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C. 48

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	John Kopchik, Director, Conservation & Development Department
Date:	October 25, 2022

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

REGIONAL EARLY ACTION PLANNING (REAP) GRANT SUBALLOCATION

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 10/25/2022

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Diane Burgis, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

Contact:

John Kopchik 925 655-2780

I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: October 25, 2022
Monica Nino, County Administrator

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

AUTHORIZE the Conservation and Development Director to execute an agreement with the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) to receive technical assistance from ABAG related to Housing Element updates and other housing-related topics and in which the County agrees to indemnify ABAG for County staff’s role under the Agreement.

FISCAL IMPACT:

Under the proposed Agreement, the County will neither receive funding from ABAG nor be required to make any expenditures. However, the County and other jurisdictions will benefit from the technical assistance provided by ABAG, which is estimated to cost ABAG $768,975, and the County will need to expend minimal staff time assisting ABAG with overseeing their consultant.

BACKGROUND:

The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) has received grant funds awarded by the State of California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) pursuant to the Regional Early Action Planning (REAP) program to facilitate shared technical assistance and cross-jurisdiction knowledge sharing amongst jurisdictions within Contra Costa County and throughout the Bay Area for Housing Element updates and other housing-related topics. ABAG has suballocated the HCD funding to support planning collaboratives in each Bay Area county, including Contra Costa County. The planning collaborative in Contra Costa County is open to all land use planning jurisdictions in the County (the 19 cities and the County) and is a forum for reeving technical assistance and sharing lessons learned in the topic areas described above.

ABAG has allocated $768,975 to support the collaborative in Contra Costa County. In lieu of granting these funds to the County or other jurisdiction in the County, ABAG has retained the funding in order to directly administer a consulting contract to support the collaborative. ABAG has entered into a consulting services agreement with Moore, Iacofano Goltsman, Inc. (MIG) to support the Contra Costa County Planning Collaborative and provide technical assistance to all included jurisdictions. ABAG has requested the assistance of the County to assist ABAG with managing the work of the MIG to ensure effective delivery of the services contemplated in the grant from HCD and the agreement with MIG and has developed a proposed Agreement with the County to outline roles and responsibilities. Under the proposed Agreement, the County will be responsible for reviewing and approving invoices from MIG and ABAG shall be responsible for contracting with MIG, and processing payment of invoices. Under the proposed Agreement, the County will neither receive and funding nor be required to make any

expenditures. However, the County and other jurisdictions will benefit from the technical assistance provided by ABAG. The proposed Agreement requires the County to indemnify ABAG for County staff’s role under the Agreement in overseeing the consultant and reviewing invoices.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

The County would not execute the agreement. This may result in ABAG not providing the technical assistance.