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38th (2024) Program Year ESG
Department of Housing and Community Development
Monica Brown (x1617)
Revised
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Authorizing the acceptance, deposit, appropriation, and expenditure of the Emergency Solutions Grant in the amount of $646,429 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to fund Emergency Solutions Grant Program activities; authorizing submission to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development the 2024-2025 Annual Action Plan; and declaring an emergency.
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SUMMARY & BACKGROUND:
The City of Toledo (COT) receives from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) a designated Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) amount annually, as an entitlement city and participating jurisdiction, for the purpose of ending homelessness in Toledo. The city’s receipt and acceptance of the ESG grant amount requires compliance with HUD regulations, directives, and guidelines, as well as, priorities established in the HUD approved 2020-2024 Consolidated Plan for the City of Toledo.
The city must submit an Annual Action Plan each year within the respective five-year period in order to continue to receive the annual ESG allocation from HUD. In the Five-Year Consolidated Plan, as well as, the 2024-2025 Action Plan, one of nine priorities is “ending homelessness”. The city will partner and collaborate with the HUD-designated Continuum of Care (CoC) entity for Toledo (and Lucas County), the Toledo Lucas County Homelessness Board (TLCHB), in addressing the goal of ending homelessness in the community The TLCHB as the HUD designated CoC entity, coordinates the response (e.g., rapid re-housing), the resources (e.g., leveraging of several funding sources), and the responsibility (e.g., community focus/representation) for ending homelessness in the Toledo community.
This Ordinance is to authorize the Mayor to submit to HUD the 2024-2025 Annual Action Plan on June 28. 2024; accept and deposit the 38th (2024) Program Year ESG funds received from HUD into the appropriate Account Code; and expend the amount received pursuant to the Schedule A attached.
The financial impact of this Ordinance is the receipt and expenditure of the $646,429 38th (2024) program year ESG grant from HUD for ending homelessness in Toledo.
Summary
NOW THEREFORE Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Toledo:
SECTION 1. That the Mayor is authorized to submit the 2024-2025 Annual Action Plan to HUD; accept the 38th (2024) Program Year ESG allocation from HUD in the amount of $646,429; deposit the amount received from HUD into Account Code 2016-16100-5GE3802STDSTD (Operations Grants Fund);
SECTION 2. That the appropriation of 646,429 from the unappropriated grant proceeds in the Operations Grants Fund is authorized into Account Code 2016-16100; and expenditure of the same is authorized pursuant to Schedule A attached.
SECTION 3. That the Mayor is authorized to enter into any necessary agreements for the purposes listed herein subject to the terms and conditions deemed proper and requisite according to the Director of Law and Director of Housing and Community Development.
SECTION 4. That the Finance Director is authorized to issue warrant or warrants in an amount not to exceed $646,429 from the Account Code authorized above in Section 2 in payment of all obligations authorized under the 38th (2024) ESG program year allocation upon presentation of properly approved documentation.
SECTION 5. That this Ordinance is declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. The reason for the emergency is the fact that this Ordinance is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, safety and property, and for the further reason that this Ordinance must be immediately effective in order to allow the City of Toledo to implement the 2024-2025 One Year Action Plan submitted to HUD on June 28, 2024 as it relates to the ESG funds to be received from HUD and pursuant to HUD regulations.
Vote on emergency clause: yeas 10, nays 0.
Passed: June 18, 2024, as an emergency measure: yeas 10, nays 0.
Attest:
Julie A. Gibbons Carrie Hartman
Clerk of Council President of Council
Approved: June 18, 2024
Wade Kapszukiewicz
Mayor