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Staff Report for City of San Leandro U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Final FY 2017-2018 Annual Action Plan
Staffreport
RECOMMENDATIONS
Staff recommends that the City Council hold a second public hearing and take public testimony on the Final FY2017-2018 Annual Action Plan. Then, after closing the public hearing, staff recommends that the Council review and adopt the resolution approving the FY 2017-2018 Annual Action Plan (Plan) and authorize the execution of all related documents by the City Manager and submission of the Action Plan to HUD.
The City made the Plan available for thirty (30) days for public comment from April 6, 2017 to May 5, 2017. The City received no comments during the 30 day period nor any since then. Upon adoption by the City Council, the Plan will be combined with the Alameda County HOME Consortium's plans (for the County and each Consortium member city) and forwarded to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
BACKGROUND
Consolidated (or Annual) Action Plan
The FY 2017-2018 Annual Action Plan implements the FY 2015-2019 Consolidated Plan strategies by undertaking activities during the program year that utilize two HUD grants: Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and Home Investment Partnership Program (HOME).
The Draft FY 2017-2018 Annual Action Plan was presented to the City Council at a public hearing on April 3, 2017. Council directed staff to make the plan available for public comment for a 30-day period from April 6 through May 5, 2017. The draft plan was available for public review at City Hall (City Clerk's office and Community Development Department), at the Main Library, and on the City's website.
On May 1, staff returned to the City Council and requested that the public hearing to review the final Plan be postponed until June when it was anticipated that the federal government would have the final CDBG and HOME budgets approved and released to cities and counties. T...
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