2011 Disbanding of the Human Services Commission*

Recommendations 1

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  The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors continue its review of the Community Development Commission grant fund process to the Community Services Funding grantees. Board of Supervisors' Response: This recommendation has been, and will continue to be, implemented as described below. Community Services Funding (CSF) is now distributed through the Sonoma County Community Development Commission (CDC) in conjunction with Community Development Block Grant and Emergency Solutions Grant funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The Board of Supervisors exercises review and formal approval authority over the CDC grant funding policies and final funding decisions for CSF and all other grantees. Each year in September or October, the Community Development Committee holds a public hearing regarding proposed policies for distribution of these funds for the following fiscal year. The Committee's recommendations are forwarded to the Board of Supervisors, which approves the final funding policies governing the Request for Proposals that is issued in November of each year. Similarly, each year in February and/or March, the Community Development Committee holds public hearings to consider proposals for HUD and CSF funding received in response to the annual Request for Proposals issued pursuant to the policies as adopted by the Board. The Committee develops its recommendations for funding, which are published for a 45-day public comment period and subsequently submitted to the Board of Supervisors to make the final funding decisions by the beginning of May each year. The Board of Supervisors will continue to follow this process in the future, and will thereby continue to review the CDC's grant funding process as it applies to CSF and all other grantees. Date: No attachments.