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Describe consultation with the Continuum(s)of Care that serves the jurisdiction's area in determining how to allocate ESG funds, develop performance standards and evaluate outcomes,and develop funding, policies and procedures for the administration of HMIS Consultation with Every One Home,the Alameda Countywide Continuum of Care,on the use of Emergency Solutions Grant(ESE)funds, began in early 2012,when representatives from the City of Berkeley,the City of Oakland, Alameda County Housing and Community Development Department (Urban County grantee),and EveryOne Home worked together to implement the new ESG requirements in a way that would be consistent county-wide and would continue a collaboration which began in 2009 with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing (HPRP)funds. This collaboration resulted in the creation of Priority Home Partnership(PHP),which was a single county-wide program to implement HPRP. EveryOne Home held a community-wide meeting at which additional consultation and public input into the use of ESG funds was solicited. A'series of meetings with EveryOne Home and the ESG grantees continues through the year and a coordinated ESG program was established and began implementation in early 2013. This coordinated program will use this same structure for FY15-FY19 ESG funding. V • Alameda County HCD,City of Berkeley and City of Oakland met to discuss regional issues affecting all three entitlement jurisdictions and to coordinate HOPWA and,Continuum of Care consultations. • Presentation of the draft Community Development Block Grant Unincorporated County Strategy 2015-2019 before the Unincorporated Services Committee of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors. Received Citizen input on Strategy to date. • Meeting between Healthy Homes and Urban County to develop strategies for ways the Healthy Homes program could meet the needs of the Urban County jurisdictions for the next five years. • Email and telephone conversations regarding needs and activities for next five years. Also consulted with City of Alameda Housing Authority and City of Livermore Housing Authority. City of Pleasanton Housing Authority is a part of the Housing Authority of Alameda County. • Stakeholders survey for the Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice-telephone and email survey. N` • Survey sent out to HOME Consortium jurisdictions Citizen's Advisory Committees(or equivalent)to get their perceptions on what the priority needs are for the HOME Consortium over the next five years. 143 responses received. Information used to help shape priority areas. • Joint meeting with the Cities'of Berkeley and Oakland, HCD and Everyone Home to develop five year strategies for ending homelessness. • Meeting with the Cities of'Oakland, Berkeley, HCD and Contra Costa County to discuss regional HOPWA needs for the next five years. Efforts were made to include as broad a group of community stakeholders as possible. No agency types were excluded from participation. Consolidated Plan PLEASANTON 8 OMB Control No:2506-0117(exp.07/31/2015)