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Committee backs MOU to apply for Encampment Resolution grant to convert El Rey Motel into low‑barrier navigation center
Summary
The committee recommended city council approve an MOU with Monterey County and the county coalition of homeless service providers to apply for an Encampment Resolution grant. The city seeks $2.3 million from the grant for El Rey Motel rehabilitation and outreach staffing to serve roughly 80 people in the Davis Street corridor encampments.
The Housing and Land Use Committee voted to recommend that City Council approve a memorandum of understanding between the City of Salinas, Monterey County and the County Coalition of Homeless Service Providers to apply jointly for a state Encampment Resolution grant. The application would support conversion of the city‑owned El Rey Motel into a low‑barrier navigation center and fund outreach and response activities aimed at encampments in the Davis Street corridor.
Keisha Lopez, homeless services manager,…
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