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Vallejo officials say Broadway Village housing is weeks from opening as council presses for cost transparency
Summary
City staff reported lease agreements are signed for the 47-unit Broadway Village supportive housing project but final insurance and certificate reviews remain; staff estimated $18,000 a week in holdover costs and council demanded a breakdown of overruns and follow-up on audit recommendations.
Vallejo city staff told the City Council they expect move-ins to begin once final insurance certificates and routine checks are complete, but council members pressed for clearer accounting of repeated delays and extra costs.
“We're losing $18,000 a week with every week that passes that this project doesn't get leased up,” Assistant to the City Manager Natalie Peterson told the council, citing security and property maintenance expenses while the Broadway Village site remains unavailable for residents. Peterson said the project team anticipates the HAP (project-based voucher) contract will be effective Dec. 1, 2025, and that lease-up work could begin sooner if documentation is ready.
Mayor and several council members described a pattern of missed timelines and asked staff for an itemized accounting of holdover costs and where overruns will be charged. “We've now had $600,000 that we've had to pull from opioid funds,” the mayor said, noting previous supplemental payments and the need for accountability on cost overruns.
City Manager provided a cautious response, saying staff had worked to implement new practices after an independent needs assessment but disputed a characterization that staff promised no additional funds would ever be required. “What staff committed to doing in follow-up to the needs assessment was to put practices and policies and procedures in place so that we didn't get ourselves into a similar situation,” he said.
Council members were split in tone: several urged moving forward to house people as soon as practical, citing the immediate humanitarian need, while others demanded more transparency and a plan to implement prior consultant (MRG) recommendations. Assistant Peterson said ALCA (contract consultant) is assisting lease-up tasks including background checks and income verification and that 43 individuals from the county coordinated entry list are document-ready for referral.
The council directed staff to return with tighter financial detail and an implementation update on the MRG recommendations; staff also said they will provide another project update before the planned December move-ins.
