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Joint resolution amending County Board resolution 20-0503 (adopted on April 7, 2020) to allow the County's $100,000 agency unreimbursed novel coronavirus (COVID-19) emergency shelter funds (derived from 2020 Video Gaming Revenue) to be utilized for Alternate Housing Sites.
Staff Summary
* On April 7, 2020, the County Board adopted a resolution authorizing $100,000 in 2020 Video Gaming Revenue to be reserved for agencies providing emergency shelter for people who are homeless during the COVID-19 crisis.
* The original resolution was predicated upon the community need for emergency non-congregate homeless shelter as a safer alternative to congregate sheltering during the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the widespread impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on local health and human services, additional non-congregate emergency shelter needs are anticipated.
* The use of funds, reserved from 2020 Video Gaming Revenue, under the original resolution was to "fund or reimburse emergency, non-congregate shelter needs including, but not limited to, reimbursing Lake County shelters for costs of emergency, non-congregate shelter" in the event that adequate funding or reimbursements from other sources are not available.
* Since the adoption of the original resolution, additional federal funding sources have been identified to reimburse non-congregate shelter costs of Lake County's homeless shelter organizations, including pandemic-related Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) funding under the 2020 Cares Act.
* Simultaneously, the need for emergency non-congregate sheltering at Health Department-managed Alternate Housing Sites will continue to increase for (a) persons who test positive for COVID-19 who do not require hospitalization but need isolation; (b) persons who have been exposed to COVID-19 and do not require hospitalization; and (c) asymptomatic high-risk persons needing social distancing as a precautionary measure, such as peo...
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