Agenda

Return

C.67

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Catherine Kutsuris, Conservation & Development Director
Date:	February 8, 2011

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

Substantial Amendment to the County's CDBG Action Plan - Recapture and Allocate CDBG and CDBG-R Funds to Ujima Family Services

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 02/08/2011

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Gayle B. Uilkema, District II Supervisor
Mary N. Piepho, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

Contact:

Bob Calkins, 925-335-7220

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: February 8, 2011
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE Substantial Amendments to the County's FY 2008/09 and FY 2009/10 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program Action Plans recapturing $15,165 in unspent CDBG-R funds and $30,000 in unspent CDBG funds and allocating said funds to Ujima Family Services, and AUTHORIZE the Conservation and Development Director, or designee, to execute an amendment to the existing contract to help finance improvements to its residential alcohol treatment program facility in San Pablo.

FISCAL IMPACT:

No General Fund impact. CDBG and CDBG-R funds are provided to the County on a formula allocation basis through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

FISCAL IMPACT: (CONT'D)

CFDA#s: 14.218 (CDBG) and 14.253 (CDBG-R).

BACKGROUND:

In June 2009, the County received a special supplemental allocation of $929,719 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds under The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (CDBG-R). The Board of Supervisors (Board) approved allocating these funds to 14 projects including awarding $35,300 to Ujima Family Services (Ujima) to help finance a number of improvements to the Women's Recovery Center facility - a residential alcohol treatment program for lower income pregnant and parenting women. Bids to complete the work came in substantially higher than anticipated and therefore only one component of the project has been completed to date - renovation of the existing restroom. The funds remaining ($15,644) from the original allocation are insufficient to finance the remaining two components of the work - installation of new siding and painting the exterior of the building. It is estimated an additional $53,356 is needed to complete this project.

To date, 10 of the 14 CDBG-R funded projects have been completed. Two of these completed projects - Lefty Gomez Building and Las Deltas Housing Development - have a total of $15,165 in unspent CDBG-R funds. In addition, in FY 2008/09 and FY 2009/10 the Board approved allocating CDBG funds to Neighborhood House of North Richmond to help finance a number of improvements to their Senior/Community Center in North Richmond. These improvements have been completed and there is a total of $30,000 in unspent CDBG funds. Staff recommends recapturing the above unspent CDBG-R and CDBG funds and reprogramming the money to the Ujima project. In doing so, the final components of the project can be completed in a timely manner. Ujima has committed up to an additional $8,200 of its own funds to help complete the project.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

Not awarding the additional funds will result in further delays in completing the project because Ujima will have to continue its fund raising efforts.

CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:

Ujima's Family Recovery Center furthers the Children's Report Card outcome of helping families be safe, stable and nurturing.