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Action Plan - FY2000 City of San Leandro Page 35 ($1,333,287), which expand housing and services for more than 420 homeless youth in the cities of Berkeley and Oakland. In 1999, the Partnership received $9.1 million to add one new program and sustain eleven programs serving homeless people in Alameda County. These programs include Berkeley Pathways ($308,280), a seven -unit Shelter Plus Care Tenant -based Rental Assistance program for homeless individuals with dual diagnosis of mental illness and substance abuse. In addition to the above new program, Building Opportunities for Self Sufficiency (BOSS) received more than $3.8 million in grants to operate four programs that provide transitional housing for families, rental subsidies and support services for people with disabilities and services for people with drug /alcohol problems. Jobs for the Homeless Consortium received more than $1.6 million to provide comprehensive training and employment services to nearly 1000 homeless individuals over a two -year period. Alameda County Base Closure Collaborative On October 25, 1994, President Clinton signed into law the Base Closure Community Redevelopment and Homeless Assistance Act. This Act authorizes HUD to determine whether a base reuse plan for the reuse of an installation proposed by a local reuse authority balances the community development, economic redevelopment and other development needs of the communities in the vicinity of the installation with the needs of the homeless in those communities. Established in 1994, the Alameda County Homeless Base Conversion Collaborative (The Homeless Collaborative) grew out of a common vision of homeless providers that the conversion of military bases in the East Bay afforded the entire conununity an opportunity to access base resources in a manner that integrated the needs of the homeless with the needs of the greater community. In addition, by forming such a collaborative, the opportunities presented as a result of base conversion could be maximized by enabling the homeless community to speak as one voice. The Collaborative has actively participated in conversion activities at Alameda Naval Air Station, Oak Knoll Medical Facility, Alameda Fleet Industrial Supply Center, and the Oakland Army Base. The Homeless Collaborative, with support from HCD, has achieved on the former Alameda Naval Air Station (now called Alameda Point) the largest single commitment of resources to meet the growing needs of the homeless in the county §s history. In its March 1996 publication, Guidebook on Military Base Reuse and Homeless Assistance, HUD cites the reuse planning process at NAS as "a model for how a community goes about the process of balancing the economic redevelopment, other development and homeless assistance needs of the community in the vicinity of the installation.