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Children & Youth department requests dozens of contracts and service-rate renewals
Summary
Children & Youth Administrator Carl Rumbel presented 12 agreements and one addendum covering foster care, residential services, counseling, secure detention and IT services with specified per diem and unit rates for the 2026–27 fiscal year; approvals were requested but no vote on these items is recorded in the transcript.
Children & Youth Administrator Carl Rumbel presented a large slate of contracts and one addendum at the May 21 work session, asking commissioners to approve service agreements and per diem rates for the 2026–27 fiscal year.
The items presented include foster-care and residential-service agreements (Access Foster Care and Adoption; Merakey; Open Door International; Cornell Abraxas Group), community-based residential placements (Outside In School of Experiential Education; Children’s Home of Easton), counseling and evaluation services (Forensic Mind Solutions; Alternative Consulting Enterprises), a vendor for certified secure shredding (All-Shred), and an information-technology/vendor agreement for child accounting and profile systems (Avanco International). Per-diem and unit rates were specified in the presentation for each vendor and in some cases multiple service levels (for example, residential, shelter, specialized and detention rates were listed for particular providers).
Rumbel requested approval of those contracts and an addendum extending the term of a SpeakWrite agreement through June 30, 2027 at current rates. The transcript records the presentation of the bundle of Children & Youth items; it does not show a separate roll-call vote for each contract in the session’s minutes.
The contracts cover a range of services used by Children & Youth and include both placement and clinical/evaluation services. Several items include multi-tiered rates (e.g., specialized residential or detention rates) and one vendor line item cited an annual software unit price (Avanco International for a Child Accounting and Profile System).
Next steps: the items were placed on the record for commissioner consideration; the transcript does not show final approval votes within the work session minutes provided.
