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Discussion continued from December 10, 2019 Board meeting regarding 6996 Leisure Town Road for potential emergency housing needs; The Property Owner has declined County request to extend the escrow and cancelled the purchase and sales contract; County staff recommends ending efforts to acquire the property and seeks further Board direction regarding addressing housing/shelter needs in the northern part of Solano County
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DEPARTMENTAL RECOMMENDATION:
The Department of General Services and County Administrator recommend that the Board of Supervisors:
1. Receive an update regarding acquisition of 6996 Leisure Town Road (continued from December 10, 2019 meeting);
2. Property Owner has declined request for extending the escrow and cancelled purchase and sales contract; County staff recommends ending efforts to acquire the property;
3. County staff seeks further Board direction regarding housing/shelter needs in the northern part of Solano County.
SUMMARY:
Solano County and the cities are continuing to experience a residential shelter emergency with limited beds which became more urgent because of the closures of Heather House in 2019 and the closure and repurposing of the Rosewood House Facility to transitional treatment housing.
Also, in 2019 the emergency shelter previously operated as Mission Solano reopened as Shelter Solano with a reduced population. These closures and changes created a larger gap in emergency and transitional shelter beds, and while the Cities of Vallejo and Fairfield have plans and are working on funding for emergency and supportive residential shelter those projects are a few years out. According to the 2019 Point-in-Time Count, there are 1,151 homeless individuals in the County, of whom 81% (932) are unsheltered. (Attachment F - 2019 PIT Homeless Census & Survey.)
Staff has been advised by the Agent representing the Prop...
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