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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to amend Contract No. 36444 with Vimal, Inc., dba Hyland Inn, of Long Beach, CA (Owner), and the City of Long Beach (Occupant) to provide temporary shelters for households experiencing homelessness and/or program participants who are homeless and in need of temporary motel lodging within Long Beach, to increase the contract amount by $470,600, for a revised contract amount not to exceed $941,200. (District 6)
Levine Act: Yes
DISCUSSION
City Council approval is requested to amend Contract No. 36444 with Vimal Inc., dba Hyland Inn, to continue occupying this facility to maintain the City of Long Beach's (City) capacity to house people experiencing homelessness and help support potential seasonal increases in demand for emergency housing.
Vimal Inc., dba Hyland Inn, was used as part of the City's Isolation and Quarantine program in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, to shelter individuals who had tested positive for COVID-19, and as a Project Roomkey site to shelter people experiencing homelessness who are most vulnerable to medical complications. Upon completing these projects, the City desired to continue utilizing motel vouchers to shelter vulnerable people experiencing homelessness.
On November 1, 2022, the City Council authorized an occupancy agreement with Vimal Inc., dba Hyland Inn, for providing temporary shelters for households experiencing homelessness and/ or program participants who are homeless and in need of temporary motel lodging within Long Beach for six months commencing November 1, 2022 through April 30, 2023, with the option to extend month to month for up to an additional six months.
The option to extend month to month for six months was exercised on April 12, 2023, extending the term through October 28, 2023, with no additional funds added. This recommendation requests the authority to increase the contract amount by $470,600, for a total ...
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