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Orange County supervisors direct staff to preserve elder services after RFP dispute
Summary
After extensive public comment and provider testimony, the Board of Supervisors instructed staff to extend the existing master contract for early intervention services for older adults and return with proportional funding allocations, seeking to avoid service disruptions to culturally specific programs.
The Orange County Board of Supervisors on May 21 directed county staff to extend the master contract for early intervention services for older adults and return to the board with proposed allocations that preserve existing provider shares.
The board's move followed hours of public testimony from older adults and community organizations and a sustained exchange between MECA (the Multi Ethnic Collaborative of Community Agencies), the Health Care Agency (HCA), and the Council on Aging Southern California over a recently reissued request for proposals. Multiple speakers warned that consolidating the contract with a single lead provider risked interrupting culturally specific services for Cambodian, Vietnamese, Samoan and other communities.
"So the contract is over.…
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