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Staff's Funding Recommendations is provided in Attachment 1, and is intended to serve as a starting point for the commission's discussions and to assist in managing the large quantity and variety of applications. As in prior years, staff will adjust the recommendations at the meeting to assist the commission in developing its funding recommendation. The recommendation is scaled to the funds available in each of the funding source categories; CDBG, City General Fund, HOME, and LIHF. Projects are separated by those that are identified for review and recommended by each commission (Human Services and Housing). Attachment 1 includes several columns of information for comparative purposes: funding requested; funding allocated last year; estimated Pleasanton residents to be served; and estimated cost per resident. With regard to the "Cost Per Resident" column, staff would like to emphasize that this statistic is not meant to provide a direct comparison across projects as data across projects may not be comparable. Nevertheless, it does serve as a useful indicator of the cost of providing service. The following general comments apply to staff's funding recommendations: • Three applications (including the City's Section 108 loan repayment for FY 2019/2020), totaling $241,588, are considered capital projects. The most appropriate source for funding these applications is the capital/rehab portion of the City's CDBG grant for which there is only an estimated $207,217 available. • Six applications, totaling$431,025, are for housing services and programs which are eligible to be funded through a combination of federal HOME and City LIHF funds. $50,000 in City LIHF funds will be recommended for CityServe's HOPE Outreach program. Abode Services' Tri-Valley Rapid Re-Housing programs are recommended to be funded with $95,305 in federal HOME funds for rental subsidies and $54,695 in City LIHF funds for administrative costs. $40,000 in City LIHF funds is recommended for ECHO Housing's Housing Counseling Program, and $15,000 in City LIHF funds is recommended for CRIL's Housing & Independent Services program. Similar to last fiscal year, $12,000 in City LIHF funds may be allocated to Tri-Valley REACH which provides affordable housing for adults with developmental disabilities. The Housing Rehabilitation Program, administered by Habitat for Humanity, will be recommended for funding with $184,499.22 in carry-over funds. • The remaining 19 applications ($446,508 total requested) are non-housing, public services projects. Approximately $263,706, comprised of $215,888 in City General Funds and an estimated $47,818 in CDBG funds, is available to fund these applications. o Most of the public services projects have applied for and received HHSG funding in the past and provide useful and important on-going services in the community. o Two applications (ChildCare Links Behavioral Health Care Services and NAMI Tri- Valley) represent public services programs that have not applied for funding in the previous fiscal year, totaling $32,766. Page 5 of 10