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Action Plan - FY2000 City of San Leandro Page 31 • finalizing minimum Health and Safety Standards of Service, after an extensive community review process, to be implemented in service provider agencies County -wide. These standards have served as a model for standards being developed for the entire region; • continued work on safety -net services lacking for homeless people in the county, including transportation and access to SSI. Progress towards achieving first year goals were evaluated at the February 2000 Continuum of Care Council meeting and a new 2000 -2001 Work Plan will be developed. Elections for vacant Continuum of Care Council seats will also be held early this year. Housing Opportunities for People With AIDS (HOPWA) Alameda County Housing and Community Development Department (1-ICD) administers the HOPWA program for Alameda County, under contract from the City of Oakland. The HOPWA entitlement is received by Oakland as the largest city in the Eligible Metropolitan Area. HOPWA funds can be used for a variety of housing and service activities for persons living with HIV and AIDS and are intended to serve residents throughout Alameda County. In 1996 HCD, in partnership with the City of Oakland, completed the Alameda County Multi - Year AIDS Housing Plan. The Plan provides comprehensive information about the need for AIDS housing, presents recommendations for how HOPWA funds should be allocated for the next five years, and seeks to improve coordination between HOPWA and other AIDS- and housing - dedicated funds. The Plan was adopted by the Board of Supervisors in April 1996 and updated in 1998. Since the passage of the Plan, I-IOPWA funds have been made available to cover all priority areas recommended. HCD is now in the fourth year of funding an AIDS Housing Information Program, with a hotline operating out of Hayward, which has provided county -wide information about housing available for persons living with HIV /AIDS to more than 1,800 households. HCD also has contracts for support services and operating support with eight housing providers which provide emergency, transitional and permanent housing for people living with HIV /AIDS in Alameda County. In FY 99 HOPWA development funds were committed to five projects which provide 16 units of transitional and permanent housing. Four permanent units at Alameda Point and two permanent units in Cherryland (unincorporated County) are located within the HOME Consortium. Housing developments which will be completed id FY 00 are Miramar Housing, formerly Alameda Naval Air Station, with 12 units of permanent housing and the North County Women §s Center Transitional Housing with four units of transitional Musing.