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COMMONWEALTH o/VIRGINIA JAMES S. REINHARD. M.D COMMISSIONER DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH. MENTAL RETARDATION AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES Post Office Box J 797 Richmond, Virginia 23218-1797 Telephone (804) 786-3921 Voice!fDD (804) 371-8977 www.dmhmrsas.state.va.us MEMORANDUM TO: Community Services Board, Local Government Department, and Behavioral Health Authority Executive Directors State Hospital and Training Center Directors State Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services Board . Mental Health, Mental Retardation, and Substance Abuse Services Advocates FROM: Paul R. Gilding Community Contracting Director SUBJECT: FY 2007 Performance Contract; Central Office, State Facility, and Community Services Board Partnership Agreement; and Community Services Performance Contract General Requirements Document DATE: May 5, 2006 Attached for your use or information are the FY 2007 Performance Contract. Partnership Agreement, and General Requirements Document; these will be referred to as the contract documents. They are available on the Department's web site at www.dmhmrsas.virQinia.Qov. The Department distributed Letters of Notification and the CARS-ACCESS contract software electronically this week. Letters of Notification contain initial allocations of state and federal funds to community services boards (CSBs), behavioral health authorities, and local government departments with policy-advisory CSBs, all of which are referred to as CSBs or Boards in the contract documents and this memorandum. Due to the current 2007 budget situation, the letters contain only allocations of ongoing funds; allocations of new system transformation initiative funds will be communicated separately after the General Assembly enacts the 2007 Appropriation Act. The attached contract documents reflect comments received during the 60-day public comment period required by ~ 37.2-508 of the Code of Virginia, the efforts of the Performance Contract Work Group established by the Department and the Virginia Association of Community Services Boards, and comments from Department staff. Given the complete rewriting of the performance contract for FY 2004 and positive reaction to the FY 2005 and FY 2006 contracts, the Department and the Performance Contract Work Group decided to avoid major revisions or changes in the FY 2007 contract, retaining the current contract in substantially the same version, except for several substantive changes and some necessary updating.