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Page 2 of 3 DISCUSSION The Draft FY 2025-2029 Consolidated Plan, which includes the Year One Annual Action Plan (Attachment 1), is similar in format and content to the plans that have been submitted for the last five-year cycle (FY 2020-2024). Among the updates to the Consolidated Plan are revisions to incorporate the goals, policies, and programs from the City’s most recent Housing Element and the Eastern Alameda County Human Needs Assessment. Staff believes the resulting document is an appropriate 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 and the use of the relatively small allocation of federal grant funds received for housing and community development activities. HUD regulations impose the following limits on the use of CDBG funds: 1) At least 70 percent of all funds must be spent on activities that benefit low-income persons; 2) No more than 15 percent of the CDBG funds can be used for public service activities; and 3) No more than 20 percent of the CDBG funds can be used for administrative activities. The proposed Annual Action Plan complies with these requirements. Staff recommends that the City Council provide comments on the attached Draft FY 2025- 2029 Consolidated Plan and FY 2025-2026 Annual Action Plan, which is currently available for a 30-day public comment period (June 20, 2025 through July 21, 2025), as necessary, listen to any public testimony regarding the plans; and approve the documents for submission to HUD by the August 15, 2025 deadline. HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION ACTION On March 5, 2025, the Commission approved the Phase One funding recommendations for human services programs and applications funded through non-General Fund sources: federal CDBG and HOME funds and the City’s Lower Income Housing Fund (LIHF). Phase Two funding consists of City General Fund-supported grant programs approved by the City Council on June 17, 2025, as part of the City's two-year budget for FY 2025-2026 and FY 2026/27. EQUITY AND SUSTAINABILITY The HHSG program provides grant funds to non-profit agencies to provide direct programs and services to benefit low-income Pleasanton residents, those who are unhoused or at risk to become unhoused, and those who have special needs. Providing these grant funds helps those vulnerable populations remain a part of the Pleasanton community and provides them with support and assistance. OUTREACH A Notice of Public Hearing for the July 15, 2025 City Council meeting to review and approve the Draft FY 2025-2029 Consolidated Plan and Draft HUD Annual Action Plan for FY 2025- 2026 was published in the locally circulated newspaper The Valley Times on June 27, 2025. The Draft Consolidated Plan and Action Plan has been available for review and public comments since June 20, 2025 and will be available until the required 30-day public comment period ends on July 21, 2025. The City is soliciting public comments from City subrecipients, other agencies and those on the City’s CDBG distribution list. Page 163 of 694