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Meeting Name: Board of Acquisition and Contract Agenda status: Final-revised
Meeting date/time: 1/16/2025 11:00 AM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: County Executive Conference Room Michaelian Office Building
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110256 1.ResolutionBoard of Elections - The County of Westchester is hereby authorized to agree, in writing, to defend, indemnify and hold harmless the owners of any and all polling places to be used by the County in connection with all 2025 Elections with by agreeing to a provision similar to the following: “the County of Westchester agrees that, except for the amount, if any, of damage contributed to, caused by or resulting from the negligent acts or omissions of the Indemnitee, the County shall defend, indemnify and hold harmless the Indemnitee, from any and all liability loss, claims, or actions, (including costs and reasonable attorneys' fees) for bodily injury, or damage to property, to the extent permissible by law, arising out of or in connection with the permission herein granted.”approvedPass Action details Not available
110278 2.ResolutionBoard of Elections - Enter into an agreement with the Hendrick Hudson School District to utilize the Blue Mountain School as a polling place for the primary, special and general elections in 2025 which provides as follows: “The County of Westchester hereby agrees to defend, indemnify and save harmless the Hendrick Hudson School District from and against any and all liability, loss, damages, claims for bodily injury and or property damages, cost and expense including counsel fees, to the extent permissible by law, arising out of the use of the Blue Mountain School by the above named organization, its agents, servants, employees and or its students”.approvedPass Action details Not available
110194 3.ResolutionInformation Technology - Amend License Agreement No. IT-1674 with Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., for the installation, operation and maintenance of radio equipment at the County’s Grasslands Campus, Valhalla, New York, for a term of five (5) years commencing retroactively on 12/1/19 - 11/30/24, in order for ConEdison to exercise the first (1st) of its three (3) options to extend the term of the License for an additional period of five years, commencing on 12/1/24 - 11/30/29.approvedPass Action details Not available
110218 4.ResolutionCounty Attorney - Amend a “short form” agreement with Cos Cob Health, PLLC, through its principal Dr. Ziv Ezra Cohen, M.D., pursuant to which the Consultant agreed to serve as a consultant and expert witness on behalf of the County, the County Attorney, and an Assistant Chief Deputy County Attorney, in connection with the civil matter Chevor Pompey v. County of Westchester et al., for a term commencing on 9/13/24 - 9/12/25, for an amount not-to-exceed $35,000, payable at the rate of $850 per hour, in order to increase the amount authorized by an additional $50,000, to a new amount not-to-exceed $85,000, in order to be able to compensate the Consultant for all services rendered.approvedPass Action details Not available
110219 5.ResolutionCounty Attorney - Amend an agreement with The Quinn Law Firm, PLLC, pursuant to which the Firm agreed to provide legal services and representation to the County, in an “of counsel” capacity to the County Attorney, as needed, in connection with the civil case of Pompey v. County of Westchester, for a term commencing on 8/1/23 and continuing until the conclusion of the Matter, for an amount not-to-exceed $200,000, payable at the following hourly rates: $350 for partners, $300 for associate attorneys, and $85 for paralegals, in order to increase the amount by an additional $150,000, from $200,000 to $350,000.approvedPass Action details Not available
