ALC-Review

Review committee and session Senator Flippo you have any opening comments okay we'll get started then K. thank you Mr chairman of the third first thing on our agenda today is going to be a methods of finance and the first page of the B. packet is the letter from DFA showing the different agencies that they're sending over a method of finance far on the next page is the chart that shows this year's I mean this months of request the first one is a issue Jonesborough for H. back replacement this is for campus wide H. back replacement And dealing with terms from the American rescue plan act it's four point five million dollars and they they know that the majority of this funding is pending coming from A. R. P. money and that was on the pier agenda this morning of nine percent of it is coming from their university reserves second one a issue Jonesborough for qualified road closure in sight lighting they're closing Quapaw road to created pedestrian walkway and to add site lighting two hundred ninety eight thousand eight seventy and they know they have university result other reserves to cover that Division of building up already has renovation work being done on the Justice Building. It is for expansion of the north and south wing of the Justice Building in to convert the library into an interactive learning center and meeting rooms this method of finances for fifteen point nearly three million dollars they know that ninety one percent of this will come from bond proceeds and nine percent from court fees then you have Southeast Arkansas college this is for their energy performance contract it renovation and updating of air handling control system and H. fax system and of this is in association with trying to prevent the spread of covid three point two million dollars they have federal grant funds that came from the for the higher end emergency relief code funds and reserves. Number five U. a combined community college of baseball this is for boiler replacement ventilation upgrades of for independence hall and its two hundred sixty thousand dollars and they also have a RPA funding to cover that UALR for the library learning Commons for odd numbered library to accommodate centralized student assistance seven hundred forty nine thousand nine hundred ninety nine they have cash funds and UALR for the sub first floor renovation for the student union building three hundred twenty two thousand seven fourteen they have cash funds that will cover that project UAMS has a view the first one is for the campus energy performance contract to revision on that this is will be for implementation of their investment grade audit they're installing new generator plant replacing air handling units lab controls are realigning also pine and cedar Boulevard among other things I you'll notice that previously we had reviewed a hundred million dollars and this is going up to a hundred forty nine million they have bond pres proceeds to cover those projects parking deck number for fees to build a parking deck on the east side of this is for the design services for that this subject will garage approx approximately one thousand vehicles a million nine hundred fifty six thousand they have university reserves UAMS for northwest Arkansas UAMS ortho sports medicine clinic of this is for expansion of the facility and this will be for the design fees only you'll note that this is going to be for four point nearly five million and the overall project will be nearly sixty three million dollars so they note that at this point they have you university reserves to cover the design feed portion of that project and will see a. Division later on with probably a different funding source then you have you a mask for Ward tower seven E. infection control to correct infection control issues seven hundred two thousand four seventeen they have university reserves to cover that the next one is Arkansas tech university this was originally seen by this committee in June of twenty one but they've changed the funding source so this is six million three hundred fifty thousand dollars and they note now that they have a arpa funding for this for the this facility as well as renovation and repair funds and so because of the change in that funding source they wanted to and we wanted to give the committee an opportunity to look at this again so those are the methods of finance on today's agenda. Represent love you're recognized thank you Mr Mr Smith I want to ask in the ones that have the op of funds are now these are funds coming through the state or. Then go to the local governments I mean what were or have we improve these aren't the funds. yes Sir these are the funds that are going through peer of in fact this morning there was one of these projects was on the pier agenda this morning and we are tracking of these funds as they come across in projects we are tracking when those funds have gotten approved by the pier an ALC prior to our at the same time that we're seeing okay all right thank you. Saying no more questions a sexual be reviewed. Mr chairman the next item on the agenda is an alternative delivery construction project these are going to be for those special projects over five million dollars for the construction of the project this is one also that we've seen before this was seen by the committee in two thousand nineteen it's for our community corrections and what it is is they built They bought the time next building over North Little Rock in corrections brought over an original ATM for thirteen million dollars and it was reviewed for renovation work since that time transformation is taking place and they decided to add other entities to the building to be house there. they also during the remodeling process they knew that there was some repair work that was