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...
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