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Speaker 3
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Members find your seats we're gonna get started thank you
they could be wrong. Yeah, I'll have to look it up Reviews subcommitteia come to order madam chairir
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you got anything to share? right if nothing to share we'll go to methods of finance Thank you Mr Chair.
Speaker 11
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good afternoon members Katty Walden Bureau of Legislative Research Fiscal Division the first set of items for your
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review today are in the methods of finance these are submitted by institutions and agencies with large scale capital projects they're under item B in your packet. first you'll see a letter from Mr. Dan Barraser DFA officefice ofccounting presenting these projects and then on the following page you'll
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see a summary of each one there are 17 for your review this month.
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Number one is with UFA Division of agriculture. this is revising an existing MOF for their food science research
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center construction.umber 2 is with the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. This revises an existing MOF up to5.7 bill dollars. This is for a new track and soccer complex. they're using private funding and federal grants.umber3, UAMS this is a new MOF for the El Dorado clinical renovation at4,000 square foot facility they're using 100% foundation funds.umber4 also UAMS this is a new MOF for $2 million using a healthalours and servicestration grant. This is for hazardous
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chemicals containment building renovation. Number5 UAMs a new MOF for378,000 dollars using found ation funding for their cancer institute ourth floor in fusion waiting room update.umber6uAMS also $1.8 million using foundation funds for their El Dorado family residency renovation project. Number7 is with AU Jonesboro.
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This is a new MOF for337,000 dollars. they're using university reserves
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and this is for university hall fifth floor piping.
on the following page you'll see another MOF withuaMs this is for $1.5 million they're using healthalours andervicesdministration grants for their central fiveC student and employee health lab number 9 UAMs a new MOF for $2.1 million also with the healthalsources andervices grants for their Monroe maternal and infantducation
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building renovation. Number 10 UAMS also Monroeudent wellnessgrame. this
is for $1.3 million also with the same health resources and services grants. Number 11 with Arkansas Tech University. this is a new MOF for700,000 dollars. they're using facilities repair and renovation reserves funding and this is for their east and north entrance replacement ber 1el with UCA this is $2 million using capital reserves for their innovation campus located and to be shared with the u of a Community College atorralton.umber 13 AU Jonesboro
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for painting of their Arkansas hall. This is valued at587,000 dollars using university reserves. Number 14 also AU Jonesboro. this is for their Arkansas Hallancoil replacement project phase two,750,000 dollars using auxiliary reserves. Number 15 Asu Jonesboro also University Hallancoil replacement phase 2 also750,000 dollars using auxiliary reserves 16 is with Henderson State University. This is for campus defferred maintenance projects it's valued
at $1.3 million and this is used or they're paying it using tuition and fees and auxiliary profits. Finally, number 17 with UCA this is for resurfacing their outdoor track. It is estimated to cost $1.73 million using capital reserves. These are the methods of finance, Mr Chair. madam chairir
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if you got a question the University of Arkansas bees of agriculture somebody
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introduce yourselves and Good afternoon'm Jeff Weaver, the director of government affairs for the University
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
7:21
of Arkansas division of agriculture Matt Brown CFfo thank you my question just really quick. I noticed on this MOF that the original projected cost was35 million. now the revised projected cost is62 million. what's caused that big of an increase
Speaker 30
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really mostly an increase in the scope due to the federal funding that's been received30 million dollars in federal
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
7:44
funding what increase the scope are you doing now?
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7:47
Making the building much larger and more in line with the research that's going to be performed there OK, so be a little
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
7:54
more specific in why you're jumping from35 million to62 million. it's really just scope and increasing cost. so how
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much are you increasing the floor plan the square
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
8:08
footage from the original plan it was maybe not
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the best original estimate of cost so what cost increased to
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
8:15
make it go up this much? from what I've been
told just general costs increase and representative the the lab space
Speaker 36
8:24
is extremely expensive and the cost estimate on that was too low so when so when we got the actual it was much higher again I'm gonna ask
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
8:34
I'm asking for a specific y'all are speaking in generalities but you're saying you're going
from35 million to62 million. What made the increase of the cost. So what was it? Was it the metal? was it the architecture fee? was it the pavement? was it the infrastructure? was it the water? what was it? I'm not sure that I know the answer
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to that question but I get I can get it for youa.
