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Staff Report for a Resolution Approving the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Consulting Services Agreement for $90,000 in FY 2015-2016 Between the City of San Leandro and Neighborhood Solutions - $19,000 for Program Administration and $71,000 for the Provision of Housing Rehabilitation Grants
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SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt a resolution approving the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) consulting services agreement with Neighborhood Solutions for $90,000 to administer the City's Housing Rehabilitation Program for FY 2015-2016. This CDBG Housing Activity project was authorized by the City Council on April 20, 2015 in the FY 2015-2019 Consolidated Plan, which includes the FY 2015-2016 Action Plan.
BACKGROUND
Since 1989, the City's Housing Rehabilitation Program (Program) has been a popular and effective program for assisting very low-income homeowners, especially fixed-income seniors, to affordably and effectively maintain or improve their homes, which in turn enhances the City's residential neighborhoods. The program's other goal of assisting seniors to age in place in their present homes is identified in the City's current 2015 Housing Element.
The Program provides grants of up to $5,000 to single-family homeowners to improve and maintain their homes. The City began outsourcing the administration of the program in FY 2003-04 to Neighborhood Solutions due to inadequate City staffing and technical capacity. Neighborhood Solutions is an experienced administrator of municipal rehabilitation programs that also administers the rehabilitation programs for the Cities of Livermore and Pleasanton.
Since the dissolution of the City's Redevelopment Agency in 2012, the Program stopped being funded through Redevelopment Housing Set-Aside Housing funds (RDA Set-Aside) and has been funded instead with federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds. Due to the limited amoun...
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