Title
Joint resolution to accept the 2008 Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Continuum of Care Homeless Assistance grant award, approve an emergency appropriation, and authorize the County Board chair to execute the necessary documents.
Staff Summary
• Lake County was awarded $1,609,603 in 2007 Continuum of Care Homeless Assistance funds, equaling the total request for renewal projects. Planning Building and Development will administer $803,190 of the award (9 projects), the Health Department will administer $329,664 (1 project), and the remaining amount, $476,749 (4 projects), will be administered directly by the respective agencies.
• (1) Alexian Brothers - The Harbor ($110,250) to renew funding for transitional housing for homeless persons affected by HIV/AIDS; (2) Christian Outreach of Lutherans ($42,290) to renew funding for two units of transitional housing for families; (3) Catholic Charities ($187,128 - agency administered) to renew funding for Critical Time Intervention (CTI) Case Management services for clients residing in the permanent supportive housing units managed by Shields Township; (4) Catholic Charities ($45,507) to renew funding to provide housing counseling services, to move homeless persons from emergency shelters and transitional housing into permanent housing; (5) I-PLUS ($12,805 - agency administered) to renew funding for Representative Payee services for clients residing in the permanent supportive housing units managed by Shields Township; (6) Independence Center ($58,184) to renew funding for 8 units of permanent supportive housing for homeless individuals with mental illness; (7) Lake County Haven ($46,274) to renew funding for 4 units of transitional housing for homeless women and children; (8) Lake County Health Department ($329,664 - administered by Health Department) to renew funding for 29 units of permanent housing for chronically homeless persons with disabilities; (9) Lake County Planning Department ($95,648) for maintenance and support of the federally mandated Homeless Management Information System, ServicePoint; (10) Lake County Residential Development Corporation ($82,766) to renew the SAFe Housing program, to maintain 9 units of transitional housing for homeless families recovering from substance abuse who are also involved with DCFS; (11) PADS Crisis Services ($137,331) to renew funding for supportive services in conjunction with an emergency shelter; (12) PADS Crisis Services ($226,376 - agency administered) to renew funding for a Safe Haven form of transitional housing for chronically homeless persons with disabilities; (13) Prairie State Legal Services ($50,000 - agency administered) to renew funding for legal services for homeless persons; (14) Waukegan Township ($184,940) to renew funding for the Staben House - a transitional housing program for homeless women and children
• This resolution authorizes the Chair of the County Board to: 1) execute the necessary documents to accept the homeless assistance award; 2) authorize an emergency appropriation in the amount of $803,190; and 3) execute contracts with subrecipient entities for the expenditure of those funds.
Body
WHEREAS, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development made available $1.6 billion through a nation-wide competition for assistance to homeless individuals and families through its Continuum of Care Homeless Assistance SuperNOFA; and
WHEREAS, the Lake County Board approved a resolution on September 9, 2008 to authorize the chairman to execute the necessary documents to submit an application for the 2008 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Continuum of Care Homeless Assistance SuperNOFA; and
WHEREAS, Lake County received notification from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in February 2009 awarding $1,609,603 through the 2008 Continuum of Care Homeless Assistance SuperNOFA, $803,190 of which will be administered by Lake County, $329,664 administered by the Health Department, and the remaining amount, $476,749 will be administered directly by the respective agencies.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the County Board chair is hereby authorized to execute the necessary documents to accept the 2008 Continuum of Care Homeless Assistance funds in the amount of $803,190; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that an emergency appropriation is hereby authorized in the amount of $803,190 in fund 740-2930010-79950-000-000-000-0000 and corresponding revenue amount of $803,190 in fund 740-2930010-45334-000-000-000-0000; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this funding will be used to create a new position in the Community Development Division to administer the federally mandated Homeless Management Information System (HMIS); and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the County Board chair is hereby authorized to execute contracts with those entities designated in the 2008 Continuum of Care SuperNOFA application to be subrecipients of funds appropriated under this resolution.
DATED, at Waukegan, Lake County, Illinois on this day, March 17, 2009 A. D.