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VI DATE: July 30.2009
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TO: William F. Garcia, Chair, Weld County Bo d of Comi ssipbers
FROM: Judy A. Griego, Director, Human Servi�cs1:1�1 ✓
COLORADO J J
RE: Weld County Addendum to Purchase The r utic Residential Child
Care Facility Services between the Weld County Department of
Human Services and Various Contractors to be Placed on the
Consent Agenda
Enclosed for Board approval are Weld County Addendums to Purchase Group Home/Group Center Services
between the Weld County Department of Human Services and Contractors listed below. Please place on the
Consent Agenda.
Below are the major provisions of the attached Agreements:
No.
Facility Name/Term
Type of Facility/Location
Daily Rate
1
Alternative Homes for Youth
July 1, 2009 — June 30, 2010
Residential Child Care Facility
Dacono, Colorado
$180.75
2
Childrens Ark, Inc.
July 1, 2009 — June 30, 2010
Residential Child Care Facility
Green Mountain Falls, Colorado
$164.93
3
Childrens Ark, Inc.
July 1, 2009 — June 30.2010
Residential Child Care Facility
Green Mountain Falls, Colorado
$164.93
4
Childrens Ark, Inc.
July 1, 2009 — June 30, 2010
Residential Child Carc Facility
Green Mountain Falls, Colorado
$164.93
5
Courthouse, Inc.
July 1, 2009 — June 30, 2010
Residential Child Care Facility
Englewood, Colorado
$180.75
6
Courthouse, Inc_
July 1.2009 — June 30, 2010
Residential Child Carc Facility
Englewood, Colorado
$180.75
7
Deyereux Cleo Wallace
July 1, 2009 — June 30, 2010
Residential Child Care Facility
Westminster, Colorado
$180.75
8
El Pueblo Boysand Girls' Ranch
July I, 2009 — June 30, 2010
Residential Child Care Facility
Pueblo, Colorado
$180.75
9
Excelsior Youth Centers
July 1, 2009 — June 30, 2010
Residential Child Care Facility
Aurora_ Colorado
$180.75
10
Flatirons Behavioral Health
Hospital Corp.
July 1, 2009 — Junc 30, 2010
Residential Child Care Facility
Louisville, Colorado
$161.66
11
Griffith Centers for Children, Inc.
July 1, 2009 —June 30, 2010
Residential Child Care Facility
Lakewood, Colorado
$180.75
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12
Griffith Centers for Children, Inc.
July I, 2009 — June 30, 2010
Residential Child Carc Facility
Lakewood, Colorado
$180.75
13
Jefferson Hills
July 1, 2009 — June 30, 2010
Residential Child Care Facility
Lakewood, Colorado
$176.08
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Jefferson Hills
July 1, 2009 — June 30, 2010
Residential Child Care Facility
Lakewood, Colorado
$171.30
15
Mount St. Vincent Home
July 1, 2009 — June 30, 2010
Residential Child Care Facility
Denver, Colorado
$180.75
16
Mountain Crest Poudre Valley
Health Care Inc. D/B/A Poudre
Valley Hospital
July 1, 2009 — June 30, 2010
Residential Child Care Facility
Fort Collins, Colorado
$180.75
17
Mountain Star Center
July 1, 2009 — June 30, 2010
Residential Child Care Facility
Denver, Colorado
$180.75
18
PSI Cedar Springs Hospital, Inc.
July 1.2009 -- June 30, 2010
Residential Child Care Facility
Colorado Springs, Colorado
$180.75
19
Tennyson Center for Children
July 1, 2009 — June 30, 2010
Residential Child Care Facility
Denver, Colorado
$180.75
20
The University of Colorado
Health Sciences Center dba
Synergy
July 1, 2009 — Junc 30, 2010
Residential Child Care Facility
Denver, Colorado
$148.49
21
Third Way Center
July I, 2009 — June 30, 2010
Residential Child Care Facility
Denver, Colorado
$179.24
22
Third Way Center
July 1, 2009 — June 30, 2010
Residential Child Care Facility
Denver, Colorado
$179.24
23
Third Way Center
July 1, 2009 — June 30, 2010
Residential Child Care Facility
Denver, Colorado
$179.24
24
Third Way Center
July 1, 2009 — June 30, 2010
Residential Child Care Facility
Denver, Colorado
$179.24
25
Third Way Center
July 1, 2009 — June 30, 2010
Residential Child Care Facility
Denver, Colorado
$179.24
26
Turning Point Center for Youth
July 1, 2009 — June 30, 2010
Residential Child Care Facility
Fort Collins, Colorado
$178.02
27
Turning Point Center for Youth
July 1, 2009 — June 30, 2010
Residential Child Care Facility
Fort Collins, Colorado
$178.02
28
Youth Track
July I, 2009 — June 30, 2010
Residential Child Care Facility
Longmont, Colorado
$129.23
29
Youth Track
July 1, 2009 — June 30, 2010
Residential Child Care Facility
Longmont. Colorado
$137.90
If you have any questions, give me a call at extension 6510.
Alternative
COLORADO
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES
P.O. BOX A
GREELEY, CO. 80632
Website: ++++ o.co.neld.co.us
Administration and Public Assistance (970) 352-1551
Child Support (970) 352-6933
MEMORANDUM
TO: Judy Griego — Director
FROM: Lesley Co f Child Welfare Rate Negotiator
DATE: July 22, 2009
SUBJECT: The Weld County Addendum to the Agreement to Purchase
Out -Of -Home Placement Services contracts for Residential
Child Care Facility services.
Attached please find the Weld County Addendum to the Agreement to Purchase Out -Of -Home
Placement Service Contracts for Residential Child Care Facility services for following providers:
Weld County
Residential Child Care Facility Providers
2009-2010
1 Homes For Youth PO Box 9
2 Childrens Ark, Inc 10460 W Hwy 24
3 Childrens Ark, Inc 10460 W Hwy 24
4 Childrens Ark, Inc
5 Courthouse Inc
6 Courthouse Inc.
Devereux Cleo
7 Wallace
El Pueblo Boys'
8 and Girls' Ranch
10460 W Hwy 24
333 W Hampden
Ave, Suite 305
333 W Hampden
Ave, Suite 305
8405 Church
Ranch Blvd
One El Pueblo
Ranch Way
Dacono, CO 80514
Green Mountain
Falls, CO 80819
Green Mountain
Falls, CO 80819
Green Mountain
Falls, CO 80819
Englewood, CO
80111-2333
Englewood, CO
80110-2333
Westminster, CO
80021
Pueblo, CO 81006
2016
4261
40322
96480
$180.75
$164.93
$164.93
$164.93
45724 $180.75
46050 $180.75
39794
45146
$180.75
$180.75
$180.75
$164.93
$164.93
$164.93
$180.75
$180.75
$180.75
$180.75
15001 E. Oxford
Ave
Excelsior Youth
9 Centers
Flatirons
Behavioral Health
10 Hospital, Corp.
Griffith Centers
11 for Children Inc.
Griffith Centers
12 for Children Inc.
13 Jefferson Hills
14 Jefferson Hills
Mount St. Vincent
15 Home
Mountain Crest
Poudre Valley
Health Care Inc.
D/B/A Poudre
16 Valley Hospital
Mountain Star
17 Center
PSI Cedar
Springs Hospital,
18 Inc.
Tennyson Center
19 for Children
The University of
Colorado Health
Sciences Center
20 dba Synergy
21 Third Way Center
22 Third Way Center
23 Third Way Center
24 Third Way Center
25 Third Way Center
Turning Point
26 Center for Youth
Turning Point
27 Center for Youth
28 Youthtrack
29 Youthtrack
2255 S 88th Street
14142 Denver
West Pkwy, Suite
#225
14142 Denver
West Pkwy, Suite
#225
421 Zang St
421 Zang St
4159 Lowell Blvd
4601 Corbett DR
3520 W Oxford Ave
2135 Southgate Rd
2950 Tennyson St
3738 W Princeton
Cir
PO Box 61385
PO Box 61385
PO Box 61385
PO Box 61385
PO Box 61385
1644 South College
Ave
1644 South College
Ave
1375 Ken Pratt
Blvd
1375 Ken Pratt
Blvd
Aurora, CO 80014
Louisville, CO 80027
Lakewood, CO
80401-3189
Lakewood, CO
80401-3189
Lakewood, CO
80228
Lakewood, CO
80228
Denver, CO 80211
Fort Collins, CO,
80528
Denver, CO 80236
Colorado Springs,
CO 80906-2605
Denver, CO 80212-
3029
Denver, CO 80236
Denver, CO 80206
Denver, CO 80206
Denver, CO 80206
Denver, CO 80206
Denver, CO 80206
Fort Collins, CO
80525
Fort Collins, CO
80525
Longmont, CO
80501
Longmont, CO
80501
45243 $180.75 $180.75
1520898 $161.66 $161.66
39212 $180.75 $180.75
49547
12284
88459
45174
$180.75
$176.08
$171.30
$180.75
$180.75
$176.08
$171.30
$180.75
42261 $180.75 $180.75
13363 $180.75 $180.75
1517006 $180.75 $180.75
45205 $180.75 $180.75
49488 $148.49
49487 $179.24
65346 $179.24
77810 $179.24
1507881 $179.24
1547437 $175.71
45179
100441
11724
11726
$178.02
$178.02
$129.23
$137.90
$148.49
$179.24
$179.24
$179.24
$179.24
$175.71
$178.02
$178.02
$129.23
$137.90
These contracts have been presented for consent approval to the Board of County
Commissioners however; I am requesting your signature along with the Boards to complete these
contracts for the FY 2009-2010. If you have any questions please call me at Ext. 6441.
WELD COUNTY ADDENDUM
To that certain Agreement to Purchase Therapeutic Residential Child Care
Facility Services and Residential Child Care Facility Services (the
"Agreement") between Alternative Homes For Youth and Weld County
Department of Human Services for the period from
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
The following provisions, made this ) day of
, 2009, are added to the referenced
Agreement. Except as modified hereby, all terms of he Agreement remain unchanged.
1. County agrees to purchase and Contractor, identified as Provider ID#2016, agrees to
provide:
A. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $180.75 per day for children placed within the
Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facility.
B. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $180.75 per day for children placed within the
Residential Child Care Facility.
C. Additional services not covered by Medicaid or considered within the above
vendor rate. These additional services/rates may be negotiated on a child by child
basis, based on the needs of the child and in accordance with the Colorado
Department of Human Services Agency Letter CW-06-11-I dated June 8, 2006.
These services will be for children who have been deemed eligible for social services
under the statutes, rules and regulations of the State of Colorado.
2. Section I, Paragraph 2. All bed hold authorizations and payments are subject to a 3 day
maximum for a child's temporary absence from a facility, including hospitalization. Bed
hold requests must have prior written authorization from the Department Administrator
before payment will be release to provider. Reimbursement rates for bed hold days may
not exceed the state standard rate for administrative maintenance and administrative
services or may be a reduced rate that is mutually agreed upon.
3. Add Paragraph 6 to Section I. The services purchased under this Agreement as Child
Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services for Therapeutic Residential
Child Care Facilities and Residential Child Care Facilities include, but are not limited to:
Food, shelter, clothing, personal needs and allowance, administration, administrative
overhead, support staff, support overhead, sleep -over staff, direct child care,
transportation, therapeutic recreation, service delivery staff, parent training for teens,
independent living training, mentor/advocate, supervised visitation and all other services
as outlined in the Contractor's scope of service attached as Exhibit A or the Child
Specific Addendum. The anticipated minimum percentage for each item is as follows
and will be subject to County monitoring as outlined in Section VI of this contract:
A. Food, including meals and snacks (25%);
B. Clothing (3%);
C. Shelter, including utilities and use of household furnishing and equipment and
daily supervision, including those activities that a parent would normally carry out
to assure protection, emotional support and care of the child (30%);
D. Personal items and grooming care for the child, such as toothpaste, toothbrushes,
soap, combs, haircuts, and other essentials (2%);
E. Other/miscellaneous items considered usual in the care and supervision of the
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child, include, but are not limited to, transportation, recreation and overhead
(40%)
4. Add Paragraph 7 to Section I. A minimum of one polygraph test per Colorado fiscal
year, if needed by the child, will be furnished by the Contractor under this contract for
facilities that provide sex offender treatment.
5. Add Paragraph 8 to Section I. Any additional costs for specialized services, which
include, but are not limited to; polygraph tests, plethysmographs, and urinalysis screens,
that is not provided within the vendor rate or attached Scope of Service, will need be
negotiated and authorized, in writing by the County, prior to the service being performed.
Any payment for specialized services not authorized in writing will be denied.
6. Add Paragraph 5 to Section II. Contact by the Contractor with the County regarding
emergency medical, surgical or dental care will be made in person -to -person
communication, not through phone mail messages. During regular work hours, the
Contractor will make every effort to notify the assigned caseworker, supervisor, or intake
screener of any emergency medical, surgical or dental issues prior to granting
authorization. During non -regular work hours, weekends and holidays, the Contractor
will contact the Emergency Duty Worker at the pager number (970) 304-2749.
7. Section III, Paragraph 5. Contractor additionally agrees to have appropriate personnel
available for staffing current placements with the Utilization Review Team. This review
team convenes every Monday morning, excluding holidays.
8. Add Paragraph 13 to Section IV. Agree to cooperate with any vendors hired by Weld
County Department of Human Services to shorten the duration of placement.
9. Add Paragraph 14 to Section IV. Agree to schedule physical examinations within 14
days after placement, dental examinations within eight weeks after placement and
forward all appropriate information to the County.
10. Add Paragraph 15 to Section IV. A full evaluation of an Individualized Educational Plan
(IEP) for youth designated as a Special Education Student will be conducted every 3
years and reviewed every year. If the IEP is due while the child is in placement, the
Contractor will complete or obtain a completed IEP. A copy will then be forwarded to
the County.
11. Add Paragraph 16 to Section IV. Assure and certify that it and its principals:
A. Are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, and declared
ineligible or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by a federal
department or agency.
B. Have not, within a three-year period of preceding this Agreement, been convicted
of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for commission of fraud or a
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing
a public (federal, state, or local) transaction or contract under a public transaction;
violation of federal or state antitrust statutes or commission of embezzlement,
theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false
statements, or receiving stolen property;
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C. Are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a
government entity (federal, state, or local) with commission of any of the offenses
enumerated in paragraph (B) above.
D. Have not within a three-year period preceding this Agreement, had one or more
public transactions (federal, state, and local) terminated for cause or default.
12. Section V, Paragraph 5. Children in Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facilities,
Residential Child Care Facilities and Child Placement Agencies are not eligible to receive
clothing allowances as outlined in the Weld County Department of Human Services
Policy and Procedure Manual.
13. Add Paragraph 7 to Section VI. It is expressly understood and agreed that the
enforcement of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and all rights of action
relating to such enforcement, shall be strictly reserved to the undersigned parties or their
assignees, and nothing contained in this Agreement shall give or allow any claim or right
of action whatsoever by any other person not included in this Agreement. It is the
express intention of the undersigned parties that any entity other than the undersigned
parties or their assignees receiving services or benefits under this Agreement shall be an
incidental beneficiary only.
14. Add Paragraph 8 to Section VI. No portion of this Agreement shall be deemed to
constitute a waiver of any immunity the parties or their officers or employees may
posses, nor shall any portion of this Agreement be deemed to have created a duty of care
that did not previously exist with respect to any person not a party to this Agreement.
The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that no part of this Agreement is intended to
circumvent or replace such immunities.
15. Add Paragraph 9 to Section VI. The Director of Human Services or designee may
exercise the following remedial actions should s/he find the Contractor substantially
failed to satisfy the scope of work found in this Agreement. Substantial failure to satisfy
the scope of work shall be defined to mean incorrect or improper activities or inaction by
the Contractor. These remedial actions are as follows:
A. Withhold payment to the Contractor until the necessary services or corrections in
performance are satisfactorily completed;
B. Deny payment or recover reimbursement for those services or deliverables which
have not been performed and which due to circumstances caused by the
Contractor cannot be performed or if performed would be of no value to the
Human Services. Denial of the amount of payment shall be reasonably related to
the amount of work or deliverables lost to Human Services;
Recover from the Contractor any incorrect payment to the Contractor due to
omission, error, fraud, and/or defalcation by deducting from subsequent payments
under this Agreement or other agreements between Human Services and the
Contractor, or by Human Services as a debt to Human Services or otherwise as
provided by law.
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• 16. Add Paragraph 10 to Section VI. The contractor shall promptly notify Human Services
in the event in which it is a party defendant or respondent in a case, which involves
services provided under the agreement. The Contractor, within five (5) calendar days
after being served with a summons, complaint, or other pleading which has been filed in
any federal or state court or administrative agency, shall deliver copies of such
document(s) to the Human Services' Director. The term "litigation" includes an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, and filings in bankruptcy, reorganizations and/or
foreclosure.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed the Addendum as of the day,
month, and year first above written.
ATTEST: Weld County Clerk to the
By: /(/b'1Z1ft•
Deputy
erk to the Board
Approval as to Substance:
WELD COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF HUMAN SERVICES
d
WELD COUNTY BOARD OF
SOCIAL SERVICES, ON BEHALF
OF THE WELD COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
SERVICES
By:
AUG 0 5 2009
Chair Signature
CONTRACTOR
Alternative Homes For Youth
PO Box 9
Dacono, CO 80514
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WELD COUNTY ADDENDUM
To that certain Agreement to Purchase Therapeutic Residential Child Care
Facility Services and Residential Child Care Facility Services (the
"Agreement") between Childrens Ark, Inc and Weld County Department of
Human Services for the period from
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
The following provisions, made this day of T;, , 2009, are added to the referenced
Agreement. Except as modified hereby, all terms of the Agreement remain unchanged.
1. County agrees to purchase and Contractor, identified as Provider ID#4261, agrees to
provide:
A. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $164.93 per day for children placed within the
Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facility.
B. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $164.93 per day for children placed within the
Residential Child Care Facility.
C. Additional services not covered by Medicaid or considered within the above
vendor rate. These additional services/rates may be negotiated on a child by child
basis, based on the needs of the child and in accordance with the Colorado
Department of Human Services Agency Letter CW-06-11-I dated June 8, 2006.
These services will be for children who have been deemed eligible for social services
under the statutes, rules and regulations of the State of Colorado.
2. Section I, Paragraph 2. All bed hold authorizations and payments are subject to a 3 day
maximum for a child's temporary absence from a facility, including hospitalization. Bed
hold requests must have prior written authorization from the Department Administrator
before payment will be release to provider. Reimbursement rates for bed hold days may
not exceed the state standard rate for administrative maintenance and administrative
services or may be a reduced rate that is mutually agreed upon.
3. Add Paragraph 6 to Section I. The services purchased under this Agreement as Child
Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services for Therapeutic Residential
Child Care Facilities and Residential Child Care Facilities include, but are not limited to:
Food, shelter, clothing, personal needs and allowance, administration, administrative
overhead, support staff, support overhead, sleep -over staff, direct child care,
transportation, therapeutic recreation, service delivery staff, parent training for teens,
independent living training, mentor/advocate, supervised visitation and all other services
as outlined in the Contractor's scope of service attached as Exhibit A or the Child
Specific Addendum. The anticipated minimum percentage for each item is as follows
and will be subject to County monitoring as outlined in Section VI of this contract:
A. Food, including meals and snacks (25%);
B. Clothing (3%);
C. Shelter, including utilities and use of household furnishing and equipment and
daily supervision, including those activities that a parent would normally carry out
to assure protection, emotional support and care of the child (30%);
D. Personal items and grooming care for the child, such as toothpaste, toothbrushes,
soap, combs, haircuts, and other essentials (2%);
E. Other/miscellaneous items considered usual in the care and supervision of the
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child, include, but are not limited to, transportation, recreation and overhead
(40%)
4. Add Paragraph 7 to Section 1. A minimum of one polygraph test per Colorado fiscal
year, if needed by the child, will be furnished by the Contractor under this contract for
facilities that provide sex offender treatment.
5. Add Paragraph 8 to Section I. Any additional costs for specialized services, which
include, but are not limited to; polygraph tests, plethysmographs, and urinalysis screens,
that is not provided within the vendor rate or attached Scope of Service, will need be
negotiated and authorized, in writing by the County, prior to the service being performed.
Any payment for specialized services not authorized in writing will be denied.
6. Add Paragraph 5 to Section II. Contact by the Contractor with the County regarding
emergency medical, surgical or dental care will be made in person -to -person
communication, not through phone mail messages. During regular work hours, the
Contractor will make every effort to notify the assigned caseworker, supervisor, or intake
screener of any emergency medical, surgical or dental issues prior to granting
authorization. During non -regular work hours, weekends and holidays, the Contractor
will contact the Emergency Duty Worker at the pager number (970) 304-2749.
7. Section III, Paragraph 5. Contractor additionally agrees to have appropriate personnel
available for staffing current placements with the Utilization Review Team. This review
team convenes every Monday morning, excluding holidays.
8. Add Paragraph 13 to Section IV. Agree to cooperate with any vendors hired by Weld
County Department of Human Services to shorten the duration of placement.
9. Add Paragraph 14 to Section IV. Agree to schedule physical examinations within 14
days after placement, dental examinations within eight weeks after placement and
forward all appropriate information to the County.
10. Add Paragraph 15 to Section IV. A full evaluation of an Individualized Educational Plan
(IEP) for youth designated as a Special Education Student will be conducted every 3
years and reviewed every year. If the IEP is due while the child is in placement, the
Contractor will complete or obtain a completed IEP. A copy will then be forwarded to
the County.
11. Add Paragraph 16 to Section IV. Assure and certify that it and its principals:
A. Are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, and declared
ineligible or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by a federal
department or agency.
B. Have not, within a three-year period of preceding this Agreement, been convicted
of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for commission of fraud or a
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing
a public (federal, state, or local) transaction or contract under a public transaction;
violation of federal or state antitrust statutes or commission of embezzlement,
theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false
statements, or receiving stolen property;
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C. Are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a
government entity (federal, state, or local) with commission of any of the offenses
enumerated in paragraph (B) above.
D. Have not within a three-year period preceding this Agreement, had one or more
public transactions (federal, state, and local) terminated for cause or default.
12. Section V, Paragraph 5. Children in Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facilities,
Residential Child Care Facilities and Child Placement Agencies are not eligible to receive
clothing allowances as outlined in the Weld County Department of Human Services
Policy and Procedure Manual.
13. Add Paragraph 7 to Section VI. It is expressly understood and agreed that the
enforcement of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and all rights of action
relating to such enforcement, shall be strictly reserved to the undersigned parties or their
assignees, and nothing contained in this Agreement shall give or allow any claim or right
of action whatsoever by any other person not included in this Agreement. It is the
express intention of the undersigned parties that any entity other than the undersigned
parties or their assignees receiving services or benefits under this Agreement shall be an
incidental beneficiary only.
14. Add Paragraph 8 to Section VI. No portion of this Agreement shall be deemed to
constitute a waiver of any immunity the parties or their officers or employees may
posses, nor shall any portion of this Agreement be deemed to have created a duty of care
that did not previously exist with respect to any person not a party to this Agreement.
The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that no part of this Agreement is intended to
circumvent or replace such immunities.
15. Add Paragraph 9 to Section VI. The Director of Human Services or designee may
exercise the following remedial actions should s/he find the Contractor substantially
failed to satisfy the scope of work found in this Agreement. Substantial failure to satisfy
the scope of work shall be defined to mean incorrect or improper activities or inaction by
the Contractor. These remedial actions are as follows:
A. Withhold payment to the Contractor until the necessary services or corrections in
performance are satisfactorily completed;
B. Deny payment or recover reimbursement for those services or deliverables which
have not been performed and which due to circumstances caused by the
Contractor cannot be performed or if performed would be of no value to the
Human Services. Denial of the amount of payment shall be reasonably related to
the amount of work or deliverables lost to Human Services;
C. Recover from the Contractor any incorrect payment to the Contractor due to
omission, error, fraud, and/or defalcation by deducting from subsequent payments
under this Agreement or other agreements between Human Services and the
Contractor, or by Human Services as a debt to Human Services or otherwise as
provided by law.
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Add Paragraph 10 to Section VI. The contractor shall promptly notify Human Services
in the event in which it is a party defendant or respondent in a case, which involves
services provided under the agreement. The Contractor, within five (5) calendar days
after being served with a summons, complaint, or other pleading which has been filed in
any federal or state court or administrative agency, shall deliver copies of such
document(s) to the Human Services' Director. The term "litigation" includes an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, and filings in bankruptcy, reorganizations and/or
foreclosure.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed the Addendum as of the day,
month, and year first above written.
ATTEST: Weld County Clerk to the Board
B
Deputy C
kirk to the Board L__
Approval as to Substance:
WELD COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF HUMAN SERVICES
By:
WELD COUNTY BOARD OF
SOCIAL SERVICES, ON BEHALF
OF THE WELD COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
SERVICES
Chair Signature
AUG (15 }009
CONTRACTOR
Childrens Ark, Inc
10460 W Hwy 24
Green Mountain Falls, CO 80819
By: 'Wl't' 9 4)4011
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WELD COUNTY ADDENDUM
To that certain Agreement to Purchase Therapeutic Residential Child Care
Facility Services and Residential Child Care Facility Services (the
"Agreement") between Childrens Ark, Inc and Weld County Department of
Human Services for the period from
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
The following provisions, made this ) 'f day of .`j L, , 2009, are added to the referenced
Agreement. Except as modified hereby, all terms of the Agreement remain unchanged.
1. County agrees to purchase and Contractor, identified as Provider ID#40322, agrees to
provide:
A. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $164.93 per day for children placed within the
Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facility.
B. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $164.93 per day for children placed within the
Residential Child Care Facility.
C. Additional services not covered by Medicaid or considered within the above
vendor rate. These additional services/rates may be negotiated on a child by child
basis, based on the needs of the child and in accordance with the Colorado
Department of Human Services Agency Letter CW-06-11-I dated June 8, 2006.
These services will be for children who have been deemed eligible for social services
under the statutes, rules and regulations of the State of Colorado.
2. Section I, Paragraph 2. All bed hold authorizations and payments are subject to a 3 day
maximum for a child's temporary absence from a facility, including hospitalization. Bed
hold requests must have prior written authorization from the Department Administrator
before payment will be release to provider. Reimbursement rates for bed hold days may
not exceed the state standard rate for administrative maintenance and administrative
services or may be a reduced rate that is mutually agreed upon.
3. Add Paragraph 6 to Section I. The services purchased under this Agreement as Child
Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services for Therapeutic Residential
Child Care Facilities and Residential Child Care Facilities include, but are not limited to:
Food, shelter, clothing, personal needs and allowance, administration, administrative
overhead, support staff, support overhead, sleep -over staff, direct child care,
transportation, therapeutic recreation, service delivery staff, parent training for teens,
independent living training, mentor/advocate, supervised visitation and all other services
as outlined in the Contractor's scope of service attached as Exhibit A or the Child
Specific Addendum. The anticipated minimum percentage for each item is as follows
and will be subject to County monitoring as outlined in Section VI of this contract:
A. Food, including meals and snacks (25%);
B. Clothing (3%);
C. Shelter, including utilities and use of household furnishing and equipment and
daily supervision, including those activities that a parent would normally carry out
to assure protection, emotional support and care of the child (30%);
D. Personal items and grooming care for the child, such as toothpaste, toothbrushes,
soap, combs, haircuts, and other essentials (2%);
E. Other/miscellaneous items considered usual in the care and supervision of the
Weld County SS 23A Addendum
r child, include, but are not limited to, transportation, recreation and overhead
(40%)
4. Add Paragraph 7 to Section 1. A minimum of one polygraph test per Colorado fiscal
year, if needed by the child, will be furnished by the Contractor under this contract for
facilities that provide sex offender treatment.
5. Add Paragraph 8 to Section I. Any additional costs for specialized services, which
include, but are not limited to; polygraph tests, plethysmographs, and urinalysis screens,
that is not provided within the vendor rate or attached Scope of Service, will need be
negotiated and authorized, in writing by the County, prior to the service being performed.
Any payment for specialized services not authorized in writing will be denied.
6. Add Paragraph 5 to Section II. Contact by the Contractor with the County regarding
emergency medical, surgical or dental care will be made in person -to -person
communication, not through phone mail messages. During regular work hours, the
Contractor will make every effort to notify the assigned caseworker, supervisor, or intake
screener of any emergency medical, surgical or dental issues prior to granting
authorization. During non -regular work hours, weekends and holidays, the Contractor
will contact the Emergency Duty Worker at the pager number (970) 304-2749.
7. Section III, Paragraph 5. Contractor additionally agrees to have appropriate personnel
available for staffing current placements with the Utilization Review Team. This review
team convenes every Monday morning, excluding holidays.
8. Add Paragraph 13 to Section IV. Agree to cooperate with any vendors hired by Weld
County Department of Human Services to shorten the duration of placement.
9. Add Paragraph 14 to Section IV. Agree to schedule physical examinations within 14
days after placement, dental examinations within eight weeks after placement and
forward all appropriate information to the County.
10. Add Paragraph 15 to Section IV. A full evaluation of an Individualized Educational Plan
(IEP) for youth designated as a Special Education Student will be conducted every 3
years and reviewed every year. If the IEP is due while the child is in placement, the
Contractor will complete or obtain a completed IEP. A copy will then be forwarded to
the County.
11. Add Paragraph 16 to Section IV. Assure and certify that it and its principals:
A. Are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, and declared
ineligible or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by a federal
department or agency.