110284 6.ResolutionCounty Attorney - Enter into an agreement for the provision of legal services for indigent persons entitled to counsel pursuant to Article 722 of the New York County Law with The Legal Aid Society of Westchester County (the “Legal Aid Society”) for the period commencing retroactively on January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2025, in an amount not to exceed $16,136,779 payable to the Legal Aid Society, in monthly installments in advance upon receipt of the appropriate vouchers; and an amount not to exceed $2,600,000, payable to the Legal Aid Society, pursuant to approved grant agreements with the State of New York, acting by and through its Office of Indigent Legal Services (as listed in Exhibit “A” attached hereto and made a part hereof), in monthly advances upon receipt of appropriate vouchers and approved by the Departments of Budget and Finance (the “Agreement”) for a total aggregate amount not to exceed $18,736,779.approvedPass Action details Not available
110203 7.ResolutionPlanning - Pursuant to Section 3(a)(xxi) of the Westchester County Procurement Policy and Procedures, to exempt from procurement an amendment to an agreement between the County of Westchester, 54-56 North Broadway, Inc. and Grand West Associates, Inc. d/b/a GW Contracting.approvedPass Action details Not available
110204 8.ResolutionPlanning - Amend an agreement with 54-56 North Broadway, Inc. and Grand West Associates, Inc. d/b/a GW Contracting, pursuant to which the Contractor agreed to make repairs to and for the benefit of the low and moderate income households (Units 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8) at the property located at 54-56 North Broadway in the City of Yonkers, for the period from 9/15/23 - 12/31/24, for an amount not to exceed $191,600 in Landlord Tenant Assistance Program funding, by changing the expiration date of the agreement from 12/31/24 to 9/14/25.approvedPass Action details Not available
110239 9.ResolutionPlanning - Amend an agreement with the Housing Action Council, Inc. (the “HAC”), as previously amended, pursuant to which HAC agreed to provide marketing and property management services for certain properties approved for purchase by the County, for a term commencing on 7/15/15 - 12/31/24, for an amount not-to-exceed $2,922,934, in order to change the expiration date from 12/31/24 to 12/31/25.approvedPass Action details Not available
110005 10.ResolutionSocial Services - Enter into an agreement (DSS7002-25) with Legal Services of the Hudson Valley (“LSHV”), pursuant to which LSHV will operate an Eviction Prevention Legal Services Program to provide access to eviction prevention legal services for at-risk low-income Westchester County individuals or families, and victims of domestic violence, facing eviction and loss of permanent housing, in Yonkers City Court, Mount Vernon City Court, White Plains City Court, Peekskill City Court, the Village of Ossining Justice Courts, and other Westchester eviction courts, as needed, for the period from 1/1/25 - 6/30/25, for an amount not to exceed $731,401, following submission by LSHV of quarterly reports to substantiate the basis for payment.approvedPass Action details Not available
110170 11.ResolutionSocial Services - Amend an agreement with Diamond Kerbis CPA’s P.C. (“Diamond Kerbis”), pursuant to which Diamond Kerbis agreed to provide audit services to audit entities that provide and propose to provide personal care services and/or consumer directed personal care services to recipients of Medicaid, in order to exercise the County 1st of four options (DSS7008-A-24) to renew and amend the Agreement by, 1.) extending the term thereof by one (1) year, to a new termination date of 12/31/25; 2.) increasing the amount thereof by $531,742, to a new total not-to-exceed amount of $1,048,882, to pay for the services during the first option term, and payable as specified in the Agreement for the First Option Term; and 3.) reflecting the fact that the County will have three (3) one (1) year options remaining under the Agreement.approvedPass Action details Not available
110175 12.ResolutionSocial Services - Pursuant to Section 3(a)(xxi) of the Westchester County Procurement Policy and Procedures, to exempt from procurement an agreement with Child Care Council of Westchester, Inc. (DSS7009A-25)approvedPass Action details Not available
110176 13.ResolutionSocial Services - Enter into a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”, DSS7009-25) with the New York State Office of Children and Family Services to receive a grant in the amount of $1,118,967 which the County of Westchester Department of Social Services would utilize to provide registration activities for school-age child care providers and registered family day care providers and conduct mandatory investigations, oversee fingerprinting of care providers and their employees, and process complaints registered against child care providers, for the period from 1/1/25 - 12/31/25.approvedPass Action details Not available
