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City of San Leandro <br />Meeting Date: June 16, 2014 <br />Staff Report <br />Agenda Section:File Number:14-224 CONSENT CALENDAR <br />Agenda Number:8.K. <br />TO:City Council <br />FROM:Chris Zapata <br />City Manager <br />BY:Cynthia Battenberg <br />Community Development Director <br />FINANCE REVIEW:David Baum <br />Finance Director <br />TITLE:Staff Report for a Resolution Approving the Community Development Block <br />Grant (CDBG) Consulting Services Agreement for $90,000 in FY 2014-2015 <br />Between the City of San Leandro and Neighborhood Solutions - $19,000 for <br />Program Administration and $71,000 for the Provision of Housing <br />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 />2014-2015. This CDBG Housing Activity project was authorized by the City Council on May 5, <br />2014 in the FY 2014-2015 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, especially fixed-income seniors, to <br />affordably and effectively maintain or improve their homes , which in turn enhances the City’s <br />residential neighborhoods. The program’s other goal of assisting seniors to age in place in <br />their present homes is identified in the City’s most current 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 began outsourcing the <br />administration of the program in FY 2003-04 to Neighborhood Solutions due to inadequate <br />City staffing capacity . Neighborhood Solutions is an experienced administrator of municipal <br />rehabilitation programs that also administers the rehabilitation programs for the Cities of <br />Livermore and Pleasanton. <br />Because of the dissolution of the Agency on February 1, 2012, the program is no longer <br />Page 1 City of San Leandro Printed on 6/10/2014