EXTENSION OF PROCLAMATION
OF LOCAL HOMELESS
EMERGENCY
City Council
August 23, 2022 1
Sasha Cohen
Housing and Community Services
August 9, 2016 Council Meeting
Council formally recognized a homelessness
emergency
1) Declared a homeless shelter crisis.
2) Proclaimed a local homeless emergency.
3) Directed the Mayor to submit a letter
requesting for a gubernatorial state of
emergency proclamation.
2 Local Homeless Emergency
• The declarations have given the City increased
financial and land use flexibility to address the
homeless crisis.
• For example, increasing shelter bed capacity
at Samuel L Jones Hall, expanding services at
Homeless Services Center, and allowing for
provision of services on private property
through the CHAP program.
3 Local Homeless Emergency
• Government Code Section 8630, as recently
amended, requires that the Council review
the need for continuing the local homeless
emergency at least every 60 days until such
local emergency is terminated.
4 Council Extensions
• Local homeless emergency continues to exist.
• Council has approved an extension of the
declaration of local homeless emergency on a
monthly basis since the original proclamation
in August 2016.
• 60th extension.
5 Recommendation
• It is recommended by the Housing and
Community Services Department that the
Council, by resolution, approve an extension of
Resolution No. 28839 which formally proclaimed
a local homeless emergency within Santa Rosa.
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