Texas Administrative Code › Title 10 - COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT › Part 1 - TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS › Chapter 7 - HOMELESSNESS PROGRAMS › Subchapter C - EMERGENCY SOLUTIONS GRANTS (ESG) › Section 7.38 - Competitive Award and Funding Process

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a) An Application may by submitted
				  requesting funds for Program Participant services under street outreach,
				  emergency shelter, homeless prevention, and/or rapid re-housing. Each
				  Application submission will include one uniform Application with information
				  applicable across all Program Participant service types, and then information
				  on each Program Participant service requested. Each Program Participant service
				  reflected in an Application will be treated as a separate Application, assigned
				  a separate Application number per service type, and will be scored and ranked
				  separately for each service type selected. Applicants may be awarded funds for
				  one or more Program Participant services in accordance with this section.
				  Because each Program Participant service is reviewed separately and competes
				  separately, an award of funds for provision of one Program Participant service
				  does not affect an award of funds in any other Program Participant service
				  reflected in that same Application submission.
(b) Applications submitted directly to the
				  Department for under this section will receive points based on experience,
				  program design, budget, previous performance, and performance measures.
				  Applications will be scored and ranked based on selection criteria described in
				  this subchapter.
(c) Applicants for
				  a competitive award will be required to submit a self-score within the
				  Application. In no event will the points awarded to the Applicant exceed the
				  point value of the self-score in any selection criterion.
(d) Tie breakers. Each Application submitted
				  to the Department for a competitive award shall be assigned a number between
				  one and the total number of applications. The number assignment will be
				  determined in a random selection process to occur immediately following the
				  close of the application acceptance period, and Applicants will be notified of
				  said number assignment as soon as possible thereafter. The randomly assigned
				  numbers will be used to resolve ties, with the highest assigned number having
				  the highest priority.
(e) Partial
				  awards. In order to maintain funding within the Allocation Formula amounts
				  designated for each CoC region as determined in this subchapter, an Applicant
				  for a competitive award may be offered a partial award of their requested
				  funds. An Applicant offered a partial award of funds must confirm their
				  acceptance of a partial award, and submit updated information related to the
				  reduction within seven calendar days following the date of notification.
				  Scoring criteria may be updated based on the reduced funding request, but any
				  changes to the scoring criteria must allow the Application to maintain its
				  rank.
(f) Regional Funding
				  Competition. Funding will be recommended first for Applicants within the CoC
				  region up to the Allocation Formula amount designated for the CoC region as
				  determined in this subchapter.
(1) Eligible
				  Applications will be ranked in descending order by score within the CoC region
				  which the Application proposes to serve. Subsection (d) of this section will be
				  used to determine the priority of tied scores.
(2) ESG funds allocated to each CoC region
				  will be awarded starting with the highest ranking Application and continue
				  until the funds allocated for that CoC region are fully utilized, but not
				  exceeded, or until the Applicant for the last Application to be recommended in
				  the region declines an offer of a partial award.
(3) Applications proposing street outreach or
				  emergency shelter will be ranked alongside all Applications in the region,
				  however, a recommendation for a full award of an Application for street
				  outreach or emergency shelter will not be made through the first level of
				  funding if funding recommendations in the CoC region for street outreach and
				  emergency shelter will exceed 60% of the funding remaining in the CoC region
				  after direct Subgrants and acceptance of continuing awards. Applications
				  proposing street outreach and emergency shelter services but causing awards for
				  such services in the region to exceed 60% of the available funding in the
				  region, will be offered a partial award of up to the amount remaining to reach
				  60% for the region. If no funds remain available that would not exceed 60% at
				  the regional level for a partial award, or if they decline such partial award,
				  the Application will be passed over and recommendation of funding would proceed
				  to the next highest scoring Application(s) in the region in order to fully fund
				  the Formula Allocation amount for the region. Applications that were passed
				  over for funding may be eligible to compete in the statewide funding
				  competition, if no more than 60% of funds have been awarded for street outreach
				  and emergency shelter in the total allocated funds.
(4) A partial award may be offered to the
				  last highest ranking Application which is otherwise eligible for funding within
				  the regional competition to ensure that the amount of funds recommended for a
				  region does not initially exceed the amount identified in the Formula
				  Allocation. Partial awards will be offered under the regional competition only
				  if the funding remaining in the CoC region is more than $30,000.
(A) The Applicant or Applicants that accept
				  an offer of a partial award may be required to amend the Application if the
				  reduction in funds is expected to impact scored items and to adjust performance
				  deliverables based on the reduced amount of funding. The revised score based on
				  the partial award must still ensure the Application ranking would not be
				  affected. If a partial award or the Applicant's subsequent adjustments results
				  in a reduced score that alters their scoring rank within the regional
				  competition, the opportunity to be funded from the first level of funding
				  recommendations will not be offered to the Application.
(B) The Applicant may decline the partial
				  award of funds and instead request to be included for consideration in the
				  statewide competition.