Agenda Information Sheet
DEPARTMENT: Development Services
CM/ACM: Todd Hileman
DATE: March 7, 2017
SUBJECT
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Consider adoption of an ordinance of the City of Denton, Texas authorizing the City Manager to make application to the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs Emergency Solutions Grant Program and take all other actions necessary to obtain funding and implement the program; and providing for an effective date.
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BACKGROUND
The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) has released the Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) that provides assistance to the homeless and those at-risk of becoming homeless. TDHCA is designated by the Texas Legislature to administer the ESG Program.
The award period for the funds awarded under this NOFA is for two years and is intended to run from September 1, 2017 to August 31, 2019. For this application, applicants will set performance measures and budgets for a twenty-four-month cycle for Program Year (PY) 2017 and PY 2018 between September 1, 2017 and August 31, 2019.
For 2016, the Department received $8,817,205. For each of PYs 2017 and 2018, the Department expects to receive either a similar level of funding or less. Using an allocation formula, the Department is making available a certain percentage of the State's ESG allocation to each CoC region to be awarded on a competitive basis within that region. The ESG funds can be used for the following purposes:
? The rehabilitation or conversion of buildings for use as emergency shelter for the homeless;
? The payment of certain expenses related to operating emergency shelters;
? Essential services related to emergency shelters and street outreach for the homeless; and,
? Homelessness prevention and rapid re-housing assistance.
Within the ESG application, the City of Denton serves as Lead Agency in a collaborative application with nonprofit partner agencies. The five (5) partners are Christian Co...
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