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Mark Finucane; Health Services Director 0b Contra
FROM: By: Elizabeth A. Spooner, Contracts Administrator }
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DATE: September 19, 1991 County
SUBJECT: Approval of Contract #24-546-2 with Bay Area Addiction Research and Treatment,
Inc. for . Continuation of Federal Waiting List Reduction Project Methadone
Maintenance Services For IV Drug Abusing Clients at Risk for AIDS
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) 012 RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
I. RECOMMENDED ACTION:
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Approve and authorize the Chair to execute on behalf of the County, Standard Contract
(Novation) #24L546-1 with Bay Area Addiction Research and Treatment, Inc. (BAART) in
the amount of $279,640 for the period July 1, 1991 through June 30, 1992 for methadone
maintenance treatment and counseling services for IV Drug Abusing Clients at risk for
contracting AIDS in East and West County. This Contract includes a three-month
automatic contract extension from June 30, 1992 through September 30, 1992 in the
amount of $69,1910.
II. FINANCIAL IMPACT:
This contractus funded by Federal funds (Fed. Cat. #93.992) and does not require
County matching funds.
III. REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATIONS/BACKGROUND:
Bay Area Addiction Research and Treatment, Inc. has provided methadone maintenance
services in East and West Contra Costa County since March 1988. The 1989 Federal
Waiting List Reduction Grant funding enabled the contractor to provide expanded
methadone maintenance services to eligible Richmond, West Pittsburg, and Pittsburg
residents wholhad applied for participation in the program, but who had been placed
on the program's waiting list. The Federal Waiting List Reduction Grant funding for
this project ended on September 29, 1990. However, additional Federal Block Grant
funding has been allocated to allow this project, for IV drug abusing clients who are
at risk for contracting AIDS, to be continued through June 30, 1992.
This Contracti maintains 66 treatment slots in the Richmond Methadone Maintenance
Program and 66 treatment slots in the Pittsburg Methadone Maintenance Program which
were created under the Federal Waiting List Reduction Grant Project.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMM D ION OF BOAR CO MIMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S)
ACTION OF BOARD ON 7991 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
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AYES: NOES: AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
CC: Health Services 1(.Contracts) ATTESTED OCT 1 1991
Risk Management ' Phil Batchelor,Clerk of the Board of I
Auditor-Controller Supervisors and County Administrator
Contractor
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M382/7-68 BY DEPUTY
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