(a) The department shall issue a notice or notices of funding availability to potential applicants and designated local boards, as applicable, as soon as possible after funding becomes available for the Emergency Housing and Assistance Program. Each notice of funding availability shall indicate the amounts and types of funds available under this program.

(b) A designated local board, or the department in the absence of a designated local board, shall solicit, receive, and select among applications for grants pursuant to this chapter from eligible organizations through an open, fair, and competitive process. These applications shall be ranked and selected by a designated local board, or by the department in the absence of a designated local board.

Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 50802.5

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • County: includes city and county. See California Health and Safety Code 14
  • Department: means the Department of Housing and Community Development. See California Health and Safety Code 50801
  • Designated local board: means a group, including social service providers and a representative of local government, that has met department requirements for distribution of grants allocated by the department pursuant to this chapter. See California Health and Safety Code 50801
  • Director: means the Director of Housing and Community Development. See California Health and Safety Code 50801
  • Eligible organization: means an agency of local government or a nonprofit corporation that provides, or contracts with community organizations to provide, emergency shelter or transitional housing, or both. See California Health and Safety Code 50801
  • Emergency shelter: means housing with minimal supportive services for homeless persons that is limited to occupancy of six months or less by a homeless person. See California Health and Safety Code 50801
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Region: means a county or a consortium of counties voluntarily banding together by action of a designated local board. See California Health and Safety Code 50801

(c) Notwithstanding subdivision (b), the department may restrict a designated local board from selecting any application requesting a grant for capital developments if the amount requested by the application exceeds the limits determined by the department, and the department determines that the designated local board is not qualified to evaluate the application. The department shall establish criteria for distinguishing between a designated local board that may be so restricted and a designated local board that would not be so restricted. A designated local board may appeal to the director, or to the director’s designee, any decision made by the department pursuant to this subdivision. The department, by June 30, 2001, shall consider increasing the maximum grant limits to three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for operating grants and five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for capital grants.

(d) The department, or the designated local board, as applicable, shall not grant more than one million dollars ($1,000,000) to any eligible organization within a region in a funding round even if the eligible organization has filed multiple applications.

(e) The department shall determine requirements of the grant contract and shall contract directly with the grant recipient. The department shall not delegate this function to the designated local boards. Eligible designated local boards may use a percentage of the regional award funds to defray administrative costs. The department shall establish this percentage, which shall not exceed 2 percent.

(f) The designated local board shall regulate the performance of any grant contract within their region, subject to department oversight and requirements established by the department.

(g) The department shall not perform a secondary rating or ranking review on those grant applications that have been solicited, received, and selected by a designated local board according to a local ranking criterion that has been approved by the department.

(h) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, if the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2002 is approved by the voters, funds allocated pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 53533 shall be administered by the department in a manner consistent with the restrictions and authorizations contained in provision 3 of Item 2240-105-0001 of the Budget Act of 2000, except that any appropriations in that item shall not apply. The competitive system used by the department shall incorporate priorities set by the designated local boards and their input as to the relative merits of submitted applications from within the designated local board’s county in relation to those priorities.

In addition, the funding limitations contained in this section shall not apply to the appropriation in that budget item.

(Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 26, Sec. 1.7. Effective April 22, 2002. Operative after November 5, 2002 (Prop. 46 was adopted) by Sec. 9 of Ch. 26.)

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