DATE: July 13, 2021
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Assistant City Manager
SUBJECT
Adopt Resolutions: (1) Accepting and Appropriating Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Grant Funding for Use at the Hayward Navigation Center; and (2) Authorizing the City Manager to Enter into Agreements with Hayward Navigation Center Vendors (BACS and PMSI) for Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Services
RECOMMENDATION
That the Council adopts resolutions (Attachments II-IV):
1. Accepting and appropriating $589,391 in Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention funding for use at the Hayward Navigation Center;
2. Authorizing the City Manager to negotiate and execute an agreement with Bay Area Community Services for Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Hayward Navigation Center operations for an amount not-to-exceed $2.5 million; and
3. Authorizing the City Manager to add $142,000 in funds to the existing agreement with Pacific Mobile Structures, Inc. (PMSI) to provide Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Hayward Navigation Center modular services.
SUMMARY
On January 22, 2019, the City Council authorized the City Manager to take emergency actions to implement the Hayward Navigation Center. The Hayward Navigation Center opened November 18, 2019 and is operated by Bay Area Community Services (BACS). BACS provides on-site management, care coordination and housing navigation, residential counseling, and flexible funding to support success in permanent housing. Since opening, 105 individuals have exited from the Hayward Navigation Center into permanent housing.
Staff have been aggressively pursuing external grant opportunities to fund homelessness solutions in Hayward, which includes Homeless Emergency Aid Program (HEAP), Proposition 47, Permanent Local Housing Allocation (PLHA), and the recently awarded Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) funding.
Since opening in November 2019, the City has additionally been working with PMSI to provide the on-site modular services for ...
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