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Authorize negotiation and execution of Amendment No. 11 to an agreement with The SAFE Alliance to provide safety and support services to survivors of sexual and domestic abuse and/or violence, to add ongoing funding in an amount not to exceed $175,000 for the term ending on September 30, 2023, for a revised total agreement amount not to exceed $7,188,212.
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Lead Department
Austin Public Health.
Fiscal Note
Funding in the amount of $175,000 is included in the Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Austin Public Health Department Operating Budget.
Prior Council Action:
September 1, 2022 - Council authorized negotiation and execution of Amendment No. 10 to an agreement with The SAFE Alliance, on an 11-0 vote.
September 30, 2021 - Council authorized negotiation and execution of Amendment No. 9 to an agreement with The SAFE Alliance, on an 11-0 vote.
December 5, 2019 - Council authorized negotiation and execution of Amendment No. 7 with The SAFE Alliance, on an 11-0 vote.
March 28, 2019 - Council authorized negotiation and execution of Amendment No. 6 with The SAFE Alliance, on an 11-0 vote.
September 11, 2018 - Council authorized Ordinance No. 20180911-001 for the Fiscal Year 2018-2019 Operating Budget that included $130,000 in one-time funding for relationship violence prevention and crisis response, on an 8-2 vote.
March 31, 2016 - Council authorized negotiation and execution of an amendments to agreements with 13 social service agencies to increase funding for self-sufficiency social services, on an 8-2 vote.
November 20, 2014 - Council authorized negotiation and execution of a contract with 33 social service agencies or other qualified offerers, on a 6-0 vote with Council Member Tovo recusing herself from contracts associated with Theater Action Project/Creative Action.
For More Information:
Adrienne Sturrup, Director, 512-972-5010; Laura G. La Fuente, Assistant Director, 512-972-5077; Akeshia Johnson Smothers, Social Services Agreement Administration Manager, 512-972-5567; Estella Kirscht, Administrative Specialist, 512-972-4423.
Additional Backup Information:
The mission of The SAFE Alliance, previously named the Travis County Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Survival Center, doing business as SafePlace program, is to end sexual and domestic violence through safety, healing, prevention, and social change to residents of Austin/Travis County. The SAFE Alliance’s Victim Services Program serves women, children and men who have experienced rape, sexual abuse and/or domestic violence.
This social services agreement with The SAFE Alliance was awarded an agreement through the 2014 Health and Human Services Department Self-Sufficiency Request for Applications, with services beginning on September 1, 2015 for an initial 37-month period in the amount of $2,166,000, with three 12-month extension options in the amount of $722,000 per extension option.
Amendment No. 10 added one 12-month extension option in an amount not to exceed $932,495, for a total agreement amount not to exceed $7,013,212.
Amendment No. 9 added one 12-month extension option beginning October 1, 2021 in an amount not to exceed $932,495, for a revised total agreement amount not to exceed $6,080,717.
Amendment No. 8 exercised the third extension option in the amount of $932,495 for the period of October 1, 2020 to September 30, 2021.
Amendment No. 7 added $130,000 to the agreement to expand provision of early intervention services to address violence and abuse, for a total agreement amount not to exceed $4,215,727.
Amendment No. 6 exercised the second extension option in the amount of $802,495 and authorized one-time funding of $130,000 for the period of October 1, 2019 to September 30, 2020, for a total agreement amount not to exceed $4,085,727.
Amendment No. 5 exercised the first extension option in the amount of $802,495 for the period of October 1, 2018 to September 30, 2019.
Amendment No. 4 added $19,573 to the 37-month base agreement, for a total agreement amount not to exceed $2,350,737.
Amendment No. 3 added $35,204 to the 37-month base agreement, for a total agreement amount not to exceed $2,331,164.
Amendment No. 2 changed the vendor’s name.
Amendment No. 1 added $129,960 to the 37-month base agreement, for a total agreement amount not to exceed $2,295,960.
Strategic Outcome(s)
Strategic Outcome(s):
Health and Environment.