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Members, find your seats, we're going to get started.
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review subcommittee come to order madam chair you
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got anything to share all right if nothing
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thank you mr. chair good afternoon members Katie Walden Bureau of legislative research fiscal division the first
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set of items for your 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 Brasser, DFA Office of Accounting, presenting these projects. And then on the following page,
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you'll see a summary of each one. There are 17 for your review this month.
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Number one is with U of A Division of Agriculture. This is revising an existing MOF for their
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Food Science Research Center construction. Number two is with the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. This revises an existing MOF up to $5.7 million. This is for a new track and soccer complex. they're using private funding and federal grants number three UAMS this is a new MOF for the Eldorado clinical renovation a 4,000 square foot facility they're using 100 foundation funds number four
also UAMS this is a new MOF for two million dollars using a health resources and services administration
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grant this is for hazardous chemicals containment building renovation Number five, UAMS, a new MOF for $378,000 using foundation funding for their Cancer Institute fourth floor infusion waiting room update. Number six, UAMS, also $1.8 million using foundation funds for their El Dorado family residency renovation project.
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Number seven is with ASU Jonesboro. This is a
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new MOF for $337,000. They're using university reserves, and this is for university hall fifth floor piping. On the following page, you'll see another MOF with UAMS. This is for $1.5 million. They're using Health Resources and Services Administration grants for their central 5C student and employee health lab. Number nine, UAMS, a new MOF for $2.1 million, also with the Health Resources and Services grants for their Monroe Maternal and Infant Education building renovation.
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Number 10, UAMS, also Monroe Student Wellness Program. 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 for $700,000. They're using facilities repair and renovation reserves funding, and this is for their east and north entrance replacement. Number 12, 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 at Moralton.
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Number 13, ASU Jonesboro for
painting of their Arkansas Hall. This is valued at $587,000 using university reserves. Number 14, also ASU Jonesboro. This is for their Arkansas Hall fan coil replacement project, phase two, $750,000 using auxiliary reserves. Number 15, ASU Jonesboro, also university hall fan coil replacement phase two also 750 000 using auxiliary reserves 16 is with henderson state university this is for campus deferred maintenance projects it's valued at 1.3 million dollars 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 dollars using capital reserves. These are the methods of finance, Mr. Chair. Thank you,
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Katie. Madam Chair, if you We've got a question from the University of Arkansas? - Yes, Mr. - Disease of Agriculture, somebody?
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Introduce yourselves. - Good afternoon, I'm Jeff Weaver, the Director of Government Affairs for
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
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the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture. Matt Brown, CFO. Thank you. My question, just really quick. I noticed on this MOF that the original projected cost was $35 million. Now the revised projected cost is $62 million. What caused that big of an increase?
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Really mostly an increase in the scope due to the federal funding that's been received, $30 million
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
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in federal funding. What increase of scope are
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you doing now? Making the building much larger and more in line with the research that's going to be performed
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there. Okay, so be a little more specific in why you're jumping from $35 million to $62
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million. It's really just scope and increasing cost. Okay,
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
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so how much are you increasing the floor plan, the square footage?
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None from the original plan. It was maybe not the
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
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best original estimate of cost. Okay, so what cost increased
to make it go up this much? From what I've
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been told, just general cost increase. Representative, the lab space is extremely expensive, and the cost estimate on that was too low. So when we got
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
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the actual, it was much higher. Okay, again, I'm asking for a specific. Y'all are speaking in generalities, but you're saying you're going from $35 million to $62 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?
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I'm not sure that I know the answer to that question,
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but I can get it for you. Okay. Mr. Chair, I'd like to
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have the answers to those questions. Sure. All right, thank you. Okay. Any questions on B2?
Any questions on B3? 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, or 17? If not, Madam Chair, do you want to make a motion to do something with
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
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hold this until they get the information to us
and hope they'll provide it by Friday
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for full ALC. Okay, motion and a second to hold B1 until Friday. All in favor, say aye. Aye. All opposed, like sign. Thank you, members. All right. uh accept a motion to accept b2 through b17 motion and a second all in favor say aye all opposed like signed thank you members let's go on to discretionary grant c thank you mr chair
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item c are the discretionary grants submitted by
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agencies there are only four this month number one is c1 this is from the department of health this is an amendment to an existing grant to the Northwest Arkansas Crisis Intervention, Inc., Arkansas Crisis Center. This adds another year, as well as $250,000
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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 Human Services. This is
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with the Division of Youth Services.
