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Cumberland County hears Continuum of Care request for $227,184 in additional county funds
Summary
Debbie Brown, chair of the Continuum of Care board, presented an overview of the COC and requested $227,184 in additional county funding for staff positions; staff said the county will distribute county match equitably across agencies, and some agencies face reduced funding from prior allocations.
Debbie Brown, chair of the Continuum of Care (COC) board, presented a high-level overview of the COC’s structure and HUD-related requirements and outlined an additional county funding request of $227,184 to support staff positions, county staff told the Cumberland County Board of Commissioners.
The request was introduced as part of the COC presentation; staff said the county’s current funding for the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) is split with the City of Fayetteville. County staff also reported guidance from the regional director that the county match for HUD-related programs should be distributed equitably across all agencies that request a county match. Staff said that, because the county’s allocation was not increased this year, agencies that requested funding will generally receive reduced amounts compared with the prior year and that the reductions will likely require agencies to reduce services, though specific service impacts were not detailed in the presentation.
The county packet included funding requests and recommended amounts for several providers. Staff reported that CommuniCare previously received $263,224 in fiscal year 2024–25 and requested the same amount this year; staff said the recommended funding amount for CommuniCare was adjusted in the recommended plan. The packet also showed recommended funding amounts for other providers that had requested county match. Staff said they made a “conscious effort” to ensure the county match was distributed to any agency that requested it. The presentation included questions from commissioners about whether reductions would reduce services; staff said they could not speak for individual agencies and that agencies would need to address service-level impacts themselves.
No formal vote on the funding request is recorded in the available transcript; staff recommended that the request be moved to the consent agenda for the commission’s meeting on Monday, June 16.