Have not, within a three-year period of preceding this Agreement, been convicted
of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for commission of fraud or a
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing
a public (federal, state, or local) transaction or contract under a public transaction;
violation of federal or state antitrust statutes or commission of embezzlement,
theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false
statements, or receiving stolen property;
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C. Are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a
government entity (federal, state, or local) with commission of any of the offenses
enumerated in paragraph (B) above.
D. Have not within a three-year period preceding this Agreement, had one or more
public transactions (federal, state, and local) terminated for cause or default.
12. Section V, Paragraph 5. Children in Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facilities,
Residential Child Care Facilities and Child Placement Agencies are not eligible to receive
clothing allowances as outlined in the Weld County Department of Human Services
Policy and Procedure Manual.
13. Add Paragraph 7 to Section VI. It is expressly understood and agreed that the
enforcement of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and all rights of action
relating to such enforcement, shall be strictly reserved to the undersigned parties or their
assignees, and nothing contained in this Agreement shall give or allow any claim or right
of action whatsoever by any other person not included in this Agreement. It is the
express intention of the undersigned parties that any entity other than the undersigned
parties or their assignees receiving services or benefits under this Agreement shall be an
incidental beneficiary only.
14. Add Paragraph 8 to Section VI. No portion of this Agreement shall be deemed to
constitute a waiver of any immunity the parties or their officers or employees may
posses, nor shall any portion of this Agreement be deemed to have created a duty of care
that did not previously exist with respect to any person not a party to this Agreement.
The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that no part of this Agreement is intended to
circumvent or replace such immunities.
15. Add Paragraph 9 to Section VI. The Director of Human Services or designee may
exercise the following remedial actions should s/he find the Contractor substantially
failed to satisfy the scope of work found in this Agreement. Substantial failure to satisfy
the scope of work shall be defined to mean incorrect or improper activities or inaction by
the Contractor. These remedial actions are as follows:
A. Withhold payment to the Contractor until the necessary services or corrections in
performance are satisfactorily completed;
B. Deny payment or recover reimbursement for those services or deliverables which
have not been performed and which due to circumstances caused by the
Contractor cannot be performed or if performed would be of no value to the
Human Services. Denial of the amount of payment shall be reasonably related to
the amount of work or deliverables lost to Human Services;
C. Recover from the Contractor any incorrect payment to the Contractor due to
omission, error, fraud, and/or defalcation by deducting from subsequent payments
under this Agreement or other agreements between Human Services and the
Contractor, or by Human Services as a debt to Human Services or otherwise as
provided by law.
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•
16. Add Paragraph 10 to Section VI. The contractor shall promptly notify Human Services
in the event in which it is a party defendant or respondent in a case, which involves
services provided under the agreement. The Contractor, within five (5) calendar days
after being served with a summons, complaint, or other pleading which has been filed in
any federal or state court or administrative agency, shall deliver copies of such
document(s) to the Human Services' Director. The term "litigation" includes an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, and filings in bankruptcy, reorganizations and/or
foreclosure.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed the Addendum as of the day,
month, and year first above written.
ATTEST: Weld County Clerk to the Board
B
Deputy Cl g to the Boar.
Approval as to Substance:
WELD COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF HUMAN SERVICES
By:
WELD COUNTY BOARD OF
SOCIAL SERVICES, ON BEHALF
OF THE WELD COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
SERVICES
By: (IC\
-2-,
Chair Signature AUG Q 5 2009
CONTRACTOR
Childrens Ark, Inc
10460 W Hwy 24
Green Mountain Falls, CO 80819
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WELD COUNTY ADDENDUM
To that certain Agreement to Purchase Therapeutic Residential Child Care
Facility Services and Residential Child Care Facility Services (the
"Agreement") between Childrens Ark, Inc and Weld County Department of
Human Services for the period from
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
The following provisions, made this I day of S j� , 2009, are added to the referenced
Agreement. Except as modified hereby, all terms of the Agreement remain unchanged.
1. County agrees to purchase and Contractor, identified as Provider ID#96480, agrees to
provide:
A. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $164.93 per day for children placed within the
Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facility.
B. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $164.93 per day for children placed within the
Residential Child Care Facility.
C. Additional services not covered by Medicaid or considered within the above
vendor rate. These additional services/rates may be negotiated on a child by child
basis, based on the needs of the child and in accordance with the Colorado
Department of Human Services Agency Letter CW-06-11-I dated June 8, 2006.
These services will be for children who have been deemed eligible for social services
under the statutes, rules and regulations of the State of Colorado.
2. Section I, Paragraph 2. All bed hold authorizations and payments are subject to a 3 day
maximum for a child's temporary absence from a facility, including hospitalization. Bed
hold requests must have prior written authorization from the Department Administrator
before payment will be release to provider. Reimbursement rates for bed hold days may
not exceed the state standard rate for administrative maintenance and administrative
services or may be a reduced rate that is mutually agreed upon.
3. Add Paragraph 6 to Section I. The services purchased under this Agreement as Child
Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services for Therapeutic Residential
Child Care Facilities and Residential Child Care Facilities include, but are not limited to:
Food, shelter, clothing, personal needs and allowance, administration, administrative
overhead, support staff, support overhead, sleep -over staff, direct child care,
transportation, therapeutic recreation, service delivery staff, parent training for teens,
independent living training, mentor/advocate, supervised visitation and all other services
as outlined in the Contractor's scope of service attached as Exhibit A or the Child
Specific Addendum. The anticipated minimum percentage for each item is as follows
and will be subject to County monitoring as outlined in Section VI of this contract:
A. Food, including meals and snacks (25%);
B. Clothing (3%);
C. Shelter, including utilities and use of household furnishing and equipment and
daily supervision, including those activities that a parent would normally carry out
to assure protection, emotional support and care of the child (30%);
D. Personal items and grooming care for the child, such as toothpaste, toothbrushes,
soap, combs, haircuts, and other essentials (2%);
E. Other/miscellaneous items considered usual in the care and supervision of the
Weld County SS -23A Addlun----_/yL
child, include, but are not limited to, transportation, recreation and overhead
(40%)
4. Add Paragraph 7 to Section I. A minimum of one polygraph test per Colorado fiscal
year, if needed by the child, will be furnished by the Contractor under this contract for
facilities that provide sex offender treatment.
5. Add Paragraph 8 to Section I. Any additional costs for specialized services, which
include, but are not limited to; polygraph tests, plethysmographs, and urinalysis screens,
that is not provided within the vendor rate or attached Scope of Service, will need be
negotiated and authorized, in writing by the County, prior to the service being performed.
Any payment for specialized services not authorized in writing will be denied.
6. Add Paragraph 5 to Section II. Contact by the Contractor with the County regarding
emergency medical, surgical or dental care will be made in person -to -person
communication, not through phone mail messages. During regular work hours, the
Contractor will make every effort to notify the assigned caseworker, supervisor, or intake
screener of any emergency medical, surgical or dental issues prior to granting
authorization. During non -regular work hours, weekends and holidays, the Contractor
will contact the Emergency Duty Worker at the pager number (970) 304-2749.
7. Section III, Paragraph 5. Contractor additionally agrees to have appropriate personnel
available for staffing current placements with the Utilization Review Team. This review
team convenes every Monday morning, excluding holidays.
8. Add Paragraph 13 to Section IV. Agree to cooperate with any vendors hired by Weld
County Department of Human Services to shorten the duration of placement.
9. Add Paragraph 14 to Section IV. Agree to schedule physical examinations within 14
days after placement, dental examinations within eight weeks after placement and
forward all appropriate information to the County.
10. Add Paragraph 15 to Section IV. A full evaluation of an Individualized Educational Plan
(IEP) for youth designated as a Special Education Student will be conducted every 3
years and reviewed every year. If the IEP is due while the child is in placement, the
Contractor will complete or obtain a completed IEP. A copy will then be forwarded to
the County.
11. Add Paragraph 16 to Section IV. Assure and certify that it and its principals:
A. Are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, and declared
ineligible or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by a federal
department or agency.
B. Have not, within a three-year period of preceding this Agreement, been convicted
of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for commission of fraud or a
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing
a public (federal, state, or local) transaction or contract under a public transaction;
violation of federal or state antitrust statutes or commission of embezzlement,
theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false
statements, or receiving stolen property;
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C. Are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a
government entity (federal, state, or local) with commission of any of the offenses
enumerated in paragraph (B) above.
D. Have not within a three-year period preceding this Agreement, had one or more
public transactions (federal, state, and local) terminated for cause or default.
12. Section V, Paragraph 5. Children in Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facilities,
Residential Child Care Facilities and Child Placement Agencies are not eligible to receive
clothing allowances as outlined in the Weld County Department of Human Services
Policy and Procedure Manual.
13. Add Paragraph 7 to Section VI. It is expressly understood and agreed that the
enforcement of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and all rights of action
relating to such enforcement, shall be strictly reserved to the undersigned parties or their
assignees, and nothing contained in this Agreement shall give or allow any claim or right
of action whatsoever by any other person not included in this Agreement. It is the
express intention of the undersigned parties that any entity other than the undersigned
parties or their assignees receiving services or benefits under this Agreement shall be an
incidental beneficiary only.
14. Add Paragraph 8 to Section VI. No portion of this Agreement shall be deemed to
constitute a waiver of any immunity the parties or their officers or employees may
posses, nor shall any portion of this Agreement be deemed to have created a duty of care
that did not previously exist with respect to any person not a party to this Agreement.
The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that no part of this Agreement is intended to
circumvent or replace such immunities.
15. Add Paragraph 9 to Section VI. The Director of Human Services or designee may
exercise the following remedial actions should s/he find the Contractor substantially
failed to satisfy the scope of work found in this Agreement. Substantial failure to satisfy
the scope of work shall be defined to mean incorrect or improper activities or inaction by
the Contractor. These remedial actions are as follows:
A. Withhold payment to the Contractor until the necessary services or corrections in
performance are satisfactorily completed;
B. Deny payment or recover reimbursement for those services or deliverables which
have not been performed and which due to circumstances caused by the
Contractor cannot be performed or if performed would be of no value to the
Human Services. Denial of the amount of payment shall be reasonably related to
the amount of work or deliverables lost to Human Services;
C. Recover from the Contractor any incorrect payment to the Contractor due to
omission, error, fraud, and/or defalcation by deducting from subsequent payments
under this Agreement or other agreements between Human Services and the
Contractor, or by Human Services as a debt to Human Services or otherwise as
provided by law.
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Add Paragraph 10 to Section VI. The contractor shall promptly notify Human Services
in the event in which it is a party defendant or respondent in a case, which involves
services provided under the agreement. The Contractor, within five (5) calendar days
after being served with a summons, complaint, or other pleading which has been filed in
any federal or state court or administrative agency, shall deliver copies of such
document(s) to the Human Services' Director. The term "litigation" includes an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, and filings in bankruptcy, reorganizations and/or
foreclosure.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed the Addendum as of the day,
month, and year first above written.
ATTEST: Weld County Clerk to the Board
WELD COUNTY BOARD OF
SOCIAL SERVICES, ON BEHALF
OF THE WELD COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
SERVICES
By: 4S j'%'L`.s% f"f By:
Deputy Cl • to the Bo
Approval as to Substance:
WELD COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF HUMAN SERVICES
By:
Chair Signature AUG 0 5 2009
CONTRACTOR
Childrens Ark, Inc
10460 W Hwy 24
Green Mountain Falls, CO 80819
By:
a
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Weld County SS -23A Addendum e 9
WELD COUNTY ADDENDUM
To that certain Agreement to Purchase Therapeutic Residential Child Care
Facility Services and Residential Child Care Facility Services (the
"Agreement") between Courthouse Inc. and Weld County Department of
Human Services for the period from
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
The following provisions, made this day of , 2009, are added to the referenced
Agreement. Except as modified hereby, all terms f t Agreement remain unchanged.
1. County agrees to purchase and Contractor, identified as Provider ID#45724, agrees to
provide:
A. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $180.75 per day for children placed within the
Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facility.
B. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $180.75 per day for children placed within the
Residential Child Care Facility.
C. Additional services not covered by Medicaid or considered within the above
vendor rate. These additional services/rates may be negotiated on a child by child
basis, based on the needs of the child and in accordance with the Colorado
Department of Human Services Agency Letter CW-06-11-I dated June 8, 2006.
These services will be for children who have been deemed eligible for social services
under the statutes, rules and regulations of the State of Colorado.
2. Section I, Paragraph 2. All bed hold authorizations and payments are subject to a 3 day
maximum for a child's temporary absence from a facility, including hospitalization. Bed
hold requests must have prior written authorization from the Department Administrator
before payment will be release to provider. Reimbursement rates for bed hold days may
not exceed the state standard rate for administrative maintenance and administrative
services or may be a reduced rate that is mutually agreed upon.
3. Add Paragraph 6 to Section I. The services purchased under this Agreement as Child
Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services for Therapeutic Residential
Child Care Facilities and Residential Child Care Facilities include, but are not limited to:
Food, shelter, clothing, personal needs and allowance, administration, administrative
overhead, support staff, support overhead, sleep -over staff, direct child care,
transportation, therapeutic recreation, service delivery staff, parent training for teens,
independent living training, mentor/advocate, supervised visitation and all other services
as outlined in the Contractor's scope of service attached as Exhibit A or the Child
Specific Addendum. The anticipated minimum percentage for each item is as follows
and will be subject to County monitoring as outlined in Section VI of this contract:
A. Food, including meals and snacks (25%);
B. Clothing (3%);
C. Shelter, including utilities and use of household furnishing and equipment and
daily supervision, including those activities that a parent would normally carry out
to assure protection, emotional support and care of the child (30%);
D. Personal items and grooming care for the child, such as toothpaste, toothbrushes,
soap, combs, haircuts, and other essentials (2%);
E. Other/miscellaneous items considered usual in the care and supervision of the
Weld County SS -23A Addendut
cer,> AY �7
child, include, but are not limited to, transportation, recreation and overhead
(40%)
Add Paragraph 7 to Section I. A minimum of one polygraph test per Colorado fiscal
year, if needed by the child, will be furnished by the Contractor under this contract for
facilities that provide sex offender treatment.
5. Add Paragraph 8 to Section I. Any additional costs for specialized services, which
include, but are not limited to; polygraph tests, plethysmographs, and urinalysis screens,
that is not provided within the vendor rate or attached Scope of Service, will need be
negotiated and authorized, in writing by the County, prior to the service being performed.
Any payment for specialized services not authorized in writing will be denied.
6. Add Paragraph 5 to Section II. Contact by the Contractor with the County regarding
emergency medical, surgical or dental care will be made in person -to -person
communication, not through phone mail messages. During regular work hours, the
Contractor will make every effort to notify the assigned caseworker, supervisor, or intake
screener of any emergency medical, surgical or dental issues prior to granting
authorization. During non -regular work hours, weekends and holidays, the Contractor
will contact the Emergency Duty Worker at the pager number (970) 304-2749.
7. Section III, Paragraph 5. Contractor additionally agrees to have appropriate personnel
available for staffing current placements with the Utilization Review Team. This review
team convenes every Monday morning, excluding holidays.
8. Add Paragraph 13 to Section IV. Agree to cooperate with any vendors hired by Weld
County Department of Human Services to shorten the duration of placement.
9. Add Paragraph 14 to Section IV. Agree to schedule physical examinations within 14
days after placement, dental examinations within eight weeks after placement and
forward all appropriate information to the County.
10. Add Paragraph 15 to Section IV. A full evaluation of an Individualized Educational Plan
(IEP) for youth designated as a Special Education Student will be conducted every 3
years and reviewed every year. If the IEP is due while the child is in placement, the
Contractor will complete or obtain a completed IEP. A copy will then be forwarded to
the County.
11. Add Paragraph 16 to Section IV. Assure and certify that it and its principals:
A. Are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, and declared
ineligible or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by a federal
department or agency.
B. Have not, within a three-year period of preceding this Agreement, been convicted
of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for commission of fraud or a
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing
a public (federal, state, or local) transaction or contract under a public transaction;
violation of federal or state antitrust statutes or commission of embezzlement,
theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false
statements, or receiving stolen property;
2 Weld County SS -23A Addendum
C. Are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a
government entity (federal, state, or local) with commission of any of the offenses
enumerated in paragraph (B) above.
D. Have not within a three-year period preceding this Agreement, had one or more
public transactions (federal, state, and local) terminated for cause or default.
12. Section V, Paragraph 5. Children in Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facilities,
Residential Child Care Facilities and Child Placement Agencies are not eligible to receive
clothing allowances as outlined in the Weld County Department of Human Services
Policy and Procedure Manual.
13. Add Paragraph 7 to Section VI. It is expressly understood and agreed that the
enforcement of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and all rights of action
relating to such enforcement, shall be strictly reserved to the undersigned parties or their
assignees, and nothing contained in this Agreement shall give or allow any claim or right
of action whatsoever by any other person not included in this Agreement. It is the
express intention of the undersigned parties that any entity other than the undersigned
parties or their assignees receiving services or benefits under this Agreement shall be an
incidental beneficiary only.
14. Add Paragraph 8 to Section VI. No portion of this Agreement shall be deemed to
constitute a waiver of any immunity the parties or their officers or employees may
posses, nor shall any portion of this Agreement be deemed to have created a duty of care
that did not previously exist with respect to any person not a party to this Agreement.
The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that no part of this Agreement is intended to
circumvent or replace such immunities.
15. Add Paragraph 9 to Section VI. The Director of Human Services or designee may
exercise the following remedial actions should s/he find the Contractor substantially
failed to satisfy the scope of work found in this Agreement. Substantial failure to satisfy
the scope of work shall be defined to mean incorrect or improper activities or inaction by
the Contractor. These remedial actions are as follows:
A. Withhold payment to the Contractor until the necessary services or corrections in
performance are satisfactorily completed;
B. Deny payment or recover reimbursement for those services or deliverables which
have not been performed and which due to circumstances caused by the
Contractor cannot be performed or if performed would be of no value to the
Human Services. Denial of the amount of payment shall be reasonably related to
the amount of work or deliverables lost to Human Services;
C. Recover from the Contractor any incorrect payment to the Contractor due to
omission, error, fraud, and/or defalcation by deducting from subsequent payments
under this Agreement or other agreements between Human Services and the
Contractor, or by Human Services as a debt to Human Services or otherwise as
provided by law.
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16. Add Paragraph 10 to Section VI. The contractor shall promptly notify Human Services
in the event in which it is a party defendant or respondent in a case, which involves
services provided under the agreement. The Contractor, within five (5) calendar days
after being served with a summons, complaint, or other pleading which has been filed in
any federal or state court or administrative agency, shall deliver copies of such
document(s) to the Human Services' Director. The term "litigation" includes an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, and filings in bankruptcy, reorganizations and/or
foreclosure.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed the Addendum as of the day,
month, and year first above written.
ATTEST: Weld County Clerk to the Board
B
Deputy N -rk to the Bo'a
Approval as to Substance:
WELD COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF HUMAN SERVICES
WELD COUNTY BOARD OF
SOCIAL SERVICES, ON BEHALF
OF THE WELD COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
SERVICES
By:
Chair Signature AUG G 5 2009
CONTRACTOR
Courthouse Inc.
333 W Hampden Ave, Suite 305
Englewood, CO 80111-2333
By: ��'����izi
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WELD COUNTY ADDENDUM
To that certain Agreement to Purchase Therapeutic Residential Child Care
Facility Services and Residential Child Care Facility Services (the
"Agreement") between Courthouse Inc. and Weld County Department of
Human Services for the period from
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
The following provisions, made this day of , 2009, are added to the referenced
Agreement. Except as modified hereby, all terms t Agreement remain unchanged.
1. County agrees to purchase and Contractor, identified as Provider ID#46050, agrees to
provide:
A. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $180.75 per day for children placed within the
Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facility.
B. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $180.75 per day for children placed within the
Residential Child Care Facility.
C. Additional services not covered by Medicaid or considered within the above
vendor rate. These additional services/rates may be negotiated on a child by child
basis, based on the needs of the child and in accordance with the Colorado
Department of Human Services Agency Letter CW-06-11-I dated June 8, 2006.
These services will be for children who have been deemed eligible for social services
under the statutes, rules and regulations of the State of Colorado.
2. Section I, Paragraph 2. All bed hold authorizations and payments are subject to a 3 day
maximum for a child's temporary absence from a facility, including hospitalization. Bed
hold requests must have prior written authorization from the Department Administrator
before payment will be release to provider. Reimbursement rates for bed hold days may
not exceed the state standard rate for administrative maintenance and administrative
services or may be a reduced rate that is mutually agreed upon.
3. Add Paragraph 6 to Section I. The services purchased under this Agreement as Child
Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services for Therapeutic Residential
Child Care Facilities and Residential Child Care Facilities include, but are not limited to:
Food, shelter, clothing, personal needs and allowance, administration, administrative
overhead, support staff, support overhead, sleep -over staff, direct child care,
transportation, therapeutic recreation, service delivery staff, parent training for teens,
independent living training, mentor/advocate, supervised visitation and all other services
as outlined in the Contractor's scope of service attached as Exhibit A or the Child
Specific Addendum. The anticipated minimum percentage for each item is as follows
and will be subject to County monitoring as outlined in Section VI of this contract:
A. Food, including meals and snacks (25%);
B. Clothing (3%);
C. Shelter, including utilities and use of household furnishing and equipment and
daily supervision, including those activities that a parent would normally carry out
to assure protection, emotional support and care of the child (30%);
D. Personal items and grooming care for the child, such as toothpaste, toothbrushes,
soap, combs, haircuts, and other essentials (2%);
E. Other/miscellaneous items considered usual in the care and supervision of the
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child, include, but are not limited to, transportation, recreation and overhead
(40%)
4. Add Paragraph 7 to Section I. A minimum of one polygraph test per Colorado fiscal
year, if needed by the child, will be furnished by the Contractor under this contract for
facilities that provide sex offender treatment.
5. Add Paragraph 8 to Section I. Any additional costs for specialized services, which
include, but are not limited to; polygraph tests, plethysmographs, and urinalysis screens,
that is not provided within the vendor rate or attached Scope of Service, will need be
negotiated and authorized, in writing by the County, prior to the service being performed.
Any payment for specialized services not authorized in writing will be denied.
6. Add Paragraph 5 to Section II. Contact by the Contractor with the County regarding
emergency medical, surgical or dental care will be made in person -to -person
communication, not through phone mail messages. During regular work hours, the
Contractor will make every effort to notify the assigned caseworker, supervisor, or intake
screener of any emergency medical, surgical or dental issues prior to granting
authorization. During non -regular work hours, weekends and holidays, the Contractor
will contact the Emergency Duty Worker at the pager number (970) 304-2749.
7. Section III, Paragraph 5. Contractor additionally agrees to have appropriate personnel
available for staffing current placements with the Utilization Review Team. This review
team convenes every Monday morning, excluding holidays.
8. Add Paragraph 13 to Section IV. Agree to cooperate with any vendors hired by Weld
County Department of Human Services to shorten the duration of placement.
9. Add Paragraph 14 to Section IV. Agree to schedule physical examinations within 14
days after placement, dental examinations within eight weeks after placement and
forward all appropriate information to the County.
10. Add Paragraph 15 to Section IV. A full evaluation of an Individualized Educational Plan
(IEP) for youth designated as a Special Education Student will be conducted every 3
years and reviewed every year. If the IEP is due while the child is in placement, the
Contractor will complete or obtain a completed IEP. A copy will then be forwarded to
the County.
11. Add Paragraph 16 to Section IV. Assure and certify that it and its principals:
A. Are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, and declared
ineligible or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by a federal
department or agency.
B. Have not, within a three-year period of preceding this Agreement, been convicted
of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for commission of fraud or a
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing
a public (federal, state, or local) transaction or contract under a public transaction;
violation of federal or state antitrust statutes or commission of embezzlement,
theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false
statements, or receiving stolen property;
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C. Are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a
government entity (federal, state, or local) with commission of any of the offenses
enumerated in paragraph (B) above.
D. Have not within a three-year period preceding this Agreement, had one or more
public transactions (federal, state, and local) terminated for cause or default.
12. Section V, Paragraph 5. Children in Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facilities,
Residential Child Care Facilities and Child Placement Agencies are not eligible to receive
clothing allowances as outlined in the Weld County Department of Human Services
Policy and Procedure Manual.
13. Add Paragraph 7 to Section VI. It is expressly understood and agreed that the
enforcement of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and all rights of action
relating to such enforcement, shall be strictly reserved to the undersigned parties or their
assignees, and nothing contained in this Agreement shall give or allow any claim or right
of action whatsoever by any other person not included in this Agreement. It is the
express intention of the undersigned parties that any entity other than the undersigned
parties or their assignees receiving services or benefits under this Agreement shall be an
incidental beneficiary only.
14. Add Paragraph 8 to Section VI. No portion of this Agreement shall be deemed to
constitute a waiver of any immunity the parties or their officers or employees may
posses, nor shall any portion of this Agreement be deemed to have created a duty of care
that did not previously exist with respect to any person not a party to this Agreement.
The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that no part of this Agreement is intended to
circumvent or replace such immunities.
15. Add Paragraph 9 to Section VI. The Director of Human Services or designee may
exercise the following remedial actions should s/he find the Contractor substantially
failed to satisfy the scope of work found in this Agreement. Substantial failure to satisfy
the scope of work shall be defined to mean incorrect or improper activities or inaction by
the Contractor. These remedial actions are as follows:
A. Withhold payment to the Contractor until the necessary services or corrections in
performance are satisfactorily completed;
B. Deny payment or recover reimbursement for those services or deliverables which
have not been performed and which due to circumstances caused by the
Contractor cannot be performed or if performed would be of no value to the
Human Services. Denial of the amount of payment shall be reasonably related to
the amount of work or deliverables lost to Human Services;
C. Recover from the Contractor any incorrect payment to the Contractor due to
omission, error, fraud, and/or defalcation by deducting from subsequent payments
under this Agreement or other agreements between Human Services and the
Contractor, or by Human Services as a debt to Human Services or otherwise as
provided by law.
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16. Add Paragraph 10 to Section VI. The contractor shall promptly notify Human Services
in the event in which it is a party defendant or respondent in a case, which involves
services provided under the agreement. The Contractor, within five (5) calendar days
after being served with a summons, complaint, or other pleading which has been filed in
any federal or state court or administrative agency, shall deliver copies of such
document(s) to the Human Services' Director. The term "litigation" includes an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, and filings in bankruptcy, reorganizations and/or
foreclosure.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed the Addendum as of the day,
month, and year first above written.
ATTEST: Weld County Clerk to the Board
B
Approval as to Substance:
WELD COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF HUMAN SERVICES
By:
WELD COUNTY BOARD OF
SOCIAL SERVICES, ON BEHALF
OF THE WELD COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
SERVICES
By:
Chair Signature AUG 0 5 2009
CONTRACTOR
Courthouse Inc.
333 W Hampden Ave, Suite 305
Englewood, CO 80110-2333
BY:72/ti�lG( /ii/d6t7L_
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WELD COUNTY ADDENDUM
To that certain Agreement to Purchase Therapeutic Residential Child Care
Facility Services and Residential Child Care Facility Services (the
"Agreement") between Devereux Cleo Wallace and Weld County
Department of Human Services for the period from
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
The following provisions, made this / day of , 2009, are added to the referenced
Agreement. Except as modified hereby, all terms th Agreement remain unchanged.
1. County agrees to purchase and Contractor, identified as Provider ID#39794, agrees to
provide:
A. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $180.75 per day for children placed within the
Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facility.
B. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $180.75 per day for children placed within the
Residential Child Care Facility.
C. Additional services not covered by Medicaid or considered within the above
vendor rate. These additional services/rates may be negotiated on a child by child
basis, based on the needs of the child and in accordance with the Colorado
Department of Human Services Agency Letter CW-06-11-I dated June 8, 2006.
These services will be for children who have been deemed eligible for social services
under the statutes, rules and regulations of the State of Colorado.
2. Section I, Paragraph 2. All bed hold authorizations and payments are subject to a 3 day
maximum for a child's temporary absence from a facility, including hospitalization. Bed
hold requests must have prior written authorization from the Department Administrator
before payment will be release to provider. Reimbursement rates for bed hold days may
not exceed the state standard rate for administrative maintenance and administrative
services or may be a reduced rate that is mutually agreed upon.
3. Add Paragraph 6 to Section I. The services purchased under this Agreement as Child
Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services for Therapeutic Residential
Child Care Facilities and Residential Child Care Facilities include, but are not limited to:
Food, shelter, clothing, personal needs and allowance, administration, administrative
overhead, support staff, support overhead, sleep -over staff, direct child care,
transportation, therapeutic recreation, service delivery staff, parent training for teens,
independent living training, mentor/advocate, supervised visitation and all other services
as outlined in the Contractor's scope of service attached as Exhibit A or the Child
Specific Addendum. The anticipated minimum percentage for each item is as follows
and will be subject to County monitoring as outlined in Section VI of this contract:
A. Food, including meals and snacks (25%);
B. Clothing (3%);
C. Shelter, including utilities and use of household furnishing and equipment and
daily supervision, including those activities that a parent would normally carry out
to assure protection, emotional support and care of the child (30%);
D. Personal items and grooming care for the child, such as toothpaste, toothbrushes,
soap, combs, haircuts, and other essentials (2%);
E. Other/miscellaneous items considered usual in the care and supervision of the
Weld County SS -23A Addendum
C'- /J1
child, include, but are not limited to, transportation, recreation and overhead
(40%)
4. Add Paragraph 7 to Section I. A minimum of one polygraph test per Colorado fiscal
year, if needed by the child, will be furnished by the Contractor under this contract for
facilities that provide sex offender treatment.
