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<br />NC ESG CV Scope of Work
<br />Shelter staff must conduct quarterly on-site inspections to ensure compliance with minimum habitability standards.
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<br />Involuntary Family Separation
<br />The provisions listed under 24 CFR 576.102 4(b). Prohibition against involuntary family separation. The age, of a child under
<br />age 18 must not be used as a basis for denying any family's admission to an emergency shelter that uses ESG funding or
<br />services and provides shelter to families with children under age 18.
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<br />Lead-Based Paint Requirements
<br />“Lead-based paint hazards” have been defined in the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992, commonly
<br />referred to as “Title X,” as any of six conditions which can present lead exposures sufficient to cause adverse health effect s.
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<br />The only NC ESG-assisted housing covered under the lead-based paint requirements is longer-term housing in an apartment
<br />with one or more bedrooms AND which has family residents who are part of a program requiring continual residence of more
<br />than 100 days. The EPA Lead brochures must be distributed to all households receiving long-term rental assistance.
<br />Documentation of this brochure must be maintained in each client file. If there will be a child under the age of 6 residing in the unit
<br />receiving NC ESG long-term housing, the award sub recipient must conduct a visual assessment for the presence of lead-based
<br />paint. Award sub recipients cannot provide long-term rental assistance to any unit with lead-based paint present.
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<br />Match Requirements: (Not applicable for FY 2019- 2020)
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<br />NC ESG Operations Manual (Policies and Procedures)
<br />Subrecipients are required to maintain a separate NC ESG Operation Manual that details how the NC ESG program operates
<br />and, outlines the NC ESG program specific rules and policies provided to program participants. Note: this operations manual is
<br />not the organization’s personnel manual or employee handbook. These operations are activity specific, although there is a
<br />possibility of overlap. For detail of Operations Manual see NC ESG 2020 Desk Guide.
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<br />Nondiscrimination and Equal Opportunity Requirements
<br />Subrecipients must comply with all applicable fair housing and civil rights requirements in 24 CFR 5.105(a). In addition,
<br />subrecipients must make known that NC ESG rental assistance and services are available to all on a nondiscriminatory basis and
<br />ensure that all citizens have equal access to information about NC ESG and equal access to the financial assistance and services
<br />provided under this program.
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<br />Persons who, as a result of national origin, do not speak English as their primary language and who have limited ability to speak,
<br />read, write, or understand English (“limited English proficient persons” or “LEP”) may be entitled to language assistance und er
<br />Title VI in order to receive a particular service, bene fit, or encounter. In accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
<br />(Title VI) and its implementing regulations, the subrecipient agrees to take reasonable steps to ensure meaningful access to
<br />activities for LEP persons. Any of the following actions could constitute “reasonable steps”, depending on the circumstances:
<br />acquiring translators to translate vital documents, advertisements, or notices, acquiring interpreters for face to face interviews
<br />with LEP persons, placing advertisements and notices in newspapers that serve LEP persons, partnering with other organizations
<br />that serve LEP populations to provide interpretation, translation, or dissemination of information regarding the project, hir ing
<br />bilingual employees or volunteers for outreach and intake activities, contracting with a telephone line interpreter service, etc.
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<br />In addition, all notices and communications shall be provided in a manner that is effective for persons with hearing, visual, and other
<br />communication related disabilities consistent with section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and implementing regulations at
<br />24 CFR 8.6. If the procedures that the subrecipient intends to use to make known the availability of the rent al assistance and
<br />services are unlikely to reach persons of any particular race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, familial status, or disability
<br />who may qualify for such rental assistance and services, the subrecipient must establish additional procedures that will ensure that
<br />such persons are made aware of the rental assistance and services.
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<br />Training
<br />NC ESG subrecipient project staff, including housing stability managers, case management supervisors, grant managers,
<br />emergency services case managers, HMIS data entry, and financial processors are required to attend all relevant NC ESG
<br />trainings, tutorials and webinars provided during the program year. Trainings will be conducted via webinar and/or conference
<br />call when feasible. Some trainings may require face to face participation.
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<br />Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (“VAWA”):
<br />This final rule prohibits an applicant for assistance or tenant assisted with ESG from being denied assistance under, denied admission
<br />to, terminated from participation in, or evicted from housing on the basis or as a direct result of the fact that the applicant or tenant is
<br />or has been a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault or stalking, so long as the applicant otherwise qualifies for
<br />admission, assistance, participation or occupation (24 CFR 5.2005 (b)(1)).
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