The D.C. General Hospital building, which is now used as a homeless shelter. Photo via Google Street View.

The Community Partnership for the Prevention of Homelessness will continue to run D.C. General and manage the city’s Homeless Services Continuum of Care, as its contract is expected to be passively approved this week.

One contract provides over $13 million for the running of D.C. General, the city’s 248-unit homeless shelter for families, while the other provides over $60 million for services for the over 3,200 homeless or at-risk individuals — including low-barrier shelters and transitional housing — through September 30, 2015.

Councilmember Jim Graham, who oversees the Human Services committee, said today he would not hold a hearing on the contracts, which will be passively approved Saturday, although he said there should have been one: “We’re gonna let it go.” Part of the problem, he said, is the amount of money provided for such a huge task, which does not attract interest from other organizations.

The Community Partnership has come under fire for policies in place when eight-year-old Relisha Rudd disappeared from D.C. General in March with a janitor employed by the shelter. He was later found dead of an apparent suicide; she is still missing.

A review of the interactions Rudd’s family had with several D.C. agencies concluded that the city could not have prevented her disappearance, but also made several recommendations for changes based on findings.

For example, the janitor, 51-year-old Kahlil Tatum, violated the fraternization policy between staff and residents at D.C. General, but shelter employees with knowledge of this were not required to report it to the Community Partnership. The report also found that TCP staff “did not accurately determine whether the children” from Rudd’s family “were present” during nightly checks “and did not identify children by name.”

At a roundtable on the closing D.C. General Tuesday, Graham did not fault the Community Partnership for its failings in managing the shelter. “No one can successfully do that,” he said of running D.C. General. “The Community Partnership is a good organization … but it just cannot be done.”

Before Graham confirmed to DCist a hearing wouldn’t be held, Michelle Williams from the Department of Human Services said, “I really doubt that we’re going to have a new contractor.”

“I need to know something different is going to happen this year,” Graham told Williams.

Williams could not say how many of the recommendations from the Rudd report had been completed, but she said it was a “significant number” had already been implemented when the report was released in September. This includes reporting violations of the fraternization policy. She added that DHS and TCP will continue to work closely with the Deputy Mayor for Human Services, who helped draft the report, to make sure the recommendations are made.

Residents of the shelter have said that staff from TCP do not listen to their complaints. But at today’s hearing, four women who live at the shelter with their children did not have complaints about the conditions. Rather, they were concerned about the difficulty with moving on to housing.

Mayoral candidates David Catania and Carol Schwartz, both Independents, said at a recent debate they would terminate the contract with the Community Partnership, while Democrat Muriel Bowser said she would do a “top down review” review.