Travis County Commssioners Court
February 24, 2004
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Item 26
Number 26 is to consider and take appropriate action on the remaining social services contracts and authorize the county purchasing agent to sign the contracts on behalf of the Commissioners court.
>> good morning.
>> good morning.
>> at the beginning of this calendar year, you authorized us to -- you extended five social services contracts. During that extension, staff rewashed to develop a plan of tobgs address several administrative and programmatic issues that we had with the specific agencies and vendors. Since then we have worked with the agencies and come up with a correction -- corrective action plan for four to five vendors. In your backup you have the specifics related to each area. For the most part, every -- for every agency we have outlined a list of issues that we had concerning governance. We outlined a number of issues that we had concerning administration, fiscal management of contract compliance. And the third area was related to service provision and participation in community planning. What we're asking you to do is to authorize the -- the director of purchasing to actually sign the contracts once we present all of that information to her. But we are in receipt of the -- we're -- required information from four to five agencies. I have a meeting with the city of Austin and the fifth agency on tomorrow.
>> I don't know if it's a typo, but of the four you brought forward, only one of them had the words "draft" still attached to it. Was that done intentional?
>> that's unintentional.
>> it is like locked down in terms of the --
>> yes.
>> okay. So it's not draft.
>> but those would be attached to the contract because they are actually a part of the contract. And as we implement the contracts, there are certain thresholds that each srepbd vendor will have -- vendor will have to meet in order to continue to do business with us.
>> [indiscernible].
>> yes, a part of the process was for our staff and the agency executive directors as well as the board chairs to meet and to discuss this to ensure that we had agreement with the board as well as the executive director before moving forward with this.
>> and approval of these four contracts will bring them in line in terms of the same ending daylight as the other 4 -- date as the other 42 we approved a number of weeks ago.
>> it will. We just needed the time to add the special provisions to these particular agencies contracts.
>> questions coming from the court?
>> I would move approval of the signing of the contracts with comment advocates for teens and parents, outyouth Austin, [indiscernible] and services for the elderly.
>> second.
>> anybody else here on these items, these agencies?
>> [inaudible].
>> come on up. How are you doing?
>> okay. I'm the new executive director from the [indiscernible] last week. And --
>> welcome.
>> I think that the corrective action plan that the city and county put together is probably very helpful to our organization, and we have every intention of getting our things in on time from now on. So thank you for going ahead and approving us again.
>> thanks for your cooperation.
>> it's nice to see a familiar face.
>> congratulations on your new position.
>> all in favor? That passes by unanimous vote.
>> thank you.
>> thank you.
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