REPORT/RECOMMENDATION TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY
AND RECORD OF ACTION
April 9, 2024
FROM
LUTHER SNOKE, Chief Executive Officer, County Administrative Office
SUBJECT
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Amendment to Contract with the Inland Fair Housing and Mediation Board for Continued Alternate Dispute Resolution Services
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RECOMMENDATION(S)
Recommendation
Approve Amendment No. 1 to Contract No. 21-461 with the Inland Fair Housing and Mediation Board to provide continued alternate dispute resolution services for cases filed in the Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, increasing the contract amount by $360,000, from $1,080,000 to $1,440,000, and exercising the first of two one-year options to extend the contract term, for a total contract period of July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2025.
(Presenter: Matthew Erickson, County Chief Financial Officer, 387-5423)
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COUNTY AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER GOALS & OBJECTIVES
Improve County Government Operations.
Operate in a Fiscally-Responsible and Business-Like Manner.
Pursue County Goals and Objectives by Working with Other Agencies and Stakeholders.
FINANCIAL IMPACT
Approval of this item will not impact Discretionary General Funding (Net County Cost). The contract is funded by civil filing fees collected by the Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino (Superior Court) pursuant to the Dispute Resolution Programs Act (DRPA) enacted in 1986. The filing fee is currently $8 per civil filing and, under the provisions of DRPA, revenues from the filing fee can only be used for specified alternate dispute resolution services. It is anticipated that the revenue generated from the civil filing fees over the next year will be sufficient to fund the cost of this contract amendment.
Funding for contracted alternate dispute resolution services is contingent upon receipt of fund transfers from the State derived from the DRPA civil filing fee. If that funding is reduced or eli...
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