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Health and Human Services Agency recommending the Board approve and ratify the Chief Administrative Officer’s signature on Amendment 1 to Agreement 4212, with Tahoe Coalition for the Homeless, in accordance with Resolution 062-2020; thereby (1) authorizing the provision of supportive services for the COVID-19 Project Roomkey placement of medically vulnerable homeless in hotels during the COVID-19 crisis, and (2) authorizing the extension of Coordinated Entry Services currently in place for South Lake Tahoe to the West Slope of the County through March 31, 2024.
FUNDING: CESH-2018 grant; CESH-2019 grant; and COVID-19 grant funding.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND:
On October 8, 2019, the Board of Supervisors approved and authorized the Chair to sign Agreement 4212 with Tahoe Coalition for the Homeless to provide a Coordinated Entry Services (CES) program for homeless individuals. The CES program was for the term upon execution through September 30, 2020, with a maximum obligation of $121,947 and were fully funded by the CESH-2018 grant.
Thereafter it was determined that the CES program was also needed on the West Slope and Amendment 1 was developed and in process to expand CES to the West Slope by co-locating TCH staff at the HHSA Briw Road offices using CESH-2018 and CESH-2019 funding.
Effective April 7, 2020, the County and Continuum of Care (CoC) received a COVID-19 grant allocation consisting of two parts: $109,908.68 (County allocation) and $119,462.49 (CoC allocation), to be used specifically to support the placement of homeless in hotels to ensure social distancing (later became named Project Roomkey by the State).
On April 2, 2020, the Board adopted and authorized the Chair to sign Resolution 062-2020, thereby delegating authority to the Chief Administrative Officer to execute contracts specific to the COVID-19 effort, to ensure efficient execution of those specified agreements to maximize the time funding would be available.
On April 24, ...
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