Warming/Cooling Center: Sebastopol has offered cooling centers in the past and the Ad Hoc Committee is in the process of developing a policy and protocol to be followed when future incidents of cold or hot weather merit opening of a cooling or warming center. This addition to the Ad Hoc’s project list was inspired by the below-freezing temperatures over the holiday period, which directly impacted the health and safety of the unhoused. SAVS and local advocates worked diligently with Community Church, with facilitation offered by the Ad Hoc Committee, and as a result the Community Church opened a room for people to stay inside, eat and be warm. This Warming Center was hosted and operated by SAVS, with assistance from Sebastopol Homeless Support, West County Homeless Advocates, and Homeless Action!. The Warming Center offered soup each evening and volunteer monitors for covid testing, herbal tea and morning clean up. Subsequently, in late February, as temperatures again dropped below freezing, SAVS, local advocates, and Community Church joined forces to again open a warming center. The Ad Hoc Committee’s conclusion is that there is a continuing need, as well as motivated volunteers and a willing Church. This Committee proposes that the Emergency Operations Chief (Fire Chief Braga) work with the County and this Committee to discuss a policy and funding for future warming and cooling locations, including the standards for determining when to open these facilities. It is recommended il support the possible addition of oversight of a warming/cooling center oversight as a WCCS service to be added in the contract renewal, subject to staff input and suggestions. Given WCCS’s understanding of the needs of Sebastopol’s unhoused, WCCS would be a very effective entity for oversight of this program. It is recommended the Fir e Chief work with WCCS for preparation of a contract and budgeting requests.
3. Housing Alternatives:
Concern: For the vehicular unhoused, the housing concern is finding them a sanitary and safe place for their lived-in vehicles. For the rest of the unhoused, the challenge is finding them shelter, preferably long term.
Progress Achieved:
a. RV Village: This is serving the needs of 18 lived-in vehicles. b. Park Village: The City Owned Park Village, managed by WCCS since 2017 under a contract with the City, provides housing alternatives for Sebastopol’s unhoused. It offers 8 (soon to be 10) housing “units” to homeless families, without regard to ability to pay: 8 RVs, plus two soon to be completed two bedroom apartments (2 bedrooms each). In addition, there are two RV pads that have been added recently and have been occupied at under-market rates by RVs formerly on Morris Street.
c. Elderberry Commons: This is a County-owned facility (formerly known as Sebastopol Inn). It is within the City of Sebastopol. Currently home to individuals selected from throughout the County of Sonoma based on Covid sensitivity, it is expected that eventually this facility will offer housing to local Sebastopol unhoused.
d. WCCS Navigator: The WCCS Navigator continuously works with Sebastopol’s unhoused to facilitate placement in hotels, Park Village, shelters, in addition to other housing options.
In the Works:
a. Safe Overnight Parking Program: This program is described more fully below. b. Potential Properties for Future RV Village Relocation: The Ad Hoc Committee continues to search for viable properties support SAVS’s efforts to identify future relocation options for the RVs currently housed at the temporary Horizon Shine RV Village.
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4. Safe Overnight Parking:
Concern: Local advocates report that there are many vehicular unhoused who are living in four door or other “normal-sized” vehicles. There is a general sense that what is needed for these vehicular unhoused is safe places to park overnight.
Progress Achieved: Community Church has a long-standing safe parking program that offers five overnight parking spots in the Church parking lot. WCCS is now providing support to this parking program, in order to help screen new applicants for the lot, as well as connect with the “parkers” to facilitate access to other supportive services.
In the Works: WCCS is providing ongoing support as a resource and meeting facilitator to additional churches and other parking lots that are exploring the possibility of hosting safe overnight parking.
WCCS has taken on this role as part of its contract with the City of Sebastopol. (This program is for regular sized vehicles rather than RVs and similar sized vehicles.) WCCS is holding regular meetings to support and expand the overnight safe parking options in Sebastopol. The meetings are attended by the Committee, various organizations and churches that have stated they are open to hosting safe overnight parking in their lots.
