and Behavioral Health. This is an increase of a $200,000 grant to the Arkansas alliance of Recovery residents. This is for houses building infrastructure for families with hard to reach populations
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Number 13 is a grant to the Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care and this is for government performance and results act survey implementation number 14 is a grant to Ches Mobile Health. This is an increase in a grant for technologybased services and access to rural health and recovery partnerships. Number 15, division of agging Adults and Behavioral healthalth with River Valley Medical Wellness. this is to increase an agreement to address the opioid crisis at the local community level through evidence-based strategies and
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I will group the next few grants together. these are number 16 through number 19. these are all withdHS division of youthervices. these are various grants ranging from 12 to20,000 dollars and they are aimed at helping youth through community service projects, sports programs, life skills training and other nontraditional learning experiences throughout the state as well as job training
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and finally that takes us to number 21 with DHS division of youth Services. This is also an increase to an existing grant it's federal for the relevantation and lifekis programme. these are the grants for
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DHS Mr Cha. is there any questions on C2 on those 21 anybodydy
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like to see none without objection we'll consider those reviewed C3 the department of agriculture
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promotion board beef Council. thank you Mrir
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C3 are4 discretionary grants that we receive from the department of agriculture,
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Arkansas beef Council, all four of these grants are funded with special revenues and they are aimed at the promotion of the beef industry in schools through providing youth programs, educational training they sponsor the beef in the classroom programme Arkansasagg in the classroom program and the
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aglearningenter. These are the discretionary grants for the beef council, Mr Chair. any
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questions any of those under C3 seeing none without objection we'll consider those reviewed. Go to d one thank you Mrir. this takes us to the contract section of
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our meeting and the itemd of your packet you'll see a cover letter from
the office of state procurement director Jessica Patterson. in this letter
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she she lets the committee know of a few things. First, she states that all of the contracts that are presented for your review today were found to be procured properly with the exception of one, you will have one ratification that you will review here shortly and I'll go over that in greater detail She also provides the list as requested in the September 2024 ALC meeting of all the contracts that were procured using the MAP
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method or the traditional RfP method and then on the second page of that letter you will see an update on the rule promulgation you'll remember OSP is going about updating the procurement law to be in conjunction with recent legislation that was passed they state that they are just about finished with that promulgation process and it will go before the governor's office for review and then it will come before this subcommittee before going to the rules subcommittee. Finally you'll see their quarterly training and certification report
also as part of the overhaul of the procurement process. this committee tasked OSP with reporting how they are doing with establishing agency trainings in their new procurement process and also giving you all a report of participation so you'll see that information there of their progress so far in setting those training programs up as well as the agencies that have participated in these training programs so that's the letter Next item D1 is ond paged4. This is the ratification letter that we received from the department of
Public Safety. In this letter, the Department of emergency Management states that they were previously engaged with a contract with Compsis for IT services and that the old contract was properly procured and they were under the impression that it was exempt by law and so they engaged with compmpSas again to renew their services as well as to expand some of the services provided
the office of state procurement found upon further review that the contract because of some of the services that were added needed to go before review. They were no longer exempt by law and so because of that the Department of em emergency Management is committed to continue with this contract through 2026 and so they're asking for this committee to ratify the contract and to review to review all the
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parts of the contract today. so that is the
ratification Mr Chair. is there
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any questions seeing none I'll entertain a motion motion by
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Representativeladyman second by Senator Mcee all in favor sayy aye all opposed like san thank you d two thank you Mr Chaird2 is on
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paged5. This is a request for qualifications from the department of humanman Services officef of procurement. This is an RFQ valued at $83.8 million over three years for community mental health center services DHS states that the office of Substance abuse and mental healthalth they seek approval to issue a multiple award request for qualifications. This will identify qualified community mental health centers interested in providing mental health treatment services for individuals who have no payer. that's the RFQ for today.
