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a. Authorize the Chief Executive Officer for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute amendment No. 2 to the agreement with Nancy Lomeli dba Sal's Taxi for patient transportation services, extending the agreement an additional one (1) year period (May 31, 2021 through May 30, 2022) for a revised full agreement term of February 1, 2017 through May 30, 2022, and adding $25,000 for a revised total agreement amount not to exceed $150,000.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended the Board of Supervisors:
a. Authorize the Chief Executive Officer for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute amendment No. 2 to the agreement with Nancy Lomeli dba Sal's Taxi for patient transportation services, extending the agreement an additional one (1) year period (May 31, 2021 through May 30, 2022) for a revised full agreement term of February 1, 2017 through May 30, 2022, and adding $25,000 for a revised total agreement amount not to exceed $150,000.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
Natividad provides Complimentary Local Transportation through Sal's taxi, which aims to ease access to medical care, promote patient safety, and comply with SB1152 discharge of homeless patients. Sal's taxi also provides time sensitive transportation of laboratory specimen and/or materials from Natividad to other laboratories and vice versa.
OTHER AGENCY INVOLVEMENT:
The Office of County Counsel has reviewed and approved this renewal and amendment No. 2 as to form, and the Auditor-Controller has reviewed and approved as to payment provisions. The amendment No. 2 has also been reviewed and approved by NMC's Finance Committee and by its Board of Trustees on March 12, 2021.
FINANCING:
The cost for this amendment No. 2 is $25,000 of which $5,000 is included in the Fiscal Year 2020-21 Adopted Budget. Amounts for remaining years of the agreement will be included in those budgets as appropriate.
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS STRATEGIC INITIATIVES:
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