To: Honorable Mayor and Members of City Council
From: Rick Tooker, Community Development Director
Prepared By: Lark Ferrell, Housing Manager
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Cooperative Joint Powers Homeless Services Agreement with Napa County and Update on Homeless System Redesign
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RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Recommendation
Adopt a Resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute the Joint Powers Homeless Services Agreement with the County of Napa.
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DISCUSSION:
The City of Napa (the "City") and the County of Napa (the "County") have historically partnered with each other to address the needs of homeless individuals and families. The City's Police Department has taken the lead on homeless outreach and encampment clean-up activities while the County has funded specialty mental health services and drug and alcohol recovery services for vulnerable individuals and families. In recent years, the City and the County have each funded 50% of year-round shelter operating costs and the County has funded 100% of winter shelter operations.
In 2016, the City and the County undertook a redesign of the community's homeless system. This was done by jointly engaging Corporation for Supportive Housing and National Alliance to End Homelessness to review the community's homeless system and to then develop recommendations for system changes. The report was presented to the Board of Supervisors and to the City Council in April 2016. The recommendations included:
1. Jointly funding a Homeless Programs Coordinator to oversee the homeless services system.
2. Establish the Napa Funders' Collaborative to bring together key community stakeholders with the goal of aligning funding and policy to reduce homelessness in the region.
3. Develop an affordable and supportive housing funding mechanism (the Flex Pool) to incorporate private and public sources to fund the creation and operation of housing and supportive services for households.
4. Redesign and fund the homeless emergency shelter...
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