AgdaPkt 2017-01-09 Closed and Joint

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6.1.B. - Page 2 The additional funding committed over a three-year period will make it possible to provide full time reception services at the Fair Oaks Community Center and to provide "flexible" funds to be able to divert homeless households from the homeless shelter system. Such funds could be used to pay for utility bills of households that are willing to help out family or friends by offering a place to live, or to help make a converted garage unit safe. Other funding sources may not be used for these types of assistance, so having "flexible" funds will allow for more creative solutions to homeless diversion efforts. Also, efforts towards re -designing the county -wide system to end homelessness in San Mateo County will be primarily focused on ending family homelessness in the first year of implementation. Funding from Sunlight Giving combined with additional funding that the City will be receiving from the County of San Mateo for safety net services will make it possible for the Information and Referral Program to begin to implement similar efforts with homeless individuals. ALTERNATIVES The Council could choose not to approve the agreement, and not accept funding from Sunlight Giving for the Fair Oaks Community Center Information and Referral Program. FISCAL IMPACT The award letter and grant agreement provides for a total grant commitment of $225,000 over the next three years (FY 2016-17, FY 2017-18, FY 2018-19), in payments of $75,000 per year each October. The additional revenue and expenditure will be submitted as a mid -year budget adjustment for FY 2016-17 and as a part of the budgets for FY 2017-18 and FY 2018- 19. ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW This activity is not a project under CEQA as defined in CEQA Guidelines, section 15378, because it has no potential resulting in either a direct or foreseeable physical change in the environment.