1. Department of Housing and Career Services FY 2018 Recommended Budget
Joint Finance Committee / Council Meeting
June 5, 2017

2. Housing and Career Services Appropriations
Expense History By Cost Category In thousands
FY 2016 Actuals
FY 2017 Revised
FY 2018 Recommended
% Variance
FY17 from FY18
Personnel
$4,330
$5,172
$5,388 4%
Services & Supplies
24,209
20,086
18,506
(8%)
Internal Service Charges
467
482
437
(9%)
Operating Transfers Out
1,218 -
Capital Outlay 6 0%
Debt Service - Principal and Interest 21
300
Non-Operating Expense
22,105
Total
$52,350
$26,046
$24,637
(5%)

3. Housing and Career Services Department
Significant Changes From FY 2017 Budget
Recommended budget for the WIOA fund decreased to reflect actual expenditures instead of projected revenues.
Increase in Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) funding as a result of a successful application to the State, which allows the City to administer a portion of the State ESG funding.

4. Housing and Career Services Department
FY 2017 Accomplishments
Affordable Housing
134 subsidized units completed (Heritage Square, Marv’s Place, The Groves)
49 Inclusionary units completed
Homelessness
15% decrease in chronic homeless count
Downward trend in unsheltered homeless count
MASH
11 trainees placed in permanent jobs with 1 more pending
City of Pasadena, PUSD, Ontario, Local Union 300

5. Housing and Career Services Department
FY 2017 Accomplishments
Career Services
Designated as a “high performing” workforce development board by the State of California Employment Development Depart and the California State Workforce Development Board
Passes Final PY 2015/16 WIA Performance Standards
Local Workforce Development Plan Approved by State for 2017 – 2019
Section 8 Rental Assistance
Increased lease up rate in very tight rental market to achieve a federal rating as “high performer”

6. Housing and Career Services Department
FY 2018 Key Issues and Strategies
Key Issues
Strategies
Increase affordable housing and preserve existing affordable housing
Reduce Homelessness
Employment and training opportunities
Initiate and produce affordable housing production on City-owned sites (e.g., Heritage Square South) and preserve existing housing (e.g., Concord Apts.).
Address street homelessness by utilizing new county and state funding to outreach to chronically homeless unsheltered persons.
Implement Career Services program change to comply with conversion from WIA to WIOA, including contribution of One-Stop System costs by program partners.

7. Housing and Career Services Department
FY 2018 Key Issues and Strategies
Key Issues
Strategies
Budget Uncertainty and Challenges
Funding Restrictions
Plan for potential federal funding cuts (CDBG, ESG, HOME, WIO) and other related budget challenges (e.g., depletion of Section 8 operating reserves)
Identify eligible projects and programs for federal funding which have increasingly stringent programmatic, commitment and disbursement requirements.