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AP-60 Public Housing Introduction The City currently administers two below-market rent senior housing projects: 1) Ridge View Commons (200 units; owned by a private non-profit affiliated with Eden Housing), and 2) Kottinger Place (50 units of HUD-subsidized Public Housing; owned by the Pleasanton Housing Authority). Kottinger Place is the only property owned by the Pleasanton Housing Authority, and the PHA does not have a Section 8 program (all Section 8 assistance in Pleasanton is administered by the Housing Authority of the County of Alameda). Actions planned during the next year to address the needs to public housing As part of an on-going program, the City has allocated CDBG and City Lower Income Housing Funds for several years to make facility improvements at Kottinger Place, which is almost 40 years old. Past improvement projects include reroofing, repainting, installation of new doors, and landscape rehabilitation to decrease maintenance costs. This program will continue in FY 2014 with an emphasis on interior and exterior rehabilitation improvements, including a major project to replace old single- pane windows with new, energy-efficient dual pane windows. A $260,000 federal CIAP grant was awarded to the project in 1996 and construction was recently completed on modernization improvements at Kottinger Place. The complex now receives an annual allocation of Capital Funds from HUD (approximately $50,000 per year) which is enabling improvements to the physical aspects of the project. In 2006,the complex began receiving HUD Operating Subsidy funds of approximately$100,000 which has greatly improved the operational aspects of the project. The Housing Authority is currently collaborating with the City of Pleasanton, the Pleasanton Gardens Board of Directors,and MidPen Housing Corporation on a project to redevelopment Kottinger Place and Pleasanton Gardens (an adjacent low-income senior housing complex) to create a new, larger housing complex for extremely low income seniors. This action is discussed in greater detail below. Actions to encourage public housing residents to become more involved in management and participate in homeownership No resident initiatives are deemed necessary in the five-year period. However, the City continues to work with the Pleasanton Housing Authority on the preparation of annual Housing Authority Agency Plan update required by HUD.The City will continue to coordinate with the Housing Authority during the coming five-year period. The single property owned by the Housing Authority, Kottinger Place(50 units), has traditionally served as housing for extremely low income elderly persons. Therefore, no homeownership strategies have been promoted in the past and none are planned for the future. Representatives from the City and Housing Authority meet bi-monthly with residents and management to discuss issues of interest. In addition, the Housing Authority Board of Commissioners includes two resident representatives who attend periodic meetings to discuss issues of general interest and matters specific to the property(e.g., Annual Agency Plan,Operating Budget,etc.).These actions are planned to continue in the coming year. Annual Action Plan 26 2014(DRAFT) OMB Control No:2506-0117(exp.07/31/2015)