Alex Burt, staff attorney for the Executive's Department of Public Safety, told the Summit County Council the county will continue contract services with Orianna House under a state grant for community corrections. "This is a contract with Orianna House for Community Corrections Services. We receive a grant from the State of Ohio through ODRC for the Community Corrections Act 2 Grant Program," Burt said. He said the contract amount is flat from the prior two-year cycle.
Council confirmed the Board of Control award of a professional-services contract with Orianna House Incorporated as a best practical source for community-corrections services for the period July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2027, in an amount not to exceed $2,691,940. The council approved the resolution on suspension and adoption during the meeting.
Separately, the council confirmed multiple awards for job-and-family-services (JFS) programs for state fiscal year 2026. The resolutions read into the record designated professional-service contracts to provide temporary assistance and employment-and-training services with a combined not-to-exceed total of $5,569,000 for the Department of Job and Family Services for the period Oct. 1, 2025, through Sept. 30, 2026. The meeting record also includes a subaward with Direction Home (Akron/Kent Area Agency on Aging and Disabilities) for up to $673,304.89 to support aging-in-place services and a professional-services award with United Way of Summit and Medina for adult protective after-hours call response and 211 referral services up to $130,000. The council also authorized $125,000 to Summit County Public Health to increase utilization of EPSDT (HealthCheck) services for young children.
Those items were presented as part of the executive's routine agenda and read by staff; council moved to suspend the rules and adopt the routine agenda items on pages 5 through 9, and the motions carried. Burt said the Orianna House contract reflects flat funding from the state's ODRC grant application and that Orianna House was written into the county's application.