5. Add Paragraph 8 to Section I. Any additional costs for specialized services, which
include, but are not limited to; polygraph tests, plethysmographs, and urinalysis screens,
that is not provided within the vendor rate or attached Scope of Service, will need be
negotiated and authorized, in writing by the County, prior to the service being performed.
Any payment for specialized services not authorized in writing will be denied.
6. Add Paragraph 5 to Section II. Contact by the Contractor with the County regarding
emergency medical, surgical or dental care will be made in person -to -person
communication, not through phone mail messages. During regular work hours, the
Contractor will make every effort to notify the assigned caseworker, supervisor, or intake
screener of any emergency medical, surgical or dental issues prior to granting
authorization. During non -regular work hours, weekends and holidays, the Contractor
will contact the Emergency Duty Worker at the pager number (970) 304-2749.
7. Section III, Paragraph 5. Contractor additionally agrees to have appropriate personnel
available for staffing current placements with the Utilization Review Team. This review
team convenes every Monday morning, excluding holidays.
8. Add Paragraph 13 to Section IV. Agree to cooperate with any vendors hired by Weld
County Department of Human Services to shorten the duration of placement.
9. Add Paragraph 14 to Section IV. Agree to schedule physical examinations within 14
days after placement, dental examinations within eight weeks after placement and
forward all appropriate information to the County.
10. Add Paragraph 15 to Section IV. A full evaluation of an Individualized Educational Plan
(IEP) for youth designated as a Special Education Student will be conducted every 3
years and reviewed every year. If the IEP is due while the child is in placement, the
Contractor will complete or obtain a completed IEP. A copy will then be forwarded to
the County.
11. Add Paragraph 16 to Section IV. Assure and certify that it and its principals:
A. Are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, and declared
ineligible or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by a federal
department or agency.
B. Have not, within a three-year period of preceding this Agreement, been convicted
of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for commission of fraud or a
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing
a public (federal, state, or local) transaction or contract under a public transaction;
violation of federal or state antitrust statutes or commission of embezzlement,
theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false
statements, or receiving stolen property;
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C. Are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a
government entity (federal, state, or local) with commission of any of the offenses
enumerated in paragraph (B) above.
D. Have not within a three-year period preceding this Agreement, had one or more
public transactions (federal, state, and local) terminated for cause or default.
12. Section V, Paragraph 5. Children in Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facilities,
Residential Child Care Facilities and Child Placement Agencies are not eligible to receive
clothing allowances as outlined in the Weld County Department of Human Services
Policy and Procedure Manual.
13. Add Paragraph 7 to Section VI. It is expressly understood and agreed that the
enforcement of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and all rights of action
relating to such enforcement, shall be strictly reserved to the undersigned parties or their
assignees, and nothing contained in this Agreement shall give or allow any claim or right
of action whatsoever by any other person not included in this Agreement. It is the
express intention of the undersigned parties that any entity other than the undersigned
parties or their assignees receiving services or benefits under this Agreement shall be an
incidental beneficiary only.
14. Add Paragraph 8 to Section VI. No portion of this Agreement shall be deemed to
constitute a waiver of any immunity the parties or their officers or employees may
posses, nor shall any portion of this Agreement be deemed to have created a duty of care
that did not previously exist with respect to any person not a party to this Agreement.
The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that no part of this Agreement is intended to
circumvent or replace such immunities.
15. Add Paragraph 9 to Section VI. The Director of Human Services or designee may
exercise the following remedial actions should s/he find the Contractor substantially
failed to satisfy the scope of work found in this Agreement. Substantial failure to satisfy
the scope of work shall be defined to mean incorrect or improper activities or inaction by
the Contractor. These remedial actions are as follows:
A. Withhold payment to the Contractor until the necessary services or corrections in
performance are satisfactorily completed;
B. Deny payment or recover reimbursement for those services or deliverables which
have not been performed and which due to circumstances caused by the
Contractor cannot be performed or if performed would be of no value to the
Human Services. Denial of the amount of payment shall be reasonably related to
the amount of work or deliverables lost to Human Services;
C. Recover from the Contractor any incorrect payment to the Contractor due to
omission, error, fraud, and/or defalcation by deducting from subsequent payments
under this Agreement or other agreements between Human Services and the
Contractor, or by Human Services as a debt to Human Services or otherwise as
provided by law.
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16. Add Paragraph 10 to Section VI. The contractor shall promptly notify Human Services
in the event in which it is a party defendant or respondent in a case, which involves
services provided under the agreement. The Contractor, within five (5) calendar days
after being served with a summons, complaint, or other pleading which has been filed in
any federal or state court or administrative agency, shall deliver copies of such
document(s) to the Human Services' Director. The term "litigation" includes an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, and filings in bankruptcy, reorganizations and/or
foreclosure.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed the Addendum as of the day,
month, and year first above written.
ATTEST: Weld County Clerk to the Board
B
Deputy CYeflc to the Bo
Approval as to Substance:
WELD COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF HUMAN SERVICES
By:
WELD COUNTY BOARD OF
SOCIAL SERVICES, ON BEHALF
OF THE WELD COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
SERVICES
Chair Signature
AUG 0 5 2009
CONTRACTOR
Devereux Cleo Wallace
8405 Church Ranch Blvd
Westminster, CO 80021
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WELD COUNTY ADDENDUM
To that certain Agreement to Purchase Therapeutic Residential Child Care
Facility Services and Residential Child Care Facility Services (the
"Agreement") between El Pueblo Boys' and Girls' Ranch and Weld County
Department of Human Services for the period from
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
The following provisions, made this t day of �f , 2009, are added to the referenced
Agreement. Except as modified hereby, all terms oithe Agreement remain unchanged.
1. County agrees to purchase and Contractor, identified as Provider ID#45146, agrees to
provide:
A. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $180.75 per day for children placed within the
Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facility.
B. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $180.75 per day for children placed within the
Residential Child Care Facility.
C. Additional services not covered by Medicaid or considered within the above
vendor rate. These additional services/rates may be negotiated on a child by child
basis, based on the needs of the child and in accordance with the Colorado
Department of Human Services Agency Letter CW-06-11-I dated June 8, 2006.
These services will be for children who have been deemed eligible for social services
under the statutes, rules and regulations of the State of Colorado.
2. Section I, Paragraph 2. All bed hold authorizations and payments are subject to a 3 day
maximum for a child's temporary absence from a facility, including hospitalization. Bed
hold requests must have prior written authorization from the Department Administrator
before payment will be release to provider. Reimbursement rates for bed hold days may
not exceed the state standard rate for administrative maintenance and administrative
services or may be a reduced rate that is mutually agreed upon.
3. Add Paragraph 6 to Section I. The services purchased under this Agreement as Child
Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services for Therapeutic Residential
Child Care Facilities and Residential Child Care Facilities include, but are not limited to:
Food, shelter, clothing, personal needs and allowance, administration, administrative
overhead, support staff, support overhead, sleep -over staff, direct child care,
transportation, therapeutic recreation, service delivery staff, parent training for teens,
independent living training, mentor/advocate, supervised visitation and all other services
as outlined in the Contractor's scope of service attached as Exhibit A or the Child
Specific Addendum. The anticipated minimum percentage for each item is as follows
and will be subject to County monitoring as outlined in Section VI of this contract:
A. Food, including meals and snacks (25%);
B. Clothing (3%);
C. Shelter, including utilities and use of household furnishing and equipment and
daily supervision, including those activities that a parent would normally carry out
to assure protection, emotional support and care of the child (30%);
D. Personal items and grooming care for the child, such as toothpaste, toothbrushes,
soap, combs, haircuts, and other essentials (2%);
E. Other/miscellaneous items considered usual in the care and supervision of the
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child, include, but are not limited to, transportation, recreation and overhead
(40%)
4. Add Paragraph 7 to Section I. A minimum of one polygraph test per Colorado fiscal
year, if needed by the child, will be furnished by the Contractor under this contract for
facilities that provide sex offender treatment.
5. Add Paragraph 8 to Section I. Any additional costs for specialized services, which
include, but are not limited to; polygraph tests, plethysmographs, and urinalysis screens,
that is not provided within the vendor rate or attached Scope of Service, will need be
negotiated and authorized, in writing by the County, prior to the service being performed.
Any payment for specialized services not authorized in writing will be denied.
6. Add Paragraph 5 to Section II. Contact by the Contractor with the County regarding
emergency medical, surgical or dental care will be made in person -to -person
communication, not through phone mail messages. During regular work hours, the
Contractor will make every effort to notify the assigned caseworker, supervisor, or intake
screener of any emergency medical, surgical or dental issues prior to granting
authorization. During non -regular work hours, weekends and holidays, the Contractor
will contact the Emergency Duty Worker at the pager number (970) 304-2749.
7. Section III, Paragraph 5. Contractor additionally agrees to have appropriate personnel
available for staffing current placements with the Utilization Review Team. This review
team convenes every Monday morning, excluding holidays.
8. Add Paragraph 13 to Section IV. Agree to cooperate with any vendors hired by Weld
County Department of Human Services to shorten the duration of placement.
9. Add Paragraph 14 to Section IV. Agree to schedule physical examinations within 14
days after placement, dental examinations within eight weeks after placement and
forward all appropriate information to the County.
10. Add Paragraph 15 to Section IV. A full evaluation of an Individualized Educational Plan
(IEP) for youth designated as a Special Education Student will be conducted every 3
years and reviewed every year. If the IEP is due while the child is in placement, the
Contractor will complete or obtain a completed IEP. A copy will then be forwarded to
the County.
11. Add Paragraph 16 to Section IV. Assure and certify that it and its principals:
A. Are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, and declared
ineligible or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by a federal
department or agency.
B. Have not, within a three-year period of preceding this Agreement, been convicted
of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for commission of fraud or a
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing
a public (federal, state, or local) transaction or contract under a public transaction;
violation of federal or state antitrust statutes or commission of embezzlement,
theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false
statements, or receiving stolen property;
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C. Are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a
government entity (federal, state, or local) with commission of any of the offenses
enumerated in paragraph (B) above.
D. Have not within a three-year period preceding this Agreement, had one or more
public transactions (federal, state, and local) terminated for cause or default.
12. Section V, Paragraph 5. Children in Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facilities,
Residential Child Care Facilities and Child Placement Agencies are not eligible to receive
clothing allowances as outlined in the Weld County Department of Human Services
Policy and Procedure Manual.
13. Add Paragraph 7 to Section VI. It is expressly understood and agreed that the
enforcement of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and all rights of action
relating to such enforcement, shall be strictly reserved to the undersigned parties or their
assignees, and nothing contained in this Agreement shall give or allow any claim or right
of action whatsoever by any other person not included in this Agreement. It is the
express intention of the undersigned parties that any entity other than the undersigned
parties or their assignees receiving services or benefits under this Agreement shall be an
incidental beneficiary only.
14. Add Paragraph 8 to Section VI. No portion of this Agreement shall be deemed to
constitute a waiver of any immunity the parties or their officers or employees may
posses, nor shall any portion of this Agreement be deemed to have created a duty of care
that did not previously exist with respect to any person not a party to this Agreement.
The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that no part of this Agreement is intended to
circumvent or replace such immunities.
15. Add Paragraph 9 to Section VI. The Director of Human Services or designee may
exercise the following remedial actions should s/he find the Contractor substantially
failed to satisfy the scope of work found in this Agreement. Substantial failure to satisfy
the scope of work shall be defined to mean incorrect or improper activities or inaction by
the Contractor. These remedial actions are as follows:
A. Withhold payment to the Contractor until the necessary services or corrections in
performance are satisfactorily completed;
B. Deny payment or recover reimbursement for those services or deliverables which
have not been performed and which due to circumstances caused by the
Contractor cannot be performed or if performed would be of no value to the
Human Services. Denial of the amount of payment shall be reasonably related to
the amount of work or deliverables lost to Human Services;
C. Recover from the Contractor any incorrect payment to the Contractor due to
omission, error, fraud, and/or defalcation by deducting from subsequent payments
under this Agreement or other agreements between Human Services and the
Contractor, or by Human Services as a debt to Human Services or otherwise as
provided by law.
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16. Add Paragraph 10 to Section VI. The contractor shall promptly notify Human Services
in the event in which it is a party defendant or respondent in a case, which involves
services provided under the agreement. The Contractor, within five (5) calendar days
after being served with a summons, complaint, or other pleading which has been filed in
any federal or state court or administrative agency, shall deliver copies of such
document(s) to the Human Services' Director. The term "litigation" includes an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, and filings in bankruptcy, reorganizations and/or
foreclosure.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed the Addendum as of the day,
month, and year first above written.
ATTEST: Weld County Clerk to the Board
By:
iZ;zeu > ,
Deputy Clek to the Board,
Approval as to Substance:
WELD COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF HUMAN SERVICES
By:
WELD COUNTY BOARD OF
SOCIAL SERVICES, ON BEHALF
OF THE WELD COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
SERVICES
By: (/"
Chair SignatureAU6 5 7.009
CONTRACTOR
El Pueblo Boys' and Girls' Ranch
One El Pueblo Ranch Way
Pueblo, CO 81006
By:
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WELD COUNTY ADDENDUM
To that certain Agreement to Purchase Therapeutic Residential Child Care
Facility Services and Residential Child Care Facility Services (the
"Agreement") between Excelsior Youth Centers and Weld County
Department of Human Services for the period from
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
The following provisions, made this { day of
Agreement. Except as modified hereby, all terms cif tie Agreement remain unchanged.
, 2009, are added to the referenced
1. County agrees to purchase and Contractor, identified as Provider ID#45243, agrees to
provide:
A. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $180.75 per day for children placed within the
Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facility.
B. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $180.75 per day for children placed within the
Residential Child Care Facility.
C. Additional services not covered by Medicaid or considered within the above
vendor rate. These additional services/rates may be negotiated on a child by child
basis, based on the needs of the child and in accordance with the Colorado
Department of Human Services Agency Letter CW-06-11-I dated June 8, 2006.
These services will be for children who have been deemed eligible for social services
under the statutes, rules and regulations of the State of Colorado.
2. Section I, Paragraph 2. All bed hold authorizations and payments are subject to a 3 day
maximum for a child's temporary absence from a facility, including hospitalization. Bed
hold requests must have prior written authorization from the Department Administrator
before payment will be release to provider. Reimbursement rates for bed hold days may
not exceed the state standard rate for administrative maintenance and administrative
services or may be a reduced rate that is mutually agreed upon.
3. Add Paragraph 6 to Section I. The services purchased under this Agreement as Child
Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services for Therapeutic Residential
Child Care Facilities and Residential Child Care Facilities include, but are not limited to:
Food, shelter, clothing, personal needs and allowance, administration, administrative
overhead, support staff, support overhead, sleep -over staff, direct child care,
transportation, therapeutic recreation, service delivery staff, parent training for teens,
independent living training, mentor/advocate, supervised visitation and all other services
as outlined in the Contractor's scope of service attached as Exhibit A or the Child
Specific Addendum. The anticipated minimum percentage for each item is as follows
and will be subject to County monitoring as outlined in Section VI of this contract:
A. Food, including meals and snacks (25%);
B. Clothing (3%);
C. Shelter, including utilities and use of household furnishing and equipment and
daily supervision, including those activities that a parent would normally carry out
to assure protection, emotional support and care of the child (30%);
D. Personal items and grooming care for the child, such as toothpaste, toothbrushes,
soap, combs, haircuts, and other essentials (2%);
E. Other/miscellaneous items considered usual in the care and supervision of the
Weld County SS -23A Addendum COL>/c - e.
child, include, but are not limited to, transportation, recreation and overhead
(40%)
4. Add Paragraph 7 to Section I. A minimum of one polygraph test per Colorado fiscal
year, if needed by the child, will be furnished by the Contractor under this contract for
facilities that provide sex offender treatment.
5. Add Paragraph 8 to Section I. Any additional costs for specialized services, which
include, but are not limited to; polygraph tests, plethysmographs, and urinalysis screens,
that is not provided within the vendor rate or attached Scope of Service, will need be
negotiated and authorized, in writing by the County, prior to the service being performed.
Any payment for specialized services not authorized in writing will be denied.
6. Add Paragraph 5 to Section II. Contact by the Contractor with the County regarding
emergency medical, surgical or dental care will be made in person -to -person
communication, not through phone mail messages. During regular work hours, the
Contractor will make every effort to notify the assigned caseworker, supervisor, or intake
screener of any emergency medical, surgical or dental issues prior to granting
authorization. During non -regular work hours, weekends and holidays, the Contractor
will contact the Emergency Duty Worker at the pager number (970) 304-2749.
7. Section III, Paragraph 5. Contractor additionally agrees to have appropriate personnel
available for staffing current placements with the Utilization Review Team. This review
team convenes every Monday morning, excluding holidays.
8. Add Paragraph 13 to Section IV. Agree to cooperate with any vendors hired by Weld
County Department of Human Services to shorten the duration of placement.
9. Add Paragraph 14 to Section IV. Agree to schedule physical examinations within 14
days after placement, dental examinations within eight weeks after placement and
forward all appropriate information to the County.
10. Add Paragraph 15 to Section IV. A full evaluation of an Individualized Educational Plan
(IEP) for youth designated as a Special Education Student will be conducted every 3
years and reviewed every year. If the IEP is due while the child is in placement, the
Contractor will complete or obtain a completed IEP. A copy will then be forwarded to
the County.
11. Add Paragraph 16 to Section IV. Assure and certify that it and its principals:
A. Are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, and declared
ineligible or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by a federal
department or agency.
B. Have not, within a three-year period of preceding this Agreement, been convicted
of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for commission of fraud or a
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing
a public (federal, state, or local) transaction or contract under a public transaction;
violation of federal or state antitrust statutes or commission of embezzlement,
theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false
statements, or receiving stolen property;
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C. Are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a
government entity (federal, state, or local) with commission of any of the offenses
enumerated in paragraph (B) above.
D. Have not within a three-year period preceding this Agreement, had one or more
public transactions (federal, state, and local) terminated for cause or default.
12. Section V, Paragraph 5. Children in Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facilities,
Residential Child Care Facilities and Child Placement Agencies are not eligible to receive
clothing allowances as outlined in the Weld County Department of Human Services
Policy and Procedure Manual.
13. Add Paragraph 7 to Section VI. It is expressly understood and agreed that the
enforcement of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and all rights of action
relating to such enforcement, shall be strictly reserved to the undersigned parties or their
assignees, and nothing contained in this Agreement shall give or allow any claim or right
of action whatsoever by any other person not included in this Agreement. It is the
express intention of the undersigned parties that any entity other than the undersigned
parties or their assignees receiving services or benefits under this Agreement shall be an
incidental beneficiary only.
14. Add Paragraph 8 to Section VI. No portion of this Agreement shall be deemed to
constitute a waiver of any immunity the parties or their officers or employees may
posses, nor shall any portion of this Agreement be deemed to have created a duty of care
that did not previously exist with respect to any person not a party to this Agreement.
The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that no part of this Agreement is intended to
circumvent or replace such immunities.
15. Add Paragraph 9 to Section VI. The Director of Human Services or designee may
exercise the following remedial actions should s/he find the Contractor substantially
failed to satisfy the scope of work found in this Agreement. Substantial failure to satisfy
the scope of work shall be defined to mean incorrect or improper activities or inaction by
the Contractor. These remedial actions are as follows:
A. Withhold payment to the Contractor until the necessary services or corrections in
performance are satisfactorily completed;
B. Deny payment or recover reimbursement for those services or deliverables which
have not been performed and which due to circumstances caused by the
Contractor cannot be performed or if performed would be of no value to the
Human Services. Denial of the amount of payment shall be reasonably related to
the amount of work or deliverables lost to Human Services;
C. Recover from the Contractor any incorrect payment to the Contractor due to
omission, error, fraud, and/or defalcation by deducting from subsequent payments
under this Agreement or other agreements between Human Services and the
Contractor, or by Human Services as a debt to Human Services or otherwise as
provided by law.
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16. Add Paragraph 10 to Section VI. The contractor shall promptly notify Human Services
in the event in which it is a party defendant or respondent in a case, which involves
services provided under the agreement. The Contractor, within five (5) calendar days
after being served with a summons, complaint, or other pleading which has been filed in
any federal or state court or administrative agency, shall deliver copies of such
document(s) to the Human Services' Director. The tenn "litigation" includes an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, and filings in bankruptcy, reorganizations and/or
foreclosure.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed the Addendum as of the day,
month, and year first above written.
ATTEST: Weld County Clerk to the Board
ILA/ dAi
By
Deputy / erk to the Board._
Approval as to Substance:
WELD COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF HUMAN SERVICES
WELD COUNTY BOARD OF
SOCIAL SERVICES, ON BEHALF
OF THE WELD COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
SERVICES
By:
Chair Signature
CONTRACTOR
Excelsior Youth Centers
15001 E. Oxford Ave
Aurora, CO 80014
By:
" 2 Director
AUG 0 5 2009
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WELD COUNTY ADDENDUM
To that certain Agreement to Purchase Therapeutic Residential Child Care
Facility Services and Residential Child Care Facility Services (the
"Agreement") between Flatirons Behavioral Health Hospital, Corp. and
Weld County Department of Human Services for the period from
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
The following provisions, made this [ day of o I _, 2009, are added to the referenced
Agreement. Except as modified hereby, all terms t Agreement remain unchanged.
County agrees to purchase and Contractor, identified as Provider ID#1520898, agrees to
provide:
A. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $161.66 per day for children placed within the
Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facility.
B. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $161.66 per day for children placed within the
Residential Child Care Facility.
C. Additional services not covered by Medicaid or considered within the above
vendor rate. These additional services/rates may be negotiated on a child by child
basis, based on the needs of the child and in accordance with the Colorado
Department of Human Services Agency Letter CW-06-11-I dated June 8, 2006.
These services will be for children who have been deemed eligible for social services
under the statutes, rules and regulations of the State of Colorado.
2. Section I, Paragraph 2. All bed hold authorizations and payments are subject to a 3 day
maximum for a child's temporary absence from a facility, including hospitalization. Bed
hold requests must have prior written authorization from the Department Administrator
before payment will be release to provider. Reimbursement rates for bed hold days may
not exceed the state standard rate for administrative maintenance and administrative
services or may be a reduced rate that is mutually agreed upon.
3. Add Paragraph 6 to Section I. The services purchased under this Agreement as Child
Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services for Therapeutic Residential
Child Care Facilities and Residential Child Care Facilities include, but are not limited to:
Food, shelter, clothing, personal needs and allowance, administration, administrative
overhead, support staff, support overhead, sleep -over staff, direct child care,
transportation, therapeutic recreation, service delivery staff, parent training for teens,
independent living training, mentor/advocate, supervised visitation and all other services
as outlined in the Contractor's scope of service attached as Exhibit A or the Child
Specific Addendum. The anticipated minimum percentage for each item is as follows
and will be subject to County monitoring as outlined in Section VI of this contract:
A. Food, including meals and snacks (25%);
B. Clothing (3%);
C. Shelter, including utilities and use of household furnishing and equipment and
daily supervision, including those activities that a parent would normally carry out
to assure protection, emotional support and care of the child (30%);
D. Personal items and grooming care for the child, such as toothpaste, toothbrushes,
soap, combs, haircuts, and other essentials (2%);
E. Other/miscellaneous items considered usual in the care and supervision of the
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child, include, but are not limited to, transportation, recreation and overhead
(40%)
4. Add Paragraph 7 to Section I. A minimum of one polygraph test per Colorado fiscal
year, if needed by the child, will be furnished by the Contractor under this contract for
facilities that provide sex offender treatment.
5. Add Paragraph 8 to Section I. Any additional costs for specialized services, which
include, but are not limited to; polygraph tests, plethysmographs, and urinalysis screens,
that is not provided within the vendor rate or attached Scope of Service, will need be
negotiated and authorized, in writing by the County, prior to the service being performed.
Any payment for specialized services not authorized in writing will be denied.
6. Add Paragraph 5 to Section II. Contact by the Contractor with the County regarding
emergency medical, surgical or dental care will be made in person -to -person
communication, not through phone mail messages. During regular work hours, the
Contractor will make every effort to notify the assigned caseworker, supervisor, or intake
screener of any emergency medical, surgical or dental issues prior to granting
authorization. During non -regular work hours, weekends and holidays, the Contractor
will contact the Emergency Duty Worker at the pager number (970) 304-2749.
7. Section III, Paragraph 5. Contractor additionally agrees to have appropriate personnel
available for staffing current placements with the Utilization Review Team. This review
team convenes every Monday morning, excluding holidays.
8. Add Paragraph 13 to Section IV. Agree to cooperate with any vendors hired by Weld
County Department of Human Services to shorten the duration of placement.
9. Add Paragraph 14 to Section IV. Agree to schedule physical examinations within 14
days after placement, dental examinations within eight weeks after placement and
forward all appropriate information to the County.
10. Add Paragraph 15 to Section IV. A full evaluation of an Individualized Educational Plan
(IEP) for youth designated as a Special Education Student will be conducted every 3
years and reviewed every year. If the IEP is due while the child is in placement, the
Contractor will complete or obtain a completed IEP. A copy will then be forwarded to
the County.
11. Add Paragraph 16 to Section IV. Assure and certify that it and its principals:
A. Are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, and declared
ineligible or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by a federal
department or agency.
B. Have not, within a three-year period of preceding this Agreement, been convicted
of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for commission of fraud or a
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing
a public (federal, state, or local) transaction or contract under a public transaction;
violation of federal or state antitrust statutes or commission of embezzlement,
theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false
statements, or receiving stolen property;
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C. Are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a
government entity (federal, state, or local) with commission of any of the offenses
enumerated in paragraph (B) above.
D. Have not within a three-year period preceding this Agreement, had one or more
public transactions (federal, state, and local) terminated for cause or default.
12. Section V, Paragraph 5. Children in Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facilities,
Residential Child Care Facilities and Child Placement Agencies are not eligible to receive
clothing allowances as outlined in the Weld County Department of Human Services
Policy and Procedure Manual.
13. Add Paragraph 7 to Section VI. It is expressly understood and agreed that the
enforcement of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and all rights of action
relating to such enforcement, shall be strictly reserved to the undersigned parties or their
assignees, and nothing contained in this Agreement shall give or allow any claim or right
of action whatsoever by any other person not included in this Agreement. It is the
express intention of the undersigned parties that any entity other than the undersigned
parties or their assignees receiving services or benefits under this Agreement shall be an
incidental beneficiary only.
14. Add Paragraph 8 to Section VI. No portion of this Agreement shall be deemed to
constitute a waiver of any immunity the parties or their officers or employees may
posses, nor shall any portion of this Agreement be deemed to have created a duty of care
that did not previously exist with respect to any person not a party to this Agreement.
The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that no part of this Agreement is intended to
circumvent or replace such immunities.
15. Add Paragraph 9 to Section VI. The Director of Human Services or designee may
exercise the following remedial actions should s/he find the Contractor substantially
failed to satisfy the scope of work found in this Agreement. Substantial failure to satisfy
the scope of work shall be defined to mean incorrect or improper activities or inaction by
the Contractor. These remedial actions are as follows:
A. Withhold payment to the Contractor until the necessary services or corrections in
performance are satisfactorily completed;
B. Deny payment or recover reimbursement for those services or deliverables which
have not been performed and which due to circumstances caused by the
Contractor cannot be performed or if performed would be of no value to the
Human Services. Denial of the amount of payment shall be reasonably related to
the amount of work or deliverables lost to Human Services;
C. Recover from the Contractor any incorrect payment to the Contractor due to
omission, error, fraud, and/or defalcation by deducting from subsequent payments
under this Agreement or other agreements between Human Services and the
Contractor, or by Human Services as a debt to Human Services or otherwise as
provided by law.
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16. Add Paragraph 10 to Section VI. The contractor shall promptly notify Human Services
in the event in which it is a party defendant or respondent in a case, which involves
services provided under the agreement. The Contractor, within five (5) calendar days
after being served with a summons, complaint, or other pleading which has been filed in
any federal or state court or administrative agency, shall deliver copies of such
document(s) to the Human Services' Director. The term "litigation" includes an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, and filings in bankruptcy, reorganizations and/or
foreclosure.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed the Addendum as of the day,
month, and year first above written.
ATTEST: Weld County Clerk to the Board
Approval as to Substance:
WELD COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF HUMAN SERVICES
By:
WELD COUNTY BOARD OF
SOCIAL SERVICES, ON BEHALF
OF THE WELD COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
SERVICES
Chair Signature
AUG 0 5 2004
CONTRACTOR
Flatirons Behavioral Health
Hospital, Corp.
2255 S 88th Street
Louisville, CO 80027
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WELD COUNTY ADDENDUM
To that certain Agreement to Purchase Therapeutic Residential Child Care
Facility Services and Residential Child Care Facility Services (the
"Agreement") between Griffith Centers for Children Inc. and Weld County
Department of Human Services for the period from
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
The following provisions, made this r day of --)L..1—‘1 , 2009, are added to the referenced
Agreement. Except as modified hereby, all terms of the Agreement remain unchanged.
1. County agrees to purchase and Contractor, identified as Provider ID#39212, agrees to
provide:
A. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $180.75 per day for children placed within the
Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facility.
B. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $180.75 per day for children placed within the
Residential Child Care Facility.
C. Additional services not covered by Medicaid or considered within the above
vendor rate. These additional services/rates may be negotiated on a child by child
basis, based on the needs of the child and in accordance with the Colorado
Department of Human Services Agency Letter CW-06-11-I dated June 8, 2006.
