Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Homelessness Grants topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Council committee moves $6.97 million transfer to match homelessness grants, officials say funds from FY25 federal awards
Summary
The committee recommended reporting Resolution 25‑285 for adoption. The transfer provides dollar‑for‑dollar local matches for federal FY25 grants administered by the Department of Community Services, including allocations for salaries and program expenses tied to the Emergency Solutions Grant program.
The Budget Committee on Oct. 14 recommended reporting Resolution 25‑285 for adoption, a transfer of up to $6,966,940 in general‑fund monies to supply local matching funds for federal grant awards administered by the Department of Community Services.
Department testimony described the transfer as a dollar‑for‑dollar local match for federal FY25 awards. “These funds are from the FY25, for the fiscal year recently ended for the federal government. So not subject to the uncertainty, as the future budget that has a budget shutdown,” Edward Los Banos, deputy director of the Department of Community Services, told the committee.
Why it matters: the transfer provides the local share required by federal grants that support homelessness programs, enabling the city to execute grant agreements and distribute funding to nonprofit service providers.
Los Banos said the transfer is intended to meet local match needs for grant programs including the Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). ESG funds support emergency shelter, street outreach, rapid rehousing and the Homeless Management Information System. He told the committee that salary costs for administrative staff who oversee the grants do count toward the local match and that one portion of the transfer will fund three positions within the department’s administrative staff.
Committee vice chair Kymberly Nishimoto asked for specifics about the salary portion; Los Banos said he did not have an exact dollar amount for the staff component available in the meeting but committed to providing it later. The deputy director also noted the department received more federal award dollars than anticipated and that the transfer would allow the department to finalize grant agreements during the federal government funding pause.
No registered in‑person or remote testimony was offered on the item. The chair recommended the resolution be reported out for adoption; no objections were recorded.
