The El Dorado County Continuum of the Care is requesting that the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors allocate a portion of the General Plan, Housing Element implementation budget to support funding for the Homeless Coordinator position for six months.
Allocation Request: $9000
Total Budget (Homeless Coordinator): $18,000
The 2008-2013 General Plan Housing Element, Measure HO-24, states that The County of El Dorado will:
“continue working with community and local organizations on a monthly basis to provide community education on homelessness, gaining better understanding of the unmet need, and developing and maintaining emergency shelter programs, including funding for programs developed through inter-jurisdictional cooperation and working with local organizations to annually apply for the End Chronic Homelessness through Employment and Housing grant. The expected outcome of this measure is to build upon the 2007 Continuum of Care Strategy and develop a 10-year plan to end chronic homelessness that provides the County opportunities to meet the needs of the chronically homeless population in our jurisdiction.”
Why is this important?
Our CoC is just now becoming cohesive once again. We have enjoyed the leadership, due diligence and variety of services from Thurmond Consulting for the past year. We ask for support from the general fund of El Dorado County, CA in the amount of $9000 to carry us through the next 6 months while we work to explore other funding streams and support systems.