5. Law Enforcement Concerns:
Concern: The Police Department has an obligation to enforce parking and other laws on Morris Street and environs, as well as elsewhere in the town. This has become a challenge, in particular in terms of lived-in RVs and trailers that had until recently been a 24/7 fixture on Morris Street, Laguna Parkway, and Johnson Street.
Progress Achieved:
a. RV Village: The RV Village approved by the City Council has made the law enforcement challenge on Morris Street and surrounding streets much less challenging for our police department, simply because movement of lived-in vehicles into the Village has reduced the number of lived-in vehicles that remain in town.
b. Making Vehicles Legal: Police Chief Kilgore has developed a strong working relationship with WCCS Navigator Jennifer Lake and other local advocates to build the foundation for enforcing the laws that affect the vehicular unhoused in a fair and compassionate manner. This has allowed the Police Department to collaborate with WCCS, advocates for the unhoused, and the vehicular unhoused themselves in a concerted effort to get all vehicles throughout Sebastopol properly maintained (to prevent, for example, vehicle fluid and sewage leaks), and in compliance with 72- hour parking regulations. Some of the vehicular unhoused have actively engaged with these efforts, but some have not. As a result, vehicles that are not properly registered, maintained, or in compliance with the 72-hour parking regulations are subject to citation and are being towed.
Enforcement will be ongoing.
In the Works:
a. Parking Ordinance: It is expected that the adoption of the new parking ordinance (set to go into effect March 26, 2022) will be a positive development in terms of addressing law enforcement concerns.
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6. Business Concerns:
Concern: Businesses on Morris Street and adjoining streets, as well as in The Barlow, have been concerned about the impact that the RV presence has had on their business opportunities and on their revenue. Similar concerns have now been raised by businesses in the neighborhood of the newly established Horizon Shine RV Village on Gravenstein Highway North.
Progress Achieved:
a. RV Village: The RV Village now opened is expected to address much of the negative effect the businesses have experienced from their presence on Morris Street and surrounding streets. b. Community Advisory Committee: SAVS, as promised, has created a Community Advisory Committee to bring together neighbors of Horizon Shine. The Community Advisory Committee met on February 24, the week after the RV Village was opened. In addition to representatives from SAVS and from the City, there were ten participants, including business owners, residential neighbors, and parent whose child attends the Charter School. The group will meet at least monthly, but may meet more regularly as concerns or issues dictate. The Community Advisory Committee will provide input and suggestions to SAVS regarding the RV Village, and will be a means of addressing business and resident concerns.
c. Contractual Rules and Agreement: The concerns of businesses near the RV Village site were the motivation for the inclusion of a number of stringent and demanding contractual provisions in the agreement between the City and SAVS that allowed the RV Village to move forward.
In the Works:
a. Parking Ordinance: Businesses have been supportive of parking regulations to address the issues on Morris Street and City-wide. The Council approved a new parking ordinance on February 23. It will go into effect March 26, 2022. It is expected that approval of the parking ordinance will address the needs of businesses on Morris Street and environs, including The Barlow, and will provide a means for preventing a situation similar to the one that developed on Morris from developing in other business areas of town. As also noted, the Police Chief has been requested to return to City Council with further clarifications to the Parking Ordinance.
7. Community Access to Shared Spaces:
Concern: The greater Sebastopol community has expressed interest in reclaiming community use of shared spaces that have become unavailable as a result of the RVs parking on Morris Street and adjoining streets. Shared community spaces are areas where people of Sebastopol can interact with one another and build meaningful social connections. They are places where residents can build a sense of understanding of the neighbors who live in their community. These community gathering spaces showcase the City. Those who have expressed concern include cyclists, walkers, Little League families, people using the Community Center or Wischemann Hall, the local High School, and many others.
Progress Achieved:
a. RV Village: Moving RVs to the RV Village has made Morris Street and the public spaces in that area available to the public.
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b. Relaunch: The Ad Hoc Committee (through Councilmember Diana Rich) has conveyed suggestions for incorporating use of our shared community spaces into strategies that may be considered by Townie Media, the recipient of the Relaunch Sebastopol contract.