going to need to be done on the role for referred placement in the in future years but in the of installing some new air handlers as well as us you know we had this past year they there's some unanticipated damage so they realize that they needed to do these repairs or get this roof replacement done up sooner and so they work with a BA an ABA said that they needed to since it was an ongoing project that they needed to work with of the entity that they had working on the rest of the building to do the referred repair another work so they've done it through a change order so today we are seeing an additional five million dollars on that alternative delivery method they know that they have bond money and special revenues that they'll use to cover this additional work that prod that contract is with with Baldwin and shell construction company on the second page you see the number of contractors who responded and that they interviewed and again this is for corrections for community correction corrections part of the the corrections department an alternative delivery method of construction. Senator Hammer you're recognized thank you Mr solely with the agency here please. Your record recognize yourself please Sullivan Grosso Terry corrections. Jerry Bradshaw director division of community corrections. Afternoon jim here to your left I heard the comment made this is the result of transformation and the other agencies or departments are going to be consolidated into this building is that correct. Soon Senator and thank you for the question to those I still point I want to clarify this is Amendment is not a result of the transformation efficiency that. One star what is going on here is three full and miss Miller looted to the most significant part of the project in the tail end of her description when the previous department of community correction of approaches this building or begin the procurement work in twenty seventeen twenty eighteen it was known at the time that the roof was going to need replacement. Due to of limitations to the available funding the decision was made to remove the necessary roofing work from the project. Fast forward rain snow things have we've had some once in a generation once in one hundred year wet weather events of the last few years that has sped up the need to replace the roof it has also created significant drainage problems within the building so what this amendment is going to do is fix the roofing of the roofing issues that were known at the time of procurement it will also fix the drainage issues that have developed since the department moved into the building beginning in twenty nineteen and then the third thing that this amendment will do is allow the department to renovate some bacon sale space that we have entered into a memorandum of understanding with the US marshal service and they're going to move some of their The operations into the they can part of our building the entities within the department of correction that have moved into the former Tomic building as a result of transformation moved into space that was already built out as part of the project and there have been no cost generated. to the building as a result of the transformation efficiency okay and when those consolidated over there to the building what was the cost of them moving from where they were over to your facility factored into that or was there any additional costs that they had to incur that they weren't incurring before they moved over to your facility no is there were no additional costs incurred what happens those entities that were paying paying rent at a commercial location that ran amount is has been we allocated to a what I call a maintenance fund of lycopene made maintenance fund for the building so there have been no additional costs that we've actually kept costs flat for those entities okay thank you Mr. Senator Elliot you're recognized. Thank you Mister chair Mister graves I you or the contractor one will know this and I was wondering who are these subcontractors ever been hired by VOL when shall and if those sub contractors which of them maybe minority contractors. I don't know that we have that information with us today but we can follow up with Baldwin and figure out the damn demographics of their subcontractors as is that something that as we use this. General contractors is that something that is being pushed by for example ADC at this point and other agencies. As a as part of considering folks to get these contracts as we've talked about for a long time the general contractor that may not be in their conscience maybe they don't care I don't know but who we are trying to do better by this is that a part of what's discussed when we hire a general contractor that became important because we've been working with the agencies and we are retired general contractors they felt committee some have done a really good job you know it's just so concerned at all about helping us try to be more thoughtful about how we hire people include people in these millions of dollars that we spend with them all the time the bid process itself is governed by All rules and policies of the BA so I would have to defer to the B. A. as to how the minority procurement piece comes into their solicitation and review of bids but this project was put out for bid pursuant to DBA rules and all all requirements related to the bid process were followed but how those rules apply consider minority contractors and they're scoring that would have to be a question not for D. D. B. A. on Mister may I ask Mr Armstrong to see if he has information about this contract would you know. Okay he does not. Well. I if if you can let me know that will be helpful but I I well it might or might not be helpful because right now it's hindsight but I just