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thank you uhpresentative rose just wanted to
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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ask a question of somebody from the department of how this compares to previous whether annual amounts or three year budgets how it stacks compared to the previous times. Someone from the department here please introduce yourself and
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you're recognized her name is Paula Stone. I'm with
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Department of Human Services officefice of Substance abuse and Mental Health. could you ask that question again I
Paula Stone
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heard it but I was kind of getting my stuff together it's just fine thank
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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you it says 83 million in change over three years just shy of 28 million a year. Is that the way that's extrapolated out is it 28 roughly 28 million a year or is there something that it's a
front loaded for or back loaded for and how does this compare to the previous three years so
Paula Stone
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the the contract is coming it's been a seven year contract it's coming to an end. The only real fluctuation in any funding going to the community mental health centers has been we received some federal funding that's in the form of a block grant from the substance abuse and mental healthal Services Administration and so some years we get a little more money, some years we get a little less and so that would be the only fluctuations that happened but
it is standard about 28 million a year has been for the last seven years and it would be for the next three. OK that was what was going
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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to ask you said something about it being a seven year contract so is it actually a 10 year contract then we we'reing that seven
Paula Stone
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years we're at the end of our seven years we'll be at the end of our seven years in July or the end of June of 26. so this is a new procurement for the same types of services there'll be some adjustments so is it a new seven year contract and we're just looking at the
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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first three years or is it a three year contract? It is
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a three year contract this this go round and you're
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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saying it's roughly the same amount of money you're not needing to pull from or have pulled
from other areas in order to fund this? No sir this is
Paula Stone
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the money that's always been going has always gone to our community mental health centers for our safety net providers for mental health services. I was going to say just for the the
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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lay people in the room like myself, could you summarize it briefly kind of
Paula Stone
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what this program serves and so we have our state divided into 12 catchment areas across covering all se5 counties and so they have traditionally served individuals who are uninsured, um, and that shifts you know through the years it shifted a bit.ig focus of this service this go around is going to be our individuals who are in jail as everyone knows when you
are arrested and in jail you your medicaid turns off your commercial insurance turns off and so there's no way to provide services particularly for our individuals who have had a forensic evaluation and have been found unfit to proceed. so we provide a lot of treatment services. we provide services for those individuals assessments helping them become fit to stand trial unless they're going to or until they go into the Arkansas state hospitalspital or they may
be able to be restored in a gel setting. so we do a lot of that work with that those individuals being the primary group that has is uninsured there's also some crisis work that is done with the community mental health centers for seriously mentally ill adults in communities and so they have some funding that goes for the purchase of acute crisis beds if individuals are uninsured and then some services going just to provide infrastructure in those
particularly rural areas for hard to serve populations and seriously millennial adults you know they there are so few and some of those very rural areas that makes it very difficult for anyone to start a business and really serve them all adequately they have to be pursued to some degree they don't exactly come to a clinic and so that's the other piece of the funding. So those are our main buckets of funding that we send out and ask for them to perform those kinds of services
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thank you thank you Mrir. uhpresentative
Representative Kenneth B. Ferguson
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Ferguson thank you Mr Chair. just two quick questions you've answered most of my questions that
uhpresentative rose had askedU but the $83 million over the past three years is that the same figure six years ago has the figure increase or decrease? the figure has stayed pretty
Paula Stone
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much the same annually again so sometimes we get a little bit more money from our substance abuse and mental healthalervistration so some of the source of this funding is federal and when we get those changes sometimes we get a little bit more money then that money might change in any given year but it has remained pretty much the same over three years ago it could have been down or it
Representative Kenneth B. Ferguson
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could have been up. and we we can absolutely
Paula Stone
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look back to see if there was any fluctuations in that funding and
Representative Kenneth B. Ferguson
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then the other question in terms of the grants going to the different regions iss that based on their population or is that based on the number of participants they're currently serving, maybe the previous year or how how does that
Paula Stone
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work? Yeah so in the past it's been based strictly on population but one of the things that we have learned in this go round is that and and looking at that is that it doesn't quite help our individuals in rural areas with
serious mental illnesses I was talking about you know that that makes it much more difficult. There are difficult to serve population to begin with and then it's the difficulty in building a business in a rural area to serve a very few individuals you know if you have 10 people with serious mental illness that you need to serve and some of them are in one of our72 jails and then some of them are you know spread across 100 miles that makes it very difficult. So we looked at a new formulary this year and worked really hard on it that
formulary being we would adjust for the rural nature we also adjusted for the number of seriously mentally ill adults in any area. so it's a it's a little bit more complicated than just senses so we've we've come up with a new way to divide those funds. I
Representative Kenneth B. Ferguson
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asked that question one final question Mr Chair if you please I
have a larger community health center in my area. and then in the rural part of my district there's a little bitty one and so that little bitty one
