REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL
FROM: JENNIFER CLARK, Director
Planning and Development Department
PHIL SKEI, Assistant Director
Planning and Development Department
BY: ERIKA LOPEZ, Senior Management Analyst
Community Development Division
SUBJECT
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***RESOLUTION - Adopting the 45th Amendment to the Annual Appropriation Resolution (AAR) No. 2022-154 appropriating $132,600 in Emergency Solutions Grant-Coronavirus (ESG-CV) (Subject to Mayor’s Veto)
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RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends the City Council adopt the 45th amendment of the Annual Appropriation Resolution No. 2022-154 appropriating $132,600 in Emergency Solutions Grant-Coronavirus (ESG-CV)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Approval of the AAR will appropriate $132,600 dollars from Fiscal Year 2020-2021 and Fiscal Year 2021-2022 ESG-CV Funds (Fund# 2000-2037) to Fiscal Year 2022-2023 (Fund# 2000-2037). Approving this action will allow the City to fund new ESG-CV homeless service projects to protect the health and safety of people experiencing homelessness and reduce the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak.
BACKGROUND
On June 18, 2020, City Council approved the 49th amendment to the Annual Appropriation Resolution No. 2019-133 that would appropriate $1,998,334.50 in ESG-CV to an agreement with the County of Fresno Department of Social Services for implementation of the joint COVID-19 homelessness response plan.
On October 29, 2020, City Council adopted Resolution No. 2020-286 and approved the submission of Substantial Amendment 2019-05 to the 2019-2020 Annual Action Plan to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to program $8,845,443 in a second round of ESG-CV funds to prevent, prepare for, and respond to COVID-19. The approval of this substantial amendment funded various activities such as street outreach through an agreement with Kingsview and rapid rehousing through agreements with the Fresno Center and Centro La Familia.
On August 18, 2022, City Council approved the sixth revision of the ESG-CV activity allocations reprogramming unspent ESG-CV funding from the agreements with the County of Fresno, Kingsview, the Fresno Center, and Centro La Familia to emergency shelter operations at Travel Inn, mobile shower operations, and an extension of the agreement with Poverello House for street outreach. This reprogramming was necessary to ensure the City meets its 100% expenditure deadline of September 30, 2023.
On December 15, 2022, City Council approved Annual Appropriation Resolution No. 2022-154 to appropriate the ESG-CV funds that were approved by City Council on August 18, 2022, for emergency shelter, mobile shower, and street outreach activities. Because the funds being reprogrammed were placed on purchase orders in prior fiscal years Council would have to approve an appropriation of funds from the prior fiscal years to the current fiscal year to fund the approved activities.
Since then, the City has had ESG-CV agreements that have ended with unspent funding. This has left the City with $132,600 in ESG-CV funds to reprogram. An AAR must once again be completed to allow for the use of the available ESG-CV funds for emergency shelter. The AAR would reappropriate unspent ESG-CV funds on purchase orders from prior fiscal years to fund the current fiscal year’s emergency shelter activities. The amendment to an agreement associated with the emergency shelter activities proposed to receive the funds will go before Council on the same date under a separate agenda item.
ENVIRONMENTAL FINDINGS
This is not a project for purposes of CEQA pursuant to CEQA guidelines Section 15378. These plans, strategies and studies are Categorically Excluded Not Subject to Section 58.5 Pursuant to 24 CFR Part 58.34(a) and 58.35(b) under HUD NEPA Requirements (24 CFR 58.35 (b) (2) (3)).
LOCAL PREFERENCE
Local preference is not applicable because of the use of federal funding.
FISCAL IMPACT
This Resolution will appropriate Fiscal Year 2020-2021 and Fiscal Year 2021-2022 ESG-CV Funds (Fund# 2000-2037) to Fiscal Year 2022-2023 ESG-CV Funds (658004/ 2000-2037/9995).
Attachments:
ESG-CV Resolution No. 2022-154