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Commission approves PEC rankings, backs OASIS and Nashville Launchpad for youth homelessness grants
Summary
The commission approved the Performance Evaluation Committee's recommendation to rank OASIS first and Nashville Launchpad second for HUD's youth homelessness demonstration funds and to submit the PEC's overall NOFO rankings to HUD ahead of an August 11 notification deadline.
Carrie Dietz, chair of the Performance Evaluation Committee, told the Housing Trust Fund Commission that the PEC had reviewed a record 37 Continuum of Care applications and recommended that the Commission forward the PEC's rankings to HUD, including a separate recommendation to submit OASIS as the top youth homelessness demonstration program and Nashville Launchpad second.
"We received a record breaking 37 applications," Dietz said, and described the committee's work to score and rank applications quickly after multiple HUD NOFO changes. Dietz said three applications failed basic threshold requirements while two youth proposals were nearly tied: "Oasis ended up with 1 more point over Launchpad with 98.5 points over 97.5 points based off of our rating." She asked the body to approve the PEC's ranking so staff could meet federal notification deadlines.
Commission members moved and seconded the PEC recommendation and the chair called a show-of-hands voice vote. The chair declared "the ayes have it," approving the PEC's recommendations for the youth NOFO and the broader set of rankings that PEC forwarded to HUD.
The vote sends the PEC's preliminary rankings on to HUD; Dietz reminded members that applicants must be notified of preliminary rankings by August 11 and that missing the HUD timeline would jeopardize the city's nearly $15 million COC submission. The Commission did not record a roll-call tally in the transcript.