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Mr Chair, I'd like to have the answers to those questions right thank you ok
Speaker 10
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any questions on B Any questions on B3 4 5 6 7 89 10 11,12 13,14,15,16 or 17 if not madam chairir, do you
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
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something with that yes if I could have a motion to hold this until they get the information to us and hope they'll
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provide it by Friday for full ALc motion in a second to holdb1 until Friday all in favor sayy aye all opposed like san thank you members all right accept a motion to accept me
too through B17.motion and a second all in favor sayy aye all opposed like sign thank you members let's go on to the discretionary grant
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see thank you Mrir. Iteamm see here the discretionary grants
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submitted by agencies there are only for this month Number 1 is C1. this is from the department of healthalth. This is an amendment to an existing grant to the Northwest Arkansas Crisis Intervention Inc. Arkansasrisis Center this adds another year as well as $250,000
Speaker 12
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in funding for evidence-based suicide prevention trainings. Item C2 on the next page we have one grant for review from the department of humanman
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Services this is with the division of youthervices they're amending an existing grant to right of passage incorporated they're adding464,000 dollars and extending this grant for another year and this is for DYS facilities with youths male and female aged 10 to21 who were educated with treatment team review.
ber C3, these are the last two discretionary grants for your review they are
Speaker 12
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both with the Arkansas catfish promotion Board. the first one is to catfish processors Llc they're giving $25,000 for the promotion of Arkansasrown
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catfish and number two is with catfish farmers of Arkansas. this one is for $16,350 and both of those grants are using special revenue also for the promotion of Arkansasrown
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catfish. These are the discretionary grants, Mr Chair. any question on 1 through3.
Senator Terry Rice
Unverified
12:04
SenatorRass, thank you Mr Chair. I don't need somebody to come up but somebody from division of youthervis wave let me see who's here I need to catch you before you get going OK? what I'm warning if you be thinking about I'd like some numbers that are in the 10 to21s and if you've got a breakdown of the 18 to21s there's some upcoming judiciary meetings and I just like to have that information doesn't have to
be this week I think we're starting next month thank you Mr
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chair thank you is there anything on 12 or3? seeing none
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all except a motion to accept C1 through3 motion and a second all in favor say aye all opposed like sign thank you members go to section Dervist contract. thank you Mr Chair. Under section D you'll find the
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contract section of all the contracts and business presented for your review this month
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first you'll see a letter from the office of state procurement Director Miss Jessica Patterson and she's saying that her staff has reviewed all of the contracts presented for the review this month and they have found to have not been procured in violation of state law. they ask for favorable review. You'll see that in her in the body of her letter she is mentioning the one ratification request that I'll go over with you in a second. and then finally at the
end of the letter she lists as requested by legislative council all the contracts that are for review this month that were procured using the traditional or most advantageous proposal method. moving to page or item D1 you have one ratification for your review this month. This is presented by the Economic Development Commission which is a division of Department of Commerce they state that there is a federal grant that they received from the National Science Foundation this grant also comes with a required evaluation of this
Speaker 12
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program and the contract with the evaluator expired on June30th of 2026 but they unexpectedly received an extension of this grant through the next fiscal year through the end of june of 2027. and so
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the agency has determined that they would like to ratify $17,740 for the ongoing and and finishing evaluation of this grant program and that is the ratification for your review today
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Any questions on the ratification? seeing none take a motion to motion in a second all in favor sayy aye all opposed like sign thank
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you members go to number 2 construction related contracts thank you Mrir itemdamd2 or construction related
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contracts they're 8 for your review today. Number one is with AU Newport. this is with Taggart architects ammendment one to an existing
contract and this is for modifying and downsizing a footprint for their health scienceences facility.umber 2, Department of Military with bracket, Kennerick and associates this is a new contract it is for the design of their army fitness test cover building.umber3 Department of Military with Leis Elliott McMore andadden a new contract for design of their new barracks ber 4 with SaU Tech with Leuis Elliott McMoren Vadden Ragsdale and Woodward. This is for oncall architecturalervices
ammendment two to an existing contract. Contracts number5 and6 kind of go together they're with the University of Arkansas for ASMSA. The first one is with architecture lus incorporated. this is amendment two to an existing contract for architectural services. you'll see this is a negative number because they're adjusting the total contract amount down by5,800 dollars and this is related to their maintenance and woodshop building project and then correspondingly on number6 you'll see a contract for Bell Construction Incorporated also
for the maintenance building and woodshop project.