They're amending an existing grant to Rite of Passage Incorporated. They're adding $464,000 and extending this grant for another year. And this is for DYS facilities with youths, male and female, age 10 to 21, who were educated with treatment team review. Number C3, these are the last two discretionary grants for your review. They are both with
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the Arkansas Catfish Promotion Board. The first one is to Catfish Processors, LLC.
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They're giving $25,000 for the promotion of Arkansas-grown catfish. And number two is with Catfish Farmers of Arkansas. This one is for $16,350, and both of those grants are using special
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revenue also for the promotion of Arkansas-grown catfish. These are the discretionary grants, Mr.
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Chair. Any questions on one through three? Discussion on the top.
Senator Terry Rice
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senator rice thank you mr chair uh i don't need somebody to come up but somebody from division of youth services wait let me see who's here i need to catch you before you get going okay uh what i'm wanting if you be thinking about i'd like some numbers that are in the 10 to 21s and if you've got a breakdown of the 18 to 21s 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 thank
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you is there anything on one two or three seeing
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none i'll accept a motion to accept uh c one through three motion and a second all in favor say aye all opposed like sign thank you members go to section d services contract thank you mr chair
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under section d you'll find the contract section of all the contracts and business presented
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for your review this month 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 their 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
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required evaluation of this program and the contract with the evaluator expired on June 30th of 2026, but they unexpectedly received a extension of this
grant through the next fiscal year, through the end of June
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of 2027. And so the agency has determined that they would like to ratify $17,740 for the ongoing and finishing evaluation of this grant program and that is the ratification for your review
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today any questions on the ratification seeing none take a motion to motion and a second
all in favor say aye all opposed
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like sign thank you members go to number two construction related contracts thank you mr.
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chair item D2 or construction related contracts there are eight for your review today number one is with asu newport this is with taggart architects amendment one to an existing contract and this is for modifying and downsizing a footprint for their health sciences facility number two department of military with brackett kennerick and associates this is a new contract it is for the design of their army fitness test
cover building number three department of military with lewis elliott mcmore and vaden a new contract for design of their new barracks number four with sau tech with lewis elliott mcmore and vaden ragsdale and woodward this is for on-call architectural services amendment two to an existing contract contracts number five and six kind of go together there with the university of arkansas for asmsa the first one is with architecture plus 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 by $5,800. And this is related to their maintenance and wood shop building project. And then correspondingly on number six, you'll see a contract for Bell Construction Incorporated, also for the maintenance building and wood
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shop project. They have an Amendment 3 that increases their construction contract by $5,338. On the next
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page, you have contract number seven with University of Arkansas, Witzel Evans-Rascoe, Northwest Arkansas.
This is for architectural services for the renovation of the UADA Alzheimer Greenhouse Complex in Fayetteville. It's a new contract. And finally, number eight with UA Little Rock, Witzel Evans-Rascoe. This is amendment two to an existing contract for on-call architectural services. These are
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the construction contracts. Any questions on those eight construction contracts? Seeing none,
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motion to accept. Motion and a second by Senator McKee. All in favor say aye. All opposed, like signed. Thank you, members.
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Go to the intergovernmental contracts. Thank you, Mr. Chair. D3 are the intergovernmental contracts. There
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are six for your review today. Number one is Department of Commerce, AEDC, with the University of Arkansas Fayetteville. This is for services for their World Trade Center, trade development staff, Amendment 5 to an existing contract. Number two, DHS, Division of Aging Adults and Behavioral Health with UA Little Rock. This is Amendment 6 to an existing contract, and this is to revise the budget allocation for evidence-based trainings across the state for the Mid-South Summer School Conference.
