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Consent-Health & Human Services   # 15.
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Board of Supervisors |
Adult & Aging   |
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Subject |
Approve agreement with Yolo County Children's Alliance in the amount of $100,000 for the period July 25, 2019 through December 31, 2020 for the provision of expanded homeless services funded through the California Emergency Solutions and Housing Grant. (No general fund impact) (Larsen) |
Recommended Action |
Approve agreement with Yolo County Children's Alliance in the amount of $100,000 for the period July 25, 2019 through December 31, 2020 for the provision of expanded homeless services funded through the California Emergency Solutions and Housing (CESH) Grant. |
Strategic Plan Goal(s) |
Operational Excellence
Thriving Residents
Safe Communities
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Reason for Recommended Action/Background |
In August 2018, the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) released a Notice of Funding Availability for the California Emergency Solutions and Housing (CESH). The funding was allocated to the local homeless continuums of care (CoCs) for the purpose of providing: rental assistance, housing relocation, stabilization services, operating subsides, flexible housing subsidy funds, operating support for emergency housing intervention, and system support. These funds were approved through the June 27, 2018 passing of Senate Bill 850 to provide immediate assistance to cities, counties, and local continuums of care to address the homelessness crisis throughout California.
Requirements of the CESH grant included designating an Administrative Entity and establishing a local selection committee of non-conflicted partners to review and approve grant applications. On September 26, 2018, the local CoC, known as the Homeless and Poverty Action Coalition (HPAC), designated the County of Yolo, via the Yolo County Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA), to act as the Administrative Entity for these funds. A local selection committee was established and a local competition timeline and project selection process was developed. The local selection committee reviewed proposals throughout the month of November 2018. On November 28, 2018, the funding recommendations made by the local selection committee were approved by HPAC.
Through the local selection process, Yolo County Children’s Alliance proposal was selected to provide a homeless services program, including provision of housing-related case management to West Sacramento community members, to include on-site case management for the guests of the winter warming center, to provide supports to assist in economic and housing stability, and to help connect people to resources, including mainstream benefits such as CalFresh, Medi-Cal, SSI/SSDI, General Assistance, and CalWORKs as well as Veteran benefits, as applicable.
Flexible housing funds will be used to support alternate gap housing and shelter supports including motel vouchers, rental applications fees and deposits, bus passes, first month's rent, rental and utility deposits, and other supports required to assist housing and economic stability.
Client transportation will be provided to shelters, other housing options, support services locations and other sites as needed to assist housing and economic stability. Yolo County Children’s Alliance is also partnering with Mercy Coalition to transport guests from the intake location to the winter warming center location, and to transport winter warming center equipment from location to location.
The Performance Measures associated with this agreement are included in Attachment B. |
Collaborations (including Board advisory groups and external partner agencies) |
County Counsel has approved this Agreement as to form. |
Competitive Bid Process |
Requirements of the CESH grant included designating an Administrative Entity (County of Yolo), and establishing a local selection committee of non-conflicted partners to review and approve grant applications. HPAC developed and adopted a local competition timeline and selection process. Proposals were reviewed and scored based on the developed criteria.
The vendor was awarded funding via this process, please see Attachment C. |
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Fiscal Impact |
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Source of Funds for this Expenditure |
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Explanation (Expenditure and/or Revenue) |
Further explanation as needed: |
No general funds are required by this action. The total amount of this action is $100,000 for the period of July 25, 2019 through December 31, 2020. These services will be funded by CESH Grant Funds. The amount of $100,000 is included in the HHSA recommended budget for FY2019-20. Any unspent funding in FY 2019-20 will be rolled over to the next fiscal year.
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