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they have an amendment3 that increases their construction contract by5,338 dollars. on the next page you
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have contract number7 with University of Arkansashits vansRascoe northwest Arkansas. This is for architectural services for the renovation of the UADA Alzheimer greenhouse complex infayetteville it's a new contract and finally number 8 withua LittleRockwitzlevin's rasco. this is ammendment two to an existing contract for oncall
architectural services these are the construction contracts. Any questions on
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those e you know those e construction contracts seeing none motion to accept
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motion and a second by Senator Mcee. all in favor sayy aye all opposed like signed thank you members go to the intergovernmental contracts thank you
Speaker 10
17:05
Mr Chair.d3 are the intergovernmental contracts. there
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are6 for your review today. Number 1 is Department of Commerce AEDC with the
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University of Arkansasfayetteville. This is for services for their World Trade Center tradelo staff, ammendment5 to an existing contract? ber 2 DhSdivision of agging Adults and Behavioral Health with Ua Litterrock. This is ammendment6 to an existing contract and this is to revise the budget allocation for evidencebased trainings across the state for the midsouth summermer school conference. ber 3 DHS division of agging Adults and Behavioral Health
with Ualitterrock ammendment7 to an existing contract. This is to relocate funds within their substance abuse block grant prevention service programme. ber 4 DhS DYS with Arkansas County. This is for services provided at the juvenile detention center as well as programming in the Arkansas countunty area. Number5, Department of Public Safety division of state Police with the board of trustees for the University of Alabama. This is related to the implementation
of the move our maintenance and enhancement programme. This includes mobile services for state troopers in their vehicles and finally number6 Department of Public Safety division of emergency Management with Arkansas Department of Health. This is amendment two to an existing contract for radiation testing for Arkansas nuclear One. These are the intergovernmental contracts any
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questions on those six intergovernmental contracts seeing none uh'll accept a motion
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motion and a second all in favor sayy aye all opposed lasan thank you members let's go on to the out of
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state contracts out of state contracts are found underd4 in your packet. that's itemd page
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14 there are 28 for your review today. Number one is with AU with Quarles and Brady. This is legalgalervices it's a new contract for the Asu system.umber 2 Asu re rivers with aquaman. This is a new contract for custodial services
at the Asuhree rivers Malvern campus.umber3, Department of Corrections with WellPpath LLc. This is ammendment4 to an existing contract for comprehensive medical dental, pharmacy and mental health services for clients of the department of Corrections and this amendment adds $11.5 million to the contract Number4, Department of Education with Airducation. this is a new original contract for $12 million and this is to provide high impact tutoring
across the state and especially in rural areas to needing students. Number5 Department of Education with Brodskysearch. This is a new contract with this provider and it's with the officefice of Early Childhood and this is for them to perform a market rate study in across the state for childcare.um6 Department of Education with Teachstone incorporated. this is amendment one to an existing contract and it is related to the classroom assessment scoring and subscription service products.
ber7, Department of finance and Administration childldupport nforcement with professional civil process of Texas. this is for processing service. it adds $225,000 to an existing contract. Number 8, Department of Health with Greenway Health Incorporated this is to upgrade the electronic health record. it's a new contract for $1.8 million and it is upgrading it to Greenway's entergy electronic healthal record. Number 9 Department of Health with techystems this is amendment5 to an
existing contract and it is for IT services and administrative management of technical resources. Number 10 dhS with computer aid incorporated. this is amendment 8 to an existing contract for information technology infrastructure support for DHS. Number 11 also DHS with Deloitte. This is3 million dollars and a new contract for amazon Webservices and it will be used to host the eligibility and benefits management system. ber 12 DHS with public consulting group. this is
amendment two to an existing contract for cost allocation proprietary software and services ber 13 DHS division of agging Adults and Behavioral Health with Rexalul recovery Solutions. This is a new $14 million contract for mental health and community reentry services. ber 14 with DHS division of county operations with automated healthal systems this is amendment 2 to an existing contract for $22 million and it is to recruit
hire and train contracted eligibility specialists to support the clearing of the medicaid application backlog. Number 15 DhSdDS with Amergis healthalthcare staffing. this is amendment6 to an existing contract and it is for nursing and medical staffing services for the human development centers ber 16 DhSdDS with jet managementervices. This is for dental services at the Boonvillle Human Development Center for71,000 dollars.umber 17 DHSDDS with prime time
healthalthcare. This is ammendment3 to an existing contract and it is for nursing and medical staffing services for the human development centers.umber 18 DhSDDS with Samaritan integrative LLc ammendment6 to an existing contract for psychiatric services at the Arkadelphia and southeast Arkansas humanman Development ent ers ber 19 DhScdS with worldwide travel staffing. This is a new contract and it is for behavioral health clinician services at the southeast Arkansas Human Development Center, number 20 DhS DMS
withopptum government Solutions. This is a new contract and it is for vendor support for ongoing operations of the decision support system at analytics solution for the medicaid enternterprise statewide system. 21 is a department of public safety with staterime lab with Boatieellmark forensics. This is amendment 8 to an existing contract and it is for the processing of DNA sexual assault kits Number 22, southern Arkansas University with Amstra Capital.
