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CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PLEASANTON ALAMEDA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA RESOLUTION NO. 97-89 RESOLUTION ENDORSING THE ALAMEDA COUNTY-WIDE HOMELESS CONTINUUM OF CARE PLAN WHEREAS, representatives of Alameda County, its cities, homeless service providers, non-profit housing developers, faith community representatives, formerly homeless persons and others have come together over a year to engage in a county-wide planning process around meeting the needs of the homeless; and WHEREAS, this planning process has resulted in the creation of the Alameda County-wide Homeless Continuum of Care Plan; and WHEREAS, the Continuum of Care Plan seeks to maintain the capacity of the existing service system while building new partnerships to generate greater resources for the continuum of housing and services; and WHEREAS, Alameda County has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as a Best Practice Performer in the area of continuum of care; and WHEREAS, the Continuum of Caze Plan is necessary for federal applications for homeless funding; and WHEREAS, the Continuum of Care Plan calls for the creation of a Continuum of Care Council with representation from every city to carry out the goals of the Plan; and WHEREAS, the coordination of housing and services for homeless persons is a need which is expressed in the City's General Plan Housing Element and in the HUD Consolidated Planning Strategy; and WHEREAS, at its meeting of July 15, 1997, the City Council reviewed the report of the Housing Division (SR 97:208) regarding the adoption of the Alameda County-wide Homeless Continuum of Caze Plan;