To: Board of Supervisors
From: Dr. Grant Colfax, Health Services Director
Report Title: Certification and Indemnification Agreement #78-115 with the Department of Housing and Community Development
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute the following: (1) a Certification Regarding Non-Application of Relocation Benefits with the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) for Sherman Terrace, a Homekey+ grant program at 2025 Sherman Drive in Pleasant Hill to develop 5 units of permanent supportive housing, certifying that there are no residents, businesses, or farm operations on the property and therefore no residents requiring relocation assistance; and (2) an Indemnification Agreement with HCD to hold HCD harmless for all potential legal costs and liabilities arising from HCD's acceptance of the County's Certification Regarding Non-Application of Relocation Benefits.
FISCAL IMPACT:
No fiscal impact.
BACKGROUND:
On January 7, 2026 the County received a Notice of Conditional Award from HCD for $1,500,000 for the development of 5 units of permanent supportive housing at Sherman Terrace, a vacant, County-owned property located at 2025 Sherman Drive in Pleasant Hill.
The Homekey+ project includes a requirement that relocation assistance be provided to any persons, businesses, or farm operations located on any property to be developed with Homekey+ funds that would be displaced as a result of the project to be developed. If there are no persons, businesses, or farm operations on the property to be displaced, the Homekey+ grant program includes a requirement that grantees submit a Certification Regarding Non-Application of Relocation Benefits certifying that there are no persons, businesses, or farm operations to be displaced as a result of the Homekey+ funded housing development and therefore no relocation be...
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