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Consider recommendations regarding Approval of Subrecipient Agreements with Good Samaritan Shelter, using California Encampment Resolution Funding (ERF) and American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) State and Local Recovery Funds for Outreach, Engagement & Permanent Housing Flexible Funds, as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Chair of the Board of Supervisors to execute a Subrecipient Agreement with Good Samaritan Shelter, a California nonprofit public benefit corporation, using California ERF funds for a total contract maximum amount not to exceed $3,016,687.50, for street outreach to people residing in encampments, specifically in dangerous and heavily impacted waterways near State rights-of-way (ROW) for a term beginning August 30, 2023, and ending December 31, 2025, subject to annual appropriations and budget approval (ERF Subrecipient Agreement);
b) Approve and authorize the Chair of the Board of Supervisors to execute a Subrecipient Agreement with Good Samaritan Shelter using ARPA funding for COVID-19 Recovery in Housing and Homelessness funds for a total contract maximum amount not to exceed $50,000.00, for personal property storage for people moving from encampments, specifically in dangerous and heavily impacted waterways near State ROW for a term beginning August 30, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024, subject to annual appropriations and budget approval (ARPA Subrecipient Agreement); and
c) Determine that the 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)(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.