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Agreement with Illumination Foundation for a Permanent Emergency Homeless Shelter June 16, 2020 Page 2 DISCUSSION On October 1, 2019, the City Council authorized the City Manager to execute a settlement agreement with the Orange County Catholic Worker, an unincorporated association, to resolve claims pertaining to homelessness in United States District Court Case No. SACV 18-0155-DOC (JDE). This action by the City Council followed the federal lawsuit that was filed by the Orange County Catholic Worker to halt efforts by the County of Orange to remove homeless encampments along the Santa Ana Riverbed and prevent neighboring cities from citing or arresting those individuals who violated local ordinances prohibiting camping in public areas. The lawsuit named the County of Orange, as well as the cities of Anaheim, Costa Mesa, and Orange, as defendants, but the City of Santa Ana elected to intervene in the litigation as a defendant in order to influence these settlements more effectively. The settlement agreement with Orange County Catholic Worker acknowledges that the City currently operates an interim 200-bed shelter at The Link and that the City intends to establish another shelter with 200 to 250 beds to replace The Link. To comply with the settlement agreement, on January 7, 2020, the Santa Ana Community Development Agency ("CDA") released a Request for Proposals (RFP) #20-004-063 for the development, construction and operation of a Year -Round Homeless Shelter and Navigation Center in the City of Santa Ana (Exhibit 1). The RFP was on both the Community Development Agency website and Planet Bids; an e-mail was sent to Orange County's network of homeless shelter operators and service providers; and an electronic letter was e-mailed to interested shelter operators and service providers. The deadline for the RFP closed on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. The City received the following two proposals prior to the deadline: Illumination Foundation Propose to develop a 200 bed shelter with scalability for up to 250 within an existing 29,503 s . ft. industrial building on the east side of the 55 Freeway. Jamboree Housing Corporation Propose to create a new smaller shelter with 75 beds while linking the new smaller shelter with permanent supportive housing. Their approach involves 75 new permanent shelter beds plus 89 permanent supportive housing units at Jamboree's North Harbor Village motel conversion project on North Harbor Boulevard, together with 52 studio apartments to be located at WISEPlace, and 101 studio apartments to be developed on East 1st Street. Deliberative Selection and Review Process The Executive Director of the Community Development Agency and the Homeless Services Manager reviewed each proposal ensuring compliance with RFP requirements. Staff invited both organizations to present their proposals via video (due to the COVID-19 pandemic). The video presentations were informative to add clarity to the written proposals. There were two distinctions within the Illumination Foundation's proposal (Exhibit 2) separating it from Jamboree Housing Corporation's proposal. The first was the configuration of their proposed emergency shelter and the second distinction was the location. Jamboree Housing proposed a configuration of shelter beds at three separate sites located on Harbor Boulevard, First Street, and 65B-2