The funding for the Emergency Rental Assistance Program has been exhausted. The City of Stockton has applied for additional State and Federal funding. Should additional funding become available, qualifying completed applications will receive funding in the order received and within program guidelines.  To assist as many applicants as possible, the City will implement the following program changes and priorities: 

• The City will accept ERAP applications for funding through December 15, 2021.   
• Applications submitted before the close date will be processed for rental arrears only for the period of April 2020 - Nov 2021. with a maximum of 18 months of assistance. or until all available funds are exhausted. 
• Payment of prospective/future rents and utility payments will no longer be processed for payment. 
• Applicants seeking utility arrears assistance are to apply to the LIHEAP program at https://www.caliheapapply.com/. 
• El Concilio will prioritize the processing of new and current applications by the date the application was submitted and the established program priorities. 

We appreciate your patience. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact El Concilio at 209-644-2690 or email ERAP@elconcilio.org. 

A select group of Black leaders and doctors met with Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Stockton, on Friday afternoon to discuss their communities’ ongoing challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Drs. Bennet Omalu, Kim Rhodes and Otashe Golden joined Stockton’s NAACP President Bobby Bivens and East County’s NAACP Third Vice President Cheryl Cooper in conversation with McNerney. 

The panel met publicly over Zoom for just over an hour to discuss the disproportionate impact the pandemic has had in their communities in the Central Valley.  

“It is clear that there is a stark contrast between how it’s affecting different communities,” McNerney said.  

“Black Americans are almost as three times as likely to be hospitalized after contracting the virus,” he added. “Yet the vaccination rates among Black Americans and people of color remain low.” 

The congressman then proceeded to ask questions to his guests, inquiring what they were doing within their communities and what troubled those around them. 

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