El Centro City Council
September 1, 2026

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3. Accumulation. Annual leave may be accumulated up to a maximum of five hundred (500) hours.

4. Scheduling. Employees may request annual leave during a calendar year by submitting annual leave requests to the Chief of Police. Said requests shall be approved or disapproved by the Chief of Police or designee taking into consideration employee dates of hire, due regard for the wishes of the employee, and particular regard for the needs of the department.

5. Yearly Cash Out.
a. Prior to the end of December of each year, employees may irrevocably elect to cash out in the following calendar year only the amount of the denied annual leave hours accrued at the time of the payout, up the maximum of eighty (80) hours when:
i. He/she has taken a minimum of one (1) week of annual leave during the current fiscal year;
ii. He/she thereafter is denied a request to take additional annual leave in that fiscal year because of department or City workload or reasons beyond the control of the City and/or the Employee; and
iii. He/she for such reason is unable to take said annual leave by the end of that fiscal year without triggering overtime which would be paid by the City. b. One-Time Payment. Such a cash out shall be a one-time payment that is not compensable under CalPERS and is not part of the regular rate of pay. c. Hardship. Employees may cash out annual leave only in the event of a financial emergency where: (i) the employee can demonstrate that they have a real financial emergency caused by an event beyond their control, (ii) it would result in serious financial hardship if the cash payment were not made, and (iii) the amount of the cash payment is limited to the amount necessary to meet the emergency. The City Manager or designee will determine, at their sole discretion, whether an emergency exists and the extent of the financial need. Hardship cash outs are limited to one cash out per year.

6. Cash Out at Separation. Employees who leave the employment of the City shall be paid for accumulated annual leave at the employee’s then-current rate of pay on the date of separation.

P. Administrative Leave. The City shall provide employees covered by this Resolution with sixtyfour (64) hours of paid administrative leave per year effective January 1 of each year. Administrative leave shall not accumulate from year-to-year. Any administrative leave time remaining in an employee’s account as of December 31 of any year may be converted to cash, provided, however, that the total leave converted shall not exceed forty (40) hours. If administrative leave is not converted, any administrative leave time remaining as of December 31 shall be forfeited.

Administrative Leave provided pursuant to this Section shall not be considered "vacation leave" within the meaning of Section 227.3 of the Labor Code, and any remaining Administrative Leave time remaining as of December 31 shall be forfeited.

Q. Bereavement Leave.

1. Eligibility. In the event of a death in an employee's immediate family, said employee shall be eligible for a leave of absence for up to five (5) regularly scheduled days. If required travel exceeds five hundred (500) miles each way, the employee may be granted an additional day

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(eight hours) of bereavement leave upon request to the employee’s supervisor. During such leave, the employee shall be paid his/her regular base pay for three (3) days based on the employee’s regularly scheduled work hours on those days; provided, however, that prior written approval for the use of such leave is obtained from the employee's supervisor. Employee is entitled to, but is not required to, use vacation, personal leave, accrued and available sick leave or annual leave for unpaid bereavement leave under this Section.

2. Immediate Family. The employee's immediate family shall be defined as: spouse, domestic partner, child, mother, father, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother, sister, brother-in-law, sisterin-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandmother, grandfather, or a grandchild.

3. Documentation. Documentation of the date and location of the funeral and the date of burial or memorial service shall be furnished by the employee upon request of the City.

R. Flat Badges and Non-Uniformed Duty. Employees required to possess a badge while off-duty or while on-duty but not in uniform may, at their option, use a flat badge. Such a badge shall be furnished by the City and remain the property of the City, and shall be returned thereto upon termination of the employee, or upon written order by the Chief of Police. Employees assigned to non-uniformed duty shall wear attire appropriate to the assignment.

S. Employer-Employee Relations Policy. It is agreed that no employee will be discriminated against because of exercising his/her rights specified in the employer-employee relations policy or his/her rights under this Resolution.

T. Counseling Memorandums. Counseling Memorandums will be placed in an employee’s personnel file at the Police Department and shall not be forwarded to an employee’s permanent file at the Department of Human Resources. A Counseling Memorandum shall only remain in an employee’s personnel file for one (1) year.

PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of El Centro held on the 1st day of September 2026.

CITY OF EL CENTRO
By _________________________
Michael Crankshaw, Mayor
ATTEST:

By _________________________
Norma Wyles, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:

Office of the City Attorney
By _________________________
Joanna Hoff, City Attorney

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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF IMPERIAL ) ss

CITY OF EL CENTRO )
I, Norma Wyles, City Clerk of the City of El Centro, California, do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution No. 26-______ was duly adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of El Centro, California held on the ____ day of _______, 2026, by the following vote:

AYES:

NOES:

ABSENT:

ABSTAIN:

By ___________________________
Norma Wyles, City Clerk

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APPENDIX A- Unrepresented Police Commander Management Employees

CLASSIFICATION GRADE
POLICE COMMANDER P21
Effective first full pay period of July 2026
STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3 STEP 4 STEP 5 STEP 6
P21 10516 11174 11831 12488 13146 13803
Effective first full pay period of July 2027
STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3 STEP 4 STEP 5 STEP 6
P21 10727 11398 12068 12738 13409 14079

City Council of the City of El Centro
1275 W. Main Street
El Centro, CA 92243

SUBMITTED
ACTION ITEM (ID # 2026-251)
Item: 12.

Meeting: 9/1/2026 3:00 PM
Department: Community Development
Category: Resolution
Prepared by: Angel Hernandez,
Community Development Director
Department Head: Angel Hernandez
DOC ID: 2026-251
Public hearing to consider the recommendation of the Planning Commission regarding a time extension of the Lotus Ranch Tentative Subdivision Map.

CITY MANAGER'S RECOMMENDATION:

Open the public hearing and move to continue this item to the next regularly scheduled City Council Meeting taking place on September 15, 2026.

FISCAL IMPACT:

The City collects development and impact fees from new construction to offset impacts on City facilities and services. Furthermore, conditions of approval for the Lotus Ranch project require the applicant to bear the cost of constructing public improvements directly serving the project.

STRATEGIC PLANNING PROGRAM 2022-2027 RELATION:

Economic Opportunity
DUE DILIGENCE CHECK FOR CONTRACTORS/CONSULTANTS: DID THE

DEPARTMENT VERIFY CURRENT EL CENTRO BUSINESS LICENSE,
CONTRACTOR'S LICENSE, REFERENCE CHECKS, INSURANCE, ETC.:

Not Applicable
BACKGROUND:

The Lotus Ranch Tentative Subdivision Map (TSM No. 16-01) was approved by City Council on September 6, 2016 and allows for the development of a 213-acre property into a single-family residential subdivision planned for 574 single-family homes, a 10.8-acre park, a school site, and a 16.5-acre retention basin (Refer to Exhibit A — Lotus Ranch TSM and Exhibit B - Project Location Map). The project is intended to be developed in phases. Unit B1 and Unit B2 have already received final map approval and have been subdivided. City staff are currently reviewing the Unit B3 Final Map, which would create an additional 22 single-family lots, for compliance with the Subdivision Map Act, and expect it to be approved and recorded in the coming months.

The current expiration date is August 5, 2026. Local ordinance and State law allow for the property owner to request 12-month time extensions, not exceeding 60 months in the aggregate, at the discretion of the City Council. This would be the second 12-month time extension for the Lotus Ranch Tentative Subdivision Map, and if approved, the applicant would have the option to request up to three additional 12-month extensions. An extension request was submitted by the applicant requesting a 12-month extension (Refer to Exhibit C — Applicant Letter) on June 6, 2026, prior to the August 5, 2026 expiration date.

Pursuant to Government Code Section 66452.6(e), the map is expiration is paused for 60 days or until the City Council approves, conditionally approves, or denies the request. After a duly noticed public hearing held on July 14, 2026, the Planning Commission unanimously voted to recommend approval of the time extension by resolution.

A public hearing on this item was noticed for the City Council meeting of September 1, 2026. However, staff is requesting that the public hearing be opened, that public testimony be taken, and that the item be continued to the next regularly scheduled City Council meeting on September 15, 2026, to allow staff additional time to prepare the proposed resolution for City Council's consideration. A presentation regarding the project will be delivered on that date. Because the hearing will be continued to that date, no additional public notice is required.

DISCUSSION:

PROJECT LOCATION - The project site consists of 213 acres located in the southwest portion of the City, generally located south of Interstate 8, east of the Lotus Canal, and west of La Brucherie Avenue (Refer to Exhibit C — Project Location Map). Since it was approved in 2016, 22 homes have been constructed on Manzanita Drive and another 22 homes are finishing construction on Chaparral Drive. Major public improvements that have been constructed include Wake Avenue west of La Brucherie Avenue, the relocation of a sanitary sewer lift station, and a sanitary sewer main on Wake Avenue.

LAND USE REVIEW - The Lotus Ranch Subdivision Map was reviewed for conformance with the General Plan and the existing zoning ordinance. There have been no substantial changes to the General Plan affecting this area since the project was approved in 2016, and the map remains consistent with the goals and policies of the General Plan. Also, the project was assessed for compliance with the existing residential development standards and was found to also be consistent. The project site is zoned R1-Single Family and designated for Low Density Residential per the General Plan Land Use Map. No changes or modifications are being requested or considered for the project.

Zoning Map General Plan Land Use Map
Vicinity Land Use
Designation
Zoning Current Use
Subject
Property
Low Density
Residential
R1-Single Family Vacant land, single-family
residential,
North N/A N/A Freeway
East Low Density
Residential, Master
Plan Mixed Use
R-1 Single Family
and A-2-U
(County)
Low Density Residential, Agriculture
South Single-Family
Residential
A-2-U (County) Hay processing and storage

West Single-Family
Residential
A-2-U (County) Agriculture
PUBLIC NOTICING - Notice of this City Council public hearing was mailed to property owners within 300 feet of the project site and published in the Imperial Valley Press on August 21, 2026. As of the date of preparation of this staff report, staff has received one comment, from a resident of the Lotus Ranch Subdivision, regarding the timing of future public improvements in the area, including the park and other landscaping improvements.

No comments or questions were received at the Planning Commission public hearing. City Staff are currently working with the Lotus Ranch developer to move forward with the installation of landscaping along Wake Avenue to improve the aesthetics of the subdivision entrance by the end of 2026.

ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW -The Lotus Ranch EIR was certified by the El Centro City Council on September 6, 2016. There have been no changes to the previously approved project or surrounding conditions that would warrant additional environmental analysis under the California Environmental Quality Act; accordingly, no subsequent or supplemental environmental review is required under CEQA Guidelines Section 15162.

FINDINGS -In determining whether to approve the tentative subdivision map extension, the City Council shall consider the findings set forth in Section 24-281 of the El Centro City Code for approval of the tentative subdivision map. Findings in favor of the project are referenced in Exhibit D — Resolution. Below are the findings of staff's recommended language in support of the project:

1. That the proposed map is consistent with the City of El Centro General Plan.

Lotus Ranch Tentative Subdivision Map was reviewed for consistency with the adopted General Plan at the time it was first approved in 2016. No changes have occurred to the General Plan that were found to make it inconsistent.

2. That the design or improvements of the proposed subdivision are consistent with the City of El Centro General Plan.

Conditions of approval have been incorporated to ensure the Lotus Ranch Tentative Subdivision Map No. 16-01 was designed in accordance with the goals and policies of the General Plan as follows:
"LUE Policy 1.2: Protect and enhance existing residential neighborhoods by supporting safe, well-maintained housing, adequate parks and recreation facilities, and complete sidewalks and pedestrian/bike paths that connect to parks and recreation and neighborhood serving uses." The project includes the provision of sidewalks, pedestrian paths between cul-de-sacs, and bike facilities in compliance with the City's Mobility Element. Furthermore, the inclusion of a park site and school site will allow for walking and biking to these daily destinations within the project site. "LUE Policy 3.2: Direct and control growth within the City boundary and SOI in coordination with the provision of public facilities and services through the application of the City’s Urban Development Program (UDP)." The project site is located within the City's current boundaries and has been studied for the provision of public facilities and services when it was first approved by the City in 2016.

3. That the site is physically suitable for the proposed density of development.

The Lotus Ranch Subdivision is situated adjacent to the City Limits within 213 acres of

land just south of Interstate 8. The site is suitable to accommodate the proposed residential development and has been reviewed to ensure consistency with the City’s General Plan and Zoning Ordinance density requirements.

4. That the design of the subdivision or the proposed improvements are not likely to cause substantial environmental damage or substantially and avoidably injure fish or wildlife or their habitat.

An Environmental Impact Report was prepared in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act. The report found that all significant environmental impacts could be mitigated through mitigation measures. Thus, the project or improvements associated with the project will not cause substantial environmental damage or injure fish or wildlife or their habitat.

5. That the design of the subdivision or type of improvement are not likely to cause serious public health problems.

The Lotus Ranch Subdivision includes sidewalks and a public park to encourage an active lifestyle and will not cause serious public health problems.

6. That the design of the subdivision or type of improvements will not conflict with easements, acquired by the public at large for access through or use of property within the proposed subdivision.

The Lotus Ranch Subdivision will not conflict with easements acquired by the public at large. In fact, land was dedicated by the developer for a regional sanitary sewer lift station.

CONCLUSION:

Open the public hearing and move to continue this item to the next regularly scheduled City Council Meeting taking place on September 15, 2026.

ATTACHMENTS:

1. Exhibit A - Lotus Ranch Phasing Map

2. Exhibit B - Project Location Map

3. Exhibit C - Time Extension Request Letter

LOTUS RANCH SUBDIVISION G-MAC DEVELOPMENT

PHASING MAP

CONSULTING
ENGINEERS Dynamic LOTUS TRAILS RENAISSANCE SOUTH
NORTH
Proposed Park Site SCHOOL SITE ALTERNATINE Classrooms Administrative space South of Danenberg REPLACE 35 Lots. ± 8.13 ACRES SCHOOL AREA LOTUS VILLAGE PHASE 2 PHASE 3 PHASE 2 PHASE 1 PHASE 5 PHASE 4 PHASE 6 PHASE 7PHASE 8 PHASE 9 PHASE 3 PHASE 2 PHASE 1 PHASE 4 PHASE 1 PHASE 4 PHASE 5 PHASE 1 PHASE 3 LOTUS TRAILS RENAISSANCE SOUTH LOTUS VILLAGE PROJECT ENTRANCE MONUMENT

City Council of the City of El Centro
1275 W. Main Street
El Centro, CA 92243

SUBMITTED
ACTION ITEM (ID # 2026-188)
Item: 13.

Meeting: 9/1/2026 3:00 PM
Department: Community Services
Category: Resolution
Prepared by: Eduardo Sillas,
Community Services Specialist I
Department Head: Adriana Nava
DOC ID: 2026-188
Public Hearing to Approve the Draft 2025-2026 Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER), and Authorization for Staff to Submit CAPER to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

CITY MANAGER'S RECOMMENDATION:

1. Open the public hearing, and receive public comments regarding the Draft 2025-2026 Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER).

2. Adopt Resolution No. 26- , RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF

EL CENTRO APPROVING THE CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL PERFORMANCE AND EVALUATION REPORT 2025-2026 AS PART OF THE END OF THE YEAR REQUIREMENT REPORT PROVIDED TO THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT UNDER THE ENTITLEMENT GRANTEE PROGRAM.

3. Authorize staff to submit the approved 2025-2026 CAPER to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

FISCAL IMPACT:

The public hearing and approval of the Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) will have no fiscal impact on the General Fund.

STRATEGIC PLANNING PROGRAM 2022-2027 RELATION:

City Beautification, Engagement & Civic Pride
Economic Opportunity
Recreation & Lifelong Learning
DUE DILIGENCE CHECK FOR CONTRACTORS/CONSULTANTS: DID THE

DEPARTMENT VERIFY CURRENT EL CENTRO BUSINESS LICENSE,
CONTRACTOR'S LICENSE, REFERENCE CHECKS, INSURANCE, ETC.:

N/A
BACKGROUND:

The City of El Centro is designated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as an entitlement community under the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program. As an entitlement community, the City receives an annual allocation of CDBG funds to support eligible housing and community development activities that principally benefit low- and moderate-income residents.

The City completed its 2025-2026 CDBG Program year on June 30, 2026. For Program Year 2025-2026, the City received a CDBG entitlement allocation of $502,738 and $60,624.37 in CDBG Program Income.

HUD requires entitlement communities receiving CDBG funds to annually evaluate and

publicly report their progress in carrying out the goals and activities identified in their Consolidated Plan and Annual Action Plan. The CAPER serves as the City's annual performance report and provides an assessment of the City's accomplishments and progress toward meeting its housing and community development goals during the reporting period of July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026.

The 2025-2026 CAPET reports on activities undertaken pursuant to the City's 2025-2026 Annual Action Plan, which was adopted by the City Council on April 15, 2025.

DISCUSSION:

The Draft 2025-2026 Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER), covering the period of July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, is presented to the City Council for review, public comment, and approval.

The CAPER provides a comprehensive assessment of the City's progress in meeting the goals and objectives established in its 2024-2028 Consolidated Plan and 2025-2026 Annual Action Plan. The report includes information regarding:
• Accomplishments and progress toward established CDBG goals and objectives; • The racial and ethnic composition of program beneficiaries; • Resources made available and expenditures during the program year, including CDBG Program Income;
• Activities related to affordable housing;
• Services and programs addressing homelessness and other special needs; • Public housing;
• Fair housing activities;
• Monitoring and program administration; and
• CDBG-funded activities and accomplishments.

Among the City's accomplishments, Catholic Charities' Homeless Day Center provided services to 497 individuals experiencing homelessness; the Senior Nutrition Program assisted 133 seniors; fair housing services were provided to El Centro residents; and improvements to Frazier Field Park were completed. The City also continued implementing activities intended to improve neighborhoods, support affordable housing opportunities, and provide services to low- and moderate-income residents.

Pursuant to the City’s Citizen Participation Plan and in compliance with HUD requirements, the Draft CAPER was made available for a 15-day public review and comment period from August 18, 2026, through September 2, 2026. A Notice of Public Hearing for the September 1, 2026, City Council meeting was duly published in the Imperial Valley Press, a newspaper of general circulation, providing residents and interested parties an opportunity to review and comment on the City's performance and use of CDBG and other housing and community development resources during Fiscal year 2025-2026.

Following consideration of public comments, staff recommends that the City Council approve the 2025-2026 Draft CAPER as presented and authorize staff to submit the final report to HUD in accordance with applicable federal requirements.

CONCLUSION:

Staff recommends that the City Council open the public hearing, solicit public input on the 2025-2026 Draft Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report and provide comments.

Staff recommends the City Council adopt Resolution No. 26- , RESOLUTION OF THE

CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL CENTRO APPROVING THE CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL PERFORMANCE AND EVALUATION REPORT 2025-2026 AS PART OF THE END OF THE YEAR REQUIREMENT REPORT PROVIDED TO THE U.S. DEPARTMENT

OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT UNDER THE ENTITLEMENT GRANTEE PROGRAM.

Upon approval, staff will incorporate any applicable public comments received and submit the final 2025-2026 CAPER to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in accordance with HUD requirements.

ATTACHMENTS:

1. DRAFT 2025-2026 El Centro CAPER

2. Resolution FINAL

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CR-05 - GOALS AND OUTCOMES............................................................2 CR-10 - RACIAL AND ETHNIC COMPOSITION OF
FAMILIES ASSISTED..............................................................................10 CR-15 - RESOURCES AND INVESTMENTS 91.520(A)...........................11 CR-20 - AFFORDABLE HOUSING 91.520(B) ..........................................14 CR-25 - HOMELESS AND OTHER SPECIAL NEEDS 91.220(D, E);

91.320(D, E); 91.520(C)............................................................................17 CR-30 - PUBLIC HOUSING 91.220(H); 91.320(J) ....................................20 CR-35 - OTHER ACTIONS 91.220(J)-(K); 91.320(I)-(J)............................22 CR-40 - MONITORING 91.220 AND 91.230.............................................32 CR-45 - CDBG 91.520(C).........................................................................34 CR-58 – SECTION 3.................................................................................35 APPENDIX A............................................................................................37

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CR-05 - GOALS AND OUTCOMES
Progress the jurisdiction has made in carrying out its strategic plan and its action plan. 91.520(a)
The City of El Centro is an entitlement community that annually receives funding under the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Entitlement Program to develop viable urban communities by carrying out projects that provide decent housing, a suitable living environment, and economic opportunities for low- to moderate- income residents.

The FY 2025-2026 Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) documents the accomplishments and progress produced by the City of El Centro as projected in the City’s FY 2024-2028 Consolidated Plan, which includes the 2025-2026 Annual Action Plan.

