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Fiscal Year 2018 — 2019 Emergency Solutions Grants Program May 1, 2018 Page 2 HEART $ 47,654 Colette's Children $ 22,154 2-1-1 Orange County $ 14,277 COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AND HOUSING COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION At its Regular Meeting on March 28, 2018, the Community Redevelopment and Housing Commission (CRHC) recommended that the City Council approve the Fiscal Year 2018 - 2019 Emergency Solutions Grants Program by a vote of 4:0 (Cano, Santana absent). DISCUSSION The purpose of the Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) Program is to assist sheltered and unsheltered homeless individuals, as well as those at risk of homelessness, to quickly regain stability in permanent housing after experiencing a housing crisis and/or homelessness. The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has changed the program's focus from addressing the needs of homeless individuals in emergency or transitional shelters to assisting people to regain stability in permanent housing. In 2015, an Orange County ESG Collaborative was formed between the cities of Anaheim, Santa Ana and Garden Grove. In December 2016, the Collaborative released a combined ESG Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) to support the Orange County Continuum of Care's goal to end homelessness. The NOFA aligned values and priorities to create maximum impact and to leverage funds. The NOFA included two possible one year renewals and reserved the right of each city to redistribute funding. The Collaborative chose to exercise the renewal option for Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 - 2019 funding. While funding recommendations are made collaboratively, ESG funds are to be used to provide eligible activities within each jurisdiction for which they are funded. Subrecipients awarded funding in FY 2017 - 2018 were required to re -submit a budget and program summary for FY 2018 - 2019 ESG funding. The proposed FY 2018 - 2019 ESG Program includes the anticipated allocation from HUD at an estimated level of $475,909. Once the City receives the actual ESG Program allocation for GY 2018 from HUD, the anticipated allocation amount of $475,909 will be adjusted to the actual amount. This adjustment may be an increase or decrease. Upon notification by HUD of the actual grant award, each organization's recommended funding will either be increased or decreased equitably and proportionally to their award. Staff will reassess total recommendations if the total allocation is increased or decreased by more than twenty-five percent. A list of agencies recommended for funding for FY 2018 - 2019 is provided as Exhibit 1. The funding recommendations are based upon the final percentage score for the FY 2017 - 2018 applications and the current needs identified by staff. The allocation is broken down by category to provide �. 1