This is a new contract and it is to help the university identify and evaluate, prepare and submit grant program for grant programs.umber 23 Sau with HES facilities. This is ammendment two to an existing contract for custodial services at SAU24 is with the State Department for Social Security Administration disability determination and this is for disability determination services it's a medical consultant Number 25 University of Arkansas
with the Hanover Research Council. This is amendment3 to an existing contract and it is with the UFAystem division of agriculture to help with grant writing and proposals. 26 with UCA this is assetorks llc it is amendment one to an existing contract and it is to provide comprehensive facilities, operations and maintenance software solution for the UCA physical plant.umber 27 also UCA with moreran Technology consulting. this is for evaluation analysis and assessment of the university's
enterprise resource planning system. and finally with UCA they have a new contract with Primeme Therapeutics. This is for pharmacy benefit management services for the university's selffinsured plan. these are the out of state contracts. members
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are 28 representative or senator ice have a quick question for DHS on number 11.
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Good afternoon. I'm Mary Franklin with the division of
Senator Terry Rice
Unverified
25:26
county operations thank you Miss Franklin just quickly this is a a new contract and it is this alleviate a different contract we've had what what's new about this service and does it replace something? does it save us some money elsewhere so this this
Speaker 69
25:44
contract is for cloud hosting in the eligibility system we call
it As has been cloudhoed since its inception this is a new contract but to continue the cloud hosting for the services so essentially it is outsourcing the data center rather than having a physical on premises servers and keeping up with all of the data and storing everything it this is done on the cloud so this is just a continued service but it although it's with the new contract and I can get you the information on the previous contract
Senator Terry Rice
Unverified
26:23
contract terminated over time this is just the new one replace OK. thank you for
Speaker 10
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that information. Thank you Mr. chairir. hang on just a minute right there uhpresentativeladydyman as
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yours fordHS No All right madam chair mine is
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
26:42
a county operations also it's a number 14 I noticed that this is to help you actually provide staff to help with the backlog is that correct? and training
Speaker 69
26:54
yes ma'am this is for eligibility support for the medicaid program they help us process applications changes renewals to help us they originally helped us to bring a backlog down now they are helping us to maintain so that we do not get behind as we implement additional changes in
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27:11
the near future with community engagement OK will we actually be hiring people
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
27:16
that will take care of this or is this going to be an ongoing contract so at this
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time we are planning to continue this service so that we
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have the ability to surge up if circumstances arise where we need to quickly have additional staff they have about 191 staff right now this contract allows for us to go up to 350 workers but you know at this point we're not without additional chargers or with additional charges well with with we would have to make sure we had the funds approved to add that additional staff but we could staff up and we would come
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and add the funds if we needed to thank you Representative
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ladyman I had a question on number4, Department of E. department of edd
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so this is the uhm go ahead and Courtney Sais
Representative Jack Ladyman
Unverified
28:36
for Department of Educationgreg rogers department of education sorry to jump the gun there. this is one for air education incorporated. I just was curious this is a new contract, correct? correct and it's tutoring of course I know there's a lot of detail here but you know we're hiring a company inor to do tutoring so what's what's unique about this why are we hiring a company in California to do tutoring and we have somebody
Speaker 87
29:04
in Arkansas that could tutor. so we do have numerous
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29:08
tutoring coaches or tutoring that's done by our literacy coaches throughout the state. We also have several other contracts this specific contract was the result of a federal grant that we received that was to target rural school districts. this one was exempt from procurement right this one was exempt from procurement so it didn't go through the standard RFP process but they were selected because of the services and their ability to work with these rural school districts.
