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Change Order No. 2 with Westcare GulfCoast-Florida, Inc., Curaparr Corporation d/b/a Center for Rational Living and Wayne A. Grosnick & Associates, P.A. d/b/a Solutions Behavioral Healthcare Consultants for Adult Drug Court Treatment Division Z Services.
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Recommended Action:
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Approval of Change Order No. 2 with Westcare GulfCoast-Florida, Inc., Curaparr Corporation d/b/a Center for Rational Living and Wayne A. Grosnick & Associates, P.A. d/b/a Solutions Behavioral Healthcare Consultants for Adult Drug Court Treatment Division Z Services.
Contract No. 134-0267-P(JA) in the amount of $149,982.00 for a revised total of $3,424,409.00 for Division Z Services through September 30, 2017.
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Strategic Plan:
Ensure Public Health, Safety, and Welfare
2.1 Provide planning, coordination, prevention, and protective services to ensure a safe and secure community
2.2 Be a facilitator, convener, and purchaser of services for those in need
Summary:
The program is a state funded prison diversion drug court, which extends substance abuse treatment to a population of nonviolent felony offenders in the County who might otherwise be sentenced to prison. Participants are selected by the Sixth Judicial Circuit, and must meet certain criteria, i.e., being amenable to treatment and having an underlying nonviolent offense. The County acts as the fiscal agent and procures treatment services through a public bid process. The County is reimbursed by the Office of the State Courts Administrator (OSCA), in accordance with an approved Treatment Services Budget.
Change Order No. 2 incorporates State of Florida (State) funded dollars to the current contract for Division Z services. The current contract includes Division N and Division Z services together and expires on September 30, 2017; only three months of this current contract will be funded for a total of $149,982.00.
Background Information:
The Drug Court Expansion Program was established in 2010 as a pilot program with Federal grant funding derived from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The grant ended in 2012, and the Florida Legislature began appropriating funding for the continuation of the program.
Eligible offenders are offered a voluntary eighteen (18) to twenty-four (24) month court-supervised comprehensive treatment program involving regular court appearances before a drug court judge. As of June, the program has received 41 new admissions for FY17 with a total of 103 new and continuing clients served. In FY16, 85 total clients were served including new admissions and continuing clients. From FY15 through June in FY17, 38 individuals have graduated from the program and 42 individuals have been discharged as non-compliant or incurring a new offense.
The current agreement for Adult Drug Court Treatment was approved by the Board of County Commissioners (Board) on September 23, 2014. There have been four (4) subsequent Amendments adding additional programs including mentoring and aftercare services; one Amendment was approved by the Board on July 21, 2015 to incorporate Division Z services into the contract. This is the second change order; change orders are utilized to increase appropriations to the contract resulting in a modification to an encumbered purchase order.
Fiscal Impact:
Expenditures approved to date not to exceed: $3,274,427.00
Change Order No 2 not to exceed: $149,982.00
Revised total expenditure not to exceed: $3,424,409.00
Funding for the program is derived from a State appropriation for drug court treatment. Funding has been appropriated within the Department of Human Services Justice Coordination Budget for FY2017.
Staff Member Responsible:
Lourdes Benedict, Director, Human Services Department
Joe Lauro, Director, Purchasing Department
Partners:
State of Florida, Office of State Courts Administrator
Sixth Judicial Circuit Court
Westcare GulfCoast-Florida, Inc.
Curaparr Corporation d/b/a Center for Rational Living
Wayne A. Grosnick & Associates, P.A. d/b/a Solutions Behavioral Healthcare Consultants
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