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File Number: 20-103 The FY 2020-2021 Action Plan lists the proposed activities, objectives, and budget for the upcoming fiscal year. The City’s CDBG entitlement grant from HUD for FY 2020-2021 is $768,310. As of the date that this staff report was written, there will be no CDBG program income or unallocated CDBG funds from prior years. The Action Plan includes information on funding resources for housing and community development activities, a description of activities to be undertaken during FY 2020-2021, and other actions that the City will take to address issues such as barriers to affordable housing, anti-poverty strategies, and lead-based paint hazards. The City will have an allocation of $238,792 in HOME funds as its pro-rata share from the 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 that has an opportunity site ready for purchase or an affordable housing development with a funding gap. In FY 15-16 the City used $256,761 of HOME Consortium funds to assist BRIDGE Housing’s 85-unit La Vereda (formerly San Leandro Senior Housing) development. Prior to that, there were two other housing developments that received HOME funds (a renovation of a home serving the disabled community and BRIDGE Housing’s Marea Alta). Given these uses and repayments due to the County, the City’s HOME allocation for FY 20-21 will be $181,082. Proposed CDBG-Funded Activities - FY 2020-2021 Action Plan The proposed CDBG-funded activities in the FY 2020-2021 Action Plan fall into the following eligible categories: Public Services, General Administration, Public Facilities, and Housing. Below is a summary of the proposed FY 2019-2020 CDBG funding allocations by funding category as shown in Attachment A. Public Services In accordance with HUD regulations, the City will commit no more than 15% (or $115,437) of its annual CDBG allocation toward Public Services. For CDBG Public Services funding there is a HUD statutory cap of 15% of the total CDBG entitlement grant plus prior year program income. On March 6, 2019, the City’s Department of Recreation and Human Services released a Request for Proposals (RFP) to solicit applications for both the City’s Community Assistance Program (CAP) and CDBG-funded Public Services programs over the next two fiscal years (FY 2019-2021). CAP public services are funded from an annual allocation of City General Fund monies ($150,000 annually for FY 2019-2020 and FY 2020-2021), while CDBG funds available for public services are capped at just over $115,000. The deadline to submit applications was March 28, 2019. The City received 15 requests for funding applications. The total amount requested from all the applications was almost two and a half times the amount of funds available from both programs. On April 10, 2019, the City of San Leandro Human Services Commission heard presentations from the majority of the applicants. On April 24, 2019, Recreation and Human Services Department staff provided the Human Services Commission its recommendations for CAP Page 5 City of San Leandro Printed on 3/11/2020 25