Title
Recommendation to Authorize the City Manager to Execute an Agreement with The Village of Love Foundation to Operate the Day Center and Safe Sheltering Program for Six Months in an Amount Not-to-Exceed $550,000. (City Manager 10021833)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Jennifer Ott, City Manager
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Day Center Program serves some of the most vulnerable populations in Alameda bringing people off the street and indoors to support their basic needs. This program is vital to the continuum of homeless services in Alameda. The current location serves up to 18 individuals indoors and 25 individuals in safe parking with access to services and restrooms as well as mobile showers and laundry one time per week. Services include emergency low-barrier overnight shelter, secure overnight parking, and indoor day center services with case management, therapeutic and life skills support.
The Day Center and Safe Parking is being relocated to Building 2, Wing 3 at Alameda Point and will provide additional meeting space, overnight beds, safe parking spaces and shower/laundry facilities onsite. Staff is conducting a Request for Proposals process for the Day Center and Safe Parking service provider and staff will return to Council to execute a new agreement with the recommended provider. Staff recommends City Council approve execution of this agreement to continue providing essential shelter services to vulnerable homeless Alameda residents until that competitive process is completed.
BACKGROUND
In 2019, the Oakland/Berkeley/Alameda County Continuum of Care Everyone Home held the bi-annual Point-in-Time Count. Two-hundred and thirty-one people of the total homeless population in Alameda County were identified in the City of Alameda. In July 2020, City Council approved opening the Day Center program at 431 Stardust Place in to support individuals in need of immediate shelter. A total of thirty-three slots were provided thr...
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