Fiscal Note
The 2021 Adopted Operating Budget includes more than $2 million in funding for the four existing programs mentioned in the paper-Access to Resources, Crisis Support Services, Peer Support, and Restorative Justice. The Community Development Division will conduct an RFP process to allocate the 2022 funding as recommended by the policy paper. The amount of funding will be determined by the 2022 Adopted Operating Budget.
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Accepting the Community Development Division’s (CDD) Prevention, Crisis, and Intervention policy paper and directing CDD to conduct a Request for Proposal (RFP) process, and formulate funding allocation recommendations to the Mayor and Common Council, for approval, and use of funds to take effect on January 1, 2022.
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The proposed resolution accepts the Community Development Division’s (CDD) proposed policy paper for Prevention, Crisis, and Intervention as the foundation for conducting a Request for Proposal (RFP) process to solicit program proposals from organizations that offer programming outlined in the policy paper. It also directs CDD to conduct an RFP process and to bring funding recommendations to the council at the conclusion of the process, for Council approval, prior to awarding contracts. The process referenced above will allocate funds to selected agencies for use beginning in 2022.
In 2016, Forward Community Investments (FCI) completed, on behalf of the Common Council, an evaluation of CDD funding practices and offered recommendations to improve them. In reviewing CDD’s current funding framework, the following four existing program areas have not yet been subject to a funding process for a considerable period of time, ranging from 3-9 years as follows:
· Access to Resources - 2012 (for 2013 allocations)
· Crisis Support Services - 2015 (for 2016 allocations)
· Peer Support - 2017 (for 2018 allocations)
· Restorative Justice - 2018 (for 2019 allocations)
The policy paper introduces the proposed conceptual f...
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