These services will be for children who have been deemed eligible for social services
under the statutes, rules and regulations of the State of Colorado.
2. Section I, Paragraph 2. All bed hold authorizations and payments are subject to a 3 day
maximum for a child's temporary absence from a facility, including hospitalization. Bed
hold requests must have prior written authorization from the Department Administrator
before payment will be release to provider. Reimbursement rates for bed hold days may
not exceed the state standard rate for administrative maintenance and administrative
services or may be a reduced rate that is mutually agreed upon.
3. Add Paragraph 6 to Section I. The services purchased under this Agreement as Child
Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services for Therapeutic Residential
Child Care Facilities and Residential Child Care Facilities include, but are not limited to:
Food, shelter, clothing, personal needs and allowance, administration, administrative
overhead, support staff, support overhead, sleep -over staff, direct child care,
transportation, therapeutic recreation, service delivery staff, parent training for teens,
independent living training, mentor/advocate, supervised visitation and all other services
as outlined in the Contractor's scope of service attached as Exhibit A or the Child
Specific Addendum. The anticipated minimum percentage for each item is as follows
and will be subject to County monitoring as outlined in Section VI of this contract:
A. Food, including meals and snacks (25%);
B. Clothing (3%);
C. Shelter, including utilities and use of household furnishing and equipment and
daily supervision, including those activities that a parent would normally carry out
to assure protection, emotional support and care of the child (30%);
D. Personal items and grooming care for the child, such as toothpaste, toothbrushes,
soap, combs, haircuts, and other essentials (2%);
E. Other/miscellaneous items considered usual in the care and supervision of the
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child, include, but are not limited to, transportation, recreation and overhead
(40%)
4. Add Paragraph 7 to Section I. A minimum of one polygraph test per Colorado fiscal
year, if needed by the child, will be furnished by the Contractor under this contract for
facilities that provide sex offender treatment.
5. Add Paragraph 8 to Section I. Any additional costs for specialized services, which
include, but are not limited to; polygraph tests, plethysmographs, and urinalysis screens,
that is not provided within the vendor rate or attached Scope of Service, will need be
negotiated and authorized, in writing by the County, prior to the service being performed.
Any payment for specialized services not authorized in writing will be denied.
6. Add Paragraph 5 to Section II. Contact by the Contractor with the County regarding
emergency medical, surgical or dental care will be made in person -to -person
communication, not through phone mail messages. During regular work hours, the
Contractor will make every effort to notify the assigned caseworker, supervisor, or intake
screener of any emergency medical, surgical or dental issues prior to granting
authorization. During non -regular work hours, weekends and holidays, the Contractor
will contact the Emergency Duty Worker at the pager number (970) 304-2749.
7. Section III, Paragraph 5. Contractor additionally agrees to have appropriate personnel
available for staffing current placements with the Utilization Review Team. This review
team convenes every Monday morning, excluding holidays.
8. Add Paragraph 13 to Section IV. Agree to cooperate with any vendors hired by Weld
County Department of Human Services to shorten the duration of placement.
9. Add Paragraph 14 to Section IV. Agree to schedule physical examinations within 14
days after placement, dental examinations within eight weeks after placement and
forward all appropriate information to the County.
10. Add Paragraph 15 to Section IV. A full evaluation of an Individualized Educational Plan
(IEP) for youth designated as a Special Education Student will be conducted every 3
years and reviewed every year. If the IEP is due while the child is in placement, the
Contractor will complete or obtain a completed IEP. A copy will then be forwarded to
the County.
11. Add Paragraph 16 to Section IV. Assure and certify that it and its principals:
A. Are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, and declared
ineligible or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by a federal
department or agency.
B. Have not, within a three-year period of preceding this Agreement, been convicted
of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for commission of fraud or a
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing
a public (federal, state, or local) transaction or contract under a public transaction;
violation of federal or state antitrust statutes or commission of embezzlement,
theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false
statements, or receiving stolen property;
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C. Are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a
government entity (federal, state, or local) with commission of any of the offenses
enumerated in paragraph (B) above.
D. Have not within a three-year period preceding this Agreement, had one or more
public transactions (federal, state, and local) terminated for cause or default.
12. Section V, Paragraph 5. Children in Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facilities,
Residential Child Care Facilities and Child Placement Agencies are not eligible to receive
clothing allowances as outlined in the Weld County Department of Human Services
Policy and Procedure Manual.
13. Add Paragraph 7 to Section VI. It is expressly understood and agreed that the
enforcement of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and all rights of action
relating to such enforcement, shall be strictly reserved to the undersigned parties or their
assignees, and nothing contained in this Agreement shall give or allow any claim or right
of action whatsoever by any other person not included in this Agreement. It is the
express intention of the undersigned parties that any entity other than the undersigned
parties or their assignees receiving services or benefits under this Agreement shall be an
incidental beneficiary only.
14. Add Paragraph 8 to Section VI. No portion of this Agreement shall be deemed to
constitute a waiver of any immunity the parties or their officers or employees may
posses, nor shall any portion of this Agreement be deemed to have created a duty of care
that did not previously exist with respect to any person not a party to this Agreement.
The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that no part of this Agreement is intended to
circumvent or replace such immunities.
15. Add Paragraph 9 to Section VI. The Director of Human Services or designee may
exercise the following remedial actions should s/he find the Contractor substantially
failed to satisfy the scope of work found in this Agreement. Substantial failure to satisfy
the scope of work shall be defined to mean incorrect or improper activities or inaction by
the Contractor. These remedial actions are as follows:
A. Withhold payment to the Contractor until the necessary services or corrections in
performance are satisfactorily completed;
B. Deny payment or recover reimbursement for those services or deliverables which
have not been performed and which due to circumstances caused by the
Contractor cannot be performed or if performed would be of no value to the
Human Services. Denial of the amount of payment shall be reasonably related to
the amount of work or deliverables lost to Human Services;
C. Recover from the Contractor any incorrect payment to the Contractor due to
omission, error, fraud, and/or defalcation by deducting from subsequent payments
under this Agreement or other agreements between Human Services and the
Contractor, or by Human Services as a debt to Human Services or otherwise as
provided by law.
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16. Add Paragraph 10 to Section VI. The contractor shall promptly notify Human Services
in the event in which it is a party defendant or respondent in a case, which involves
services provided under the agreement. The Contractor, within five (5) calendar days
after being served with a summons, complaint, or other pleading which has been filed in
any federal or state court or administrative agency, shall deliver copies of such
document(s) to the Human Services' Director. The term "litigation" includes an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, and filings in bankruptcy, reorganizations and/or
foreclosure.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed the Addendum as of the day,
month, and year first above written.
ATTEST: Weld County Clerk to the Board
By✓ E'%iyL
Deputy C erk to the Bbard;''..
Approval as to Substance:
WELD COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF HUMAN SERVICES
By:
WELD COUNTY BOARD OF
SOCIAL SERVICES, ON BEHALF
OF THE WELD COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
SERVICES
By:
Chair Signature AUG 0 5 2004
CONTRACTOR
Griffith Centers for Children Inc.
14142 Denver West Pkwy,
Suite #225
Lakewood, CO 80401-3189
CEO
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WELD COUNTY ADDENDUM
To that certain Agreement to Purchase Therapeutic Residential Child Care,. n
Facility Services and Residential Child Care Facility Services (the
"Agreement") between Griffith Centers for Children Inc. and Weld County
Department of Human Services for the period from
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
The following provisions, made this ICI day of c -L , 2009, are added to the referenced
Agreement. Except as modified hereby, all terms of the A Wreement remain unchanged.
1. County agrees to purchase and Contractor, identified as Provider ID#49547, agrees to
provide:
A. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $180.75 per day for children placed within the
Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facility.
B. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $180.75 per day for children placed within the
Residential Child Care Facility.
C. Additional services not covered by Medicaid or considered within the above
vendor rate. These additional services/rates may be negotiated on a child by child
basis, based on the needs of the child and in accordance with the Colorado
Department of Human Services Agency Letter CW-06-11-I dated June 8, 2006.
These services will be for children who have been deemed eligible for social services
under the statutes, rules and regulations of the State of Colorado.
2. Section I, Paragraph 2. All bed hold authorizations and payments are subject to a 3 day
maximum for a child's temporary absence from a facility, including hospitalization. Bed
hold requests must have prior written authorization from the Department Administrator
before payment will be release to provider. Reimbursement rates for bed hold days may
not exceed the state standard rate for administrative maintenance and administrative
services or may be a reduced rate that is mutually agreed upon.
3. Add Paragraph 6 to Section I. The services purchased under this Agreement as Child
Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services for Therapeutic Residential
Child Care Facilities and Residential Child Care Facilities include, but are not limited to:
Food, shelter, clothing, personal needs and allowance, administration, administrative
overhead, support staff, support overhead, sleep -over staff, direct child care,
transportation, therapeutic recreation, service delivery staff, parent training for teens,
independent living training, mentor/advocate, supervised visitation and all other services
as outlined in the Contractor's scope of service attached as Exhibit A or the Child
Specific Addendum. The anticipated minimum percentage for each item is as follows
and will be subject to County monitoring as outlined in Section VI of this contract:
A. Food, including meals and snacks (25%);
B. Clothing (3%);
C. Shelter, including utilities and use of household furnishing and equipment and
daily supervision, including those activities that a parent would normally carry out
to assure protection, emotional support and care of the child (30%);
D. Personal items and grooming care for the child, such as toothpaste, toothbrushes,
soap, combs, haircuts, and other essentials (2%);
E. Other/miscellaneous items considered usual in the care and supervision of the
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a'OD%-/Celt
child, include, but are not limited to, transportation, recreation and overhead
(40%)
4. Add Paragraph 7 to Section I. A minimum of one polygraph test per Colorado fiscal
year, if needed by the child, will be furnished by the Contractor under this contract for
facilities that provide sex offender treatment.
5. Add Paragraph 8 to Section I. Any additional costs for specialized services, which
include, but are not limited to; polygraph tests, plethysmographs, and urinalysis screens,
that is not provided within the vendor rate or attached Scope of Service, will need be
negotiated and authorized, in writing by the County, prior to the service being performed.
Any payment for specialized services not authorized in writing will be denied.
6. Add Paragraph 5 to Section II. Contact by the Contractor with the County regarding
emergency medical, surgical or dental care will be made in person -to -person
communication, not through phone mail messages. During regular work hours, the
Contractor will make every effort to notify the assigned caseworker, supervisor, or intake
screener of any emergency medical, surgical or dental issues prior to granting
authorization. During non -regular work hours, weekends and holidays, the Contractor
will contact the Emergency Duty Worker at the pager number (970) 304-2749.
7. Section III, Paragraph 5. Contractor additionally agrees to have appropriate personnel
available for staffing current placements with the Utilization Review Team. This review
team convenes every Monday morning, excluding holidays.
8. Add Paragraph 13 to Section IV. Agree to cooperate with any vendors hired by Weld
County Department of Human Services to shorten the duration of placement.
9. Add Paragraph 14 to Section IV. Agree to schedule physical examinations within 14
days after placement, dental examinations within eight weeks after placement and
forward all appropriate information to the County.
10. Add Paragraph 15 to Section IV. A full evaluation of an Individualized Educational Plan
(IEP) for youth designated as a Special Education Student will be conducted every 3
years and reviewed every year. If the IEP is due while the child is in placement, the
Contractor will complete or obtain a completed IEP. A copy will then be forwarded to
the County.
11. Add Paragraph 16 to Section IV. Assure and certify that it and its principals:
A. Are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, and declared
ineligible or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by a federal
department or agency.
B. Have not, within a three-year period of preceding this Agreement, been convicted
of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for commission of fraud or a
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing
a public (federal, state, or local) transaction or contract under a public transaction;
violation of federal or state antitrust statutes or commission of embezzlement,
theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false
statements, or receiving stolen property;
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C. Are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a
government entity (federal, state, or local) with commission of any of the offenses
enumerated in paragraph (B) above.
D. Have not within a three-year period preceding this Agreement, had one or more
public transactions (federal, state, and local) terminated for cause or default.
12. Section V, Paragraph 5. Children in Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facilities,
Residential Child Care Facilities and Child Placement Agencies are not eligible to receive
clothing allowances as outlined in the Weld County Department of Human Services
Policy and Procedure Manual.
13. Add Paragraph 7 to Section VI. It is expressly understood and agreed that the
enforcement of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and all rights of action
relating to such enforcement, shall be strictly reserved to the undersigned parties or their
assignees, and nothing contained in this Agreement shall give or allow any claim or right
of action whatsoever by any other person not included in this Agreement. It is the
express intention of the undersigned parties that any entity other than the undersigned
parties or their assignees receiving services or benefits under this Agreement shall be an
incidental beneficiary only.
14. Add Paragraph 8 to Section VI. No portion of this Agreement shall be deemed to
constitute a waiver of any immunity the parties or their officers or employees may
posses, nor shall any portion of this Agreement be deemed to have created a duty of care
that did not previously exist with respect to any person not a party to this Agreement.
The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that no part of this Agreement is intended to
circumvent or replace such immunities.
15. Add Paragraph 9 to Section VI. The Director of Human Services or designee may
exercise the following remedial actions should s/he find the Contractor substantially
failed to satisfy the scope of work found in this Agreement. Substantial failure to satisfy
the scope of work shall be defined to mean incorrect or improper activities or inaction by
the Contractor. These remedial actions are as follows:
A. Withhold payment to the Contractor until the necessary services or corrections in
performance are satisfactorily completed;
B. Deny payment or recover reimbursement for those services or deliverables which
have not been performed and which due to circumstances caused by the
Contractor cannot be performed or if performed would be of no value to the
Human Services. Denial of the amount of payment shall be reasonably related to
the amount of work or deliverables lost to Human Services;
C. Recover from the Contractor any incorrect payment to the Contractor due to
omission, error, fraud, and/or defalcation by deducting from subsequent payments
under this Agreement or other agreements between Human Services and the
Contractor, or by Human Services as a debt to Human Services or otherwise as
provided by law.
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16. Add Paragraph 10 to Section VI. The contractor shall promptly notify Human Services
in the event in which it is a party defendant or respondent in a case, which involves
services provided under the agreement. The Contractor, within five (5) calendar days
after being served with a summons, complaint, or other pleading which has been filed in
any federal or state court or administrative agency, shall deliver copies of such
document(s) to the Human Services' Director. The term "litigation" includes an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, and filings in bankruptcy, reorganizations and/or
foreclosure.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed the Addendum as of the day,
month, and year first above written.
ATTEST: Weld County Clerk to the Board
B
Deputy •rk to tha,Board
Approval as to Substance:
WELD COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF HUMAN SERVICES
By:
WELD COUNTY BOARD OF
SOCIAL SERVICES, ON BEHALF
OF THE WELD COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
SERVICES
Chair Signature AUG 0 5 2009
CONTRACTOR
Griffith Centers for Children Inc.
14142 Denver West Pkwy,
Suite #225
Lakewood, CO 80401-3189
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a
WELD COUNTY ADDENDUM
To that certain Agreement to Purchase Therapeutic Residential Child Care
Facility Services and Residential Child Care Facility Services (the
"Agreement") between Jefferson Hills and Weld County Department of
Human Services for the period from
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
The following provisions, made this / day of
, 2009, are added to the referenced
Agreement. Except as modified hereby, all terms ottl/Agreement remain unchanged.
1. County agrees to purchase and Contractor, identified as Provider ID#12284, agrees to
provide:
A. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $176.08 per day for children placed within the
Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facility.
B. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $176.08 per day for children placed within the
Residential Child Care Facility.
C. Additional services not covered by Medicaid or considered within the above
vendor rate. These additional services/rates may be negotiated on a child by child
basis, based on the needs of the child and in accordance with the Colorado
Department of Human Services Agency Letter CW-06-11-I dated June 8, 2006.
These services will be for children who have been deemed eligible for social services
under the statutes, rules and regulations of the State of Colorado.
2. Section I, Paragraph 2. All bed hold authorizations and payments are subject to a 3 day
maximum for a child's temporary absence from a facility, including hospitalization. Bed
hold requests must have prior written authorization from the Department Administrator
before payment will be release to provider. Reimbursement rates for bed hold days may
not exceed the state standard rate for administrative maintenance and administrative
services or may be a reduced rate that is mutually agreed upon.
3. Add Paragraph 6 to Section I. The services purchased under this Agreement as Child
Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services for Therapeutic Residential
Child Care Facilities and Residential Child Care Facilities include, but are not limited to:
Food, shelter, clothing, personal needs and allowance, administration, administrative
overhead, support staff, support overhead, sleep -over staff, direct child care,
transportation, therapeutic recreation, service delivery staff, parent training for teens,
independent living training, mentor/advocate, supervised visitation and all other services
as outlined in the Contractor's scope of service attached as Exhibit A or the Child
Specific Addendum. The anticipated minimum percentage for each item is as follows
and will be subject to County monitoring as outlined in Section VI of this contract:
A. Food, including meals and snacks (25%);
B. Clothing (3%);
C. Shelter, including utilities and use of household furnishing and equipment and
daily supervision, including those activities that a parent would normally carry out
to assure protection, emotional support and care of the child (30%);
D. Personal items and grooming care for the child, such as toothpaste, toothbrushes,
soap, combs, haircuts, and other essentials (2%);
E. Other/miscellaneous items considered usual in the care and supervision of the
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child, include, but are not limited to, transportation, recreation and overhead
(40%)
4. Add Paragraph 7 to Section I. A minimum of one polygraph test per Colorado fiscal
year, if needed by the child, will be furnished by the Contractor under this contract for
facilities that provide sex offender treatment.
5. Add Paragraph 8 to Section I. Any additional costs for specialized services, which
include, but are not limited to; polygraph tests, plethysmographs, and urinalysis screens,
that is not provided within the vendor rate or attached Scope of Service, will need be
negotiated and authorized, in writing by the County, prior to the service being performed.
Any payment for specialized services not authorized in writing will be denied.
6. Add Paragraph 5 to Section II. Contact by the Contractor with the County regarding
emergency medical, surgical or dental care will be made in person -to -person
communication, not through phone mail messages. During regular work hours, the
Contractor will make every effort to notify the assigned caseworker, supervisor, or intake
screener of any emergency medical, surgical or dental issues prior to granting
authorization. During non -regular work hours, weekends and holidays, the Contractor
will contact the Emergency Duty Worker at the pager number (970) 304-2749.
7. Section III, Paragraph 5. Contractor additionally agrees to have appropriate personnel
available for staffing current placements with the Utilization Review Team. This review
team convenes every Monday morning, excluding holidays.
8. Add Paragraph 13 to Section IV. Agree to cooperate with any vendors hired by Weld
County Department of Human Services to shorten the duration of placement.
9. Add Paragraph 14 to Section IV. Agree to schedule physical examinations within 14
days after placement, dental examinations within eight weeks after placement and
forward all appropriate information to the County.
10. Add Paragraph 15 to Section IV. A full evaluation of an Individualized Educational Plan
(IEP) for youth designated as a Special Education Student will be conducted every 3
years and reviewed every year. If the IEP is due while the child is in placement, the
Contractor will complete or obtain a completed IEP. A copy will then be forwarded to
the County.
11. Add Paragraph 16 to Section IV. Assure and certify that it and its principals:
A. Are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, and declared
ineligible or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by a federal
department or agency.
B. Have not, within a three-year period of preceding this Agreement, been convicted
of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for commission of fraud or a
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing
a public (federal, state, or local) transaction or contract under a public transaction;
violation of federal or state antitrust statutes or commission of embezzlement,
theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false
statements, or receiving stolen property;
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C. Are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a
government entity (federal, state, or local) with commission of any of the offenses
enumerated in paragraph (B) above.
D. Have not within a three-year period preceding this Agreement, had one or more
public transactions (federal, state, and local) terminated for cause or default.
12. Section V, Paragraph 5. Children in Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facilities,
Residential Child Care Facilities and Child Placement Agencies are not eligible to receive
clothing allowances as outlined in the Weld County Department of Human Services
Policy and Procedure Manual.
13. Add Paragraph 7 to Section VI. It is expressly understood and agreed that the
enforcement of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and all rights of action
relating to such enforcement, shall be strictly reserved to the undersigned parties or their
assignees, and nothing contained in this Agreement shall give or allow any claim or right
of action whatsoever by any other person not included in this Agreement. It is the
express intention of the undersigned parties that any entity other than the undersigned
parties or their assignees receiving services or benefits under this Agreement shall be an
incidental beneficiary only.
14. Add Paragraph 8 to Section VI. No portion of this Agreement shall be deemed to
constitute a waiver of any immunity the parties or their officers or employees may
posses, nor shall any portion of this Agreement be deemed to have created a duty of care
that did not previously exist with respect to any person not a party to this Agreement.
The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that no part of this Agreement is intended to
circumvent or replace such immunities.
15. Add Paragraph 9 to Section VI. The Director of Human Services or designee may
exercise the following remedial actions should s/he find the Contractor substantially
failed to satisfy the scope of work found in this Agreement. Substantial failure to satisfy
the scope of work shall be defined to mean incorrect or improper activities or inaction by
the Contractor. These remedial actions are as follows:
A. Withhold payment to the Contractor until the necessary services or corrections in
performance are satisfactorily completed;
B. Deny payment or recover reimbursement for those services or deliverables which
have not been performed and which due to circumstances caused by the
Contractor cannot be performed or if performed would be of no value to the
Human Services. Denial of the amount of payment shall be reasonably related to
the amount of work or deliverables lost to Human Services;
C. Recover from the Contractor any incorrect payment to the Contractor due to
omission, error, fraud, and/or defalcation by deducting from subsequent payments
under this Agreement or other agreements between Human Services and the
Contractor, or by Human Services as a debt to Human Services or otherwise as
provided by law.
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16. Add Paragraph 10 to Section VI. The contractor shall promptly notify Human Services
in the event in which it is a party defendant or respondent in a case, which involves
services provided under the agreement. The Contractor, within five (5) calendar days
after being served with a summons, complaint, or other pleading which has been filed in
any federal or state court or administrative agency, shall deliver copies of such
document(s) to the Human Services' Director. The term "litigation" includes an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, and filings in bankruptcy, reorganizations and/or
foreclosure.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed the Addendum as of the day,
month, and year first above written.
ATTEST: Weld County Clerk to the Board
Deputy Clerk to`t*e-1 `oar
Approval as to Substance:
WELD COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF HUMAN SERVICES
By:
WELD COUNTY BOARD OF
SOCIAL SERVICES, ON BEHALF
OF THE WELD COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
SERVICES
By:
Chair Signature
AUG P5 2009
CONTRACTOR
Jefferson Hills
421 Zang St
Lakewood, CO 80228
6
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67OO2-4)4
WELD COUNTY ADDENDUM
Ay
To that certain Agreement to Purchase Therapeutic Residential Child Care
Facility Services and Residential Child Care Facility Services (the
"Agreement") between Jefferson Hills and Weld County Department of
Human Services for the period from
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
The following provisions, made this I day of „ _ , 2009, are added to the referenced
Agreement. Except as modified hereby, all terms f e Agreement remain unchanged.
1. County agrees to purchase and Contractor, identified as Provider ID#88459, agrees to
provide:
A. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $171.3 per day for children placed within the
Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facility.
B. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $171.3 per day for children placed within the
Residential Child Care Facility.
C. Additional services not covered by Medicaid or considered within the above
vendor rate. These additional services/rates may be negotiated on a child by child
basis, based on the needs of the child and in accordance with the Colorado
Department of Human Services Agency Letter CW-06-11-I dated June 8, 2006.
These services will be for children who have been deemed eligible for social services
under the statutes, rules and regulations of the State of Colorado.
2. Section I, Paragraph 2. All bed hold authorizations and payments are subject to a 3 day
maximum for a child's temporary absence from a facility, including hospitalization. Bed
hold requests must have prior written authorization from the Department Administrator
before payment will be release to provider. Reimbursement rates for bed hold days may
not exceed the state standard rate for administrative maintenance and administrative
services or may be a reduced rate that is mutually agreed upon.
3. Add Paragraph 6 to Section I. The services purchased under this Agreement as Child
Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services for Therapeutic Residential
Child Care Facilities and Residential Child Care Facilities include, but are not limited to:
Food, shelter, clothing, personal needs and allowance, administration, administrative
overhead, support staff, support overhead, sleep -over staff, direct child care,
transportation, therapeutic recreation, service delivery staff, parent training for teens,
independent living training, mentor/advocate, supervised visitation and all other services
as outlined in the Contractor's scope of service attached as Exhibit A or the Child
Specific Addendum. The anticipated minimum percentage for each item is as follows
and will be subject to County monitoring as outlined in Section VI of this contract:
A. Food, including meals and snacks (25%);
B. Clothing (3%);
C. Shelter, including utilities and use of household furnishing and equipment and
daily supervision, including those activities that a parent would normally carry out
to assure protection, emotional support and care of the child (30%);
D. Personal items and grooming care for the child, such as toothpaste, toothbrushes,
soap, combs, haircuts, and other essentials (2%);
E. Other/miscellaneous items considered usual in the care and supervision of the
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,;2cei'-Art
child, include, but are not limited to, transportation, recreation and overhead
(40%)
4. Add Paragraph 7 to Section I. A minimum of one polygraph test per Colorado fiscal
year, if needed by the child, will be furnished by the Contractor under this contract for
facilities that provide sex offender treatment.
5. Add Paragraph 8 to Section I. Any additional costs for specialized services, which
include, but are not limited to; polygraph tests, plethysmographs, and urinalysis screens,
that is not provided within the vendor rate or attached Scope of Service, will need be
negotiated and authorized, in writing by the County, prior to the service being performed.
Any payment for specialized services not authorized in writing will be denied.
6. Add Paragraph 5 to Section TI. Contact by the Contractor with the County regarding
emergency medical, surgical or dental care will be made in person -to -person
communication, not through phone mail messages. During regular work hours, the
Contractor will make every effort to notify the assigned caseworker, supervisor, or intake
screener of any emergency medical, surgical or dental issues prior to granting
authorization. During non -regular work hours, weekends and holidays, the Contractor
will contact the Emergency Duty Worker at the pager number (970) 304-2749.
7. Section III, Paragraph 5. Contractor additionally agrees to have appropriate personnel
available for staffing current placements with the Utilization Review Team. This review
team convenes every Monday morning, excluding holidays.
8. Add Paragraph 13 to Section IV. Agree to cooperate with any vendors hired by Weld
County Department of Human Services to shorten the duration of placement.
9. Add Paragraph 14 to Section IV. Agree to schedule physical examinations within 14
days after placement, dental examinations within eight weeks after placement and
forward all appropriate information to the County.
10. Add Paragraph 15 to Section IV. A full evaluation of an Individualized Educational Plan
(IEP) for youth designated as a Special Education Student will be conducted every 3
years and reviewed every year. If the IEP is due while the child is in placement, the
Contractor will complete or obtain a completed IEP. A copy will then be forwarded to
the County.
11. Add Paragraph 16 to Section IV. Assure and certify that it and its principals:
A. Are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, and declared
ineligible or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by a federal
department or agency.
B. Have not, within a three-year period of preceding this Agreement, been convicted
of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for commission of fraud or a
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing
a public (federal, state, or local) transaction or contract under a public transaction;
violation of federal or state antitrust statutes or commission of embezzlement,
theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false
statements, or receiving stolen property;
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C. Are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a
government entity (federal, state, or local) with commission of any of the offenses
enumerated in paragraph (B) above.
D. Have not within a three-year period preceding this Agreement, had one or more
public transactions (federal, state, and local) terminated for cause or default.
12. Section V, Paragraph 5. Children in Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facilities,
Residential Child Care Facilities and Child Placement Agencies are not eligible to receive
clothing allowances as outlined in the Weld County Department of Human Services
Policy and Procedure Manual.
13. Add Paragraph 7 to Section VI. It is expressly understood and agreed that the
enforcement of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and all rights of action
relating to such enforcement, shall be strictly reserved to the undersigned parties or their
assignees, and nothing contained in this Agreement shall give or allow any claim or right
of action whatsoever by any other person not included in this Agreement. It is the
express intention of the undersigned parties that any entity other than the undersigned
parties or their assignees receiving services or benefits under this Agreement shall be an
incidental beneficiary only.
14. Add Paragraph 8 to Section VI. No portion of this Agreement shall be deemed to
constitute a waiver of any immunity the parties or their officers or employees may
posses, nor shall any portion of this Agreement be deemed to have created a duty of care
that did not previously exist with respect to any person not a party to this Agreement.
The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that no part of this Agreement is intended to
circumvent or replace such immunities.
15. Add Paragraph 9 to Section VI. The Director of Human Services or designee may
exercise the following remedial actions should s/he find the Contractor substantially
failed to satisfy the scope of work found in this Agreement. Substantial failure to satisfy
the scope of work shall be defined to mean incorrect or improper activities or inaction by
the Contractor. These remedial actions are as follows:
A. Withhold payment to the Contractor until the necessary services or corrections in
performance are satisfactorily completed;
B. Deny payment or recover reimbursement for those services or deliverables which
have not been performed and which due to circumstances caused by the
Contractor cannot be performed or if performed would be of no value to the
Human Services. Denial of the amount of payment shall be reasonably related to
the amount of work or deliverables lost to Human Services;
C. Recover from the Contractor any incorrect payment to the Contractor due to
omission, error, fraud, and/or defalcation by deducting from subsequent payments
under this Agreement or other agreements between Human Services and the
Contractor, or by Human Services as a debt to Human Services or otherwise as
provided by law.