Number three, DHS, Division of Aging Adults and Behavioral Health with UA Little Rock, Amendment 7 to an existing contract. This is to reallocate funds within their Substance Abuse Block Grant Prevention Service Program. Number four, DHS-DYS with Arkansas County. This is for services provided at the Juvenile Detention Center as well as programming in the Arkansas County area. Number five, 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-R Maintenance and Enhancement Program. This includes mobile services for state troopers. their vehicles and finally number six 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
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intermittent intergovernmental contracts any questions on those six intergovernmental contracts seeing
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none I'll accept a motion motion
and second all in favor say aye all opposed like signed thank you members uh let's go on to the out-of-state contracts
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out-of-state contracts are found under d4 in your packet that's item d page
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14 there are 28 for your review today number one is with asu with quarrels and brady this is legal services it's a new contract for the asu system number two asu three rivers with aquaman this is a new contract for custodial services at the ASU Three Rivers Malvern campus. Number three,
Department of Corrections with Wellpath LLC. This is amendment four 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. Number four, Department of education with air education this is a new original contract for 12 million dollars and this is to provide high impact tutoring across the state and especially in rural areas to
needing students number five department of education with Brodsky research this is a new contract with this provider and it's with the office of early childhood and this is for them to perform a market rate study in across the state for child care number six department of education with teach stone incorporated this is amendment one to an existing contract and it is related to the classroom assessment scoring and subscription service products number seven department of finance and administration child support enforcement with professional civil
process of texas this is for processing service it adds 225 000 to an existing contract number eight 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's upgrading it to Greenway's Intergy electronic health record. Number nine, Department of Health with Tech Systems. This is Amendment 5 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 is three million dollars and a new contract for Amazon web services and it will be used to host the eligibility and benefits management system. Number 12 DHS with public consulting group this is amendment two to an existing contract for cost allocation proprietary software
and services. Number 13 DHS division of aging adults and behavioral health with rec sol recovery solutions this is a new 14 million dollar contract for mental health and community re-entry services number 14 with dhs division of county operations with automated health systems this is amendment 2 to an existing contract for 22 million dollars and it is to recruit hire and train contracted eligibility specialists to support the clearing of the
Medicaid application backlog. Number 15, DHSDDS with emergist healthcare staffing. This is amendment six to an existing contract, and it is for nursing and medical staffing services for the human development centers. Number 16, DHSDDS with jet management services. This is for dental services at the Boonville Human Development Center for $71,000. Number 17, DHSDDS with primetime health care this is amendment three to an existing contract and it is for nursing and medical
staffing services for the human development centers number 18 dhs dds with samaritan integrative llc amendment six to an existing contract for psychiatric services at the arkadelphia and southeast arkansas human development centers number 19 dhs dds 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 with Optum Government Solutions. This is a new contract, and it is for vendor support for ongoing operations
of the decision support system and analytics solution for the Medicaid enterprise statewide system. 21 is Department of Public Safety with State Crime Lab with Bodie Cellmark 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
number 23 sau with hes facilities this is amendment two to an existing contract for custodial services at sau 24 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 amendment three to an existing contract and it is with the U of A System Division of Agriculture to help with grant
writing and proposals. 26 with UCA. This is Asset Works 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 number 27 also uca with moran 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 prime therapeutics this is for pharmacy benefit management services for the university self-insured plan these are the out-of-state
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contracts. Members are 28, Senator Rice. I have a quick
Senator Terry Rice
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question for DHS on number 11.
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good afternoon i'm mary franklin with the division
Senator Terry Rice
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of county operations thank you ms franklin uh just quickly this is a new contract and 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
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elsewhere so this this contract is for cloud hosting and the
eligibility system we call it aries has been cloud hosted 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, this is done on the cloud. So this is just a continued service, although it's with a new contract. And I can get you the information on the previous contract?
Senator Terry Rice
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No, but the old contract terminated? Yes. Over time, this is
just the new one? Yes, sir. Okay, thank you for that information. Thank you,
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Mr. Chair. Hang on, wait just a minute right there. Representative Ladyman, is yours
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for DHS? No. All right. Madam Chair. Mine
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
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is a county operations also. It's number 14. I notice that this is to help you actually provide staff to help with the backlog. Is that correct?
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And training? 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
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changes in the near future with community engagement. Okay, will we actually be
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
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hiring people that will take care of this, or is this going to be an ongoing contract?
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So at this time, we are planning to continue this service so that we have the
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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 adding. Without additional chargers or with additional chargers? Well, we would have to make sure we had the funds approved to add that additional staff,
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but we could staff up, and we would come and add the funds if we needed to. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome.
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Representative Leiterman. I had a question on number four the Department of Ed Department of Ed
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So this is the Courtney Salas for Department of Education,
Representative Jack Ladyman
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Greg Rogers Department Education. Sorry to jump the gun there This is one for Air Education Incorporated. I 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 in California 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
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In Arkansas that could tutor. So we do have
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Numerous 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, 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
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So who establishes how they tutor, what they tutor, and what's the input? What are they teaching our kids? So there are specific requirements in terms
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of the number of minutes and the amount of time that they must spend with the students, and then the actual school
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district staff 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 is currently and where they need to be.
