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City's Finance Department and IDIS data monthly for accurate CDBG/HOME funding revenue/expenditures, timely expenditures of CDBG funds, and inputs data into IDIS. Desk monitoring includes reviews of progress reports, invoices, back-up documentation of expenses, and regular communications with subrecipients, including the provision of technical assistance about pertinent queries. Staff also conduct on-site monitoring visits of the City's subrecipients to assess the subrecipients' compliance with the CDBG program. Actions Taken to Reduce the Number of Persons Living Below the Poverty Level The City's strategy to reduce the number of households with incomes b I w the poverty line is to fund programs that assist people to achieve economic independeand to preserve and build affordable rental housing. With CDBG funds, the City fundedocial service agencies that administered eight (8) programs that provide support serve Oto li o ousands of individuals reach personal and economic sustainability. 7 Among these grant recipients was Davis Street FarrWj 'Resource Center (DIspe which has an Employment and Housing Assistance Program , ed to a est clients job ready and/or secure employment and housing. DSFRC ementjhousingfists meet one - one -one with working poor families to define their ment goals, training needs, and housing goals. Moreover, as described in the HPRP pr under Priority 6 on page 11, DSFRC staff partner with Building Fut t for Women & en staff to provide short and long term financial assistance to HPRP-eilies with Atimulus funds to prevent s homelessness and/or stabilize housing s, Employment Counseling program, furthermore, is designed to assist clients m recurs � ? fit and empowering clients to obtain further training anti e tion to impr6, heir fob Icetability.. Lastly, DSFRC's on- site computer lab prov ci''-wit computs and free Internet access. Clients can use the computers to searchlb)" loymdt%,opportunities nd prepare their cover letters and resumes. self and viol 1G funds, Builds* jF and Children (BFWC) also provided pre - ]I benefits and fig assiW well as benefits advocacy to move clients into icy. lrr10 2� BFWC staff provided 110 referrals for health care services, -four (84) sup e group"A _ been held to address various topics such as domestic rrenting skalls,iers to mousing, and basic life skills. BFWC also provided case t 142 women f the sixty-eight (68) women who stayed at the shelter for 30 days or more, 19x;4 out of addressed two or more of.the specific barriers they faced to achieving safe d the shelter with p define permanent client, permanent permanently. swing. Additionally, 54% (37 out of 68) of these women departed ousing. Alameda County's EveryOne Home Housing Outcomes as housing owned by the client, a house or apartment rent by the ive housing, a rented room, or staying with family and friends Ongoing preservation and monitoring of 613 below-market rate rental units is also an anti- poverty strategy because the City maintains HUD rent limits for extremely low-, very low-, low-, and moderate -income people and for special populations like seniors and the disabled. DSFRC continues to help place prospective and income -qualified tenants into available BMR rental units and provide affordable housing search assistance to prevent homelessness. DRAFT Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report: FY 2010-2011 City of San Leandro Page 28