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City of San Leandro <br />Meeting Date: November 16, 2020 <br />Resolution - Council <br />Agenda Section:File Number:20-473 ACTION ITEMS <br />Agenda Number: <br />TO:City Council <br />FROM:Jeff Kay <br />City Manager <br />BY:Tom Liao <br />Community Development Director <br />FINANCE REVIEW:Susan Hsieh <br />Finance Director <br />TITLE:RESOLUTION of the City of San Leandro City Council Approving the Second <br />Substantial Amendment to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban <br />Development (HUD) FY 2019-2020 Annual Action Plan and Authorizing the City <br />Manager to Execute All Documents Related to the Submission of the Amended <br />Plan to HUD; and Authorize the City Manager to Execute all Related Grant <br />Documents identified in the FY 2019-2020 Annual Action Plan. <br />WHEREAS, the Federal Government has made Community Development Block Grant <br />(CDBG) funding available to local communities to meet local community development objectives; <br />and <br />WHEREAS, the City Council approved the First Substantial Amendment of the FY <br />2019-2020 Annual Action Plan on June 15, 2020; and <br />WHEREAS, Annual Action Plans may be amended, and the substantial amendments to <br />the Plans are subject to the citizen participation process in accordance with the City’s <br />HUD-approved Citizen Participation Plan (CPP); and <br />WHEREAS, after the federal government passed The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and <br />Economic Security (CARES) Act and allocated funding to the Community Development Block <br />Grant (CDBG) program for activities to support infectious disease response. Specifically for <br />COVID- 19, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued guidance <br />regarding eligible activities for the Community Development Block Grant Coronavirus <br />(CDBG-CV) funds; and <br />WHEREAS, to access the CARES Act Round III allocation of $768,193 in CDBG- CV <br />funding allocated to the City of San Leandro, the City must amend its FY 2019- 2020 Annual <br />Action Plan a second time to identify the proposed activities for the expenditure of the CDBG-CV <br />funds to address the COVID- 19 crisis; and <br />WHEREAS, due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, including most significantly the <br />orders of the various Directors of Public Health for the most populous counties in the San <br />Francisco-Oakland-San Jose Bay Area for all residents of the respective counties to <br />Page 1 City of San Leandro Printed on 11/11/2020