Drafter
Clerk 11/12/2015
Title
A MOTION expressing the council's support for transferring the administration and management of the Seattle-King County homeless management information system from the city of Seattle to King County and directing the executive to develop and transmit a work plan for implementing this transfer.
Body
WHEREAS, a homeless management information system ("HMIS") is a locally administered, electronic data collection system that stores information about people who use homeless services, and
WHEREAS, since 2007, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development ("HUD") has required that jurisdictions operate, enter information into and prepare reports from a local HMIS as a condition of remaining eligible to receive federal homeless services funds, and
WHEREAS, HUD assigns responsibility for the HMIS to the locally designated continuum of care, and
WHEREAS the locally designated continuum of care for Seattle and King County is All Home, formerly known as the Committee to End Homelessness in King County ("CEH"), and
WHEREAS, the HMIS for the Seattle-King County continuum of care is jointly funded by King County, the city of Seattle and United Way of King County, and
WHEREAS, the HMIS for the Seattle-King County continuum of care is administered and managed by the Seattle human services department, and
WHEREAS, the HMIS for the Seattle-King County continuum of care uses database software that is provided and maintained by a vendor operating under a statewide contract with the Washington State Department of Commerce, and
WHEREAS, the 2009 federal homeless emergency assistance and rapid transition to housing ("HEARTH") act requires that local continuums of care develop coordinated entry systems to ensure that all people experiencing a housing crisis have fair and equal access and are quickly identified, assessed for, referred and connected to housing and assistance based on their strengths and needs, and
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