This performance report focuses on outcomes achieved with CDBG funds.

The CAPER covers the period from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, and represents the second year of reporting within the City’s Five-Year Consolidated Plan period (2024-2028). This plan serves as a five-year road map and includes comprehensive goals and coordinated strategies to address the housing and community needs of low- and moderate- income residents.

The 2024-2028 Con Plan specifies the following priority needs:
• Provide decent and affordable housing
• Support the continuum of care for people experiencing homelessness • Promote equal housing opportunity
• Provide community facilities and infrastructure
• Provide community and supportive services
• Encourage economic development opportunities

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Comparison of the proposed versus actual outcomes for each outcome measure submitted with the consolidated plan and explain, if applicable, why progress was not made toward meeting goals and objectives. 91.520(g) Table 1 - Accomplishments – Program Year
Goal Category
Source /
Amounts
per Con
Plan
Indicator Unit of
Measure
Expected
Program
Year
Actual
Program
Year
Percent
Complete
Asbestos
Testing and
Removal
Affordable
Housing
CDBG:
$10,000
Homeowner
Housing
Rehabilitated
Household
Housing Unit
1 0 0.00%
Code
Enforcement
Non-Housing
Community
Development
CDBG:
$56,000
Housing Code
Enforcement/
Foreclosed
Property Care
Household
Housing Unit
100 77 77.00%
Domestic
Violence
Support
Services
Homeless
NonHomeless
Special
Needs
CDBG:
$30,000
Public service
activities other
than
Low/Moderate
Income Housing
Benefit
Persons
Assisted
5 2 40.00%
Lead Based
Paint
Reduction
Affordable
Housing
CDBG:
$5,000
Homeowner
Housing
Rehabilitated
Household
Housing Unit
1 0 0.00%
Promote Fair
Housing
Affordable
Housing
Public
Housing
CDBG:
$47,250
Public service
activities other
than
Low/Moderate
Income Housing
Benefit
Persons
Assisted
168 40 23.80%
Public
Services for
Homeless
Homeless CDBG:
$50,000
Homelessness
Prevention
Persons
Assisted
250 497 198.80%

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Goal Category
Source /
Amounts
per Con
Plan
Indicator Unit of
Measure
Expected
Program
Year
Actual
Program
Year
Percent
Complete
Support
Services for
Seniors
NonHomeless
Special
Needs
CDBG:
$60,000
Program
Income:
$3,000
Public service
activities other
than
Low/Moderate
Income Housing
Benefit
Persons
Assisted
250 133 53.20%
Improvements
to Frazier
Field
Non-Housing
Community
Development
CDBG:
$262,031
Public Facility or
Infrastructure
Activities for
Low/Moderate
Income Housing
Benefit
Public
Facilities
1 1 100.00%
Sidewalks in
Support of
Housing
Non-Housing
Community
Development
CDBG:
$10,000
Public service
activities other
than
Low/Moderate
Income Housing
Benefit
Household
Housing Unit
1 0 0.00%
Community
Center ADA
Improvements
Affordable
Housing
CDBG:
$68,531
Public Facility or
Infrastructure
Activities for
Low/Moderate
Income Housing
Benefit
Public Facility
or
Households
Assisted
1 0 0.00%

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Table 2 - Accomplishments – Strategic Plan to Date
Goal Category
Source /
Amounts
per Con
Plan
Indicator Unit of
Measure
Expected
Con Plan
Actual
Con
Plan
Percent
Complete
Expected
Program
Year
Actual
Program
Year
Percent
Complete
Activities for
Youth and AtRisk Youth
NonHomeless
Special
Needs
CDBG:
$30,000
Public service
activities other
than
Low/Moderate
Income
Housing
Benefit
Persons
Assisted
1,500 0 0.00% 0 0 0.00%
Asbestos
Testing and
Removal
Affordable
Housing
CDBG:
$50,000
Homeowner
Housing
Rehabilitated
Household
Housing
Unit
5 0 0.00% 1 0 0.00%
Blight and
Substandard
Housing
Elimination
Affordable
Housing NonHousing
Community
Development
CDBG:
$50,000
Buildings
Demolished
Buildings 1 0 0.00% 0 0 0.00%
Code
Enforcement
Non-Housing
Community
Development
CDBG:
$425,000
Housing Code
Enforcement/
Foreclosed
Property Care
Household
Housing
Unit
750 85 11.33% 100 77 77.00%
Crime and
Fire
Awareness
and
Prevention
NonHomeless
Special
Needs
CDBG:
$5,000
Public service
activities other
than
Low/Moderate
Income
Housing
Benefit
Persons
Assisted
100 0 0.00% 0 0 0.00%
Domestic
Violence
Homeless
NonCDBG: $30,000
Public service
activities other
Persons
Assisted
340 9 2.64% 5 2 40.00%

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Goal Category
Source /
Amounts
per Con
Plan
Indicator Unit of
Measure
Expected
Con Plan
Actual
Con
Plan
Percent
Complete
Expected
Program
Year
Actual
Program
Year
Percent
Complete
Support
Services
Homeless
Special
Needs
than
Low/Moderate
Income
Housing
Benefit
Emergency
Public Support
Services
CDBG:
$250,000
Public service
activities for
Low/Moderate
Income
Housing
Benefit
Household
s Assisted
5 0 0.00% 0 0 0.00%
Employment
Opportunities
Non-Housing
Community
Development
CDBG:
$20,000
Jobs
created/retaine
d
Jobs 2 0 0.00% 0 0 0.00%
Energy
Efficiency
Affordable
Housing
CDBG:
$10,000
Homeowner
Housing
Rehabilitated
Household
Housing
Unit
4 0 0.00% 0 0 0.00%
Expand the
Economic
Base
Non-Housing
Community
Development
CDBG:
$50,000
Businesses
assisted
Businesses
Assisted
2 0 0.00% 0 0 0.00%
Homeless
Women,
Children, and
Families
NonHomeless
Special
Needs
CDBG:
$30,000
Homeless
Person
Overnight
Shelter
Persons
Assisted
180 0 0.00% 0 0 0.00%
Housing
Rehabilitation
Program
Affordable
Housing
CDBG:
$450,000
HOME:
$400,000
Homeowner
Housing
Rehabilitated
Household
Housing
Unit
3 0 0.00% 0 0 0.00%

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Goal Category
Source /
Amounts
per Con
Plan
Indicator Unit of
Measure
Expected
Con Plan
Actual
Con
Plan
Percent
Complete
Expected
Program
Year
Actual
Program
Year
Percent
Complete
Infrastructure
in Support of
Affordable
Housing
Affordable
Housing
CDBG:
$50,000
Public Facility
or
Infrastructure
Activities for
Low/Moderate
Income
Housing
Benefit
Public
Facility or
Household
s Assisted
5 0 0.00% 1 0 0.00%
Lead Based
Paint
Reduction
Affordable
Housing
CDBG:
$25,000
Homeowner
Housing
Rehabilitated
Household
Housing
Unit
5 0 0.00% 1 0 0.00%
Promote Fair
Housing
Affordable
Housing
Public
Housing
CDBG:
$250,000
Public service
activities other
than
Low/Moderate
Income
Housing
Benefit
Persons
Assisted
700 122 17.42% 168 40 23.80%
Community,
Parks, and
Recreation
Facilities
Non-Housing
Community
Development
CDBG:
$250,000
Public Facility
or
Infrastructure
Activities for
Low/Moderate
Income
Housing
Benefit
Public
Facility or
Household
s Assisted
1 1 100.00% 1 1 100.00%
Public
Services for
Homeless
Homeless CDBG:
$50,000
Homelessness
Prevention
Persons
Assisted
12,500 585 4.68% 250 497 198.80%

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Goal Category
Source /
Amounts
per Con
Plan
Indicator Unit of
Measure
Expected
Con Plan
Actual
Con
Plan
Percent
Complete
Expected
Program
Year
Actual
Program
Year
Percent
Complete
Support
Services for
Seniors
NonHomeless
Special
Needs
CDBG:
$60,000
Public service
activities other
than
Low/Moderate
Income
Housing
Benefit
Persons
Assisted
500 234 46.8% 250 133 53.20%
Support
Services for
the LGBT
Community
NonHomeless
Special
Needs
CDBG:
$10,000
Public service
activities other
than
Low/Moderate
Income
Housing
Benefit
Persons
Assisted
250 0 0.00% 0 0 0.00%
Community
Center ADA
Improvements
Non-Housing
Community
Development
CDBG:
$68,531
Public Facility
or
Infrastructure
Activities for
Low/Moderate
Income
Housing
Benefit
Public
Facility or
Household
s Assisted
1 0 0.00% 1 0 0.00%
Sidewalk
Improvement
Plan
Non-Housing
Community
Development
CDBG:
$535,545.
18 Public Facility
or
Infrastructure
Activities for
Low/Moderate
Income
Housing
Benefit
Public
Facility or
Household
s Assisted
1 1 100.00% 1 1 100.00%

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Assess how the jurisdiction’s use of funds, particularly CDBG, addresses the priorities and specific objectives identified in the plan, giving special attention to the highest priority activities identified.

The City used federal funds to address five of the six priorities identified in its 2024-2028 Con Plan (2025-2026 AAP) and made measurable progress towards achieving the goals established in the 2024-2028 Consolidated Plan. Summaries of the City’s 2025-2026 funding activities are:
• Provide Decent and Affordable Housing- The City corrected code violations for 77 housing units and 53 commercial units. 141 new residential cases and 109 new commercial units received violations.
• Support the Continuum of Care System for the Homeless- Through funding allocated towards the Catholic Charities’ Homeless Day Center, a total of 497 persons experiencing homelessness were provided with wrap around services and meals, hygiene facilities, case management, and supportive services • Promote Equal Housing Opportunity- A total of 40 low- and moderate-income residents were provided with fair housing services through counseling and case management conducted by Inland Fair Housing and Mediation Board. • Provide Community Facilities and Infrastructure – Improvements were made to Frazier Field Park located within CDBG Target Area.

Construction of 2,747 lineal feet (LF) of Sidewalks, 279 LF of curb and gutter, 41 curb ramps, and 19 driveways were installed during January 2024, through November 2025.

CDBG funding will be utilized in FY 2026-2027 to provide ADA improvements to the City’s Community Center that is used for senior programs. • Provide Community and Supportive Services- The Catholic Charities Senior Nutrition Program assisted a total of 133 seniors providing home- delivered meals.

SURE Helpline assisted a total of 2 clients, providing domestic violence survivors with supportive services.

The City of El Centro achieved one major accomplishment as it relates to community facilities and infrastructure with the construction of renovations and additions to the Frazier Field Park.

Frazier Field Park serves as the primary field for District 22 El Centro Little League equipped with four (4) ball fields, a snack bar, restrooms, and a parking lot. The project included the following improvements:
• Construction of two (2) new batting cages;
• A six-foot-wide, ADA-compliant concrete walkway extending from the front entrance into the back fields;
• Two (2) new scoreboards;
• Eight (8) reconstructed dugouts;
• Picnic tables and benches near the snack bar;
• Two (2) new 18 ft. high backstops to ensure spectator safety; • Newly added park sign and flagpole.

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CR-10 - RACIAL AND ETHNIC COMPOSITION OF FAMILIES

ASSISTED
Describe the families assisted (including the racial and ethnic status of families assisted). 91.520(a)
Table 2 – Table of assistance to racial and ethnic populations by source of funds Race and Ethnicity CDBG
White 483
Black or African American 29
Asian 2
American Indian or American Native 4
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander 0
American Indian/ Alaskan Native & Black or
African American
1 Other Multi-Racial 153
Total 672
Hispanic 363
Not Hispanic 309
Total 670
Narrative
The City of El Centro and its subrecipients identify and prioritize community needs and offer services and programs to eligible persons/households regardless of race or ethnicity. Table 2 in Section CR-10 is generated by the HUD CAPER template, and the information reported reflects demographic information provided by the persons/households. Out of a total of 670 beneficiaries, 483 identified as White and 363 identified as Hispanic, including a portion of Hispanic individuals with multiple race and ethnicities.

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CR-15 - RESOURCES AND INVESTMENTS 91.520(A)
Identify the resources made available
Table 3 - Resources Made Available
Source of Funds Source Resources Made
Available
Amount Expended
During Program Year
CDBG public - federal $502,738.00 $935,488.17
Other public - state $1,874,634.00 $186,963.77
Narrative
The FY 2025-2026 allocation for CDBG was $502,738.00. Approximately fifteen percent (15%) of the allocation of CDBG funds was allocated for public service programs that provide benefits to low- and moderate-income persons and households. Twenty percent (20%) of the funds were allocated for planning and administration costs. The remaining funds were made available for public facilities and code enforcement. The $935,488.17 expended during the program year includes some prior year funds.
$60,624.37 was received in Program Income during Fiscal Year 2025-2026.

Of the $1,874,634.00 million other resources made available, the City expended approximately $186,963.77 for the benefit of low- and moderate-income households and individuals on FY 2025-2026.

The following funding comprises $1.8 million in other resources:
• $451,200 – State HELP Grant Program for down payment assistance The City of El Centro is currently updating its First-Time Home Buyers (FTHB) Down Payment Assistance Program eligibility guidelines to ensure compliance with the requirements of the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD). Once approval is received, the HELP FTHB Program will commence. • $330,000 – State HOME Grant Program Income generated from state HOME loans The City of El Centro is awaiting approval from HCD for the submitted application authorizing the use of Program Income.
• $400,000 – State HOME Grant Program for Homeowner Rehabilitation Program The City of El Centro is currently awaiting HCD approval of the Standard Agreement for the Homeowner Rehabilitation Program.
• $2,211,536 – Permanent Local Housing Allocation (PLHA) funding The City of El Centro is currently utilizing PLHA program funds to provide assistance to persons experiencing or at-risk of homelessness. The City is also in the process of currently in the process of creating eligibility guidelines and submitting a program amendment to HCD requesting authorization to use PLHA funds for its Homeowner

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Rehabilitation Program, including accessibility modifications.

Identify the geographic distribution and location of investments Table 4 – Identify the geographic distribution and location of investments Target Area Planned Percentage
of Allocation
Actual Percentage of
Allocation Narrative Description
CDBG Project area 61 80%
City expended
$418,057.56 of project
costs during the
program year.
$392,628.5 were spent
in CDBG target areas.

Narrative
The City prioritizes spending CDBG funds in areas within City limits where more than 50% of the households have an income that is 80% of the AMI or lower. The map in Appendix A demonstrates the targeted areas of need for activities with area benefits outcome indicators.

The areas include:
• Census Tract 112.02, Block Groups 1-4
• Census Tract 114, Block Groups 2 and 3
• Census Tract 115, Block Groups 1-4
• Census Tract 116, Block Groups 2 and 3
• Census Tract 117, Block Groups 1
• Census Tract 118.02, Block Groups 1
Of the above identified Census Block Groups, the below Groups are identified as location where more than 75% of the households are at or below 80% of the AMI. • Census Tract 112.02, Block Group 1 and 3
• Census Tract 114, Block Groups 2
• Census Tract 115, Block Groups 2 and 3
• Census Tract 116, Block Group 3
Leveraging
Explain how federal funds leveraged additional resources (private, state and local funds), including a description of how matching requirements were satisfied, as well as how any publicly owned land or property located within the jurisdiction that were used to address the needs identified in the plan.

CDBG is one of the resources the City utilizes to address housing and community development needs. In addition to CDBG funding, the City leverages other federal and state resources to expand affordable housing opportunities, support individuals experiencing or at-risk of

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homelessness, and preserve existing housing stock through improvements and renovations.

The City has been awarded $2,475,702 of Permanent Local Housing Allocation (PLHA) funds over a five-year period. These funds are primarily utilized to support activities benefiting persons who are experiencing or at-risk of homelessness, as well as to address affordable housing needs within the community. PLHA- funded activities include:
• Low-income housing development to produce affordable housing units – PLHA funds support the Jacaranda Gardens project, including phase 2 of the development of 72 affordable rental housing units’ stock in the northern portion of the City of El Centro. • Working Hands Program – Workforce Development program is administered by subrecipient Catholic Charities, Diocese of San Diego, through its Homeless Day Center. The program provides temporary employment opportunities, case management, and connections to supportive services to assist individuals experiencing homelessness or at-risk of homelessness in obtaining permanent employment and securing permanent housing.
• Housing accessibility and preservation improvements – PLHA funds address local housing needs through accessibility modifications for low- to moderate-income, owneroccupied households. Eligible improvements include accessibility modifications, air conditioning replacements, and roofing repairs to support ADA accessibility and preserve housing stock.

City staff continue to collaborate with interested developers to identify funding sources for the construction of new affordable multi-family housing. The types of funding that are pursued include tax-exempt mortgage revenue bonds, State of California Multi-Family Housing Program, and tax credits. The City has effectively partnered and plans to continue partnering with affordable housing developers and lenders to create new affordable housing units in the city.

The City will also continue supporting the efforts of the Imperial Valley Housing Authority (IVHA) to obtain state and federal funds for the construction of affordable housing for lower income households.

The City received approximately $400,000 from HOME Investment Partnership Program (HOME) through the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) for the City’s Housing Rehabilitation Program. This program is designed to provide qualified lowincome owner-occupied households with low-interest rate loans to rehabilitate or reconstruct eligible facilities of their single-family residence. The City is utilizing CDBG funds in conjunction with state HOME funds to rehabilitate homes. During the rehabilitation loan process, if needed, CDBG funds will be utilized for lead based paint reduction and asbestos testing and removal.

Additionally, the City sold a 5.91-acre property formerly owned by the dissolved redevelopment agency to a developer for the construction of Jacaranda Gardens, a 96-unit affordable multifamily housing development. The developer has since begun the process of advancing Phase II of the project, which will add 72 units, through the Palo Fierro Project, within two threestory buildings and three two-story garden-style buildings. The development will serve families earning between 30% and 60% of the Area Median Income.

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CR-20 - AFFORDABLE HOUSING 91.520(B)
Evaluation of the jurisdiction's progress in providing affordable housing, including the number and types of families served, the number of extremely low-income, low-income, moderate-income, and middle-income persons served.

Table 5 – Number of Households
- One-Year Goal Actual
Number of Homeless households to be provided affordable housing units 0 0
Number of Non-Homeless households to be provided affordable housing units 2 0
Number of Special-Needs households to be provided affordable housing units 0 0
Total 2 0
Table 6 – Number of Households Supported
- One-Year Goal Actual
Number of households supported through Rental Assistance 0 0 Number of households supported through The Production of New Units 0 0
Number of households supported through Rehab of Existing Units 2 0
Number of households supported through Acquisition of Existing Units 0 0
Total 2 0
Discuss the difference between goals and outcomes and problems encountered in meeting these goals.

In FY 2025-2026, the City did not report any beneficiaries under the Homeowner Rehabilitation Program as it is awaiting approval from HCD of submitted applications, Standard Agreements and program amendments for the delivery of home rehabilitation projects. The City has executed an agreement with HCD and is currently working with its HOME representative to obtain authorization to use HOME Program Income funds for eligible homeowner rehabilitation activities. The City is algo undergoing a program amendment for submittal to HCD, requesting authorization to utilize PLHA funding for homeowner rehabilitation projects. CDBG funds will be

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used for lead-based paint removal and asbestos remediation, as applicable.

The City used CDBG funds in FY 2025-2026 to address its housing priorities as follows:

Provision of Fair Housing services to 42 El Centro residents.

During the reporting period, the City continued working toward its affordable housing goals supporting the development of Palo Fierro, the 72-unit second phase of Jacaranda Gardens.

The project will provide affordable rental housing to families earning between 30% and 60% of the Area Median Income. Although no units were completed during the reporting period and CDBG funds are not being used for this project, the City continues to leverage other available funding sources to address the community’s affordable housing needs. Progress has taken longer than anticipated due to the complexity of securing and coordinating multiple funding sources, including Low-Income Housing Tax Credits and Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities funding, as well as increased development costs. To help address the project’s financing needs, the City is amending its PLHA Five-Year Plan and intends to provide the developer with a $100,000 low-interest deferred PLHA loan. The City will continue working with the developer to advance the project toward financial closing and construction.

Discuss how these outcomes will impact future annual action plans.

