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BuiCding Futures with p Women & ChiCdren January 10, 2002 Joann Oliver City of San Leandro Civic Center, 835 East 14th Street San Leandro, CA 94577 Dear Joann: San Leandro Shelter • Sister Me Home Safe House • lfidway Shelter Community Education &' Outreach • Project Open Doors for Children I am writing to request the City of San Leandro's help with BFWC's severe deficit and cash flow problems. BFWC faces a $156,000 deficit this fiscal year in our $1.6 million annual -budget (Attachment A), and without immediate emergency funding assistance, we will be forced to cut vital services and programs in the City of San Leandro. We are requesting a $25,000 grant. from the City to cover the deficit we face in the costs directly related to providing services to San Leandrans. Summary of the RIV, 7Iem With the recession of the economy and the events of September 11th, social service agencies have experienced a substantial reduction in private donations. We are aware that. BFWC is not the only shelter provider -in Alameda County facing financial hardship. Shelters are being asked to offer increasingly sophisticated services with virtually the same size .public sector contracts they had ten years ago. We are expected to provide 24-hour shelter and extensive support and clinical services, as.well as far more complex financial and statistical reporting than in years past. Our public sector contracts are structurally under -funded, without enough funding to. cover administrative costs or pay our program staff .a living wage. As we move forward into the next fiscal year, we- will advocate for our public sector grantors to reevaluate our contracts such as CDBG, EHAP and FESG, to increase the funding to levels sustainable for our agency. In addition to experiencing the problems described above, BFWC's current deficit is caused by two additional key factors: 1) rapid expansion of programs; and 2) extensive and costly delays in the Alameda Navel Air Station base conversion impacting the development of Bessie Coleman Court. Attachment B contains a deficit analysis by costs center. As you can see from the breakdown of costs by program area, there is no one particular cost center that has incurred significant cost overruns, with the exception of Bessie Coleman Court Construction. 1395 BancrnftAnenue San Leandro, CA 94577. 510 357-0205 9 Fax 510.357-0688 • Toll Frec Crisis Line 866 A -NAY -OUT • ui�>>a.Gfiac.ur