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For Public Facilities improvement projects, both the total CDBG award to the City and the carryforward CDBG funds from prior years will result in one-time new allocations for two high use and important nonprofit public facilities for City residents. Staff recommends an allocation of 1) $300,000 to the Boys’ and Girls’ Club’s proposed major renovations to its facilities at 401 Marina Boulevard including new, modernized locker rooms, meeting spaces, and infrastructure upgrades, and 2) $143,725 to Building Futures for Women and Children (BFWC) for ADA improvements and significant deferred maintenance to the San Leandro Homeless Shelter located at Saint Leander’s Church. The remaining CDBG-funded public facility projects reflect ongoing projects: 1) Section 108 loan repayment for the Senior Community Center construction which is based on a HUD repayment schedule ($187,414) and 2) the City’s ADA Transition Plan, which increased from a projected $115,000 in the Draft Action Plan to $123,849 in this recommended Final Plan. For Housing Activities, staff recommends providing $100,000 in CDBG funding to the nonprofit Rebuilding Together Oakland/East Bay to continue administering the City’s Single Family Home Rehabilitation Program. The program remains in high demand for lower income San Leandro single family homeowners in need of minor home repairs. In the current fiscal year, Rebuilding Together Oakland/East Bay made substantial progress in processing applications to complete rehab work and expend CDBG funds. The $100,000 is the same amount that Rebuilding Together-Oakland/East Bay received annually in the prior two fiscal years. Staff recognizes that Rebuilding Together Oakland/East Bay is providing outstanding service. The City will have an allocation of $221,998 in HOME funds as its pro-rata share administered and distributed by Alameda County HOME Consortium. Alameda County is the lead administrator of HOME funding and the HOME Consortium. In order to comply with encumbrance and expenditure rules of the HOME program, these funds are combined with all the HOME Consortium member cities into a pool of funds. These funds can be used by any HOME Consortium member City who has an opportunity site ready for purchase or an affordable housing development with a funding gap. HOME funds can be used for acquisition, rehabilitation, and/or new construction of affordable rental housing as well as tenant- based rental assistance to serve lower income households. In FY 2015-2016 the City used $256,761 of the HOME Consortium pool of funds to assist BRIDGE Housing’s 85-unit La Vereda (formerly San Leandro Senior Housing) development. The City’s HOME allocation for FY 2019-2020 will be the last installment of funds used to repay this and two other allocations made by the HOME consortium in the last eight years. 3. Evaluation of past performance The City of San Leandro’s FY 2019-2020 Action Plan is the last year of a five-year planning cycle. The most recent required Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) was completed for the FY 2017-2018 Action Plan and was approved by HUD in April 2019. The FY 2018-2019 Action Plan recommended substantially similar programs as those recommended in the FY 2019-2020 Action Plan. The CAPER for FY 2017-2018 found that all of the program activities were successful to the extent that Annual Action Plan 4 2019 OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 06/30/2018)