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Board applies $150,000 request cap and boosts CAP pool to $1.5M; staff to rerun awards and report back
Summary
Faced with a $3.1M request pool for $1.35M in available CAP funds, commissioners directed staff to cap individual CAP requests at $150,000 for award calculations, increase the CAP pool to $1.5M (one‑time FY25), rerun the allocations and return final award numbers to the board prior to budget adoption.
County staff briefed the board on the Community Agency Partnership (CAP) RFA: 34 applicants requested roughly $3.1 million while county staff had $1.35 million available. The evaluation committee recommended 31 applicants for 100% funding under revised scoring thresholds, producing a distribution that staff and some commissioners said compressed awards and created a large outlier in the form of a high AMIkids request.
After extended discussion about fairness, single‑source providers and sustainability, the board directed staff to (1) apply a $150,000 cap on the requested amount for purposes of award calculations, (2) increase the CAP pool from $1.35M to $1.50M (one‑time for FY25 awards) and (3) rerun the allocation spreadsheet and return final award numbers to the board for review (staff to contact agencies where the capped calculation materially changes their recommended award). The motion passed by voice vote.
Why it matters: CAP awards fund core safety‑net services (housing, childcare, healthcare, food security, prevention). The decision aims to reduce distortion from unusually large single requests and to boost the share of funding going to historically funded community providers while staff follows up with agencies affected by the cap.
What’s next: Staff will rerun allocations using the $150,000 request cap and the $1.5M pool, contact affected agencies and return final recommended award amounts to the board (target before budget adoption).