In the upcoming program year City staff will continue working with HCD to launch the City’s Homeowner Rehabilitation Program. The City is also amending its PLHA Five-Year Plan to reallocate funding for an owner-occupied housing rehabilitation program that will assist eligible lower-income households, with priority given to homes occupied by seniors, persons with disabilities, and individuals with limited mobility. Assistance may include accessibility improvements and other eligible health and safety repairs, including the replacement of airconditioning units and roofing. The programs will be promoted through local English-and Spanish-language newspapers, informational flyers posted at the Economic Development Department and City Hall, and the City’s social media platforms to inform residents about the availability of assistance and application requirements.

Include the number of extremely low-income, low-income, and moderate-income persons served by each activity where information on income by family size is required to determine the eligibility of the activity.

Table 7 – Number of Households Served
Number of Households Served CDBG Actual HOME Actual
Extremely Low-income 0 0
Low-income 0 0
Moderate-income 0 0
Total 0 0

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Narrative Information
In Program Year 2025, no beneficiaries were reported.

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CR-25 - HOMELESS AND OTHER SPECIAL NEEDS 91.220(D,
E); 91.320(D, E); 91.520(C)
Evaluate the jurisdiction’s progress in meeting its specific objectives for reducing and ending homelessness through:

Reaching out to homeless persons (especially unsheltered persons) and assessing their individual needs
The City of El Centro is a member of the Imperial Valley Continuum of Care Council (hereafter referred to as "IVCCC"). The IVCCC meets in quarterly meetings to discuss service delivery and assistance to be provided to unsheltered persons. Members of the IVCCC include public agencies, housing authorities, community-based organizations, faith based organizations and private citizens representing the interest of the unsheltered population.

The City utilized $10,279 CDBG funds to support food and meal supplies delivered by Catholic Charities, Diocese of San Diego’s Homeless Day Center in El Centro. This funded activity complemented the IVCCC strategy. The funding provided supported the delivery of wraparound services for unsheltered individuals.

The City utilizes a considerable amount of PLHA funds to fund Catholic Charities’ Working Hands Program. The program provides temporary employment opportunities to individuals experiencing or at-risk of homelessness. Participants receive a weekly wage in exchange for providing labor services for community cleanups.

Developing employment opportunities, along with job training and other career resources, the City strives to eradicate the number of chronically homeless and at-risk of homelessness individuals. The program provides navigation center resources to those experiencing homelessness. It is also a street program with a workforce development component; wherein individuals experiencing homelessness are given a weekly wage. By targeting employment opportunity and providing job training and other resources in a coordinated way, the City strives to reduce the number of chronically homeless individuals in the community.

The City of El Centro is a member of the Imperial Valley Continuum of Care Council (hereafter referred to as "IVCCC"). The IVCCC meets in quarterly meetings to discuss service delivery and assistance to be provided to unsheltered persons. Members of the IVCCC include public agencies, housing authorities, community based organizations, faith based organizations and private citizens representing the interest of the unsheltered population.

Addressing the emergency shelter and transitional housing needs of homeless persons
At the start of the 2025-26 year, there was one emergency shelter operating in El Centro having a total capacity of thirty-seven (37 beds + 2 cribs). This program serves a limited clientele, specifically homeless and battered women and children through direct case management services, temporary living facilities, and referrals to other agencies or other direct assistance.

The emergency shelter is operated by the Center for Family Solutions (Womanhaven).

Since February 15, 2023, Catholic Charities opened the first homeless Day Center in Imperial County, serving as another access point for unsheltered individuals. The Day Center has

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program capacity of 110 clients, offering access to restrooms, showers, and laundry facilities.

The Center also provides a breakfast, lunch, and a take-away meal at the end of the day, while providing personal hygiene products and cleaning supplies. Aside from the basic needs services provided, employees are actively conducting case management and assessing clients, ultimately building trust and relationships, allowing for more willingness to enroll in services.

Helping low-income individuals and families avoid becoming homeless, especially extremely low-income individuals and families and those who are:
likely to become homeless after being discharged from publicly funded institutions and systems of care (such as health care facilities, mental health facilities, foster care and other youth facilities, and corrections programs and institutions); and, receiving assistance from public or private agencies that address housing, health, social services, employment, education, or youth needs As mentioned previously, the City of El Centro participates in the IVCCC's efforts in addressing and reducing chronic homelessness. The IVCCC coordinates services and funding to support unsheltered and at-risk of homelessness transition from encampments into permanent housing.

Chronically homeless persons require various wraparound services aside from housing such as case management, behavioral health services and employment training to transition from homelessness into transitional housing, ultimately leading to permanent housing. The IVCCC provides assistance through its Homeless Resource Assistance Line (HRAL) and State funding for subrecipients to carry out projects aligned with the mission to eradicate homelessness and address the underlying causes of homelessness.

The City of El Centro assists transitioning foster youth in partnership with Imperial Valley College Foundation. IVCF developed a City-owned property to provide housing to Imperial Valley College students experiencing homelessness. The Lotus Living Rise Above Resilient Community project consisted of the installation of twenty-six (26) tiny home units. The units measure 170 square feet and include a kitchen, bathroom, bed, desk, closet, patio, and washer and dryer stacked units. This project serves students with extremely low-income levels and prioritizes serving former foster youth. The Lotus Living complex remains fully occupied, with more that 90 percent of residents successfully maintaining stable housing.

To prevent homelessness, the City also encourages families who may be experiencing foreclosure to seek assistance from the City's fair housing provider to find possible solutions to preserve their current housing.

Helping homeless persons (especially chronically homeless individuals and families, families with children, veterans and their families, and unaccompanied youth) make the transition to permanent housing and independent living, including shortening the period of time that individuals and families experience homelessness, facilitating access for homeless individuals and families to affordable housing units, and preventing individuals and families who were recently homeless from becoming homeless again
The City works collaboratively with Imperial County, IVHA, and the IVCCC to prevent individuals and families who were recently homeless from becoming homeless again. Initiatives and accomplishments include:
• WomanHaven continues to apply for ESG funding for rapid re-housing of victims of

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domestic violence who find themselves homeless and in addition serves other persons who find themselves homeless for other reasons. Persons served are single individuals and single parents with children.
• The Imperial Valley Regional Occupational Program (IVROP) provides housing services for former foster youth and will continue to provide those services under a program known as Transitional Aged Youth program (TAY).
• In terms of preventing homelessness among veterans and their families, the Imperial Valley Housing Authority (IVHA) prioritizes assisted affordable housing to veterans of the Armed Forces. As of June 30, 2026, all 10 available VASH vouchers have been utilized.

Beginning August 1, 2026, IVHA has been awarded an additional 10 HUD VASH vouchers. Seven (7) of the ten (10) participant families reside within the City of El Centro.
• Achieved a 100% successful utilization of emergency housing vouchers The IVCCC has also developed a valuable resource guide that lists available service providers, helping individuals and families to easily access community services. The guide includes the name of each organization, its location, contact information, and the type of services offered.

It is also the City's intent to continue supporting the efforts of local nonprofit agencies such as WomanHaven and Catholic Charities to obtain funds to provide rapid re-housing assistance.

These agencies provide supportive services, referrals, and case management helping individuals and families secure transitional and permanent housing as well as providing shortterm financial and rental assistance.

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CR-30 - PUBLIC HOUSING 91.220(H); 91.320(J)
Actions taken to address the needs of public housing
The City of El Centro does not operate its own public housing authority and relies on the Imperial Valley Housing Authority (IVHA) for public housing and administration of Housing Choice Vouchers, referring to tenant-based subsidized public housing units.

IVHA maintains a total of 399 housing units and 591 families in the Housing Choice Voucher Program (formerly known as Section 8), throughout the City of El Centro. Those 399 units are comprised of the following:
• 167 Public Housing Units;
• 105 Low- Income Apartments (Valley Apartments) HUD Section 8, Tenant-Based (Housing Choice Voucher) Units;
• 40 USDA Farm Labor Subsidized, multifamily Housing Units; • 36 Market Rate units accepted by HUD Section 8;
• 11 Low- Income HUD Section 8, Project Based (HAP Contracts), Units; • 40 Very Low- Income, HUD Section 202, Supportive Housing for the Elderly, 62+ with affordable rent and supportive services.

As of June 30, 2026, IVHA had ten (10) available VASH vouchers, which have all been utilized.

Beginning August 1, 2026, IVHA has been awarded an additional 10 HUD VASH vouchers.

Seven (7) of the ten (10) participant families reside within the City of El Centro Actions taken to encourage public housing residents to become more involved in management and participate in homeownership IVHA encourages public housing (PH) residents to attend meetings to provide feedback and input on current barriers or difficulties faced.

IVHA and Community Valley Bank continue to offer the Workforce Initiative Subsidy for Homeownership (WISH) offered by the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (FHLBSF).

This program assists income qualified first time home buyers by providing a 3:1 match on homebuyer contribution up to $29,000 for down payment and closing costs. IVHA continues to work with Community Valley Bank to provide the WISH grant to housing participants.

During July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026, IHVA was able to enter into a Purchase and Sale Agreement for a 42-unit USDA Section 514 located in Holtville, CA. IVHA secured funding from the Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention (HHAP) Grant Program Round 5 through the Imperial Valley Continuum of Care Council. The awarded funding will be utilized to purchase the property.

IVHA are scheduled to finalize purchase of property the week of August 26, 2026. 41 units of the 42 available units will include rental assistance.

Additionally, the U.S Department of Agriculture have provided the opportunity to apply for funding through the Stand- Alone Rental Assistance (SARA) Grant Program.

The Imperial Valley Housing Authority established The Family-Self Sufficiency Program (FSS)

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to assist Section 8 residents and Public Housing families to gain economic independence from all governmental assistance. Information regarding the FSS and WISH program are made available to visitors to the IVHA’s lobby. Financial literacy material is also available. The display also features pictures of recent FSS program graduates who have successfully purchased homes.

During FY 2025-2026, IVHA did not have any families participate in any programs for home purchases.

IVHA awarded three (3) scholarships of $1,000.00 each to high school graduates living in or participating in one of the available housing programs. One (1) recipient resides in the City of El Centro.

Since 2015, the Imperial Valley Housing Authority ranks 3rd in the State of California with the number of home ownership participants with 22 home purchases in the Housing Choice Voucher Homeownership Program.

Actions taken to provide assistance to troubled PHAs
IVHA is not identified as a troubled PHA.

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CR-35 - OTHER ACTIONS 91.220(J)-(K); 91.320(I)-(J)
Actions taken to remove or ameliorate the negative effects of public policies that serve as barriers to affordable housing such as land use controls, tax policies affecting land, zoning ordinances, building codes, fees and charges, growth limitations, and policies affecting the return on residential investment. 91.220 (j); 91.320 (i) For FY 2025-2026, the City allocated $25,000 of CDBG funds for housing rehabilitation activities, which included the Lead Based Paint, Asbestos Abatement, and Sidewalks in Support of Housing Programs to support of the Housing Rehabilitation Program.

The City of El Centro works to remove barriers to affordable housing and the financial impact of them. Efforts to protect public health and safety include taking actions to reduce development costs or provide financial incentives to assist in the production of safe, high quality, and affordable housing.

The City in its Zoning Ordinance has a density bonus program which offers incentives and/or concessions that make the provision of affordable housing more feasible. In accordance with SB 1818 and SB 435, developers of qualifying affordable housing and senior housing projects are entitled to a density bonus of up to 35% over the otherwise maximum allowable residential density under the applicable zoning district. Developers of qualifying projects are also entitled to at least one concession or incentive and may utilize those concessions on parking requirements. The Jacaranda Gardens project benefited from a density bonus. The City will continue to work with developers on a case-by-case basis to provide regulatory concessions and incentives to assist them with the development of affordable and senior housing.

In updating the Zoning Ordinance in 2022, the City included provisions for accessory dwelling units and junior accessory units that provides the opportunity for property owners to add one or two dwelling units on sites with a single-family residence. The City of El Centro offers preapproved accessory dwelling unit plans available at no cost to the public. In most circumstances, these units are not required to provide additional parking or open space requirements which would otherwise reduce the density.

To ensure the development of affordable housing, the City will continue to make efforts to ensure that developmental review processes are efficient, fees reasonable, and that the development industry is involved in the formulation of policies regarding review processes and fees.

Actions taken to address obstacles to meeting underserved needs.

91.220(k); 91.320(j)
A major obstacle to addressing the underserved needs is the lack of adequate funding, especially for affordable housing activities. With the dissolution of redevelopment in California, and reduced state and federal funding levels, the City's ability to address the extensive needs in the community is seriously compromised. The City continues to aggressively pursue other

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funding opportunities through the state and other sources.

Actions taken to reduce lead-based paint hazards. 91.220(k); 91.320(j) As part of the inspection process for the Housing Rehabilitation for residences built prior to 1978, the City requires inspections for the potential presence of lead-based paint and the potential hazard such paint may pose to occupants of the residence. If the inspection reveals that a potential hazard exists, the City requires full testing, mitigation, and removal of the leadbased paint hazard in accordance with HUD regulations.

CDBG funds are provided as a grant for the testing and abatement of lead-based paint hazards through the Housing Rehabilitation Program
During FY 2025-2026, no housing rehabilitation projects were conducted due to the pending approval from HCD to commence implementing the Housing Rehabilitation Program. It is anticipated this program will serve low-income residents during the 2026-2027 program year.

Actions taken to reduce the number of poverty-level families.

91.220(k); 91.320(j)
In an effort to reduce the number of households in poverty, El Centro will continue to support the use of existing county job training and social service programs to enhance employment marketability, household income, and housing options. In addition, the City participates in various county-sponsored programs by providing City Hall as a worksite, providing temporary positions with supervision, training, and performance evaluations to indicate their degree of success.

In FY 2025-2026, the City spent $79,160 on CDBG funds on public services. These funds included services for Fair Housing, homeless services, meals for homebound seniors, and services for domestic violence survivors.

Actions taken to develop institutional structure. 91.220(k); 91.320(j) The institutional structure for delivering CDBG programs and services to low and very-lowincome residents involves collaboration among public, private, and nonprofit agencies. The City also coordinates internally across departments to implement public facilities and accessibility improvements. During the 2025-2026 program year, the City implemented improvements at Frazier Field and the CDBG sidewalk improvement program. The City will utilized funding to undergo ADA improvements at the Community Center during FY 2026-2027, including modifications to entrance and exit doors to bring them into ADA compliance.

Actions taken to enhance coordination between public and private housing and social service agencies. 91.220(k); 91.320(j) The City maintains a list of interested potential applicants for the CDBG Annual Action Plan Request for Proposals (RFP) process. A letter announcing the availability of funds along with the RFP application is mailed to these interested agencies annually. In addition, notices are published in our local English and Spanish newspapers and on the City's website. Applications

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for public services and public facilities projects are accepted after notification for a minimum of a 30-day availability period. In addition, staff conduct two public meetings to provide technical assistance to interested citizens and agencies in understanding and applying for El Centro's CDBG funds.

During the preparation of the most recent Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice, information was obtained through organizations and agencies who participated in a stakeholder interview, focus group, questionnaire, or written request for information, which included representatives from Inland Fair Housing and Mediation Board, Imperial Valley Housing Authority, Imperial Valley Transit, two real estate companies, and a mortgage company.

Identify actions taken to overcome the effects of any impediments identified in the jurisdictions analysis of impediments to fair housing choice. 91.520(a)
The City of El Centro's 2024-2028 Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice and Fair Housing Action Plan (AI) was completed and approved in June 2024. The AI presents a comprehensive analysis of the demographic characteristics of El Centro and Imperial County, assesses housing needs among specific income groups, and evaluates the range of housing choices available to residents. The AI also analyzes the conditions in the private housing market and public sector that may limit the range of housing choices or impede access to housing.

The AI identifies impediments to Fair Housing Choice and establishes actions to mitigate or remove those impediments. The AI lists specific impediments and evaluates actions taken by the City to address those impediments, as well as their effects, providing recommendations for continued efforts to promote equal access to housing.

To aid in addressing the impediments to Fair Housing Choice, the City contracts with Inland Fair Housing and Mediation Board (IFHMB) to provide Fair Housing Services which include:
• Processing of Housing Inquiries: Providing case intake and mediation services involving residents, tenants, landlords, and housing providers. • Complaint Investigation and Referral: Providing intake and mediation services for complaints of fair housing.
• Public Education and Outreach: Providing Fair Housing education through webinars, articles, and the dissemination of information and resources. • Reporting: Providing monthly demographic data on clients served.

During the preparation of the AI the following areas were evaluated to identify public sector fair housing impediments.
• Policies and practices of the Imperial Valley Housing Authority AI Conclusion and recommendation: A detailed review of its policies and practices demonstrate that the IVHA affirmatively furthers fair housing choice through different services and activities.

Evaluation for FY 2025-2026: Consistent with the AI’s recommendations, the IVHA continues to encourage families to seek housing in neighborhoods with low

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concentrations of low-income families. IVHA program participants receive comprehensive information on housing discrimination, fair housing rights, and available resources. This information assists participants in understanding protected classes and identifying potential instances of housing discrimination. The IVHA continues to address housing supply barriers by supporting the allocation of a higher percentage of units in new developments for project-based vouchers.
• Transit services provide affordable housing developments and major employers by the Imperial Valley Transit
AI Conclusion and recommendation: The AI determined that the Imperial Valley Transit (IVT), funded and administered by the Imperial County Transportation Commission (ICTC), provides regularly scheduled, affordable, bus services to all affordable housing developments and all major employment centers. Ongoing challenges related to access to transit services were identified in the AI, retrieving stakeholder feedback. Recommendations provided were to expand weekday and evening service as well as increasing the frequency of service during both weekdays and weekends. Other identified possible solutions were expanding fare purchase and payment options while implementing real-time bus service information.

The average IVT rider is employed and uses IVT services to travel to and from work.

Many of these riders travel outside the traditional work hours of Monday-Friday from 9:00am - 5:00pm. As such, there is a demand for IVT to expand its weekday evening services, increase its service frequency, and expand weekend services to better serve the needs of this transit-dependent population. Additionally, expanding fare purchase and payment options could encourage increased ridership. Currently, riders must provide exact change when boarding the bus, or they may purchase a multi-ride pass at the transit office, City Hall, or at Imperial Valley College. Allowing passes to be purchased online and/or at a greater number of physical locations would help alleviate this challenge to accessing IVT services.

The City will continue to work with developers to promote affordable housing developments in close vicinity to public transit services. • Dispersal or concentration of group homes housing
AI Conclusion and recommendation: The AI process determined that no overconcentration of group homes exists. The City will continue its practice annually determining the number and location of licensed group homes. If overconcentration appears to be emerging, the City will contact the California Department of Social Services, Community Care Licensing Division to implement measures that would avoid overconcentration.

Evaluation for FY 2025-2026: During the 2025-2026 fiscal year, the City did not receive any proposed group home project applications.
• City of El Centro Planning, Zoning, and Building Policies and Practices AI Conclusion: An analysis was conducted that was organized into five categories including Housing for Disabled People, Housing for Special Needs Populations, Affordable Housing Policies, Accessible Housing and Parking, and other Fair Housing Policies. The completed analysis demonstrates that El Centro’s practices are consistent

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with fair housing laws and affirmatively further fair housing.

Evaluation of FY 2024-2025: During the 2019-2020 FY, the City was awarded grant funding from the State of California Sustainable Communities Grant program to update the Land Use and Mobility (Circulation) Elements of the General Plan and prepare an Environmental Justice Element. This update was completed consistent with applicable fair housing laws and it was completed in June 2021. The Community Development Department completed the 2021 Housing Element Annual Report and was accepted by City Council on March 1, 2023, which establishes clear goals and objectives to inform future housing decisions. The 2021-2029 Housing Element update has been reviewed and approved by the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD). • Housing Discrimination
AI Conclusion and Recommendation: Based on past trends, 32 housing discrimination cases may be filed with IFHMB. With respect to the fair housing impediment of housing discrimination, the following actions will be taken o The City will continue to offer its residents fair housing services, which will include the processing of housing discrimination complaints and landlord/tenant counseling services. Sometimes a landlord/tenant issue has as its basis a housing discrimination concern.
o Efforts will be made to increase community awareness of fair housing services through postings on the City’s web pages and Community Newsletter articles. A greater community awareness of fair housing services may result in a higher number of families expressing their right to file a housing discrimination complaint.

Evaluation of FY 2025-2026: The City of El Centro continued to provide information on fair housing services on City web pages.
• Brokerage Services
AI Conclusion and Recommendation: As no private sector impediment was found to exist, no recommendations are necessary concerning brokerage services. Although no impediments were found concerning brokerage services, the City will request that the Imperial County Association of Realtors (ICAOR) accomplish the following:
o Revise the Resources tab on its website to:
− Add a Fair Housing Information button (e.g. include information on steering and link to IFHMB.
− Add information to the current insurance button such as the value of a C.L.U.E. Report (Comprehensive Loss Underwriting Exchange) when purchasing a home.
o Enlist the services of the City’s contracted fair housing service provider to offer a three-hour Fair Housing course. Every four years, as part of the license renewal process, brokers and salespeople are required to complete a course on fair housing. Currently, most license renewal requirements are completed through online courses.