is not receiving kind of support so what you're telling me is that with this new formula it may help them a little bit
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more that that is what we're seeing is is that and we can share that with you we we worked really hard to say, OK, how do we divide this
Paula Stone
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money in a way that does exactly what you're saying is supports are very small agencies that are serving a very few people and would never have the volume of population to really be able to stand up a large business Mr Chair, if it'd be all right if she could share
Representative Kenneth B. Ferguson
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that with the staff and they send it to the members so I can see that information thank you thank you thank you Mr
Representative DeAnn Vaught
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Ja thank you Representativeauugt thank you Mr Chair. How can you remind
Paula Stone
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me how many centers there are. So there are 12 organizations and they have some facilities or a clinic in each of their areas we just did some work this last year of if they have one they we don't have them having one in
each and every county but if they have something within a certain mile radius I can get you the number of clinics they have in in each of the counties as well if that's what's needed. Yeah, I'd like to know each county. thank you Mr chairir. p
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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had a quick follow up it's page six but I think it's the second page from you guys ond2 under the providers shall serve the following populations in the
delivery of crisis services item B on there. it talks about all persons in the custody of DCfs who are not a member of a pass says the community setting includes without a limitation a home or foster home school ordCfS office how does this intertwine with with working with like the Mdts and local CAcs how does this incorporate with that? So generally this is around a mental health crisis
Paula Stone
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and so those kind of crisises are that the child is displaying symptoms maybe suicidal or perhaps that they are having behaviors that are extreme which would put them in a a psychiatric hospital. So generally it's it's kind of separate from those we call out the DCfS population because they need some special services so they have mental health conditions probably at a much higher rate than the general population. So it's it's
separate from the MdT work. so following an incident some type of
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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abuse, something awful in the life of a child. A lot of times this comes out through an interview it'll
like like at a local CAC if that is discovered and in in a break or something like that happens in the care of like a CAC are you guys not looped in with this not be a service in that situation so if if the if there's a like
Paula Stone
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if they've identified that somebody while at the CAC has become suicidal or needs immediate psychiatric care then we could do that. I don't know I need to go back and make sure that there's a direct call that can be made. um, but yes, if if there's something that's identified while being interviewed by the CAC and there's suicidality or something that is very concerning which would indicate a need for psychiatric immediate psych ia tri c care in a hospital they
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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could go out. I know I know that this encompasses a lot of very important work life saving
situations I wonder if it'd be possible for you to provide us at your earliest convenience just like a a ratio or percentages of where you guys get the referrals for these where it's talking about the children who are not on a pass like how do they come into your care in this situation iss it CAC is it law enforcement is a
hospital I'd like to know how that how that's happening that that's something you
Paula Stone
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think you could provide? We can. I can I do have reports on the number of screenings they do and then the number of beds they purchase for uninsured individuals and where where
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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are you guys get them from kind of how they're referring to the referrals that come in thank
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you thank you Mr. thank you members seeing no other questions with that information being
provided topresentative Ferguson and and RepresentativeRose entertain a motion motion and a second uhpresentative rose motion by senator or Representative painter all in favor sayy aye all opposed like sign thank you members
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go on tod3 thank youir.d3 is on8 of item D.
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These are the construction related contracts for your review today. there are 11
t rac t s number one and two are both with Arkansas Tech University for oncall architectural services with AmR architects andintzllevansRascoe both valued at $900,000. Contract3,4 and5 are all with Department of Parks herritage and tourism state
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parks and tourism divisions also all three of these are for oncall architectural services for the agency. Contract number6 is with Department of Parks Heritage and tourism withhittenberg Deloney and Davidson. This is for architectural services for the
renovation of War memorial Stadium.umber7 is withdPS division of emergency Management with vertical structures. This is amendment two to an existing contract and this is engineering design services for the refurbishment of the Arkansas
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wireless Information Network Ain towers across the state. Number 8 is with Henderson State University with Riley Hayes Roofing. This is for roofing services for the university for $1 million. Number 9 is with SAUtech
this is amending an existing contract for new construction planning and design services relating to the forthcoming emergency medical services building and restroom facility located at the Arkansas firere Training academy. Number 10
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is with the University of Arkansas and architecture lus. This is amendment one to an existing contract. This contract is for architectural services related to the maintenance building and wooddho construction project for the Arkansas school for mathematics, Sciences and artts? ber 11 University of Arkansas withBuilding and Earth
eotechnical, nvial and materials engineers. This is for onca geotech engineering services. These are the construction contracts, Mr Chair. any questions
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on those one through 11 uhpresentative Kavanaugh thank you and this is
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
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really don't know what this is really for staff on item number 10 this morning we held until Friday umuA and
mathematics school does this contract need to be held also? I would like to include both of these
hold to Friday till we figure out what's going on in Pier also if we can for those. without objection we'll hold
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we'll consider reviewed 1 through 9 and and number 11 and hold number 10 until Friday without objection. all right we're going on to d4 thank you Mrir. Item D4 the intergovernmental contracts
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for your review today. there are4 Number 1 is a contract between the Department of Health and UAMS.
