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Actions Taken To Ensure Compliance with Program and Comprehensive PIanning Requirements City staff monitor CDBG, public service, and HOME projects regularly. The Housing Services Division staff regularly monitor CDBG-funded capital improvement projects for the City through review and approval of ongoing reimbursement requests and invoices and constant communications with the Engineering Department's staff. The Housing Specialist administers the CDBG and HOME Programs to ensure program compliance with HUD rules and regulations. Discussions are held with CDBG-funded agencies about their scope of services prior to a services agreement being finalized to ensure eligible activities. Desk monitoring is done through reviews of quarterly or other reports. The Administrative Assistant tracks all project expenditures on spread sheets and reconciles with the IDIS reports on a monthly basis. Actions Taken To Reduce the Number of Persons Living Below the Poverty Level The City's strategy to reduce the number of households with incomes below the poverty line is to fund programs that assist people to achieve economic independence and to preserve and build affordable rental housing. 'The City funded 20 social service agencies (22 projects) with General Funds that provided support services to help 12,404 individuals reach personal and economic sustainability. Also, the City gave CDBG funds to Davis Street Family Resource Center (DSFRC), which has a Workforce Development program designed to assist clients to become job ready to secure employment and/or increase their current wages to become more self sufficient. At a job workshop where 366 clients attended, DSFRC assisted 280 persons (77%) with job readiness services. Of these 280 clients, 88 were placed in full-time jobs; half of these were City residents. DSFRC also provides life skills training to teach clients how to budget and shop with limited resources and fixed incomes. DSFRC leads a collaborative involving the San Leandro Chamber of Commerce and Child Care Links. This program works exclusively with Cal Works families in job preparation and placement, including workshops that focus on resume writing, interview skills, job-hunting tactics, and job placement. Clients are referred by Alameda County Social Services, and many are in crisis due to reaching their time limits for benefits. DSFRC's Working Poor Employment Program offers clients resources such as one-on-one job developer consultations to ascertain their skills, define their career goals, provide access to its dress-for- success closet, as well as offer an opportunity to participate in its Individual Development Account program. With CDBG funds, Building Futures with Women and Children (BFWC) also provided pre- employment, life skills and housing assistance, as well as benefits advocacy to move clients into self sufficiency. In FY04/O5, BFWC increased the level of self sufficiency for 86% of the Draft Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report: FY2004-2005 City of San Leandro Page 18