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December 9, 2019, Meeting – Item 4 Homelessness Amount Reappropriations Dusk to Dawn/Highway 99 Site 80,810 Homeless Shelter Options 1,000,000 Housing Tools and Strategies 22,205 One-time Funding Homeless Right-of-way Clean-up 140,000 Affordable Housing SDC Waiver - Bethel Taney Place Project 50,000 Homeless Storage Program 60,000 Homeless Operations Pilot Programs 70,000 Total Homelessness Operations $1,423,015 Other Uses of MBWC: There are two other appropriations requested from MBWC, per previous council direction. These are the General Capital Projects Fund for general capital projects of $900,000 and the transfer to the Construction and Rental Housing Fund for the Affordable Housing Trust for $500,000. Since these two together exceed the $1.3 million available from MBWC, these transfers are partially funded through a drawdown of RRSF. Per the City’s Financial Management Goals and Policies, the General Fund transfer to the General Capital Projects Fund, used to support ongoing preservation of General Fund building assets and Parks and Open space parks preservation and maintenance, is one of the highest priorities for use of MBWC. The amount of the transfer included on this supplemental budget is $0.9 million. On April 8, 2019, council approved the Construction Excise Tax ordinance. This ordinance is expected to generate $0.5 million in tax revenue in FY20. In addition, council directed that $0.5 million of MBWC should be transferred to the Construction and Rental Housing Fund (Affordable Housing Trust) each year. This supplemental budget includes $1 million in expenditure authority in the new Affordable Housing Trust Fund, which is part of the Construction and Rental Housing reporting fund, to carry out the programs approved by council in the ordinance. Interfund Loan for Community Safety/Payroll Tax Council enacted a payroll tax to fund Community Safety Initiatives that is anticipated to go into effect in January 2021. A new fund, the Community Safety Fund, has been created for payroll tax revenues, administration and related community safety expenditures. This supplemental budget includes a loan from the General Fund RRSF of $3 million to the Community Safety Fund to cover $1 million of start-up and administrative expenses and $2 million of “Bridge Plus” funding on community safety programs. The loan will be repaid from payroll tax revenues in FY21. The additional “Bridge Plus” funds will be used for a Homelessness Analyst for homeless services coordination, to provide funding gap support for the Ambulance Transport Fund, and to increase funding for the Eugene Police Department by $1.65 million. The EPD funds will be used to continue to ramp up the services by hiring additional officers, purchasing vehicles and continuing to fund the added services for another six months until the tax collections begin. Local Marijuana Tax Revenue This supplemental budget includes $470,000 of one-time expenditures that are eligible for spending from local marijuana tax revenue. Expenditures include $200,000 of new funding for downtown operations and several homelessness related expenditures (ROW clean-up, homeless storage program and homeless operations pilot programs). These expenditures meet the criteria CC Agenda - Page 292