this is an original contract valued at549,000 dollars. this is for the UAMS division of family and preventative medicine to offer quality improvement and performance improvement support and expertise by participating in the AR primary care registry, the state portal for the American Board of Family medicine.umber 2 is with DHS Division ofedical
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Services also with UAMS. This is for an extension and to revise performance indicators to continue the
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antenatal and neonatal guidelines education and learning systems and stroke assistance through virtual emergency support. ber3 with Ua Litterock and Asu Jonesboro re and4 are both between Ua LittleRock and ASU Jonesboro both are original contracts and both are for the provision of the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center programs. This is federally funded through a grant from the USmall Business Administration and this is for the provision of entrepreneurial and small
business services within two geographic territories. These are the intergovernmental contracts, Mr
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Chair. Any questions on D4 any of those four? seeing none without objection those are reviewed. Go tod5 out of state contracts thank you thank
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you Mrirtracts for out of state contracts begin on itemd page
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14. There are 24 contracts in this section ber one is with the publiclicervice commission with
Daymark Energy advisors. This is amending an existing contract for analysis and evaluation of the technical and economic issues related to the utility industry.umber 2 is with Department of Commerce, AEDC they're amending an existing contract with the alston consultingroup and this increases this contract by $29.7 million and it is for the execution of the bead program and support
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of AR nect which is the broadband program ber 3 Department of
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Corrections with WellPath. This is amendment two to the existing contract and this changes the scope of the contract to add specialized care for female offenders housed at theomen's healthalth unit? ber4, Department of
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Energy and Environment, Division of Environmental Quality with Deloitte consulting this is an original contract for services related to the E andE mining reclamation programme. ber 5 Department of Energy, Environment, Oil and Gas Commission also with deloitte
Consulting this is to execute the Davisacon compliance monitoring program to monitor contractor and subcontractor wages throughout the state on the next page
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contract number6 with Department of Health andformation Management services this amends an existing contract for hosting and maintenance services for the irdMS which stands for surveillance epidemiology and
end results database management system. and this is for the Arkansas Central Cancer registry.umber7 with Department of Health. this is an existing contract amended for WeSA Incorporated this is for services relating
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to continue the certified tumor registry quality assurance services and the Arkansas Central Cancer registry. Number 8 DhSdCFS with evident change. this is an amendment to an existing contract to provide and to continue quality improvement reviews of cases.
Number 9 DHS DDS with EGA associates. This is for psychological examiner services for the conway Human Development Center ber 10 DhSdDS with Samaritan integrative. This is amendment4 for an existing contract for psychiatric services at the Arkadelphia Human Development Center. On the next page number 11 DhS DmS with Keystone peer reviewgan organization. This is a new contract it is a special procurement so you will find in
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your packet the yellow letters there is a letter from OsP describing the reason for this
special procurement and this is to administer prior authorization and retros pect ive review services for behavioral health developmental disabilities and aging and adult medicaid population statewide. Number 12, Department of Military with SHI International Corp. This is for infotechsearchroup. er vi ce s relating to IT research advisory services and diagnostic tools to support IT leadership. Number 13 DTSsBuilding Authority with republicervices this amends
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an existing contract for waste disposal services.umber 14, DTSs with the building Authority. this contract is with S andS Management. It amends an existing contract for unarmed guard services at the redivision of buildingilding Authoritycations
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in LittleRock.umber 15 DTSs with DIS with Onarrolllc this is an original contract and it is for the state officefice of Technology to have a multi-phased implementation of the ServiceNow enterprise
platform for cabinet levelvel executive branch departments. and it is related to digital transformation for state agencies. Number 16 Southeast Arkansas College with Bernard MCc llc. This is forgy cost reduction measures at the college on the next
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page number 17 d d S s A with rinityree. This is a $298,000 original contract for medical consultant services for the agency. Number 18 University of Arkansas with
Karasoft. This is an original contract for $914,000. This is for the facilitation of the budget development process as well as the creation of forecasting and commitment models for U ofA? ber 19 University of Arkansas with Presidio Network Solutions. This is a $1 million contract for the UAyetteville wirelesstwork refresh project. Number 20 University of Arkansas with PTO IncdBA PTO exchange. This is to allow U ofA to access
a self servier portal relating to the administration of the university's leave exchange program established by
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a boardard policy420.8. Number 21 University of Arkansas with VIATRm. This is an original contract to provide a platform to facilitate and manage as well as provide oversight and compliance for the study abroad participants in international students visits visiting scholars.umber 22u a with VIPpecialervices this is amending an existing contract for window washing at
the University of Arkansas. Number 23 Ua LittleRock with Jeffrey Skiba. This is a new contract for50,000 dollars and this gentleman will provide guidance to the Ua LittleRock Center for integrated nanotechnologyervices so just providing professional oversight services for this integration. Number 24 UAPB with Ecolab. This is for pest control services to the university. These are the out of state
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contracts Mr Chair. p re s ent ative Richardson
Scott Richardson
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Yes sir, Mistererard just would like to talk to someone with the office of statechnology number 15 jay Harton, director of
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officefice of state Technology and state Chiefformation officeficer. James Cadwell, CFO shared administrative Services.
