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Page 2 of 19 grant cycle. FY 2025/26 HHSG Process The FY 2025/26 HHSG application period opened for nonprofit applicants on November 25, 2024. The City posted an online application packet (Attachment 3) and notified nonprofit agencies in the Tri-Valley. This year, the grant process allowed agencies to complete a single ZoomGrants online application for the three cities of Dublin, Livermore, and Pleasanton. This change was an effort to simplify the process for applicants in response to agency feedback on the time it took to complete each city’s application in prior grant cycles. To provide information and details on the HHSG application process, a mandatory joint virtual grant application workshop was conducted via Zoom on December 4, 2024, with 46 attendees from 34 non-profit organizations in attendance. Applications were submitted online via ZoomGrants on or before the January 17, 2025 deadline. The following month, on February 11, 2025, the Joint Human Services Commissions for Dublin, Livermore and Pleasanton met to hear applicants present their respective programs. The Pleasanton Human Services Commission individually reviewed and scored the applications in ZoomGrants by February 20, 2025 (Attachment 4). For FY 2025/26, commissioners were requested not to assign funding allocations to individual grants, as all City General Fund-supported grants will be considered for funding contingent upon the City Council review and approval of the FY 2025/26 City Budget. As such, FY 2025/26 Pleasanton HHSG applications will be divided into two review and funding phases: Phase One Funding • Funding recommendations will be submitted for City Council consideration in April 2025. They will include programs or projects eligible for federal funding by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and the HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME) programs, as well as the City’s Low-Income Housing Fund (LIHF) • City Council’s review of CDBG-eligible capital and public services projects is tentatively scheduled for April 2025. The City’s final federal funding appropriations (CDBG and HOME) will be submitted to the HUD by May, as required. As noted, there is current uncertainty around the availability of federal funding for the CDBG and HOME programs in future fiscal years. Any associated grant/program funding will be contingent on the availability of those federal funds since current budget constraints mean the City will not be in a position to backfill those monies. Phase Two Funding • City General Fund-supported grant programs will be considered after the final approval of the City’s two-year budget in June 2025 • Once the City Council confirms available funding, the HHSG funding will be allocated based on the Human Services Commission’s rating scores for programs not funded or only partially funded in Phase One. Page 8 of 67