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CITIZEN PARTICIPATION The City maintains an on -going data base of nonprofit agencies and other parties who have expressed an interest in the Housing and Human Services Grant (HHSG) program (which serves as the local umbrella program for allocating federal CDBG and HOME funds). The City held two joint application workshops in collaboration with the cities of Livermore and Dublin in early December 2010. Notices regarding the workshops were mailed directly to agencies and persons in the aforementioned data base, and notices were also published in the key local newspapers and on city web sites prior to the workshops. At the workshops (which had identical agendas and formats), staff from each city discussed all aspects of the HHSG program and disbursed application packets along with city- specific policy and procedures manuals. HHSG applicants attended meetings before either Pleasanton Human Services Commission (March 2, 2011) or the Pleasanton Housing Commission (March 17, 2011) for funding consideration. The Commissions considered the applications and formulated funding recommendations for consideration by the Pleasanton City Council. The funding recommendations were approved by the Council in a public hearing on April 19, 2011, at which time the Council also approved the FY 2011 Action Plan. All meetings were noticed in the Valley Times, a newspaper of general circulation, as well as in the Pleasanton Weekly, a local paper that is delivered to all Pleasanton residents. Alameda County also published notices regarding the overall Action Plan (which includes all entitlement cities and the urban county) in ANG newspapers throughout the County. Copies of the draft Action Plan were provided to the main Library and City Hall in Pleasanton for public review. A 30 -day public review period, coordinated by Alameda County HOME Consortium, was held from late March through the end of April 2011. Action Plan - FY 2011 City of Pleasanton Page 28