Travis County Commissioners Court
September 26, 2006
Item 44
Number 44, consider and take appropriate action on first amendment to interlocal agreement for services with the Travis County health care district.
>> this is a draft amendment presented by the health care district. They're going to consider it on Thursday. Your staff -- I've forwarded to each one of the elected officials or executive managers who were involved with the oversight of each element of the services that are offered by Travis County to the health care district. All of them have signed off, save one. ' The provision -- just to let you know, most of these changes are slight increases in the dollar amount that we're requesting for the services. There is one on top of page 2 where the -- there's a planner that was offered from hhs to the health care district. And it's been reduced down by the health care district, they only want to pay for 10 hours a week. Sherri is uncomfortable with that. She thinks it's an unmanageable amount. She thinks it's going to be just too small. She would prefer it be halftime. The health care district has asked could you go ahead and approve the amendment, we'll go back and change this later if we can't agree to it. Sherri is of the opinion we ought to just let it sit until she and trish can figure it out. So that's really the only outstanding issue that we have.
>> can they figure it out in one week?
>> this agreement will automatically renew. We can come back and amend this at any time. It can go another week.
>> well, if we put it in there, judge, saying hhs will provide part time assistance of 20, no more than 20 hours per week, then it's up to them to amend that and they can always send it back to us and hopefully they will sign off.
>> that could be a way to send is it to them so they can consider it on Thursday.
>> if we say we want it halftime, then we say we'll provide part time assistance of no more than 20 hours per week. Otherwise it's left open. We ought to tell them what we want and put it in the contract.
>> they have said that they don't have anymore money.
>> I don't know that I want 20 hours. I want agreement on it. It seemed to me if they only need 10, they ought to pay for 10.
>> and if our thing is if you can't have 10, but you can have 20, they may decide zero.
>> right.
>> why would we micromanage it? Why don't we say if you reach agreement let us know, especially if the same contract continues? Why be heavy handed with them?
>> are they getting zero in the meantime?
>> right now --
>> current contract states --
>> without an amendment it's a full-time employee.
>> well, that will really push them. So is this thing --
>> I'd have it back on next week and say we want to now and try to work it out.
>> it isn't fair to say we want 10 hours and somebody is supposed to did 20 hours for us.
>> we have a chance to say hey, either halftime or zero. I think they can put their heads together and work it out. We ought to be here -- if they can't work it out, then --
>> well, and especially since, judge, on 8.0 we have deleted the one time payment for mental health services. Travis County is spicing up up in its entirety for the children's partnership. It's like we're getting cranky over something that is a very small number and we're picking up the really big numbers.
>> tell them we'll be a whole lot meaner in October than in September. We'll have are it back on. How's that. And this person is in full time until the contract is amended, right?
>> right.
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