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16. Add Paragraph 10 to Section VI. The contractor shall promptly notify Human Services
in the event in which it is a party defendant or respondent in a case, which involves
services provided under the agreement. The Contractor, within five (5) calendar days
after being served with a summons, complaint, or other pleading which has been filed in
any federal or state court or administrative agency, shall deliver copies of such
document(s) to the Human Services' Director. The term "litigation" includes an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, and filings in bankruptcy, reorganizations and/or
foreclosure.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed the Addendum as of the day,
month, and year first above written.
ATTEST: Weld County Clerk to t
Deputy CRrk to the Boa
Approval as to Substance:
WELD COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF HUMAN SERVICES
By:
WELD COUNTY BOARD OF
SOCIAL SERVICES, ON BEHALF
OF THE WELD COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
SERVICES
Chair Signature AUG 0 5 2009
CONTRACTOR
Jefferson Hills
421 Zang St
Lakewood, CO 80228
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r
WELD COUNTY ADDENDUM
To that certain Agreement to Purchase Therapeutic Residential Child Care
Facility Services and Residential Child Care Facility Services (the
"Agreement") between Mount St. Vincent Home and Weld County
Department of Human Services for the period from
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
The following provisions, made this I day of
Agreement. Except as modified hereby, all terms Agreement remain unchanged.
1. County agrees to purchase and Contractor, identified as Provider ID#45174, agrees to
provide:
A. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $180.75 per day for children placed within the
Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facility.
B. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $180.75 per day for children placed within the
Residential Child Care Facility.
C. Additional services not covered by Medicaid or considered within the above
vendor rate. These additional services/rates may be negotiated on a child by child
basis, based on the needs of the child and in accordance with the Colorado
Department of Human Services Agency Letter CW-06-11-I dated June 8, 2006.
These services will be for children who have been deemed eligible for social services
under the statutes, rules and regulations of the State of Colorado.
, 2009, are added to the referenced
2. Section I, Paragraph 2. All bed hold authorizations and payments are subject to a 3 day
maximum for a child's temporary absence from a facility, including hospitalization. Bed
hold requests must have prior written authorization from the Department Administrator
before payment will be release to provider. Reimbursement rates for bed hold days may
not exceed the state standard rate for administrative maintenance and administrative
services or may be a reduced rate that is mutually agreed upon.
3. Add Paragraph 6 to Section I. The services purchased under this Agreement as Child
Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services for Therapeutic Residential
Child Care Facilities and Residential Child Care Facilities include, but are not limited to:
Food, shelter, clothing, personal needs and allowance, administration, administrative
overhead, support staff, support overhead, sleep -over staff, direct child care,
transportation, therapeutic recreation, service delivery staff, parent training for teens,
independent living training, mentor/advocate, supervised visitation and all other services
as outlined in the Contractor's scope of service attached as Exhibit A or the Child
Specific Addendum. The anticipated minimum percentage for each item is as follows
and will be subject to County monitoring as outlined in Section VI of this contract:
A. Food, including meals and snacks (25%);
B. Clothing (3%);
C. Shelter, including utilities and use of household furnishing and equipment and
daily supervision, including those activities that a parent would normally carry out
to assure protection, emotional support and care of the child (30%);
D. Personal items and grooming care for the child, such as toothpaste, toothbrushes,
soap, combs, haircuts, and other essentials (2%);
E. Other/miscellaneous items considered usual in the care and supervision of the
Weld County SS -23A Addendum
child, include, but are not limited to, transportation, recreation and overhead
(40%)
4. Add Paragraph 7 to Section I. A minimum of one polygraph test per Colorado fiscal
year, if needed by the child, will be furnished by the Contractor under this contract for
facilities that provide sex offender treatment.
5. Add Paragraph 8 to Section I. Any additional costs for specialized services, which
include, but are not limited to; polygraph tests, plethysmographs, and urinalysis screens,
that is not provided within the vendor rate or attached Scope of Service, will need be
negotiated and authorized, in writing by the County, prior to the service being performed.
Any payment for specialized services not authorized in writing will be denied.
6. Add Paragraph 5 to Section II. Contact by the Contractor with the County regarding
emergency medical, surgical or dental care will be made in person -to -person
communication, not through phone mail messages. During regular work hours, the
Contractor will make every effort to notify the assigned caseworker, supervisor, or intake
screener of any emergency medical, surgical or dental issues prior to granting
authorization. During non -regular work hours, weekends and holidays, the Contractor
will contact the Emergency Duty Worker at the pager number (970) 304-2749.
7. Section III, Paragraph 5. Contractor additionally agrees to have appropriate personnel
available for staffing current placements with the Utilization Review Team. This review
team convenes every Monday morning, excluding holidays.
8. Add Paragraph 13 to Section IV. Agree to cooperate with any vendors hired by Weld
County Department of Human Services to shorten the duration of placement.
9. Add Paragraph 14 to Section IV. Agree to schedule physical examinations within 14
days after placement, dental examinations within eight weeks after placement and
forward all appropriate information to the County.
10. Add Paragraph 15 to Section IV. A full evaluation of an Individualized Educational Plan
(IEP) for youth designated as a Special Education Student will be conducted every 3
years and reviewed every year. If the IEP is due while the child is in placement, the
Contractor will complete or obtain a completed IEP. A copy will then be forwarded to
the County.
11. Add Paragraph 16 to Section IV. Assure and certify that it and its principals:
A. Are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, and declared
ineligible or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by a federal
department or agency.
B. Have not, within a three-year period of preceding this Agreement, been convicted
of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for commission of fraud or a
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing
a public (federal, state, or local) transaction or contract under a public transaction;
violation of federal or state antitrust statutes or commission of embezzlement,
theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false
statements, or receiving stolen property;
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C. Are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a
government entity (federal, state, or local) with commission of any of the offenses
enumerated in paragraph (B) above.
D. Have not within a three-year period preceding this Agreement, had one or more
public transactions (federal, state, and local) terminated for cause or default.
12. Section V, Paragraph 5. Children in Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facilities,
Residential Child Care Facilities and Child Placement Agencies are not eligible to receive
clothing allowances as outlined in the Weld County Department of Human Services
Policy and Procedure Manual.
13. Add Paragraph 7 to Section VI. It is expressly understood and agreed that the
enforcement of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and all rights of action
relating to such enforcement, shall be strictly reserved to the undersigned parties or their
assignees, and nothing contained in this Agreement shall give or allow any claim or right
of action whatsoever by any other person not included in this Agreement. It is the
express intention of the undersigned parties that any entity other than the undersigned
parties or their assignees receiving services or benefits under this Agreement shall be an
incidental beneficiary only.
14. Add Paragraph 8 to Section VI. No portion of this Agreement shall be deemed to
constitute a waiver of any immunity the parties or their officers or employees may
posses, nor shall any portion of this Agreement be deemed to have created a duty of care
that did not previously exist with respect to any person not a party to this Agreement.
The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that no part of this Agreement is intended to
circumvent or replace such immunities.
15. Add Paragraph 9 to Section VI. The Director of Human Services or designee may
exercise the following remedial actions should s/he find the Contractor substantially
failed to satisfy the scope of work found in this Agreement. Substantial failure to satisfy
the scope of work shall be defined to mean incorrect or improper activities or inaction by
the Contractor. These remedial actions are as follows:
A. Withhold payment to the Contractor until the necessary services or corrections in
performance are satisfactorily completed;
B. Deny payment or recover reimbursement for those services or deliverables which
have not been performed and which due to circumstances caused by the
Contractor cannot be performed or if performed would be of no value to the
Human Services. Denial of the amount of payment shall be reasonably related to
the amount of work or deliverables lost to Human Services;
C. Recover from the Contractor any incorrect payment to the Contractor due to
omission, error, fraud, and/or defalcation by deducting from subsequent payments
under this Agreement or other agreements between Human Services and the
Contractor, or by Human Services as a debt to Human Services or otherwise as
provided by law.
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16. Add Paragraph 10 to Section VI. The contractor shall promptly notify Human Services
in the event in which it is a party defendant or respondent in a case, which involves
services provided under the agreement. The Contractor, within five (5) calendar days
after being served with a summons, complaint, or other pleading which has been filed in
any federal or state court or administrative agency, shall deliver copies of such
document(s) to the Human Services' Director. The term "litigation" includes an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, and filings in bankruptcy, reorganizations and/or
foreclosure.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed the Addendum as of the day,
month, and year first above written.
ATTEST: Weld County Clerk to to the ard
BY•rYCl,
Deputy eferk to theBoard_;-.:
Approval as to Substance:
WELD COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF HUMAN SERVICES
By:
WELD COUNTY BOARD OF
SOCIAL SERVICES, ON BEHALF
OF THE WELD COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
SERVICES
By: beAlt
Chair Signature
CONTRACTOR
Mount St. Vincent Home
4159 Lowell Blvd
Denver, CO 80211
By: 1'
AUG 0 5 2009
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•
WELD COUNTY ADDENDUM
To that certain Agreement to Purchase Therapeutic Residential Child Care
Facility Services and Residential Child Care Facility Services (the
"Agreement") between Mountain Crest Poudre Valley Health Care Inc.
D/B/A Poudre Valley Hospital and Weld County Department of Human
Services for the period from
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
The following provisions, made this l day of
Agreement. Except as modified hereby, all terms t9f thfAgreement remain unchanged.
, 2009, are added to the referenced
1. County agrees to purchase and Contractor, identified as Provider ID#42261, agrees to
provide:
A. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $180.75 per day for children placed within the
Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facility.
B. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $180.75 per day for children placed within the
Residential Child Care Facility.
C. Additional services not covered by Medicaid or considered within the above
vendor rate. These additional services/rates may be negotiated on a child by child
basis, based on the needs of the child and in accordance with the Colorado
Department of Human Services Agency Letter CW-06-11-I dated June 8, 2006.
These services will be for children who have been deemed eligible for social services
under the statutes, rules and regulations of the State of Colorado.
2. Section I, Paragraph 2. All bed hold authorizations and payments are subject to a 3 day
maximum for a child's temporary absence from a facility, including hospitalization. Bed
hold requests must have prior written authorization from the Department Administrator
before payment will be release to provider. Reimbursement rates for bed hold days may
not exceed the state standard rate for administrative maintenance and administrative
services or may be a reduced rate that is mutually agreed upon.
3. Add Paragraph 6 to Section I. The services purchased under this Agreement as Child
Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services for Therapeutic Residential
Child Care Facilities and Residential Child Care Facilities include, but are not limited to:
Food, shelter, clothing, personal needs and allowance, administration, administrative
overhead, support staff, support overhead, sleep -over staff, direct child care,
transportation, therapeutic recreation, service delivery staff, parent training for teens,
independent living training, mentor/advocate, supervised visitation and all other services
as outlined in the Contractor's scope of service attached as Exhibit A or the Child
Specific Addendum. The anticipated minimum percentage for each item is as follows
and will be subject to County monitoring as outlined in Section VI of this contract:
A. Food, including meals and snacks (25%);
B. Clothing (3%);
C. Shelter, including utilities and use of household furnishing and equipment and
daily supervision, including those activities that a parent would normally carry out
to assure protection, emotional support and care of the child (30%);
D. Personal items and grooming care for the child, such as toothpaste, toothbrushes,
soap, combs, haircuts, and other essentials (2%);
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E. Other/miscellaneous items considered usual in the care and supervision of the
child, include, but are not limited to, transportation, recreation and overhead
(40%)
4. Add Paragraph 7 to Section I. A minimum of one polygraph test per Colorado fiscal
year, if needed by the child, will be furnished by the Contractor under this contract for
facilities that provide sex offender treatment.
5. Add Paragraph 8 to Section I. Any additional costs for specialized services, which
include, but are not limited to; polygraph tests, plethysmographs, and urinalysis screens,
that is not provided within the vendor rate or attached Scope of Service, will need be
negotiated and authorized, in writing by the County, prior to the service being performed.
Any payment for specialized services not authorized in writing will be denied.
6. Add Paragraph 5 to Section II. Contact by the Contractor with the County regarding
emergency medical, surgical or dental care will be made in person -to -person
communication, not through phone mail messages. During regular work hours, the
Contractor will make every effort to notify the assigned caseworker, supervisor, or intake
screener of any emergency medical, surgical or dental issues prior to granting
authorization. During non -regular work hours, weekends and holidays, the Contractor
will contact the Emergency Duty Worker at the pager number (970) 304-2749.
7. Section III, Paragraph 5. Contractor additionally agrees to have appropriate personnel
available for staffing current placements with the Utilization Review Team. This review
team convenes every Monday morning, excluding holidays.
8. Add Paragraph 13 to Section IV. Agree to cooperate with any vendors hired by Weld
County Department of Human Services to shorten the duration of placement.
9. Add Paragraph 14 to Section IV. Agree to schedule physical examinations within 14
days after placement, dental examinations within eight weeks after placement and
forward all appropriate information to the County.
10. Add Paragraph 15 to Section IV. A full evaluation of an Individualized Educational Plan
(IEP) for youth designated as a Special Education Student will be conducted every 3
years and reviewed every year. If the IEP is due while the child is in placement, the
Contractor will complete or obtain a completed IEP. A copy will then be forwarded to
the County.
11. Add Paragraph 16 to Section IV. Assure and certify that it and its principals:
A. Are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, and declared
ineligible or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by a federal
department or agency.
B. Have not, within a three-year period of preceding this Agreement, been convicted
of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for commission of fraud or a
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing
a public (federal, state, or local) transaction or contract under a public transaction;
violation of federal or state antitrust statutes or commission of embezzlement,
theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false
statements, or receiving stolen property;
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C. Are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a
government entity (federal, state, or local) with commission of any of the offenses
enumerated in paragraph (B) above.
D. Have not within a three-year period preceding this Agreement, had one or more
public transactions (federal, state, and local) terminated for cause or default.
12. Section V, Paragraph 5. Children in Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facilities,
Residential Child Care Facilities and Child Placement Agencies are not eligible to receive
clothing allowances as outlined in the Weld County Department of Human Services
Policy and Procedure Manual.
13. Add Paragraph 7 to Section VI. It is expressly understood and agreed that the
enforcement of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and all rights of action
relating to such enforcement, shall be strictly reserved to the undersigned parties or their
assignees, and nothing contained in this Agreement shall give or allow any claim or right
of action whatsoever by any other person not included in this Agreement. It is the
express intention of the undersigned parties that any entity other than the undersigned
parties or their assignees receiving services or benefits under this Agreement shall be an
incidental beneficiary only.
14. Add Paragraph 8 to Section VI. No portion of this Agreement shall be deemed to
constitute a waiver of any immunity the parties or their officers or employees may
posses, nor shall any portion of this Agreement be deemed to have created a duty of care
that did not previously exist with respect to any person not a party to this Agreement.
The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that no part of this Agreement is intended to
circumvent or replace such immunities.
15. Add Paragraph 9 to Section VI. The Director of Human Services or designee may
exercise the following remedial actions should s/he find the Contractor substantially
failed to satisfy the scope of work found in this Agreement. Substantial failure to satisfy
the scope of work shall be defined to mean incorrect or improper activities or inaction by
the Contractor. These remedial actions are as follows:
A. Withhold payment to the Contractor until the necessary services or corrections in
performance are satisfactorily completed;
B. Deny payment or recover reimbursement for those services or deliverables which
have not been performed and which due to circumstances caused by the
Contractor cannot be performed or if performed would be of no value to the
Human Services. Denial of the amount of payment shall be reasonably related to
the amount of work or deliverables lost to Human Services;
C. Recover from the Contractor any incorrect payment to the Contractor due to
omission, error, fraud, and/or defalcation by deducting from subsequent payments
under this Agreement or other agreements between Human Services and the
Contractor, or by Human Services as a debt to Human Services or otherwise as
provided by law.
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16. Add Paragraph 10 to Section VI. The contractor shall promptly notify Human Services
in the event in which it is a party defendant or respondent in a case, which involves
services provided under the agreement. The Contractor, within five (5) calendar days
after being served with a summons, complaint, or other pleading which has been filed in
any federal or state court or administrative agency, shall deliver copies of such
document(s) to the Human Services' Director. The term "litigation" includes an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, and filings in bankruptcy, reorganizations and/or
foreclosure.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed the Addendum as of the day,
month, and year first above written.
ATTEST: Weld County Clerk + i Board
B
Deputy irk to the B`oariiil
Approval as to Substance:
WELD COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF HUMAN SERVICES
WELD COUNTY BOARD OF
SOCIAL SERVICES, ON BEHALF
OF THE WELD COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
SERVICES
Chair Signature
AUG 0 5 2009
CONTRACTOR
Mountain Crest
Poudre Valley Health Care Inc.
D/B/A Poudre Valley Hospital
4601 Corbett DR
Fort Collins, CO, 80528
By:
7 1-o9
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9cc/> /Fe
WELD COUNTY ADDENDUM
To that certain Agreement to Purchase Therapeutic Residential Child Cat
Facility Services and Residential Child Care Facility Services (the
"Agreement") between Mountain Star Center and Weld County Department
of Human Services for the period from
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
The following provisions, made this ) day of
Agreement. Except as modified hereby, all terms off thgreement remain unchanged.
, 2009, are added to the referenced
1. County agrees to purchase and Contractor, identified as Provider ID#13363, agrees to
provide:
A. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $180.75 per day for children placed within the
Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facility.
B. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $180.75 per day for children placed within the
Residential Child Care Facility.
C. Additional services not covered by Medicaid or considered within the above
vendor rate. These additional services/rates may be negotiated on a child by child
basis, based on the needs of the child and in accordance with the Colorado
Department of Human Services Agency Letter CW-06-11-I dated June 8, 2006.
These services will be for children who have been deemed eligible for social services
under the statutes, rules and regulations of the State of Colorado.
2. Section I, Paragraph 2. All bed hold authorizations and payments are subject to a 3 day
maximum for a child's temporary absence from a facility, including hospitalization. Bed
hold requests must have prior written authorization from the Department Administrator
before payment will be release to provider. Reimbursement rates for bed hold days may
not exceed the state standard rate for administrative maintenance and administrative
services or may be a reduced rate that is mutually agreed upon.
3. Add Paragraph 6 to Section I. The services purchased under this Agreement as Child
Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services for Therapeutic Residential
Child Care Facilities and Residential Child Care Facilities include, but are not limited to:
Food, shelter, clothing, personal needs and allowance, administration, administrative
overhead, support staff, support overhead, sleep -over staff, direct child care,
transportation, therapeutic recreation, service delivery staff, parent training for teens,
independent living training, mentor/advocate, supervised visitation and all other services
as outlined in the Contractor's scope of service attached as Exhibit A or the Child
Specific Addendum. The anticipated minimum percentage for each item is as follows
and will be subject to County monitoring as outlined in Section VI of this contract:
A. Food, including meals and snacks (25%);
B. Clothing (3%);
C. Shelter, including utilities and use of household furnishing and equipment and
daily supervision, including those activities that a parent would normally carry out
to assure protection, emotional support and care of the child (30%);
D. Personal items and grooming care for the child, such as toothpaste, toothbrushes,
soap, combs, haircuts, and other essentials (2%);
E. Other/miscellaneous items considered usual in the care and supervision of the
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child, include, but are not limited to, transportation, recreation and overhead
(40%)
4. Add Paragraph 7 to Section I. A minimum of one polygraph test per Colorado fiscal
year, if needed by the child, will be furnished by the Contractor under this contract for
facilities that provide sex offender treatment.
5. Add Paragraph 8 to Section I. Any additional costs for specialized services, which
include, but are not limited to; polygraph tests, plethysmographs, and urinalysis screens,
that is not provided within the vendor rate or attached Scope of Service, will need be
negotiated and authorized, in writing by the County, prior to the service being performed.
Any payment for specialized services not authorized in writing will be denied.
6. Add Paragraph 5 to Section II. Contact by the Contractor with the County regarding
emergency medical, surgical or dental care will be made in person -to -person
communication, not through phone mail messages. During regular work hours, the
Contractor will make every effort to notify the assigned caseworker, supervisor, or intake
screener of any emergency medical, surgical or dental issues prior to granting
authorization. During non -regular work hours, weekends and holidays, the Contractor
will contact the Emergency Duty Worker at the pager number (970) 304-2749.
7. Section III, Paragraph 5. Contractor additionally agrees to have appropriate personnel
available for staffing current placements with the Utilization Review Team. This review
team convenes every Monday morning, excluding holidays.
8. Add Paragraph 13 to Section IV. Agree to cooperate with any vendors hired by Weld
County Department of Human Services to shorten the duration of placement.
9. Add Paragraph 14 to Section IV. Agree to schedule physical examinations within 14
days after placement, dental examinations within eight weeks after placement and
forward all appropriate information to the County.
10. Add Paragraph 15 to Section IV. A full evaluation of an Individualized Educational Plan
(IEP) for youth designated as a Special Education Student will be conducted every 3
years and reviewed every year. If the IEP is due while the child is in placement, the
Contractor will complete or obtain a completed IEP. A copy will then be forwarded to
the County.
11. Add Paragraph 16 to Section IV. Assure and certify that it and its principals:
A. Are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, and declared
ineligible or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by a federal
department or agency.
Have not, within a three-year period of preceding this Agreement, been convicted
of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for commission of fraud or a
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing
a public (federal, state, or local) transaction or contract under a public transaction;
violation of federal or state antitrust statutes or commission of embezzlement,
theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false
statements, or receiving stolen property;
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C. Are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a
government entity (federal, state, or local) with commission of any of the offenses
enumerated in paragraph (B) above.
D. Have not within a three-year period preceding this Agreement, had one or more
public transactions (federal, state, and local) terminated for cause or default.
12. Section V, Paragraph 5. Children in Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facilities,
Residential Child Care Facilities and Child Placement Agencies are not eligible to receive
clothing allowances as outlined in the Weld County Department of Human Services
Policy and Procedure Manual.
13. Add Paragraph 7 to Section VI. It is expressly understood and agreed that the
enforcement of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and all rights of action
relating to such enforcement, shall be strictly reserved to the undersigned parties or their
assignees, and nothing contained in this Agreement shall give or allow any claim or right
of action whatsoever by any other person not included in this Agreement. It is the
express intention of the undersigned parties that any entity other than the undersigned
parties or their assignees receiving services or benefits under this Agreement shall be an
incidental beneficiary only.
14. Add Paragraph 8 to Section VI. No portion of this Agreement shall be deemed to
constitute a waiver of any immunity the parties or their officers or employees may
posses, nor shall any portion of this Agreement be deemed to have created a duty of care
that did not previously exist with respect to any person not a party to this Agreement.
The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that no part of this Agreement is intended to
circumvent or replace such immunities.
15. Add Paragraph 9 to Section VI. The Director of Human Services or designee may
exercise the following remedial actions should s/he find the Contractor substantially
failed to satisfy the scope of work found in this Agreement. Substantial failure to satisfy
the scope of work shall be defined to mean incorrect or improper activities or inaction by
the Contractor. These remedial actions are as follows:
A. Withhold payment to the Contractor until the necessary services or corrections in
performance are satisfactorily completed;
B. Deny payment or recover reimbursement for those services or deliverables which
have not been performed and which due to circumstances caused by the
Contractor cannot be performed or if performed would be of no value to the
Human Services. Denial of the amount of payment shall be reasonably related to
the amount of work or deliverables lost to Human Services;
C. Recover from the Contractor any incorrect payment to the Contractor due to
omission, error, fraud, and/or defalcation by deducting from subsequent payments
under this Agreement or other agreements between Human Services and the
Contractor, or by Human Services as a debt to Human Services or otherwise as
provided by law.
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16. Add Paragraph 10 to Section VI. The contractor shall promptly notify Human Services
in the event in which it is a party defendant or respondent in a case, which involves
services provided under the agreement. The Contractor, within five (5) calendar days
after being served with a summons, complaint, or other pleading which has been filed in
any federal or state court or administrative agency, shall deliver copies of such
document(s) to the Human Services' Director. The term "litigation" includes an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, and filings in bankruptcy, reorganizations and/or
foreclosure.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed the Addendum as of the day,
month, and year first above written.
ATTEST: Weld County Clerk to the Board
By:
Deputy dGk to the Board
Approval as to Substance:
WELD COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF HUMAN SERVICES
WELD COUNTY BOARD OF
SOCIAL SERVICES, ON BEHALF
OF THE WELD COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
SERVICES
By:
Chair Signature
MR3 2 5 2009
CONTRACTOR
Mountain Star Center
3520 W Oxford Ave
Denver, CO 80236
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WELD COUNTY ADDENDUM
To that certain Agreement to Purchase Therapeutic Residential Child Care
Facility Services and Residential Child Care Facility Services (the
"Agreement") between PSI Cedar Springs Hospital, Inc. and Weld County
Department of Human Services for the period from
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
The following provisions, made this day of BTU L\) , 2009, are added to the referenced
Agreement. Except as modified hereby, all terms of the /Agreement remain unchanged.
1. County agrees to purchase and Contractor, identified as Provider ID#1517006, agrees to
provide:
A. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $180.75 per day for children placed within the
Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facility.
B. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $180.75 per day for children placed within the
Residential Child Care Facility.
C. Additional services not covered by Medicaid or considered within the above
vendor rate. These additional services/rates may be negotiated on a child by child
basis, based on the needs of the child and in accordance with the Colorado
Department of Human Services Agency Letter CW-06-11-I dated June 8, 2006.
These services will be for children who have been deemed eligible for social services
under the statutes, rules and regulations of the State of Colorado.
2. Section I, Paragraph 2. All bed hold authorizations and payments are subject to a 3 day
maximum for a child's temporary absence from a facility, including hospitalization. Bed
hold requests must have prior written authorization from the Department Administrator
before payment will be release to provider. Reimbursement rates for bed hold days may
not exceed the state standard rate for administrative maintenance and administrative
services or may be a reduced rate that is mutually agreed upon.
3. Add Paragraph 6 to Section I. The services purchased under this Agreement as Child
Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services for Therapeutic Residential
Child Care Facilities and Residential Child Care Facilities include, but are not limited to:
Food, shelter, clothing, personal needs and allowance, administration, administrative
overhead, support staff, support overhead, sleep -over staff, direct child care,
transportation, therapeutic recreation, service delivery staff, parent training for teens,
independent living training, mentor/advocate, supervised visitation and all other services
as outlined in the Contractor's scope of service attached as Exhibit A or the Child
Specific Addendum. The anticipated minimum percentage for each item is as follows
and will be subject to County monitoring as outlined in Section VI of this contract:
A. Food, including meals and snacks (25%);
B. Clothing (3%);
C. Shelter, including utilities and use of household furnishing and equipment and
daily supervision, including those activities that a parent would normally carry out
to assure protection, emotional support and care of the child (30%);
D. Personal items and grooming care for the child, such as toothpaste, toothbrushes,
soap, combs, haircuts, and other essentials (2%);
E. Other/miscellaneous items considered usual in the care and supervision of the
Weld County SS -23A Addendum
child, include, but are not limited to, transportation, recreation and overhead
(40%)
4. Add Paragraph 7 to Section I. A minimum of one polygraph test per Colorado fiscal
year, if needed by the child, will be furnished by the Contractor under this contract for
facilities that provide sex offender treatment.
5. Add Paragraph 8 to Section I. Any additional costs for specialized services, which
include, but are not limited to; polygraph tests, plethysmographs, and urinalysis screens,
that is not provided within the vendor rate or attached Scope of Service, will need be
negotiated and authorized, in writing by the County, prior to the service being performed.
Any payment for specialized services not authorized in writing will be denied.
6. Add Paragraph 5 to Section II. Contact by the Contractor with the County regarding
emergency medical, surgical or dental care will be made in person -to -person
communication, not through phone mail messages. During regular work hours, the
Contractor will make every effort to notify the assigned caseworker, supervisor, or intake
screener of any emergency medical, surgical or dental issues prior to granting
authorization. During non -regular work hours, weekends and holidays, the Contractor
will contact the Emergency Duty Worker at the pager number (970) 304-2749.
7. Section III, Paragraph 5. Contractor additionally agrees to have appropriate personnel
available for staffing current placements with the Utilization Review Team. This review
team convenes every Monday morning, excluding holidays.
8. Add Paragraph 13 to Section IV. Agree to cooperate with any vendors hired by Weld
County Department of Human Services to shorten the duration of placement.
9. Add Paragraph 14 to Section IV. Agree to schedule physical examinations within 14
days after placement, dental examinations within eight weeks after placement and
forward all appropriate information to the County.
10. Add Paragraph 15 to Section IV. A full evaluation of an Individualized Educational Plan
(IEP) for youth designated as a Special Education Student will be conducted every 3
years and reviewed every year. If the IEP is due while the child is in placement, the
Contractor will complete or obtain a completed IEP. A copy will then be forwarded to
the County.
11. Add Paragraph 16 to Section IV. Assure and certify that it and its principals:
A. Are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, and declared
ineligible or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by a federal
department or agency.
B. Have not, within a three-year period of preceding this Agreement, been convicted
of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for commission of fraud or a
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing
a public (federal, state, or local) transaction or contract under a public transaction;
violation of federal or state antitrust statutes or commission of embezzlement,
theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false
statements, or receiving stolen property;
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C. Are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a
government entity (federal, state, or local) with commission of any of the offenses
enumerated in paragraph (B) above.
D. Have not within a three-year period preceding this Agreement, had one or more
public transactions (federal, state, and local) terminated for cause or default.
12. Section V, Paragraph 5. Children in Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facilities,
Residential Child Care Facilities and Child Placement Agencies are not eligible to receive
clothing allowances as outlined in the Weld County Department of Human Services
Policy and Procedure Manual.
