These contracts are funded 100% by the County's AB 109 Public Safety Realignment Budget, from the Community Programs allocation for the Central/East Network System of Services, which totals $820,000 for FY 2016-17.  
  
1. The contract for Network Manager services with Kathy Moniz-Narasaki would be increased from $99,533.33 to a new total Contract Payment Limit of $124,099.97.  
2. The contract for Field Operations Coordinator services for the Pittsburg area with Eugene Jackson would be increased from $76,022.20 to a new total Contract Payment Limit of $95,203.97.  
3. The contract for Field Operations Coordinator services for the Antioch/East County area with Patrice Guillory would be increased from $69,970.00 to a new total Contract Payment Limit of $89,151.77.

For fiscal year 2016/17, the CCP-Executive Committee approved the 2016/17 AB 109 Public Safety Realignment budget at the January 22, 2016 regular meeting and submitted to the Public Protection Committee for review and approval. On February 8, 2016, the Public Protection Committee approved the 2016/17 AB109 Public Safety Realignment budget. On May 10, 2016, the Board of Supervisors adopted the Recommended Budget for Contra Costa County for FY 2016/17, including the AB 109 Public Safety Realignment budget.  
  
At its August 5, 2016 meeting, the Community Corrections Partnership received a report from the CAO that recommended that contracts for Network Team services with existing contractors be extended for a limited amount of time, and that an Request for Proposals (RFP) be issued imminently so that an organization could instead provide these services. The CCP approved this request on a unanimous vote.  
  
BACKGROUND  
  
In March 2014 the Public Protection Committee accepted and the Board of Supervisors adopted the “Proposed Plan for an East & Central Networked System of Services for Returning Citizens” (Network Plan). Consistent with the Network Plan, an RFQ process (#1403-078) was initiated for the procurement of Network Manager and Field Operations Coordinator services for the Network Management Team. This process identified three independent contractors to perform Field Operations Coordinator services and a fourth independent contractor to provide Network Manger services. These contractors began providing services in May 2014. Also consistent with the Network Plan, the County Administrator (CAO) developed and managed the contracts, while the Chief Probation Officer (Probation) was tasked with providing oversight of the services provided by the four contractors.  
  
This contractual structure with the decentralization of management and oversight functions has proven to be ineffective and unwieldy. Because contract law prohibits one independent contractor from providing direct supervision and direction of the work being done by another independent contractor, the Network Manager function has not had the latitude to give instructions or implement processes and ideas that are integral during the implementation phase of a new project. In addition, it has been difficult to implement the Network Plan in a consistent and coordinated manner across the East and Central regions of the County with three different independent contractors with different abilities and methods of providing the services outlined in each their contracts. Challenges with the current contracting configuration seem to be impeding the ability of the Network Plan to be fully and consistently implemented.  
  
Moving into the third full year of implementation of the Network Plan, the issues created by this contractual arrangement have made it difficult to negotiate contracts for FY 2016-17 that meet the needs and expectations each have expressed, while simultaneously allowing for effective contract management and project oversight. Because of this, no contracts for Field Operations Coordinator or Network Manger services have been entered into for the current fiscal year. Therefore, the CAO is recommending that contract extensions be offered to two Field Operations Coordinators and the Network Manager for a period of time sufficient to initiate and conclude an RFP process to procure an organization to provide Network Team functions.

If contract amendments are not provided for Network Team services, these services will not be made available to returning citizens in the Central/East county regions of the County.