TITLE
Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement, and any necessary documents and subsequent amendments, including amending the award amount, with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, to receive and expend $524,632, from the Fiscal Year 21 Emergency Solutions Grant Program allocation, and execute subcontracts with Volunteers of America Los Angeles and Interval House, for emergency shelter support and homeless prevention, respectively, from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022, with the option to renew for an additional one-year period, at the discretion of the City Manager. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
The Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) is a formula allocation from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), as part of the City Consolidated Plan, which is managed by the Development Services Department’s Neighborhood Services Bureau. The Long Beach Health and Human Services Department (Health Department), Homeless Services Bureau (HSB), implements this component of the Consolidated Plan, and the HOME move-in deposit assistance program, as leveraged resources to the Continuum of Care (CoC) system.
A Request for Proposals (RFP) is conducted every two years to select nonprofit agencies for the projects that are annually funded, contingent upon HUD funding. As the lead entity for the local homeless CoC, the Health Department released an RFP on June 8, 2020. The proposal review process was conducted by an Ad Hoc Proposal Review Committee comprised of three Homeless Services Advisory Committee members, and the following two projects were selected:
· Volunteers of America Los Angeles, Emergency Shelter Program
· Interval House, Homelessness Prevention Program
The funding for the nonprofit agencies recommended for the ESG program is $221,355 for Volunteers of America Los Angeles to provide emergency shelter for people experiencing homeless, and $174,067 for Interval House to provide homeless prevention ser...
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