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Redevelopment Set-Aside Funds to fund its Housing Rehabilitation and First-Time Homebuyer Programs. Most of the notable accomplishments with CDBG and HOME funds are mentioned above in earlier sections of this document. However, other accomplishments include Project Literacy serving 158 persons with special needs. Project Literacy also recruited and trained fifty-five (55) new tutors and provided the community with 19,226 tutor service hours. Staff and volunteers represent a diverse community (e.g., Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Filipino). Project Literacy offers ethnically and culturally diverse instructional resources for adult literacy students. Outreach services are provided in Spanish. Project Literacy provides parent literacy workshops and free children's book distributions at the main library and at community agencies which serve parents and their children, ages 0-4 years. Family Literacy clientele include teen mothers, low- income childcare providers and early education providers, CaIWORKs single parents, and low- literacy parents. Project Literacy's computer lab helps improve each student's quality of life, too. Construction of the S l -unit affordable senior rental housing Estabrook Place is underway. By May 2010 all fifty-one (51) new affordable senior rental units (including a unit reserved for the on-site manager) are projected to be fully leased up and occupied. Furthermore, Mission Bell Apartments also continued to fulfill another Consolidated Plan's priority: to increase available service-enriched housing for people with special needs. Mission Bell has five (5) units set-aside for youth exiting from foster care, three (3) units for mentally disabled transition age youth adults, and two (2) units for adults with special needs (i.e. mentally ill and/or chronically homeless). The rehabilitation and refinancing of Mission Bell, moreover, fulfills Priority # 2 of preserving affordable housing. During this past year, one (l) low income homebuyer purchased a new inclusionary housing unit in the Cherry Glen subdivision. An existing moderate income inclusionary home in the Cherrywood subdivision, in addition, was resold to an income-eligible buyer. There were nine (9) loans, consisting of two (2) loans for low-income first-time homebuyers and seven (7) moderate-income first-time homebuyer, were approved for down payment/closing cost assistance under the City's First-Time Homebuyer Program (FTHB). With the ongoing demand for these loans, the City Council in April 2009 approved an additional $142,000 in Redevelopment Set-Aside funds for the loan program. The City sponsored two (2) free first-time homebuyer education seminars, the first ever Employer Forum which educated employers about homeownership opportunities for their employees, the first ever Realtor/Lender Workshop which informed local realtors and lenders about the City's FHTB program, and the 2°d annual post- purchase workshop which reminded existing homeowners about the resale and affordability requirements of their homes. The City has a policy of completing CDBG-funded projects in a timely manner to assure that the grant money is spent. Staff worked assiduously on this goal and successfully succeeded in timely CDBG grant expenditures. Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report: FY 2008-2009 City of San Leandro Page 31