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PART III: EVALUATION OF ANNUAL PERFORMANCE The purpose of this section is to assess the City's progress in meeting the priority needs and specific objectives identified in the Action Plan FY 2009-2010 that will make the City's vision of the future become a reality. San Leandro completed the fifth and final year of its FY2005-2009 HUD Consolidated Plan. The need to increase affordable housing, both rental and for sale, is one of the main goals of both the Housing Element of the City's General Plan and the Consolidated Plan (Con Plan). 1) Relationship of the Use of CDBG Funds to Priorities, Needs, Goals and Specific Obiectives. FY 2005-2009 (Consolidated Plan Period AX All CDBG funds were used to help the CDBG Program meet its national objift, es of providing a suitable living environment, decent housing, and economic opportunities to"116 low- and moderate -income persons. The City has met or exceeded all of its anti cipate4-,dousing and community development outcomes under its FY 2005-2009 HUD Consolidated Plan. From July 1, 2005 through June 30, 2010, the City provided CDBG-funded public services to 90,462 persons in need, exceeding its goal by 335%. Additionally, the City utilized CDBG funds for numerous capital improvements projects. The City allocated majority of the CDBG funds to construct a new Senior Center, and as explained more fully on page 15 under the "public facilities and improvements" section, the City completed construction of the Senior Center in FY 2009-2010. The City also assisted non-profit public services providers with the rehabilitation of their respective facilities including Family Service Counseling & Community Resource Center and San Leandro Boys & Girls Club. Moreover, the City used CDBG funds to assist Davis Street Family Resource Center acquire its facility and consequently reduce its overhead costs by nearly $250,000 per year. Lastly, using both CDBG funds and Transportation Development Act funds, the City successfully constructed 366 new wheelchair ramps and curb cuts throughout the City. Several of the City's keep goals focused on producing or rehabilitating housing within San Leandro. Over the past five (5) years, one hundred and forty-three (143) units were acquired, rehabilitated, or newly constructed with CDBG, HOME, and/or Redevelopment Set -Aside (RDA) funds. Using HOME funds, the City assisted Allied Housing, a non-profit affordable housing provider, to acquire twenty-five (25) units at Mission Bell Apartments. While Mission Bell was already a majority Below Market Rate (BMR) property for the City, the use of HOME funds allowed Allied Housing and the City to deepen the affordability restrictions, thus being able to provide extremely low- and very low-income households with even more affordable rents. With RDA funds, the development of Casa Verde Apartments, owned and managed by non-profit housing developer Mercy Housing, resulted in sixty-eight (68) new units from the formerly dilapidated Islander Motel. The City also provided non-profit affordable housing developer Eden Housing with both HOME and RDA funds to construct fifty-one (51) senior units for very low-income seniors at Estabrook Place. DRAFT Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report: FY 2009-2010 City of San Leandro Page 32