Fiscal Note
The proposed resolution approves the site for a permanent shelter facility for men experiencing homelessness, authorizes the City Engineering Division to begin a competitive selection process for engineering and architectural design work, and authorizes the Community Development Division (CDD) to begin a competitive selection process for a facility operator. CDD’s 2022 capital budget includes the Permanent Men’s Shelter capital project (Munis Project # 13344), which includes $11 million in funding from city general obligation borrowing ($4 million), Dane County contributions ($3 million), local American Rescue Plan Act funding ($2 million), and additional federal funding ($2 million). The total cost to design, construct, and operate the shelter is unknown at this time, but is anticipated to be greater than $11 million. The design work described in this resolution would inform the cost estimate for the project. No additional City appropriation is required for this phase of the project.
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Approving the selection of the property located at 1902 Bartillon Drive as the site for a permanent shelter facility serving men experiencing homelessness, authorizing the City’s Engineering Division to undertake a competitive process to select an entity to provide architectural and engineering design services, subject to Common Council approval, and authorizing the City’s Community Development Division to undertake a similar effort to select an operator for the facility, again, subject to Council approval.
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WHEREAS, for more than thirty-five years men experiencing homelessness in Madison and Dane County accessed emergency overnight shelter services in facilities that utilized spaces made available by churches in downtown Madison, spaces that greatly influenced the range and scope of services that they could support; and,
WHEREAS, shortly after the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, local public health officials determined those shelter ...
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