Memorandum
Date: October 20, 2020
To: The Honorable Moke Simon, Chair, Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Todd Metcalf, M.P.A.
Behavioral Health Services Director
Subject: (a) Waive the formal bidding process, pursuant to Lake County Code Section 38.2, as it is not in the public interest due to the unique nature of goods or services; and (b) Approve the Agreement between the County of Lake and Ever Well Health Systems for Adult Residential Support Services and Specialty Mental Health Services for Fiscal Year 2020-21 for a contract maximum of Fifty Seven Thousand Dollars ($57,000.00) and authorize the Board Chair to sign the Agreement.
Executive Summary: Attached, for your approval, is the Agreement between the County of Lake and Ever Well Health Systems for Adult Residential Support Services and Specialty Mental Health Services for Fiscal Year 2020-21. Ever Well Health Systems, which has multiple facilities throughout California, is a licensed Adult Residential Living Facility. The Board and Care Facility is specific to the needs of adult clients that require placement that provides a structured environment due to the mental health challenges. The structured environment offers a non-restrictive, supervised program which focuses on each resident's specific needs and interests. As LCBHS currently has clients placed at this facility, and as it is our goal to keep our clients placed at the lowest level of care possible, it would require extensive work to find new placement for these clients. In addition, changes in placement could cause the exacerbation of the client's symptoms, which could potentially result in moving the client to a higher, more expensive level of care. Therefore, LCBHS is requesting to waive the formal bidding process, pursuant to Lake County Code Section 38.2, as it is not in the public interest due to the unique nature of goods or services.
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