want to somebody who knows that Mr somebody's people around the corner up there I'm not in charge of his or somebody yelling for. Okay. If you would introduce yourself please. Going to White with the EPA construction instructor. And to answer questions of our documents right now or we encourage of minority participation as being in a last rule but as the of. Four five years ago the contractors lasting was increased to fifty thousand dollar threshold for a contractor's license which that has freed up a lot more activity at the subcontractor market to focus on that group of course we work with economic development in this. With it being a certified contractor they have to have an Arkansas dress you will wear and so it's a kind of a. Of we do leave it up to the contractors to make that selection but it is strongly encouraged at this time what does that look like strongly encouraged. Basically I know that the state agency level basically the threshold for open just opened just PO eight it has a larger threshold you can actually go contract directly with the minority participating contractor at a higher threshold than going out to formal bid for state agencies that has given monthly in the more freedom to select a contractor based on instead of open be it a formal bid process and then also on the contract inside the federal Contracting most of our contractors that deal with the federal contracts they have of set asides the if we do not have set aside that are and so there when you dealing with a contractor like bones shall there no well versed in any you know any contractors working on the highway department they already have the mechanism in place to attract those because those. He basically has advantage to their contracting. On the federal level actually have to show proof of how much percentage they have with focused on that group the state is not doing that at this time. Do you think of the vote something that if if if you were to talk with a ball and shelter right now shell right now would they have we done anything to help them be of the mind that this state has a goals I know we don't have set aside and we keep adding to the folks we want to be a part of the largess that we keep. I don't mean handing out in a pejorative way but it keeps going to the same people the same types of groups we've added veterans to that group that we want to be better and better and we've added when then and then we have ethnic and racial minorities and to to and disabilities and so if if we can find out please from Baldwin shall if they have paid and yet if they have in their subcontractors because this is really a way to get around the state even doing I think it's best to try to reach the to reach those goals we just say well it is well it's a it's a general contractor and they can do what they want to do that is not good enough because I think at some point we can actually figure out a way if it's Joyce Elliott involving shall and balls and shell is is obviously and showing us that they are making an attempt and what they're doing that is very deliberate to be inclusive they are to get points more than Joyce Elliott if she's not doing that's the kind of thing I'm talking about and I'll just say that the last thing I'll say about this and this is this was my real fear what we even started going down this road but the fact is some of the general contractors are doing a really good job with this and there are others who act as if they don't even know this you know this exists you know this these These goals that we have I wish we could do better than goals but we can't do what the federal government and have the set asides. But all of us honor to be working at this I think a lot more. I'd like to have the information from all when shall though as you said Mr graves beginning I'd like to let me know about that thank you. Thank you Mr chair. Thank you gentlemen without any more questions a sexual stand reviewed. Thanks. Items on the agenda will be. The first reply point the health department. Okay sorry about that we're moving all grants of. Testing. Okay we're gonna try grants now of the C. packet of the first group or from the health department of the first one is an amendment to an existing grant that they have with children's hospital to continue to work on the well coordinated infant and child death review program the next one is original new a grant for the Arkansas State walking college college to increase physical activity it's an eighteen week program numbers three through six are all going to be amendments to grants that they have for the Arkansas clinical transformation program grant of to receive Quality improvement in clinic redesign training to improve the quality of care for chronic disease patients that takes this over to number seven of that one is the original grant for a Billboard and social media campaign dealing with a persons to receive HIV testing education and assistance was service the next one also dealing with HIV testing and education would be specifically for persons between the ages of fifteen to twenty nine and the number nine is the same type of thing of between the ages of fifteen to sixty five those are all of grants for the department of health the next ones we have us sick to our the Department of Human Services grants the first one is for a peers achieving collaborative training treatment project to excess of two in cars rated individuals an inmate to those participating in drug court to assist in facilitating self care recovery groups and one a one week coverage sections numbers two through ten are all going to be amendments to the existing grass they have for emergency solutions grants that takes this over to our third group of grants which come from the division of workforce services on page eight if