In the Works:
a. Parking Ordinance: The parking ordinance, once it is implemented on March 26, 2022, should help ensure continued community access to shared spaces by clearing long-term encampments on Morris Street, and also by preventing future collection of overnight lived-in vehicles on Morris as well as in neighborhoods and elsewhere City-wide.
8. Funding Opportunities:
Concern: Any substantial solutions to issues raised by the unhoused will require funding sources.
Progress Achieved: Funding has been received by the City of Sebastopol for a variety of efforts related to the unhoused: $370,000 from the County as partial reimbursement for lost hotel tax revenue as a result of the County purchasing the Sebastopol Inn and using it for shelter for the unhoused; $80,000 from the County recently to provide funds to assist in issues related to the unhoused, and $36,814 as reimbursement (through a grant obtained by WCCS) for sanitation expenses on Morris Street and surrounding areas.
In the Works:
a. Continued Funding Efforts: The Ad Hoc Committee and City staff will continue to work together with the goal of applying for and obtaining grant funding from the County and the Continuum of Care Board, as well as from State and Federal sources and private-public partnerships. b. Reallocation of Funds: As discussed in the staff report and the Preliminary Proposal, the Committee is requesting a re-allocation of funds for SAVS due to the delayed timing of reimbursements from the County to cover expenses accrued by SAVS.
9. Liaison Opportunities:
Concern: The City needs to remain aware of opportunities County wide that will serve the needs of the unhoused. One way to achieve this goal is to have City Council presence on key Boards and decision-making bodies.
Progress Achieved: The City has appointed Councilmember Una Glass to hold the West County seat on the Continuum of Care Board. This is a two-year appointment. The Ad Hoc Committee for the Unhoused proposes that the City Council continue to appoint to the Continuum of Care as that opportunity arises in the future.
In the Works: Secondly, as is proposed in the March 15, 2022 staff report, the Ad Hoc Committee for the Unhoused recommends the Council support one other appointment annually: a Council Liaison to Service Providers for the Unhoused (including but not limited to SAVS/Horizon Shine, WCCS, CDC/Elderberry Commons). This liaison would be tasked with representing the City Council in a variety of ways as described below, reporting back to the City Council every two months, and ensuring action items are placed on the Council agenda as needed. Tasks would include the following:(1) SAVS/Horizon Shine: Participate in the SAVS Community Advisory Committee and assist City Staff as needed in monitoring the SAVS Contractual Rules and Agreement, (2) WCCS: Act as a Agenda Item Number 11 Agenda Item Number: 11
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Resource for Safe Overnight Parking and other WCCC-related issues, (3) Elderberry Commons:
Monitor Developments at Elderberry Commons, and (4) Act as liaison to other service providers for the unhoused as needed.
10. Coordination with Stakeholders:
Concern: Effective solutions to the many issues raised by the unhoused in our community requires coordination with a variety of stakeholders.
Progress Achieved: The Ad Hoc Committee has done substantial outreach with stakeholders, and has been impressed by the benefits those conversations and meetings have produced in terms of the progress of the Committee’s efforts.
In the Works: The Committee continues to engage in regular outreach to stakeholders.
Other Related Concerns: The Ad Hoc Committee has no concerns not addressed already in this report.
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Attachment 5: Ad Hoc Committee for the Unhoused Preliminary Proposal March 15, 2022 City Council Meeting
This Preliminary Proposal and Outcomes section can be considered final if the City Council elects to terminate the Ad Hoc Committee for the Unhoused, on March 31, 2022 as originally planned. If the City Council elects to continue the Ad Hoc Committee for the Unhoused, the Committee will update this report at the April 19, 2022 City Council meeting.
Note re Budget Impact of Proposals: The Ad Hoc Committee for the Unhoused does not have information regarding the budget impact of the proposals contained here. That information would be developed during the 2022-23 budget process, based on requests received from Department heads or from Individual City Councilmembers.
