In The Middle of Everything
SEPTEMBER 2024 CITY NEWSLETTER
City Hall – 7505 South Holden Street • Midvale, UT 84047
By Mayor Marcus Stevenson
Marcus’ Message
Social Services Funding
MIDVALE CITY DIRECTORY City Hall ...................................................801-567-7200 Finance/Utilities ...................................801-567-7200 Court ........................................................801-567-7265 City Attorney’s Office .........................801-567-7250 City Recorder/Human Resources ...801-567-7228 Community Development ...............801-567-7211 Public Works ..........................................801-567-7235 Ace Disposal/Recycling .....................801-363-9995 Midvale Historical Museum .............801-567-7285 Midvale Senior Center .......................385-468-3350 SL County Animal Services ..............385-468-7387 Communications .................................801-567-7230
MIDVALE CITY ELECTED OFFICIALS MAYOR Marcus Stevenson ...............................801-567-7204 Email: mstevenson@midvaleut.gov CITY COUNCIL District 1 - Bonnie Billings Email: bbillings@midvaleut.gov District 2 - Paul Glover Email: pglover@midvaleut.gov District 3 - Heidi Robinson Email: Hrobinson@midvaleut.gov District 4 - Bryant Brown Email: bbrown@midvaleut.gov District 5 - Dustin Gettel Email: dgettel@midvaleut.gov
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In Salt Lake County, cities are minimally involved in social services, as most of those resources are funded through private, county, state, and federal funds. However, there are certain areas where Midvale City either provides direct funds for some services or is part of multi-jurisdictional efforts that support and fund many social services.
Midvale Direct Funding
Midvale City provides direct funding and support to a few community partners that provide social services directly in our community. • Midvale Boys & Girls Club - $40,000 annually: Provides funding to support the Juniors and Teens program at the Midvale Boys & Girls Club. These programs support after school and summer programming for kids in our community. • Midvale Community Building Community - $40,000 annually: This funding helps to provide low-income, uninsured, and underinsured individuals with affordable services such as medical care, dental care, mental health care, and family services. • The Road Home: Connie Crosby Family Resource Center $77,000: This funding is a small part of the Homeless Shelter Mitigation Fund that Midvale City receives from the State because we host the family homeless shelter. This year, we are providing this funding to help with rental application fees, security deposits, an on-site clinician, and fencing improvements. • NeighborWorks Salt Lake: Down Payment Assistance & Home Repair Loan Program - $580,000: Through Midvale City’s Redevelopment Agency, we contract with NeighborWorks Salt Lake to administer our first-time homebuyer down payment assistance program and our home repair loan program. These programs help moderate- to low-income individuals and families purchase their first home and provide funding for needed home repairs.
Multi-Jurisdictional Funding Efforts
There are certain funding sources that are pooled together from each city and then allocated across the county by a vote of the mayors of those participating cities. Specifically, Midvale participates in four programs with Salt Lake County and 16 other cities, where funds are allocated each year. While these programs totaled about $6.15 million, going towards about 40 projects, I’ll focus on the projects directly in Midvale and that supported some of Midvale’s closest partners. • Family Support Center: LifeStart Village Transitional Housing for Self Sufficiency - $115,000: LifeStart Village supports single parents with kids with stable housing and wrap-around services. These funds support on-site case management. They anticipate 65 single parents will be housed, at least 80% of families will gain self sufficiency, at least 80% of parents will increase overall income and earning potential, and at least 80% of the families will be get into permanent, stable housing. • Midvale City: Home Repair Loan Program - $100,000: Supports our no-interest forgivable loans for moderate- to low-income households, loan workshops, and administrative costs. The program was launched in October in 2023 with a goal of addressing emergency repairs, home maintenance, and preserve the housing community within Midvale. • The Road Home: Homeless Resource Centers, Rapid Re-Housing, and Tennant-Based Rental Assistance - $484,000: The Road Home
is Midvale’s shelter operator and supply support services to people and families experiencing homelessness along the Wasatch Front, with a goal of helping people obtain stable housing. • Homeless Resource Centers – supports salaries and benefits and indirect administrative costs of the homeless resource centers’ staff, which anticipates serving 5,100 individuals through their centers this year. • Rapid Re-housing – helps households experiencing homelessness find safe and affordable housing. Funds go directly to client assistance (rent, deposits, application fees, etc.), salaries and benefits for housing program staff, and indirect administrative costs. • Tenant Based Rental Assistance – while most families receive an average of 4 months rental assistance when moving into housing, this program allows families to receive up to an additional 12 months of assistance while they work on gaining income, finding employment, accessing medical and mental health services, and addressing other critical needs to avoid returning to homelessness. • Utah Community Action: Rental Assistance - $180,000: these funds will support 78 households with rental assistance, while those families also receive case management with a particular emphasis on the homeless, children, and the elderly.
Utah Homeless Services Board
While not a direct Midvale City role, I represent cities that host homeless shelters on the Utah Homeless Services Board, which oversees the distribution of homeless service funds that are provided by the State. This year, about $31 million was approved for homeless related services across the state - about $21 million worth of projects were funded in Salt Lake County. Of the funding that was approved for Salt Lake County based projects, here is the breakdown by type of project: • Emergency Shelter - $16.7 million • Homeless Prevention - $202,000 • Permanent Supportive Housing - $840,000 • Street Outreach - $336,000 • Transitional Housing - $136,000 • Federal Match & Other Programs - $2.7 million
Funding the System
Even with all this funding, about $27 million, coming together from different resources to support programs in Salt Lake County, the system is still woefully underfunded. While it’s a challenge for cities to find their path into these spaces, I’m proud of the work that Midvale City has done to begin supporting in the ways we can, while working closely with county and state partners to ensure these funds are used where they are needed most and support those who are most vulnerable among us.