- Elizabeth Larson
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Supervisors to hold special Friday meeting on Collier Avenue housing project, atmospheric river emergency
The board will meet beginning at 1 p.m. Friday, Jan. 13, in the board chambers on the first floor of the Lake County Courthouse, 255 N. Forbes St., Lakeport.
The meeting can be watched live on Channel 8, online at https://countyoflake.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx and on the county’s Facebook page. Accompanying board documents, the agenda and archived board meeting videos also are available at that link.
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On Friday afternoon the board, sitting as the Lake County Housing Commission, will hear a presentation describing the financing and funding sources and relative positions of the lienholders for the Collier Avenue Affording Housing Project, also referred to in county documents as the No Place Like Home Permanent Supportive Housing Project.
The project will be located on 3.3 acres at 6853 Collier Ave. in Nice.
The Rural Communities Housing Development Corp., or RCHDC, based in Ukiah, will develop the affordable housing project, which will serve low income or very low income households meeting the definition of mental disorder, substance substance use disorder or at risk of homelessness.
It will consist of 40 units, most one- and two-bedroom apartments with one unit set aside for a manager.
RCHDC previously reported that 49% of the units are set aside for clients suffering with serious mental illness and those who are at risk of homelessness, who are clients of Behavioral Health Services.
County documents explain that the project will house adults 18 years and older with a “serious mental disorder” as defined by the California Code, Welfare and Institutions Code. Under that code, serious mental disorders include bipolar, post-traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia, major affective disorders or other severely disabling mental disorders.
As part of the discussion, the board will consider a host of final agreements for the project. In his report to the board Behavioral Health Services Director Todd Metcalf, whose department would refer clients to the project for housing, said the documents “represent the final step in executing the Collier Avenue Housing project, prior to breaking ground.”
In other business on Friday, Sheriff Rob Howe is asking the board to ratify the proclamation of the existence of a local emergency due to the atmospheric river event that Howe signed on Thursday.
The proclamation notes that the atmospheric river event began on Jan. 4 and that, as a result, a local emergency now exists throughout Lake County.
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