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Annual Action Plan <br />2018 <br />4 <br />OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 06/30/2018) <br />Additionally, the City will have an allocation of approximately $244,691 in HOME funds from the <br />Alameda County HOME Consortium. In order to comply with encumbrance and expenditure rules of the <br />HOME program, these funds are combined with all the HOME Consortium member cities into an <br />expenditure pool on an annual basis for the use of any HOME Consortium City who has an opportunity <br />site ready for purchase or a shovel ready affordable housing development with a funding gap. HOME <br />funds can be used for acquisition, rehabilitation, and/or new construction of affordable rental housing <br />as well as tenant-based rental assistance to serve lower income households. In FY 2015-2016 the City <br />used $256,761 of this HOME Consortium pool of funds to loan to BRIDGE Housing for its 85-unit La <br />Vereda (formerly San Leandro Senior Housing) development. The City’s HOME allocation for FY 2018- <br />2019, as well as for FY 2019-2020, will be used to repay an allocation made by the HOME consortium <br />with a remaining balance of ~$500,000 that was provided to BRIDGE Housing in addition to other HOME <br />loans made prior to 2015. <br />3. Evaluation of past performance <br />The City of San Leandro’s FY 2018-2019 Action Plan is the fourth year of a five-year planning cycle. The <br />most recent required Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) was completed <br />for the FY 2016-2017 Action Plan and was approved by HUD in early 2018. The FY 2016-2017 Action Plan <br />recommended substantially similar programs as those recommended in the FY 2018-2019 Action Plan. <br />The CAPER for FY 2016-2017 found that all of the program activities were successful to the extent that <br />those organizations should continue to receive a portion of the City’s CDBG funding allocation. <br />Additionally, staff receive quarterly reports from the City’s CDBG funded organizations that provide a <br />narrative of accomplishments and demographic and economic data. <br />4. Summary of Citizen Participation Process and consultation process <br />HUD Consolidated Plan regulations require and provide guidelines for the City to develop a citizen <br />participation plan that governs the public input and noticing process for creating the Consolidated Plan <br />and subsequent annual action plans. The goal of the citizen participation plan is to encourage broader <br />public involvement in the planning and allocation of CDBG and HOME funds and implementation of <br />related programs. A minimum of two (2) public hearings are required with at least one (1) hearing to be <br />held before the Draft FY 2018-2019 Annual Action Plan is published for public comment. <br />Notice of a summary and the availability of the Draft FY 2018-2019 Annual Action Plan for 30-day public <br />comment was published in a locally circulated newspaper, Daily Review, on March 16, 2018. The City <br />Council held a public hearing on April 2, 2018 to receive initial public input on the Draft Annual Action <br />Plan and to begin the 30-day comment from April 6 through May 7, 2018. The Draft Action Plan was <br />available for public review and comment during the 30-day period at City Hall (City Clerk’s office and <br />Community Development Department), the San Leandro Main Library, and the City’s website <br />(www.sanleandro.org/depts/cd/housing/plans.asp). There were no public comments received during <br />the 30-day public comment period. <br />14