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Form #:B-52 7/18/91 DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION DEPARTMENT: Office of Housing & Community Dev. Date: 07/01/24 STAFF CONTACT: Royce Shiroma PHONE: 961-8379 A. REQUEST: Please submit the attached bill to amend Ordinance No. 24-32, as amended, the Operating Budget for the County of Hawaii for the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 2025, to add Emergency Solutions Grant Program (ESG) revenue and appropriate the same for the General Fund, as follows: 010.3301.XX ESG Program $ 271.806 010.9XX.59XX.XX ESG Projects, Misc. Contract Services $ 251,421.00 010.9XX.XXXX.XX ESG Administration $ 20,385,00 B. BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION (USE ADDITIONAL SHEETS AS NEEDED): The overall ESG Program provides funding to (1) engage homeless individuals and families living on the streets, (2) improve the number and quality of emergency shelters for homeless individuals and families, (3) help operate these homeless shelters, (4) provide essential services to shelter residents, (5) rapidly rehouse homeless individuals and families, and (6) prevent families/individuals from becoming homeless. These funds are eligible for use in these specific program components: street outreach, emergency shelter, homelessness prevention, rapid re -housing assistance, and the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS), with a limitation of 60% of the total allocation for street outreach and emergency shelter activities. Also, there is a 100% matching requirement of cash, real property or materials, and volunteer services. This appropriation reflects the actual ESG Program funds from the U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD), for the PY2024 received by the County of Hawaii, administered by the Office of Housing and Community Development (OHCD). In the past years, the State of Hawaii's Department of Human Services, Homeless Division accepted the ESG Program funds from HUD, for services in the neighbor islands. However, for PY2024, the State has denied the entire allocation of ESG Program funds, which led to HUD inviting the neighbor island counties to accept the ESG funds. Only the County of Hawaii and County of Maui accepted the offer, thus the.OHCD will be administering this program for the first time. DATE: l nt Head