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SocialServiceHumanRelationsBoard | 2009-04-23 | 4 | Social Service Human Relations Board Minutes of the Regular Meeting, April 23, 2009 Page 4 President Wasko thanked Boys & Girls Club representatives for coming to speak. Wright: I hope you found this helpful. This is the beginning of an ongoing process and we will continue to invite other organizations to come and speak Member Biggs: Yes, this was helpful and Iove learned some things tonight that I will take back to my organization. Member Villareal: This gives us a better understanding of the services provided by the organizations for which we recommend funding. Wright: In addition to visiting the new Boys and Girls Club site we could also schedule visits to other programs funded with CDBG. 3-B. PRESENTATION (STAFF) ON THE PROPOSED PLAN FOR THE HOMELESS PREVENTION AND RAPID RE-HOUSING FUNDING, AND DETERMINE IF CONSISTENT WITH IDENTIFIED COMMUNITY NEEDS. Wright explained that through the recently enacted American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) the City of Alameda has been allocated $552,208, over three years, in Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re- Housing Program (HPRP) funds. This new infusion of funds creates a number of opportunities for Alameda including making $275,000 CDBG Capital Project funds available to Boys and Girls Club because they are õshovel readyö. We were notified on March 19 that we were granted $552,000 in HPRP funds through the Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) program. We usually receive this kind of funding through the County, instead of directly through the ESG program, but because of the infusion of funds, the city has met the threshold for receiving this funding, which is based on the same formula used to determine the amount of our CDBG. We have sixty days (until May 18) to come up with and submit a plan which will be an amendment to our fiscal 08/09 Action Plan, and we are supposed to coordinate at a countywide level The plan we are developing will go to the City Council on May 5., and an item asking the Council to endorse the EveryoneHome Plan will also be on the May 5 agenda. This funding is targeted towards the types of services that are not anything like the normal Shelter Grant program, including Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-housing, which is expected to be the way HUD funds homeless services in the future. The purpose of the HPRP is to help persons affected by the current economic crisis in two ways; one to provide homeless prevention assistance to persons who are currently housed and number two, to rapid re-house persons who are currently homeless. Eligible activities include: short-term rental assistance (provides one to three months housing) | SocialServiceHumanRelationsBoard/2009-04-23.pdf |