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include a Fair Housing link or information on the value of a C.L.U.E. Report. Although the City cannot dictate what information this agency provides on its website, the City will continue to request the changes be made by demonstrating the advantages of providing for a well-informed client base.

The City of El Centro will be working with newly contracted Fair Housing agency, Fair Housing Foundation, to offer a Fair Housing course to brokers through the ICAOR during the FY 2026-2027.
• Steering
AI Conclusion and Recommendation: It is not known with certainty if steering is an impediment to fair housing choice in El Centro. However, HUD statistics show it is not a major issue. During the five-year period from FY 2024-2025 through FY 2028-2029, the City’s fair housing provider will:
o Offer as part of its home buyer counseling services examples of how to detect “steering” during the home search process and how to detect “loan steering.” o Provide information to renters attending workshops on how to detect steering behavior by resident property managers.
o Continue to include “steering” as category of alleged housing discriminatory acts.

Evaluation of FY 2025-2026: The City of El Centro worked with Inland Fair Housing and Mediation Board (IFHMB) to ensure that dissemination of this type of information is included in their counseling and workshop opportunities. • Appraisal Practices
AI Conclusion and Recommendation: Complaints regarding discriminatory appraisal practices are not routinely collected by local, State or Federal agencies. Would-be homebuyers are in the best position to detect potentially discriminatory practices.

However, it is unknown if the lack of consumer knowledge of the scope and meaning of appraisal reports is an impediment to fair housing choice in El Centro. The following action will be taken:
o IFMHB will continue to offer homebuyer counseling services in order to 1) inform borrowers of their right to request the appraisal report and 2) provide information on the contents of the report and how to detect possible discriminatory practices.

Evaluation of FY 2025-2026: As per the recommendation, IFHMB continued to offer the described homebuyer counseling services.
• Mortgage Lending Practices
AI Conclusion and Recommendation: The City’s goal is to improve the loan approval rates of all racial and ethnic populations that want to buy a home located in El Centro.

To improve even further the loan approval rates, borrowers can be helped to understand the loan approval process before they submit a loan application. To address possible impediments, IFHMB will:
o Continue to offer first-time home buyer seminars to explain to borrowers the need to lower debt-to-income ratios to a level acceptable to lenders. Implementation of

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this recommended action should result in better prepared borrowers and cause an increase in loan approval rates of all loan applicants, regardless of race or ethnicity.
o Work with the lenders to determine why a few census tracts have high loan denial rates in order to gather information that could assist would-be homebuyers to increase the probability of garnering loan approval for homes in neighborhoods of their choice.

Per the requirements of AB 686, the city will prepare an Assessment of Fair Housing (AFH) as part of its Housing Element Update which was adopted March 1, 2022. During the preparation of the AFH, the City will conduct a multi-year analysis of loan denial rates to determine with more precision the degree to which lending discrimination exists in El Centro.

Evaluation of FY 2025-2026: The City of El Centro worked with IFHMB to ensure that these services are covered by their current service contract. • Homeowners Insurance
AI Conclusion and Recommendation: Evidence is unavailable on whether homebuyers in escrow who are seeking homeowner’s insurance are discriminated against because of their race, color, disability or other protected characteristics.

However, without adequate knowledge would-be homebuyers could pay more than they need for appropriate insurance coverage. The lack of consumer awareness of the nature of homeowners insurance may impede fair housing choice. The following actions will continue to be taken:
o IFHMB continued to explain “homeowners’ insurance” and “C.L.U.E. Reports” during its homebuyer counseling services.

Evaluation of FY 2025-2026: As recommended, IFHMB continued to provide information on homeowner’s insurance and C.L.U.E. Reports. • Blockbusting/Panic Selling
AI Conclusion and Recommendation: There is no evidence to indicate that blockbusting/panic selling has occurred in El Centro in recent years. Consequently, there are no actions recommended for future implementation.

Evaluation of FY 2025-2026: No actions taken.
• Property Management Practices
AI Conclusion and Recommendation: The survey results revealed that impediments to fair housing exist in El Centro. Therefore, subject to funding availability, the City will implement the following actions:
o Invite the apartment managers to one or more workshops; the topics could include:
− Fair housing laws in general
− Fair housing laws regarding occupancy limits
− Fair housing laws regarding reasonable accommodations and

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modifications
− Sample written policies regarding service and companion animals Evaluation of FY 2025-2026: The City of El Centro worked with IFHMB to ensure that this service is incorporated into their Professional Services Agreement. • Discriminatory Advertising
AI Conclusion and Recommendation: Advertisements containing discriminatory language are rarely published; however, the possibility remains that such language could appear in future advertisements. Additionally, “no pets” statements may unintentionally discourage individuals with disabilities who rely on assistance animals from applying for advertised housing. To address these concerns, the City will take the following actions:
o Ensure, if funding is available, that the City’s contracted fair housing service provider accomplishes the following:
− Annually review on-line apartment search sites. Discriminatory words or phrases should be investigated in more detail with follow-up enforcement actions, if necessary.
o Encourage the Imperial Valley Press to publish a concise “no pets” notice that indicates rental housing owners must provide reasonable accommodations for “service animals” and “companion animals” for disabled persons.

Evaluation of FY 2025-2026: As funding is available, the City’s contracted fair housing service provider will review ads for local housing opportunities for discriminatory words or phrases and conduct appropriate investigation. Imperial Valley Press will be contacted regarding the “no pets” notice; however, it should be noted that due to the availability of free on-line advertising opportunities for local rental agencies, there are minimal, if any, advertisements in the local newspapers. • Hate Crimes
AI Conclusion and Recommendation: No actions are recommended as no hate crimes have been reported in El Centro in recent years.

Evaluation of FY 2025-2026: The City continued to work closely with the City of El Centro Police Department to identify hate crimes at residential locations. • Population Diversity
AI Conclusion and Recommendation: Since 1990 the Dissimilarity Index trend line for the Region has been higher than that of the City of El Centro. No action is necessary as the City’s Dissimilarity Index is in either the Low or Moderate range.

Evaluation of FY 2025-2026: No action taken.
• Location of Affordable Housing
AI Conclusion and Recommendation: The Imperial Valley Housing Authority will continue to seek Section 8 rental housing opportunities outside census tracts with a high percentage of the populations having incomes below the poverty level. For the most part, the location of El Centro’s affordable housing stock is well disbursed. While most

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affordable housing developments are located in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, only one has contributed significantly to the low- and moderate-income percentage of the neighborhood in which it is located.

Evaluation of FY 2025-2026: As previously mentioned, the City partnered with a developer for the construction of the El Dorado Family Apartments, which is an affordable housing development completed in 2021. Although this development is located adjacent to an apartment complex with affordable housing units, it is also located across the street from a new, larger apartment development that is considered to be “luxury” apartments with no affordability restrictions.

It is evident that the provision of Fair Housing Services is critical in addressing the impediments to fair housing choice. During FY 2025-2026, IFHMB continued to provide invaluable services to the local community. Below is an example of actions taken by IFHMB during the fiscal year 2025-2026.
• Conducted seven fair housing workshops with a total of two hundred eighteen (218) attendees who received fair housing and landlord / tenant education. The webinars provided information on Federal and State laws, reasonable accommodation and modifications, how to recognize and report discrimination, and fair housing rights and responsibilities.
• IFHMB created an innovative social media and virtual marketing strategy to increase public awareness of fair housing rights. As part of the social media and virtual outreach and education programs, IFHMB:
o distributed 4 fair housing public service announcements via social media and MailChimp;
o conducted 4 fair housing workshops via Zoom with a total participation of 48 attendees;
o distributed fair housing tips via email;
o provided information regarding federal and state fair housing issues via Facebook, and IFHMB website: www.ifhmb.com .

IFHMB promoted services via social media and public service announcements. In addition to screening calls for fair housing implications and provide landlord-tenant information, IFHMB has assisted residents in the City of El Centro regarding the following issues:
• Three (3) residents were assisted with issues related to discrimination based on disability.
• Two (2) residents were assisted with issues related to discrimination based on national

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origin.
• Two (2) residents were assisted with issues related to sex discrimination.

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CR-40 - MONITORING 91.220 AND 91.230
Describe the standards and procedures used to monitor activities carried out in furtherance of the plan and used to ensure long-term compliance with requirements of the programs involved, including minority business outreach and the comprehensive planning requirements
All proposed projects and subrecipient applicants are evaluated by the City of El Centro as part of the pre-award assessment. Proposals are recommended to the City Council based on sustainability and compliance with the published Request for Proposals (RFP) for both subrecipient community service projects and Fair Housing Services projects. City Council approves the final awards for the project proposals received based on the identified community needs.

Technical assistance is provided and on-site monitoring is conducted for all subrecipients to prevent reporting and compliance issues.

Desk reviews are performed continually as follows: Performance reports and expenditure documentation are reviewed monthly to ensure reimbursement compliance and verify progress and performance of activities. Additionally, invoices are reviewed in detail for appropriate documentation of services rendered, allowability of costs, and proof of payment. It is the City's policy that reimbursements are withheld from subrecipients whenever reports are late and until any outstanding documentation compliance issues are resolved.

All housing rehabilitation and first-time homebuyers loan recipients are monitored on an annual basis for compliance with owner-occupancy requirements. An annual certification request is distributed to every loan recipient three (3) times during the fiscal year, requesting proof of residency through copies of electric bill, water bill, homeowners’ insurance policy, and yearly County of Imperial property tax bill. Copies of documentation are kept as part of the borrower's loan file.

Outreach to minority and women-owned businesses is conducted as part of the City's housing programs. The contractor's list is open to all licensed contractors subject to insurance requirements and verification of their lack of placement on the Federal publication that lists debarred, suspended, and ineligible contractors. This list is updated on an annual basis through application period. The list of participants is also open to all, subject to execution of a contract with the City.

The City is cognizant of the prohibition of administering the CDBG Program in such a way as to limit access on the basis of race, color, and national origin. Additionally, steps are being taken to identify under-representation of protected groups. All subrecipient activities undertaken are

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required to report monthly the breakdown of demographic information on their clientele served.

Citizen Participation Plan 91.105(d); 91.115(d)
Describe the efforts to provide citizens with reasonable notice and an opportunity to comment on performance reports.

A Notice of Public Review and Comment Period was published in the Adelante Valle Spanish newspaper on August 18, 2026, and the Imperial Valley Press newspaper on August 18, 2026, giving notice that the CAPER would be available for a 15-day review and comment period. As part of this notification, the public was advised that accommodation could be made upon request for any member of the public with hearing impairment or physical disability. The 15-day period began on August 18, 2026, and concluded on September 2, 2026. A public hearing was held on September 1, 2026, during the City of El Centro City Council meeting. The draft CAPER document was made available to the public at the City Clerk's Office, the Public Library, the Community Center, and the Economic Development Division's office during normal business hours. The notice of public comment was posted on the City of El Centro’s website to inform the public of receival of comments.

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CR-45 - CDBG 91.520(C)
Specify the nature of, and reasons for, any changes in the jurisdiction’s program objectives and indications of how the jurisdiction would change its programs as a result of its experiences.

In the upcoming program year, City staff will continue working with HCD to launch the City’s Homeowner Rehabilitation Program. The City is also amending its PLHA Five-Year Plan to reallocate funding for an owner-occupied housing rehabilitation program that will assist eligible lower-income households, with priority given to homes occupied by seniors, persons with disabilities, and individuals with limited mobility. Assistance may include accessibility improvements and other eligible health and safety repairs, including the replacement of airconditioning units and roofing. The programs will be promoted through local English- and Spanish-language newspapers, informational flyers posted at the Economic Development Department and City Hall, and the City’s social media platforms to inform residents about the availability of assistance and application requirements.

Staff will pursue educating project managers and applicants about the importance of readiness and timely expenditure. Technical assistance will continue to be made available upon request as part of the outreach program.

Does this Jurisdiction have any open Brownfields Economic Development Initiative (BEDI) grants?
No
[BEDI grantees] Describe accomplishments and program outcomes during the last year.

The City of El Centro does not have any BEDI grantees.

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CR-58 – SECTION 3
Identify the number of individuals assisted and the types of assistance provided
Table 5 – Total Labor Hours
Total Labor Hours CDBG HOME ESG HOPWA HTF
Total Number of Activities 0 0 0 0 0
Total Labor Hours
Total Section 3 Worker Hours
Total Targeted Section 3 Worker Hours
Table 6 – Qualitative Efforts - Number of Activities by Program Qualitative Efforts - Number of Activities
by Program

CDBG HOME ESG HOPWA HTF
Outreach efforts to generate job applicants
who are Public Housing Targeted Workers
Outreach efforts to generate job applicants
who are Other Funding Targeted Workers.

Direct, on-the job training (including
apprenticeships).

Indirect training such as arranging for,
contracting for, or paying tuition for, off-site
training.

Technical assistance to help Section 3
workers compete for jobs (e.g., resume
assistance, coaching).

Outreach efforts to identify and secure bids
from Section 3 business concerns.

Technical assistance to help Section 3
business concerns understand and bid on
contracts.

Division of contracts into smaller jobs to
facilitate participation by Section 3 business
concerns.

Provided or connected residents with
assistance in seeking employment including
drafting resumes, preparing for interviews,
finding job opportunities, connecting residents
to job placement services.

Held one or more job fairs.

Provided or connected residents with
supportive services that can provide direct
services or referrals.

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Qualitative Efforts - Number of Activities
by Program

CDBG HOME ESG HOPWA HTF
Provided or connected residents with
supportive services that provide one or more
of the following: work readiness health
screenings, interview clothing, uniforms, test
fees, transportation.

Assisted residents with finding childcare.

Assisted residents to apply for or attend
community college or a four-year educational
institution.

Assisted residents to apply for or attend
vocational/technical training.

Assisted residents to obtain financial literacy
training and/or coaching.

Bonding assistance, guaranties, or other
efforts to support viable bids from Section 3
business concerns.

Provided or connected residents with training
on computer use or online technologies.

Promoting the use of a business registry
designed to create opportunities for
disadvantaged and small businesses.

Outreach, engagement, or referrals with the
state one-stop system, as designed in
Section 121(e)(2) of the Workforce Innovation
and Opportunity Act.

Other.

Narrative
Not applicable for 2025-2026.

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APPENDIX A
CDBG Local Target Area Map

06/2026/cdz/A26-0122/Reso/CAPER2025-2026
RESOLUTION NO. 26-

RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL

CENTRO, CALIFORNIA, APPROVING THE CONSOLIDATED
ANNUAL PERFORMANCE AND EVALUATION REPORT 2025-
2026 AND DIRECTING STAFF TO SUBMIT THE REPORT TO
THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN

DEVELOPMENT
WHEREAS, the City of El Centro (“City”) is an entitlement jurisdiction under Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. § 5301 et seq.) and has applied for and received Community Development Block Grant (“CDBG”) funds from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”); and WHEREAS, HUD is the federal agency responsible for administering and overseeing block grant programs, such as the CDBG program; and
WHEREAS, HUD requires entitlement jurisdictions to prepare an annual evaluation of their CDBG-funded activities in a report known as the Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (“CAPER”); and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of El Centro, California (“City Council”), has submitted to HUD its Community Development Block Grant Five-Year Consolidated Plan (2024- 2028), 2025-2026 Annual Action Plan and Citizens Participation Plan; and WHEREAS, the City staff has prepared its CAPER, which is a summary of the City’s progress toward meeting specified goals and objectives during the reporting period from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, that contains a summary of the one-year accomplishments addressed in the 2025-2026 Annual Action Plan; and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the approval of the CAPER is in the best interest of the City.

NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL CENTRO, CALIFORNIA, DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:

1. The foregoing recitals are true, correct, and incorporated fully herein as findings.

2. The City Council hereby approves the CAPER, an original copy of which is on file in the office of the City Clerk.

3. The City Manager or his designee is authorized to execute, if required, and/or submit to HUD all documents related to the CAPER, including any documents or corrections required by HUD.

06/2026/cdz/A26-0122/Reso/CAPER2025-2026
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of El Centro, California, held on the day of , 2026.

CITY OF EL CENTRO
By _________________________
Michael Crankshaw, Mayor
ATTEST:

By _____________________________
Norma Wyles, City Clerk

APPROVED AS TO FORM
Office of the City Attorney
By _________________________________
Joanna Hoff, City Attorney

STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF IMPERIAL ) ss

CITY OF EL CENTRO )
I, Norma Wyles, City Clerk of the City of El Centro, California, do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution No. 26- was duly and regularly adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of El Centro, California, held on the day of , 2026, by the following vote:

AYES:

NOES:

ABSENT:

ABSTAINED:

By ________________________
Norma Wyles, City Clerk

City Council of the City of El Centro
1275 W. Main Street
El Centro, CA 92243

SUBMITTED
ACTION ITEM (ID # 2026-181)
Item: 14.

Meeting: 9/1/2026 3:00 PM
Department: Community Services
Category: Resolution
Prepared by: Clara Obeso, Economic
Development Manager
Department Head: Adriana Nava
DOC ID: 2026-181
Public Hearing to Consider Approval of the Permanent Local Housing Allocation (PLHA) 2023 Applications, Amendments to the PLHA Five-Year Plans, Revised Program Income Reuse Plan, and Resolutions Authorizing the Applications and Amendments.

CITY MANAGER'S RECOMMENDATION:

1. Conduct a public hearing to receive comments regarding the proposed PLHA Plan amendments and related actions.

2. Adoption of Resolution No. 26- , CITY OF EL CENTRO, CALIFORNIA -

AUTHORIZING RESOLUTION OF CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL CENTRO,

CALIFORNIA, AUTHORIZING THE APPLICATION AND AMENDING THE PLHA PLAN

FOR THE PERMANENT LOCAL HOUSING ALLOCATION PROGRAM

3. Adoption of Resolution No. 26- , CITY OF EL CENTRO COLONIAS, CALIFORNIA -

AUTHORIZING RESOLUTION OF CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL CENTRO,

CALIFORNIA, AUTHORIZING THE APPLICATION AND AMENDING THE PLHA PLAN

FOR THE PERMANENT LOCAL HOUSING ALLOCATION PROGRAM

4. Approve and adopt the revised PLHA Program Income Reuse Plan, dated August 2026, establishing the City's framework for the reuse of PLHA program income for eligible activities under Section 301 of the PLHA Program Guidelines.

FISCAL IMPACT:

The proposed submittal of the 2023 PLHA applications and amendments to the PLHA Five-Year Plans and approval of the revised PLHA Program Income Reuse Plan will have no impact on the City's General Fund.

Upon approval by HCD, the City of El Centro will receive a 2023 PLHA allocation of $161,642, of which 5%, or $8,082.10, will be available for eligible program administration.

El Centro Colonia will receive a 2023 PLHA allocation of $102,524, of which 5%, or $5,126.20, will be available for eligible program administration. The remaining 95% of each allocation will support Activity 7 and the City's Owner-Occupied Housing Improvement Program.

The proposed Five-Year Plan amendments reallocate previously awarded 2022 PLHA funds and do not require an appropriation from the City's General Fund.

Program income generated from PLHA-assisted activities will remain dedicated to PLHAeligible uses and will be accounted for and reused in accordance with the revised PLHA Program Income Reuse Plan.

STRATEGIC PLANNING PROGRAM 2022-2027 RELATION:

Community Health, Safety & Welfare
DUE DILIGENCE CHECK FOR CONTRACTORS/CONSULTANTS: DID THE

DEPARTMENT VERIFY CURRENT EL CENTRO BUSINESS LICENSE,
CONTRACTOR'S LICENSE, REFERENCE CHECKS, INSURANCE, ETC.:

N/A
BACKGROUND:

The Permanent Local Housing Allocation (PLHA) Program was established pursuant to Senate Bill 2 and is administered by the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD). The program provides an ongoing source of funding to local governments for eligible housing-related projects and programs that address unmet housing needs.

On November 15, 2022, the City Council approved PLHA Five-Year Plans for the City of El Centro and El Centro Colonia. The plans identify eligible activities and funding priorities for the City's PLHA allocations.

The City is now eligible to apply for its 2023 PLHA formula allocations, representing Year 5 of the PLHA funding cycle. The available 2023 allocation is $161,642 for the City of El Centro and $102,524 for El Centro Colonia. The proposed applications allocate 95% of each 2023 allocation to Activity 7, Accessibility Modifications in Lower-Income OwnerOccupied Housing, and 5% to eligible program administration.

