Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to modify non-profit service agreements with numerous social service agencies to extend the agreements for a twelve-month period that begins on or after January 1, 2022. See attached Exhibit A for a list of social services agencies awarded agreements in 2019, were renewed in 2020, modified in 2021, and will be modified again in 2022. The total amount of these agreements in 2022 is up to $3,964,254.00.
In 2018, a request for proposals (RFP) was issued via direct email to agencies (and City partners to send to their networks of agencies), by press release, and posting on the City’s website. The City received 142 proposals representing 101 agencies with over $19 million in requests. Of those, 44 programs were selected for funding in 2019 and agreements were authorized under ordinance 1170-2019. These agreements were renewed in 2020 under the authority of ordinance 0571-2020.
Historically, the department has done a RFP effort every two years and under normal circumstances such an effort would have been in late 2020 for 2021. Due to COVID-19 and its impact on the nonprofit sector and department priorities, the department had elected to extend the agreements in FY 2021 through an agreement modification, authorized by ordinance 0388-2021. Due to similar COVID-19 related circumstances in 2021, the department is electing to extend these agreements for FY 2022 through another agreement modification.
This ordinance includes authorization for 40 programs with 37 agencies (40 separate agreements) with authorization for four agreements being submitted as separate ordinances.
It is the department’s intent to “modify” these agreements, which means executing the modification before the prior agreement has expired. Should circumstances prevent that for an agreement, the agreement will be processed as an “original” agreement with the same scope of services as the original a...
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