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Five-Year Consolidated Plan and Annual Action Plan As a condition of receiving its annual allocation of CDBG and HOME funds, the City is required to submit an annual "Action Plan" to HUD. The Action Plan includes a listing of projects and activities to be funded with federal CDBG and HOME funds 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 five-year "Consolidated Plan" which is required to include a statement of its local goals and objectives related to housing and community development. In addition to its annual Action Plan, the City must submit a new five-year Consolidated Plan this year to cover the next five fiscal years (2005/06 through 2009/10). 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. The Consortium coordinates the submittal of a composite Consolidated Plan to HUD; however, each City member of the Consortium is required to submit its own section of the Plan. In August 2004, staff members from the cities of Pleasanton and Livermore collaborated to organize several meetings to develop goals and objectives for the new 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 forwarded to City staff for incorporation into the updated draft Consolidated Plan. The attached draft Consolidated Plan is similar in format and content to the prior plan that covered fiscal years 2000/01 through 2004/05. However, the new draft plan also reflects the input from the multi-jurisdictional task fome as described above. In addition, staff incorporated the goals, policies, and programs from the City's Housing Element which was adopted in June 2003. 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. Staff recommends that the Council provide comments on the attached draft five-year Consolidated Plan (2005-09) and Annual Action Plan (2005-06) as deemed appropriate and approve these documents for submission to HUD by the applicable deadline. Staff will forward the final documents to Alameda County for incorporation into the composite Consolidated Plan and Action Plan for the Consortium to be submitted to HUD in late May. FISCAL IMPACTS The allocation of federal CDBG and HOME funds will not have a direct fiscal impact on the City. As approved by the Council two years ago, the City would also commit a total of $57,977 in City Housing Funds for FY 2005 to supplement several housing-related projects. SR:05:103 Page 7 couo ccsR 2005