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Consider recommendations regarding conditional $2,850,000.00 allocation of State Homeless Emergency Aid Program (HEAP) and No Place Like Home (NPLH) Funding to the Housing Authority of the County of Santa Barbara for the West Cox Apartments Project, Fifth District, as follows:
a) Approve a conditional allocation of $1,350,000.00 of County-administered State of California HEAP funds to the Housing Authority of the County of Santa Barbara (Housing Authority) for the West Cox Apartments project (Project), which will reserve the HEAP funds for the Project until November 30, 2019 subject to the Housing Authority securing full funding for the Project and final Board approval of related loan documents;
b) Authorize the Director of Community Services Department (CSD) to sign a letter to the Housing Authority indicating the conditional allocation of HEAP funds;
c) Approve a conditional allocation of $1,500,000.00 of State of California NPLH Non-Competitive funds to the Housing Authority for the Project, which will reserve NPLH funds for the Project until December 31, 2019 subject to the Housing Authority securing full funding for the Project and final Board approval of a joint application with the Housing Authority to the State for the funding;
d) Authorize the Director of the Department of Behavioral Wellness (Be Well) to sign a letter to the Housing Authority indicating the conditional allocation of NPLH Non-Competitive funds; and
e) Determine that the approval of the allocation of funding is not the 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 actions are not a project 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.