Label
37th (2023) Program Year ESG
Department of Housing and Community Development
Bonita Bonds (x1401)
Revised
Title
Authorizing the Mayor to accept, deposit, appropriate, and expend the Emergency Solutions Grant in the amount of $648,066 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 One-Year 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, as an entitlement city and participating jurisdiction, for the purpose of ending homelessness in Toledo. The city’s receipt and acceptance of the grant amount compels it to utilize the funds within certain HUD regulations, directives, and guidelines, as well as, pursuant to the HUD approved Five Year Consolidated Plan for the City of Toledo. Specifically, the Consolidated Plan which the COT must follow is in effect from 2020 through 2024. Each year, however, the COT submits to HUD its One Year Action Plan, describing how it will continue to implement and execute the Five-Year Consolidated Plan. The City must submit the One Year 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 2023-2024 Action Plan, one of nine priorities is “ending homelessness”. Likewise, the Consolidated Plan and each year’s Action Plan, inclusive of the 2023-2024 Action Plan, specifies that the COT will partner and collaborate with the HUD designated Continuum of Care (CoC) entity for Toledo (and Lucas County), i.e., the Toledo Lucas County Homelessness Board (TLCHB), in addressing the goal of ending homelessness in the community. It is the TLCHB as the HUD designated CoC entity that 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 2023-2024 One Year Action Plan, accept the 2023 Program Year ESG allocation from HUD, deposit the 37th (2023) Program Year ESG funds received from HUD into the appropriate Account Code, and expend the amount received pursuant to the Five-Year Consolidated Plan, and more specifically, the One Year Action Plan for the 2023 Program Year to be submitted to HUD on May 17th, 2023.
The financial impact of this Ordinance is the receipt of the $648,066 from HUD to the City of Toledo for ending homelessness in the Toledo community.
Summary
NOW, THEREFORE, Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Toledo:
SECTION 1. That the Mayor is authorized to submit the 2023-2024 One Year Action Plan to HUD, as well as, accept the 37th (2023) Program Year ESG allocation from HUD in the amount of $648,066 and deposit the amount received from HUD into Account Code 2016-16100-5GE3702STDSTD.
SECTION 2. That the appropriation from the unappropriated grant proceeds in the Operations Grants Fund in the amount of $648,066 is authorized into various accounts under Account Code 2016-16100 and the expenditure of same is authorized pursuant to the attached Schedule A.
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, not to exceed the amount of $648,066 for the 37th (2023) Year ESG provided by HUD for ESG activities.
SECTION 4. That the Finance Director is authorized to issue warrant or warrants in an amount not to exceed $648,066 from the Account Code authorized above in Section 2 in payment of all obligations authorized under the 37th (2023) ESG program year allocation upon presentation of properly voucher or vouchers.
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 2023-2024 One Year Action Plan submitted to HUD on May 17th, 2023 as it relates to the ESG funds to be received from HUD and pursuant to HUD regulations.
Vote on emergency clause: yeas 11, nays 0.
Passed: May 16, 2023, as an emergency measure: yeas 11, nays 0.
Attest:
Gerald E. Dendinger Matt Cherry
Clerk of Council President of Council
Approved: May 16, 2023
Wade Kapszukiewicz
Mayor