Representative Jack Ladyman
Unverified
29:39
who establishes how they tutor or what they tutor and what's the input what what are they teaching our kids? so there's specific requirements in
Speaker 87
29:46
terms of the number of minutes and the amount of time that they must spend with the students and then the actual school district staff
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29:53
would work with the tutors on what the content should be what subject areas that they need to be tutored on and where each of those students are is is um, currently and where they need to be. OK well thank you very much
Speaker 10
30:11
sopresentativeladyman, there's a there's a little bit more any other question on those 28? is that Senator Irvin? I can't see her right Senator Irvin thank you have a question on
Senator Missy Irvin
Unverified
30:32
number3 for the department of Corrections department of corrections
Senator Missy Irvin
Unverified
31:00
department of corrections thank you can you I looked back at your letter that you um, can you explain what happened here? it sounds like you were misguided or misled can you
Speaker 107
31:14
explain this? no ma'am and let me make it clear our our request here today is for authority only we we have the money OK the money that you appropriated to us we have
that and that's sufficient what happened is normally our staff figures what we need on a fiscal year basis but at the end of the last contract there were some extensions which pushed just three months past the end of the fiscal year and and so in requesting the authority that we needed they inadvertently requested that on a fiscal year basis which just caused us to miss three months and so so we're just asking for
one more month authority to spend the money that we already have and and that's that's all this request
Senator Missy Irvin
Unverified
32:07
is ok I'm sorry I'm referring to this page this letter from the department oforrection. it's page and it it says that you previously submitted for approval and review a contract arising from the recent discussions with certain vendors. the contract at issues with Guideho the original
terms shall run until 2027 of June maybe extended on an annual basis for no more than7 consecutive years expiring 2033. It was originally set to appear on the June agenda of ALC but y'all pulled it and then then you then you had professional consulting services consist of assisting with renegotiating with Wellath and and then you you dealt with Wellpath and then just days before the june meeting of Alc
another vendor who offered the per to offered the perform at no cost the services that guidehouse would be performing under their contract this is confusing to me can you explain what's happening here and then shortly after the meeting the other vendor called back to say that they would not be able to provide the services at no cost after all. yes ma'am
this is confusing to me that that's my question is can you I'm sorry I
Speaker 107
33:27
was I was asking the question that relates
to item D3. I think, I think your question is for something that's a little bit lighter on the agenda but I'll be happy
Senator Missy Irvin
Unverified
33:41
to no no I'll be happy to explain it
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33:43
was wellathlc it's under the reports. Oh it's in
Senator Missy Irvin
Unverified
33:46
reports well we can come back to that. Sorry Mr chairir. I I thought it was in connection
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with this contract. Do you want to finish
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33:55
this so I'll I'll be happy to explain yes ma'am yes ma'am we we originally agreed with guidehouse we
had engaged in talks with other vendors who are already on state contract and we originally agreed to go with guideho and as the letter says one of the other vendors called up and said hey hey we'll do it for free and so we had the guidehouse contract on the June agenda but since the other vendors said we'd do it for free we pulled the guidehouse contract from the June agenda and decided to go with the one that would do it for free and then just a few days after the
June ALC meetings the other vendor called us up and said sorry we're not able to do it for free and so that caused us to go through the emergency request for for emergency review of the guidehouse contract just so we could get that back in place well that one and
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34:52
that's interesting to me. I mean I did I don't know if this vendor has a history of
Senator Missy Irvin
Unverified
35:00
doing this with you or not or with the state of Arkansas or not but I find that
to be really frustrating and so did we. OK well I hope y'all are noting that yes ma'am that when we negotiate contracts with these people in the future we can say hey you did us dirty here and we don't like being dealt dirty. I
Speaker 107
35:23
mean yes ma'am we we had never dealt with that vendor before not at the
Senator Breanne Davis
Unverified
35:28
department of correction well I I appreciate that it just did not read right to me at all. I do have a question though with it as it relates to these contracts with the medical
care that are that our prisoners are receiving is there any management of that medical care or are we just paying bills that
Speaker 107
35:47
are submitted to us we get monthly reports of varying types from wellath and we have staff that goes over those and compares them to the terms of the contract just to make sure that they're meeting the terms of that contract
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36:04
contract are there management of medical issues in
