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Consider recommendations regarding the Authorization of the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 2024-2025 Continuum of Care (CoC) Competition Consolidated Application; as follows:
a) Authorize the County’s Community Services Department (CSD) Director, or his designee, to submit to the U.S. Department of HUD the CoC Collaborative Application totaling $3,657,943.00, which includes selected CoC community project applications and CSD project applications (collectively, the “CoC Projects”) for 2024-2025 CoC Homeless Assistance Program Competition;
b) Authorize the CSD Director to execute 2024-2025 CoC Program grant agreements and scope of work documentation with HUD for the three CSD project applications that are part of the CoC Collaborative Application, in a form substantially similar to the previously approved and executed 2023 CoC grant agreements, and written commitments of General Fund estimated match in the amount of $109,499.00, and all certifications, standard forms, and other related documents in the following estimated amounts:
i) $169,050.00 for operation of the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS);
ii) $130,675.00 for operation of the Coordinated Entry System (CES); and
iii) $138,266.00 Santa Barbara County CoC Planning; and
c) Determine that the above recommended actions do not constitute a project subject to environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(5), as the actions are organizational or administrative activities of governments that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.