To: Board of Supervisors
From: Anna Roth, Health Services Director
Report Title: Agreement #28-372-5 with the City of Richmond
☒Recommendation of the County Administrator ☐ Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute on behalf of the County Agreement #28-372-5 with the City of Richmond, a government agency, including mutual indemnification, to pay the County an amount not to exceed $1,430,639 for the Coordinated Outreach, Referral and Engagement (CORE) Program to provide homeless outreach services, for the period from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2026.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Approval of this agreement will allow the County to receive an amount not to exceed $1,430,639 from the City of Richmond over a three-year period to provide homeless outreach services. No County match is required.
BACKGROUND:
The CORE Program locates and engages homeless clients throughout Contra Costa County. CORE teams serve as an entry point into the County’s coordinated entry system for unsheltered persons and work to locate, engage, stabilize and house chronically homeless individuals and families. County has been providing CORE services to the City of Richmond since May 2018.
On June 27, 2023, the Board of Supervisors approved Agreement #28-372-4 with City of to pay County an amount not to exceed $144,333 to operate the CORE Program and provide services to the City of Richmond for its Police Department for the period July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023.
Approval of Agreement #28-372-5 will allow County to receive funds to continue providing CORE services to City of Richmond through June 30, 2026. This contract includes mutual indemnification to hold harmless both parties for any claims arising out of the performance of this Contract. This agreement is delayed due to the City not furnishing the agreement to County until October 30, 2023.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
If this agreement is not approved, county will not receive funding and without such funding, the CORE program may have to operate at a reduced capacity.