Broken Arrow City Council
Meeting of: November 16, 2026
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Approval of and authorization to execute the Second Addendum to the Interagency Agreement with Family & Children’s Services, Inc. to provide case management staffing for the Broken Arrow Fire Department CareLink Navigator Program
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Background:
In June of 2024, Fire Department staff recommended to the City Council a pilot program with Family & Children’s Services, Inc. (FCS) to provide crisis prevention and mitigation services for the Broken Arrow community through a co-responder program called CareLink. City Council approved the Interagency Agreement at its June 17, 2024, meeting. The program was implemented in the late summer of 2024 and has been active since then. FCS provided one full-time licensed staff member for the first year of the program at no cost to the City.
On October 21, 2025, City Council approved the First Addendum to the agreement, covering July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. That addendum expanded the services provided by FCS to one full-time supervised therapist and one half-time case manager, at a cost not to exceed $81,000.
The Second Addendum continues the program for July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027. FCS will provide one full-time case manager and one part-time case manager embedded with the Fire Department, with work hours set by program needs and shifts no longer than ten hours per day. The cost is $92,400 per year, invoiced monthly, with a 2.5% annual increase in later renewal years.
The addendum also updates three sections of the original agreement. Each annual renewal is now expressly subject to City Council approval and the appropriation of funds, and the agreement ends without penalty or cost to the City if either does not occur. The insurance section now requires FCS to carry general liability coverage of $1,000,000 per occurrence and $3,000,000 aggregate and to name the City as an additional insured, and it recognizes that the City is self-insured. Bindi...
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