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BACKGROUND As a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) "entitlement city," the City is responsible for the preparation of an annual performance report called the Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report, or CAPER. The CAPER is intended to provide a systematic format for reporting on the use of CDBG entitlement funds and is required by Section 104(e) of the Housing and Community Development Act. The CAPER provides detailed information on the use of CDBG funds by subrecipients (the agencies receiving funds) during the prior fiscal year. The CAPER process is intended to provide an opportunity for public participation and input at the local level. The information submitted in the report provides an evaluation of grantee and jurisdiction performance to HUD. The CAPER is forwarded to HUD in Washington after holding a public hearing and receiving City Council approval. DISCUSSION The 2010-11 fiscal year was the first year of the City's new Housing and Human Services Grant (HHSG) program which consolidated four funding sources to create a single pool for funding housing and services for low-income residents: • Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) —federal • HOME Investment Partnership Program (HOME) —federal • Lower Income Housing Fund (LIHF) — local • City General Fund for Human Services (formerly City Grant) - local The agencies that received HHSG funds in FY 2010 are listed in the attached Table P-1. Table P-2 provides a summary of the following statistics for each of the agencies which received HHSG funds: 1) use of funds (budgeted vs. spent); 2) subrecipient accomplishments / project status; 3) performance measures (a new requirement that was recently introduced by HUD); and 4) statistics on households and/or persons assisted (e.g., number of beneficiaries, income level, ethnicity, family status, etc.). As shown in Table P-2, federal and local HHSG funds allocated in FY 2010 benefited over 8,000 primarily low-income individuals through various projects, programs, and services coordinated through subrecipients. The information contained in Table P-2 was submitted by subrecipient agencies and is consistent with staff's evaluation of agency activity. Various demographics for HHSG beneficiaries are provided in Attachment 3. In addition to this statistical information, an important element of the CAPER process is the opportunity for presentations by each of the subrecipient agencies. At a meeting of the Human Services Commission held on August 17, a schedule was established to enable presentations by each agency which received FY 2010 HHSG funds. The minutes of this meeting are included as Attachment 4. In addition to a discussion of statistical information for each HHSG project, most agencies elaborated on "human interest" and other aspects which were not apparent in project statistics. Agencies also Page 2 of 3