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Consider recommendations regarding a Substantial Amendment to the Santa Barbara County Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Urban County’s 2021-2022 Annual Action Plan and approve and execute the CDBG subrecipient agreements to implement projects approved by the Board of Supervisors on April 20, 2021, as follows:
a) Receive and file a staff report on the Santa Barbara County CDBG Urban County Partnership draft Fiscal Year (FY) 2021-2022 Annual Action Plan Substantial Amendment;
b) Hear and consider public comments received on the draft FY 2021-2022 Action Plan Substantial Amendment during the thirty (30) day public comment period, which began on November 6, 2021 and concludes at the end of today’s public hearing on this item;
c) Approve the Substantial Amendment to the FY 2021-2022 Action Plan and direct staff to submit the Substantial Amendment to Housing and Urban Development (HUD);
d) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a CDBG Subrecipient Agreement in the amount of $30,043.00 between the County and People Assisting the Homeless (PATH);
e) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a CDBG Subrecipient Agreement in the amount of $350,000.00 between the County and Good Samaritan Shelter;
f) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a CDBG Subrecipient Agreement in the amount of $114,194.00 between the County and Alpha Resource Center (ARC);
g) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a CDBG Subrecipient Agreement in the amount of $60,000.00 between the County and Child Abuse Listening and Mediation (CALM);
h) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a CDBG Subrecipient Agreement in the amount of $40,000.00 between the County and Habitat for Humanity;
i) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a CDBG Subrecipient Agreement in the amount of $40,000.00 between the County and Domestic Violence Solutions;
j) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a CDBG Subrecipient Agreement in the amount of $22,763.00 between the County and Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics;
k) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute an Assignment and Assumption agreement for the Showers of Blessing CDBG program in the amount of $15,749.00 with Interfaith Initiative of Santa Barbara County and Showers of Blessing Santa Barbara; and
l) Determine that the recommended actions are not the approval of a set of projects that is subject to environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines section 15301, as they consist of the operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, leasing, licensing, or minor alteration of existing public or private structures, facilities, mechanical equipment, or topographical features, involving negligible or no expansion of existing or former use; and, additionally, that Recommended Actions a), b) and c), are not the acceptance and approval of a project that is subject to environmental review under CEQA pursuant to section 15378(b)(4), finding that actions consist of 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 physical impact on the environment.