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Health and Human Services Agency recommending the Board:
1) Approve and authorize the attached Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) template for use with sponsors who wish to provide financial support for the contract by and between The Center for Common Concerns (HomeBase) and the Health and Human Services Agency to provide technical assistance and guidance to the El Dorado Opportunity Knocks Continuum of Care; and
2) Delegate authority to the Director of Health and Human Services, or their designee to execute future agreements using this template MOU.
FUNDING: N/A
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND:
Following a November 5, 2013 meeting of the Board of Supervisors, the County encouraged the development of an inter-agency taskforce to examine homeless sheltering locations, which developed into a group of community stakeholders called Opportunity Knocks. In addition, for many years a separate collaboration of local agencies and providers have administered El Dorado County’s Continuum of Care (CoC). During 2017-18 the two groups merged in order to maximize local stakeholder support, and to establish cohesive system planning. This combined organization of stakeholders is now known as El Dorado Opportunity Knocks CoC (EDOK).
EDOK has benefited from the expertise and technical assistance of The Center for Common Concerns, Inc. (HomeBase), resulting in the single largest federal homeless grant ever received in El Dorado County.
To support the efforts of EDOK and to ensure ongoing education in the federal requirements for US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) CoC grants, the Board has approved agreement #3334 between the Health and Human Services Agency and HomeBase (File ID: 18-1170).
Certain members of the community, including Barton Healthcare, Marshall Medical Center, and City of Placerville have expressed an interest in supporting this Agreement #3334 with HomeBase by sponsoring a portion of the cost. This boilerplate agreement would allow interested sponsors to contribute toward the cost of the HomeBase consultant agreement.
ALTERNATIVES:
Should the Board decline to approve the boilerplate agreement, sponsoring the HomeBase agreement would require an individual agreement with each sponsor, the development of which would delay the process. Likewise, the Board could decline to delegate authority to the Director of Health and Human Services to execute said boilerplate agreements; however, this would require each agreement to be submitted to a Board Agenda for execution and again would delay the process.
OTHER DEPARTMENT / AGENCY INVOLVEMENT:
County Counsel.
CAO RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board approve this item.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
The HomeBase agreement #3334 has a General Fund impact of $82,000. This boilerplate agreement would result in funding toward the HomeBase agreement, which would defray some of the use of General Fund.
CLERK OF THE BOARD FOLLOW UP ACTIONS
Clerk of the Board to provide a Certified Minute Order to Health and Human Services Agency Contracts Unit at 3057 Briw Road, Suite B.
STRATEGIC PLAN COMPONENT:
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CONTACT
Patricia Charles-Heathers, Ph.D., M.P.A., Director