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Consider recommendations regarding a the County’s joint application for Round 4 of State No Place Like Home (NPLH) competitive funds with Sanctuary Centers of Santa Barbara, Inc. (Sanctuary) for the proposed development of supportive affordable housing in Santa Barbara, California; a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Sanctuary for the County’s provision of supportive services to NPLH tenants; and Standard Agreement with the California Department of Housing and Community Development (State HCD) and Sanctuary related to the NPLH program and grant award, as follows:
a) Adopt a Resolution that:
i) Authorizes and ratifies the County’s submission of a joint application with Sanctuary as developer-borrower to the State HCD for Round 4 of NPLH competitive loan funds for the proposed development of supportive affordable housing at 115 W. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, California (APN 039-222-002); and
ii) If funds are awarded, authorizes and directs the Director of the Department of Behavioral Wellness (BWell), or designee, to act on behalf of the County in connection with an award of NPLH competitive program funds;
b) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute an MOU with Sanctuary Centers of Santa Barbara, Inc., wherein the County shall be compensated $56,000.00 annually, subject to 3% annual increases thereafter, to provide supportive services for a minimum of twenty years to NPLH tenants at the supportive affordable housing project located at 115 W. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, California (APN 039-222-002);
c) Approve and authorize the Director of the Department of Behavioral Wellness, or designee, to execute on behalf of the County a Standard Agreement with State HCD and Sanctuary any subsequent amendments or modifications thereto, as well as any other documents which are related to the NPLH program and grant award, as State HCD may deem appropriate, without having to return to the Board for approval, subject to the Board’s authority to rescind this delegated authority at any time;
d) Direct the Director of Behavioral Wellness, or designee, to obtain concurrence from Risk Management, the Auditor-Controller, and County Counsel before exercising the authority delegated to her pursuant to Recommended Action c); and
e) Determine that the above recommended actions:
i) Are not a project subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines section 15378(b)(4), finding that the actions are the creation of a governmental funding mechanism or other government fiscal activity, , which do not involve any commitment to any specific project which may result in a potentially significant physical impact on the environment; and Public Resources Code section 21163.1, which states that a decision by a public agency to seek funding from the NPLH Program does not constitute a project; and
ii) Are otherwise within the scope of the Notice of Exemption (NOE) adopted by the City of Santa Barbara and posted by the Santa Barbara County Clerk of the Board on December 15, 2020, in which the City found that Sanctuary’s proposed development is exempt from CEQA pursuant to CEQA Guidelines section 15332 because it consists of an Infill Development Project.