Scott Richardson
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Thank you too for being here nice to see you again Jay so my question really revolves around a couple of different pieces I I did notice that this contract is still on a division of information systems as opposed to state office of state Technology rather so I I is this ongoing I know we've talked about it several times and I'm just sort of looking for where we are in this is this a is this finished or or just starting or no this is just starting so this is taken us from our
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existing ITSm or IT service management tool that is the end of life of December 2026. so this will be the implementation of ServiceNow to replace that so this is
Scott Richardson
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a full rework of the existing environment and we're just at the beginning stages so this contract is for the full amount and ServiceNow is doing the implementation or a third party a third party
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we did anrfP and ondoro scored the highest on that
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expected to go? we're hoping to have it well so we're going to do it in phases so the ITSM module which is the primary module that goes out of support in December of 2026. we should be completed with that by May of 2026 and then the next phase will also include the cybersecurity governance risk and compliance module along with the strategic portfolio management piece. good and then overall the entire
Scott Richardson
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contract do you expect to complete by the end
Scott Richardson
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you very much Representative Kavanaugh thank you Mr Chair.
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
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my first question is going to be for the department of Commerce. on item number 2 broadband.
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Introduce yourselves and you Good afternoon Alllison Hatfield chief
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
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of staff commerce. le n n ie state broadband director thank y'all for being here we're asking to increase this by almost30 million dollars. I'm up here prior it was 8.8 ml almost 8.9 ml Why so the substantial increase yeah thank youpresentative great
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question so the the one year that we just ran through was 8.85 million. this is a four year term for this renewal slash amendment so it'll be four years so 885 for years' one and year two and then6 for years3 and years'4. and what are you getting
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
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for this30 million dollars? great question really is structured
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around five different work streams over the four year period. one is project oversight and grant management with our team policyy compliance of both the federal and state levels
enhanced technical assistance for our ISPs throughout the grant performance period proactive risks mitigation and issue resolution and lastly reporting and communications we how much money have we spent on broadband in the
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
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state to date if we take out the bead program because we're still working
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through that process right now it's over500 million. OK. ma'am with the bead programme how much have we spent
the current preliminary grant selections in the bead program are305 million so totaling it would be over 800. OK so we're nearing a billion dollars how much of the state is covered as of today there are um79,228 locations which are subject to our bead program. so at the high level there's about 1.36 million locations across the state and the beat program itself is intended to take care of the last remaining locations and there's79,000 228 locations that are part of
the bead program that to date do not have broadband access and have not been issued a grant to date.
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
42:56
How much of the state of Arkansas in percentage is covered with broadband service. what would say
Speaker 142
43:01
is because it's a nuanced and it seems like a very simple question
Speaker 136
43:07
but it's nuanced in that there's over 200,000 locations that have been awarded a grant to date that are not administered by our team and so we don't have insight into the exact construction you know timelines as far as getting
things done on those other projects but there's less than 80,000 locations left that have not been built to and not had a grant yet and those are the ones that are being taken care of in the bead
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
43:30
program. They may be built to it but how much of
the state is not covered I mean bottom line is I want to know how much of the state is not covered by broadband because we've been throwing money at this now forever and I understand we have ability we've had some opportunity but I also understand we've had some trouble with providers
so my question is we're spending all this money I can never get an answer whenever I ask this question because I repeatedly ask it how much of the state of Arkansas is now covered with broadband service cause I can tell you there's some that's not covered because it's in my districtok so that's a question I want answered is how much of the state is covered and I want to know how much money we've spent to get this state. I don't care what program it is how much money have we spent to get this
coverage of broadband to the state and what problems are we having with providers because I'm hearing that we've had to stop some of them because of issues with providers and I want to know what guidelines that we're doing that if we have a provider who is not doing what they're supposed to do. how are we getting that money back from that provider and are we gonna have to spend money with another provider to finish up what that provider did not do there's a lot of issues going on
in the broadband and we're not getting the full picture of what's happening with that so I guess I'm asking for transparency because there is none and we're spending30 million dollars with someone to help us with that it's mind boggling So with that Mr Chair, I'm gonna
ask that we hold this to Friday so y'all can get
Speaker 39
45:28
that information together Any other questions on number two no other questions
Speaker 19
45:35
uhpresentative eubanks thank you Mr Chair. I would like us to hold a contract
Representative Jon S. Eubanks
Unverified
45:41
number one with the Arkansas Public Service Commission. there's a meeting this afternoon with Chairman Webb and I'd like to
see what comes out of that meeting before we take action on this contract.