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Okay. Thank you very much. So, Representative Leiteman, there's a little bit more information. Yeah. Any other questions on those 28? Is that Senator Irvin I can't see here all right Senator Irvin thank you I have
Senator Missy Irvin
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a question on number three for the Department of Corrections Department
Senator Missy Irvin
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staff department of corrections thank you can you i looked back at your letter that you um can you explain what happened here um it sounds like you were misguided or misled
Speaker 107
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can you explain this no ma'am and let me make it clear our request here today is for authority only okay we we have the money okay the money that you appropriated uh to us we have that and that's sufficient okay what happened is normally our staff figures um 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 uh one more month uh authority to spend the money that we already have um and and that's that's all this
Senator Missy Irvin
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request is okay i'm sorry i'm referring to this page uh this letter from the department of corrections um it's page and it it says that you uh previously
submitted for approval and review a contract arising from the recent discussions with certain vendors the contracted issues with guide house the original terms shall run until 2027 in june may be extended on an annual basis for no more than seven consecutive years expiring 2033 it was originally set to appear on the June agenda of ALC but y'all pulled it um and then then you had professional consulting services consist assisting with renegotiating with WellPath
um and and then you you dealt with WellPath and then just days before the June meeting of ALC another vendor who 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's my question. Okay. I'm
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sorry. i was i was uh asking the question that relates to uh item d3 i think i think your question is for something that's a little bit later on the agenda but i'll be happy to sorry no no i'll be happy to
Senator Missy Irvin
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explain i thought it was under well path llc it's
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in it's under the reports oh it's in reports okay
Senator Missy Irvin
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well we can come back to that sorry mr chair i i thought it was in connection with this
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contract do you want to finish this so yeah
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i'll be happy to explain yes ma'am yes ma'am we
we originally agreed uh with uh guide house we had engaged in talks with other vendors who are already on state contract uh and we originally agreed to go with guide house and as the letter says one of the other vendors called up and said hey we'll do it for free uh and so we had the guide house contract on the june agenda but since the other vendor said we'd do it for free we pulled the guide house 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 guide house contract just so we could get that back in place. Okay Right. Well, that wasn't,
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and that's interesting to me. I mean, I did, I don't know if this vendor
Senator Missy Irvin
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has a history of 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. Okay. Well, I hope y'all are noting that. Well, yes, 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 mean yes ma'am
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we we had never dealt with that vendor before not at the department
Senator Breanne Davis
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of correction okay well i i appreciate that i 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
Speaker 107
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just paying bills that are submitted to us we get monthly reports of varying types from well path 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
Senator Breanne Davis
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are there management of medical issues in the terms of the contract or are they just treating these treating there's no management of the like i want to know if there 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
Speaker 107
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health care yes or no yes and may i explain okay yes please uh there is we do have a third party vendor that reviews well path and the
actions there um that contract that we have with them uh 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 guide house is going to help us possibly negotiate for the coming years okay what
Senator Missy Irvin
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do we do with when that is discovered then 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 haven't
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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 uh and there are monetary penalties uh in the contract for things like
Senator Missy Irvin
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that okay but we're 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 for over prescribed whatever you know what i'm saying like is there any management
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of that for for review of each
individual inmate that is treated no we don't have that type of
Senator Missy Irvin
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oversight okay thank you that was
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thank you appreciate it any other questions on those
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28 out-of-state contract all right accept a motion to accept those
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out-of-state contracts motion and a second all in favor say aye
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all opposed like sign thank you members let's go to the in-state contracts thank you mr
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chair item d5 are the in-state contracts for your
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review there are 16 for your review today they begin on item d page 26 number one is with asu a to
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z lawn care this is a 200 000 original contract for irrigation system maintenance for asu number two also with asu nea water masters also for irrigation systems. Number three, Department of Corrections Division of Community Correction with Covenant Recovery. This is Amendment 3 to an existing contract for a five-bed male transitional
housing facility in Pine Bluff. Number four, Department of Education with Educational Television Division with M&M Productions. This is Amendment 2 to an existing contract, and it's to provide the high school championship video production services number five dfa ocse with martha a crane this is amendment seven to an existing contract for processing services for the division or for the office number six department of health with cranford co this is a new original contract for
8.4 million dollars 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. Number seven, 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 main campus. Number eight, DHS-DDS with Arkansas health care personnel, this is amendment four for an existing contract for nursing and medical staffing services for human development centers. Number nine, DHS-DDS with Baptist Health, this is amendment one to an
existing contract for occupational therapy and physical therapy at the archadelphia human development center number 10 dhs dds with karen a byers this is amendment six to an existing contract for psychiatric services at the conway human development center number 11 dhs dds with lawrence j how this is amendment two for dental services for the conway human development center number 12 dhs dds 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 Conroy Transcription Services. This is a new contract for transcription services for english language files and recordings number 15 department of public safety division of emergency management with motorola solutions and this is for 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 AN 2024 platform. Number 16 is with UAMS and Cranford Johnson Robinson Woods. This is a $40 million original contract, and it is to provide UAMS with creative, strategic, and media support to advance system-level branding initiatives, develop and execute advertising and marketing campaigns, among other services.
