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Staff Report for a City of San Leandro City Council Resolution to Approve a Subrecipient Agreement for $150,000 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Funds Between the City of San Leandro and Rebuilding Together Oakland-East Bay for the Provision of Lead-Based Paint Assessments of Residential Rental Properties that Received City Emergency Rental Assistance Payments.
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SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt a resolution approving a Subrecipient Agreement with Rebuilding Together Oakland | East Bay (RT) for $150,000 to evaluate residential rental properties that received City of San Leandro Emergency Rental Assistance Payments (ERAP) for the presence of lead-based paint. RT is an established nonprofit that has been the City's third party administrator for the City's Owner-Occupied Housing Rehabilitation Program since FY 2016-2017. The project is scheduled to commence January 15, 2022 and will be approximately 18 months in length ending on June 30, 2023. This Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funded project is authorized by the City Council as part of the City's FY 2021-2022 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Annual Action Plan approved in May 2021.
BACKGROUND/ANALYSIS
As a result of the City's Emergency Rental Assistance Payment (ERAP) Program providing rent and utility relief payments to low-income households who were financially impacted by COVID-19 in FY2020-2021, the City is required by HUD to affirm that renter households that received four months or more of ERAP assistance are free of lead-based paint in their homes.
The City's ERAP Program was supported by federal CDBG Coronavirus funding (CDBG-CV) stimulus funds authorized by the March 2020 federal CARES Act. Use of those funds for subsistence payments of more than four months requires that the City affirm that the properties are in compliance with the Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Act (42 ...
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