Concurrent with the 2023 applications, the City is proposing amendments to the PLHA Five-Year Plans that revise the planned use of previously awarded 2022 PLHA funds. The amendments align available funding with current housing priorities, including affordable rental housing development and the City's Owner-Occupied Housing Improvement Program.

On July 21, 2026, the City Council received a presentation regarding the proposed PLHA Owner-Occupied Housing Improvement Program and provided direction regarding the program's priorities and structure. The program is intended to assist eligible, incomequalified households residing in owner-occupied properties with improvements that enhance safety and habitability, promote independent living and aging in place, and preserve the City's existing housing stock. Eligible improvements may include airconditioning repair or replacement, roof repair or replacement, and accessibility modifications.

Prior to presenting the proposed program to the City Council, staff met with HCD representatives on July 1, 2026, to confirm the eligibility of the proposed improvements.

HCD confirmed that air-conditioning repair or replacement, roofing repair or replacement, and accessibility improvements may be implemented under Activity 7, allowing the City to continue developing a single Owner-Occupied Housing Improvement Program under this activity.

As part of this action, the City Council is also being asked to approve a revised PLHA Program Income Reuse Plan establishing how program income generated from PLHAassisted activities will be reused for eligible activities.

DISCUSSION:
2023 PLHA Applications
The City is requesting its 2023 PLHA formula allocations through HCD's application process. The City of El Centro allocation is $161,642, and the El Centro Colonia allocation is $102,524. For both allocations, 95% will be dedicated to Activity 7 to support the OwnerPage 229 of 758 Occupied Housing Improvement Program, and 5% will be used for eligible program administration.

The Owner-Occupied Housing Improvement Program is being developed to preserve existing owner-occupied housing and improve safe and habitable living conditions for eligible lower-income households. Eligible improvements may include air-conditioning repair or replacement, roof repair or replacement, and accessibility improvements that support safe and independent living and aging in place.

Consistent with the program direction presented to the City Council on July 21, 2026, staff is developing this program to provide deferred loans of up to $25,000 per property at 3% simple interest, with no regular monthly payments required. The outstanding principal and accrued simple interest would become due upon transfer of the property. A property may receive no more than $25,000 in assistance during a 10-year period, after which an eligible household may apply for additional assistance, subject to continued eligibility and funding availability.
2022 City PLHA Plan Amendment
The proposed City PLHA Five-Year Plan amendment revises the use of previously awarded 2022 PLHA funds. Under the amended plan, the City's 2022 allocation will be distributed among Activity 1, Activity 7, and eligible program administration.

As part of the amendment, $100,000 in 2022 PLHA funds will be allocated to Activity 1 to provide a loan to Chelsea Investment Corporation to support the development and construction of Palo Fierro, the second phase of the Jacaranda Gardens affordable housing development. Palo Fierro is proposed as a 72-unit development consisting of 71 affordable multifamily rental units and one manager unit. The affordable units are proposed to serve families earning between 30% and 60% of Area Median Income.

The amended 2022 City allocation will also direct funding to Activity 7 to support the Owner-Occupied Housing Improvement Program.
2022 Colonia PLHA Plan Amendment
The proposed Colonia PLHA Five-Year Plan amendment revises the use of previously awarded 2022 PLHA funds by directing 95% of the allocation to Activity 7 and retaining 5% for eligible program administration.

The Activity 7 funding will support the Owner-Occupied Housing Improvement Program and increase the resources available to assist eligible lower-income households with qualifying housing improvements. Eligible improvements may include air-conditioning repair or replacement, roof repair or replacement, and accessibility improvements such as wheelchair ramps, grab bars, widened doorways, accessible bathrooms, zero-step showers, and other modifications that improve safety and accessibility. Priority will be given to owner-occupied, income-qualified households in which at least one resident is a senior, a person with a physical disability, and/or a person with mobility limitations. The owner must occupy the assisted property as their primary residence, and household income eligibility will be determined using applicable State income limits.

Revised PLHA Program Income Reuse Plan
Staff is also requesting City Council approval of the revised PLHA Program Income Reuse Plan. The plan establishes how program income generated from PLHA-assisted activities,

including repayments of principal and accrued interest from PLHA-assisted loans, will be reused for eligible activities under Section 301 of the applicable PLHA Program Guidelines.

The revised plan identifies the Owner-Occupied Housing Improvement Program (Activity 7) as the City's primary revolving-loan priority while maintaining the ability to use program income for other eligible PLHA activities based on funding availability, community needs, applicable program requirements, and City Council-approved policies. Other identified uses include affordable housing development and preservation under Activity 1, homelessness assistance under Activity 6, and other eligible Section 301 activities.

Program income generated through the Owner-Occupied Housing Improvement Program may be returned to the program and reused as a revolving source of assistance. The City will separately account for PLHA program income, review expenditures for eligibility, reconcile receipts with loan-servicing and accounting records, and report program income and its reuse as required by HCD.

Following City Council approval, staff will submit the 2023 PLHA applications, amended PLHA Plans, revised PLHA Program Income Reuse Plan, resolutions, and supporting documentation to HCD for review and approval.

FUNDING SUMMARY TABLE
Action Allocation Amount/Allocation Proposed Use
2023
Application
City $161,642 95% Activity; 5%
Administration
2023
Application
Colonia $102,524 95% Activity; 5%
Administration
2022 Plan
Amendment
City Previously awarded
funds
47% Activity 1; 48%
Activity 7; 5%
Administration
2022 Plan
Amendment
Colonia Previously awarded
funds
95% Activity 7; 5%
Administration
CONCLUSION:

Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Conduct a public hearing to receive comments regarding the proposed PLHA Plan amendments and related actions.

2. Adoption of Resolution No, 26-____ CITY OF EL CENTRO, CALIFORNIA -

AUTHORIZING RESOLUTION OF CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL CENTRO,

CALIFORNIA, AUTHORIZING THE APPLICATION AND AMENDING THE PLHA

PLAN FOR THE PERMANENT LOCAL HOUSING ALLOCATION PROGRAM

3. Adoption of Resolution No. 26-_____ CITY OF EL CENTRO COLONIAS,

CALIFORNIA - AUTHORIZING RESOLUTION OF CITY COUNCIL OF EL

CENTRO, CALIFORNIA, AUTHORIZING THE APPLICATION AND AMENDING

THE PLHA PLAN FOR THE PERMANENT LOCAL HOUSING ALLOCATION

PROGRAM

4. Approve and adopt the revised PLHA Program Income Reuse Plan, dated August

2026, establishing the City's framework for the reuse of PLHA program income for eligible activities under Section 301 of the PLHA Program Guidelines.

Upon City Council approval, staff will submit the required applications, amended plans, resolutions, and supporting documentation to HCD for review and approval.

ATTACHMENTS:

1. CITY - REVISED FINAL RESOLUTION

2. El Centro City - 17655 - PLHA Application (2023) & Amendment (2022)

3. COLONIA - REVISED FINAL RESOLUTION

4. El Centro Colonia - 17776 - PLHA Application (2023) & Amendment (2022)

5. PLHA Program Income Reuse Plan 2026

06/2026/cdz/A26-0129/Reso/FiveYearPlanPLHA
RESOLUTION NO. 26-

CITY OF EL CENTRO, CALIFORNIA

AUTHORIZING RESOLUTION OF CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL

CENTRO, CALIFORNIA, AUTHORIZING THE APPLICATION AND

AMENDING THE PLHA PLAN FOR THE PERMANENT LOCAL HOUSING

ALLOCATION PROGRAM
WHEREAS, the below-recorded members of the City Council of the City of El Centro, California, hereby consents to, adopts, and ratifies the following resolution; and WHEREAS, the Department is authorized to provide up to $296 million under the SB 2 Permanent Local Housing Allocation Program Formula Component from the Building Homes and Jobs Trust Fund for assistance to Cities and Counties (Chapter 364, Statues of 2017 (SB 2)); and WHEREAS, the State of California (the “State”), Department of Housing and Community Development (“Department”) issued a Notice of Funding Availability (“NOFA”) dated 10/15/2024 under the Permanent Local Housing Allocation (PLHA) Program; and WHEREAS, the City of El Centro (“Applicant”) is an eligible Local government who has applied for program funds to administer one or more eligible activities, or a Local or Regional Housing Trust Fund to whom an eligible Local government delegated its PLHA formula allocation; and
WHEREAS, the Department may approve funding allocations for PLHA Program, subject to the terms and conditions of the Guidelines, NOFA, Program requirements, the Standard Agreement, and other contracts between the Department and PLHA grant recipients.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT:

1. If Applicant receives a grant of PLHA funds from the Department pursuant to the above referenced PLHA NOFA, it represents and certifies that it will use all such funds in a manner consistent and in compliance with all applicable state and federal statutes, rules, regulations, and laws, including without limitation all rules and laws regarding the PLHA Program, as well as any and all contracts Applicant may have with the Department.

2. Applicant is hereby authorized and directed to receive a PLHA grant, in an amount not to exceed the five-year estimate of the PLHA formula allocations, as stated in Appendix B of the current NOFA of $1,475,988 in accordance with all applicable rules and laws.

3. Applicant hereby agrees to use the PLHA funds for eligible activities as approved by the Department and in accordance with all Program requirements, Guidelines, other rules, and laws, as well as in a manner consistent and in compliance with the Standard Agreement and other contract between the Applicant and the Department.

06/2026/cdz/A26-0129/Reso/FiveYearPlanPLHA

4. Pursuant to Sections 302(c)(4) and 302(c)(5) of the Guidelines, Applicant’s PLHA Plan Amendment for the 2020-2023 Allocations and PLHA Program Income Reuse Plan are attached to this resolution and incorporated herein by this reference. Applicant hereby adopts this PLHA Plan Amendment and approves the PLHA Program Income Reuse Plan and certifies compliance with all notice, public comment, and public hearing requirements in accordance with the Guidelines.

5. Applicant certifies that it has or will subgrant some or all its PLHA funds to another entity or entities. Pursuant to Guidelines Section 302(c)(3), “entity” means a housing developer or program operator but does not mean an administering Local government to whom a Local government may delegate its PLHA allocation.

6. Applicant certifies that its selection process of these subgrantees was or will be accessible to the public and avoided or shall avoid any conflicts of interest.

7. Pursuant to Applicant’s certification in this resolution, the PLHA fund will be expended only for eligible Activities and consistent with all program requirements.

8. Applicant certifies that, if funds are used for the development of an Affordable Rental Housing Development, the Local government shall make PLHA assistance in the form of a low-interest, deferred loan to the Sponsor of the Project, and such loan shall be evidenced through a Promissory Note secured by a Deed of Trust and a Regulatory Agreement shall restrict occupancy and rents in accordance with a Local government-approved underwriting of the Project for a term of at least 55 years.

9. Applicant shall be subject to the term and conditions as specified in the Standard Agreement, the PLHA Program Guidelines and any other applicable SB 2 Guidelines published by the Department.

10. Robert Sawyer, City Manager, is authorized to execute the PLHA Program Application, the PLHA Standard Agreement, and any subsequent amendments or modifications thereto, as well as any other documents which are related to the Program or the PLHA grant awarded to Applicant, as the Department may deem appropriate.

PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of El Centro, California, held on the day of , 2026.

CITY OF EL CENTRO
By ________________________
Michael Crankshaw, Mayor

06/2026/cdz/A26-0129/Reso/FiveYearPlanPLHA
ATTEST:

By ________________________
Norma Wyles, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:

Office of the City Attorney
By ________________________
Joanna Hoff, City Attorney

STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF IMPERIAL )ss

CITY OF EL CENTRO )
I, Norma Wyles, City Clerk of the City of El Centro, California, do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution No. 26- was duly and regularly adopted at a regular meeting of the City of El Centro, California, held on the day of , 2026 by the following vote:

AYES:

NOES:

ABSENT:

ABSTAINED:

By _______________________
Norma Wyles, City Clerk

Yes
2023 only
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Applicant:

Address:

City: State: Zip Code: County:
(760) 337-4540
Address: City: State: Zip Code:
(760) 337-4543
Address: City: State: Zip Code:

No
File Name:

File Name:

Select below:

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§503(b) Applicant certifies that they are in compliance with the State Grants Management Section and are current with any required PLHA Annual Reporting Requirements. §302(c)(8) Has Applicant attached a program income reuse plan describing how repaid loans or accrued interest will be reused for eligible activities specified in Section 301? Reuse Plan Provide Program Income Reuse Plan describing how repaid loans or accrued interest will be used for eligible activities in Section 301. Uploaded to HCD?
§302(c)(4)(D) Applicant certified in the Resolution submitted with this application that the Plan was authorized and adopted by resolution by the Local Government and that the public had an adequate opportunity to review and comment on its content.
§302(c)(5) Is the applicant submitting a plan amendment with this application? (If you wish to reallocate more than 10 percent of funds among Activities from the previously approved 5-Year Plan included in the PLHA program Standard Agreement, Exhibit E you must submit an updated plan and resolution approving the new plan) 40% of each allocation being changed must go towards an ownership activity.

If a reallocation of more than 10 percent of funds was made (and Applicant is amending their plan with this application). Applicant has completed the 302(c)(4) Plan tab and had it discussed and approved at a publicly-noticed meeting of the governing body.

Application and Adopting the PLHA Plan
(2022-2023 Allocations) Resolution
§302(c)(4)(D) Evidence that the Plan was authorized and adopted by resolution by the Local jurisdiction and that the public had an adequate opportunity to review and comment on its content.

PLHA webpage for Application and Plan Adoption Resolution Document Uploaded to HCD?
§302 Threshold Requirements
§302(a) The Applicant's Housing Element and Delegating Local Government's Housing Element (if applicable) was/were adopted by the Local Government’s governing body by the application submittal date subsequently determined to be in substantial compliance with state Housing Element Law pursuant to Government Code Section 65585. §302(b) Applicant or Delegating Local Government has submitted the Annual Progress Report(s) to the Department of Housing and Community Development pursuant to Government Code Section 65400 for the allocations being requested.
§302(c)(2) Applicant certified in the Resolution submitted with this application that submission of the application was authorized by the governing board of the Applicant. §302(c)(3) Applicant certified in the Resolution submitted with this application that, if the Local Government proposes allocation of funds for any activity to another entity, the Local government’s selection process had no conflicts of interest and was accessible to the public. §302(c)(4) Applicant certified in the Resolution submitted with this application that the application include a Plan in accordance with §302(c)(4)? §301(a)(5) Capitalized Reserves for services connected to the preservation and creation of new permanent supportive housing. §301(a)(6) Assisting persons who are experiencing or At-risk of homelessness, including, but not limited to, providing rapid re-housing, rental assistance, supportive/case management services that allow people to obtain and retain housing, operating and capital costs for navigation centers and emergency shelters, and the new construction, rehabilitation, and preservation of permanent and transitional housing. §301(a)(7) Accessibility modifications in Lower-income Owner-occupied housing. §301(a)(8) Efforts to acquire and rehabilitate foreclosed or vacant homes and apartments. §301(a)(9) Homeownership opportunities, including, but not limited to, down payment assistance. §301(a)(10) Fiscal incentives made by a county to a city within the county to incentivize approval of one or more affordable housing Projects, or matching funds invested by a county in an affordable housing development Project in a city within the county, provided that the city has made an equal or greater investment in the Project. The county fiscal incentives shall be in the form of a grant or low-interest loan to an affordable housing Project. Matching funds investments by both the county and the city also shall be a grant or low-interest deferred loan to the affordable housing Project. §301 Eligible Activities
§301(a) Eligible activities are limited to the following:
§301(a)(1) The predevelopment, development, acquisition, rehabilitation, and preservation of multifamily, residential live-work, rental housing that is affordable to Extremely low-,Very low-, Low-, or Moderateincome households, including necessary operating subsidies. §301(a)(2) The predevelopment, development, acquisition, rehabilitation, and preservation of affordable rental and ownership housing, including Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs), that meets the needs of a growing workforce earning up to 120 percent of AMI, or 150 percent of AMI in high-cost areas. ADUs shall be available for occupancy for a term of no less than 30 days. §301(a)(3) Matching portions of funds placed into Local or Regional Housing Trust Funds. §301(a)(4) Matching portions of funds available through the Low- and Moderate-Income Housing Asset Fund pursuant to subdivision (d) of HSC Section 34176.

Gov't TIN Uploaded to HCD?
Applicant Delegation Agreement Uploaded to HCD?
Provide a signed Gov't TIN Form
Legally binding agreement between Delegating and Administering Local Governments. §300(d) Is Applicant delegated by another Local government to administer on its behalf its formula allocation of program funds? §300(d) If Applicant answered "Yes" above, has the Applicant attached the legally binding agreement required by §300(c) and (d)?
A sample agreement can be found by double clicking on the icon to the right.
[email protected] Contact Phone:
1275 W. Main St. El Centro CA 92243
1275 W. Main St. El Centro CA 92243
Contact Name: Adriana Nava Contact Title: Community Services Director Contact Email:

El Centro CA 92243 Imperial
Authorized Rep Name: Robert Sawyer Authorized Rep Title: City Manager Authorized Rep Email: [email protected] Authorized Rep Phone:

City of El Centro
1249 W. Main St.
2022 PLHA Formula Allocation Amount: n/a 2022 Allowable Local Admin (5%): n/a Admin requested? 2023 PLHA Formula Allocation Amount: $161,642 2023 Allowable Local Admin (5%): $8,082 Admin requested? 2021 PLHA Formula Allocation Amount: n/a 2021 Allowable Local Admin (5%): n/a Admin requested? Instructions: If the Local Government Recipient of the PLHA Formula Allocation delegated its PLHA formula allocation to a Local Housing Trust Fund or to another Local Government, the Applicant (for which information is required below) is the Local Housing Trust Fund or administering Local Government. The PLHA award will be made to the Applicant (upon meeting threshold requirements) and the Applicant is responsible for meeting all program requirements throughout the term of the Standard Agreement.

The 302(c)(4) Plan template worksheet requires first choosing one or more of the Eligible Activities listed below. If "Yes" is clicked, the 302(c)(4) Plan worksheet opens a series of questions about what precise activities are planned. ***Please note that 40% of each allocation being requested with this application MUST be allocated to an activity that supports Homeownership in accordance with the NOFA*** Ownership activities are 2,3,4,7,8,9 (activities 2,3,4, & 8 will only count as ownership if the funds will go towards ownership sub activities as opposed to rental housing sub activities including ADU's) If the PLHA funds are used for the same Activity but for different Area Median Income (AMI) level, select the highest AMI level the Activity will serve (you can always go lower than what is listed but you may not serve higher than what is listed without completing a plan amendment in the future).

For each remaining year (2022-2023), the percentages allocated to activities must add to 100% annually including the allowable administrative costs of up to 5%. §300 Eligible Applicants
§300(a) and (b) Eligible Applicants for the Entitlement and Non-Entitlement formula component described in Section §100(b)(1) and (2) are limited to the metropolitan cities and urban counties allocated a grant for the federal fiscal year 2017 pursuant to the federal CDBG formula specified in 42 USC, Section §5306 and Non-entitlement local governments. 2019 PLHA Formula Allocation Amount: n/a 2019 Allowable Local Admin (5%): n/a Admin requested? 2020 PLHA Formula Allocation Amount: n/a 2020 Allowable Local Admin (5%): n/a Admin requested? Local Government Formula Allocation for Returning Applicants - Streamlined + Amendment Revised: 04/29/2026 This streamlined application form is limited to Applicants who applied for and received an award under one or more of the previous Formula Allocation NOFA's (2019, 2020, 2021 or 2022).
***Please note the following change was made in the Amended NOFA*** All Applicants requesting an amendment to the 5-Year Plan with this application must redirect 40% of each allocation year being changed towards a homeownership Activity.

Ownership activities are 2,3,4,7,8,9 (activities 2,3,4, & 8 will only count as ownership if the funds will go towards ownership sub activities as opposed to rental housing sub activities including ADU's) Did Applicant receive an award under one or more of the previous NOFA's? (2019, 2020, 2021 or 2022) Which Allocation(s) are you applying for with this application? Eligible Applicant Type: Entitlement_Returning
Local Government Recipient of PLHA Formula Allocation: El Centro PLHA Page 1 PLHA Application (Stream+Amend) Page 236 of 758 Date
End of Document
On behalf of the entity identified below, I certify that: The information, statements and attachments included in this application are, to the best of my knowledge and belief, true and correct and I possess the legal authority to submit this application on behalf of the entity identified in the signature block.

