File #: 25-00763    Version: 1
Type: Administrative Item Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 8/28/2025 In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 9/9/2025 Final action: 9/9/2025
Title: Consider recommendations regarding a Funding Commitment Letter for Brisa Encina Affordable Apartments, Fourth District, as follows: a) Approve and authorize the Director of the Community Services Department (CSD), pursuant to the Fiscal Year 2024 Annual Action Plan approved by the Board on May 7, 2024, to execute a HOME Investment Partnership (HOME) Funding Commitment Letter between the County and the Housing Authority of the County of Santa Barbara (HASBARCO), in the amount of $1,500,000.00, for the Brisa Encina Affordable Supportive Housing Development (Project); and b) Determine that the above recommended actions are not the approval of projects that are subject to environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines section 15378(b)(4), finding that the actions are not projects as they are the creation of government funding mechanisms or other government fiscal activities which do not involve any commitment to any specific projec...
Sponsors: COMMUNITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT
Attachments: 1. Board Letter, 2. Attachment A – Brisa Encina Uses and Sources of Funds, 3. Attachment B – Funding Commitment Letter for Brisa Encina, 4. Speaker Slips, 5. Minute Order

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Consider recommendations regarding a Funding Commitment Letter for Brisa Encina Affordable Apartments, Fourth District, as follows:

 

a) Approve and authorize the Director of the Community Services Department (CSD), pursuant to the Fiscal Year 2024 Annual Action Plan approved by the Board on May 7, 2024, to execute a HOME Investment Partnership (HOME) Funding Commitment Letter between the County and the Housing Authority of the County of Santa Barbara (HASBARCO), in the amount of $1,500,000.00, for the Brisa Encina Affordable Supportive Housing Development (Project); and

 

b) Determine that the above recommended actions are not the approval of projects that are subject to environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines section 15378(b)(4), finding that the actions are not projects as they are the creation of government funding mechanisms or other government fiscal activities which do not involve any commitment to any specific project which may result in a potentially significant impact on the environment.