Speaker 53
45:55
all right let's let's go on on through and we'll we'll just put them all together uhpresentative Kavanaugh
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
46:05
My last question is for item number 16 with southeast Arkansas College.
Speaker 19
46:32
This whenever you get situated just introduce yourself and and letpresentative Kavanaugh ask a question bb ie ll a ce Debbie
Speaker 153
46:41
Wallace vice president for fiscal affairs Southeast Arkansas College. Alllison
Speaker 154
46:44
Hunthor pur purchasing specialists for southeast Arkansas College. Thank y'all. My question is this and you may not be
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
46:50
able to answer it but if you can just get the information for me is on this energy program is there amount that we've actually saved because that was one of the things this was gonna
do was gonna help us recoup some energy
cost. Is there anything that y'all have that shows how much we've been able to recoup or what you've been
Speaker 155
47:13
able to do thank you for the question we have that's part of what's we're here today to continue with the measurement and verification part of the contract and today I believe we've saved close to $86,000 over the last year in our energy cost and I can share those reports with you if you would like they
Speaker 157
47:33
do generate a report I bought the last one that I have available with me today but it shows the savings of $86,000 for over the
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
47:41
last year ok, I'm really looking for the cost over the whole project so if you could get that information that would be great because we started it in 22 so
I'd kind of like to know how it's been progressing now that we've had several years under our belt to see if we're actually getting a return on the investment with
them we can get that to you. I appreciate it thank you thank you
Speaker 6
48:06
any other questions on adam six seeing none
Speaker 53
48:11
do you want to allow that one to go go on or OK so we're gonna consider all reviewed except for one and two and we'll hold those till Friday without objection no objection all out all items but one and two are reviewed
going to D6 thank you Mrir Itemd6 is
Speaker 23
48:42
on page 24 of yourd packet. This is the instate contracts for your review today. theres 17
Speaker 36
48:48
the first one is Department of Corrections division of Community Correction with renew Lifeenter this is for communitybased treatment services for a se4 bed reentry facility in LittleRock. ber 2, Department of Corrections division ofunity Correction with wings to recover also an existing contract for a 24 bed
male reentry facility located in El Dorado.umber3, Department of Corrections division of Correction with ARG aviation. This is amendment 8 to an existing contract for aerial application services for the East Arkansas Regional Farm on the next page number4,
Speaker 23
49:26
Department of Corrections division of Correction with methven sanitation. this is amendment7 to an existing contract for waste disposal services for the north central unit located at CalicoRock.umber5, Department of Corrections division oforrection with WastePro USa this is
amendment6 to an existing contract for waste disposal services in Newport, Arkansas at the Grimes and McPherson units. Number6 Department of Health with the Arkansas Hospital Association this is a new contract. it is
Speaker 36
49:54
a sole source by justification so you will see the letter in your yellow packet or goldenrod this new contract is for the office to allow the officefice of Health Information Technology to access proprietary dashboards that utilize hospital discharge
data for the purpose of data analysis. Number7, DHS Division of County Operations with Arkansas mailingervices. This amends an existing contract for mail processing services statewide for DCOum 8 DHSddS with Alexander Tyler. This is amendment3 to an existing contract for the medical director position at the conway Human
Speaker 23
50:34
Development Center.umber 9 DHSddS with Missarren A Byeers. This is amendment4 to an existing contract and she will
provide psychiatric services at the conway Human Development Center.umber 10, Department of Public Safety, Arkansas State Police with HO Partners. This amends and increases in existing contracts. This increases the member the member account to1575 in this program it also increases pricing from52 dollars70 cents to54 dollars 80 cents for the health plan administration programme for state police. Number 11 DPS division of emergency Management with
Speaker 36
51:14
Compsis. This is a new contract. this is this goes with the ratification that you saw earlier. this is a new contract valued at70,332 dollars this is for IT support services for the department of emergency Management including computer security monitoring support and maintenance as well as Microsoft exchange and Skype services for up to 220 users. Number 12 DTSs with building authority with international business machines this is for the implementation of the maximo real estate and facilities
management systems and related software.umber 13 University of Arkansas with Cushman and Wakefield. this is amendment one to an existing contract for
Speaker 23
51:55
real estate advisory services for the university. ber 14ua LittleRock with manganholcomb partners. This is ammendment7 to an existing contract and this is for Meganholcomb to provide all kinds of public relations and marketing services including graphic design, video and radio commercial production copywriting, editing, media