13. Add Paragraph 7 to Section VI. It is expressly understood and agreed that the
enforcement of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and all rights of action
relating to such enforcement, shall be strictly reserved to the undersigned parties or their
assignees, and nothing contained in this Agreement shall give or allow any claim or right
of action whatsoever by any other person not included in this Agreement. It is the
express intention of the undersigned parties that any entity other than the undersigned
parties or their assignees receiving services or benefits under this Agreement shall be an
incidental beneficiary only.
14. Add Paragraph 8 to Section VI. No portion of this Agreement shall be deemed to
constitute a waiver of any immunity the parties or their officers or employees may
posses, nor shall any portion of this Agreement be deemed to have created a duty of care
that did not previously exist with respect to any person not a party to this Agreement.
The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that no part of this Agreement is intended to
circumvent or replace such immunities.
15. Add Paragraph 9 to Section VI. The Director of Human Services or designee may
exercise the following remedial actions should s/he find the Contractor substantially
failed to satisfy the scope of work found in this Agreement. Substantial failure to satisfy
the scope of work shall be defined to mean incorrect or improper activities or inaction by
the Contractor. These remedial actions are as follows:
A. Withhold payment to the Contractor until the necessary services or corrections in
performance are satisfactorily completed;
B. Deny payment or recover reimbursement for those services or deliverables which
have not been performed and which due to circumstances caused by the
Contractor cannot be performed or if performed would be of no value to the
Human Services. Denial of the amount of payment shall be reasonably related to
the amount of work or deliverables lost to Human Services;
C. Recover from the Contractor any incorrect payment to the Contractor due to
omission, error, fraud, and/or defalcation by deducting from subsequent payments
under this Agreement or other agreements between Human Services and the
Contractor, or by Human Services as a debt to Human Services or otherwise as
provided by law.
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16. Add Paragraph 10 to Section VI. The contractor shall promptly notify Human Services
in the event in which it is a party defendant or respondent in a case, which involves
services provided under the agreement. The Contractor, within five (5) calendar days
after being served with a summons, complaint, or other pleading which has been filed in
any federal or state court or administrative agency, shall deliver copies of such
document(s) to the Human Services' Director. The term "litigation" includes an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, and filings in bankruptcy, reorganizations and/or
foreclosure.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed the Addendum as of the day,
month, and year first above written.
ATTEST: Weld County Clerk to the Board
B
Deputy k to thelBoard
Approval as to Substance:
WELD COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF HUMAN SERVICES
B
WELD COUNTY BOARD OF
SOCIAL SERVICES, ON BEHALF
OF THE WELD COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
SERVICES
By:
Chair Signature AUG 0 5 2009
CONTRACTOR
PSI Cedar Springs Hospital, Inc.
2135 Southgate Rd
Colorado Springs, CO 80906-2605
By: / // e /&n(d
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-Aar) j /
WELD COUNTY ADDENDUM
To that certain Agreement to Purchase Therapeutic Residential Child Care
Facility Services and Residential Child Care Facility Services (the
"Agreement") between Tennyson Center for Children and Weld County
Department of Human Services for the period from
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
The following provisions, made this \ day of 1 , 2009, are added to the referenced
Agreement. Except as modified hereby, all terms of the Agreement remain unchanged.
1. County agrees to purchase and Contractor, identified as Provider ID#45205, agrees to
provide:
A. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $180.75 per day for children placed within the
Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facility.
B. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $180.75 per day for children placed within the
Residential Child Care Facility.
C. Additional services not covered by Medicaid or considered within the above
vendor rate. These additional services/rates may be negotiated on a child by child
basis, based on the needs of the child and in accordance with the Colorado
Department of Human Services Agency Letter CW-06-11-I dated June 8, 2006.
These services will be for children who have been deemed eligible for social services
under the statutes, rules and regulations of the State of Colorado.
2. Section I, Paragraph 2. All bed hold authorizations and payments are subject to a 3 day
maximum for a child's temporary absence from a facility, including hospitalization. Bed
hold requests must have prior written authorization from the Department Administrator
before payment will be release to provider. Reimbursement rates for bed hold days may
not exceed the state standard rate for administrative maintenance and administrative
services or may be a reduced rate that is mutually agreed upon.
3. Add Paragraph 6 to Section I. The services purchased under this Agreement as Child
Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services for Therapeutic Residential
Child Care Facilities and Residential Child Care Facilities include, but are not limited to:
Food, shelter, clothing, personal needs and allowance, administration, administrative
overhead, support staff, support overhead, sleep -over staff, direct child care,
transportation, therapeutic recreation, service delivery staff, parent training for teens,
independent living training, mentor/advocate, supervised visitation and all other services
as outlined in the Contractor's scope of service attached as Exhibit A or the Child
Specific Addendum. The anticipated minimum percentage for each item is as follows
and will be subject to County monitoring as outlined in Section VI of this contract:
A. Food, including meals and snacks (25%);
B. Clothing (3%);
C. Shelter, including utilities and use of household furnishing and equipment and
daily supervision, including those activities that a parent would normally carry out
to assure protection, emotional support and care of the child (30%);
D. Personal items and grooming care for the child, such as toothpaste, toothbrushes,
soap, combs, haircuts, and other essentials (2%);
E. Other/miscellaneous items considered usual in the care and supervision of the
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child, include, but are not limited to, transportation, recreation and overhead
(40%)
4. Add Paragraph 7 to Section I. A minimum of one polygraph test per Colorado fiscal
year, if needed by the child, will be furnished by the Contractor under this contract for
facilities that provide sex offender treatment.
5. Add Paragraph 8 to Section I. Any additional costs for specialized services, which
include, but are not limited to; polygraph tests, plethysmographs, and urinalysis screens,
that is not provided within the vendor rate or attached Scope of Service, will need be
negotiated and authorized, in writing by the County, prior to the service being performed.
Any payment for specialized services not authorized in writing will be denied.
6. Add Paragraph 5 to Section II. Contact by the Contractor with the County regarding
emergency medical, surgical or dental care will be made in person -to -person
communication, not through phone mail messages. During regular work hours, the
Contractor will make every effort to notify the assigned caseworker, supervisor, or intake
screener of any emergency medical, surgical or dental issues prior to granting
authorization. During non -regular work hours, weekends and holidays, the Contractor
will contact the Emergency Duty Worker at the pager number (970) 304-2749.
7. Section III, Paragraph 5. Contractor additionally agrees to have appropriate personnel
available for staffing current placements with the Utilization Review Team. This review
team convenes every Monday morning, excluding holidays.
8. Add Paragraph 13 to Section IV. Agree to cooperate with any vendors hired by Weld
County Department of Human Services to shorten the duration of placement.
9. Add Paragraph 14 to Section IV. Agree to schedule physical examinations within 14
days after placement, dental examinations within eight weeks after placement and
forward all appropriate information to the County.
10. Add Paragraph 15 to Section IV. A full evaluation of an Individualized Educational Plan
(IEP) for youth designated as a Special Education Student will be conducted every 3
years and reviewed every year. If the IEP is due while the child is in placement, the
Contractor will complete or obtain a completed IEP. A copy will then be forwarded to
the County.
11. Add Paragraph 16 to Section IV. Assure and certify that it and its principals:
A. Are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, and declared
ineligible or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by a federal
department or agency.
B. Have not, within a three-year period of preceding this Agreement, been convicted
of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for commission of fraud or a
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing
a public (federal, state, or local) transaction or contract under a public transaction;
violation of federal or state antitrust statutes or commission of embezzlement,
theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false
statements, or receiving stolen property;
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C. Are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a
government entity (federal, state, or local) with commission of any of the offenses
enumerated in paragraph (B) above.
D. Have not within a three-year period preceding this Agreement, had one or more
public transactions (federal, state, and local) terminated for cause or default.
12. Section V, Paragraph 5. Children in Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facilities,
Residential Child Care Facilities and Child Placement Agencies are not eligible to receive
clothing allowances as outlined in the Weld County Department of Human Services
Policy and Procedure Manual.
13. Add Paragraph 7 to Section VI. It is expressly understood and agreed that the
enforcement of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and all rights of action
relating to such enforcement, shall be strictly reserved to the undersigned parties or their
assignees, and nothing contained in this Agreement shall give or allow any claim or right
of action whatsoever by any other person not included in this Agreement. It is the
express intention of the undersigned parties that any entity other than the undersigned
parties or their assignees receiving services or benefits under this Agreement shall be an
incidental beneficiary only.
14. Add Paragraph 8 to Section VI. No portion of this Agreement shall be deemed to
constitute a waiver of any immunity the parties or their officers or employees may
posses, nor shall any portion of this Agreement be deemed to have created a duty of care
that did not previously exist with respect to any person not a party to this Agreement.
The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that no part of this Agreement is intended to
circumvent or replace such immunities.
15. Add Paragraph 9 to Section VI. The Director of Human Services or designee may
exercise the following remedial actions should s/he find the Contractor substantially
failed to satisfy the scope of work found in this Agreement. Substantial failure to satisfy
the scope of work shall be defined to mean incorrect or improper activities or inaction by
the Contractor. These remedial actions are as follows:
A. Withhold payment to the Contractor until the necessary services or corrections in
performance are satisfactorily completed;
B. Deny payment or recover reimbursement for those services or deliverables which
have not been performed and which due to circumstances caused by the
Contractor cannot be performed or if performed would be of no value to the
Human Services. Denial of the amount of payment shall be reasonably related to
the amount of work or deliverables lost to Human Services;
C. Recover from the Contractor any incorrect payment to the Contractor due to
omission, error, fraud, and/or defalcation by deducting from subsequent payments
under this Agreement or other agreements between Human Services and the
Contractor, or by Human Services as a debt to Human Services or otherwise as
provided by law.
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16. Add Paragraph 10 to Section VI. The contractor shall promptly notify Human Services
in the event in which it is a party defendant or respondent in a case, which involves
services provided under the agreement. The Contractor, within five (5) calendar days
after being served with a summons, complaint, or other pleading which has been filed in
any federal or state court or administrative agency, shall deliver copies of such
document(s) to the Human Services' Director. The term "litigation" includes an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, and filings in bankruptcy, reorganizations and/or
foreclosure.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed the Addendum as of the day,
month, and year first above written.
ATTEST: Weld County Clerk t. th and
B
Deputy Cl'-rk to the Bo
Approval as to Substance:
WELD COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF HUMAN SERVICES
By:
WELD COUNTY BOARD OF
SOCIAL SERVICES, ON BEHALF
OF THE WELD COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
SERVICES
Chair Signature AUG 0 5 2009
CONTRACTOR
Tennyson Center for Children
2950 Tennyson St
Denver, CO 80212-3029
By: .G't1 r (
L(S
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WELD COUNTY ADDENDUM
To that certain Agreement to Purchase Therapeutic Residential Child Care
Facility Services and Residential Child Care Facility Services (the
"Agreement") between The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
dba Synergy and Weld County Department of Human Services for the
period from
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
The following provisions, made this ( day of , 2009, are added to the referenced
Agreement. Except as modified hereby, all terms o h Agreement remain unchanged.
1. County agrees to purchase and Contractor, identified as Provider ID#49488, agrees to
provide:
A. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $148.49 per day for children placed within the
Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facility.
B. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $148.49 per day for children placed within the
Residential Child Care Facility.
C. Additional services not covered by Medicaid or considered within the above
vendor rate. These additional services/rates may be negotiated on a child by child
basis, based on the needs of the child and in accordance with the Colorado
Department of Human Services Agency Letter CW-06-11-I dated June 8, 2006.
These services will be for children who have been deemed eligible for social services
under the statutes, rules and regulations of the State of Colorado.
2. Section I, Paragraph 2. All bed hold authorizations and payments are subject to a 3 day
maximum for a child's temporary absence from a facility, including hospitalization. Bed
hold requests must have prior written authorization from the Department Administrator
before payment will be release to provider. Reimbursement rates for bed hold days may
not exceed the state standard rate for administrative maintenance and administrative
services or may be a reduced rate that is mutually agreed upon.
3. Add Paragraph 6 to Section I. The services purchased under this Agreement as Child
Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services for Therapeutic Residential
Child Care Facilities and Residential Child Care Facilities include, but are not limited to:
Food, shelter, clothing, personal needs and allowance, administration, administrative
overhead, support staff, support overhead, sleep -over staff, direct child care,
transportation, therapeutic recreation, service delivery staff, parent training for teens,
independent living training, mentor/advocate, supervised visitation and all other services
as outlined in the Contractor's scope of service attached as Exhibit A or the Child
Specific Addendum. The anticipated minimum percentage for each item is as follows
and will be subject to County monitoring as outlined in Section VI of this contract:
A. Food, including meals and snacks (25%);
B. Clothing (3%);
C. Shelter, including utilities and use of household furnishing and equipment and
daily supervision, including those activities that a parent would normally carry out
to assure protection, emotional support and care of the child (30%);
D. Personal items and grooming care for the child, such as toothpaste, toothbrushes,
soap, combs, haircuts, and other essentials (2%);
Weld County SS -23A Adders um
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E. Other/miscellaneous items considered usual in the care and supervision of the
child, include, but are not limited to, transportation, recreation and overhead
(40%)
4. Add Paragraph 7 to Section I. A minimum of one polygraph test per Colorado fiscal
year, if needed by the child, will be furnished by the Contractor under this contract for
facilities that provide sex offender treatment.
5. Add Paragraph 8 to Section I. Any additional costs for specialized services, which
include, but are not limited to; polygraph tests, plethysmographs, and urinalysis screens,
that is not provided within the vendor rate or attached Scope of Service, will need be
negotiated and authorized, in writing by the County, prior to the service being performed.
Any payment for specialized services not authorized in writing will be denied.
6. Add Paragraph 5 to Section II. Contact by the Contractor with the County regarding
emergency medical, surgical or dental care will be made in person -to -person
communication, not through phone mail messages. During regular work hours, the
Contractor will make every effort to notify the assigned caseworker, supervisor, or intake
screener of any emergency medical, surgical or dental issues prior to granting
authorization. During non -regular work hours, weekends and holidays, the Contractor
will contact the Emergency Duty Worker at the pager number (970) 304-2749.
7. Section III, Paragraph 5. Contractor additionally agrees to have appropriate personnel
available for staffing current placements with the Utilization Review Team. This review
team convenes every Monday morning, excluding holidays.
8. Add Paragraph 13 to Section IV. Agree to cooperate with any vendors hired by Weld
County Department of Human Services to shorten the duration of placement.
9. Add Paragraph 14 to Section IV. Agree to schedule physical examinations within 14
days after placement, dental examinations within eight weeks after placement and
forward all appropriate information to the County.
10. Add Paragraph 15 to Section IV. A full evaluation of an Individualized Educational Plan
(IEP) for youth designated as a Special Education Student will be conducted every 3
years and reviewed every year. If the IEP is due while the child is in placement, the
Contractor will complete or obtain a completed IEP. A copy will then be forwarded to
the County.
11. Add Paragraph 16 to Section IV. Assure and certify that it and its principals:
A. Are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, and declared
ineligible or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by a federal
department or agency.
B. Have not, within a three-year period of preceding this Agreement, been convicted
of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for commission of fraud or a
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing
a public (federal, state, or local) transaction or contract under a public transaction;
violation of federal or state antitrust statutes or commission of embezzlement,
theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false
statements, or receiving stolen property;
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C. Are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a
government entity (federal, state, or local) with commission of any of the offenses
enumerated in paragraph (B) above.
D. Have not within a three-year period preceding this Agreement, had one or more
public transactions (federal, state, and local) terminated for cause or default.
12. Section V, Paragraph 5. Children in Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facilities,
Residential Child Care Facilities and Child Placement Agencies are not eligible to receive
clothing allowances as outlined in the Weld County Department of Human Services
Policy and Procedure Manual.
13. Add Paragraph 7 to Section VI. It is expressly understood and agreed that the
enforcement of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and all rights of action
relating to such enforcement, shall be strictly reserved to the undersigned parties or their
assignees, and nothing contained in this Agreement shall give or allow any claim or right
of action whatsoever by any other person not included in this Agreement. It is the
express intention of the undersigned parties that any entity other than the undersigned
parties or their assignees receiving services or benefits under this Agreement shall be an
incidental beneficiary only.
14. Add Paragraph 8 to Section VI. No portion of this Agreement shall be deemed to
constitute a waiver of any immunity the parties or their officers or employees may
posses, nor shall any portion of this Agreement be deemed to have created a duty of care
that did not previously exist with respect to any person not a party to this Agreement.
The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that no part of this Agreement is intended to
circumvent or replace such immunities.
15. Add Paragraph 9 to Section VI. The Director of Human Services or designee may
exercise the following remedial actions should s/he find the Contractor substantially
failed to satisfy the scope of work found in this Agreement. Substantial failure to satisfy
the scope of work shall be defined to mean incorrect or improper activities or inaction by
the Contractor. These remedial actions are as follows:
A. Withhold payment to the Contractor until the necessary services or corrections in
performance are satisfactorily completed;
B. Deny payment or recover reimbursement for those services or deliverables which
have not been performed and which due to circumstances caused by the
Contractor cannot be performed or if performed would be of no value to the
Human Services. Denial of the amount of payment shall be reasonably related to
the amount of work or deliverables lost to Human Services;
C. Recover from the Contractor any incorrect payment to the Contractor due to
omission, error, fraud, and/or defalcation by deducting from subsequent payments
under this Agreement or other agreements between Human Services and the
Contractor, or by Human Services as a debt to Human Services or otherwise as
provided by law.
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16. Add Paragraph 10 to Section VI. The contractor shall promptly notify Human Services
in the event in which it is a party defendant or respondent in a case, which involves
services provided under the agreement. The Contractor, within five (5) calendar days
after being served with a summons, complaint, or other pleading which has been filed in
any federal or state court or administrative agency, shall deliver copies of such
document(s) to the Human Services' Director. The term "litigation" includes an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, and filings in bankruptcy, reorganizations and/or
foreclosure.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed the Addendum as of the day,
month, and year first above written.
ATTEST: Weld County Clerk to the Board
B
Deputy CI6k to the`Lib?rk t
Approval as to Substance:
WELD COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF HUMAN SERVICES
WELD COUNTY BOARD OF
SOCIAL SERVICES, ON BEHALF
OF THE WELD COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
SERVICES
By:
Chair Signature
AUG 11 5 zono
CONTRACTOR
The University of Colorado
OV\Lier-
dba Synergy
3738 W Princeton Cir
Denver, CO 80236
By: Vuta""N'+�'_
-7001
Christine Ahearn
Asst. Director Contracts,
Policy and Education
Orrice of Grants and Contracts
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WELD COUNTY ADDENDUM
To that certain Agreement to Purchase Therapeutic Residential Child Care
Facility Services and Residential Child Care Facility Services (the
"Agreement") between Third Way Center and Weld County Department of
Human Services for the period from
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
The following provisions, made this day of , 2009, are added to the referenced
Agreement. Except as modified hereby all terms th Agreement remain unchanged.
1. County agrees to purchase and Contractor, identified as Provider ID#49487, agrees to
provide:
A. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $179.24 per day for children placed within the
Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facility.
B. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $179.24 per day for children placed within the
Residential Child Care Facility.
C. Additional services not covered by Medicaid or considered within the above
vendor rate. These additional services/rates may be negotiated on a child by child
basis, based on the needs of the child and in accordance with the Colorado
Department of Human Services Agency Letter CW-06-11-I dated June 8, 2006.
These services will be for children who have been deemed eligible for social services
under the statutes, rules and regulations of the State of Colorado.
2. Section I, Paragraph 2. All bed hold authorizations and payments are subject to a 3 day
maximum for a child's temporary absence from a facility, including hospitalization. Bed
hold requests must have prior written authorization from the Department Administrator
before payment will be release to provider. Reimbursement rates for bed hold days may
not exceed the state standard rate for administrative maintenance and administrative
services or may be a reduced rate that is mutually agreed upon.
3. Add Paragraph 6 to Section I. The services purchased under this Agreement as Child
Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services for Therapeutic Residential
Child Care Facilities and Residential Child Care Facilities include, but are not limited to:
Food, shelter, clothing, personal needs and allowance, administration, administrative
overhead, support staff, support overhead, sleep -over staff, direct child care,
transportation, therapeutic recreation, service delivery staff, parent training for teens,
independent living training, mentor/advocate, supervised visitation and all other services
as outlined in the Contractor's scope of service attached as Exhibit A or the Child
Specific Addendum. The anticipated minimum percentage for each item is as follows
and will be subject to County monitoring as outlined in Section VI of this contract:
A. Food, including meals and snacks (25%);
B. Clothing (3%);
C. Shelter, including utilities and use of household furnishing and equipment and
daily supervision, including those activities that a parent would normally carry out
to assure protection, emotional support and care of the child (30%);
D. Personal items and grooming care for the child, such as toothpaste, toothbrushes,
soap, combs, haircuts, and other essentials (2%);
E. Other/miscellaneous items considered usual in the care and supervision of the
Weld County SS -23A Addend m
4
child, include, but are not limited to, transportation, recreation and overhead
(40%)
4. Add Paragraph 7 to Section I. A minimum of one polygraph test per Colorado fiscal
year, if needed by the child, will be furnished by the Contractor under this contract for
facilities that provide sex offender treatment.
5. Add Paragraph 8 to Section I. Any additional costs for specialized services, which
include, but are not limited to; polygraph tests, plethysmographs, and urinalysis screens,
that is not provided within the vendor rate or attached Scope of Service, will need be
negotiated and authorized, in writing by the County, prior to the service being performed.
Any payment for specialized services not authorized in writing will be denied.
6. Add Paragraph 5 to Section II. Contact by the Contractor with the County regarding
emergency medical, surgical or dental care will be made in person -to -person
communication, not through phone mail messages. During regular work hours, the
Contractor will make every effort to notify the assigned caseworker, supervisor, or intake
screener of any emergency medical, surgical or dental issues prior to granting
authorization. During non -regular work hours, weekends and holidays, the Contractor
will contact the Emergency Duty Worker at the pager number (970) 304-2749.
7. Section III, Paragraph 5. Contractor additionally agrees to have appropriate personnel
available for staffing current placements with the Utilization Review Team. This review
team convenes every Monday morning, excluding holidays.
8. Add Paragraph 13 to Section IV. Agree to cooperate with any vendors hired by Weld
County Department of Human Services to shorten the duration of placement.
9. Add Paragraph 14 to Section IV. Agree to schedule physical examinations within 14
days after placement, dental examinations within eight weeks after placement and
forward all appropriate information to the County.
10. Add Paragraph 15 to Section IV. A full evaluation of an Individualized Educational Plan
(IEP) for youth designated as a Special Education Student will be conducted every 3
years and reviewed every year. If the IEP is due while the child is in placement, the
Contractor will complete or obtain a completed IEP. A copy will then be forwarded to
the County.
11. Add Paragraph 16 to Section IV. Assure and certify that it and its principals:
A. Are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, and declared
ineligible or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by a federal
department or agency.
B. Have not, within a three-year period of preceding this Agreement, been convicted
of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for commission of fraud or a
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing
a public (federal, state, or local) transaction or contract under a public transaction;
violation of federal or state antitrust statutes or commission of embezzlement,
theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false
statements, or receiving stolen property;
2 Weld County SS -23A Addendum
C. Are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a
government entity (federal, state, or local) with commission of any of the offenses
enumerated in paragraph (B) above.
D. Have not within a three-year period preceding this Agreement, had one or more
public transactions (federal, state, and local) terminated for cause or default.
12. Section V, Paragraph 5. Children in Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facilities,
Residential Child Care Facilities and Child Placement Agencies are not eligible to receive
clothing allowances as outlined in the Weld County Department of Human Services
Policy and Procedure Manual.
13. Add Paragraph 7 to Section VI. It is expressly understood and agreed that the
enforcement of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and all rights of action
relating to such enforcement, shall be strictly reserved to the undersigned parties or their
assignees, and nothing contained in this Agreement shall give or allow any claim or right
of action whatsoever by any other person not included in this Agreement. It is the
express intention of the undersigned parties that any entity other than the undersigned
parties or their assignees receiving services or benefits under this Agreement shall be an
incidental beneficiary only.
14. Add Paragraph 8 to Section VI. No portion of this Agreement shall be deemed to
constitute a waiver of any immunity the parties or their officers or employees may
posses, nor shall any portion of this Agreement be deemed to have created a duty of care
that did not previously exist with respect to any person not a party to this Agreement.
The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that no part of this Agreement is intended to
circumvent or replace such immunities.
15. Add Paragraph 9 to Section VI. The Director of Human Services or designee may
exercise the following remedial actions should s/he find the Contractor substantially
failed to satisfy the scope of work found in this Agreement. Substantial failure to satisfy
the scope of work shall be defined to mean incorrect or improper activities or inaction by
the Contractor. These remedial actions are as follows:
A. Withhold payment to the Contractor until the necessary services or corrections in
performance are satisfactorily completed;
B. Deny payment or recover reimbursement for those services or deliverables which
have not been performed and which due to circumstances caused by the
Contractor cannot be performed or if performed would be of no value to the
Human Services. Denial of the amount of payment shall be reasonably related to
the amount of work or deliverables lost to Human Services;
C. Recover from the Contractor any incorrect payment to the Contractor due to
omission, error, fraud, and/or defalcation by deducting from subsequent payments
under this Agreement or other agreements between Human Services and the
Contractor, or by Human Services as a debt to Human Services or otherwise as
provided by law.
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16. Add Paragraph 10 to Section VI. The contractor shall promptly notify Human Services
in the event in which it is a party defendant or respondent in a case, which involves
services provided under the agreement. The Contractor, within five (5) calendar days
after being served with a summons, complaint, or other pleading which has been filed in
any federal or state court or administrative agency, shall deliver copies of such
document(s) to the Human Services' Director. The term "litigation" includes an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, and filings in bankruptcy, reorganizations and/or
foreclosure.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed the Addendum as of the day,
month, and year first above written.
ATTEST: Weld County Clerkhe-$oard
vm,
Deputy C erk to the I3bard
Approval as to Substance:
WELD COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF HUMAN SERVICES
By:
WELD COUNTY BOARD OF
SOCIAL SERVICES, ON BEHALF
OF THE WELD COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
SERVICES
By: (/v _'1t-
Chair Signature
AUG (' 5 ?Ong
CONTRACTOR
Third Way Center
PO Box 61385
Denver, CO 80206
By:
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•
WELD COUNTY ADDENDUM
To that certain Agreement to Purchase Therapeutic Residential Child Care
Facility Services and Residential Child Care Facility Services (the
"Agreement") between Third Way Center and Weld County Department of
Human Services for the period from
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
The following provisions, made this day of ft , 2009, are added to the referenced
Agreement. Except as modified hereby, all terms e Agreement remain unchanged.
1. County agrees to purchase and Contractor, identified as Provider ID#65346, agrees to
provide:
A.
Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $179.24 per day for children placed within the
Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facility.
B. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $179.24 per day for children placed within the
Residential Child Care Facility.
C. Additional services not covered by Medicaid or considered within the above
vendor rate. These additional services/rates may be negotiated on a child by child
basis, based on the needs of the child and in accordance with the Colorado
Department of Human Services Agency Letter CW-06-11-I dated June 8, 2006.
These services will be for children who have been deemed eligible for social services
under the statutes, rules and regulations of the State of Colorado.
2. Section I, Paragraph 2. All bed hold authorizations and payments are subject to a 3 day
maximum for a child's temporary absence from a facility, including hospitalization. Bed
hold requests must have prior written authorization from the Department Administrator
before payment will be release to provider. Reimbursement rates for bed hold days may
not exceed the state standard rate for administrative maintenance and administrative
services or may be a reduced rate that is mutually agreed upon.
3. Add Paragraph 6 to Section I. The services purchased under this Agreement as Child
Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services for Therapeutic Residential
Child Care Facilities and Residential Child Care Facilities include, but are not limited to:
Food, shelter, clothing, personal needs and allowance, administration, administrative
overhead, support staff, support overhead, sleep -over staff, direct child care,
transportation, therapeutic recreation, service delivery staff, parent training for teens,
independent living training, mentor/advocate, supervised visitation and all other services
as outlined in the Contractor's scope of service attached as Exhibit A or the Child
Specific Addendum. The anticipated minimum percentage for each item is as follows
and will be subject to County monitoring as outlined in Section VI of this contract:
A. Food, including meals and snacks (25%);
B. Clothing (3%);
C. Shelter, including utilities and use of household furnishing and equipment and
daily supervision, including those activities that a parent would normally carry out
to assure protection, emotional support and care of the child (30%);
D. Personal items and grooming care for the child, such as toothpaste, toothbrushes,
soap, combs, haircuts, and other essentials (2%);
E. Other/miscellaneous items considered usual in the care and supervision of the
Weld County SS -23A Addendum .
child, include, but are not limited to, transportation, recreation and overhead
(40%)
4. Add Paragraph 7 to Section I. A minimum of one polygraph test per Colorado fiscal
year, if needed by the child, will be furnished by the Contractor under this contract for
facilities that provide sex offender treatment.
5. Add Paragraph 8 to Section I. Any additional costs for specialized services, which
include, but are not limited to; polygraph tests, plethysmographs, and urinalysis screens,
that is not provided within the vendor rate or attached Scope of Service, will need be
negotiated and authorized, in writing by the County, prior to the service being performed.
Any payment for specialized services not authorized in writing will be denied.