Authorized Representative Printed Name Title Signature
Certifications
PLHA Page 2 PLHA Application (Stream+Amend) Page 237 of 758 2022 2023
Preservation of
Affordable Rental
Housing
47% n/a
60% TOTAL
501 501
71 71
55 Years 55 Years 55 Years 55 Years 55 Years 55 Years 55 Years 55 Years 55 Years 55 Years 55 Years 55 Years 55 Years 55 Years 55 Years 55 Years 2022 2023
n/a n/a
TOTAL
0 0
2022 2023
Accessibility
modifications in
Lower-income
Owner-Occupied
Housing
Accessibility
modifications in
Lower-income
Owner-Occupied
Housing
48% 95%
100% 100%
80% 80% TOTAL
n/a n/a 0
5 7 12
n/a n/a
§302(c)(4) Plan Revised: 04/29/2026
The City will use funding for lending to an Affordable Housing developer to assist with the construction of extremely low- and low-income multifamily housing. NOTE: The description of the 2022 use is below the 2019-2020 description. 2019 and 2020 ($345,596) -- The City of El Centro worked with Chelsea Investment Corporation to construct 96 units in the first phase of a affordable multifamily development Jacaranda Gardens in El Centro. The project is governed by a Development and Disposition Agreement and 55-year affordability covenant between the City and developer. The project has also received grant funding from the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities program for construction of off-site improvements. The City lent the developer PLHA funding in the form of a low-interest deferred loan to assist with the increased cost for the construction. The project has been completed. 2022 ($100,000) – The City will use allocated PLHA funds to provide a loan to Chelsea Investment Corporation to support the development and construction of Palo Fierro, the second phase of the Jacaranda Gardens affordable housing development. The proposed project will consist of 71 affordable multifamily rental units serving families earning between 30% and 60% of the Area Median Income and one manager unit. PLHA funds will be used for eligible predevelopment, development, and construction costs, and will supplement financing anticipated through the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program and the 9% Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program.
§302(c)(4)(A) Describe the manner in which allocated funds will be used for eligible activities. §302(c)(4)(B) Provide a description of the way the Local government will prioritize investments that increase the supply of housing for households with incomes at or below 60 percent of Area Median Income (AMI). §302(c)(4)(C) Provide a description of how the Plan is consistent with the programs set forth in the Local Government’s Housing Element.

Activities Detail (Activities Detail (Must make a selection on Formula Allocation Application worksheet under Eligible Activities, §301)) §301(a)(1) The predevelopment, development, acquisition, rehabilitation, and preservation of multifamily, residential live-work, rental housing that is affordable to extremely low-,very low-, low-, or moderate-income households, including necessary Operating subsidies. §302(c)(4)(E)(i) Provide a detailed and complete description of how allocated funds will be used for each proposed Affordable Rental Housing Activity.

The City of El Centro plans to allocate funding as follows:
** Activity 1 - The predevelopment, development, acquisition, rehabilitation, and preservation of multifamily, residential live-work, rental housing that is Affordable to Extremely low-, Very low-, or Moderate- income households, including necessary Operating subsidies. Funding will be lent to an Affordable Housing developer to supplement funding for an income eligible multi-family development. ** Activity 6 - Assisting persons who are experiencing or At risk of homelessness, including, but not limited to, providing rapid rehousing, rental assistance, supportive/case management services that allow people to obtain and retain housing, operating and capital costs for navigation centers and emergency shelters, and the new construction, rehabilitation, and preservation of permanent transitional housing. Funding will be used to support the existing street outreach and workforce development program and any future programs that may be developed with eligible agencies. ** Activity 7 - Accessibility modifications for extremely low-, very low-, low-, or moderate-income Owner-occupied housing. Funding will be used to support the Owner-Occupied Housing Improvement Program, which is being developed to preserve existing housing and improve safe and habitable living conditions which may include air conditioning replacements, roofing repairs or replacements, and accessibility improvements. ** 5% of PLHA annual allocations will be used for City Administrative costs.

The City of El Centro will prioritize PLHA investments that increase and preserve housing opportunities for households with incomes at or below 60% of the Area Median Income (AMI). Funds will be provided as a loan to an affordable housing developer to support the construction of a multifamily rental housing development serving low-, very low-, and extremely low-income households. PLHA funds will also support housing-related assistance and supportive services for individuals experiencing or at risk of homelessness, with an emphasis on household earning between 0% and 30% of AMI.

The City of El Centro's proposed PLHA activities align with the Housing Element:
** Goal 1.0: Adequate housing to meet the existing and future needs of El Centro residents; Policy 1.7: Support the provision of housing services in meeting the needs of El Centro residents, including extremely low income households, the homeless, and near-homeless, farmworkers and persons with disabilities; and ** Goal 5.2 Housing Programs, Program 7: Zoning Code Amendments; Low Barrier Navigation Center (AB101) requires cities to permit Low Barrier Navigation Centers by right in areas zoned for mixed-use and nonresidential zones that permit multi-family uses, if the center meets certain requirements. AB 101 defines a Low Barrier Navigation Center as "a Housing First, low-barrier, service-enriched shelter focused on moving people into permanent housing that provides temporary living facilities while case managers connect individuals experiencing homelessness to income, public benefits, health services, shelter, and housing.

Complete the table below for each proposed Affordable Rental Housing Activity to be funded with 2022-2023 PLHA allocations. If a single Activity will be assisting households at more than one level of Area Median Income, please list the highest AMI to be served.

Jacaranda Gardens Phase 1 is complete.

Major actions for Phase 2 Palo Fierro include securing an Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program award, obtaining 9% Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, finalizing the PLHA loan and other financing documents, completing financial closing, and the start and completion of construction. The current schedule anticipates an AHSC award in December 2026, submission of the tax credit application in March 2027, a tax credit award in June 2027, financial closing and construction commencement in December 2027, and construction completion by March 2029. §302(c)(4)(E)(iii) A description of major steps/actions and a proposed schedule for the implementation and completion of the Activity.

The City will use allocated PLHA funds to support services for individuals experiencing or at risk of homelessness. Funding will be used to support the existing street outreach and workforce development program and any future programs that may be developed with eligible agencies.

The street outreach and workforce development program provides paid working experience to participants who perform activities that contribute to community beautification and blight reduction. Participants will also receive employment stabilization assistance, housing identification and placement services, financial literacy education, case management, and individualized supportive services. Navigation Center services may include assistance with obtaining identification documents, accessing Social Security records and benefits, opening bank accounts, receiving tax preparation assistance, and connecting to medical care, behavioral health services, education, job training, and other resources that help participants obtain and maintain stable housing.

The City is currently working with a non profit organization to implement the program which include participant outreach and enrollment, individualized needs assessments, placement in paid workforce development activities, and delivery of employment stabilization., housing placement, financial literacy, case management, and supportive services. The non-profit organization will continue providing services throughout the approved agreement term, while the City monitors participant outcomes, program performance, and expenditures. All currently funded activities and required reporting will be completed within the applicable PLHA expenditure deadlines.

Future funds may be utilized to continue the program, subject to funding availability and City approval.

Continuation of the Activity beyond the current agreement term will depend on program performance, future PLHA funding availability, and City approval.

The City will use PLHA funds to implement its Owner-Occupied Housing Rehabilitation Program that provides accessibility modifications for extremely low-, very low-, low-, and moderate-income households. Eligible improvements will address roofing, air conditioning repairs, and accessibility needs. Eligible households may receive deferred loans up to $25,000 at 3% simple interest to complete improvements necessary for residents with disabilities or mobility limitation to live safely and independently in the home. Eligible improvements may include accessibility ramps, widened doorways, accessible bathrooms, handrails, and other accessibility modifications identified through a property assessment. Priority will be given to owner-occupied household in which at least one resident is a senior, a person with a physical disability, and/or a person with mobility limitations.

Complete the table below for each proposed Activity to be funded with 2022-2023 PLHA allocations. If a single Activity will be assisting households at more than one level of Area Median Income, please list the highest AMI to be served. §301(a)(6) Assisting persons who are experiencing or At risk of homelessness, including, but not limited to, providing rapid rehousing, rental assistance, supportive/case management services that allow people to obtain and retain housing, operating and capital costs for navigation centers and emergency shelters, and the new construction, rehabilitation, and preservation of permanent and transitional housing. §302(c)(4)(E)(i) Provide a detailed and complete description of how allocated funds will be used for the proposed Activity. §302(c)(4)(E)(iii) A description of major steps/actions and a proposed schedule for the implementation and completion of the Activity. §301(a)(7) Accessibility modifications in Lower-income Owner-occupied housing. §302(c)(4)(E)(i) Provide a detailed and complete description of how allocated funds will be used for the proposed Activity.

Complete the table below for each proposed Activity to be funded with 2022-2023 PLHA allocations. If a single Activity will be assisting households at more than one level of Area Median Income, please list the highest AMI to be served. §302(c)(4)(E)(iii) A description of major steps/actions and a proposed schedule for the implementation and completion of the Activity.

Funding Allocation Year
Type of Eligible Activity
§302(c)(4)(E)(i) Percentage of Funds Allocated for Each Affordable Housing Activity
What Percentage of the Percentage Above Will be Used for Ownership Housing?
§302(c)(4)(E)(ii) Area Median Income Level Served
§302(c)(4)(E)(ii) Unmet share of the RHNA at the AMI Level.

Note: complete for years 2022 and 2023 only
§302(c)(4)(E)(ii) Projected Number of Households Served §302(c)(4)(E)(iv) Period of Affordability for the Proposed Activity
Funding Allocation Year
Type of Eligible Activity
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Please note: In order for Allocated Calculator to calculate correctly, "Admin Requested" must be answered "Yes" or "No" in the PLHA Application tab.

The City is working with a consultant to develop program guidelines and prepare the necessary amendment to the PLHA Five-Year Plan. Following approval of the Plan amendment and adoption of the program guidelines, the City anticipates launching the owner-occupied housing rehabilitation program in late 2026, early 2027.

Implementation steps will include community outreach, application intake and eligibility review, property assessment, preparation and approval of rehabilitation work scopes, loan approval, contractor selection, and completion of eligible accessibility improvements.

The City intends to fully expend the allocated funds and complete all program activities before the PLHA Standard Agreement expires in 2030. Future allocations may be added to continue the Activity, subject to funding availability and City approval.

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§302(c)(4)(D) Evidence that the Plan was authorized and adopted by resolution by the Local jurisdiction and that the public had an adequate opportunity to review and comment on its content. File Name:
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06/2026/A26-0129/Reso/ColoniasFiveYRPlanPLHA
RESOLUTION NO. 26-

CITY OF EL CENTRO COLONIAS, CALIFORNIA

AUTHORIZING RESOLUTION OF CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL

CENTRO, CALIFORNIA, AUTHORIZING THE APPLICATION AND

AMENDING THE PLHA PLAN FOR THE PERMANENT LOCAL HOUSING

ALLOCATION PROGRAM
WHEREAS, the below-recorded members of the City Council of the City of El Centro, California, hereby consents to, adopts, and ratifies the following resolution; and WHEREAS, the Department is authorized to provide up to $296 million under the SB 2 Permanent Local Housing Allocation Program Formula Component from the Building Homes and Jobs Trust Fund for assistance to Cities and Counties (Chapter 364, Statues of 2017 (SB 2)); and WHEREAS, the State of California (the “State”), Department of Housing and Community Development (“Department”) issued a Notice of Funding Availability (“NOFA”) dated 10/15/2024 under the Permanent Local Housing Allocation (PLHA) Program; and WHEREAS, the City of El Centro (“Applicant”) is an eligible Local government who has applied for program funds to administer one or more eligible activities, or a Local or Regional Housing Trust Fund to whom an eligible Local government delegated its PLHA formula allocation; and
WHEREAS, the Department may approve funding allocations for PLHA Program, subject to the terms and conditions of the Guidelines, NOFA, Program requirements, the Standard Agreement, and other contracts between the Department and PLHA grant recipients.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT:

1. If Applicant receives a grant of PLHA funds from the Department pursuant to the above referenced PLHA NOFA, it represents and certifies that it will use all such funds in a manner consistent and in compliance with all applicable state and federal statutes, rules, regulations, and laws, including without limitation all rules and laws regarding the PLHA Program, as well as any and all contracts Applicant may have with the Department.

2. Applicant is hereby authorized and directed to receive a PLHA grant, in an amount not to exceed the five-year estimate of the PLHA formula allocations, as stated in Appendix B of the current NOFA of $1,297,051 in accordance with all applicable rules and laws.

3. Applicant hereby agrees to use the PLHA funds for eligible activities as approved by the Department and in accordance with all Program requirements, Guidelines, other rules, and laws, as well as in a manner consistent and in compliance with the Standard Agreement and other contract between the Applicant and the Department.

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4. Pursuant to Sections 302(c)(4) and 302(c)(5) of the Guidelines, Applicant’s PLHA Plan Amendment for the 2020-2023 Allocations and PLHA Program Income Reuse Plan are attached to this resolution and incorporated herein by this reference. Applicant hereby adopts this PLHA Plan Amendment and approves the PLHA Program Income Reuse Plan and certifies compliance with all notice, public comment, and public hearing requirements in accordance with the Guidelines.

5. Applicant certifies that it has or will subgrant some or all of its PLHA funds to another entity or entities. Pursuant to Guidelines Section 302(c)(3), “entity” means a housing developer or program operator but does not mean an administering Local government to whom a Local government may delegate its PLHA allocation.

6. Applicant certifies that its selection process of these subgrantees was or will be accessible to the public and avoided or shall avoid any conflicts of interest.

7. Pursuant to Applicant’s certification in this resolution, the PLHA fund will be expended only for eligible Activities and consistent with all program requirements.

8. Applicant certifies that, if funds are used for the development of an Affordable Rental Housing Development, the Local government shall make PLHA assistance in the form of a low-interest, deferred loan to the Sponsor of the Project, and such loan shall be evidenced through a Promissory Note secured by a Deed of Trust and a Regulatory Agreement shall restrict occupancy and rents in accordance with a Local government-approved underwriting of the Project for a term of at least 55 years.

9. Applicant shall be subject to the term and conditions as specified in the Standard Agreement, the PLHA Program Guidelines and any other applicable SB 2 Guidelines published by the Department.

10. Robert Sawyer, City Manager, is authorized to execute the PLHA Program Application, the PLHA Standard Agreement, and any subsequent amendments or modifications thereto, as well as any other documents which are related to the Program or the PLHA grant awarded to Applicant, as the Department may deem appropriate.

PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of El Centro, California, held on the day of , 2026.

CITY OF EL CENTRO
By ________________________
Michael Crankshaw, Mayor

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ATTEST:

By ________________________
Norma Wyles, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:

Office of the City Attorney
By ________________________
Joanna Hoff, City Attorney

STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF IMPERIAL )ss

CITY OF EL CENTRO )
I, Norma Wyles, City Clerk of the City of El Centro, California, do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution No. 26- was duly and regularly adopted at a regular meeting of the City of El Centro, California, held on the day of , 2026 by the following vote:

AYES:

NOES:

ABSENT:

ABSTAINED:

By _______________________
Norma Wyles, City Clerk

Yes
2023 only
Yes
Yes
Applicant:

Address:

City: State: Zip Code: County:
(760) 337-4540
Address: City: State: Zip Code:
(760) 337-4543
Address: City: State: Zip Code:

No
File Name:

File Name:

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§503(b) Applicant certifies that they are in compliance with the State Grants Management Section and are current with any required PLHA Annual Reporting Requirements. §302(c)(8) Has Applicant attached a program income reuse plan describing how repaid loans or accrued interest will be reused for eligible activities specified in Section 301? Reuse Plan Provide Program Income Reuse Plan describing how repaid loans or accrued interest will be used for eligible activities in Section 301. Uploaded to HCD?
§302(c)(4)(D) Applicant certified in the Resolution submitted with this application that the Plan was authorized and adopted by resolution by the Local Government and that the public had an adequate opportunity to review and comment on its content.
§302(c)(5) Is the applicant submitting a plan amendment with this application? (If you wish to reallocate more than 10 percent of funds among Activities from the previously approved 5-Year Plan included in the PLHA program Standard Agreement, Exhibit E you must submit an updated plan and resolution approving the new plan) 40% of each allocation being changed must go towards an ownership activity.

If a reallocation of more than 10 percent of funds was made (and Applicant is amending their plan with this application). Applicant has completed the 302(c)(4) Plan tab and had it discussed and approved at a publicly-noticed meeting of the governing body.

Application and Adopting the PLHA Plan
(2022-2023 Allocations) Resolution
§302(c)(4)(D) Evidence that the Plan was authorized and adopted by resolution by the Local jurisdiction and that the public had an adequate opportunity to review and comment on its content.

PLHA webpage for Application and Plan Adoption Resolution Document Uploaded to HCD?
§302 Threshold Requirements
§302(a) The Applicant's Housing Element and Delegating Local Government's Housing Element (if applicable) was/were adopted by the Local Government’s governing body by the application submittal date subsequently determined to be in substantial compliance with state Housing Element Law pursuant to Government Code Section 65585. §302(b) Applicant or Delegating Local Government has submitted the Annual Progress Report(s) to the Department of Housing and Community Development pursuant to Government Code Section 65400 for the allocations being requested.
§302(c)(2) Applicant certified in the Resolution submitted with this application that submission of the application was authorized by the governing board of the Applicant. §302(c)(3) Applicant certified in the Resolution submitted with this application that, if the Local Government proposes allocation of funds for any activity to another entity, the Local government’s selection process had no conflicts of interest and was accessible to the public. §302(c)(4) Applicant certified in the Resolution submitted with this application that the application include a Plan in accordance with §302(c)(4)? §301(a)(5) Capitalized Reserves for services connected to the preservation and creation of new permanent supportive housing. §301(a)(6) Assisting persons who are experiencing or At-risk of homelessness, including, but not limited to, providing rapid re-housing, rental assistance, supportive/case management services that allow people to obtain and retain housing, operating and capital costs for navigation centers and emergency shelters, and the new construction, rehabilitation, and preservation of permanent and transitional housing. §301(a)(7) Accessibility modifications in Lower-income Owner-occupied housing. §301(a)(8) Efforts to acquire and rehabilitate foreclosed or vacant homes and apartments. §301(a)(9) Homeownership opportunities, including, but not limited to, down payment assistance. §301(a)(10) Fiscal incentives made by a county to a city within the county to incentivize approval of one or more affordable housing Projects, or matching funds invested by a county in an affordable housing development Project in a city within the county, provided that the city has made an equal or greater investment in the Project. The county fiscal incentives shall be in the form of a grant or low-interest loan to an affordable housing Project. Matching funds investments by both the county and the city also shall be a grant or low-interest deferred loan to the affordable housing Project. §301 Eligible Activities
§301(a) Eligible activities are limited to the following:
§301(a)(1) The predevelopment, development, acquisition, rehabilitation, and preservation of multifamily, residential live-work, rental housing that is affordable to Extremely low-,Very low-, Low-, or Moderateincome households, including necessary operating subsidies. §301(a)(2) The predevelopment, development, acquisition, rehabilitation, and preservation of affordable rental and ownership housing, including Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs), that meets the needs of a growing workforce earning up to 120 percent of AMI, or 150 percent of AMI in high-cost areas. ADUs shall be available for occupancy for a term of no less than 30 days. §301(a)(3) Matching portions of funds placed into Local or Regional Housing Trust Funds. §301(a)(4) Matching portions of funds available through the Low- and Moderate-Income Housing Asset Fund pursuant to subdivision (d) of HSC Section 34176.

Gov't TIN Uploaded to HCD?
Applicant Delegation Agreement Uploaded to HCD?
Provide a signed Gov't TIN Form
Legally binding agreement between Delegating and Administering Local Governments. §300(d) Is Applicant delegated by another Local government to administer on its behalf its formula allocation of program funds? §300(d) If Applicant answered "Yes" above, has the Applicant attached the legally binding agreement required by §300(c) and (d)?
A sample agreement can be found by double clicking on the icon to the right.
[email protected] Contact Phone:
1275 W. Main St. El Centro CA 92243
1275 W. Main St. El Centro CA 92243
Contact Name: Adriana Nava Contact Title: Community Services Director Contact Email:

El Centro CA 92243 Imperial
Authorized Rep Name: Robert Sawyer Authorized Rep Title: City Manager Authorized Rep Email: [email protected] Authorized Rep Phone:

City of El Centro
1249 W. Main St.
2022 PLHA Formula Allocation Amount: n/a 2022 Allowable Local Admin (5%): n/a Admin requested? 2023 PLHA Formula Allocation Amount: $102,524 2023 Allowable Local Admin (5%): $5,126 Admin requested? 2021 PLHA Formula Allocation Amount: n/a 2021 Allowable Local Admin (5%): n/a Admin requested? Instructions: If the Local Government Recipient of the PLHA Formula Allocation delegated its PLHA formula allocation to a Local Housing Trust Fund or to another Local Government, the Applicant (for which information is required below) is the Local Housing Trust Fund or administering Local Government. The PLHA award will be made to the Applicant (upon meeting threshold requirements) and the Applicant is responsible for meeting all program requirements throughout the term of the Standard Agreement.

