Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Colleen Chawla, Chief, San Mateo County Health
Lee Pullen, Director, Aging and Disability Services
Subject: Amendment to the Agreement with V & H Hospitality, Inc., for Hotel Services
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing an amendment to the County's agreement with V & H Hospitality, Inc. for hotel services, for the term of July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2029, increasing the amount by $200,000 for a total amount not to exceed $400,000.
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BACKGROUND:
Aging and Disability Services (ADS) provides a wide range of services to assist seniors, people with disabilities, and dependent adults to live as safely and independently as possible in the community.
Adult Protective Services (APS) helps adults 60 and older and dependent adults (18-59 with disabilities) when the clients are unable to meet their own needs or are victims of abuse, neglect, or exploitation. The locally administered and state-funded Home Safe program is for current APS clients or those in the APS intake process. It works to address homelessness among seniors and adults with disabilities, in part by providing housing navigation and direct financial assistance.
Starting in 2021, the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) announced noncompetitive allocations based on local need methodology for all 58 counties. The most recent funding, announced in November 2025, resulted in $1,023,027 for San Mateo County. The need for hotel services to provide emergency shelter for clients has risen quickly during the three years San Mateo County has received Home Safe funding. In recent months, the use of hotels has been reduced to serving Home Safe clients who are frail and/or medically compromised and unable to be housed in shelters.
In addition to Home Safe, ADS clients receive hotel services for a variety of other reasons, including, but not limited to financial inst...
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