Title
Adopt City Council Resolution Renewing a Declaration of a Shelter Crisis Pursuant to Government Code Section 8698.2
Summary
On November 13, 2018, the City Council adopted Resolution 4136-2018 declaring a shelter crisis with an expiration of six months after adoption unless reauthorized by City Council. The shelter crisis was continued on April 22, 2020 with an expiration of one year after adoption. On May 13, 2020, the City Council amended the shelter crisis resolution so that Councilmember Albin-Smith could vote in the affirmative for the declaration. The original shelter crisis declaration expired on May 12, 2020. The City was awarded $3,000,000 of Homeless Emergency Aid Program (HEAP) funds by the Mendocino County Continuum of Care to help fund the permanent supportive housing included in the 69-unit Danco project. In order for HEAP funds to be spent in the City for Capital projects, the City must have a declaration of a shelter crisis adopted. Without the reauthorization of the shelter crisis, the $3 million cannot be expended in Fort Bragg.
The Plateau Housing Project, will provide twenty (20) permanent supportive residential cottage units, twenty-three (23) affordable senior residential cottages, twenty-five (25) two-story workforce/family residential duplex units, a common building for each component, and one (1) manager’s unit. The Danco Group recently secured the final funding for the project which includes federal and state tax credit equity, solar tax credit equity, a California Infill Infrastructure grant, the HEAP funding from the Mendocino County Continuum of Care, the $250,000 commitment from the City of Fort Bragg Redevelopment Agency Housing Successor, and other developer loans.