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Consider recommendations regarding the execution of 2017 State of California Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) Program Agreements, as follows:
a) Approve, ratify and authorize the Chair to execute subrecipient agreements for the distribution of 2017 State ESG funds with the following providers in the specified amounts:
i) $271,400.00 to Good Samaritan Shelter for the Emergency Shelter and Rapid Re-housing project;
ii) $115,077.00 to New Beginnings Counseling Center (NBCC) for the Safe Parking and Homeless Outreach Program;
iii) $130,218.00 to People Assisting the Homeless (PATH) Santa Barbara for the PATH Santa Barbara Emergency Shelter project; and
iv) $38,951.00 to United Way of Northern Santa Barbara County for the Coordinated Entry System; and
b) Determine that the recommended actions are not the acceptance and approval of a project that is subject to environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(4), finding that the project is a 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 physical impact on the environment, and direct staff to file a Notice of Exemption.