Agenda - 02-19-2019 8-a - Minutes

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I Commissioner Marcoplos said he is now in support of option 3b. 2 Commissioner Bedford said it is more cost effective to incorporate it all in the long term. 3 Travis Myren said, if it so chooses, the Board can include in the motion to direct staff to 4 apply any proceeds from the sale of the current detention center facility to debt service. 5 6 Board Action 7 Approve a Scope and Budget Option and Authorize Staff to Prepare a Budget Amendment 8 9 A motion was made by Commissioner Dorosin, seconded by Commissioner Price, to 10 approve option 3b with the reduction of the detention center capacity by 40 beds. 11 12 VOTE: Ayes, 2 (Commissioner Dorosin and Commissioner Price); Nays, 5 (Chair Rich, 13 Commissioner McKee, Commissioner Marcoplos, Commissioner Bedford, Commissioner 14 Greene) 15 16 A motion was made by Commissioner McKee, seconded by Commissioner Marcoplos 17 for the Board to approve Northern Campus Option 3b and authorize staff to present a budget 18 amendment at an upcoming meeting to appropriate funds based on the Board-approved 19 Option. 20 21 VOTE: Ayes, 6; Nays, 1 (Commissioner Dorosin) 22 23 c. Funding Plan for Orange County Services Impacted by Federal Government 24 Shutdown 25 26 The Board considered approving $100,000 from the Social Justice Funds to be used for 27 food if the demand is greater than the capacity of the existing food programs. 28 Bonnie Hammersley reviewed the following information: 29 30 BACKGROUND: The shutdown of the United States federal government began at midnight on 31 Saturday, December 22, 2018. About 380,000 federal employees were furloughed, and an 32 additional 420,000 employees for the affected agencies were expected to work with their pay 33 delayed until the end of the shutdown, totaling 800,000 workers affected out of 2.1 million 34 civilian non-postal federal employees. 35 36 During the shutdown, 95% of federal staff for the USDA's Food and Nutrition Services were 37 furloughed. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the food-stamp program, 38 was funded through a $3 billion contingency fund appropriated by Congress in 2018; if the 39 shutdown continued through March 2019, those funds will be exhausted, leaving some 38 40 million Americans without food stamps and endangering food security. 41 42 The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) was one of the federal agencies 43 closed during the partial government shutdown that began on December 22, 2018. HUD 44 indicated there were enough Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) funds to keep the 45 program running through the end of February. Although landlords may not get their payments 46 from HUD in March, the Housing Authority (PHA) cannot terminate due to a government 47 shutdown but landlords can terminate if they do not receive payment from either the PHA 48 and/or tenant regardless of a shutdown. HUD requires these conditions in the leases used for 49 both the Section 8 HCV program and properties receiving Section 8 Project-Based Rental 50 Assistance (PBRA).