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July 13, 2009
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Agenda
Item No. 41 Roll
Call No. 09- Communication No.
09-478 Submitted by:
Chris M. Johansen, |
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AGENDA
HEADING:
Approval
of transferring $50,000 of funding from the United Way of Central Iowa to the
Polk County Housing Trust Fund to fund the Polk County Housing Continuum
Coordinator.
SYNOPSIS:
Recommend
Council approval of transferring $50,000 of funding from the United
Way of Central Iowa to the Polk County Housing Trust Fund to fund the Polk
County Housing Continuum Coordinator. This position is working with Technical
Assistance Collaborative, Inc. on the creation of the action plan that
addresses homelessness and will work on implementing the plan once it’s created.
FISCAL
IMPACT:
Amount:
$50,000
Funding
Source: Grant received from the
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION:
On
June 23, 2008 the City Council approved an agreement with
On November 19, 2007 the City Council approved a CDBG allocation of $50,000 for the purpose of hiring a consultant to advise on the development of an integrated supportive housing system. The City has worked with the United Way and Polk County to develop a Request For Purchase (RFP) to hire a consultant to meet the following objectives:
1) Recommend
a long-term, sustaining process of leadership for addressing the homeless
population.
2) Identify
alternative organization structures for managing the homelessness needs and
recommend a structure that would be most successful.
3) Identify
the funding stakeholders and recommend how each will contribute to the effort.
4) Identify
service providers and recommend ways for them to best cooperate with this
planning effort, coordinate their service delivery, and eliminate duplication.
5) Define
and clarify roles and responsibilities of funders, stakeholders, service
providers and other participants.
6) Identify
the services available and unavailable for all populations of the homeless
(children, families, inventory of the number of units for these populations,
e.g.). This identification will include
the services available and unavailable for chronic homelessness, emergency
sheltering and transitional housing.
This CDBG allocation has been utilized to pay for the consulting contract with Technical Assistance Collaborative, Inc.
The 2009 CDBG allocations included $50,000 for the Polk County Housing Trust Fund to fund the Polk County Housing Continuum Manager.
To date, the City of Des Moines has allocated $100,000 of
CDBG funding to the development of an action plan to address homelessness and fund
the Polk County Housing Continuum Manager.
The
PREVIOUS
COUNCIL ACTION(S):
Date:
June 23, 2008
Roll
Call Number:
08-1111
Action:
Agreement
with United Way of Central Iowa to co-fund a Housing Consultant to create a
Homelessness Action Plan. (Council Communication No. 08-383) Moved by Vlassis to adopt. Motion Carried 7-0.
BOARD/COMMISSION
ACTION(S): NONE
ANTICIPATED
ACTIONS AND FUTURE COMMITMENTS:
NONE
For more information on this and other agenda items,
please call the City Clerk’s Office at 515-283-4209 or visit the Clerk’s Office
on the second floor of City Hall,