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Annual Action Plan 2021 21 OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 09/30/2021) Describe the reasons for allocation priorities and any obstacles to addressing underserved needs The public services agencies that will be funding in this Annual Action Plan are still to be determined. There is currently a pool of ________ (##) agencies that submitted applications to the City-issued FY 2021-2023 Community Assistance Program (CAP)/CDBG Request for Proposals. Agency and program description to be determined. The decision to allocate CDBG funding to these above-noted agencies will be based on a number of factors: 1) proven eligibility to receive federal CDBG funding, 2) agency’s past performance met or exceeded service delivery goals and expectations, 3) public services provided by these agencies address the priority needs identified in the Human Services Gap Analysis, dated April 2017 and adopted by City Council in October 2017, 4) public services provided by these agencies meet the City's Consolidated Plan priority needs. On April __, 2021, the City's Human Services Commission will consider City Staff’s recommendations. The City's allocation to ECHO Housing to provide fair housing services is consistent with the Consolidated Plan priority and the City's commitment to affirmatively further fair housing. The allocation for the City's HUD Section 108 Loan repayment is in accordance with the 20-year repayment schedule for the City's $2.5 million HUD Section 108 Loan used to complete the City's senior center. The City's commitment of CDBG funds to the ADA Transition Plan will be reinstated with a proposed allocation of $361,235 to make City facilities ADA accessible. The City will continue to provide lower-income San Leandro homeowners with minor home repair grants using CDBG funds to ensure that these existing, naturally affordable homes are preserved and in safe and habitable conditions. Finally, as a result of the City’s Emergency Rental Assistance Payment Program providing rent and/or utility relief payments to low income households who were financially impacted by COVID-19, the City is required by HUD to affirm those renter households that received 4 months or more of ERAP assistance are free of lead-based paint in their homes. There are an estimated 75 rental units that were approved for ERAP grants that will need to be evaluated for lead-based paint and, if necessary, remediated. City staff plans to work with two other area jurisdictions on a joint and cost-sharing contract with Alameda County Healthy Homes Department to carry-out this lead-based paint work for approximately $150,000, but staff is still assessing the affected units to refine this cost total for the Final Plan. The main obstacles to addressing the City's underserved needs are: 1) the continued reductions in funding levels for the CDBG and HOME programs, and 2) the excess of need far exceeding the amounts of funding available. 41