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City of San Leandro <br />Meeting Date: July 2, 2012 <br />Staff Report <br />File Number: 12 -314 Agenda Section: CONSENT CALENDAR <br />Agenda Number: 8.D. <br />TO: City Council <br />FROM: Chris Zapata <br />City Manager <br />BY: Luke Sims <br />Community Development Director <br />FINANCE REVIEW: Not Applicable <br />TITLE: Staff Report for Approving Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) <br />Consulting Services Agreement Between the City of San Leandro and <br />Neighborhood Solutions to Administer the City's Housing Rehabilitation <br />Program in FY 2012 -2013 <br />SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS <br />Staff recommends that the City Council adopt a resolution approving the Community <br />Development Block Grant (CDBG) consulting services agreement with Neighborhood <br />Solutions for $90,000 to administer the City's Housing Rehabilitation Program for FY <br />2012 -2013. This CDBG Housing Activity project was authorized by the City Council on April <br />16, 2012 in the FY 2012 -2013 Consolidated Action Plan. <br />le[•]:cr] CzollJ 0I �7 <br />Since 1989, the City's Housing Rehabilitation Program has been a popular and effective <br />program for assisting very low- income homeowners, including fixed - income seniors, <br />affordably maintain or improve their homes which in turn preserves and improves the City's <br />housing stock while also enhancing residential neighborhoods. The program's other goal of <br />assisting seniors age in place in their present homes is identified in the City's most current <br />2010 Housing Element. <br />Since 2003 Redevelopment Housing Set Aside funds from the Redevelopment Agency of the <br />City of San Leandro (Agency) funded this program which provided both loans and grants to <br />single - family homeowners to improve and maintain their homes. The City has outsourced the <br />administration of the program to Neighborhood Solutions due to inadequate City staffing <br />capacity. Neighborhood Solutions is an experienced administrator of municipal rehabilitation <br />programs that also administers the rehabilitation programs for the Cities of Pleasanton and <br />Livermore. <br />With the official dissolution of the Agency on February 1, 2012 as the result of actions taken <br />City of San Leandro Page 1 Printed on 612612012 <br />