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Consider recommendations regarding a Homeless Housing Assistance and Prevention Program (HHAP) Round 4 Application, as follows:
a) Authorize the Community Services Director, or designee, until otherwise ordered by the Board, to take the following actions required for the acceptance and administration of HHAP Round 4 funds allocated to the Santa Maria/Santa Barbara County Continuum of Care (CoC) and County of Santa Barbara:
i) Submit, by November 29, 2022, a joint funding application which includes homelessness action plan and data tables including the landscape analysis, funding analysis, outcome goals to be achieved by June 30, 2025, and strategies for achieving those goals (Application and Data Table) and execute all certifications, standard forms and a grant agreement required for disbursement of HHAP Round 4 funds. Such standard agreement shall be in a form substantially similar to the HHAP 3 Standard Agreement and subject to concurrence by County Counsel, Risk Management, and Auditor-Controller; and
ii) Approve and ratify the Community Services Director, or designee, to sign State Guidance Letters for both the County of Santa Barbara and the Santa Maria/Santa Barbara County Continuum of Care to release HHAP 3 funding. The letter outlines seven best practices and encourages ambitious goals to address homelessness; and
b) Determine the above recommended actions are 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)(5), finding that the actions are organizational or administrative activities of government that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes to the environment.