IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
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AN ORDINANCE appropriating $306,000.00 from the undesignated fund balance of the 2020 Health Fund and awarding a twelve-month contract with one twelve-month option to extend for the furnishing of mental health services to the inmates of the Department of Corrections to Advanced Correctional Healthcare of Peoria, IL, under the terms and conditions of Request for Proposals No. 11-20, at an actual cost to the County in 2020 in the amount of $306,000.00.
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ORDINANCE NO. 5368, June 22, 2020
INTRODUCED BY Crystal Williams, County Legislator
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WHEREAS, the Department of Corrections has a need for mental health services for the inmates in its custody; and,
WHEREAS, the Director of Finance and Purchasing has solicited formal proposals for these services via Request for Proposals No. 11-20; and,
WHEREAS, a total of thirty-nine notices were distributed and one response was received and evaluated; and,
WHEREAS, the only response received was by Advanced Correctional Healthcare, Inc., of Peoria, IL, the County's current provider of inmate healthcare, dental, and pharmaceutical services at the detention center pursuant to Resolution 19895, dated June 11, 2018, and gap provider of mental health coverage at the detention center pursuant to Resolution 20403, dated April 20, 2020; and,
WHEREAS, pursuant to section 1030.4, Jackson County Code, the Director of Finance and Purchasing recommends the award of a twelve-month contract with one twelve-month option to extend for the furnishing of mental health services to the inmates of the Department of Corrections, under the terms and conditions of Request for Proposals No. 11-20, to Advanced Correctional Healthcare of Peoria, IL; and,
WHEREAS, an appropriation is necessary to fund this award; now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the following appropriation be and hereby is made:
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