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Recommendation to Authorize the City Manager to Execute a First Amendment to the Winter Warming Shelter Agreement with Christ Episcopal Church to Increase the Funding Amount by $53,385 for a Total Agreement Amount Not-to-Exceed $123,385 in order to Increase the Warming Shelter Schedule to Seven Days per Week and Continue to Operate through April 30, 2023. (Community Development 10061831)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Jennifer Ott, City Manager
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Staff is recommending that the City Council authorize the City Manager to execute a First Amendment to the Winter Warming Shelter Agreement (Agreement) with Christ Episcopal Church (Christ Church) (Exhibit 1) to increase the funding amount by $53,385 for a total amount not to exceed $123,385. Christ Church opened its warming shelter on December 23, 2022. The warming shelter was originally scheduled to be open three nights per week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings through April 30, 2023. During the month of January, the weather was particularly cold and rainy, prompting the City of Alameda (City), at the direction of the City Manager, and with the support of Christ Church, and the operator, Housing Consortium of the East Bay (HCEB), to arrange for extra days of operation that kept the warming shelter open every day through January 31, 2023. Christ Church subsequently requested that the shelter remain open every day through April 30, 2023 and offered $9,000 toward this effort, in addition to their original $20,000 donation. This donation plus additional funding from the City in the amount of $53,385 will serve to reimburse the costs for the additional days in January and provide for the Warming Shelter to be open seven days every week through April. This will fund a total of 67 additional days.
BACKGROUND
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