Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the appropriation and expenditure in an amount up to $500,000.00 of grant funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), through the HOME Investment Partnerships Program American Rescue Plan (HOME-ARP) and authorizes the Director of Development to enter into a Subrecipient Not For Profit Service Contract with National Church Residences (NCR) for the purpose of providing supportive services at the Berwyn East Place. The supportive services will help those individuals that reside at Berwyn East that struggle with homelessness, mental illness, and substance abuse. That expenditures prior to the issuance of the purchase order are authorized beginning December 1, 2025 through July 31, 2030.
Berwyn East Place provides eighty-eight (88), one-bedroom units of permanent supportive housing prioritized for low-income senior residents who meet the State of Ohio’s Permanent Supportive Housing Policy Framework. The units will be reserved for seniors with low-income who can benefit from on-site services to best address the needs of those elderly that are frail and have advanced geriatric conditions complicated by homelessness and housing insecurity. Supportive Services will be provided for all HOME ARP eligible residents of Berwyn East Place. The construction of this project was authorized by City Council on March 25, 2024 via Ordinance Number 0735-2024. This legislation is authorizing the supportive services that will be provided to those residents that meets HUD’s definition of chronic homelessness.
Berwyn East Place is an innovative new “triple blend” service enriched, supportive housing model whereby rental subsidy, care coordination, as well as health and wellness services are offered to the low-income senior residents. This innovative supportive housing model will in part target older adults having experienced long-term homelessness with a concurrent disabling condition in the form of advanced geriatric conditions. The program is intended to provide housing stability while also empowering residents to better manage chronic conditions, lessen reliance upon and divert usage of emergency medical services and institutional care, and even avoid premature death. NCR’s “HOME for Life” system will be used to tailor services that include but are not limited to connections to a network of preferred healthcare providers, regular social programming, health management, as well as on-site case management. These services cannot be performed by city employees.
This legislation represents appropriation for a part of the HOME-ARP Allocation Plan portion of the City’s 2021 HUD Annual Action Plan which was amended, per Ordinance 0459-2023.
Contract Compliance: the vendor number is 032683 and expires on 08/12/2026
Fiscal Impact: $500,000.00 is available from and within the HOME-ARP grant (G442101).
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This ordinance authorizes the appropriation and expenditure in an amount up to $500,000.00 of HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME-ARP) funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a Subrecipient Not For Profit Service Contract with National Church Residences in an amount up to $500,000.00 to provide supportive services for residents that are deemed eligible under the HOME-ARP guidelines at Berwyn East Place; and authorizes the payment of expenditures prior to issuance of the purchase order beginning December 1, 2025 through July 31, 2030. ($500,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the City of Columbus is a participating jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; and
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus is the recipient of a one-time grant of $16,433,138.00 from the U.S. Department of Housing Urban Development (HUD) through the American Rescue Plan Act and the HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME-ARP) ; and
WHEREAS, there is a need for supportive services at Berwyn East Place for those individuals that qualify for these services based on HUD’s definition of chronic homelessness.
WHEREAS, the appropriation and expenditure in an amount up to $500,000.00 is necessary to provide supportive services and authorizes expenditures prior to the issuance of the purchase order beginning December 1, 2025 through July 31, 2030; and
WHEREAS, it has become necessary in the usual daily operation the Director of the Department of Development wishes to enter into a Subrecipient Not For Profit Service contract with National Church Residences to provide the supportive services that will assist this very vulnerable population utilizing HOME-ARP funding; and NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That from the unappropriated monies and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources and unappropriated for any other purpose during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025, the sum of $500,000.00 is appropriated within Fund 2201 (HOME-ARP), from Dept-Div 44-10 (Housing), G442101 (HOME-ARP), object class 03 (Professional Services) per the account codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $500,000.00, or so much thereof as may be needed, is hereby authorized in Fund 2201 (HOME-ARP), Dept-Div 4410 (Housing), G442101 (HOME-ARP), object class 03 (Professional Services) per the account codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That the Director of Development is hereby authorized to enter into a Subrecipient Not For Profit Service Contract with National Church Residences to provide supportive services for the eligible residents of Berwyn East Place in an amount up to $500,000.00.
SECTION 4. That expenditures prior to the issuance of the purchase order are authorized beginning December 1, 2025 through July 31, 2030.
SECTION 5. Funds are hereby deemed appropriated and expenditures and transfers authorized to carry out the purposes of this ordinance and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.
SECTION 6. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for all contracts or contract modifications associated with this ordinance.
SECTION 7. At the end of the grant period, any repayment of unencumbered balances required by the grantor is hereby authorized and any unused City match monies may be transferred back to the City fund from which they originated in accordance with all applicable grant agreements.
SECTION 8. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest date permitted by law.