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File Number: 19-175 Center for acquisition of its existing building around 2009. There will be an estimated $39,975 in funds carried over from the prior year’s CDBG unused funds. The City also projects its pro-rata share of HOME funds to be $244,691 from the Consortium. There are no estimated funds carried over from the prior year’s HOME funds. The proposed CDBG-funded activities in the FY 2019-2020 Annual Action Plan fall into the following eligible categories: Public Services, Public Facilities, Housing Activities, and General Administration. In accordance with HUD regulations, the City will commit no more than 15% (or approximately $107,236) of its annual CDBG allocation toward Public Services. The City issued a Community Assistance Grant Program (CAP) & CDBG Request for Funding/Grant Application in March 2019 to award two-year grants for FY 2019-2020 and FY 2020-2021. The review of the RFP respondents is still outstanding therefore the recipients of the City’s CDBG Public Services funding is still to be determined. The recently completed City of San Leandro Recreation and Human Services Department Human Services Gap Analysis will guide the prioritization of CDBG (and CAP) funding commitments. Those priority areas are services targeting the following populations: 1) those with mental and behavioral health needs, 2) victims of domestic violence, and 3) those with food insecurity issues. The City’s proposed biennial budget for FY 2019-2021 also includes $150,000 in General Funds as part of the Community Investment Fund, which support CAP and supplements CDBG funding for public service providers. Note that CAP is administered by the City’s Recreation and Human Services Department separately from the CDBG Program, which is administered by the Community Development Department. For Public Facilities, the City proposes to allocate $187,414 to HUD for principal/interest payments for the City’s outstanding $2.5 million HUD Section 108 loan, which helped finance construction of the City’s new Senior Community Center. In addition, staff proposes allocating $115,000 to continue implementing the City’s 2010 Updated ADA Transition Plan by funding the completion of architectural modifications designed to make City facilities (including City Hall, Washington Manor Library, Washington Manor Park/Family Aquatic Center, Halcyon Park, Memorial Park, Stenzel Park, and the San Leandro History Museum and Art Gallery) more accessible to persons with disabilities. The City anticipates receiving an application from the Boys and Girls Club for capital improvement funding for its facility shortly and prior to the May 6 public hearing. Therefore, staff will determine the available amount of CDBG capital improvement funds to assist the San Leandro Boys and Girls Club and include the recommendation in the final FY2019-2020 Action Plan. This funding will be used to augment a General Fund contribution to the project, ultimately resulting in a total support package of $600,000, consistent with City Council direction as part of the previous year’s budget development process. For Housing Activities, staff recommends providing $100,000 of CDBG funds to continue funding the City’s Single-Family Housing Rehabilitation Grant Program, which provides minor repair grants to extremely low- and very low-income San Leandro homeowners. Administrative funding for FY 2019-2020 is $142,982, which conforms to the HUD-regulated 20% spending cap on general administration costs and expenses. Staff recommends allocating $132,982 to City staffing for CDBG program administration and $10,000 in CDBG funds to ECHO Housing’s Fair Housing services. Fair Housing services are federally mandated, and ECHO Housing assists the City in meeting HUD requirements to advance fair housing. The City uses HOME funds for the acquisition, rehabilitation, and new construction of affordable rental housing as well as tenant-based rental assistance to serve lower income households in need. The City’s HOME allocation for FY2019-2020, as well as from FY 2018-2019 and for FY 2017-2018, will be used to repay the County’s regional HOME competitive funding pool, of which BRIDGE Housing received approximately $566,000 in 2012 for the construction of the 115-unit Marea Alta Phase 1 Page 3 City of San Leandro Printed on 3/26/2019