Agenda Item # 3
Amended by Council
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Columbus Consolidated Government
Council Meeting
March 22, 2011
Agenda Report # 614
TO: Mayor and Councilors
SUBJECT: 10 Year Homeless Plan Implementation
INITIATED BY: Department of Community Reinvestment
Recommendation: Approval is requested to enter into an agreement with the
United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley to administer, on behalf of the City,
the 10 year Homeless Plan adopted by City Council on December 14, 2010.
Background: The City Manager appointed a Homeless Taskforce committee
comprised of stakeholders and service providers to identify the problems of
homelessness in Columbus and to develop a 10 year plan to address those
problems. Working with the Cunningham Center for Leadership at Columbus State
University (CSU), the taskforce compiled data to identify challenges and
available resources to end homelessness in our community. Through a process of
sub-committee meetings, meetings with interest groups and public hearings, a
Plan was drafted and adopted by City Council on December 14, 2010.
Analysis: The City of Columbus adopted a 10 year plan to end homelessness and
committed funding to support a non profit organization to implement the 10 year
Plan and thereby ending homelessness. The United Way of the Chattahoochee
Valley (UWCV) will assume responsibility for incubating and guiding the
implementation of the Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness in Columbus. The
president of the UWCV will supervise the Executive Director of the Plan to End
Homelessness. The goal is for UWCV to give life to the plan, to provide over
site and direction for a paced implementation, build awareness of the need and
the solutions and give the project credibility and the ability to sustain
itself within twelve to eighteen months.
Financial Considerations: The City has committed to provide funding in the
amount of $50,000 in FY2011 for the administration/implementation of the
adopted plan to include all direct and indirect costs The funding source for
this commitment would be provided from its CDBG Entitlement funds.
Legal Considerations: Council must authorize the City Manager to enter into an
agreement with the United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley to implement the
Plan on behalf of the City.
Projected Annual Fiscal Impact Statement: Funding has been committed by the
City from CDBG Entitlement funds for FY2011 only. Future funding will be
determined.
Recommendations: Approve the resolution authorizing the City Manager to enter
into an agreement with the United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley for the
implementation of the City's 10 year Plan to End Homelessness.
A RESOLUTION
NO. _____
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT
WITH THE UNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE
CITY'S 10 YEAR PLAN TO END HOMELESSNESS.
WHEREAS, the City Manager appointed a taskforce to address the issue of
homelessness in Columbus and to prepare a plan to end homelessness in
Columbus; and,
WHEREAS, on December 14, 2010 the Columbus City Council adopted a 10 year plan
to end homelessness and committed funding to support its implementation; and,
WHEREAS, the City will work with the United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley to
implement this Plan, to give life to the plan, to provide over site and
direction for a paced implementation, build awareness of the need and the
solutions and give the project credibility and the ability to sustain itself
within twelve to eighteen months.
WHEREAS, the City has committed to provide funding in the amount of $50,000 in
FY2011 for the administration/implementation of the adopted plan to include all
direct and indirect costs The funding source for this commitment would be
provided from its CDBG Entitlement funds.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE COUNCIL OF COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, HEREBY RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS:
That the City Manager is hereby authorized to enter into an agreement with the
United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley to implement the 10 year Plan to End
Homelessness on its behalf. The cost of the agreement will not exceed the
amount allocated and will cover all administrative/implementation costs
including all direct and indirect costs. The City has committed to provide
funding in the amount of $50,000 in FY2011 for the
administration/implementation of the adopted plan to include all direct and
indirect costs. The funding source for this commitment would be provided from
CDBG Entitlement funds.
Introduced at a regular meeting of the Council of Columbus, Georgia,
held the _________day of _____________, 2011 and adopted at said meeting by the
affirmative vote of ____________members of said Council.
Councilor Allen voting __________.
Councilor Baker voting __________.
Councilor Barnes voting __________.
Councilor Davis voting __________.
Councilor Henderson voting __________.
Councilor Huff voting __________.
Councilor McDaniel voting __________.
Councilor Thomas voting __________.
Councilor Turner Pugh voting __________.
Councilor Woodson voting __________.
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Tiny B. Washington, Clerk of Council Teresa Pike Tomlinson, Mayor
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