Lake County Health & Community Services Committee met May 5.
Here is the agenda provided by the committee:
1. Call to Order
2. Pledge of Allegiance
3. Addenda to the Agenda
4. Public Comment
5. Chair's Remarks
6. Old Business
7. New Business
REGULAR AGENDA
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
7.1 20-0597
Joint resolution approving the second amendment to the 2019 United States Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Annual Action Plan (AAP).
· The CARES Act was signed into law on March 27, 2020 to alleviate the immediate needs related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The CARES Act includes up to $5,000,000,000 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding and $4,000,000,000 of Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) funding.
· As an entitlement community Lake County will receive an additional $1,709,120 of CDBG and $777,472 of ESG funds from the first allotment of this funding.
· HUD requires the submission of an Annual Action Plan (AAP) and associated amendments to govern expenditure of federal housing and community development funding for each program year.
· The Second Amendment to the Program Year 2019 (PY 2019) Annual Action Plan (AAP) incorporates the CARES Act funding and allocates $777,472 of ESG funds to support shelter, rapid rehousing and program administration. The amendment also includes $1,591,824 of CDBG funds to support: rental assistance, legal services, housing counseling, food banks, emergency small business loans and program administration.
· The Second Amendment to the PY 2019 Annual Action Plan (AAP) reallocates $88,732 in 2019 HOME funds approved for the Community Partners for Affordable Housing (CPAH) Owner Occupied Rehabilitation Program (OORP) to the CPAH Down-payment Assistance Program (DAP).
7.2 20-0598
Joint resolution authorizing a contract for Permanent Supportive Housing Expansion HOME Tenant-Based Rental Assistance from Thresholds, Chicago, Illinois, in an amount not to exceed $260,311.
· Community Development worked with consultants at the Corporation for Supportive Housing to develop innovative funding mechanisms for additional permanent supportive housing (PSH) units for Lake County residents experiencing homelessness.
· The County Board approved funding for this purpose in the approved Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Annual Action Plan.
· Thresholds were selected to receive the contract for rental assistance, administrative costs, and a performance payment as a result of a public call for partners. The performance payment will be dependent upon successful outcomes.
· Pursuant to the Code of Federal Regulations, the participating jurisdiction may select a subrecipient to administer all or some of the participating jurisdiction’s HOME programs to provide tenant-based rental assistance. This contract authorizes Thresholds to provide this tenant-based rental assistance in an amount not to exceed of $260,311 for services through April 30, 2022.
7.3 20-0623
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.
· 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 people over 65 or with certain underlying health conditions. County up-front expenses for Alternate Housing Sites may be partially reimbursable under FEMA’s Public Assistance Program.
· Lake County’s homeless shelter agencies that currently house clients in non-congregate shelter may have a need to divert those clients that meet criteria (a) or (b) above to a Health Department-managed Alternate Housing Site; funding will be needed to allow the diversion of such clients to Alternate Housing Sites.
· Given the availability of other sources for reimbursing Lake County’s homeless shelter organizations, and the growing need for County expense of funds to shelter persons (including homeless individuals who are COVID-19 positive or exposed) at Alternate Housing Sites, this resolution amends the original resolution to allow the use of the County’s $100,000 agency unreimbursed novel corona virus (COVID-19) emergency shelter funds (derived from 2020 Video Gaming Revenue) to be utilized for Alternate Housing Sites.
8. Executive Session
9. Public Comment
10. County Administrator's Report
11. Members' Remarks
12. Adjournment
Next Meeting: June 2, 2020
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