Needs to be Addressed by this Proposal, as Directed by the City Council:
Sanitation and safety
Mental health, medical, and social services
Housing
Safe Overnight Parking
Law enforcement concerns
Business concerns
Community access to shared space
1. Establish an RV Village- DONE! Support the opening and operation of an RV Village. Move as many lived-in vehicles as is practical from Morris Street and environs into the Village, eliminating the impact on Morris Street and addressing the needs of that group of vehicular unhoused in a managed, humane manner. Note: Although the proposal has been met, it will be important for the City Council to continue to provide support to the RV Village as needed for its future success.
Benefits: Morris Street and environs are now available as shared public space for businesses, residents, and the community at large. Law enforcement burdens have been reduced. Services are being provided to the 18 lived-in vehicles formerly on Morris and adjoining streets. They receive a full array of services: sanitation, safety, mental health, medical, social services, and housing among others.
The request to reallocate funds will have the additional $20K increase to expenditure in account 100.10.01-4890. In essence the amount issuing to SAVS in advance of receiving $80,000 grant from the County will have a net zero impact. As indicated by CDC Interim Director Dave Kiff, County funds will be received before the end of the fiscal year. For the next fiscal year, the recommendations contained here will have a fiscal impact, but the total amount of that impact is uncertain at this time. The final amount will become clear during the Budget Process, which is just beginning now. It is recommended the City provide funding to SAVS for $80,000 as a loan for repayment from SAVS to the City to be repaid no later than June 30, 2023. It would be recommended at that time that the City Council determine use of the $80,000 upon repayment of funds.
Benefit: This extension would allow SAVS to provide the services it has contracted to provide, with a net zero impact on the City.
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2. Fund a Grant Writer to Monitor and Apply for Funding for City Projects for the Unhoused - NEW: The Ad Hoc Committee for the Unhoused was tasked with determining potential government grant funds to cover the costs of the proposals presented to the City Council. While the Ad Hoc Committee agrees that the identification of funding sources is essential, the breadth of this task is more than the Ad Hoc Committee can handle effectively. The Ad Hoc Committee therefore recommends that the City Council support a proposal to fund a grant writer to monitor and apply for funding opportunities. The grant writer could be made available to multiple departments City-wide. The Ad Hoc Committee suggests that this item be considered as part of the 2022-23 budget process.
Benefit: A grant writer would be beneficial in tracking and applying for grants that would support a variety of City projects and initiatives, including those involving issues of the unhoused.
3. Extend the Ad Hoc Committee to April 19, 2022: This would allow the Ad Hoc Committee to hold the a Town Hall, as it was directed to do by the City Council. The Ad Hoc Committee has set a tentative date of Thursday April 14, 2022, at 6pm, via zoom for the Town Hall meeting.
Benefit: With the requested one-month extension, the Ad Hoc Committee for the Unhoused would be in a position to complete the one remaining task it was assigned: holding a Town Hall meeting.
4. Support & Fund a Warming/Cooling Center Program – In the Works: Coordinate with WCCS, SAVS, and other key parties and direct the Fire Chief to develop a policy and protocol to be followed when future incidents of cold or hot weather merit opening and operation of a cooling or warming center.
Benefit: A warming/cooling center protects the unhoused from severe weather rather than leaving them exposed, in the open without shelter, to the elements. It serves sanitation and safety needs as well as mental health, medical, and social services and housing needs. Providing this temporary managed shelter for the unhoused who would otherwise be outside without support benefits law enforcement, businesses, and the community at large.
5. Renew the WCCS Contract for Services to the Unhoused – Continuing an Existing Successful Program:
Renew the contract with WCCS for next fiscal year, recognizing that the services of the WCCS Navigator have been instrumental in addressing the needs of the unhoused in Sebastopol, which has also served to benefit businesses, law enforcement, and the community at large.
Benefit: The contract with WCCS provides substantial benefits to Sebastopol’s unhoused, and therefore to Sebastopol community-wide. Specifically, it states that WCCS’s overall goal under the contract with Sebastopol is “to coordinate City-wide efforts (faith-based, non-profit, business, governmental and individuals), as well as provide hands-on services to people without homes in Greater Sebastopol.” Specific tasks are as follows:
• Refer people without homes to Coordinated Entry as appropriate • Represent WCCS at relevant meetings
• Take leadership coordination role in homeless services • Develop relationships with clients and connect them to services • Develop citywide services matrix, including relevant county services, to inform both housed and unhoused communities as to what type and availability of services Agenda Item Number 11 Agenda Item Number: 11
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• Increase citywide understanding of rules/laws around homelessness • Partner with City staff and first responders in homeless response. • Develop volunteer/civic engagement opportunities around homelessness • Support Safe Parking efforts. Facilitate communication/collaboration between the safe parking programs offered by various churches and other institutions. Help facilitate communication regarding offers of safe parking to the unhoused.