6. Add Paragraph 5 to Section II. Contact by the Contractor with the County regarding
emergency medical, surgical or dental care will be made in person -to -person
communication, not through phone mail messages. During regular work hours, the
Contractor will make every effort to notify the assigned caseworker, supervisor, or intake
screener of any emergency medical, surgical or dental issues prior to granting
authorization. During non -regular work hours, weekends and holidays, the Contractor
will contact the Emergency Duty Worker at the pager number (970) 304-2749.
7. Section III, Paragraph 5. Contractor additionally agrees to have appropriate personnel
available for staffing current placements with the Utilization Review Team. This review
team convenes every Monday morning, excluding holidays.
8. Add Paragraph 13 to Section IV. Agree to cooperate with any vendors hired by Weld
County Department of Human Services to shorten the duration of placement.
9. Add Paragraph 14 to Section IV. Agree to schedule physical examinations within 14
days after placement, dental examinations within eight weeks after placement and
forward all appropriate information to the County.
10. Add Paragraph 15 to Section IV. A full evaluation of an Individualized Educational Plan
(IEP) for youth designated as a Special Education Student will be conducted every 3
years and reviewed every year. If the IEP is due while the child is in placement, the
Contractor will complete or obtain a completed IEP. A copy will then be forwarded to
the County.
11. Add Paragraph 16 to Section IV. Assure and certify that it and its principals:
A. Are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, and declared
ineligible or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by a federal
department or agency.
B. Have not, within a three-year period of preceding this Agreement, been convicted
of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for commission of fraud or a
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing
a public (federal, state, or local) transaction or contract under a public transaction;
violation of federal or state antitrust statutes or commission of embezzlement,
theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false
statements, or receiving stolen property;
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C. Are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a
government entity (federal, state, or local) with commission of any of the offenses
enumerated in paragraph (B) above.
D. Have not within a three-year period preceding this Agreement, had one or more
public transactions (federal, state, and local) terminated for cause or default.
12. Section V, Paragraph 5. Children in Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facilities,
Residential Child Care Facilities and Child Placement Agencies are not eligible to receive
clothing allowances as outlined in the Weld County Department of Human Services
Policy and Procedure Manual.
13. Add Paragraph 7 to Section VI. It is expressly understood and agreed that the
enforcement of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and all rights of action
relating to such enforcement, shall be strictly reserved to the undersigned parties or their
assignees, and nothing contained in this Agreement shall give or allow any claim or right
of action whatsoever by any other person not included in this Agreement. It is the
express intention of the undersigned parties that any entity other than the undersigned
parties or their assignees receiving services or benefits under this Agreement shall be an
incidental beneficiary only.
14. Add Paragraph 8 to Section VI. No portion of this Agreement shall be deemed to
constitute a waiver of any immunity the parties or their officers or employees may
posses, nor shall any portion of this Agreement be deemed to have created a duty of care
that did not previously exist with respect to any person not a party to this Agreement.
The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that no part of this Agreement is intended to
circumvent or replace such immunities.
15. Add Paragraph 9 to Section VI. The Director of Human Services or designee may
exercise the following remedial actions should s/he find the Contractor substantially
failed to satisfy the scope of work found in this Agreement. Substantial failure to satisfy
the scope of work shall be defined to mean incorrect or improper activities or inaction by
the Contractor. These remedial actions are as follows:
A. Withhold payment to the Contractor until the necessary services or corrections in
performance are satisfactorily completed;
B. Deny payment or recover reimbursement for those services or deliverables which
have not been performed and which due to circumstances caused by the
Contractor cannot be performed or if performed would be of no value to the
Human Services. Denial of the amount of payment shall be reasonably related to
the amount of work or deliverables lost to Human Services;
C. Recover from the Contractor any incorrect payment to the Contractor due to
omission, error, fraud, and/or defalcation by deducting from subsequent payments
under this Agreement or other agreements between Human Services and the
Contractor, or by Human Services as a debt to Human Services or otherwise as
provided by law.
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16. Add Paragraph 10 to Section VI. The contractor shall promptly notify Human Services
in the event in which it is a party defendant or respondent in a case, which involves
services provided under the agreement. The Contractor, within five (5) calendar days
after being served with a summons, complaint, or other pleading which has been filed in
any federal or state court or administrative agency, shall deliver copies of such
document(s) to the Human Services' Director. The term "litigation" includes an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, and filings in bankruptcy, reorganizations and/or
foreclosure.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed the Addendum as of the day,
month, and year first above written.
ATTEST: Weld County Clerk to t}l_Board
Approval as to Substance:
WELD COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF HUMAN SERVICES
By:
WELD COUNTY BOARD OF
SOCIAL SERVICES, ON BEHALF
OF THE WELD COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
SERVICES
By://.1 57G -
Chair Signature
CONTRACTOR
Third Way Center
PO Box 61385
Denver, CO 80206
B
AUG 0 5 20119
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WELD COUNTY ADDENDUM
To that certain Agreement to Purchase Therapeutic Residential Child Care
Facility Services and Residential Child Care Facility Services (the
"Agreement") between Third Way Center and Weld County Department of
Human Services for the period from
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
The following provisions, made this t day of , 2009, are added to the referenced
Agreement. Except as modified hereby, all terms t Agreement remain unchanged.
1. County agrees to purchase and Contractor, identified as Provider ID#77810, agrees to
provide:
A. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $179.24 per day for children placed within the
Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facility.
B. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $179.24 per day for children placed within the
Residential Child Care Facility.
C. Additional services not covered by Medicaid or considered within the above
vendor rate. These additional services/rates may be negotiated on a child by child
basis, based on the needs of the child and in accordance with the Colorado
Department of Human Services Agency Letter CW-06-11-I dated June 8, 2006.
These services will be for children who have been deemed eligible for social services
under the statutes, rules and regulations of the State of Colorado.
2. Section I, Paragraph 2. All bed hold authorizations and payments are subject to a 3 day
maximum for a child's temporary absence from a facility, including hospitalization. Bed
hold requests must have prior written authorization from the Department Administrator
before payment will be release to provider. Reimbursement rates for bed hold days may
not exceed the state standard rate for administrative maintenance and administrative
services or may be a reduced rate that is mutually agreed upon.
3. Add Paragraph 6 to Section I. The services purchased under this Agreement as Child
Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services for Therapeutic Residential
Child Care Facilities and Residential Child Care Facilities include, but are not limited to:
Food, shelter, clothing, personal needs and allowance, administration, administrative
overhead, support staff, support overhead, sleep -over staff, direct child care,
transportation, therapeutic recreation, service delivery staff, parent training for teens,
independent living training, mentor/advocate, supervised visitation and all other services
as outlined in the Contractor's scope of service attached as Exhibit A or the Child
Specific Addendum. The anticipated minimum percentage for each item is as follows
and will be subject to County monitoring as outlined in Section VI of this contract:
A. Food, including meals and snacks (25%);
B. Clothing (3%);
C. Shelter, including utilities and use of household furnishing and equipment and
daily supervision, including those activities that a parent would normally carry out
to assure protection, emotional support and care of the child (30%);
D. Personal items and grooming care for the child, such as toothpaste, toothbrushes,
soap, combs, haircuts, and other essentials (2%);
E. Other/miscellaneous items considered usual in the care and supervision of the
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child, include, but are not limited to, transportation, recreation and overhead
(40%)
4. Add Paragraph 7 to Section I. A minimum of one polygraph test per Colorado fiscal
year, if needed by the child, will be furnished by the Contractor under this contract for
facilities that provide sex offender treatment.
5. Add Paragraph 8 to Section I. Any additional costs for specialized services, which
include, but are not limited to; polygraph tests, plethysmographs, and urinalysis screens,
that is not provided within the vendor rate or attached Scope of Service, will need be
negotiated and authorized, in writing by the County, prior to the service being performed.
Any payment for specialized services not authorized in writing will be denied.
6. Add Paragraph 5 to Section II. Contact by the Contractor with the County regarding
emergency medical, surgical or dental care will be made in person -to -person
communication, not through phone mail messages. During regular work hours, the
Contractor will make every effort to notify the assigned caseworker, supervisor, or intake
screener of any emergency medical, surgical or dental issues prior to granting
authorization. During non -regular work hours, weekends and holidays, the Contractor
will contact the Emergency Duty Worker at the pager number (970) 304-2749.
7. Section III, Paragraph 5. Contractor additionally agrees to have appropriate personnel
available for staffing current placements with the Utilization Review Team. This review
team convenes every Monday morning, excluding holidays.
8. Add Paragraph 13 to Section IV. Agree to cooperate with any vendors hired by Weld
County Department of Human Services to shorten the duration of placement.
9. Add Paragraph 14 to Section IV. Agree to schedule physical examinations within 14
days after placement, dental examinations within eight weeks after placement and
forward all appropriate information to the County.
10. Add Paragraph 15 to Section IV. A full evaluation of an Individualized Educational Plan
(IEP) for youth designated as a Special Education Student will be conducted every 3
years and reviewed every year. If the IEP is due while the child is in placement, the
Contractor will complete or obtain a completed IEP. A copy will then be forwarded to
the County.
11. Add Paragraph 16 to Section IV. Assure and certify that it and its principals:
A. Are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, and declared
ineligible or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by a federal
department or agency.
B. Have not, within a three-year period of preceding this Agreement, been convicted
of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for commission of fraud or a
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing
a public (federal, state, or local) transaction or contract under a public transaction;
violation of federal or state antitrust statutes or commission of embezzlement,
theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false
statements, or receiving stolen property;
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C. Are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a
government entity (federal, state, or local) with commission of any of the offenses
enumerated in paragraph (B) above.
D. Have not within a three-year period preceding this Agreement, had one or more
public transactions (federal, state, and local) terminated for cause or default.
12. Section V, Paragraph 5. Children in Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facilities,
Residential Child Care Facilities and Child Placement Agencies are not eligible to receive
clothing allowances as outlined in the Weld County Department of Human Services
Policy and Procedure Manual.
13. Add Paragraph 7 to Section VI. It is expressly understood and agreed that the
enforcement of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and all rights of action
relating to such enforcement, shall be strictly reserved to the undersigned parties or their
assignees, and nothing contained in this Agreement shall give or allow any claim or right
of action whatsoever by any other person not included in this Agreement. It is the
express intention of the undersigned parties that any entity other than the undersigned
parties or their assignees receiving services or benefits under this Agreement shall be an
incidental beneficiary only.
14. Add Paragraph 8 to Section VI. No portion of this Agreement shall be deemed to
constitute a waiver of any immunity the parties or their officers or employees may
posses, nor shall any portion of this Agreement be deemed to have created a duty of care
that did not previously exist with respect to any person not a party to this Agreement.
The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that no part of this Agreement is intended to
circumvent or replace such immunities.
15. Add Paragraph 9 to Section VI. The Director of Human Services or designee may
exercise the following remedial actions should s/he find the Contractor substantially
failed to satisfy the scope of work found in this Agreement. Substantial failure to satisfy
the scope of work shall be defined to mean incorrect or improper activities or inaction by
the Contractor. These remedial actions are as follows:
A. Withhold payment to the Contractor until the necessary services or corrections in
performance are satisfactorily completed;
B. Deny payment or recover reimbursement for those services or deliverables which
have not been performed and which due to circumstances caused by the
Contractor cannot be performed or if performed would be of no value to the
Human Services. Denial of the amount of payment shall be reasonably related to
the amount of work or deliverables lost to Human Services;
C. Recover from the Contractor any incorrect payment to the Contractor due to
omission, error, fraud, and/or defalcation by deducting from subsequent payments
under this Agreement or other agreements between Human Services and the
Contractor, or by Human Services as a debt to Human Services or otherwise as
provided by law.
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16. Add Paragraph 10 to Section VI. The contractor shall promptly notify Human Services
in the event in which it is a party defendant or respondent in a case, which involves
services provided under the agreement. The Contractor, within five (5) calendar days
after being served with a summons, complaint, or other pleading which has been filed in
any federal or state court or administrative agency, shall deliver copies of such
document(s) to the Human Services' Director. The term "litigation" includes an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, and filings in bankruptcy, reorganizations and/or
foreclosure.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed the Addendum as of the day,
month, and year first above written.
ATTEST: Weld County Clerk to the Board
B
Approval as to Substance:
WELD COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF HUMAN SERVICES
By:
WELD COUNTY BOARD OF
SOCIAL SERVICES, ON BEHALF
OF THE WELD COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
SERVICES
By: /
Chair Signature
AUG 0. s ?nrin
CONTRACTOR
Third Way Center
PO Box 61385
Denver, CO 80206
By:
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er/Sl
WELD COUNTY ADDENDUM
To that certain Agreement to Purchase Therapeutic Residential Child Care
Facility Services and Residential Child Care Facility Services (the
"Agreement") between Third Way Center and Weld County Department of
Human Services for the period from
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
The following provisions, made this l day of , 2009, are added to the referenced
Agreement. Except as modified hereby, all terms t Agreement remain unchanged.
1. County agrees to purchase and Contractor, identified as Provider ID#1507881, agrees to
provide:
A. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $179.24 per day for children placed within the
Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facility.
B. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $179.24 per day for children placed within the
Residential Child Care Facility.
C. Additional services not covered by Medicaid or considered within the above
vendor rate. These additional services/rates may be negotiated on a child by child
basis, based on the needs of the child and in accordance with the Colorado
Department of Human Services Agency Letter CW-06-1 l -I dated June 8, 2006.
These services will be for children who have been deemed eligible for social services
under the statutes, rules and regulations of the State of Colorado.
2. Section I, Paragraph 2. All bed hold authorizations and payments are subject to a 3 day
maximum for a child's temporary absence from a facility, including hospitalization. Bed
hold requests must have prior written authorization from the Department Administrator
before payment will be release to provider. Reimbursement rates for bed hold days may
not exceed the state standard rate for administrative maintenance and administrative
services or may be a reduced rate that is mutually agreed upon.
3. Add Paragraph 6 to Section I. The services purchased under this Agreement as Child
Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services for Therapeutic Residential
Child Care Facilities and Residential Child Care Facilities include, but are not limited to:
Food, shelter, clothing, personal needs and allowance, administration, administrative
overhead, support staff, support overhead, sleep -over staff, direct child care,
transportation, therapeutic recreation, service delivery staff, parent training for teens,
independent living training, mentor/advocate, supervised visitation and all other services
as outlined in the Contractor's scope of service attached as Exhibit A or the Child
Specific Addendum. The anticipated minimum percentage for each item is as follows
and will be subject to County monitoring as outlined in Section VI of this contract:
A. Food, including meals and snacks (25%);
B. Clothing (3%);
C. Shelter, including utilities and use of household furnishing and equipment and
daily supervision, including those activities that a parent would normally carry out
to assure protection, emotional support and care of the child (30%);
D. Personal items and grooming care for the child, such as toothpaste, toothbrushes,
soap, combs, haircuts, and other essentials (2%);
E. Other/miscellaneous items considered usual in the care and supervision of the
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1
I
child, include, but are not limited to, transportation, recreation and overhead
(40%)
4. Add Paragraph 7 to Section I. A minimum of one polygraph test per Colorado fiscal
year, if needed by the child, will be furnished by the Contractor under this contract for
facilities that provide sex offender treatment.
5. Add Paragraph 8 to Section I. Any additional costs for specialized services, which
include, but are not limited to; polygraph tests, plethysmographs, and urinalysis screens,
that is not provided within the vendor rate or attached Scope of Service, will need be
negotiated and authorized, in writing by the County, prior to the service being performed.
Any payment for specialized services not authorized in writing will be denied.
6. Add Paragraph 5 to Section II. Contact by the Contractor with the County regarding
emergency medical, surgical or dental care will be made in person -to -person
communication, not through phone mail messages. During regular work hours, the
Contractor will make every effort to notify the assigned caseworker, supervisor, or intake
screener of any emergency medical, surgical or dental issues prior to granting
authorization. During non -regular work hours, weekends and holidays, the Contractor
will contact the Emergency Duty Worker at the pager number (970) 304-2749.
7. Section III, Paragraph 5. Contractor additionally agrees to have appropriate personnel
available for staffing current placements with the Utilization Review Team. This review
team convenes every Monday morning, excluding holidays.
8. Add Paragraph 13 to Section IV. Agree to cooperate with any vendors hired by Weld
County Department of Human Services to shorten the duration of placement.
9. Add Paragraph 14 to Section IV. Agree to schedule physical examinations within 14
days after placement, dental examinations within eight weeks after placement and
forward all appropriate information to the County.
10. Add Paragraph 15 to Section IV. A full evaluation of an Individualized Educational Plan
(IEP) for youth designated as a Special Education Student will be conducted every 3
years and reviewed every year. If the IEP is due while the child is in placement, the
Contractor will complete or obtain a completed IEP. A copy will then be forwarded to
the County.
11. Add Paragraph 16 to Section IV. Assure and certify that it and its principals:
A. Are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, and declared
ineligible or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by a federal
department or agency.
B. Have not, within a three-year period of preceding this Agreement, been convicted
of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for commission of fraud or a
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing
a public (federal, state, or local) transaction or contract under a public transaction;
violation of federal or state antitrust statutes or commission of embezzlement,
theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false
statements, or receiving stolen property;
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C. Are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a
government entity (federal, state, or local) with commission of any of the offenses
enumerated in paragraph (B) above.
D. Have not within a three-year period preceding this Agreement, had one or more
public transactions (federal, state, and local) terminated for cause or default.
12. Section V, Paragraph 5. Children in Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facilities,
Residential Child Care Facilities and Child Placement Agencies are not eligible to receive
clothing allowances as outlined in the Weld County Department of Human Services
Policy and Procedure Manual.
13. Add Paragraph 7 to Section VI. It is expressly understood and agreed that the
enforcement of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and all rights of action
relating to such enforcement, shall be strictly reserved to the undersigned parties or their
assignees, and nothing contained in this Agreement shall give or allow any claim or right
of action whatsoever by any other person not included in this Agreement. It is the
express intention of the undersigned parties that any entity other than the undersigned
parties or their assignees receiving services or benefits under this Agreement shall be an
incidental beneficiary only.
14. Add Paragraph 8 to Section VI. No portion of this Agreement shall be deemed to
constitute a waiver of any immunity the parties or their officers or employees may
posses, nor shall any portion of this Agreement be deemed to have created a duty of care
that did not previously exist with respect to any person not a party to this Agreement.
The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that no part of this Agreement is intended to
circumvent or replace such immunities.
15. Add Paragraph 9 to Section VI. The Director of Human Services or designee may
exercise the following remedial actions should s/he find the Contractor substantially
failed to satisfy the scope of work found in this Agreement. Substantial failure to satisfy
the scope of work shall be defined to mean incorrect or improper activities or inaction by
the Contractor. These remedial actions are as follows:
A. Withhold payment to the Contractor until the necessary services or corrections in
performance are satisfactorily completed;
B. Deny payment or recover reimbursement for those services or deliverables which
have not been performed and which due to circumstances caused by the
Contractor cannot be performed or if performed would be of no value to the
Human Services. Denial of the amount of payment shall be reasonably related to
the amount of work or deliverables lost to Human Services;
C. Recover from the Contractor any incorrect payment to the Contractor due to
omission, error, fraud, and/or defalcation by deducting from subsequent payments
under this Agreement or other agreements between Human Services and the
Contractor, or by Human Services as a debt to Human Services or otherwise as
provided by law.
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• 16. Add Paragraph 10 to Section VI. The contractor shall promptly notify Human Services
in the event in which it is a party defendant or respondent in a case, which involves
services provided under the agreement. The Contractor, within five (5) calendar days
after being served with a summons, complaint, or other pleading which has been filed in
any federal or state court or administrative agency, shall deliver copies of such
document(s) to the Human Services' Director. The term "litigation" includes an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, and filings in bankruptcy, reorganizations and/or
foreclosure.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed the Addendum as of the day,
month, and year first above written.
ATTEST: Weld County Clerk to the Board
LA/
By:
Deputy rrk to the :nerd..
Approval as to Substance:
WELD COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF HUMAN SERVICES
By:
WELD COUNTY BOARD OF
SOCIAL SERVICES, ON BEHALF
OF THE WELD COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
SERVICES
Chair Signature AV 0 5 2009
CONTRACTOR
Third Way Center
PO Box 61385
Denver, CO 80206
By:
Id)) z -g
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WELD COUNTY ADDENDUM
To that certain Agreement to Purchase Therapeutic Residential Child Care
Facility Services and Residential Child Care Facility Services (the
"Agreement") between Third Way Center and Weld County Department of
Human Services for the period from
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
The following provisions, made this ( day of , 2009, are added to the referenced
Agreement. Except as modified hereby, all terms o th Agreement remain unchanged.
1. County agrees to purchase and Contractor, identified as Provider ID#1547437, agrees to
provide:
A. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $175.71 per day for children placed within the
Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facility.
B. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $175.71 per day for children placed within the
Residential Child Care Facility.
C. Additional services not covered by Medicaid or considered within the above
vendor rate. These additional services/rates may be negotiated on a child by child
basis, based on the needs of the child and in accordance with the Colorado
Department of Human Services Agency Letter CW-06-11-I dated June 8, 2006.
These services will be for children who have been deemed eligible for social services
under the statutes, rules and regulations of the State of Colorado.
2. Section I, Paragraph 2. All bed hold authorizations and payments are subject to a 3 day
maximum for a child's temporary absence from a facility, including hospitalization. Bed
hold requests must have prior written authorization from the Department Administrator
before payment will be release to provider. Reimbursement rates for bed hold days may
not exceed the state standard rate for administrative maintenance and administrative
services or may be a reduced rate that is mutually agreed upon.
3. Add Paragraph 6 to Section I. The services purchased under this Agreement as Child
Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services for Therapeutic Residential
Child Care Facilities and Residential Child Care Facilities include, but are not limited to:
Food, shelter, clothing, personal needs and allowance, administration, administrative
overhead, support staff, support overhead, sleep -over staff, direct child care,
transportation, therapeutic recreation, service delivery staff, parent training for teens,
independent living training, mentor/advocate, supervised visitation and all other services
as outlined in the Contractor's scope of service attached as Exhibit A or the Child
Specific Addendum. The anticipated minimum percentage for each item is as follows
and will be subject to County monitoring as outlined in Section VI of this contract:
A. Food, including meals and snacks (25%);
B. Clothing (3%);
C. Shelter, including utilities and use of household furnishing and equipment and
daily supervision, including those activities that a parent would normally carry out
to assure protection, emotional support and care of the child (30%);
D. Personal items and grooming care for the child, such as toothpaste, toothbrushes,
soap, combs, haircuts, and other essentials (2%);
E. Other/miscellaneous items considered usual in the care and supervision of the
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child, include, but are not limited to, transportation, recreation and overhead
(40%)
4. Add Paragraph 7 to Section I. A minimum of one polygraph test per Colorado fiscal
year, if needed by the child, will be furnished by the Contractor under this contract for
facilities that provide sex offender treatment.
5. Add Paragraph 8 to Section I. Any additional costs for specialized services, which
include, but are not limited to; polygraph tests, plethysmographs, and urinalysis screens,
that is not provided within the vendor rate or attached Scope of Service, will need be
negotiated and authorized, in writing by the County, prior to the service being performed.
Any payment for specialized services not authorized in writing will be denied.
6. Add Paragraph 5 to Section II. Contact by the Contractor with the County regarding
emergency medical, surgical or dental care will be made in person -to -person
communication, not through phone mail messages. During regular work hours, the
Contractor will make every effort to notify the assigned caseworker, supervisor, or intake
screener of any emergency medical, surgical or dental issues prior to granting
authorization. During non -regular work hours, weekends and holidays, the Contractor
will contact the Emergency Duty Worker at the pager number (970) 304-2749.
7. Section III, Paragraph 5. Contractor additionally agrees to have appropriate personnel
available for staffing current placements with the Utilization Review Team. This review
team convenes every Monday morning, excluding holidays.
8. Add Paragraph 13 to Section IV. Agree to cooperate with any vendors hired by Weld
County Department of Human Services to shorten the duration of placement.
9. Add Paragraph 14 to Section IV. Agree to schedule physical examinations within 14
days after placement, dental examinations within eight weeks after placement and
forward all appropriate information to the County.
10. Add Paragraph 15 to Section IV. A full evaluation of an Individualized Educational Plan
(IEP) for youth designated as a Special Education Student will be conducted every 3
years and reviewed every year. If the IEP is due while the child is in placement, the
Contractor will complete or obtain a completed IEP. A copy will then be forwarded to
the County.
11. Add Paragraph 16 to Section IV. Assure and certify that it and its principals:
A. Are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, and declared
ineligible or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by a federal
department or agency.
B. Have not, within a three-year period of preceding this Agreement, been convicted
of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for commission of fraud or a
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing
a public (federal, state, or local) transaction or contract under a public transaction;
violation of federal or state antitrust statutes or commission of embezzlement,
theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false
statements, or receiving stolen property;
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C. Are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a
government entity (federal, state, or local) with commission of any of the offenses
enumerated in paragraph (B) above.
D. Have not within a three-year period preceding this Agreement, had one or more
public transactions (federal, state, and local) terminated for cause or default.
12. Section V, Paragraph 5. Children in Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facilities,
Residential Child Care Facilities and Child Placement Agencies are not eligible to receive
clothing allowances as outlined in the Weld County Department of Human Services
Policy and Procedure Manual.
13. Add Paragraph 7 to Section VI. It is expressly understood and agreed that the
enforcement of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and all rights of action
relating to such enforcement, shall be strictly reserved to the undersigned parties or their
assignees, and nothing contained in this Agreement shall give or allow any claim or right
of action whatsoever by any other person not included in this Agreement. It is the
express intention of the undersigned parties that any entity other than the undersigned
parties or their assignees receiving services or benefits under this Agreement shall be an
incidental beneficiary only.
14. Add Paragraph 8 to Section VI. No portion of this Agreement shall be deemed to
constitute a waiver of any immunity the parties or their officers or employees may
posses, nor shall any portion of this Agreement be deemed to have created a duty of care
that did not previously exist with respect to any person not a party to this Agreement.
The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that no part of this Agreement is intended to
circumvent or replace such immunities.
15. Add Paragraph 9 to Section VI. The Director of Human Services or designee may
exercise the following remedial actions should s/he find the Contractor substantially
failed to satisfy the scope of work found in this Agreement. Substantial failure to satisfy
the scope of work shall be defined to mean incorrect or improper activities or inaction by
the Contractor. These remedial actions are as follows:
A. Withhold payment to the Contractor until the necessary services or corrections in
performance are satisfactorily completed;
B. Deny payment or recover reimbursement for those services or deliverables which
have not been performed and which due to circumstances caused by the
Contractor cannot be performed or if performed would be of no value to the
Human Services. Denial of the amount of payment shall be reasonably related to
the amount of work or deliverables lost to Human Services;
C. Recover from the Contractor any incorrect payment to the Contractor due to
omission, error, fraud, and/or defalcation by deducting from subsequent payments
under this Agreement or other agreements between Human Services and the
Contractor, or by Human Services as a debt to Human Services or otherwise as
provided by law.
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.16. Add Paragraph 10 to Section VI. The contractor shall promptly notify Human Services
in the event in which it is a party defendant or respondent in a case, which involves
services provided under the agreement. The Contractor, within five (5) calendar days
after being served with a summons, complaint, or other pleading which has been filed in
any federal or state court or administrative agency, shall deliver copies of such
document(s) to the Human Services' Director. The term "litigation" includes an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, and filings in bankruptcy, reorganizations and/or
foreclosure.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed the Addendum as of the day,
month, and year first above written.
ATTEST: Weld County Clerk to t i e Board
Deputy CI rk to the Board.
Approval as to Substance:
WELD COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF HUMAN SERVICES
By:
WELD COUNTY BOARD OF
SOCIAL SERVICES, ON BEHALF
OF THE WELD COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
SERVICES
By:
(/s 2A
Chair Signature
AUG 0 5 ?nog
CONTRACTOR
Third Way Center
PO Box 61385
Denver, CO 80206
"N
By: l_.),11. -Old
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WELD COUNTY ADDENDUM
To that certain Agreement to Purchase Therapeutic Residential Child Care
Facility Services and Residential Child Care Facility Services (the
"Agreement") between Turning Point Center for Youth and Weld County
Department of Human Services for the period from
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
The following provisions, made this 1 day of
, 2009, are added to the referenced
Agreement. Except as modified hereby, all terms cCfthAgreement remain unchanged.
1. County agrees to purchase and Contractor, identified as Provider ID#45179, agrees to
provide:
A. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $178.02 per day for children placed within the
Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facility.
B. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $178.02 per day for children placed within the
Residential Child Care Facility.
C. Additional services not covered by Medicaid or considered within the above
vendor rate. These additional services/rates may be negotiated on a child by child
basis, based on the needs of the child and in accordance with the Colorado
Department of Human Services Agency Letter CW-06-11-I dated June 8, 2006.
These services will be for children who have been deemed eligible for social services
under the statutes, rules and regulations of the State of Colorado.
2. Section I, Paragraph 2. All bed hold authorizations and payments are subject to a 3 day
maximum for a child's temporary absence from a facility, including hospitalization. Bed
hold requests must have prior written authorization from the Department Administrator
before payment will be release to provider. Reimbursement rates for bed hold days may
not exceed the state standard rate for administrative maintenance and administrative
services or may be a reduced rate that is mutually agreed upon.
