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$AN City of San Leandro <br />Meeting Date: December 1, 2014 <br />Staff Report <br />File Number: 14-480 Agenda Section: CONSENT CALENDAR <br />Agenda Number: 8.F. <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 Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Execute a State <br />Standard Agreement with the California Department of Housing and <br />Community Development for Housing -Related Parks Program Grant in the <br />Amount of $1,376,600 <br />411LTA IIT, /_1:T/_1ki14N0]LTA ILTA I=1kiU7_A0[0P►1� <br />Staff recommends that the City Council adopt a resolution to authorize the City Manager, or <br />his designee, to execute a State of California Standard Agreement to secure the $1,376,600 <br />Housing -Related Parks Program Grant that the State of California - Department of Housing <br />and Community Development has awarded to the City. <br />X@j !1V1a9T1UL: <br />On October 2, 2013, the State of California Department of Housing and Community <br />Development (HCD) released the Notice of Funding Availability for the Housing -Related Parks <br />(Parks) Program grant funds. The Parks Program is funded through Proposition 1 C, the <br />Housing Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006. A total of $25 million is available for the <br />2013 funding round. <br />At its January 6, 2014 Council meeting, the City Council authorized the submission of the <br />City's Parks Program Application to HCD. The City submitted its Application prior to HCD's <br />January 22, 2014 deadline. <br />The Parks Program is an innovative incentive program designed to reward local governments <br />that approve housing for very low- [50% of Area Median Income (AMI)] and low-income (80% <br />AMI) households between the period of January 1, 2010 through June 30, 2013 and are in <br />compliance with State housing element law with grant funds to create and/or renovate <br />community parks and recreational facilities. Low-income and very -low income housing units <br />that were substantially rehabilitated, converted from market rate to affordable, or preserved <br />with certificates of occupancy were considered in the calculation of total approved housing <br />City of San Leandro Page 1 Printed on 1112512014 <br />