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BACKGROUND As a condition of receiving its annual allocation of federal CDBG funds, the City is required to submit an "Annual Action Plan" to HUD. The Annual Action Plan includes a listing of projects and activities to be funded with CDBG funds (also scheduled for review and approval by the Council at the meeting of April 21) as well as an annual assessment of the City's progress toward meeting its goals for housing and community development. Every five years, the City must also submit a "5-Year Consolidated Plan" which is required to include a statement of its local goals and objectives related to housing and community development. The last 5-Year Consolidated Plan was submitted in 2010 for fiscal years 2010 through 2014. Therefore, the City must submit a new 5-Year Consolidated Plan for the next period (2015 through 2019) this year. As the Council is aware, the City is a member of the Alameda County HOME Consortium which makes Pleasanton eligible to receive an annual allocation of federal HOME funds in addition to its CDBG allocation. The Consortium coordinates the submittal of a composite 5-Year Consolidated Plan and Annual Action Plan to HUD; however, each City member of the Consortium is required to submit its own section of the annual document. The draft 5-Year Consolidated Plan for 2015 through 2019 (which also includes the Annual Action Plan for FY 2015) for the City of Pleasanton is attached to this report. In August 2014, staff members from the cities of Pleasanton and Livermore collaborated to organize several meetings to develop goals and objectives for the next five-year Consolidated Plan. A multi-jurisdictional task force was established which included members from the housing and human services commissions from both cities. Over the course of several workshops, the task force developed an updated set of priorities related to human services, housing and community development. The resulting priorities were incorporated into the attached document. DISCUSSION The attached 5-Year Consolidated Plan and Annual Action Plan document is similar in content to the plans that have been submitted in previous years. The format has changed slightly in relation to HUD's introduction two years ago of a new online submission software program called "eCon" which is now used to submit the documents. In addition to the input from the multi-jurisdictional task force (described above), staff incorporated the goals, policies, and programs from the City's most recent Housing Element. Staff believes that the resulting document is a reasonable expression of the City's goals and objectives for human services, housing and community development, particularly as they relate to the needs of the City's lower income population and the use of the relatively small allocation of federal grant funds received for housing and community development activities. Page 2 of 4