they have one grant with the Arkansas food bank network and this is to continue to address hunger through collaborative efforts that provide additional food assistance to low income families with children this it has to do with their emergency school pantry program and those are all the grants on today's agenda. Serving you're recognized. Thank you a question for the Arkansas department of health and number two. Is under C. one C. one yes. If you would state your name and. Renee Mallory Arkansas department of health. Kristy Sellars Arkansas department help. Thank you thank you Mr chair I'm over here hi how are you all hi and so just a quick question on on this particular one and because I see that it's an out of state entity and I'm not opposed to people walking more and becoming more physically active I'm just curious as to why we chose this when you know I know that all of our county extension offices have different types of programs like like this and so why would we kinda go out of network and not utilize our current state agencies to pot try to align this type of a program with what's currently being offered. There's and this is being funded the CDC into our grant in order to spend this money for this type of project there were certain entities that were already identified as being able to offer this type of program so the CDC chose to this person would be awarded so there was more than one option and so trying to meet our needs and what our goals were and that they were selected where is there any Arkansas entity that was on the recommendation list by the CDC no ma'am. Well I don't particularly like. A federal agency outside of the State of Arkansas that. Deciding these types of things for us to be quite Frank because we have a lot of entities within the State of Arkansas that could do this. So All right I appreciate that I do have one other question and M. and you can get back to me but and you can get back to me with with folks but is the Arkansas department of health going to be offering contracts for hospitals to an increase antibody treatment centers for people that have COVID to prevent them from being hospitalized are you actively and aggressively pursuing that Avenue. Senator Irvin where we're actively working with any body that would tell us that they can do monoclonal antibodies at this point I think we need to have and personally you can get back to me but we need we need an aggressive clinical an approach to that and and I appreciate the other contracting here for clinical Transformation however at this time you know it's really critical that people have that ability to get treatments that's available twenty four seven and they can't get that right now except for Monday through Friday and it's very limited so people that don't have a PCP are people that are under served cannot get that and are ending up in our hospitals overwhelming or hospital situation right now so I I would really like to see and a very aggressive approach by the department of health to contract as soon as possible to open up antibody treatment centers and sites for patients in Arkansas citizens as quickly as possible and I don't see anything like that in today's reviews contract reviews you even have emergency procurements back here and so we need to really I want to I want to update on that from from the department of health thank you. Thank you saying no more questions a sectional stand review. The next group Mr chairman there are contracts the D. package and the first thing is the letter from Mr ever Armstrong of offices state procurement. He does point out that there are two contracts on today's agenda we're going to see those contracts there actually reported under eighty one number fifteen and number sixteen he knows that these contracts of four corrections I believe. Were two contracts that initially came to the attention of them because they Time ran out on the contracts before they got renewed and after further requiring always be determined that there this was merely in it administrative oversight and not an attempt to circumvent Arkansas procurement law so they let them go ahead with the amendments that they were wanting to put on the report today neither these nor any other contract that I was P. is reviewed and presented for today's meeting appear on their face to have been procured in violation of Arkansas procurement law so the first group of contract that will look at today or construction related contracts a issue Three Rivers has the first one it's a on call architectural services and also to work on the historical writs the eight the eight number two is parks and tourism and this is an amendment to the existing contract that they have for the visitor center located at pinnacle mountain state park number three U. A. Phillips community college for on call projects in very small construction projects number four UCLA this is a design services contract for their snow fine arts as well as their communication science and disorders building those are all the construction related contracts on today's agenda. You saying no questions of the sectional stand reviewed. Next or inter governmental contracts between state agencies are the first one is the department of commerce with the Arkansas educational television commission and this is an original contract that they were awarding far an agreement between the office of skills development and Arkansas PBS to create a video promoting apprenticeship in Arkansas number to start some or DHS and the first one is DHS with you L. R. for funding for substance abuse prevention national conferences number three is DHS would you A. L. R. and this is for substance abuse and misuse treatment and re entry training number four also DHS and U. L. R. this one is to continue data collection