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The City, furthermore, met its goal of preserving existing affordable rental and ownership housing for low- and moderate -income households by using RDA funds. Although the City provided 100 single-family home repair grants, compared to its goal of 200 grants, it did process thirty-eight (38) single-family rehabilitation loans and thirty-nine (39) mobile home repair grants, exceeding the respective goals of twenty-five (25) rehabilitation loans and twenty-five (25) mobile home grants. The City managed to assist thirty-nine (39) low- and moderate -income first-time homebuyers as well through its RDA -funded First -Time Homebuyer Down Payment Assistance Loan Program. This exceeds the targeted five-year goal of fifteen (15) loans by 260% due primarily to availability of inclusionary/BMR units and declining home values. Lastly, even though, the City did not meet its fair housing goal of handling 125 complaints, inquiries, and audits, it still assisted ECHO Housing to handle 111 complaints by providing CDBG funds. Both the City and ECHO Housing concluded that the lower than anticipated number of fair housing complaints may be credited somewhat to ECHO Housing's fair housing trainings, presentations, outreach, and audits that educate both tenants and landlords about fair housing. -14Y FY 2009-2010 (Action Plan Period) Fifteen percent (15%) of CDBG funds were allocated towards public services for four (4) subrecipients. In FY 2009-2010, the City provided CDBG-funded public services to 45,243 persons in need. One of the subrecipients, ECHO Housing, provided two (2) services: fair housing services and tenant/landlord counseling. However, the City funded fair housing under the CDBG General Administration category. Services and performance outcome measurements are explained for each of these subrecipients under the previous "fair housing", "public services" and "homeless needs and prevention" sections. As previously described, two (2) major construction projects were completed in FY 2009-2010. The CDBG-funded Senior Center was substantially completed. The HOME -funded 51 -unit senior rental property Estabrook also was constructed and fully leased up. Other CDBG capital improvement projects included the non -profits San Leandro Boys & Girls Club's window replacement project and Davis Street Family Resource Center's acquisition of its facility. 2) Changes in Program Objectives During this program year, the City submitted to HUD Amendment #1 to the FY2005-2009 Consolidated Plan and Amendment #1 to the FY2009-10 Final Action Plan in order to add a new project: the commitment of $500,000 CDBG funds to the local non-profit Davis Street Family Resource Center (DSFRC) to assist in the acquisition of its current facility. (See page 16.) HUD approved both amendments, and DSFRC successfully acquired its building. 3) Assessment of Efforts in Carrying Out Planned Actions Overall, the City has met or exceeded all of its housing and community development goals (see Exhibit A) in its FY 2009-10 HUD Action Plan. The City provided the requested certifications of consistency with the Consolidated Plan for HUD program applications. The City did not hinder Consolidated Plan implementation by action or willful inaction. The City pursued all the resources it indicated it would to meet the goal of improving the DRAFT Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report: FY 2009-2010 City of San Leandro Page 33