Fiscal Note
The proposed resolution authorizes allocating $90,000 to the three non-profit agencies to provide homeless services in 2018. Council approved RES-17-00909 (Legistar file 49339) allocated $769,869 to nine non-profit agencies to provide homeless services in 2018. As part of the 2018 budget process the Common Council added $90,000 to support additional contracts for homeless services. The CDBG Committee reviewed CDD’s recommended allocation of the $90,000 based upon the original RFP approved by RES17-00737 (Legistar file 48265). Total funding for these contracts in the 2018 Adopted Operating Budget is $934,436: $781,623 from the General Fund and $152,813 from grant sources.
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Authorizing the allocation of up to $90,000 among 3 non-profit agencies to help finance the provision of an array of homeless services beginning in 2018, as the result of a competitive RFP process conducted by Community Development Division; and authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to enter into agreements with those agencies to implement the designated programs and services.
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Background
On September 5, 2017, the Common Council approved RES-17-00737 (Legistar Item #48265), which accepted the Community Development Division’s (CDD) Homeless Services Request for Proposals (RFP), and authorized the CDD to accept proposals from service organizations in response to that RFP and to formulate funding allocation recommendations, for use beginning in 2018, to the Mayor and Common Council.
The adopted 2017 Community Development Division (CDD) Operating Budget included $784,385 ($610,275 from the General Fund and $174,110 from federal Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) funding) to support homeless services. A comparable level of City and ESG funding for this program area is expected to continue for 2018. Up to $14,516 of ESG funding is designated for use to cover costs associated with administration and Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) support. The remaining $769,869 wa...
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