Many of these services are delivered through the WCCS navigator who is assigned to Sebastopol’s unhoused. She provides full time outreach services to all unhoused in the City limits. We have seen the benefits of these services at multiple times this past year. She was instrumental in sweeps of the Laguna and in addressing issues that arose on Morris and adjoining streets. The navigator provides access to social services, medical care, mental health services, and housing and shelter options. In the effort to address the encampment on Morris Street, she assisted most if not all of the RV dwellers in repairing their vehicles, getting them registered, and taking care of other details needed to qualify them for the RV Village, prevent them from being towed, and generally provide them with opportunities. Now that the Village is open and operational, she continues to serve clients there, but also is now able to attend to the many remaining who are in need of services in Sebastopol.
Support & Fund Safe Overnight Parking – In the Works: Continue to work with WCCS to expand the current program at Community Church, to other lots, in order to increase the available safe overnight parking spots in Sebastopol from 5 to 15.
Benefit: Safe overnight parking is a night-time location for those living in cars and similarly sized vehicles to park. The church or other private owner of the parking lot operates the program, selects “parkers” and assigns parking places to each. They are allowed to park in the lot during designated hours. A volunteer parking lot monitor drives through once each night. Indoor restroom facilities or a porta-pottie are made available. The benefits to the vehicular unhoused are many: they have their sanitation and safety needs met, and because they are in one spot each night it allows a point of contact for the WCCS navigation outreach worker Jennifer Lake to connect the parkers with mental health, medical, and social services. As with other services to the unhoused, there are substantial benefits to law enforcement, businesses, and the community at large in having the parkers safely located at a designated parking spot rather than parking in other, less safe, and perhaps more intrusive locations in town.
Support the possible addition of oversight of the warming/cooling center oversight as a WCCS service to be added in the contract renewal, subject to staff input and suggestions.
Benefit: Given WCCS’s understanding of the needs of Sebastopol’s unhoused, WCCS would be a very effective entity for oversight of this program.
6. Support & Fund Park Village – Continuing an Existing Program: Continue to support Park Village, which provides housing alternatives to the Sebastopol unhoused without regard to ability to pay.
Benefit: Park Village provides much needed housing for the unhoused. This includes 8 RVs and 2 newly remodeled 2-bedroom apartments that are made available without regard to ability to pay, plus two RV pads that are rented at very low rates. WCCS provides within the contract a case manager and a property manager, both of whom serve the needs of all who are in the RV Park, Agenda Item Number 11 Agenda Item Number: 11
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including those in the 12 units already mentioned, plus 18 RV pads offered at market rates that are affordable to the very low and extremely low income families who are the communities residents.
7. Continue Exploration of Mental Health Resources to Meet City Needs. Our police chief expects to finalize a plan to provide these services to Sebastopol by mid-2023. There will be associated costs.
The Ad Hoc Committee expects the Police Chief will provide the Council with a funding request. The Ad Hoc Committee recommends that Staff provide the City Council with an informational report, in order to allow the City Council to provide direction from a policy perspective.
Benefit: A mental health response team provides trained intervention and support to address mental health issues. It’s particularly helpful to law enforcement and is very effective in facilitating positive outcomes with the unhoused. It serves mental health, medical, and social service needs as well as the needs of law enforcement, businesses, and the community at large. a. Encourage continuing use of County MST and IMDT services. Encourage the Police Dept, as well as WCCS, SAVS, and advocates for the unhoused to continue engaging the services of MST and IMDT, as well as other County support groups, to benefit Sebastopol’s unhoused population, recognizing that serving the needs of the unhoused also benefits our businesses, law enforcement, and the community at large.
