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Local Support of Everyone Home Plan The City of San Leandro was the first jurisdiction in the HOME Technical Advisory Consortium (HOMETAC) to adopt Alameda County's Everyone Home Plan. The Human Services Commission (HSC) approved the Everyone Home Plan on July 26, 2006. The City Council adopted the Everyone Home Plan on November 20, 2006. The City continues to work with a local expert on homelessness, Building Futures with Women and Children, to draft its own Homeless Plan to align with the major goals of the County's Everyone Home Plan, although objectives will vary according to the City's needs. The City is obtaining community input from key stakeholders before finalizing its Homeless Plan. Also, City staff serve on the Everyone Home Leadership Board. The City of San Leandro supports homeless and special needs service providers with CDBG and General Funds. During FY 2009-10, the City will help fund operating costs for programs that provide homeless services. Over the years, the City has continued to support agencies such as the San Leandro Shelter for Women and Children (for homeless and victims of domestic abuse) and Davis Street Family Resource Center (a community social service center) to provide such homeless services. The City will also continue to support services that help prevent homelessness: landlord/tenant counseling and fair housing services funded by CDBG funds and the Rental Assistance Program (which offers security deposit or delinquent rental payment assistance to eligible households with hardship issues) funded by the General Fund. The City will also support the implementation of the Everyone Home Plan by providing funds for county- wide administration expenses for Continuum of Care and HMIS. OTHER PROGRAMS To implement its housing and community development goals, the City continues to seek out funding opportunities generated from federal, State, and local sources as well as public and private sources. HUD Section 108 Loan Guarantee Pro rg am Application for Senior Center See Exhibit B, "HUD Section 108 Loan Guarantee Program Application". The HUD Section 108 Loan Guarantee Program is a debt financing program through the CDBG Program to help communities leverage CDBG dollars for community development or revitalization activities such as economic development, capital improvements, and housing rehabilitation. Local governments which utilize the Section 108 loans must pledge current and future CDBG allocations (or other local funding sources) as security for the loan. HUD's formula for calculating how much a local government may borrow under Section 108 is five times its latest CDBG entitlement grant minus any outstanding Section 108 principal loan balances. The City has currently has an outstanding Section 108 loan for the land acquisition relating to the Broadmoor Plaza affordable senior rental housing development. HUD recently calculated that the City currently has the capacity to apply for up to $2.85 million in Section 108 loan funds. The City is preparing to submit a Section 108 loan application for $2.5 million, which is needed to complete the construction of the City's new senior center in FY 09-10. The senior center is a Final Action Plan - FY2009-10 City of San Leandro Page 14