HomeMy WebLinkAbout10/03/2006, COMMUNICATION ITEM#1 - RED FILE COMMUNICATION ITEM FOR OCTOBER 3, 2006 COUNCIL MEETING c o u n c i l rn E rn oiza n b u m
Date: October 3,.2006 RECEIVED
TO: City Council OCT p 3 2006
SLO CITY CLERK
FROM: Councilmember Paul Brown
SUBJECT: Red File Communication Item for October 3, 2006 Council Meeting
Attached please find a letter from Biz Steinberg, Chief Executive Officer of EOC; As Council
liaison to the EOC Board of Directors I will be bringing up this letter under Communications this
evening.
EOC has an exciting and unique opportunity to apply for a state grant (potentially up to $75,000)
to be used to develop a strategic plan for long term homeless services. A letter from the City
Council indicating support for such a collaborative planning effort to address this significant
community need would be very helpful to EOC.
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October 2, 2006
Mayor Dave Romero
City of San Luis Obispo
990 Palm Street
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
Dear Mayor 4ix ro:
In 1989,+the City, County and EOC entered a three-way partnership to share responsibility for
providing shelter services in the City of San Luis Obispo. EOC agreed to operate the shelter
program, and the Housing Authority of San Luis Obispo (HASLO) became a fourth partner as the
owner of the shelter facility. The modular buildings which house the shelter were used when they
were purchased in 1989, and heavy utilization year-round for almost two decades has taken a toll.
Since 2003, $220,000 in Community Development Block Grant funding,has gone into shelter repairs.
HASLO agrees that the shelter have reached'a point where repairs are becoming more frequent and
more costly, and the modular buildings need to be replaced by permanent construction.
As the Community Action Agency for San Luis Obispo County, EOC has an opportunity to apply for
up to $75,000 in state discretionary funding, to address Targeted Initiatives including Homelessness
and Capacity Building. Funding will support a 13 month project beginning November 1, 2006. After
an exploratory meeting with Shelly Stanwyck, and Carol Hatley of HASLO, EOC wishes to apply for
a $75,000 state planning grant to replace the modulars that house the Maxine Lewis Memorial
Shelter.
If EOC is successful in winning a state discretionary planning grant, it will be used to hire a private
sector planner to design a multi-service, one-stop shelter campus. Planning would be an inclusive
process, done in concert with a Planning Task Force comprised of City and County representatives,
services providers, interested professionals, community members, and homeless persons.
Phase I would include identifying and exploring viable sites and developing overarching design
concepts. This phase might include consolidating Prado Day Center onto the new shelter campus, in
order to eliminate existing transportation challenges for homeless persons using both the shelter and
day center, and to pro-actively address potential impacts that the pending Prado Road Interchange
may have on the day center.
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Phase II would include negotiating for a final site, finalizing a master plan to maximize use of the
site, and developing strategies to attract community partners and construction resources. This phase
might include recruiting EOC, HASLO and other nonprofit agencies to co-locate their program
support services at the new campus. This would provide more seamless service access for clients, as
well as opportunities for agencies to share a building and associated costs such as reception and
maintenance services.
Subsequent phases would address actual construction of the campus buildings and implementation of
a more holistic approach to service delivery.
First and foremost EOC is focused on maintaining uninterrupted shelter services in a safe and healthy
shelter environment. Secondly, we are interested in consolidating and attracting appropriate wrap-
around services to a one-stop campus, in order to provide a comprehensive system that effectively
supports homeless individuals and families. Thirdly, we believe this planning process could leverage
and harness significant community resources and energy to this project, much like the Prado Day
Center"barn-raising". Combining critical services, support, skill-building, and access to housing
opportunities on one site has enormous potential to achieve an energy-efficient, resource-efficient,
state-of-the-art service delivery system for our community.
We ask that the San Luis Obispo City Council provide a letter supporting our planning grant
application and expressing the City's interest in working with EOC to design a campus that will serve
this county for many decades to come. Our planning grant application is due October 13 and your
support letter would be appreciated by October 10. Thank you for your long-standing partnership to
serve the homeless, and for your consideration of this request.
Sinc�reiy,
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Elizabeth`Biz" Stet berg
Chief Executive Of cer
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