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File Number: 20-470 <br />FY 2019-2020 and FY 2020-2021 and Spectrum’s rapid and adept response to the San Leandro <br />community’s needs during the Alameda County Shelter in Place order to address the COVID-19 <br />pandemic, staff recommended an increase in the FY 2020-2021 public services allocation. <br />Priority/Action: Community Development Needs -- Public Facilities Improvements. <br />Boys’ and Girls’ Club Major Renovation Project: One of two Community Public Facilities <br />improvement projects in FY 2019-2020 was the allocation of $300,000 to the Boys’ and Girls’ <br />Club’s major renovations to its facilities at 401 Marina Boulevard. The Boys’ and Girl’s Club’s <br />funds were fully expended in FY 2019-2020. <br />Building Futures with Women and Children San Leandro Shelter Rehabilitation: The <br />second of two Community Public Facilities Improvement projects in FY 2019-2020 was the <br />allocation of $143,725 to Building Futures for Women and Children (BFWC) for ADA <br />improvements and to address deferred maintenance to the San Leandro Homeless Shelter <br />located at Saint Leander’s Church. The rehabilitation of the San Leandro Shelter was delayed <br />due to the COVID-19 pandemic. <br />Objective: Affordable Housing <br />HOME Investment Partnership (HOME) Program <br />The City of San Leandro participates in the Alameda County HOME Consortium, which is made <br />up of Alameda County cities (including the unincorporated areas), excluding Berkeley and <br />Oakland. The City of San Leandro receives HOME funds via a formula allocation through the <br />Alameda County HOME Consortium. A portion of those funds are used for administrative <br />overhead that covers staff costs. The rest of the funds are intended for affordable housing <br />projects. Since the annual allocations for the Consortium cities are not typically large enough to <br />be used for a HOME eligible affordable housing development project, Alameda County HOME <br />Consortium cities pool their funds so that they can be used on a competitive and/or rotating basis <br />among member cities. <br />In FY 2019-2020, the Consortium allocated to the City $221,998, of which $12,763 was allocated <br />to cover City administrative overhead. The remaining $209,235 in funds were used to pay down <br />construction pool funding to prior years’ affordable rental housing developments to which HOME <br />Consortium funds were specifically allocated to three San Leandro affordable housing projects. In <br />the last 6 years they are: $650,000 for Marea Alta, $100,000 for the acquisition and rehabilitation <br />of a single family residential property that will be used for supportive housing for physically and/or <br />developmentally disabled adults, and $256,761 for La Vereda (aka Marea Alta Phase 2). La <br />Vereda has 85 new affordable senior rental housing units for very low-income seniors. Lease-up <br />of this building happened in the Spring 2018 and completed construction in early 2019. The <br />Certificate of Occupancy was issued in January 2020 and BRIDGE Housing closed its permanent <br />loan in June 2020. <br />The City also appropriated local General Funds to the following programs in FY 2019-2020. <br />These programs address the City’s affordable housing, homelessness, and community <br />development needs, as identified in the City's current HUD-approved FYs 2015-2020 Five-Year <br />Page 4 City of San Leandro Printed on 11/11/2020