110250 14.ResolutionSocial Services - Enter into an agreement (FP0049-23) with Cheryl Bates for foster care boarding services, according to the foster care rates established by the Department effective at the time of placement and as the same may be from time to time adjusted pursuant to the law, for a term commencing on 12/28/23 and continuing for an indefinite duration with either party having the right to terminate the agreement on thirty (30) days written notice.approvedPass Action details Not available
110298 15.ResolutionSocial Services - Retroactively enter into six (6) separate agreements with the agencies listed to provide services for the Youth Employment Program (YEP). These agreements are to facilitate services for the Youth Employment Program (YEP), designed to mitigate community gun violence and decrease youth involvement in the criminal justice system by offering continuous employment opportunities, with each of the agreements to be for a term commencing on 11/1/24 - 6/30/25, for a total aggregate not-to-exceed amount of $1,993,448.approvedPass Action details Not available
110303 16.ResolutionSocial Services - (1.) Rescind Resolution ID No. 109533 approved on 7/18/24 which amended Resolution ID No 107747 approved on 3/28/24 and authorized the County of Westchester to retroactively enter into an additional Safe Harbour agreement with Endeavor Therapeutic Horsemanship, Inc. for the provision of three equine therapeutic workshops for Safe Harbour youth commencing on 7/1/24 - 12/31/24, in an amount not to exceed $3,000, and reduce the amount of grant funds retained by the County from a not-to-exceed amount of $19,585 to a new not to exceed amount of $16,585 and (2.) amend Resolution ID No. 107747 approved on 3/28/24 in order to authorize the County of Westchester to retroactively enter into an additional agreement with Twin Lakes Farm, Inc. for the provision of four equine therapeutic workshops for Safe Harbour youth, commencing on 10/1/24 - 12/31/24, in an amount not to exceed $3,000 and (3.) reduce the amount of the grant funds retained by the County from a not-to-exceed amount of $19,585 to an new not to exceed amount of $16,585.approvedPass Action details Not available
110306 17.ResolutionSocial Services - Retroactively: (1) enter into an agreement with the New York State Office of Children and Family Services (“OCFS”) to accept a grant in the amount of $200,000 pursuant to which the County will utilize for resources and support needed to operationalize the services provided by the County’s Mobile Stabilization and Mediation Response Unit through funding to supplement relevant staff salaries and maintenance of the County’s mobile van utilized by the County’s Mobile Stabilization and Mediation Response Unit, for the term 4/1/24 - 3/31/25 (DSS6050-24; the “Grant Agreement); and (2) enter into an agreement with Red Tie 05 dba Dolce Design New York to provide design assistance, print and installation of the custom logo that will wrap the County mobile van utilized by the County’s Mobile Stabilization and Mediation Response Unit, for the term 9/1/24 - 3/31/25, for an amount not to exceed $15,000.approvedPass Action details Not available
110308 18.ResolutionSocial Services - Amend an agreement (DSS6020-24) with My Sisters’ Place, Inc., for the purpose of providing advocacy and support services to children and victims of domestic violence, for the period from 1/1/24 - 12/31/24, for an amount not to exceed $586,000, in order to (i) extend the term thereof by three (3) months, from 1/1/25 - 3/31/25 and (ii) increase the not to exceed amount of the agreement by $147,000.approvedPass Action details Not available
110216 19.ResolutionCommunity Mental Health - Pursuant to Section 3(a)(xxi) of the Westchester County Procurement Policy and Procedures, to exempt from procurement an agreement with Coordinated Care Services, Inc.approvedPass Action details Not available
