REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL FROM: JENNIFER CLARK, Director Planning and Development Department PHIL SKEI, Assistant Director Planning and Development Department BY: ERIKA LOPEZ, Senior Management Analyst Housing and Community Development Division SUBJECT ..Title ***RESOLUTION - Adopting the 19th Amendment to the Annual Appropriation Resolution (AAR) No. 2022-154 appropriating $380,700 in Emergency Solutions Grant-Coronavirus (ESG-CV) (Requires 5 Affirmative Votes) (Subject to Mayor's Veto) ..Body RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends the City Council adopt the 19th amendment of the Annual Appropriation Resolution No. 2022-154 appropriating $380,700 in Emergency Solutions Grant-Coronavirus (ESG-CV) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Approval of the AAR will appropriate $380,700 from Fiscal Year 2020-2021 and Fiscal Year 2021-2022 ESG-CV Funds (Fund# 2000-2037) to Fiscal Year 2022-2023 (Fund# 2000-2037). Approving this action will allow the City to fund new ESG-CV homeless service projects to protect the health and safety of people experiencing homelessness and reduce the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak. BACKGROUND On June 18, 2020, City Council approved the 49th amendment to the AAR No. 2019-133 that would appropriate $1,998,334.50 in ESG-CV to an agreement with the County of Fresno Department of Social Services for implementation of the joint COVID-19 homelessness response plan. On October 29, 2020, City Council adopted Resolution No. 2020-286 and approved the submission of Substantial Amendment 2019-05 to the 2019-2020 Annual Action Plan to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to program $8,845,443 in a second round of ESG-CV funds to prevent, prepare for, and respond to COVID-19. The approval of this substantial amendment funded various activities such as street outreach through an agreement with Kingsview and rapid rehousing through agreements with the Fresno Center and Centro La Familia. On August 18, 2022, City Council approved the sixth revision of the ESG-CV activity allocations, reprogramming unspent ESG-CV funding from the agreements with the County of Fresno, Kingsview, the Fresno Center, and Centro La Familia to emergency shelter operations at Travel Inn, mobile shower operations, and an extension of the agreement with Poverello House for street outreach. This reprogramming was necessary to ensure the City meets its 100% expenditure deadline of September 30, 2023. Because the funds being reprogrammed on August 18, 2022 were placed on purchase orders in Fiscal Year 2022 for the originally intended agencies, staff was notified that Council would need to approve an appropriation of funds from prior fiscal years to the current fiscal year in order to fund the approved activities. Staff's recommendation will be presented to the City Council Homelessness Subcommittee on December 12, 2022. The recommended AAR will appropriate the ESG-CV funds that were approved by City Council on August 18, 2022 for the emergency shelter, mobile shower, and street outreach activities. The specific funding agreements with selected subrecipients for each of these approved activities have or will go before Council for approval as separate items. ENVIRONMENTAL FINDINGS This is not a project for purposes of CEQA pursuant to CEQA guidelines Section 15378. These plans, strategies and studies are Categorically Excluded Not Subject to Section 58.5 Pursuant to 24 CFR Part 58.34(a) and 58.35(b) under HUD NEPA Requirements (24 CFR 58.35 (b) (2) (3)). LOCAL PREFERENCE Local preference is not applicable because of the use of federal funding. FISCAL IMPACT This Resolution will appropriate Fiscal Year 2020-2021 and Fiscal Year 2021-2022 ESG-CV Funds (Fund# 2000-2037) to Fiscal Year 2022-2023 ESG-CV Funds (658004/ 2000-2037/9995). Attachments: ESG-CV AAR Resolution 22-154