TITLE
Title
APPROVE MOU WITH GUILFORD COUNTY CONTINUUM OF CARE FOR GUILFORD COUNTY GOVERNMENT TO SERVE AS NC-504 HMIS LEAD AGENCY
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SPONSOR
Sponsor
Natalie Craver, Assistant County Manager for Successful People / HHS Director
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BACKGROUND
Background
Guilford County Government (the County) has, and continues to, serve as the Collaborative Applicant and Lead Agency for the Greensboro, High Point/Guilford County NC 504 Continuum of Care (CoC) since 2022. During this time, Partners Ending Homelessness (PEH) has served as Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) Lead Agency with responsibility for local management, operation, and support of the NC-504 HMIS system. Earlier this year, PEH notified the CoC that they planned to step down from the HMIS Lead Agency role effective October 1, 2025. The CoC conducted a RFP process to select a replacement organization to serve as HMIS Lead agency. On September 8, 2025, the CoC Board voted to recommend selection of the County for the role and on September 11, 2025, the CoC membership voted to formally approve the selection of the County.
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CoC and County staff have worked together to assemble an MOU to designate the County as the HMIS Lead Agency. As HMIS Lead Agency, under the direction of the CoC, the County will be responsible for regular monitoring of the system, Technical Assistance to CoC agencies, and trainings for CoC agencies per HUD regulations and the contractual agreements with the CoC and Michigan Coalition Against Homelessness (MCAH), the CoC's HMIS software provider. This MOU will be for a period of 5 years. Both parties anticipate the agreement being reviewed on an annual basis or as needed. The County will also continue in its current CoC Lead / Collaborative Applicant role alongside this new HMIS Lead Agency role. At this time, the County is the only remaining party that needs to approve the MOU.
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To accomplish the work of the HMIS Lead Agency, County staff plan to initially shift ...
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