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Council considers off‑cycle Vibrant Communities Fund allocations for homelessness, eviction prevention and veterans memorial
Summary
City Manager Sam Sanders told the City Council on March 20 that staff had identified roughly $1 million in flexible funds that could be repurposed or added to the Vibrant Communities Fund and other council‑directed pots.
City Manager Sam Sanders told the City Council on March 20 that staff had identified roughly $1 million in flexible funds that could be repurposed or added to the existing Vibrant Communities Fund (VCF) and other council‑directed pots. The funds come from a mix of an increase to the strategic initiatives fund, reallocated CIP balances and a reduced ACRJ (regional jail) financing amount.
Two off‑cycle requests were flagged as urgent in staff materials: a $250,000 gap to cover lost BRAC (Blue Ridge Area Coalition for the Homeless) grant funds that would otherwise leave a six‑month service interruption, and a Piedmont Housing Alliance (PHA) eviction‑prevention request that included $62,000 for staff salaries and a separate $50,000 request for direct cash assistance. Sanders told the council the staff recommendation was to treat BRAC’s need as an emergency and that PHA’s staff‑salary component was higher…
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