Speaker 45
41:38
These are the in-state contracts. Any questions on those 16 in-state contracts? Senator
Speaker 10
41:51
Kroll. Yes, number three, please. Corrections. Corrections, Department of Corrections.
Speaker 116
42:17
that? is introduce yourselves and you're Wade Hodge Chief of Staff Department of
Speaker 135
42:24
Correction Jim Cheek Director Division of Community Correction yes gentlemen thank you you know
Senator Steve Crowell
Unverified
42:29
in looking at this it looks like in 25 we we paid a certain amount you know a little over 175,000 100,000 to continue providing the comprehensive service for five beds now it's over a million for the
comprehensive services for five beds so what what would be
Speaker 107
42:48
that change we're asking for the authority for the rest of the contract which i think is another five years 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
Speaker 139
43:16
year's increment we just ask for the entire amount of the contract and that's the only difference but but it's still just
Senator Steve Crowell
Unverified
43:25
going to be five five beds so you're going to hang on to that money for the next five years just spending it kind of without without us having any contextual over it or anything like that it it will
Speaker 139
43:35
still be reported okay yeah so you'll be able to just this looks clear as mud
Senator Steve Crowell
Unverified
43:38
that's that's 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'am yes sir and and I'll
Speaker 107
43:50
tell you that some some of our staff even asked what that meant today so you're not you're not alone thank you madam
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
44:00
chair thank you so just to be clear are you adding any beds no no so this is for five beds only okay for some reason I was thinking you had additional beds and you were adding additional beds but this is just for
beds, five beds that you currently already have. You're not increasing capacity at
Speaker 10
44:33
all? Not at this location. All right. Thank you. Representative Leitman. Is this for corrections? No, it's for DHS. Does
Speaker 150
44:41
anybody else have anything for corrections? Seeing none. DHS. Number eight. VD.
Speaker 153
44:52
Good afternoon, Jennifer Brzee, Director of the Division of Developmental Disability Services at DHS.
Representative Jack Ladyman
Unverified
45:12
Madam Director, I just got a question about number eight there. It looks like, and this is the contract nursing and medical care.
believe is that correct it is so it looks like we're
Speaker 153
45:31
reducing the cost is that right I 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
Representative Jack Ladyman
Unverified
45:45
those contracts well that's that's a good sign that looks good
but you know i don't quite understand what that 7.7 million dollars total
projected is that multiple years it is do you know how many years that covers looks like there's three here but does that go into the future it likely does
Speaker 154
46:07
but let me let me verify that representative ladyman yeah uh well my other
Representative Jack Ladyman
Unverified
46:12
question is uh 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 that we very much appreciate
Speaker 153
46:28
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
Speaker 10
46:38
all right thank you so representative lademan katie i think has answered your question on time frame that total projected is
Speaker 12
46:46
just taking the original amount and projecting out if they completed that amount every year for the full seven years of the contract
Speaker 45
46:56
yes sir any other questions on those in-state contracts if we don't have any more
Speaker 40
47:01
questions i'll accept a motion motion and a second all in favor say aye all opposed like sign thank you members we have three
Speaker 10
47:13
reports 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 for the committee we're 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
3. Critical Emergency Procurements
F. Other Business
G. Adjournment
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Senator Terry Rice
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Representative Jack Ladyman
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Senator Breanne Davis
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Senator Steve Crowell
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