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| Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #2756 |
| Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness |
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| Requester: |
Randall H. Reid, County Manage |
Organization: |
Alachua County Board of County Commissioners |
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| Project Title: |
Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness |
Date Submitted |
1/13/2006 9:51:29 AM |
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| Sponsors: |
Smith |
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| Statewide Interest: |
| Reduce statewide expenditures for health care, law enforcement, corrections, emergency housing, domestic abuse shelters, and other programs that serve the homeless residents of the state. |
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| Recipient: |
Alachua County Board of County Commissioners |
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Contact: |
John Skelly |
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PO Box 2877 |
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Contact Phone: |
(352) 264-6749 |
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Gainesville 32602 |
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Contact email: |
JSkelly@alachua.fl.us |
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| Counties: |
Alachua |
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| Gov't Entity: |
Yes |
Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit): |
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| Project Description: |
| Alachua County, the City of Gainesville along with other local government and not-for-profit entities plan to implement programs, projects and services in the field of health care, mental health care, housing, social services, drug and alcohol treatment, vocational training, job placement, court services, institutional discharge and planning and coordination designed to reduce the number of homeless individuals throughout the community. |
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| Is this a project related to a federal or state declared disaster? |
No |
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| Measurable Outcome Anticipated: |
| The purposes of the program are: 1) Prevent homelessness among individuals and families who are clearly headed toward that outcome, 2) Intervene with homeless individuals to make the state of affairs a short, temporary and unrepeated experiece, 3) Treat chronically homeless (long term and repeatedly homeless) indivuals through a comprehensive case management approach to provide support services necessary to maximize self-sufficiency and establish permanent housing conditions for them. |
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| Amount requested from the State for this project this year: |
$4,000,000 |
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| Total cost of the project: |
$4,500,000 |
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| Request has been made to fund: |
Construction |
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| What type of match exists for this project? |
Local, Private |
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Cash Amount |
$400,000 |
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| Was this project previously funded by the state? |
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No |
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| Is future-year funding likely to be requested? |
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Yes |
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Amount: |
$1,000,000 |
To Fund: |
Operations, Construction |
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| Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request? |
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No |
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| Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget? |
No |
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| Is there a documented need for this project? |
Yes |
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Documentation: |
"GRACE for the Homeless Report" December 2005 |
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| Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)? |
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Yes |
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Hearing Body: |
Alachua County Legislative Delegation |
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Hearing Meeting Date: |
12/13/2005 |
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| Is this a water project as described in Section 403.885, Laws of Florida? |
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No |