110217 20.ResolutionCommunity Mental Health - Enter into an agreement with Coordinated Care Services, Inc. (“CCSI”), pursuant to which CCSI will provide consulting services, including but not limited, to monitoring and evaluation of Community Support Services program activities funded through State Aid (as defined below) with the intent to maximize revenues for the implementation of programs, fiscal management and oversight of funding received from the State of New York for mental health services, as well as training and technical assistance to service providers and staff on State Aid allocation management and reporting requirements, for a term commencing retroactively on 1/1/25 - 12/31/25, for an amount not-to-exceed $44,300.approvedPass Action details Not available
110235 21.ResolutionCommunity Mental Health - Amend nine (9) agreements with the entities listed, for the provision of addiction and opioid use disorder services within identified service program priority areas which services include treatment, prevention, recovery, harm reduction and workforce issues and training, for the period 7/1/23 - 12/31/24, for an amount not to exceed $2,654,811, in order for the County to exercise the first of its two (2) options to extend the term thereof by one year, commencing on 1/1/25 - 12/31/25, for the continued provision of such services, to increase the total aggregate not-to-exceed amount under the agreements by $1,652,832, from a total aggregate amount not-to-exceed $2,654,811, to a new total aggregate amount not-to-exceed $4,307,643.approvedPass Action details Not available
110238 22.ResolutionCommunity Mental Health - Enter into an agreement with Friends of Recovery Westchester Inc., for the implementation of the “Westchester County Opioid Response and Overdose Prevention Initiative” to address a priority area of recovery, for the term 1/1/25 - 12/31/25, in the total not-to-exceed amount of $250,000.approvedPass Action details Not available
110241 23.ResolutionCommunity Mental Health - Amend an agreement with Family Services of Westchester, Inc. (“FSW”), pursuant to which FSW provides various reentry support services to assist individuals returning from prison to transition back into the community, in order for the County to exercise the fourth and last of its four options to extend the term of the agreement for one additional year, commencing on 10/1/24 - 9/30/25 and to increase the amount not-to-exceed thereof by $250,266, to a new total not-to-exceed amount of $894,157 under the agreement and that all terms and conditions of the agreement shall remain in full force and effect.approvedPass Action details Not available
110207 24.ResolutionHealth - Enter into agreements with Various Hospital Providers, to provide Tuberculosis Clinic Patient Chest X-Rays and other Radiological Tests and Interpretations as needed, for the Period from 3/1/25 - 2/28/26, in the total aggregate not-to-exceed amount of $26,000, with each Hospital Provider to be paid Pursuant to an Approved Budget at the same rates as negotiated by the Westchester County Department of Health and to authorize Westchester County to indemnify the Hospital Providers pursuant to the agreements.approvedPass Action details Not available
110221 25.ResolutionHealth - Amend an executed agreement with Approved Storage & Waste Hauling, Inc., to provide regulated infectious medical, pharmaceutical (non-controlled substances) and hazardous waste removal and disposal services for the County’s Health Department, for the term 5/1/24 - 4/30/26, in the not-to-exceed amount of $20,000 to be paid at the reimbursement rates as specified in Schedule “A”, in order to change the legal name to Approved Storage & Waste Hauling II, Inc. effective retroactive to 11/1/24.approvedPass Action details Not available
110208 26.ResolutionProbation - Enter into an agreement with Urban Resource Institute (“URI”), pursuant to which URI will provide its Abusive Partner Intervention Program (“APIP”), for a term commencing on 1/1/25 - 12/31/25, for an amount not to exceed $200,000.approvedPass Action details Not available
110210 27.ResolutionProbation - Amend a “short form” agreement with Alan T. Schramm, Ph.D., B.C.F.E., C.C.H.P. (the “Consultant”) for the provision of court ordered diagnostic clinical risk assessments in connection with post-dispositional Article 7 PINS and Article 3 Juvenile Delinquency cases, for a term commencing on 5/15/24 - 5/14/25, in an amount not-to-exceed $35,000, by increasing the not-to-exceed amount thereunder by an additional $60,000, from an amount not-to-exceed $35,000, to an amount not-to-exceed $95,000.approvedPass Action details Not available