Benefit: These are County services that are available to provide supportive assistance for our local needs.
8. Provide & Fund Porta-Potties, Hand-Washing Stations, Trash Bins as Needed – Continuing an Existing Program: Reassess the need for this support after the full effect of the opening of the RV Village and the implementation of parking changes has been felt. Continue these sanitation services for the unhoused in locations they are most needed. Consider moving some porta potties/hand washing stations to support safe overnight parking locations, as requested by churches WCCS, or others.
Benefit: Porta-potties and hand-washing stations address the sanitation needs that are inherent in an encampment such as the one that became established on Morris and adjoining streets. Without these services, as our Public Works Department and local businesses, visitors, and residents discovered, human feces are left in the Laguna, on sidewalks, in trash cans, and elsewhere. This is an essential sanitation need.
9. Identify a staff lead to oversee issues related to the unhoused, and to interface with service providers, the City Council, and others as needed. It has become clear to the Ad Hoc Committee for the Unhoused that there is a need for a lead within the staff to facilitate the continuing issues that arise regarding the unhoused.
Benefit: Having a designated staff member as the lead for issues related to the unhoused would streamline the handling of these issues and ensure smooth coordination among and between services providers, the City Council, and others.
10. Appoint a Council Liaison to Service Providers for the Unhoused (including but not limited to SAVS/Horizon Shine, WCCS, CDC/Elderberry Commons):This liaison would be tasked with representing the City Council in a variety of ways as described below, reporting back to the City Council every two months, and ensuring action items are placed on the Council agenda as needed.
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Tasks would include the following:(1) Participate in the SAVS Community Advisory Committee, (2) Assist City Staff as needed in monitoring the SAVS Contractual Rules and Agreement, (3) Continue Coordination with Stakeholders, (4) Act as a Resource for Safe Overnight Parking, (5) Monitor Developments at Elderberry Commons, and (6) Provide Needed Follow-Up on Pending Ad Hoc Committee Proposals not fully completed upon termination of the Committee by the City Council.
Benefit: The Council Liaison to Service Providers for the Unhoused would provide a needed conduit of information between the City Council and service providers. a. Make appointments to Continuum of Care Board as Openings become available. Currently, Councilmember Una Glass holds this appointment. The Ad Hoc Committee for the Unhoused is hopeful that the City Council will continue to make future appointments to the Continuum of Care a priority.
Benefit: The Ad Hoc Committee believes that continuing representation on the Continuum of Care Board is essential to the City’s ability to address issues related to the unhoused.
11. Create of a new Ad Hoc RV Village Property Search Committee, to last until November 1, and to be tasked with the narrow assignment of assisting SAVS in identifying a viable option for a future relocation site for the lived-in vehicles currently housed temporarily at Horizon Shine. This is particularly important given that the RV Village operated by SAVS is temporary and is under contract at the 845 Gravenstein Highway North location only through December of 2022.
Benefit: The RV Village has addressed a priority goal for the City Council. Providing assistance to SAVS in its efforts to plan ahead for the identification of a replacement option for Horizon Shine would continue to achieve that goal.
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Funding Source Stands for… Frequency Amount
Per
Capita/PIT or
Competitive?
