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File Number: 23-095 for housing and community development activities, a description of activities to be undertaken during FY 2023-2024, 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 ’s CDBG entitlement grant from HUD for FY 2023-2024 is $808,949. There is no estimated Program Income received in FY 2022-2023. The City pro-rata share of annual HOME funds will be $238,909 from the Consortium. There is no estimated carryover funds from the prior year ’s HOME funds. The proposed CDBG-funded activities in the FY 2023-2024 Annual Action Plan fall into the following eligible categories: Public Services, Public Facilities, Housing, and General Administration. In accordance with HUD regulations, the City may not commit more than 15% (or approximately $121,000) of its annual CDBG allocation (including program income) toward Public Services. The City issued a Community Assistance Program Grant (CAP) & CDBG Request for Funding/Grant Application in December 2022 to award two-year public services grants for FY 2023-2024 and FY 2024-2025. The review of the RFP respondents is still outstanding therefore the recipients of the City’s CDBG Public Services funding have not yet been determined at this time for the Draft Plan, but will be for the May 1, 2023, City Council public hearing to review the Final Plan. In 2017, the City adopted the City of San Leandro Human Services Department Human Services Gap Analysis that guides the prioritization of CDBG (and CAP) funding commitments. Those priority areas are services targeting the following populations: 1) those with mental and behavioral health needs, 2) victims of domestic violence, and 3) those with food insecurity issues. The City’s proposed biennial budget for FY 2023-2024 also includes approximately $150,000 in General Funds as part of the Community Investment Fund, which support CAP and supplements CDBG funding for public service providers. Note that CAP is administered by the City ’s Human Services Department separately from the CDBG Program, which is administered by the Community Development Department. For Public Facilities, the City proposes to allocate $168,136 to HUD for principal/interest payments for the City’s outstanding $2.5 million HUD Section 108 loan, which helped finance construction of the City ’s Senior Community Center. In addition, staff proposes to allocate an estimated $207,682 to continue supporting the proposed Lewelling Shelter (at the Nimitz Motel, 555 Lewelling) for acquisition, rehabilitation and relocation to convert it into a Homeless Navigation Center and Shelter (and eventual conversion to permanent supportive housing). For Housing Activities, staff recommends providing $150,000 of CDBG funds to continue funding the City’s Single-Family Housing Rehabilitation Grant Program, which provides minor repair grants to extremely low-income and very low -income San Leandro homeowners, particularly lower income seniors. Administrative funding for FY 2023-2024 is $161,790, which conforms to the HUD-regulated 20% spending cap on general administration costs and expenses. Staff recommends allocating $141,790 to City staffing for CDBG program administration and $20,000 in CDBG funds to ECHO Housing’s Fair Housing services. Fair Housing services are federally mandated, and ECHO Housing assists the City in meeting HUD requirements to advance fair housing. Staff Page 3 City of San Leandro Printed on 3/15/2023