City of Madison - File #: 77807

• File #: 77807
• Version: 2
• Name: SUBSTITUTE: Authorizing an amendment of the contract between the City of Madison and Community Action Coalition for South Central Wisconsin (CAC) to provide Housing Stability Services, using Federal Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) funds, and providi
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 5/10/2023
• In control: Community Development Division
• On agenda: 6/20/2023
• Final action: 6/20/2023
• Enactment date: 6/23/2023
• Enactment #: RES-23-00463
• Title: SUBSTITUTE: Authorizing an amendment of the contract between the City of Madison and Community Action Coalition for South Central Wisconsin (CAC) to provide Housing Stability Services, using Federal Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) funds, and providing up to $530,000 in additional ERA funds to CAC for use in providing housing navigation and support services to Community Development Authority clients, and authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to execute a contract amendment with CAC to providing those services.
• Sponsors: Nikki Conklin, Dina Nina Martinez-Rutherford, Kristen Slack, Jael Currie, Regina M. Vidaver, Derek Field, Isadore Knox Jr., Sabrina V. Madison, Amani Latimer Burris, Barbara Harrington-McKinney, Charles Myadze

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/20/2023	2	COMMON COUNCIL	Adopt	Pass
6/12/2023	2	FINANCE COMMITTEE	RECOMMEND TO COUNCIL TO ADOPT - REPORT OF OFFICER	Pass
6/1/2023	2	COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT COMMITTEE	Return to Lead with the Recommendation for Approval	Pass
5/16/2023	1	FINANCE COMMITTEE	Refer
5/16/2023	1	COMMON COUNCIL	Refer	Pass
5/10/2023	1	Community Development Division	Referred for Introduction

Fiscal Note
The proposed resolution authorizes an amendment to the contract with Community Action Coalition (CAC) to provide the organization with an additional $530,000 in Emergency Rental Assistance funds. These funds are available through an additional $4.1 million from the U.S. Treasury Emergency Rental Assistance 2 program. Acceptance of the additional $4.1 million was approved by Common Council on April 18, 2023 (Leg file 76581, RES-23-00306). No additional City appropriation is required.
Title
SUBSTITUTE: Authorizing an amendment of the contract between the City of Madison and Community Action Coalition for South Central Wisconsin (CAC) to provide Housing Stability Services, using Federal Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) funds, and providing up to $530,000 in additional ERA funds to CAC for use in providing housing navigation and support services to Community Development Authority clients, and authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to execute a contract amendment with CAC to providing those services.
Body
BACKGROUND

On March 10, 2021, Congress enacted the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (H.R. 1319, Public Law 117-2), which provided additional funding to respond to multiple areas of need created by the COVID-19 pandemic. This Act (also known as "ARPA") included an additional $21.5 billion in Emergency Rental Assistance Program funding ("ERA2") to be distributed to state and local governments as supplemental support for their ongoing eviction prevention and housing stability efforts; of this figure, the City of Madison has received a direct ERA2 allocation of just over $41 million.

These federal Emergency Rental Assistance Program funds have been used in collaboration with similar allocations received by Dane County to support a local rental assistance program known as Dane CORE 2.0 Emergency Rental Assistance Program to provide direct assistance to eligible applicants, along with associated housing stability services, through vendor contracts administ...