The 302(c)(4) Plan template worksheet requires first choosing one or more of the Eligible Activities listed below. If "Yes" is clicked, the 302(c)(4) Plan worksheet opens a series of questions about what precise activities are planned. ***Please note that 40% of each allocation being requested with this application MUST be allocated to an activity that supports Homeownership in accordance with the NOFA*** Ownership activities are 2,3,4,7,8,9 (activities 2,3,4, & 8 will only count as ownership if the funds will go towards ownership sub activities as opposed to rental housing sub activities including ADU's) If the PLHA funds are used for the same Activity but for different Area Median Income (AMI) level, select the highest AMI level the Activity will serve (you can always go lower than what is listed but you may not serve higher than what is listed without completing a plan amendment in the future).

For each remaining year (2022-2023), the percentages allocated to activities must add to 100% annually including the allowable administrative costs of up to 5%. §300 Eligible Applicants
§300(a) and (b) Eligible Applicants for the Entitlement and Non-Entitlement formula component described in Section §100(b)(1) and (2) are limited to the metropolitan cities and urban counties allocated a grant for the federal fiscal year 2017 pursuant to the federal CDBG formula specified in 42 USC, Section §5306 and Non-entitlement local governments. 2019 PLHA Formula Allocation Amount: n/a 2019 Allowable Local Admin (5%): n/a Admin requested? 2020 PLHA Formula Allocation Amount: n/a 2020 Allowable Local Admin (5%): n/a Admin requested? Local Government Formula Allocation for Returning Applicants - Streamlined + Amendment Revised: 04/29/2026 This streamlined application form is limited to Applicants who applied for and received an award under one or more of the previous Formula Allocation NOFA's (2019, 2020, 2021 or 2022).
***Please note the following change was made in the Amended NOFA*** All Applicants requesting an amendment to the 5-Year Plan with this application must redirect 40% of each allocation year being changed towards a homeownership Activity.

Ownership activities are 2,3,4,7,8,9 (activities 2,3,4, & 8 will only count as ownership if the funds will go towards ownership sub activities as opposed to rental housing sub activities including ADU's) Did Applicant receive an award under one or more of the previous NOFA's? (2019, 2020, 2021 or 2022) Which Allocation(s) are you applying for with this application? Eligible Applicant Type: NonEntitlement_Returning
Local Government Recipient of PLHA Formula Allocation: El Centro (Colonia Only) PLHA Page 1 PLHA Application (Stream+Amend) Page 243 of 758 Date
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On behalf of the entity identified below, I certify that: The information, statements and attachments included in this application are, to the best of my knowledge and belief, true and correct and I possess the legal authority to submit this application on behalf of the entity identified in the signature block.

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Funding Allocation Year
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§302(c)(4)(E)(i) Percentage of Funds Allocated for Each Affordable Housing Activity
What Percentage of the Percentage Above Will be Used for Ownership Housing?
§302(c)(4)(E)(ii) Area Median Income Level Served
§302(c)(4)(E)(ii) Unmet share of the RHNA at the AMI Level.

Note: complete for years 2022 and 2023 only
§302(c)(4)(E)(ii) Projected Number of Households Served §302(c)(4)(E)(iv) Period of Affordability for the Proposed Activity
Complete the table below for each proposed Activity to be funded with 2022-2023 PLHA allocations. If a single Activity will be assisting households at more than one level of Area Median Income, please list the highest AMI to be served. §301(a)(6) Assisting persons who are experiencing or At risk of homelessness, including, but not limited to, providing rapid rehousing, rental assistance, supportive/case management services that allow people to obtain and retain housing, operating and capital costs for navigation centers and emergency shelters, and the new construction, rehabilitation, and preservation of permanent and transitional housing. §302(c)(4)(E)(i) Provide a detailed and complete description of how allocated funds will be used for the proposed Activity. §302(c)(4)(E)(iii) A description of major steps/actions and a proposed schedule for the implementation and completion of the Activity. §301(a)(7) Accessibility modifications in Lower-income Owner-occupied housing. §302(c)(4)(E)(i) Provide a detailed and complete description of how allocated funds will be used for the proposed Activity.

Complete the table below for each proposed Activity to be funded with 2022-2023 PLHA allocations. If a single Activity will be assisting households at more than one level of Area Median Income, please list the highest AMI to be served. §302(c)(4)(E)(iii) A description of major steps/actions and a proposed schedule for the implementation and completion of the Activity.

The City will use allocated PLHA funds to support services for individuals experiencing or at risk of homelessness. Funding will be used to support the existing street outreach and workforce development program and any future programs that may be developed with eligible agencies.

The street outreach and workforce development program provides paid working experience to participants who perform activities that contribute to community beautification and blight reduction. Participants will also receive employment stabilization assistance, housing identification and placement services, financial literacy education, case management, and individualized supportive services. Navigation Center services may include assistance with obtaining identification documents, accessing Social Security records and benefits, opening bank accounts, receiving tax preparation assistance, and connecting to medical care, behavioral health services, education, job training, and other resources that help participants obtain and maintain stable housing.

The City is currently working with a non profit organization to implement the program which include participant outreach and enrollment, individualized needs assessments, placement in paid workforce development activities, and delivery of employment stabilization., housing placement, financial literacy, case management, and supportive services. The non-profit organization will continue providing services throughout the approved agreement term, while the City monitors participant outcomes, program performance, and expenditures. All currently funded activities and required reporting will be completed within the applicable PLHA expenditure deadlines.

Future funds may be utilized to continue the program, subject to funding availability and City approval.

Continuation of the Activity beyond the current agreement term will depend on program performance, future PLHA funding availability, and City approval.

The City will use PLHA funds to implement its Owner-Occupied Housing Rehabilitation Program that provides accessibility modifications for extremely low-, very low-, low-, and moderate-income households. Eligible improvements will address roofing, air conditioning repairs, and accessibility needs. Eligible households may receive deferred loans up to $25,000 at 3% simple interest to complete improvements necessary for residents with disabilities or mobility limitation to live safely and independently in the home. Eligible improvements may include accessibility ramps, widened doorways, accessible bathrooms, handrails, and other accessibility modifications identified through a property assessment. Priority will be given to owner-occupied household in which at least one resident is a senior, a person with a physical disability, and/or a person with mobility limitations. §302(c)(4) Plan Revised: 04/29/2026
The City of El Centro worked with Chelsea Investment Corporation to construct 96 units in the first phase of a affordable multi-family development Jacaranda Gardens in El Centro. The project is governed by a Development and Disposition Agreement and 55-year affordability covenant between the City and developer. The project has also received grant funding from the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities program for construction of off-site improvements. The City lent the developer PLHA funding in the form of a low-interest deferred loan to assist with the increased cost for the construction. The project has been completed. §302(c)(4)(A) Describe the manner in which allocated funds will be used for eligible activities. §302(c)(4)(B) Provide a description of the way the Local government will prioritize investments that increase the supply of housing for households with incomes at or below 60 percent of Area Median Income (AMI). §302(c)(4)(C) Provide a description of how the Plan is consistent with the programs set forth in the Local Government’s Housing Element.

Activities Detail (Activities Detail (Must make a selection on Formula Allocation Application worksheet under Eligible Activities, §301)) §301(a)(1) The predevelopment, development, acquisition, rehabilitation, and preservation of multifamily, residential live-work, rental housing that is affordable to extremely low-,very low-, low-, or moderate-income households, including necessary Operating subsidies. §302(c)(4)(E)(i) Provide a detailed and complete description of how allocated funds will be used for each proposed Affordable Rental Housing Activity.

The City of El Centro plans to allocate funding as follows:
** Activity 1 - The predevelopment, development, acquisition, rehabilitation, and preservation of multifamily, residential live-work, rental housing that is Affordable to Extremely low-, Very low-, or Moderate- income households, including necessary Operating subsidies. Funding will be lent to an Affordable Housing developer to supplement funding for an income eligible multi-family development. ** Activity 6 - Assisting persons who are experiencing or At risk of homelessness, including, but not limited to, providing rapid rehousing, rental assistance, supportive/case management services that allow people to obtain and retain housing, operating and capital costs for navigation centers and emergency shelters, and the new construction, rehabilitation, and preservation of permanent transitional housing. Funding will be used to support the existing street outreach and workforce development program and any future programs that may be developed with eligible agencies. ** Activity 7 - Accessibility modifications for extremely low-, very low-, low-, or moderate-income Owner-occupied housing. Funding will be used to support the Owner-Occupied Housing Improvement Program, which is being developed to preserve existing housing and improve safe and habitable living conditions which may include air conditioning replacements, roofing repairs or replacements, and accessibility improvements. ** 5% of PLHA annual allocations will be used for City Administrative costs.

The City of El Centro will prioritize PLHA investments that increase and preserve housing opportunities for households with incomes at or below 60% of the Area Median Income (AMI). Funds will be provided as a loan to an affordable housing developer to support the construction of a multifamily rental housing development serving low-, very low-, and extremely low-income households. PLHA funds will also support housing-related assistance and supportive services for individuals experiencing or at risk of homelessness, with an emphasis on household earning between 0% and 30% of AMI.

The City of El Centro's proposed PLHA activities align with the Housing Element:
** Goal 1.0: Adequate housing to meet the existing and future needs of El Centro residents; Policy 1.7: Support the provision of housing services in meeting the needs of El Centro residents, including extremely low income households, the homeless, and near-homeless, farmworkers and persons with disabilities; and ** Goal 5.2 Housing Programs, Program 7: Zoning Code Amendments; Low Barrier Navigation Center (AB101) requires cities to permit Low Barrier Navigation Centers by right in areas zoned for mixed-use and nonresidential zones that permit multi-family uses, if the center meets certain requirements. AB 101 defines a Low Barrier Navigation Center as "a Housing First, low-barrier, service-enriched shelter focused on moving people into permanent housing that provides temporary living facilities while case managers connect individuals experiencing homelessness to income, public benefits, health services, shelter, and housing.

Complete the table below for each proposed Affordable Rental Housing Activity to be funded with 2022-2023 PLHA allocations. If a single Activity will be assisting households at more than one level of Area Median Income, please list the highest AMI to be served.

The project is complete.
§302(c)(4)(E)(iii) A description of major steps/actions and a proposed schedule for the implementation and completion of the Activity.

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Total Percentage of Funds Allocated Calculator (2022 - 2023) Uploaded to HCD? Application and Adopting the PLHA Plan (2022-2023 Allocations) Resolution
§302(c)(4)(D) Evidence that the Plan was authorized and adopted by resolution by the Local jurisdiction and that the public had an adequate opportunity to review and comment on its content. File Name:

The City is working with a consultant to develop program guidelines and prepare the necessary amendment to the PLHA Five-Year Plan. Following approval of the Plan amendment and adoption of the program guidelines, the City anticipates launching the owner-occupied housing rehabilitation program in late 2026, early 2027.

Implementation steps will include community outreach, application intake and eligibility review, property assessment, preparation and approval of rehabilitation work scopes, loan approval, contractor selection, and completion of eligible accessibility improvements. The City intends to fully expend the allocated funds and complete all funded rehabilitation activities before the PLHA Standard Agreement expires in 2030. Future allocations may be added to continue the Activity, subject to funding availability and City approval.

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Please note: In order for Allocated Calculator to calculate correctly, "Admin Requested" must be answered "Yes" or "No" in the PLHA Application tab.

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CITY OF EL CENTRO | COMMUNITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT
PLHA Program Income Reuse Plan | Updated August 2026 • 1 City of El Centro and El Centro Colonia
Permanent Local Housing Allocation (PLHA)

PROGRAM INCOME REUSE PLAN
Updated August 2026 | Draft for Review

1. Purpose
The City of El Centro and El Centro Colonia (collectively, the City) will reuse all program income generated from PLHA-assisted activities, together with interest earned on PLHA funds held on deposit, for activities eligible under Section 301 of the applicable PLHA Program Guidelines. This plan establishes the City’s priorities and controls for recycling those funds to address local housing needs.

Program income will remain dedicated to PLHA-eligible uses. It will not be returned to the City’s unrestricted General Fund or used for an ineligible purpose.

2. Sources of Program Income
Program income may include, but is not limited to:
• Repayment of principal and payment of accrued interest from PLHA-assisted loans, including owner-occupied housing improvement loans and affordable housing development loans. • Residual receipts or other payments generated by PLHA-assisted projects when those receipts constitute program income under PLHA requirements.
• Interest earned while PLHA grant funds or program income are held on deposit. • Other repayments, recaptures, or returns of PLHA funds that HCD determines must be reused as program income.

CITY OF EL CENTRO | COMMUNITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT
PLHA Program Income Reuse Plan | Updated August 2026 • 2

3. Reuse Priorities
Subject to funding availability, current community needs, applicable program guidelines, and City Council-approved policies, the City intends to prioritize the following PLHA-eligible uses:

Priority use Planned application
Owner-occupied housing
improvements (Activity 7)
Primary revolving-loan priority. Assist income-qualified, owneroccupied households with accessibility modifications and related health, safety, and habitability improvements in accordance with the City’s adopted program guidelines.

Affordable housing
development and
preservation (Activity 1)
Support eligible predevelopment, development, acquisition, rehabilitation, and preservation of affordable multifamily, residential live-work, rental, or ownership housing, including eligible operating subsidies.

Homelessness assistance
(Activity 6)
Support eligible activities for persons experiencing or at risk of homelessness, including rapid rehousing, qualifying rental assistance, supportive or case-management services, and eligible navigation center, emergency shelter, permanent housing, or transitional housing costs.

Other Section 301
activities
Fund another PLHA-eligible activity when local priorities change and the City completes any required approval, program, and reporting actions.

4. Owner-Occupied Housing Improvement Revolving Loan Use Program income generated by owner-occupied housing improvement loans may be returned to the same program and reused as a revolving source of assistance. Reuse will follow the program guidelines in effect when assistance is committed. The program direction presented to the City Council on July 21, 2026, includes:
• Deferred loans of up to $25,000 per property during a 10-year period. • Simple interest at 3 percent, calculated only on the original principal, with no required monthly payments.
• Outstanding principal and accrued interest become due upon transfer, as provided in the executed loan documents and approved program guidelines. • Owner occupancy as the homeowner’s primary residence and household eligibility based on applicable State income limits.
• Priority for homes in which at least one senior, person with a physical disability, or person with mobility limitations resides.

CITY OF EL CENTRO | COMMUNITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT
PLHA Program Income Reuse Plan | Updated August 2026 • 3 • Eligible improvements that may include wheelchair ramps, grab bars, widened doorways, accessible bathrooms, zero-step showers, security lighting, air-conditioning repair or replacement, and roof repair or replacement, as permitted by the approved guidelines.

After the applicable 10-year period, a household may apply for additional assistance if it remains eligible, funding is available, and the request is allowed under the program guidelines then in effect.

5. Administration and Financial Management
• The City will separately identify and account for PLHA program income and interest earned in its financial records.
• Program income will be reviewed for an eligible use before commitment or expenditure and will be administered in accordance with the applicable PLHA Guidelines, Standard Agreements, City policies, and approved activity guidelines.
• Up to 5 percent of program income may be used for eligible administrative costs, including allowable long-term monitoring costs, consistent with HCD guidance. Project delivery costs will be charged to the applicable activity when permitted.
• Loan repayments and other receipts will be reconciled to the City’s loan-servicing and accounting records, and expenditures will be supported by adequate source documentation. • The City will report program income and its reuse as required by HCD and will retain records for monitoring and audit purposes.

6. Amendments and Governing Requirements
This plan may be amended when the City’s housing needs, PLHA priorities, program design, or governing requirements change. Program income is not limited solely to the activities listed in the City’s PLHA FiveYear Plan; however, every reuse must remain eligible under Section 301 of the applicable PLHA Guidelines and must comply with any required City Council approval, HCD approval or notification, Standard Agreement provision, and adopted program guidelines.

If a conflict arises between this plan and applicable State law, PLHA Guidelines, an executed Standard Agreement, or written HCD direction, the controlling State requirement or agreement will govern.

City Council of the City of El Centro
1275 W. Main Street
El Centro, CA 92243

SUBMITTED
ACTION ITEM (ID # 2026-223)
Item: 15.

Meeting: 9/1/2026 3:00 PM
Department: Public Works
Category: Resolution
Prepared by: Abraham Campos, Public
Works Director/City Engineer
Department Head: Abraham Campos
DOC ID: 2026-223
Public Hearing to consider the adoption of the 2025 Urban Water Management Plan.

CITY MANAGER'S RECOMMENDATION:

1. Open the public hearing, receive the staff presentation, and take public testimony on the draft 2025 Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP) and 2025 Water Shortage Contingency Plan (WSCP)

2. Close the public hearing;

3. Adopt Resolution No. 26- , RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL CENTRO APPROVING AND ADOPTING THE 2025 URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN AND WATER SHORTAGE CONTINGENCY PLAN; and

4. Authorize the Public Works Director/City Engineer, or designee, to submit the adopted 2025 UWMP and WSCP to the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) via the WUEdata Portal and to make any non-substantive technical corrections necessary to finalize the document for submittal.

FISCAL IMPACT:

No impact to the General Fund. Water Enterprise funds will be utilized to cover Consultant expenditure.

STRATEGIC PLANNING PROGRAM 2022-2027 RELATION:

Environmental Sustainability & Infrastructure
Community Health, Safety & Welfare
DUE DILIGENCE CHECK FOR CONTRACTORS/CONSULTANTS: DID THE

DEPARTMENT VERIFY CURRENT EL CENTRO BUSINESS LICENSE,
CONTRACTOR'S LICENSE, REFERENCE CHECKS, INSURANCE, ETC.:

N/A
BACKGROUND:

The California Urban Water Management Planning Act (Water Code Sections 10610 through 10656) requires every urban water supplier that provides water to more than 3,000 customers, or that supplies more than 3,000 acre-feet of water annually, to prepare and adopt an Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP) every five years. The UWMP must include a Water Shortage Contingency Plan (WSCP) that establishes standardized shortage response levels and actions. The City of El Centro, as a retail water supplier serving the City's water and sewer utility customers, is subject to this requirement.

The City Council last adopted the City's UWMP and WSCP on June 15, 2021 (Resolution No. 21-57), covering the 2020 planning cycle. State law requires the next update, referred to as the 2025 UWMP, to be adopted and submitted to DWR by July 1, 2026. City staff,

together with the City's consultant, Psomas, have prepared the attached draft 2025 UWMP and WSCP to satisfy this requirement.

As required by the Act, City Council must hold a public hearing and adopt the 2025 UWMP for submittal on the State's website portal. Staff published two public hearing notices in the Imperial Valley Press in advance of this August 18, 2026 public hearing. Public hearing notices were published on August 18, 2026 and on August 25, 2026. The notices provided a link to the draft 2025 UWMP. Hard copies of the report have been placed in the City Clerks’ Office for public review.

DISCUSSION:

The 2025 UWMP updates the City's water supply and demand data, reliability analysis, and shortage response planning using current information, consistent with the same overall methodology used in the 2020 Plan. The core conclusion of the 2020 Plan is unchanged: the City's water supply, delivered under its senior Colorado River entitlement through the Imperial Irrigation District (IID), is projected to remain 100% reliable to meet demand under normal, single dry-year, and multiple dry-year conditions through the 25- year planning horizon (now extended to 2050). The City's Water Shortage Contingency Plan framework – five shortage stages tied to Ordinance No. 17-01, standardized to the six state shortage levels – also remains structurally unchanged.

Within that overall continuity, staff highlights the following notable changes in information between the 2020 Plan and the 2025 Plan:

1. Lower Population and Demand Growth Projections
The 2025 Plan incorporates updated SCAG regional growth forecasts that are considerably more conservative than those used in 2020. The 2020 Plan projected the City's population would grow 28.7% by 2045 (to approximately 58,750). The 2025 Plan, using updated SCAG data, projects growth of approximately 13.0% by 2050 (to approximately 50,900). As a result, projected total water demand at the 2045 horizon year is lower in the 2025 Plan (approximately 8,082 acre-feet per year) than it was in the 2020 Plan for that same year (approximately 9,176 acre-feet per year).