buying, broadcast print, digital outdoor, etc. that takes us over to itemd page31ualittle ock with southern Lawn Services. This is for landscaping services at the Ua LittleRock campus. Number 16 with UaMs and iracle window cleaning. This is an original contract for window cleaning services at multiple locations on the Ua campus and number 17 with the University of Central Arkansas with startup junkie also known as the conductor. This is an original
contract for495,000 dollars for to become UCA's strategic Partner for innovation and entrepreneurship De deliverables will include technology transfer and innovation ecosystem development programming and events applied learning in a student pipeline development for faculty staff and community impact building these are the instate contracts Mr Chair. any questions on
Speaker 20
53:11
those six arms under6. seeing no questions without
Speaker 46
53:33
you There are4 items under other business for your
Speaker 36
53:38
review today. the first one is a member disclosure that we received from Arkansas Development finance
Authority this disclosure was submitted on behalf of Senator Jim Petty. Senator Petty has partial ownership in a construction company that is currently working on a project called Patriot Park infayetteville. This project is ongoing and so it the length
Speaker 23
54:07
of the project has been extended and so we will continue to see disclosures as long as his interest in that project construction continues the project has been delayed due to
Speaker 36
54:21
heavy rain and bad weather and so we're receiving this disclosure again just stating his involvement in the project. This is the memberber disclosure, Mr Chair. for approval any questions right like
Speaker 6
54:37
a motion for approval a motion for approval topresentative Ladermann second
Speaker 19
54:51
Second by Representative Ferguson all in favor sayy aye all opposed like sign thank you wo under yeah thank you Mr Chair.
Speaker 23
55:02
a vehicle lease approval request from Black River Technical College you'll see on item F to page two they submitted a
Speaker 36
55:10
letter to the committee they state that they have received a federal grant valued at $1.6 million and they hope
with this federal grant to lease 215 passenger transit vans over the course of 2 to 3 years and they will use those vans to bus students from local school districts around to their career and technical center for those students rece to receive training so they're
Speaker 50
55:40
requesting your approval of their motor motor lease of those two vans. Any
Speaker 39
55:46
question on F2 seeing none except a motion motion bypresentativeladydyman
Speaker 19
55:52
second by Representative Ferguson all in favor sayy aye all opposed like sign thank you members
Speaker 53
55:57
go to f 3 Thank you Mr Chair. F3 are some additional discretionary
Speaker 36
56:03
grants that we added to our agenda they are from the Arkansas artts Council.
Speaker 23
56:09
These are the arts council grants that you all see every year from the division of heritage and you will find a schedule of
all of the grants including the area served the amount requested and the amount awarded these grants are funded through general revenue special revenue and conservation tax funding and the total award for this year is on page 8 of8 or item F3 page nine and the amount awarded is $1.1 million for the year and there's a number of them also at the end that are federally funded. these are the arts council grants for your review today, Mr
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
56:53
Chairpresentativevanaugh thank you Mr Chair. is there someone from the arts council here? or
Speaker 167
57:14
ty y mar ty y director of the division of heritage Frasierwatts our acting director of the arts council
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
57:25
thank you for being here. my question is when I look through this and I'm going to look at northeast Arkansas there's one grant for Northeast Arkansas. and I think we've had this question numerous times and we've spoken about this is that this these grants don't seem to go equally to all parts of the state and I understand there's bigger populations in some area but water is the art coun doing to reach out to these underserved areas and making sure
organizations know that they can apply for these grants because it's been an ongoing battle as long as I've been here. I mean it's pretty bad when northeast Arkansas gets one grant one for $18,000. and if I went and added up how much Northwest got or or central Arkansas got it's a lot more and although we might not be northwest Arkansas and we might not be central but we do have some arts up there and so does the south
Arkansas and there's no representation there so I guess I'm I get a little frustrated when this comes to us every time because it's the same outcome every time I mean what do what do we need to do to make sure these organizations and other parts of the state are allowed to get some of this money because it's their tax dollars you're using Sorry you think
Marty Ryall
Unverified
58:51
as many times I've been up here I'd know to push that button. sorry about
that and I do we've had that discussion and it was a couple of years ago that we implemented where we have teams and arts council go out into rural areas and conduct sessions to try to get more involvement ridge don't know if you can elaborate on that but I I
Speaker 174
59:17
know that's a a program that we implemented a couple years ago. I will. yes so
Speaker 168
59:23
we did implement our lunch and learnar series programme it's part of our Get Smart series
Speaker 169
59:30
that we go out into these communities that we've already targeted that we are we have low interest it seems in our grant opportunities of of course our grant opportunities are open to everyone but we do have low interest in areas and so we have started touring those areas as a group introducing those areas to our grant offerings and to what we do as the Arkansas artts cos some of them are some areas are not as familiar with us and
