To: Board of Supervisors
From: John Kopchik, Director, Conservation and Development
Report Title: MOU with All Home to provide the County a $100,000 grant to support the planning and creation of a County Homelessness Strategic Plan
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Conservation and Development Director, or designee, to execute a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with All Home, a project of Tides Center, a California non-profit public benefit corporation, to provide the County a grant of $100,000 to support the development of a County Homelessness Strategic Plan.
FISCAL IMPACT:
No impact to the General Fund. All Home is providing $100,000 to the County as a grant. All Home does not require a County match, but the County is contracting with a consultant for this work at a cost of $314,000. This grant will defray some of that cost.
BACKGROUND:
The County departments of Conservation and Development, Health Services, and Employment and Human Services, with support and guidance from the County Administrator's Office (together the "Specified Departments"), have been discussing the need for and scope of a proposed Homelessness Strategic Plan for Contra Costa County. To help facilitate this process, a Request for Proposals (RFP) was issued in June 2024 to seek a consultant to provide technical assistance and support to the Specified Departments involved in developing a Countywide Homelessness Strategic Plan (Strategic Plan).
The County received three proposals from qualified consultants, and the proposal from Focus Strategies, a consulting firm specializing in helping communities reduce homelessness through delivery of effective homelessness crisis response and expanding on housing solutions, was selected. The contract with Focus Strategies (Consultant) was approved by the Board of Supervisors at the Board meeting held on December 3, 2024, with a contract amount not to exce...
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