Senator Breanne Davis
Unverified
36:09
the terms of the contract or are they just treating these treating there's no management of the like I want to know if they're if there's any way or any incentive within that contract to provide any kind of savings to the state of Arkansas for better management of a prisoner's healthcare. yes or no or yes yes and
Speaker 107
36:31
and may I explain please there is we do have a third party vendor that reviews
WellPath and the actions there that contract that we have with them is coming to an end we'll be putting out an RfP for a vendor to do just that and then as far as the savings that could be passed on that's part of what guidehouse is going to help us possibly negotiate for the coming years what do we do with when that is discovered then
Senator Missy Irvin
Unverified
37:04
do we is there a callback do they owe us money back under the terms of the
contract for not managing that patient better. yeah we
Speaker 107
37:17
haven't had any issues like that where we do get issues or could be issues is in staffing ratios that's something that's built into the contract and they're monetary penalties in the contract for things like that but we're
Senator Missy Irvin
Unverified
37:32
just paying the bills they're sending us bills and we're just paying them. Nobody's really looking to see if it's necessary or not or if it's overprescribed
whatever you know what I'm saying like is there any man of that
Speaker 107
37:48
for for review of each individual inmate that is treated no we don't have that type of oversight OK
Senator Missy Irvin
Unverified
37:55
thank you that was thank you appreciate
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37:59
it. any other questions on those 28 out of
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state contract right accept a motion to accept those out of state
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contracts motion and a second all in favor sayy aye
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all opposed lacksan thank you members let's go to the instate
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contracts thank you Mr Chair adamd5 are the instate contracts
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38:25
for your review there are 16 for your review today. They begin on itemd page 26.umber 1 is with AU A toZ
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lawwncare. this is a $200,000 original contract for irrigation system maintenance for AUber 2 also with Asu NEA watertermasters also for irrigation systems.umber3, Department of Corrections division of Community Correction
with covenant recovery. This is ammendment3 to an existing contract for a fivebed male transitional housing facility in pine bluff ber 4 Department of Education withducational television division with M andM Productions. This is amendment two to an existing contract and it's to provide the high school championship video production services. Number5 DFAocE with Martha Arane. This is amendment se to an existing contract for processing services for the division.
or for the office.umber6 Department of Health with Cranford Co. This is a new original contract for $8.4 million and it is to support the Department of Health's Office of Health Communications in developing and implementing a comprehensive statewide media campaign for tobacco prevention and cessation programs.umber7 also with Department of Health with Genesis Datacom. This is a new original contract and it is to reorganize the network closets within the department of Health mainin campus.umber 8 DHSdDS with Arkansas healthalthcare personnel. this is amendment4
for an existing contract for nursing and medical staffing services for human development centers. Number 9 DHSdDs with Baptist Health. This is amendment one to an existing contract for occupational therapy and physical therapy at the Arkadelphia Human Development Center. Number 10 DhS DDS witharren A Byeers. This is ammendment6 during an existing contract for psychiatric services at the conway Human Development Center.umber 11 DHScdS with Lawrence J Howe this is amendment 2 for dental services for the conway Human
Development Center.umber 12 DHSdDS with occupational therapy of conway for occupational therapy services at the conway Human Development Center. Number 13 with the department of Public Safety. this is with Cranford Johnson Robinson and Woods. This is a new original contract for comprehensive advertising and marketing services and it is for the development conducting and managing a statewide highway safety media plan. number 14 Department of Public Safety with division of Arkansas State Police with
conroyrannscription Services. This is a new contract for transcription services for English language files and recordings.umber 15, Department of Public Safety Division of emmergency Management with Motorola Solutions and this is where the upgraded third party components to comply with the scheduled Motorola system upgrade which will occur in November of this year and will provide nice logging systems upgrade life cycle upgrades of existing logging recorders with hardware and
migration to the AN2024 platform. Number 16 is with UAMS and Creanford Johnson Robinson Woods. This is a40 million dollars original contract and it is to provide UAMs with creative strategic and media support to advance systemlevel branding initiatives develop and execute advertising and marketing campaigns among other
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services. These are the instate contracts any
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41:46
questions on those 16 instate contracts Senator Crowell yes number3 please.