Emergency
Shelter, NCS
Shelter
Rapid
Rehousing Safe Parking Interim Housing
Permanent
Housing
Street
Outreach
Rental
Assistance
Supportive
Services
Coordinate
d Entry or
HMIS
Other Spend By: Decision
Authority:
HHAP-3 (County) Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention Rounds $ 4,122,000 Per Capita Warming/ Cooling BOS
HHAP-3 (CoC) Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention Rounds $ 4,416,000 Per Capita Warming/ Cooling CoC Board
HHAP-3 (County and CoC) - Bonus Bonus awards based on need, performance One-Time $180M statewide Competitive Warming/ Cooling HHAP-4 (County) Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention Rounds TBD Per Capita Warming/ Cooling BOS
HHAP-4 (CoC) Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention Rounds TBD Per Capita Warming/ Cooling CoC Board
HUD's CoC ARD Grant Federal Annual Renewal Demand grant to CoCs from HUD Annual $ 4,100,000 ¹ CoC Board HUD's CoC HMIS Grant Federal HUD grant solely for HMIS use Annual $ 327,157 ¹ HMIS Support HMIS Support CoC Board HUD's CoC Planning Grant Federal HUD Grant for Lead Agency staffing Annual $ 116,000 ¹ CoC Staff support CoC Board
Measure O 1/4-cent Sonoma County sales tax Annual
- Bucket 3 Outpatient/Substance Use Disorder - 18% Annual $ 4,650,000 - Bucket 4 Behavioral health homeless - 14% Annual $ 3,500,000 - Bucket 5 Supportive Housing - 2% Annual $ 575,000 Federal ESG (CoC) Emergency Solutions Grants (fed -> CoC) Annual $ 219,283 Per Capita CoC Board Federal ESG (County) Emergency Solutions Grants (Fed -> County) Annual $ 160,000 Per Capita BOS State ESG (Urban County) Emergency Solutions Grants (State -> County) Annual $ 220,000 Per Capita BOS State ESG (CoC) Emergency Solutions Grants (State -> CoC) Annual Per Capita CoC Board CESH (2019 Round) California Emergency Solutions and Housing Rounds $ 481,000 Per Capita BOS EHVs Emergency Housing Vouchers One-Time Rent-based
values N/A Risk mitigation,
deposit /
furniture help N/A
PBVs Project-Based Vouchers Varies Rent-based
values N/A BOS
Mainstream Vouchers
Traditional Section 8 housing vouchers. Issued by
SoCoHA for Urban County + Petaluma, issued by
SRHA for Santa Rosa
N/A Rent-based
values
Fed
Allocation Housing
Authorities
CDBG
Community Development Block Grants (allocated
to SR, Petaluma, and County for Urban County -
Uninc + 7 cities)
Annual Both
BOS, Cities of
SR and
Petaluma
HOME
Federal HOME funds - Allocated to Santa Rosa and
Sonoma County (for Urban County + Petaluma + 7
cities)
Annual Both
Affordable
Housing
projects
BOS, City of
SR
ERF (2022) Encampment Resolution Funds via HCD One-Time $ 1,300,000 Competitive Petaluma CC Family Homelessness Challenge Grants Cal-Interagency Council on Homelessness 2 Rounds TBD Competitive Cal-ICH Project Homekey State HCD program for purchase and support of PSH and Interim Housing Rounds Competitive HCD
Cal-AIM
¹ HUD CoC ARD and related grants are based in part on need and on past performance, among other things.
Primary Uses
Percentages
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HHAP Round 3 (County and CoC) 30 28 30-Jun-26
HHAP Round 4 (County and CoC) - estimated 30 TBD
HHAP Round 3 Bonus Funding (County and CoC) 30-Jun-26
2021-22 HUD CoC Grant (ARD)
2022-23 HUD CoC Grant (ARD) 18
2021-22 HUD CoC Planning Grant
2022-23 HUD CoC Planning Grant 18
Cal-ICH Family Homelessness Challenge grants 30 29 50% by June 2024, 100% by June 2026 Measure O (Annual for 10 years) 21 Within Fiscal Year
Federal ESG (County and CoC)
State ESG (County and CoC) - est
Project Homekey Round 2 Within 15 months of award
Project Homekey Round 3 Within 15 months of award
Urban County CDBG/HOME (22-23)
Urban County CDBG/HOME (23-24 - est)
Project-Based Housing Vouchers (2022, 2023 est) 15
Sonoma County ARPA Allocation 7 24
Legend: = Engagement Period
30 = Applications Due
= NOFA Release
= Award Date
= Expenditure Period
May-22 Jun-22 Jul-22 Aug-22 1-Sep 22-Oct 22-Nov 22-Dec 23-Jan 23-Feb 23-Mar March 2022 - June 2023 Estimated Funding Calendar (draft - 3-17-2022) Name of the NOFA Mar-22 Apr-22 23-Apr 23-May 23-Jun Funds must be used by Agenda Item Number 11 Agenda Item Number: 11
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