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7.B. - Page 2 of 79 The Con Plan is carried out through Annual Action Plans, which provide a concise summary of the actions, activities, and the specific federal and non-federal resources that will be used each year to address the priority needs and specific goals identified by the Con Plan. In Redwood City, the Annual Action Plan consists of funding recommendations made by the Housing and Human Concerns Committee (HHCC) for approval by the City Council each year. The 2020 Action Plan represents the City's third year of the Con Plan and is included as Attachment B along with an Executive Summary (Attachment C) and Budget (Attachment D). ANALYSIS HUD has allocated $761,626 of CDBG and $326,621 of HOME entitlement grant funds to the City for FY 2020-21. On March 4, 2020, the HHCC reviewed 22 applications for CDBG/HOME assistance. The HHCC recommended funding all of the applicants that applied under the following categories: minor home repair, fair housing, housing, microenterprise assistance, and public facility improvements. Additionally, the HHCC recommended funding eight of the fourteen public service applicants. The public service applications were reviewed and scored by the HHCC, based on the following criteria: consistency with City priorities, program impact, program outcomes, organizational capacity, outreach and collaboration efforts, and fund leveraging. The City has a $15,000 grant minimum and due to CDBG regulations that limit spending on public services, there was only enough funding available to fund eight organizations. The organizations not recommended for funding received the lowest average scores and consist of Friends for Youth, Home & Hope, IEP Collaborative, Ombudsman Services of San Mateo County, and United Way Bay Area. Additionally, The Society of St. Vincent de Paul withdrew their application prior to the HHCC funding deliberations. With the exception of Ombudsman Services of San Mateo County, the organizations that were not recommended for funding have not received CDBG funding in the past.. The HHCC funding recommendations were incorporated into the 2020 Action Plan and are based on the City's 2020 entitlement grants for CDBG and HOME plus $40,000 in estimated CDBG program income, $805,000 in unspent CDBG funds from prior years, and $653,537 in unspent HOME funds from prior years. This represents a total of $2,586,784 in federal funds for FY 2020-21, as shown in Table 1 below. The activities that are recommended for funding for FY 2020-21 are listed in Table 2. Table 1 - 2020-2021 Available Funding CDBG FY 2020-21 CDBG Allocation $761,626 Estimated FY 2020-21 Program Income $40,000 Prior Year Carryover Funding $805,000 Total CDBG $1,606,626 HOME FY 2020-21 HOME Allocation $326,621 Prior Year Carryover Funding $653,537 Total HOME $980,158 Page 2 of 6 City of Redwood City 1017 Middlefield Road, Redwood City, CA. 94063 Tel: 650-780-7000 www.redwoodcity.ore 463