Memorandum
Date: September 16, 2025
To: The Honorable Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Elise Jones, Director of Behavioral Health Services
Subject: Consideration to Approve the Memorandum of Understanding Between the County of Lake and the Lake County Continuum of Care to Alleviate and Prevent Homelessness in Lake County and Approve Budget of HHAP-6 Application to the California Department of Housing and Community Services
Executive Summary:
HHAP Round 6, like Round 5, has the requirement of "A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by each eligible applicant that is participating in the Regionally Coordinated Homelessness Action Plan." The LCCoC has reviewed the MOU. which is near identical to Round 5’s MOU, at the August 7, 2025 Executive Committee meeting and approved it to form.
The Lake County Continuum of Care (LCCoC) will present the annual Point in Time Count of sheltered and unsheltered people experiencing homelessness in Lake County on night of January 22nd-23rd , 2025. HUD requires that CoCs conduct an annual count of people experiencing homelessness who are sheltered in emergency shelter, transitional housing, and Safe Havens on a single night in January.
The Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention (HHAP) Grant Program addresses homelessness in California has been granted to both counties and continuums of care since 2020 by the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH) and now the Department of Housing and Community Development and is currently on its 6th Round. The County of Lake (via Lake County Behavioral Health Services) and LCCoC have both been recipients of this funding which in turn the majority of they've issued Request for Proposals, often jointly, to address homelessness in the community. The majority of the funding has gone to fund emergency shelters.
One of the requirements of these latter rounds has been a Regional Coordinated Homeless Action Plan, which can be found on the LCCoC website's main page. A
Regionally Coordinated Homelessness Action Plan fully complies with HSC section 50233(c). This plan lays out a strategic approach to address homelessness within the "region" - aka the county for us - emphasizing collaborative efforts among the County and the CoC.
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Recommended Action:
Approve Memorandum of Understanding Between the County of Lake and the Lake County Continuum of Care to alleviate and prevent homelessness in Lake County and Authorize the Chair to sign Approve budget of HHAP-6 Application to the California Department of Housing and Community Services