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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute all necessary agreements, all sub-grant agreements and any subsequent amendments to the agreements and sub-grant agreements that change the terms, extend the time period or increase grant amounts with People Assisting the Homeless (PATH) in the amounts of $97,831 and $140,515 and The Children’s Clinic (TCC) in the amount of $98,479, each for the period of December 1, 2007 through December 30, 2008. Funding is available through the Department of Housing and Urban Development and an appropriation was previously established in the Health Fund (SR 130) and in the Department of Health and Human Services (HE) as part of the fiscal year 2008 budget process. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
The City of Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services (Health Department) is the lead entity for the Continuum of Care for Homeless Services, through the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The City subcontracts with several nonprofit agencies to provide supportive services, shelter and housing for homeless within the City of Long Beach. Two subcontract recipient agencies have returned grant funds for services currently in operation and therefore the respective service provisions must be reallocated to competent service providers that can maintain the same type of service within the Continuum of Care (CoC) System.
People Assisting the Homeless (PATH) was chosen through the Health Department's 2007 competitive grant allocation process to be awarded some reallocation funds for renewal funding in the 2007 CoC grant submission to HUD. The funding will provide 81 units of permanent housing for families, currently being built at the Villages of Cabrillo, which will open in 2008. In the interim, PATH has agreed to provide transition in place housing services as currently contracted between the City and HUD during the 2002 and 2006 CoC funding cycles to ensure minimal loss of existing funding and continued services t...
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