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Approval of Contract with Reinvestment Partners in the amount of $450,600 to Provide Non-Congregate Sheltering For Homeless Residents (10min)
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Date of BOCC Meeting: October 5, 2020
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The Board is requested to approve the attached contract for 64 hotel rooms in Buildings A and B of the Carolina Duke Inn from Reinvestment Partners affiliate RP Rx Housing, LLC to shelter medically fragile homeless residents during the COVID-19 pandemic. The CDC has provided guidance on the need to provide non-congregate sheltering for this population which is supported by FEMA and NCHHS. This proposed contract aligns with the CDC's guidance.
County staff have been working for the past several months with Reinvestment Partners on the concept of contracting with them for some number of rooms that they, in turn, have leased for 1-2 years from the owner of the Carolina Duke Inn. Contract negotiations were pursuant to Reinvestment Partners' response to the June RFP issued by the County and ultimately include the MOU between Reinvestment Partners for both Buildings A and B at the Carolina Duke Inn as well an MOU covering services to be provided by Reinvestment Partners, Urban Ministries of Durham, and Project Access of Durham County. The proposed agreement is for 24 rooms in Building B and up to 40 rooms in Building A that the County will continue to lease and occupy. This brings our total capacity at that site to 64, which brings our homeless housing system closer to housing the same number of homeless individuals as it did pre-COVID. The proposed agreement is through Dec. 31st with options to extend in one month increments as well as a 30 day termination clause.
A combination of new funding sources have made it possible for Durham County to enter into this agreement in a way that should require less County funding. UMD received $329,000 earlier in the summer in ESG-CV funding which will defray the associated costs of fo...
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