DearBelow is this year’s FY2017 CoC Project Priority Listing as determined and approved by the VCEH Ranking Committee (All CoC Project Applications must be entered in esnaps by 4PM Wednesday, September 13, 2017):
| APPLICANT | TYPE | PROJECTS: TIER 1 | BUDGET | RANK |
| BHP | PSH | Shelter+Care (So. Windham) – Renewal | $222,472 | 1 |
| VSHA | RRH | Rapid Rehousing Statewide – Renewal | $842,040 | 2 |
| VSHA | RRH | Rapid Rehousing #5 (Addison) – Renewal | $91,885 | 3 |
| ICA | HMIS | VT BoS HMIS – Renewal | $59,382 | 4 |
| AHS | SSO-CE | VT BoS Coordinated Entry – Renewal | $222,472 | 5 |
| VSHA | PSH | Shelter+Care Statewide – Renewal | $1,597,083 | 6 |
| APPLICANT | TYPE | PROJECTS: TIER 2 | BUDGET | RANK |
| VSHA | PSH | Shelter+Care Statewide – Renewal (Straddle) | $67,547 | 7 |
| VSHA | PSH | Shelter+Care Statewide – Expansion (Washington/Windham) | $43,668 | 8 |
| AHS | SSO-CE | Coordinated Entry – Expansion | $83,167 | 9 |
| VSHA
(PVT) |
PSH | Permanent Housing Bonus – New
(Washington/Windham/Windsor) |
$194,382 | 10 |
Highlights from the VT BoS CoC Ranking Committee’s determination:
- VCEH identified $126,835 in available CoC funds to reallocate for new projects
- 8.15.17 – VCEH CoC membership indicated general support for HMIS, CE and PSH funding
- To address unexpected Letters of Intent for new HMIS/CE projects, VCEH developed objective scoring tool with potential scenarios as current VCEH Policy doesn’t address new HMIS/CE projects in Tier 2.*
- 8.17.17 – Ranking Committee chose “Scenario 1” from Tier 2 options (funding all three expansion proposals – HMIS/CE/PSH), as it aligns with VCEH general support for all 3 project types
- 8.23.17 – after initial ranking determination, ICA withdrew their HMIS-Expansion proposal
- 8.25.17 – Ranking Committee met independently (without VSHA or AHS) and voted to increase the new CE-Expansion proposal by $39,500 (in response to a priority to implemented the CoC Coordinated Entry by the HUD deadline of 1.23.18)
- Two renewals were ranked in Tier 1 based upon VCEH policy: HMIS (“second to last full project in Tier 1”), and CE (“last full project in Tier 1”)
- RRH5 renewal project was placed by Ranking Team in Tier 1 as it’s a renewal & new project (start date 10.1.17 after current NOFA); HUD doesn’t permit reallocation of new projects; VCEH policy places HMIS/CE/Straddle projects at bottom of Tier 1; RRH5 couldn’t be ranked lower than #3; RRH5 project could not be scored with points (no performance data) so it could not be ranked higher than #3*
- Due to unspent grant funds & strategic purposes, the Ranking Team chose the Shelter+Care/Statewide renewal project as the last Tier 1 project, with $67,547 straddling into Tier 2
- The two remaining project proposals (BHP Shelter+Care & VSHA RRH Statewide) were ranked in order of points determined by the CoC-approved objective scoring tool for renewal projects
- No appeals were submitted by the 8.28.17 deadline
*Collaborative Applicant [VSHA] recommends VCEH Policy revisions for FY18
