DATE:
April 30, 2024
34
TO:
Board of Supervisors
SUBJECT
Title
UPDATING AUTHORITY FOR THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY, SHELTER AND SERVICES PROGRAM GRANT FUNDS (DISTRICTS: ALL)
Body
OVERVIEW
On February 27, 2024 (13), the Board of Supervisors (Board) accepted a report titled "Concept Paper and Advocacy Plan for a Long-Term Migrant Transfer Site and Respite Shelter," and authorized the Interim Chief Administrative Officer to apply for any grant funds and/or allocations for migrant sheltering and services that provide funding in advance of services performed.
On March 23, 2024, the U.S. Congress passed its second "minibus" appropriations package (H.R. 2882) containing the final Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 spending bills. H.R. 2882 included approximately $1.2 trillion in discretionary spending for FY 2024, which included $640.9 million for the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Shelter and Services Program (SSP). The SSP Program is intended to provide funding to non-federal entities to temporarily provide shelter, food, transportation, acute medical care, personal hygiene supplies, and labor necessary to support migrants recently released from DHS custody.
On April 12, 2024, FEMA released its FY 2024 SSP Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) wherein the County of San Diego was named as an eligible applicant for an award of up to $19,592,554 in FY 2024 SSP-A funding. The County of San Diego applied for this funding on April 25, 2024.
Today's action provides new direction to the Interim Chief Administrative Officer to immediately begin implementation of this Board's vision for a long-term migrant transfer site and respite shelter as outlined in the Board's previously approved Concept Paper. Specifically, today's actions direct the Interim Chief Administrative Officer (ICAO) to return to the Board on May 21, 2024 with a request to appropriate funds from the General Fund Reserve, to the extent reserves are available, upon a determi...
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