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RESOLUTION of the City of San Leandro City Council Approving Amendments to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) FY 2015-2020 5-Year Consolidated Plan, FY 2019-2020 Annual Action Plan and the Citizen Participation Plan; Authorizing the City Manager to Execute All Documents Related to the Submission of the Amended Plans to HUD; and Authorize the City Manager to Execute all Related Grant Documents identified in the FY 2019-2020 Annual Action Plan.
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WHEREAS, the Federal Government has made Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding available to local communities to meet local community development objectives; and
WHEREAS, the City Council approved the FY 2015-2020 5-Year Consolidated Plan on May 15,2015; and
WHEREAS, the City Council approved the FY 2019-2020 Annual Action Plan on May 6, 2019; and
WHEREAS, the City Council approved the Citizen Participation Plan on July 6, 2004; and
WHEREAS, the Five-Year Consolidated Plans and the Annual Action Plans may be amended, and the substantial amendments to the Plans are subject to the citizen participation process in accordance with the City’s HUD-approved Citizen Participation Plan (CPP); and
WHEREAS, after the federal government passed The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and allocated funding to the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program for activities to support infectious disease response. specifically for COVID- 19, the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued guidance regarding eligible activities for the Community Development Block Grant Coronavirus ( CDBG-CV)funds; and
WHEREAS, to access the $451,972 in CDBG- CV funding allocated to the City of San Leandro, the City must amend its FY 2015- 2020 Five-Year Consolidated Plan, FY 2019- 2020 Annual Action Plan, and Citizen Participation Plan to identify the proposed activities for the expenditure of the CDBG-CV funds to address the COVID- 19 crisis.
WHEREAS, due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, including most significantly the orders of the various Directors of Public Health for the most populous counties in the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose Bay Area for all residents of the respective counties to shelter-in-place effective March 17, 2020, and still currently in place, HUD issued specific waivers regarding the timing of the review period, and amended regulations related to the Citizen Participation Plan to allow as fulsome and robust as possible public participation while allowing implementation to occur as quickly as possible; and
WHEREAS, City staff followed and complied with the Citizen Participation Plan by making the amendments to the FY 2015-2020 5-Year Consolidated Plan, FY 2019-2020 Annual Action Plan and the Citizen Participation Plan available to the public for a reduced 5 day public comment period; and
WHEREAS, the City Manager recommends Amendments to the FY 2015-2020 5-Year Consolidated Plan, FY 2019-2020 Annual Action Plan and Citizen Participation Plan, as described in the staff report associated to and made a part of this Resolution.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of San Leandro does RESOLVE as follows:
1) That said amendments to the FY 2015-2020 5-Year Consolidated Plan, FY 2019-2020 Annual Action Plan and the Citizen Participation Plan, as described in the staff report associated to and made a part of this Resolution, are hereby approved; and
2) City Manager is authorized, subject to edits and attachments subject to review and approval as to form by the City Attorney, to submit and execute all documents related to the submission of the amended FY 2015-2020 5-Year Consolidated Plan, FY 2019-2020 Annual Action Plan and the Citizen Participation Plan to HUD.