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Subcommittee clears construction, intergovernmental and university contracts in bulk
Summary
Members approved long lists of construction contracts, intergovernmental agreements and in-state vendor contracts — covering prison camera installation design, trauma-system imaging access, university on-call architect services and many DHS/DCFS provider agreements.
Committee staff walked through a lengthy packet of construction, intergovernmental and in-state contracts; members approved the items by voice votes.
Highlights included professional engineering services for camera installations at Varner, Wrightsville and Hawkins units, intergovernmental agreements to expand trauma-system imaging access with UAMS, amendments to clinical education services and an array of provider contracts for therapeutic foster care and residential programs administered through DHS and DCFS. Katie Walden presented the lists and noted many entries were amendments to existing contracts or on-call professional services.
Members asked a few procedure and transparency questions — for example, Representative Vaught queried why one Southern Arkansas University vendor did not appear on the transparency website and about a missing sales-tax line on a contract amendment — but staff said transparency-site errors have been found in the past and requested the vendor follow up with staff offline. The committee moved and approved the contract bundles.
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