110171 28.ResolutionParks / County Executive/Ctywide Admin Svc - Enter into an agreement to purchase real property located at 311 Welcher Avenue, Peekskill, New York, from Keith and Cindy Bohler or the current owner(s) of record and the amount to be paid for the purchase of the Property shall not exceed $85,000.approvedPass Action details Not available
110179 29.ResolutionDPW/Transportation - Contract No. 22-526 for Rehabilitation of Weaver Street Pumping Station, Mamaroneck Valley Sanitary Sewer District, Town of Mamaroneck, New York. Award to the Low Bidder, ECCO III Enterprises, Inc., Yonkers, NY, in the amount of $6,808,000. (6 bids)approvedPass Action details Not available
110180 30.ResolutionDPW/Transportation - Contract No. 22-502-Rev., for New Salt Storage Shed Facilities, Croton Point Park, Lasdon Park, and Sprain Ridge Park, Village of Croton-on-Hudson, Town of Somers, and City of Yonkers, New York. Award to the Low Bidder, Laura Li Industries, LLC (WBE), White Plains, NY, in the amount of $2,712,852. (8 bids)approvedPass Action details Not available
110181 31.ResolutionDPW/Transportation - Contract No. 23-510 for Laura Li Industries LLC, 136 Park Lane, West Harrison, New York 10604, for Roadway Milling, Resurfacing and Additional Improvements, Heathcote Bypass (CR#143),Village of Scarsdale; Pearl Street (CR#43), Village of Port Chester; Pelham Shore Road, (CR#65A), Village of Pelham Manor; Lake Street (CR#32B), City of White Plains; and Virginia Road (CR#35 & CR#51), Towns of North Castle and Mount Pleasant, a total distance of 1.53 Miles, Westchester County, New York. Acceptance of completed work and approval of Final Contract Amount of $2,221,322.approvedPass Action details Not available
110245 32.ResolutionDPW/Transportation - Contract No. 24-504 for Interim and Long-Term Bio-Solids Handling and Processing, Blind Brook Water Resource Recovery Facility, Rye, New York. Award to the Low Bidder, Mace Contracting Corporation (MBE), New Rochelle, NY, in the amount of $566,350. (2 bids)approvedPass Action details Not available
110246 33.ResolutionDPW/Transportation - Contract No. 22-522 with Triumph Construction Corp., Bronx, NY, for Domestic Water System Improvements, Westchester County Airport, Towns of Harrison and North Castle and Village of Rye Brook, New York. Approval of Change Order No. 1 in the amount of $800,000, bringing the total contract amount not to exceed to $9,477,820, to pay for work required to provide water services to properties located at 1, 3, 10 and 20 New King Street in White Plains, NY in order to address the per- and polyflouralkyl substances (“PFAS”) that have contaminated wells on these properties.approvedPass Action details Not available
110247 34.ResolutionDPW/Transportation - Contract No. 24-512 for Rehabilitation of Seven Bridges Road, C.R. 21 From McKesson Hill Road to NYS Route 133, A Distance of 1.21 Miles, Town of New Castle, New York. Advertise for bids.approvedPass Action details Not available
110220 35.ResolutionDEF - Enter into an agreement with WSP USA, Inc. (“WSP”) to provide stormwater sampling and reporting for the County Refuse & Recycling Facilities, for the term from 1/1/25 - 12/31/27, for an amount not to exceed $35,000, per year payable at the approved rates. The services will include annual and quarterly inspections, sampling, and reporting to the Department as required for compliance with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (“NYSDEC”) permits and as directed by the Department, the NYSDEC, and applicable regulatory requirements and WSP shall be paid pursuant to the approved rates not to exceed $35,000 per year.approvedPass Action details Not available
110293 36.ResolutionDEF - Contract No. EF-2412 for Removal and Disposal of Sewage Sludge from the Ossining, Peekskill and Port Chester Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTP) All Located in Westchester County, New York. Award to the Lowest Bidder, Wind River Environmental, LLC., Marlborough, MA, in the amount $11,681,280, for a three (3) year term, commencing on 3/1/25 - 2/29/28. (3 bids)approvedPass Action details Not available