The Providence center for counseling and psychiatric services ("center") is hereby designated as the agency to administer and develop the homeless mentally ill aid and assistance program ("program") in the city of Providence. The departments of human services and mental health, retardation, and hospitals shall provide advice and assistance to the center in developing this program and shall review the performance of the center. The center shall make a report on the administration and progress of this program and report its findings concerning the homeless to the "commission on the homeless" on or before February 1, 1989 and shall make such interim reports as the commission shall require.