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Before providing transportation to a destination, the HSA or HSH staff or contractors of HSA or HSH administering the Program must make direct contact with the family member, friend, employer, or other individual who is willing to receive and support the Program participant. HSA or HSH staff or contractors of HSA or HSH shall document the fact that the Program participant has someone at the destination willing to receive and support the Program participant. Within 90 days following the date of a Program participant’s departure, HSA or HSH staff shall attempt to contact the Program participant to determine whether that individual has retained housing.
(Added by Ord. 69-24, File No. 231226, App. 4/4/2024, Eff. 5/5/2024)
(a) By October 1 of each year, HSA shall submit a written report to the Human Services Commission and the Homelessness Oversight Commission containing the information in subsections (b) and (c) for the prior fiscal year.
(b) The written report shall provide the following aggregated and de-identified information:
(1) The number of individuals served by HSA and HSH, respectively, through the Program;
(2) The number of individuals who, at the time of departure: (A) were experiencing homelessness and were unsheltered, (B) were experiencing homelessness and residing in a shelter, (C) were formerly homeless individuals living in permanent supportive housing, or (D) were at risk of homelessness;
(3) The total cost of travel services provided under the Program and the average cost to the City for an individual to utilize the Program;
(4) The number of Program participants who, 90 days following their date of departure, retained housing at their destination;
(5) The number of referrals for substance use disorder treatment or a sobering center to individuals eligible for, and interested in utilizing, the Program, as provided in Section 20.19-2(c)(3); and
(6) the number and circumstances of the use of the waiver authority provided in Section 20.19-2(c)(4).
(c) In addition to the information required in subsection (b), HSH shall require each of the entities with whom it may contract to provide information on referrals to the Program by program type and service provider.
(Added by Ord. 69-24, File No. 231226, App. 4/4/2024, Eff. 5/5/2024)
If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or word of this Article XIX, or any application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a decision of a court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions or applications of this Article. The Board of Supervisors hereby declares that it would have passed this Article and every section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, and word not declared invalid or unconstitutional without regard to whether any other portion of this Article or application thereof would be subsequently declared invalid or unconstitutional.
(Added by Ord. 69-24, File No. 231226, App. 4/4/2024, Eff. 5/5/2024)
In enacting and implementing this Article XIX, the City is assuming an undertaking only to promote the general welfare. It is not assuming, nor is it imposing on its officers and employees, an obligation for breach of which it is liable in money damages to any person who claims that such breach proximately caused injury.
(Added by Ord. 69-24, File No. 231226, App. 4/4/2024, Eff. 5/5/2024)
Background, Findings, and Purpose. | |
Definitions. | |
The Cash Not Drugs Pilot Program. | |
Cash Not Drugs Implementation Plan. | |
Annual Assessment Report. | |
Promotion of General Welfare. | |
Sunset Provision. |
Editor’s Note:
Article XXI was originally enacted as Article XX by Ord. No. 289-24, but has been redesignated as Article XXI to avoid conflicting with the preexisting Article XX enacted by Ord. No. 257-24. Corresponding revisions have been made within Article XXI to reflect the redesignation.
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