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City of San Leandro <br />Meeting Date: July 1, 2013 <br />Staff Report <br />Agenda Section:File Number:13-267 CONSENT CALENDAR <br />Agenda Number:8.C. <br />TO:City Council <br />FROM:Chris Zapata <br />City Manager <br />BY:Cynthia Battenberg <br />Community Development Director <br />FINANCE REVIEW:Not Applicable <br />TITLE:Staff Report for Approving Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) <br />Consulting Services Agreement for $90,000 in FY 2013-2014 Between the <br />City of San Leandro and Neighborhood Solutions - $19,000 for Program <br />Administration and $71,000 for the Provision of Housing Rehabilitation Grants <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 />2013-2014. This CDBG Housing Activity project was authorized by the City Council on May 6, <br />2013 in the FY 2013-2014 Consolidated Annual Action Plan . <br />BACKGROUND <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, to <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 to age in place in their present homes is identified in the City’s most current <br />2010 Housing Element. <br />Since 2003, Housing Set Aside funds from the Redevelopment Agency of the City of San <br />Leandro (Agency) funded this program which provided both loans and grants to single-family <br />homeowners to improve and maintain their homes. The City outsourced the administration of <br />the program in FY 2003-04 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 dissolution of the Agency on February 1, 2012, the program is no longer funded with <br />Page 1 City of San Leandro Printed on 6/25/2013