reporting of or juvenile justice and delinquency prevention prevention act L. number five or is one for UALR with the university of Wyoming and this is to evaluate work reporting and presenting this strategic prevention framework partnership for success grant number six is UALR with university of Wyoming this one is for evaluation of S. A. B. G. and S. P. S. L. at S. P. F. P. to provide ongoing progress reports review and update logic models of this has to do with their substance abuse block grant and those are the inter governmental contracts on today's agenda. Senator Hammer you're recognized thank you can we get somebody with Human Services department please. And it's the Division of aging adults with behavioral health services. If you would please state your name and Department. Thanks chairman more quite warm Human Services. Thank you Mr all star. J. hill department services agent of the Haverhill you're recognized thank you afternoon German just quick question number two the extension or the adding of funding of all that's a hundred percent federal and but are we tracking and what you have in the way of tracking to determine the return on investment that we're actually turning down the substance abuse. I'm sorry center we get we get regular reporting and our data back from you L. R. you on these on all these contracts we have these data these these contracts and R. block grant funding most of our federal grants that all required reporting format that requires to have an entity that will do the review of the results of the dollars that we spend out to just to ensure that we are affected Lee utilizing the dollars in that we're seeing transvestism and what we want positive trends and so that's what the. We get regular reports back from them on on all the grants that we have contract for them to support us all and surviving adds one to keep in mind for substance abuse funding that we get from federal government were required to spend a certain percentage that on prevention efforts and that's what this is part of is almost regional firms and I'm trying to member would. Which committee do you submit those reports to or is it just upon request. I just wanna request certain provide you all any that you like okay I'd like to I'd like to get those just to have a measuring stick to see for the amount of dollars that were actually you know what we're getting back for. and that that be made that thank you. Thank you with any more questions that sectional stand review. Mr chairman the next group of contracts of those are out of state contracts beginning on page eight of identity the first one is for the department of public safety and this is with our anti computer systems up for crime victims reparations board digital claim processing this is a contract that is done is a special procurement. So you have and it's the first time we're seeing so you have all the letters dealing with the special your man in the yellow packet there with each day this Special procurement is to upgrade to an automated digital workflow format funding is tied to cares funds and funds must be used by the end of the year and that's why unless the gave the approval for them to use special procurement of to secure this contract number two is DFA child support enforcement to provide paternity test to custodial and noncustodial parents of children in this state or the office of child support enforcement number three DFA management services and this one is far I covering maintenance and support of the Arkansas integrated revenue system number four is the health department and this is for monthly and yearly reports to them read in on test results from pap test. Next is health department this one has to do with providing for analytical services to fill the water quality monitoring requirements as mandated by the EPA number six is the health department for cancer registry certified tumor registrar services number seven is DHS and this is for continuing to provide telephone answering services number eight is medical waste services for the Arkansas State Hospital. Numbers nine through thirteen you're all going to be for DHS disabilities services and these are going to be to provide certified nursing assistants for all five Arkansas human development centers throughout the state that's going to take us over to number fourteen of on page twelve in this one is DHS contract amendment for information technology consulting of for DHS number fifteen is information systems and this is the original contract to manage maintaining infrastructure that runs a VM ware software. Number sixteen you a fait it bill this is a contract that they have or federal agency partnering strategic teaming and congressional relations for the purpose of supporting the University of Arkansas division of agriculture research initiatives want to point out that this one is a four year contract and that's the total amount for the four years UALR has a contract for Arkansas prevention needs assessment survey. Number eighteen on page fourteen is U. A. M. S. and this one is the contractor shall provide total absence management leave administration and legal compliance of the family medical leave act number nineteen U. A. M. S. this one is is actually a construction related contract but was not noted in time but it will be later on moved to construction related contracts because this one goes with the MOF we sell earlier on constructing the parking deck for UAMS so those are the out of state contracts of today's agenda. President Cavenaugh you're recognized yes I have a question for the FNA on number three. So my from definitely here. If you would please state your name for the record. Melanie Haislip with the Department finance and administration. Mark Reagan the unnamed. You're right. On this contract it