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Action Plan-FY1999 City of San Leandro Page 11 Progress towards achieving first year goals will be evaluated at the February 1999 Council meeting and subsequently a 1999 Work Plan will be developed and adopted. Elections for vacant Council seats will also be held in February. The Council will participate in the submission of the consolidated FY 1999 Continuum of Care application in Spring and Summer 1999. The following programs administered by Alameda County Housing and Community Development Department (HCD) serve regional homeless and special needs populations in the Alameda County HOME Consortium jurisdictions. Housing Opportunities for People With AIDS (HOPWA) Alameda County Housing and Community Development Department (HCD) administers the HOPWA program for Alameda County, under contract from the City of Oakland. The HOPWA entitlement is received by Oakland as the largest city in the Eligible Metropolitan Area. HOPWA funds can be used for a variety of housing and service activities for persons living with HIV and AIDS and are intended to serve all of Alameda County. In 1996 HCD, in partnership with the City of Oakland, completed a multi-year AIDS housing plan for Alameda County. The plan provides comprehensive information about the need for AIDS housing, presents recommendations for how HOPWA funds should be allocated for the next five years, and seeks to improve coordination between HOPWA and other AIDS- and housing- dedicated funds. The Plan was adopted by the Board of Supervisors in April, 1996. Since the passage of the plan, HOPWA funds have been made available to cover all priority areas of the Plan. HCD is now in the third year of funding an AIDS Housing information hotline (operating out of Hayward) which has provided county-wide information about housing available for persons living with HIV/AIDS to more than 900 households. HCD also has contracts for support services and operating support with seven housing providers which provide emergency, transitional and permanent housing for Persons Living with HIV (PLWH) in Alameda County. Two of these housing sites, Bay Bridge Apartments in Emeryville and Concord House in the Unincorporated County, are located within the HOME Consortium. In FY 1998 HOPWA development funds were used to leverage other governmental and private funds so that construction will begin, in FY 1999, on 12 units of permanent housing for families • at the former Alameda Naval Air Station; these will be the first HOPWA-funded housing units in the City of Alameda. Other housing developments which will be completed in FY 1999 are two units at the Dwight Way Apartments in Berkeley for single individuals with disabilities and four units in the Swans Market project in Oakland for families. In addition to activities funded with entitlement HOPWA funds, several other aspects of the plan have been carried out using other funding sources, or at no Cost. PROJECT INDEPENDENCE, a HOPWA Special Project of National Significance provides shallow rental assistance and