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Consolidated Plan CITY OF PLEASANTON 7 OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 09/30/2021) In 2018, EveryOne Home updated that Plan now known as the Strategic Plan Update: Ending Homelessness in Alameda County. This Update recommends strategies and actions to reduce homelessness so that in five years no person without a permanent home would need to sleep outside. The Update focuses on 1) preventing homelessness; 2) ensuring safer and more dignified conditions for those experiencing homelessness; and 3) increasing permanent homes. The EveryOne Home Governance Charter memorializes how stakeholders govern the collective impact initiative to end homelessness and meet the federally-defined responsibilities of operating a HUD Continuum of Care as found in the Continuum of Care Program Rule at §578 and its related HUD rules, regulations and notices, direct the work of the backbone organization, and promote partnership and accountability among the various leadership bodies. The 5-year strategic initiative Home Together 2026 Community Plan centers on racial equity and identifies the strategies, activities, and resources needed to dramatically reduce homelessness in Alameda County. The Plan identifies what is needed to operate a homeless response system that has the capacity to address the needs of people experiencing homelessness and to reduce racial disparities. A companion to the Home Together Community Plan is the Alameda County’s Homelessness Prevention Framework which outlines the actions and resources needed to significantly prevent homelessness in Alameda County. Describe consultation with the Continuum(s) of Care that serves the jurisdiction's area in determining how to allocate ESG funds, develop performance standards and evaluate outcomes, and develop funding, policies and procedures for the administration of HMIS The City of Pleasanton is not an entitlement jurisdiction for ESG funding. Alameda County Housing and Community Development Department through HMIS and leadership of the EveryOne Home Performance Management Committee supports the EveryOne Home initiative to establish system wide outcomes and to evaluate effectiveness of programs against those outcomes. These outcomes include shortening the period of time homeless and reducing the recidivism rates for homeless people. Consultation with EveryOne Home, the Alameda Countywide Continuum of Care, on the use of Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) funds, began in early 2012, when representatives from the City of Berkeley, the City of Oakland, Alameda County Housing and Community Development Department (Urban County grantee), and EveryOne Home worked together to implement the new ESG requirements in a way that would be consistent county-wide and would continue a collaboration which began in 2009 with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing (HPRP) funds. This collaboration resulted in the creation of Priority Home Partnership (PHP), which was a single county-wide program to implement HPRP. EveryOne Home held a community-wide meeting at which additional consultation and public input into the use of ESG funds was solicited. A series of meetings with EveryOne Home and the ESG grantees continues through the year and a coordinated ESG program was established and began implementation in early 2013. This coordinated program will use this same structure for FY25-FY29 ESG funding. Page 171 of 694