says that we're going to we're renewing it and it's for sixteen point two million dollars for a year and when you read what it does it talks about the processing of taxes driver's license testing permits and vehicle registration and titling in Arkansas. Sixteen point two million dollars is a lot of money to spend for that and I'm bringing this up because as someone who deals with titles on a daily basis your backlog on getting titles to consumers is. Astronomical. So if we're paying sixteen point two million dollars for this why we got such a backlog backlog in processing. Titles. I apologize we're gonna have to get back with you on that answer and look at that contract this is for the system that issues that have the. Past enterprises who we contract with for the Arkansas integrated revenue system which does handle titles yes ma'am. It also handles our taxes so it's it's all of revenue and the taxes and stuff but I can get back with you on that answer. I'd like to put a hold on this for Friday so you all can get does that answer because there is a big problem with our titles and state Arkansas as someone who deals on a daily basis and consumers call me when we saw on the car and we I mean it's just it's just a nightmare so we can get a answer to that yes. That will be fine we'll get with the Revenue Division on your thank you thank you okay we'll hold that one. Represent Vaught you're recognized thank you Mr chair number fourteen human service department. My first question might be for miss Kathy Mr okay. and recognize yourself again please. Thanks for more quite DHS. Thank you Mr chair so I've noticed down here it says the original contract was not reviewed by a L. C. is there a reason why the original contract was not reviewed by a L. se. Committee. Sure is of all this contract we came through it was brought to L. C. for review at the time Council declined to review it and the governor then elected to go ahead and do for the contracts since it had been presented Dale C. for review. Interesting and and then my second question is it looks like we did to amendments pretty much like back to back in my reading that incorrectly. Number of your ring correctly what we did as I understand is when this Mr Dan if you can join me just correct me if I'm a state this is we're working with the vendor on some changes around the contract so what we do is we did a no cost amendment to keep the mid keep the contract going for the extra mother to take to work through those additional changes and then we'll see once we finalize those additional changes then we submitted the amendment for the additional funding to and Mister Lincoln at anything else that I may look out there Jeff the DHS and that's correct so we were coming up on the deadline and I honestly didn't think we were going to complete our negotiations with the vendor in time to make it to review before the contract expired the first of September so we did a time only extension on that and then this is actually five hundred thousand dollars less than what the your five R. F. P. funding was as originally outlined in the RFP so we were able to successfully negotiate that down. Okay. Thank you Mr okay. Thank you. Senator Hammer you're recognized thanks I Mark maybe you can answer these two quick questions the call center down the south which call center what or who they taking calls for what. What are the nature of the calls with her taking sure the call center is for the adult maltreatment hotline and they handle all the after hours calls calls for calls to come into the maltreatment hotline for adults as well as they also provide translation services and also answering the phone during the day when our staff maybe working with other calls okay and then the other question is. The the contract for to provide medical waste services for the state hospital Does that include. Like of anything COVID related or is that just your average medical waste the reason I ask is we approved a large amount to an institution or institutions last week because they said increased cost due to cope with the way the you know the the emergency stuff had to be handled is does this take into account any of that you know hi motion is no this is just the ordinary medical waste this Gerry by the hospital one thing to keep in mind is that the the hospital operates under different standards from nursing homes and nursing homes they have CMS requirements that that play into that that affect that cost okay this but since the state hospital that does apply here okay thanks thank you Mr all right thank you. You saying no more questions with the exception of item three the sectional stand reviewed. Mr chairman the last group of contracts or in state contracts the first one is a issue Jonesborough this is to provide landscaping services to the Arkansas State University Jones for a campus number two A. issue Three Rivers is for cleaning services for selling county career and technical center number three is career read rehab services this is a of contract for developing and implementing a program of on the job training for young adults have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder number four DFA a child support enforcement for a process server number five is the health department and this one is for tech services in non IT technical support number six is the health department for janitorial services. Are there gonna be eight contracts that are all going to be for performance based Day rate for comprehensive residential treatment services and with the new regulations and laws we see any changes material changes that come on a contract number twenty is DHS with the Spanish interpreters and translators for continuing language interpretation and transcription services both oral and written this is for those