Title
Resolution to Amend the City Council Approved Fiscal Year 2025 Budget to Accept and Appropriate Certain Funding to be Received from the Fort Monroe Authority to Provide Services to Homeless Persons and Families
Purpose
PURPOSE/BACKGROUND:
The Fort Monroe Authority ("FMA") was the sole recipient of two (2) Economic Development [Property] Conveyance transfers at Fort Monroe, one of which occurred in 2015 and the other in 2017. As the sole transferee of those properties, FMA agreed to pay $428,000 ("GVPHC Homeless Trust") to be used for the benefit of homeless persons. Those funds were initially deposited with and remain at Old Point National Bank. The FMA desires to work with the City of Hampton in the use of those funds.
Discussion:
The FMA and City entered into an agreement in September, 2020 under which the City agrees to provide support services to homeless persons and families determined on a client-by-client basis, within the City of Hampton and the Virginia Peninsula. Those services will consist of providing housing placement, emergency shelter and comprehensive day program assistance services (including, but not limited to, employment assistance and placement, educational services, and coordination of health care services), administered in accordance a plan to provide those services, prepared by the City and approved by FMA. Funds will be disbursed and paid to the City upon written request by the City to FMA identifying the amount requested and the proposed uses of the funds in accordance with the approved implementation plan, for a period of five (5) years or until the GVPHC Homeless Trust is exhausted.
In 2020 the FMA, the City, and the entire Nation experienced the COVID-19 pandemic. That pandemic impacted the manner in which individuals could safely interact. And, the federal government distributed a substantial amount of grant funds to state and local governments to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic on civic operations. Within ...
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