3. Add Paragraph 6 to Section I. The services purchased under this Agreement as Child
Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services for Therapeutic Residential
Child Care Facilities and Residential Child Care Facilities include, but are not limited to:
Food, shelter, clothing, personal needs and allowance, administration, administrative
overhead, support staff, support overhead, sleep -over staff, direct child care,
transportation, therapeutic recreation, service delivery staff, parent training for teens,
independent living training, mentor/advocate, supervised visitation and all other services
as outlined in the Contractor's scope of service attached as Exhibit A or the Child
Specific Addendum. The anticipated minimum percentage for each item is as follows
and will be subject to County monitoring as outlined in Section VI of this contract:
A. Food, including meals and snacks (25%);
B. Clothing (3%);
C. Shelter, including utilities and use of household furnishing and equipment and
daily supervision, including those activities that a parent would normally carry out
to assure protection, emotional support and care of the child (30%);
D. Personal items and grooming care for the child, such as toothpaste, toothbrushes,
soap, combs, haircuts, and other essentials (2%);
E. Other/miscellaneous items considered usual in the care and supervision of the
Weld County SS -23A Addendum,
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child, include, but are not limited to, transportation, recreation and overhead
(40%)
4. Add Paragraph 7 to Section I. A minimum of one polygraph test per Colorado fiscal
year, if needed by the child, will be furnished by the Contractor under this contract for
facilities that provide sex offender treatment.
5. Add Paragraph 8 to Section I. Any additional costs for specialized services, which
include, but are not limited to; polygraph tests, plethysmographs, and urinalysis screens,
that is not provided within the vendor rate or attached Scope of Service, will need be
negotiated and authorized, in writing by the County, prior to the service being performed.
Any payment for specialized services not authorized in writing will be denied.
6. Add Paragraph 5 to Section II. Contact by the Contractor with the County regarding
emergency medical, surgical or dental care will be made in person -to -person
communication, not through phone mail messages. During regular work hours, the
Contractor will make every effort to notify the assigned caseworker, supervisor, or intake
screener of any emergency medical, surgical or dental issues prior to granting
authorization. During non -regular work hours, weekends and holidays, the Contractor
will contact the Emergency Duty Worker at the pager number (970) 304-2749.
7. Section III, Paragraph 5. Contractor additionally agrees to have appropriate personnel
available for staffing current placements with the Utilization Review Team. This review
team convenes every Monday morning, excluding holidays.
8. Add Paragraph 13 to Section IV. Agree to cooperate with any vendors hired by Weld
County Department of Human Services to shorten the duration of placement.
9. Add Paragraph 14 to Section IV. Agree to schedule physical examinations within 14
days after placement, dental examinations within eight weeks after placement and
forward all appropriate information to the County.
10. Add Paragraph 15 to Section IV. A full evaluation of an Individualized Educational Plan
(IEP) for youth designated as a Special Education Student will be conducted every 3
years and reviewed every year. If the IEP is due while the child is in placement, the
Contractor will complete or obtain a completed IEP. A copy will then be forwarded to
the County.
11. Add Paragraph 16 to Section IV. Assure and certify that it and its principals:
A. Are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, and declared
ineligible or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by a federal
department or agency.
B. Have not, within a three-year period of preceding this Agreement, been convicted
of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for commission of fraud or a
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing
a public (federal, state, or local) transaction or contract under a public transaction;
violation of federal or state antitrust statutes or commission of embezzlement,
theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false
statements, or receiving stolen property;
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C. Are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a
government entity (federal, state, or local) with commission of any of the offenses
enumerated in paragraph (B) above.
D. Have not within a three-year period preceding this Agreement, had one or more
public transactions (federal, state, and local) terminated for cause or default.
12. Section V, Paragraph 5. Children in Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facilities,
Residential Child Care Facilities and Child Placement Agencies are not eligible to receive
clothing allowances as outlined in the Weld County Department of Human Services
Policy and Procedure Manual.
13. Add Paragraph 7 to Section VI. It is expressly understood and agreed that the
enforcement of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and all rights of action
relating to such enforcement, shall be strictly reserved to the undersigned parties or their
assignees, and nothing contained in this Agreement shall give or allow any claim or right
of action whatsoever by any other person not included in this Agreement. It is the
express intention of the undersigned parties that any entity other than the undersigned
parties or their assignees receiving services or benefits under this Agreement shall be an
incidental beneficiary only.
14. Add Paragraph 8 to Section VI. No portion of this Agreement shall be deemed to
constitute a waiver of any immunity the parties or their officers or employees may
posses, nor shall any portion of this Agreement be deemed to have created a duty of care
that did not previously exist with respect to any person not a party to this Agreement.
The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that no part of this Agreement is intended to
circumvent or replace such immunities.
15. Add Paragraph 9 to Section VI. The Director of Human Services or designee may
exercise the following remedial actions should s/he find the Contractor substantially
failed to satisfy the scope of work found in this Agreement. Substantial failure to satisfy
the scope of work shall be defined to mean incorrect or improper activities or inaction by
the Contractor. These remedial actions are as follows:
A. Withhold payment to the Contractor until the necessary services or corrections in
performance are satisfactorily completed;
B. Deny payment or recover reimbursement for those services or deliverables which
have not been performed and which due to circumstances caused by the
Contractor cannot be performed or if performed would be of no value to the
Human Services. Denial of the amount of payment shall be reasonably related to
the amount of work or deliverables lost to Human Services;
Recover from the Contractor any incorrect payment to the Contractor due to
omission, error, fraud, and/or defalcation by deducting from subsequent payments
under this Agreement or other agreements between Human Services and the
Contractor, or by Human Services as a debt to Human Services or otherwise as
provided by law.
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Id. Add Paragraph 10 to Section VI. The contractor shall promptly notify Human Services
in the event in which it is a party defendant or respondent in a case, which involves
services provided under the agreement. The Contractor, within five (5) calendar days
after being served with a summons, complaint, or other pleading which has been filed in
any federal or state court or administrative agency, shall deliver copies of such
document(s) to the Human Services' Director. The term "litigation" includes an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, and filings in bankruptcy, reorganizations and/or
foreclosure.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed the Addendum as of the day,
month, and year first above written.
ATTEST: Weld County Clerk ),q-thg-Board
B
Deputy C -rk to the Boa
Approval as to Substance:
WELD COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF HUMAN SERVICES
By:
WELD COUNTY BOARD OF
SOCIAL SERVICES, ON BEHALF
OF THE WELD COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
SERVICES
By: u't
Chair Signature
AUG 0 5 LOIJL
CONTRACTOR
Turning Point Center for Youth
1644 South College Ave
Fort Collins, CO 80525
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WELD COUNTY ADDENDUM
To that certain Agreement to Purchase Therapeutic Residential Child Care
Facility Services and Residential Child Care Facility Services (the
"Agreement") between Turning Point Center for Youth and Weld County
Department of Human Services for the period from
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
The following provisions, made this 1 day of _a , 2009, are added to the referenced
Agreement. Except as modified hereby, all terms o th Agreement remain unchanged.
1. County agrees to purchase and Contractor, identified as Provider ID#100441, agrees to
provide:
A. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $178.02 per day for children placed within the
Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facility.
B. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $178.02 per day for children placed within the
Residential Child Care Facility.
C. Additional services not covered by Medicaid or considered within the above
vendor rate. These additional services/rates may be negotiated on a child by child
basis, based on the needs of the child and in accordance with the Colorado
Department of Human Services Agency Letter CW-06-11-I dated June 8, 2006.
These services will be for children who have been deemed eligible for social services
under the statutes, rules and regulations of the State of Colorado.
2. Section I, Paragraph 2. All bed hold authorizations and payments are subject to a 3 day
maximum for a child's temporary absence from a facility, including hospitalization. Bed
hold requests must have prior written authorization from the Department Administrator
before payment will be release to provider. Reimbursement rates for bed hold days may
not exceed the state standard rate for administrative maintenance and administrative
services or may be a reduced rate that is mutually agreed upon.
3. Add Paragraph 6 to Section I. The services purchased under this Agreement as Child
Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services for Therapeutic Residential
Child Care Facilities and Residential Child Care Facilities include, but are not limited to:
Food, shelter, clothing, personal needs and allowance, administration, administrative
overhead, support staff, support overhead, sleep -over staff, direct child care,
transportation, therapeutic recreation, service delivery staff, parent training for teens,
independent living training, mentor/advocate, supervised visitation and all other services
as outlined in the Contractor's scope of service attached as Exhibit A or the Child
Specific Addendum. The anticipated minimum percentage for each item is as follows
and will be subject to County monitoring as outlined in Section VI of this contract:
A. Food, including meals and snacks (25%);
B. Clothing (3%);
C. Shelter, including utilities and use of household furnishing and equipment and
daily supervision, including those activities that a parent would normally carry out
to assure protection, emotional support and care of the child (30%);
D. Personal items and grooming care for the child, such as toothpaste, toothbrushes,
soap, combs, haircuts, and other essentials (2%);
E. Other/miscellaneous items considered usual in the care and supervision of the
Weld County SS -23A Addendum.
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child, include, but are not limited to, transportation, recreation and overhead
(40%)
4. Add Paragraph 7 to Section I. A minimum of one polygraph test per Colorado fiscal
year, if needed by the child, will be furnished by the Contractor under this contract for
facilities that provide sex offender treatment.
5. Add Paragraph 8 to Section I. Any additional costs for specialized services, which
include, but are not limited to; polygraph tests, plethysmographs, and urinalysis screens,
that is not provided within the vendor rate or attached Scope of Service, will need be
negotiated and authorized, in writing by the County, prior to the service being performed.
Any payment for specialized services not authorized in writing will be denied.
6. Add Paragraph 5 to Section II. Contact by the Contractor with the County regarding
emergency medical, surgical or dental care will be made in person -to -person
communication, not through phone mail messages. During regular work hours, the
Contractor will make every effort to notify the assigned caseworker, supervisor, or intake
screener of any emergency medical, surgical or dental issues prior to granting
authorization. During non -regular work hours, weekends and holidays, the Contractor
will contact the Emergency Duty Worker at the pager number (970) 304-2749.
7. Section III, Paragraph 5. Contractor additionally agrees to have appropriate personnel
available for staffing current placements with the Utilization Review Team. This review
team convenes every Monday morning, excluding holidays.
8. Add Paragraph 13 to Section IV. Agree to cooperate with any vendors hired by Weld
County Department of Human Services to shorten the duration of placement.
9. Add Paragraph 14 to Section IV. Agree to schedule physical examinations within 14
days after placement, dental examinations within eight weeks after placement and
forward all appropriate information to the County.
10. Add Paragraph 15 to Section IV. A full evaluation of an Individualized Educational Plan
(IEP) for youth designated as a Special Education Student will be conducted every 3
years and reviewed every year. If the IEP is due while the child is in placement, the
Contractor will complete or obtain a completed IEP. A copy will then be forwarded to
the County.
11. Add Paragraph 16 to Section IV. Assure and certify that it and its principals:
A. Are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, and declared
ineligible or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by a federal
department or agency.
B. Have not, within a three-year period of preceding this Agreement, been convicted
of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for commission of fraud or a
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing
a public (federal, state, or local) transaction or contract under a public transaction;
violation of federal or state antitrust statutes or commission of embezzlement,
theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false
statements, or receiving stolen property;
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C. Are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a
government entity (federal, state, or local) with commission of any of the offenses
enumerated in paragraph (B) above.
D. Have not within a three-year period preceding this Agreement, had one or more
public transactions (federal, state, and local) terminated for cause or default.
12. Section V, Paragraph 5. Children in Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facilities,
Residential Child Care Facilities and Child Placement Agencies are not eligible to receive
clothing allowances as outlined in the Weld County Department of Human Services
Policy and Procedure Manual.
13. Add Paragraph 7 to Section VI. It is expressly understood and agreed that the
enforcement of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and all rights of action
relating to such enforcement, shall be strictly reserved to the undersigned parties or their
assignees, and nothing contained in this Agreement shall give or allow any claim or right
of action whatsoever by any other person not included in this Agreement. It is the
express intention of the undersigned parties that any entity other than the undersigned
parties or their assignees receiving services or benefits under this Agreement shall be an
incidental beneficiary only.
14. Add Paragraph 8 to Section VI. No portion of this Agreement shall be deemed to
constitute a waiver of any immunity the parties or their officers or employees may
posses, nor shall any portion of this Agreement be deemed to have created a duty of care
that did not previously exist with respect to any person not a party to this Agreement.
The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that no part of this Agreement is intended to
circumvent or replace such immunities.
15. Add Paragraph 9 to Section VI. The Director of Human Services or designee may
exercise the following remedial actions should s/he find the Contractor substantially
failed to satisfy the scope of work found in this Agreement. Substantial failure to satisfy
the scope of work shall be defined to mean incorrect or improper activities or inaction by
the Contractor. These remedial actions are as follows:
A. Withhold payment to the Contractor until the necessary services or corrections in
performance are satisfactorily completed;
B. Deny payment or recover reimbursement for those services or deliverables which
have not been performed and which due to circumstances caused by the
Contractor cannot be performed or if performed would be of no value to the
Human Services. Denial of the amount of payment shall be reasonably related to
the amount of work or deliverables lost to Human Services;
C. Recover from the Contractor any incorrect payment to the Contractor due to
omission, error, fraud, and/or defalcation by deducting from subsequent payments
under this Agreement or other agreements between Human Services and the
Contractor, or by Human Services as a debt to Human Services or otherwise as
provided by law.
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16. Add Paragraph 10 to Section VI. The contractor shall promptly notify Human Services
in the event in which it is a party defendant or respondent in a case, which involves
services provided under the agreement. The Contractor, within five (5) calendar days
after being served with a summons, complaint, or other pleading which has been filed in
any federal or state court or administrative agency, shall deliver copies of such
document(s) to the Human Services' Director. The term "litigation" includes an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, and filings in bankruptcy, reorganizations and/or
foreclosure.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed the Addendum as of the day,
month, and year first above written.
ATTEST: Weld County Clerk to the Board
Deputy erk to the
Approval as to Substance:
WELD COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF HUMAN SERVICES
Director
WELD COUNTY BOARD OF
SOCIAL SERVICES, ON BEHALF
OF THE WELD COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
SERVICES
/A-'°12/
By:
Chair Signature
AUG 0 520G9
CONTRACTOR
Turning Point Center for Youth
1644 South College Ave
Fort Collins, CO 80525
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WELD COUNTY ADDENDUM
To that certain Agreement to Purchase Therapeutic Residential Child Care
Facility Services and Residential Child Care Facility Services (the
"Agreement") between Youthtrack and Weld County Department of Human
Services for the period from
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
The following provisions, made this ( day of 2009, are added to the referenced
Agreement. Except as modified hereby, all terms t Agreement remain unchanged.
1. County agrees to purchase and Contractor, identified as Provider ID#11724, agrees to
provide:
A. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $129.23 per day for children placed within the
Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facility.
B. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $129.23 per day for children placed within the
Residential Child Care Facility.
C. Additional services not covered by Medicaid or considered within the above
vendor rate. These additional services/rates may be negotiated on a child by child
basis, based on the needs of the child and in accordance with the Colorado
Department of Human Services Agency Letter CW-06-11-I dated June 8, 2006.
These services will be for children who have been deemed eligible for social services
under the statutes, rules and regulations of the State of Colorado.
2. Section I, Paragraph 2. All bed hold authorizations and payments are subject to a 3 day
maximum for a child's temporary absence from a facility, including hospitalization. Bed
hold requests must have prior written authorization from the Department Administrator
before payment will be release to provider. Reimbursement rates for bed hold days may
not exceed the state standard rate for administrative maintenance and administrative
services or may be a reduced rate that is mutually agreed upon.
3. Add Paragraph 6 to Section I. The services purchased under this Agreement as Child
Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services for Therapeutic Residential
Child Care Facilities and Residential Child Care Facilities include, but are not limited to:
Food, shelter, clothing, personal needs and allowance, administration, administrative
overhead, support staff, support overhead, sleep -over staff, direct child care,
transportation, therapeutic recreation, service delivery staff, parent training for teens,
independent living training, mentor/advocate, supervised visitation and all other services
as outlined in the Contractor's scope of service attached as Exhibit A or the Child
Specific Addendum. The anticipated minimum percentage for each item is as follows
and will be subject to County monitoring as outlined in Section VI of this contract:
A. Food, including meals and snacks (25%);
B. Clothing (3%);
C. Shelter, including utilities and use of household furnishing and equipment and
daily supervision, including those activities that a parent would normally carry out
to assure protection, emotional support and care of the child (30%);
D. Personal items and grooming care for the child, such as toothpaste, toothbrushes,
soap, combs, haircuts, and other essentials (2%);
E. Other/miscellaneous items considered usual in the care and supervision of the
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child, include, but are not limited to, transportation, recreation and overhead
(40%)
4. Add Paragraph 7 to Section I. A minimum of one polygraph test per Colorado fiscal
year, if needed by the child, will be furnished by the Contractor under this contract for
facilities that provide sex offender treatment.
5. Add Paragraph 8 to Section I. Any additional costs for specialized services, which
include, but are not limited to; polygraph tests, plethysmographs, and urinalysis screens,
that is not provided within the vendor rate or attached Scope of Service, will need be
negotiated and authorized, in writing by the County, prior to the service being performed.
Any payment for specialized services not authorized in writing will be denied.
6. Add Paragraph 5 to Section II. Contact by the Contractor with the County regarding
emergency medical, surgical or dental care will be made in person -to -person
communication, not through phone mail messages. During regular work hours, the
Contractor will make every effort to notify the assigned caseworker, supervisor, or intake
screener of any emergency medical, surgical or dental issues prior to granting
authorization. During non -regular work hours, weekends and holidays, the Contractor
will contact the Emergency Duty Worker at the pager number (970) 304-2749.
7. Section III, Paragraph 5. Contractor additionally agrees to have appropriate personnel
available for staffing current placements with the Utilization Review Team. This review
team convenes every Monday morning, excluding holidays.
8. Add Paragraph 13 to Section IV. Agree to cooperate with any vendors hired by Weld
County Department of Human Services to shorten the duration of placement.
9. Add Paragraph 14 to Section IV. Agree to schedule physical examinations within 14
days after placement, dental examinations within eight weeks after placement and
forward all appropriate information to the County.
10. Add Paragraph 15 to Section IV. A full evaluation of an Individualized Educational Plan
(IEP) for youth designated as a Special Education Student will be conducted every 3
years and reviewed every year. If the IEP is due while the child is in placement, the
Contractor will complete or obtain a completed IEP. A copy will then be forwarded to
the County.
11. Add Paragraph 16 to Section IV. Assure and certify that it and its principals:
A. Are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, and declared
ineligible or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by a federal
department or agency.
Have not, within a three-year period of preceding this Agreement, been convicted
of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for commission of fraud or a
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing
a public (federal, state, or local) transaction or contract under a public transaction;
violation of federal or state antitrust statutes or commission of embezzlement,
theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false
statements, or receiving stolen property;
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C. Are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a
government entity (federal, state, or local) with commission of any of the offenses
enumerated in paragraph (B) above.
D. Have not within a three-year period preceding this Agreement, had one or more
public transactions (federal, state, and local) terminated for cause or default.
12. Section V, Paragraph 5. Children in Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facilities,
Residential Child Care Facilities and Child Placement Agencies are not eligible to receive
clothing allowances as outlined in the Weld County Department of Human Services
Policy and Procedure Manual.
13. Add Paragraph 7 to Section VI. It is expressly understood and agreed that the
enforcement of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and all rights of action
relating to such enforcement, shall be strictly reserved to the undersigned parties or their
assignees, and nothing contained in this Agreement shall give or allow any claim or right
of action whatsoever by any other person not included in this Agreement. It is the
express intention of the undersigned parties that any entity other than the undersigned
parties or their assignees receiving services or benefits under this Agreement shall be an
incidental beneficiary only.
14. Add Paragraph 8 to Section VI. No portion of this Agreement shall be deemed to
constitute a waiver of any immunity the parties or their officers or employees may
posses, nor shall any portion of this Agreement be deemed to have created a duty of care
that did not previously exist with respect to any person not a party to this Agreement.
The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that no part of this Agreement is intended to
circumvent or replace such immunities.
15. Add Paragraph 9 to Section VI. The Director of Human Services or designee may
exercise the following remedial actions should s/he find the Contractor substantially
failed to satisfy the scope of work found in this Agreement. Substantial failure to satisfy
the scope of work shall be defined to mean incorrect or improper activities or inaction by
the Contractor. These remedial actions are as follows:
A. Withhold payment to the Contractor until the necessary services or corrections in
performance are satisfactorily completed;
B. Deny payment or recover reimbursement for those services or deliverables which
have not been performed and which due to circumstances caused by the
Contractor cannot be performed or if performed would be of no value to the
Human Services. Denial of the amount of payment shall be reasonably related to
the amount of work or deliverables lost to Human Services;
C. Recover from the Contractor any incorrect payment to the Contractor due to
omission, error, fraud, and/or defalcation by deducting from subsequent payments
under this Agreement or other agreements between Human Services and the
Contractor, or by Human Services as a debt to Human Services or otherwise as
provided by law.
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-16. Add Paragraph 10 to Section VI. The contractor shall promptly notify Human Services
in the event in which it is a party defendant or respondent in a case, which involves
services provided under the agreement. The Contractor, within five (5) calendar days
after being served with a summons, complaint, or other pleading which has been filed in
any federal or state court or administrative agency, shall deliver copies of such
document(s) to the Human Services' Director. The term "litigation" includes an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, and filings in bankruptcy, reorganizations and/or
foreclosure.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed the Addendum as of the day,
month, and year first above written.
ATTEST: Weld Count,
nt�yClerk to rd
ectitfrt
Deputyerk to the Board
Approval as to Substance:
WELD COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF HUMAN SERVICES
By:
WELD COUNTY BOARD OF
SOCIAL SERVICES, ON BEHALF
OF THE WELD COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
SERVICES
By:
Chair Signature
AUG €0 5 ?Ng
CONTRACTOR
Youthtrack
1375 Ken Pratt Blvd
Longmont,SO 80501
By:
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n7C2/ /
WELD COUNTY ADDENDUM
To that certain Agreement to Purchase Therapeutic Residential Child Care
Facility Services and Residential Child Care Facility Services (the
"Agreement") between Youthtrack and Weld County Department of Human
Services for the period from
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
The following provisions, made this / day of� 2009, are added to the referenced
Agreement. Except as modified hereb , all term f e Agreement remain unchanged.
1. County agrees to purchase and Contractor, identified as Provider ID#11726, agrees to
provide:
A. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $137.9 per day for children placed within the
Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facility.
B. Child Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services, which are listed in
this Agreement at a rate of $137.9 per day for children placed within the
Residential Child Care Facility.
C. Additional services not covered by Medicaid or considered within the above
vendor rate. These additional services/rates may be negotiated on a child by child
basis, based on the needs of the child and in accordance with the Colorado
Department of Human Services Agency Letter CW-06-11-I dated June 8, 2006.
These services will be for children who have been deemed eligible for social services
under the statutes, rules and regulations of the State of Colorado.
2. Section I, Paragraph 2. All bed hold authorizations and payments are subject to a 3 day
maximum for a child's temporary absence from a facility, including hospitalization. Bed
hold requests must have prior written authorization from the Department Administrator
before payment will be release to provider. Reimbursement rates for bed hold days may
not exceed the state standard rate for administrative maintenance and administrative
services or may be a reduced rate that is mutually agreed upon.
3. Add Paragraph 6 to Section I. The services purchased under this Agreement as Child
Maintenance, Administrative Maintenance and Services for Therapeutic Residential
Child Care Facilities and Residential Child Care Facilities include, but are not limited to:
Food, shelter, clothing, personal needs and allowance, administration, administrative
overhead, support staff, support overhead, sleep -over staff, direct child care,
transportation, therapeutic recreation, service delivery staff, parent training for teens,
independent living training, mentor/advocate, supervised visitation and all other services
as outlined in the Contractor's scope of service attached as Exhibit A or the Child
Specific Addendum. The anticipated minimum percentage for each item is as follows
and will be subject to County monitoring as outlined in Section VI of this contract:
A. Food, including meals and snacks (25%);
B. Clothing (3%);
C. Shelter, including utilities and use of household furnishing and equipment and
daily supervision, including those activities that a parent would normally carry out
to assure protection, emotional support and care of the child (30%);
D. Personal items and grooming care for the child, such as toothpaste, toothbrushes,
soap, combs, haircuts, and other essentials (2%);
E. Other/miscellaneous items considered usual in the care and supervision of the
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child, include, but are not limited to, transportation, recreation and overhead
(40%)
4. Add Paragraph 7 to Section I. A minimum of one polygraph test per Colorado fiscal
year, if needed by the child, will be furnished by the Contractor under this contract for
facilities that provide sex offender treatment.
5. Add Paragraph 8 to Section I. Any additional costs for specialized services, which
include, but are not limited to; polygraph tests, plethysmographs, and urinalysis screens,
that is not provided within the vendor rate or attached Scope of Service, will need be
negotiated and authorized, in writing by the County, prior to the service being performed.
Any payment for specialized services not authorized in writing will be denied.
6. Add Paragraph 5 to Section II. Contact by the Contractor with the County regarding
emergency medical, surgical or dental care will be made in person -to -person
communication, not through phone mail messages. During regular work hours, the
Contractor will make every effort to notify the assigned caseworker, supervisor, or intake
screener of any emergency medical, surgical or dental issues prior to granting
authorization. During non -regular work hours, weekends and holidays, the Contractor
will contact the Emergency Duty Worker at the pager number (970) 304-2749.
7. Section III, Paragraph 5. Contractor additionally agrees to have appropriate personnel
available for staffing current placements with the Utilization Review Team. This review
team convenes every Monday morning, excluding holidays.
8. Add Paragraph 13 to Section IV. Agree to cooperate with any vendors hired by Weld
County Department of Human Services to shorten the duration of placement.
9. Add Paragraph 14 to Section IV. Agree to schedule physical examinations within 14
days after placement, dental examinations within eight weeks after placement and
forward all appropriate information to the County.
10. Add Paragraph 15 to Section IV. A full evaluation of an Individualized Educational Plan
(IEP) for youth designated as a Special Education Student will be conducted every 3
years and reviewed every year. If the IEP is due while the child is in placement, the
Contractor will complete or obtain a completed IEP. A copy will then be forwarded to
the County.
11. Add Paragraph 16 to Section IV. Assure and certify that it and its principals:
A. Are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, and declared
ineligible or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by a federal
department or agency.
B. Have not, within a three-year period of preceding this Agreement, been convicted
of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for commission of fraud or a
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing
a public (federal, state, or local) transaction or contract under a public transaction;
violation of federal or state antitrust statutes or commission of embezzlement,
theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false
statements, or receiving stolen property;
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C. Are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a
government entity (federal, state, or local) with commission of any of the offenses
enumerated in paragraph (B) above.
D. Have not within a three-year period preceding this Agreement, had one or more
public transactions (federal, state, and local) terminated for cause or default.
12. Section V, Paragraph 5. Children in Therapeutic Residential Child Care Facilities,
Residential Child Care Facilities and Child Placement Agencies are not eligible to receive
clothing allowances as outlined in the Weld County Department of Human Services
Policy and Procedure Manual.
13. Add Paragraph 7 to Section VI. It is expressly understood and agreed that the
enforcement of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and all rights of action
relating to such enforcement, shall be strictly reserved to the undersigned parties or their
assignees, and nothing contained in this Agreement shall give or allow any claim or right
of action whatsoever by any other person not included in this Agreement. It is the
express intention of the undersigned parties that any entity other than the undersigned
parties or their assignees receiving services or benefits under this Agreement shall be an
incidental beneficiary only.
14. Add Paragraph 8 to Section VI. No portion of this Agreement shall be deemed to
constitute a waiver of any immunity the parties or their officers or employees may
posses, nor shall any portion of this Agreement be deemed to have created a duty of care
that did not previously exist with respect to any person not a party to this Agreement.
The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that no part of this Agreement is intended to
circumvent or replace such immunities.
15. Add Paragraph 9 to Section VI. The Director of Human Services or designee may
exercise the following remedial actions should s/he find the Contractor substantially
failed to satisfy the scope of work found in this Agreement. Substantial failure to satisfy
the scope of work shall be defined to mean incorrect or improper activities or inaction by
the Contractor. These remedial actions are as follows:
A. Withhold payment to the Contractor until the necessary services or corrections in
performance are satisfactorily completed;
B. Deny payment or recover reimbursement for those services or deliverables which
have not been performed and which due to circumstances caused by the
Contractor cannot be performed or if performed would be of no value to the
Human Services. Denial of the amount of payment shall be reasonably related to
the amount of work or deliverables lost to Human Services;
C. Recover from the Contractor any incorrect payment to the Contractor due to
omission, error, fraud, and/or defalcation by deducting from subsequent payments
under this Agreement or other agreements between Human Services and the
Contractor, or by Human Services as a debt to Human Services or otherwise as
provided by law.
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16. Add Paragraph 10 to Section VI. The contractor shall promptly notify Human Services
in the event in which it is a party defendant or respondent in a case, which involves
services provided under the agreement. The Contractor, within five (5) calendar days
after being served with a summons, complaint, or other pleading which has been filed in
any federal or state court or administrative agency, shall deliver copies of such
document(s) to the Human Services' Director. The term "litigation" includes an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, and filings in bankruptcy, reorganizations and/or
foreclosure.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed the Addendum as of the day,
month, and year first above written.
ATTEST: Weld County Clerk
B
Deputy C to the Boar
Approval as to Substance:
WELD COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF HUMAN SERVICES
By:
'Board.
WELD COUNTY BOARD OF
SOCIAL SERVICES, ON BEHALF
OF THE WELD COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
SERVICES
By:
Chair Signature
CONTRACTOR
Youthtrack
1375 Ken Pratt Blvd
Longmont, fD 20501
By:
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