Speaker 10
41:55
correct correct Department oforrections you want me to answer that
Speaker 132
42:18
is introduce yourselves and your outweighedhodge
Speaker 116
42:22
chief of staff department of correction
Speaker 135
42:28
Jim Cheek director of division of community correction yes gentlemen thank you you
Senator Steve Crowell
Unverified
42:34
know in looking at this it's looks like in 25 we we paid a certain amount you know a little over 1,750,100,000 to continue providing the comprehensive service for5 beds now it's over a million for the comprehensive services for five beds. So what what would be that change we're asking for
Speaker 107
42:53
the authority for the rest of the contract which I I think is
another five years and as opposed to just asking as we've done in the past for each year because these you know these transitional houses these are a good thing for us always reviewed and approved and so as opposed to just coming back asking for each year's increment we just asked for the entire amount of the contract and that's the only difference but but it's still
Speaker 139
43:22
just gonna be5 five beds so you're gonna hang on to that money for the next
Senator Steve Crowell
Unverified
43:33
five years just spending it kind of without without us having any contextual over it or anything like that it it will still be reported
Speaker 139
43:40
yeah so you'll be able to see that this looks clear as mud. that's that's
Senator Steve Crowell
Unverified
43:43
why I had to ask it I mean it was just it made no sense and you know I want to make sure the people know how the sausage is made here so yes ma' yes sir and and
Speaker 107
43:54
I'll tell you that some of some of our staff even asked what that meant today so you're you're not you're not alone thank you madam chair
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
44:05
thank you so just to be clear, are you adding any beds no no no beds at it so this is for5 beds only OK. for some reason I was thinking you had additional beds and you were adding additional beds but this is just for beds,5 beds that you currently already have. you're not increasing capacity at all not not at this time all right thank you
Speaker 10
44:35
Representativeladyman is this for corrections or no it's for DHS. Is anybody
Speaker 150
44:46
else have anything for corrections.ce no d d
Speaker 153
45:11
Good afternoon Jennifer Bris director of the division ofvelopmental Disability Services at DHS madam Director,
Representative Jack Ladyman
Unverified
45:17
I just got a question about number 8 there. it looks like and and this is the contract nursing and medical care I believe is that correct it is so it looks like we're reducing the costs is that right I
Speaker 153
45:36
believe so we had some carryover and we've been closely
monitoring our contract spend and looking for opportunities to reduce and the utilization of those contracts well that's that's a good
Representative Jack Ladyman
Unverified
45:50
sign that looks good. but you know I don't quite understand what
that7.7 million dollars total projected is that multiple years it is do you know how many years that covers looks like there's3 here but is that going into the future
Speaker 154
46:11
It likely does but let me let me verify thatpresentativeladyman yeah. well my
Representative Jack Ladyman
Unverified
46:17
other question is do you know of anything we can do to further reduce that because this is contract nursing which is a lot more expensive than full time nurses is there anything we can do to help you with
Speaker 153
46:32
that we very much appreciate your offer and I can assure you that the division is working very hard on several strategies to continue to recruit and retain our staff. thank you
Speaker 10
46:45
Sopresentativeladyman Katty I think has answered your question on time frame that total projected is just
Speaker 12
46:51
taking the original amount and projecting out if they completed that amount every year for the full7 years of the contract. Yes
Speaker 45
47:01
sir. any any other questions on those instate contracts if we don't have any more
Speaker 40
47:06
questions I'll accept a motion motion and a second all in favor sayy aye all opposed like signed thanking
members we have three reports are
Speaker 10
47:18
there any questions on the reports besides what's already been asked if not consider those reports to be reviewed thank you members if there's nothing else to come before the committee we adjourn.
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
3. Critical Emergency Procurements
F. Other Business
G. Adjournment
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Representative Frances Cavenaugh
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Senator Terry Rice
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Representative Jack Ladyman
Unverified
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Senator Missy Irvin
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Senator Breanne Davis
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Senator Steve Crowell
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