DEPARTMENT: Social Services-Housing & Community Resources
FILE TYPE: Consent Action
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Authorization To Execute Joint Powers Agreement With Dakota County Community Development Agency For Family Voucher Administration Services
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PURPOSE/ACTION REQUESTED
Authorize execution of joint powers agreement (JPA) with Dakota County Community Development Agency (CDA) for family voucher administration services.
SUMMARY
In 2019, the CDA established a pilot Levy Rent Assistance Program for families, a program designed to address system flow for residents at Dakota Woodlands by providing temporary tenant-based rental assistance to eligible households until they transition to the Housing Choice Voucher Program. The CDA program sunset in June 2022. Due to the success of the pilot program, long waitlists for shelter, and stagnation in flow out of shelter, Dakota County Social Services proposed utilizing the new Local Affordable Housing Aid funding to relaunch a Family Housing Voucher Program. By Resolution No. 23-574 (December 19, 2023), the County Board authorized restarting the Family Voucher Program, formerly known as the CDA Levy Rent Assistance Program with funding from Local Affordable Housing Aid (LAHA).
Dakota County Social Services has previously contracted with the CDA to act as the rental assistance administrator for the program. The CDA has succeeded as a vendor in this capacity. Under Minn. Stat. ?471.59, subd.1, two or more governmental units may enter into an agreement to cooperatively exercise any power common to the contracting Parties, and one of the participating governmental units may exercise one of its powers on behalf of the other governmental units. Therefore, staff is requesting to enter into a JPA (Attachment: Joint Powers Agreement) with Dakota County CDA for family voucher administrative services in an amount not to exceed $1,225,000 for the period January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2027.
Dakota County CDA served 29 households in 202...
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