individuals who are seeking benefits offered by the agency might have limited English proficiency number twenty one is certified nursing assistants at all human development centers a number twenty two is for physical therapy services for residents of Southeast Arkansas Human development center number twenty three is a contract for the nursing board this is for investigation of nursing services to do private investigations on nurses licensed in the state number twenty four is also for nurse investigator reporting. Number twenty five as the state police and this is for their licensing system automation number twenty six is to provide armed security guard services for the U. a community college hello number twenty seven as you a fait it bill and this is for redesign and redevelopment of the Arkansas information management system on behalf of the cooperative extension services UALR of first one is for producing the archival risk factor data book numbers twenty nine through forty one a number of contracts Amendment Ford UALR dealing with substance abuse and these are for prevention services in Arkansas communities so that's going to take us over to contract number forty two that's on page thirty four and that's where Veterans Affairs and Veterans Affairs has a new contract or veteran's headstone installation services they have a contract amendment for housekeeping services for the veterans home in Fayetteville and those are all the in state contracts on today's. Senator Rapert you're recognized. The Richard DHS for division of aging adults behavior health. I Mark why DHS. J. hill at Jean they'll never health of missed what the. Is this number seven is that. or or all of these just mental health is is the seven four U. services. Under seven it is for mental health services in is not otherwise contract this is for our committee Mill Hill Sir contracted the centers as they go into the recent article on problems with the. You services center is that anything to do with these contracts no Sir okay I'd I'd like to follow up on that and see see from background what we're doing since that came out if we can do that sure thank you thank you thank you Mr. Senator Hammer you're recognized thank you gentleman the question is on the performance based contracting standards it they're all because it states amendment to this is that because the standards are being increased which is driving the cost up that we've got to amend these are what's. Can you defend defined that please no Sir we we work with the C. Macy's to re write some of the standards to clarify them more loyal more clear little easier to work with in terms of adding substantive per provisions obligations they did not add any to obligations understanding no that's correct it was just to clarify exactly what the responsibilities were but no there were no there were no substantive changes to the duties or requirements so the dollar figures represented in these contracts are the increases are there just a benchmark and time of the amount paid to date verses the M. mount the total or this was just the new year's funding for okay okay thank you. Mister read questions couple others thank you. Not only. I'd like to is somebody from the nursing board here's to if nobody else is whenever the permitted Patterson board here. Mr weather coming can I make a a statement please sure if you alarms in the building I'd like to get copies of their reports like I asked for awhile ago on Any a thing this I've got to have to report to the feds as far as their opioid money and benchmark improvements I'd like to get that from them as well related to the contract center in here like I ask for from the other entity while ago okay we'll make a note of that. Going recognize yourself. Matt Gilmore or health. Recognized thank you after you met Mr on the on the nursing board number twenty three it's to pay for investigations do you know how many nurses are under investigation right now. Not talking here they have will over about two thousand investigations a year. Okay cross there sixty five thousand plus licensees so it's a it's a low they have several contract with investigators plus the use of our pharmacy services folks okay and where I'm going with this is with the nursing shortage being what it is is this amount sufficient to get those investigations completed as expeditiously as possible so if the nurses are clear they can get back on the field and get practicing. I would think so they have they get this I wanna say five or six private like this and then these are pharmacy services would also I haven't heard about issues that I can check and they're all that you know if you don't mind please I'd just like to I mean if the if there's a big backlog under the conditions were under even if we had to take it up as a specialized in to to get him cleared and they have some flexibility I think they're with the board as well where the director can help but as far as look at the investigations and some complaints can be dismissed pretty quickly if there's not an issue but I haven't heard of any issues but I'll check and see our thank you thank Mr. Thank you Matt. Saying no more questions a sectional stand review. Mr chairman the last items that are on the agenda are reports that come before the committee there's one report for service contracts that had been previously reviewed that there's no material change in the contracts there's also the second report is of any contracts that are under the threshold for report of that need to be reported to the committee and then the third a report to II three are contracts that were secured emergency and those all deal with COVID expenses that came before other to the agencies and those are all the items on today's agenda. Any other business. Okay we'll stand adjourned.