QUESTION
What are the future plans for the terminated 'Next Steps' and 'Impact' programs by the Department of Probation?
1:24:23
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The Department of Probation terminated 'Next Steps' and did not launch 'Impact', while exploring alternatives and realizing the potential for reevaluation.
- 'Next Steps' contract was not renewed, and 'Impact' was fully canceled before launch.
- Currently, at least 35 people are served by an alternative to 'Impact', indicating ongoing efforts to fulfill needs despite terminations.
- Senior staff were unaware of 'Impact' until a thorough review of existing programs was conducted.
- 'Impact' was poised to offer more comprehensive services than existing programs, suggesting a missed opportunity.
- The commissioner commits to reconsidering 'Impact' for potential relaunch based on its previously unrecognized potential.
Sandy Nurse
1:24:23
Just for clarifications, next steps was terminated.
Juanita Holmes
1:24:27
Next steps was yes.
1:24:28
They weren't renewed.
1:24:29
The contract wasn't renewed.
Sandy Nurse
1:24:30
And impact is fully canceled, never having launched.
Juanita Holmes
1:24:35
Right.
Sandy Nurse
1:24:36
Okay.
1:24:36
Mhmm.
1:24:37
And what is being what programs are replacing this?
Juanita Holmes
1:24:40
So we're we're looking at a real We have plans to replace that.
1:24:45
So currently, we do have cases.
1:24:47
It's still part of the impact that serving.
1:24:50
It says 35 people I guess that's bare minimum.
1:24:53
These RFPs with the numbers, but they serve way more than that.
1:24:56
And they serve a delta as well.
1:24:58
So there is an alternative to impact in its same vendor cases.
Sandy Nurse
1:25:04
That's that's actually impact was gonna offer more service than what the I didn't.
1:25:09
He was.
Juanita Holmes
1:25:10
No.
1:25:10
It it did we well, they didn't the the my staff member's here, executive cabinet, they didn't even know about impact when we brought it up only because I was doing a deep dive into the contracts of Department of Probation that that served
Sandy Nurse
1:25:25
me.
1:25:25
That would seem like there's an issue with a transition plan, and and and some others.
Francis Torres
1:25:29
No.
1:25:29
No.
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No.
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No.
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No.
1:25:30
No.
1:25:30
These are these
Sandy Nurse
1:25:30
are able to find where you've had contracts before.
Juanita Holmes
1:25:34
They've been here, and so they've been here for 30 somewhat years.
UNKNOWN
1:25:37
This But
Sandy Nurse
1:25:38
in 30 years, you didn't know that the program was there?
Juanita Holmes
1:25:41
The the you wanna speak to
Sandy Nurse
1:25:43
I'm sorry.
1:25:43
In the last few years, you weren't you did not know about the program.
Sharun Goodwin
1:25:48
I did not know about impact.
1:25:50
What we're saying is, what I've learned since the commission that came on board is that we had this program impact.
1:25:59
My understanding and my learning was that it never really launched.
1:26:04
So I don't I I think they got the people in place, but it never went to the next level, and I think the time extended, right, before knowing should we renew the contract and in my
Juanita Holmes
1:26:20
We never took made what happened was it never started.
1:26:24
The members
Sandy Nurse
1:26:25
I understand.
Juanita Holmes
1:26:25
The cabinet members that preceded me for decades didn't even know that this was in place.
1:26:31
It only surfaced because I hired him to do a deep dive into all the existing programs.
1:26:37
As a result of such, we brought up our contract person who's here, and they said, oh, by the way, this is a contract also.
1:26:45
So we so I
Sandy Nurse
1:26:46
I under I understand and I because we've not we're now coming back again, I think the takeaway from this exchange is that This program had a lot of potential.
1:26:57
There were people in place.
1:26:59
There was money ready to go.
1:27:00
It would have served more people and had more expansive services than some of what was already in place.
1:27:05
And this might be an option an opportunity to reconsider launching a program.
Juanita Holmes
1:27:10
I'll take I'll go back and take a look at it.
1:27:13
You know, because maybe it was presented in a different way with the the individuals that was here before.
1:27:18
I'll definitely take a look at it.
Sandy Nurse
1:27:19
Okay.