what we offer and so we've been actually going into those communities and we have had some results in some of the areas but yes of course we still have a lot of grant action coming from northwest Arkansas so what communities
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
1:00:17
have you gone out to and did outreach to and say hey we had these opportunities available for you. this
Speaker 169
1:00:26
particular year we specifically targeted southeast when we pers also
specifically targeted the delta area and so oh my goodness we've gone from uhmarion to helena to to several cities in in those areas and we've had good attendance but we still haven't had as much action as we would love for people to actually apply we are going to attempt to follow a
model that we have been studying out of Ohio where they not only specifically go in and do workshops but they target the mayors and elected officials in those areas to kind of help connect us with the right community leaders and individuals that would really apply for those you know from being from northeast Arkansas and being involved in the arts community
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
1:01:27
up there I'm telling you there's a lot more in northeast Arkansas than the
foundation of arts. I'm not being you know despairing of the foundation of arts. I'm glad they're there. we've got a granddaughter doing nutcracker with them but there's a lot more opportunity there but nobody ever reaches out to these non p ro fi t s and lets them know that this ability is out there and we seem to give these grants to the same organizations year after year after year and we're not making any
progress in getting into other parts and so that's something I really want to urge you to do is because you're using Northeast Arkansas's money and we're not getting it back and it needs to go back to northeast Arkansas beca because we need the assistance as much as Northwest Arkansas does. probablybably more so in the delta more so in part of the rural part of Arkansas that Northwest has. they have the ability to raise money up there where the more rural parts of the area do not and sou I really ur ge you to find a way that you
have a more diverse group that you're giving these grants to because it's the same ones over and over and over and
Speaker 18
1:02:46
I appreciate it I'll add I'll add to that in in a lot of the small small areas the school does does that in
Speaker 20
1:02:54
in the rural schools will do a lot of
Speaker 19
1:02:57
that training in in arts and then it bleeds over into the community and and then you'll create a a foundation or or something like that so it may
be it may be something where you can touch in the school arkansas's South Arkan So that might be a good place to where you know if there is something in place in the in the in the community the the schools have that knowledge that's first place your kids are gonna be introduced to to art send the the since the last year the focus on the delta we'll
Marty Ryall
Unverified
1:03:37
make a point this coming year to make sure we get up to northeast Arkansas and provide some of these lunch and learn educational activities up there to get get more activity up there.
Speaker 20
1:03:50
I I just think that you know schools is a good place you know whenever you're have the invitation to go out to Thank you all thank you is there any other questions
Speaker 6
1:04:08
seeing none on F3 without objection or do we need a motion on that without object that taken care of if fo thank you Mr Chair F4 is an alternative delivery method
Speaker 23
1:04:25
construction project that was added after the agenda was posted to the web. This is from the University of Central Arkansas it is a campus district loop and hydronics refresh
Speaker 36
1:04:39
project that's the name of the project the description states they want to spend up to $10 million using capital reserves for the construction of a new north chiller plant and upgrade to the existing Southchiller plant at the University of Central Arkansas campus. they have chosen Kinko Construction as their contractor, the design professionals AMR architects and they estimate they will complete this project in June of 2027. This is the alternative delivery method construction project Mr Chair. Any question
Speaker 6
1:05:13
seeing none without objection it'll be approved adam E is a reports give you a minute to review those reports any questions on the seeing none
Speaker 53
1:05:47
without objection we consider those approved or reviewed any other
Speaker 6
1:05:51
business come before the committee we are adjourned
Agenda
A. Call to Order
- Comments from Chairs
B. Methods of Finance
C. Discretionary Grants
D. Services Contracts for Legislative Review/RFQ Approvals
E. Reports and Communications
F. Other Business
G. Adjournment
Documents
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Senator Terry Rice
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Representative Ryan A. Rose
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Paula Stone
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Representative Kenneth B. Ferguson
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Representative DeAnn Vaught
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Representative Frances Cavenaugh
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Scott Richardson
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Representative Jon S. Eubanks
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Marty Ryall
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