2. Increased Non-Revenue Water and a New State Water Loss Standard The City's non-revenue water (water produced but not billed, primarily from system leaks) has increased since 2020. The 2020 Plan reported a 6.2% loss rate for that year; the 2025 Plan reports a five-year average (2020–2024) of approximately 13.4%, consistent with statewide trends toward aging infrastructure and revised audit methodology. In addition, the 2025 Plan is the first cycle required to report the City's progress toward the State Water Resources Control Board's new 2028 Water Loss Performance Standard, a standard that did not exist at the time the 2020 Plan was adopted. The City's current real and apparent loss levels exceed this new standard. The 2025 Plan notes that the City is actively administering programs to reduce water loss and is in the process of requesting that the State Water Board update the calculated standard to more appropriately reflect the age of the City's distribution system; staff also recommend continuing to address this finding through the City's ongoing capital improvement planning for water distribution infrastructure.

3. Finalized IID Equitable Distribution Plan
At the time the 2020 Plan was adopted, IID's Equitable Distribution Plan (EDP) – which governs how Colorado River water is allocated among IID's water users during any future

shortage – had been repealed by the IID Board pending litigation, with a revised plan anticipated. The 2025 Plan reflects that IID's Board formally readopted a revised EDP on July 26, 2023, including a new water transfer mechanism intended to provide greater flexibility among users. This does not change the conclusion that the City's supply is fully reliable, but it reflects a substantive update to the regional water rights framework underlying that conclusion.

CONCLUSION:

Adopt Resolution No. 26- , RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL CENTRO APPROVING AND ADOPTING THE 2025 URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT

PLAN AND WATER SHORTAGE CONTINGENCY PLAN
ATTACHMENTS:

1. Resolution No 26-

2. DRAFT 2025 El Centro UWMP

3. Notice of Public Hearing

4. Proof of Publication 08.18.26

07/2026/cdz/A26-0135/Reso/2025UrbanWaterMgmtWaterShrtgeContgPlan RESOLUTION NO. 26-

RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL
CENTRO, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING THE 2025 URBAN
WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN AND THE 2025 WATER

SHORTAGE CONTINGENCY PLAN
WHEREAS, California Water Code Sections 10610, et seq., under the Urban Water Management Planning Act (“Act”) requires that an urban water supplier providing water for municipal purposes to more than 3,000 customers or supplying more than 3,000 acre-feet of water annually, prepare and adopt an Urban Water Management Plan (“UWMP”) and a Water Shortage Contingency Plan (“WSCP”) as part of its UWMP; and
WHEREAS, Once adopted, the Water Code requires the UWMP be updated at least once every five years in years ending in “1” or “6”; and
WHEREAS, urban water suppliers are required to update and submit their 2025 UWMP to the California Department of Water Resources (“DWR”), the California State Library, and any city or county within which the supplier provides water supplies within thirty (30) days of adoption; and
WHEREAS, the Act further requires urban water suppliers to periodically review the WSCP and electronically submit a revised WSCP to DWR within thirty (30) days of adoption; and WHEREAS, the City has prepared a draft 2025 UWMP including the draft 2025 WSCP in accordance with the Act, which has been circulated for public review and may be modified following input from the public; and
WHEREAS, the City has properly noticed a public hearing regarding the UWMP to be held by the City Council on September 1, 2026; and
WHEREAS, at the duly noticed public hearing on September 1, 2026, to provide members of the public the opportunity to be heard regarding the UWMP and WSCP; and WHEREAS, the City Council has reviewed the UWMP and WSCP, and has determined that the factual analysis and conclusions set forth therein are legally sufficient; and WHEREAS, the City Council desires to adopt the UWMP and WSCP to comply with the Act; and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the preparation and adoption of the 2025 UWMP, including the 2025 WSCP will not significantly affect water supplies for fish and wildlife, is not a project for implementation of the 2025 UWMP, and is not a project for expanded or additional water supplies and, therefore, preparation and adoption of the 2025 UWMP, including the 2025

07/2026/cdz/A26-0135/Reso/2025UrbanWaterMgmtWaterShrtgeContgPlan WSCP, is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) requirements under Section 10652 of the California Water Code.

NOW THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL CENTRO, CALIFORNIA, DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:

1. The foregoing recitals are true, correct, and incorporated fully herein as findings.

2. The City Council hereby determines that the preparation and adoption of the 2025 UWMP, including the 2025 WSCP, attached hereto as Exhibit A and incorporated herein by reference, is exempt from CEQA pursuant to California Water Code Section 10652 and staff is authorized to file a Notice of Exemption.

3. The City Council hereby finds that the 2025 UWMP, including the 2025 WSCP, a copy of which is in the office of the City Clerk, have been properly prepared in conformance with the Act and are hereby adopted.

4. The Council further directs the Director of Public Works or designee to incorporate public comments into the City’s 2025 UWMP and WSCP as directed by the Council, and to file copies of the 2025 UWMP with DWR, the California State Library, and the County of Imperial and make the 2025 UWMP available for public review consistent with California Water Code Sections 10645 and 10632(c). If DWR requires any revisions prior to acceptance of the UWMP, any such UWMP revisions shall be approved by the Director of Public Works prior to resubmittal.

PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of El Centro, California, held on the day of , 2026.

CITY OF EL CENTRO
By:___________________________
Michael Crankshaw, Mayor
ATTEST:

By: _____________________________
Norma Wyles, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:

Office of the City Attorney
By: _____________________________
Joanna Hoff, City Attorney

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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF IMPERIAL ) ss

CITY OF EL CENTRO )
I, Norma Wyles, City Clerk of the City of El Centro, California do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution No. 26- , was duly and regularly adopted at a meeting of the City Council of the City of El Centro, California, held on the day of , 2026 by the following vote:

AYES:

NOES:

ABSENT:

ABSTAINED:

By: ___________________________
Norma Wyles, City Clerk

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EXHIBIT A
2025 URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN
(Including WATER SHORTAGE CONTINGENCY PLAN, Chapter 8)

DRAFT
2025 URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN
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Prepared by:
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Santa Ana, CA 92707
Date:

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acronyms and Abbreviations ......................................................................................................................... x 1 INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................. 1-1

1.1 Urban Water Management Plan Requirements ........................................................................... 1-1 Senate Bill 7 of the Seventh Extraordinary Session of 2009, Water Conservation in the Delta Legislative Package ............................................................................................................. 1-2 Assembly Bill 1668 and Senate Bill 606 ........................................................................... 1-2

1.2 Lay Description ............................................................................................................................ 1-3 Chapter 1: Introduction ..................................................................................................... 1-3 Chapter 2: Plan Preparation ............................................................................................. 1-3 Chapter 3: System Description ......................................................................................... 1-3 Chapter 4: System Water Use Characterization .............................................................. 1-4 Chapter 5: Conservation Target Compliance ................................................................... 1-4 Chapter 6: Water Supply Characterization ....................................................................... 1-4 Chapter 7: Water Supply Reliability Assessment ............................................................. 1-4 Chapter 8: Water Shortage Contingency Plan ................................................................. 1-5 Chapter 9: Demand Management Measures ................................................................... 1-5 Chapter 10 Plan Adoption, Submittal, and Implementation ............................................. 1-6 2 PLAN PREPARATION ......................................................................................................................... 2-1

2.1 Basis for Preparing a Plan ........................................................................................................... 2-1

2.2 Individual or Regional Planning and Compliance ........................................................................ 2-1

2.3 Fiscal or Calendar Year and Units of Measure ............................................................................ 2-2

2.4 Coordination and Outreach .......................................................................................................... 2-3 3 SYSTEM DESCRIPTION ..................................................................................................................... 3-1

3.1 General Description ..................................................................................................................... 3-1 Regional Setting ............................................................................................................... 3-1 Colorado River Water Supply via Imperial Irrigation District ............................................ 3-2 City of El Centro ............................................................................................................... 3-3

3.1.3.1.1 City Water System Description ..................................................................... 3-5

3.2 Service Area Boundaries ............................................................................................................. 3-7

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3.3 Service Area Climate ................................................................................................................... 3-7

3.4 Service Area Population and Demographics ............................................................................... 3-9 Service Area Population ................................................................................................... 3-9 Other Demographic Factors ...........................................................................................3-10 Water-Use-Related Land Use Planning .........................................................................3-10 4 WATER USE CHARACTERIZATION .................................................................................................. 4-1

4.1 Recycled Versus Potable and Raw Water Demand .................................................................... 4-1

4.2 Water Use by Sector .................................................................................................................... 4-2 Water Use Sectors Listed in Water Code ........................................................................ 4-2 Non-Revenue Water ......................................................................................................... 4-3 Past and Current Water Use ............................................................................................ 4-3 Water Demand by Sector – 2025 ..................................................................................... 4-3

4.3 Projected Water Use .................................................................................................................... 4-4 Demand Projection Methodology ..................................................................................... 4-4 25-Year Projections .......................................................................................................... 4-7

4.4 Preceding Five-Year Water Loss Audit Reporting ....................................................................... 4-8

4.5 Water Use for Lower Income Households .................................................................................4-10

4.6 Climate Change Considerations ................................................................................................4-13 5 CONSERVATION TARGET COMPLIANCE ........................................................................................ 5-1

5.1 Reporting Requirements .............................................................................................................. 5-1

5.2 Regional Alliance ......................................................................................................................... 5-1 6 WATER SUPPLY CHARACTERIZATION .......................................................................................... 6-1

6.1 Purchased Imported Water .......................................................................................................... 6-1 Colorado River Rights ...................................................................................................... 6-1

6.1.1.1 Colorado River Compact (1921) ............................................................................. 6-2

6.1.1.2 Boulder Canyon Project Act (1928) ........................................................................ 6-2

6.1.1.3 California Seven-Party Agreement (1931) ............................................................. 6-2 IID State Applications and Permits ................................................................................... 6-4 Subordination by Coachella Valley Water District ............................................................ 6-4

6.2 IID Present Perfected Rights, and Arizona v. California US Supreme Court Decision (1964, 1979) 6-5

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Colorado River Basin Project Act (1968).......................................................................... 6-6 Quantification Settlement Agreement & Related Agreements (2003) .............................. 6-6

6.2.2.1 Colorado River Water Delivery Agreement (CRWDA) ........................................... 6-7

6.2.2.2 Inadvertent Overrun Payback Policy (IOPP) .......................................................... 6-8

6.2.2.3 Impacts on Water Supply .....................................................................................6-10 Other Colorado River Operating Policies and Agreements ...........................................6-12

6.2.3.1 Criteria for Coordinated Long-Range Operation of Colorado River Reservoirs ...6-12

6.2.3.2 Annual Operating Plan (AOP) for Colorado River Reservoirs ..............................6-13

6.2.3.3 Interim Guidelines for Lower Basin Shortages .....................................................6-13

6.2.3.4 Annual 417 Process..............................................................................................6-17

6.3 Groundwater ..............................................................................................................................6-18

6.4 Surface Water ............................................................................................................................6-18

6.5 Stormwater .................................................................................................................................6-18

6.6 Wastewater and Recycled Water ..............................................................................................6-18 Wastewater Collection, Treatment, and Disposal ..........................................................6-18 Recycled Water ..............................................................................................................6-20

6.7 Desalinated Water Opportunities ...............................................................................................6-22

6.8 Exchanges or Transfers .............................................................................................................6-22

6.9 Future Water Projects ................................................................................................................6-22

6.10 Summary of Existing and Planned Sources of Water ................................................................6-22

6.11 Energy Intensity .........................................................................................................................6-24

6.12 Climate Change Impacts to Supply ...........................................................................................6-25 7 WATER SUPPLY RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT ............................................................................... 7-1

7.1 Overview ...................................................................................................................................... 7-1 Reliability of Colorado River Surface Water Supplies ...................................................... 7-1 Equitable Distribution Plan Water Apportionment ............................................................ 7-1 Legal ................................................................................................................................. 7-2 Environmental ................................................................................................................... 7-3

7.1.4.1 Upper Colorado Endangered Fish Recovery Program ........................................... 7-3

7.1.4.2 San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program .................................... 7-4

7.1.4.3 Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program .............................................. 7-4

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7.1.4.4 Lower Colorado Multi-Species Conservation Program (MSCP) ............................ 7-4

7.1.4.5 Colorado River Delta Environmental Restoration Program .................................... 7-4 Water Quality .................................................................................................................... 7-5

7.1.5.1 Imported Water ....................................................................................................... 7-5 Climate Change ................................................................................................................ 7-6

7.2 Water Service Reliability .............................................................................................................. 7-7 Average Year and Dry Year Supply and Demand Reliability Comparison ...................... 7-7 Comparison of Average, Single-Dry and Five Consecutive Dry Years ............................ 7-8

7.3 Supply and Demand Assessment ..............................................................................................7-10

7.4 Drought Risk Assessment .........................................................................................................7-11 8 WATER SHORTAGE CONTINGENCY PLAN ..................................................................................... 8-1

8.1 Water Supply Reliability Analysis ................................................................................................ 8-1

8.2 Annual Water Supply and Demand Assessment Procedures ..................................................... 8-2 Decision-Making Process ................................................................................................. 8-2 Data and Methodologies .................................................................................................. 8-2

8.3 Six Standard Water Shortage Stages .......................................................................................... 8-5

8.4 Shortage Response Actions ........................................................................................................ 8-7 City’s Supply Augmentation Actions ................................................................................. 8-7 City’s Demand Reduction Actions .................................................................................... 8-8 City’s Operational Changes ............................................................................................8-10 City’s Additional Mandatory Restrictions ........................................................................8-11 Stages of Action to Respond to a Water Shortage Event ..............................................8-11

8.4.5.1 Stages of Water Use Restrictions .........................................................................8-11

8.4.5.2 Priority by Use ......................................................................................................8-11

8.4.5.3 Health and Safety Requirements ..........................................................................8-12 Prohibitions on End Users ..............................................................................................8-12

8.4.6.1 Landscape Irrigation .............................................................................................8-13

8.4.6.2 Commercial, Industrial, and Institutional (CII) ......................................................8-13

8.4.6.3 Water Features and Swimming Pools ..................................................................8-13

8.4.6.4 Other .....................................................................................................................8-13 Consumption Reduction Methods ..................................................................................8-13

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8.4.7.1 Water Allocations ..................................................................................................8-13 Catastrophic Supply Interruption ....................................................................................8-14

8.4.8.1 Imperial Irrigation District Emergency Preparedness Plan ...................................8-14

8.4.8.2 City Response to Catastrophic Water Supply Reduction .....................................8-15 Seismic Risk Assessment and Mitigation Plan ..............................................................8-17

8.4.9.1 Imperial County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan (MHMP) ..................8-17

8.4.9.2 April 4, 2010 Earthquake Impacts on El Centro’s Water and Wastewater Facilities 8- 18 8.4.9.3 Seismic Risk Assessment Conclusions ................................................................8-19

8.4.9.4 Recent Seismic Analyses and Retrofits................................................................8-19

8.5 Communication Protocols ..........................................................................................................8-20

8.6 Compliance and Enforcement ...................................................................................................8-20

8.7 Legal Authorities ........................................................................................................................8-21 Legal Authority to Regulate a Municipal Water Utility ....................................................8-21 Legal Authority to Implement Water Shortage Response Actions .................................8-22 Legal Authority to Declare a Water Shortage Emergency .............................................8-22

8.8 Financial Consequences of WSCP Activation ...........................................................................8-23

8.8.1.1 Drought Rate Structure and Surcharges ..............................................................8-23

8.8.1.2 Use of Financial Reserves ....................................................................................8-23

8.8.1.3 Other Measures ....................................................................................................8-23

8.9 Monitoring and Reporting ..........................................................................................................8-23 Reporting Protocol ..........................................................................................................8-23 Determining Water Shortage Reductions .......................................................................8-24

8.10 WSCP Refinement Procedures .................................................................................................8-24

8.11 Special Water Feature Distinction .............................................................................................8-25 Water Code Definition of Water Features ......................................................................8-25 Health and Safety Code Water Feature Provisions .......................................................8-25 9 DEMAND MANAGEMENT MEASURES ............................................................................................. 9-1

9.1 Water Waste Prevention Ordinances .......................................................................................... 9-1

9.2 Metering ....................................................................................................................................... 9-2

9.3 Conservation Pricing .................................................................................................................... 9-3

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9.4 Public Education and Outreach ................................................................................................... 9-3 City Programs ................................................................................................................... 9-3 Regional Programs ........................................................................................................... 9-4

9.5 Programs to Assess and Manage Distribution System Real Loss .............................................. 9-5

9.6 Water Conservation Program Coordination and Staffing Support ............................................... 9-5

9.7 Other Demand Management Measures Implemented Over the Past Five Years ....................... 9-5 10 PLAN ADOPTION, SUBMITTAL, AND IMPLEMENTATION .............................................................10-1

10.1 Inclusion of All 2025 Data ..........................................................................................................10-1

10.2 Notice of Public Hearing ............................................................................................................10-1

10.3 Public Hearing and Adoption .....................................................................................................10-1

10.4 Plan Submittal ............................................................................................................................10-2

10.5 Public Availability .......................................................................................................................10-2

10.6 Amending an Adopted UWMP or WSCP ...................................................................................10-2 References .................................................................................................................................................... 1

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TABLES
Table 2-1: Public Water Systems ............................................................................................................... 2-1 Table 2-2: Plan Identification ...................................................................................................................... 2-2 Table 2-3: Supplier Identification ................................................................................................................ 2-2 Table 2-4: Water Supplier Information Exchange ...................................................................................... 2-3 Table 2-4 A: City of El Centro Coordination and Public Involvement ......................................................... 2-4 Table 3-1 A: Historical City Climate Characteristics ................................................................................... 3-8 Table 3-1 B: Historical and Current Population .......................................................................................... 3-9 Table 3-1: Retail Population – Current and Projected ................................................................................ 3-9 Table 4-1 A: Historical Water Use and Water Loss .................................................................................... 4-2 Table 4-1 B: Historical Water Use .............................................................................................................. 4-3 Table 4-1 Retail: Demands for Potable and Raw Water – Actual 2025 ..................................................... 4-4 Table 4-2 A: Projected Existing vs. New Housing Split in El Centro (2025 – 2050) .................................. 4-6 Table 4-2 Retail: Demands for Potable and Raw Water – Projected (AFY) .............................................. 4-8 Table 4-3: Inclusion in Water Use Projections ........................................................................................... 4-8 Table 4-5A: Inclusion in Water Use Projections ......................................................................................... 4-9 Table 4-5: Last Five Years of Water Loss (Non-Revenue Water) Reporting ............................................. 4-9 Table 4-6: Progress Towards 2028 Water Loss Standard .......................................................................4-10 Table 4-6A: Household Distribution Based on Area Median Income (AMI) .............................................4-12 Table 4-6B: Projected Water Demands for Lower Income Households (AF) ..........................................4-12 Table 5-1: SBx7-7 Target Progress ............................................................................................................ 5-1 Table 6-0 A: Seven-Party Agreement for Apportionments and Priorities ................................................... 6-4 Table 6-0 B: Delivery of Priority 3(a) Consumptive Use Entitlement to IID (CRWDA Exhibit A) ............... 6-8 Table 6-0 C: IID Net Consumptive Use Schedule 2003-2077 (KAF, CRWDA Ex. B) ................................ 6-9 Table 6-0 D: IID Conserved and Mitigation Water Delivery Schedule 2003-2077 (KAF, CRWDA Exhibit B) ...........................................................................................................................................................6-11 Table 6-0 E: Compromise IID QSA Delivery Schedule, 2003-2017 (KAF) ..............................................6-12 Table 6-0 F: Unregulated Inflow to Lake Powell, 1981-2025 (Percent of Historic Average) ....................6-13 Table 6-2: Wastewater Collected Within Service Area in 2025 ................................................................6-19 Table 6-3: Wastewater Treatment and Discharge Within Service Area in 2025 ......................................6-20 Table 6-8: Water Supplies – Actual (AF) ..................................................................................................6-23

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Table 6-9: Water Supplies, Projected (AF) ...............................................................................................6-23 Table 6-10 A: Energy Intensity – Total Utility Approach (for 2025) ..........................................................6-24 Table 7-1 Retail: Basis of Water Year Data (Reliability Assessment) ........................................................ 7-9 Table 7-2: Normal Year Supply and Demand Comparison (AF) ..............................................................7-10 Table 7-3: Single Dry Year Supply and Demand Comparison (AF) .........................................................7-10 Table 7-4: Multiple Dry Years Supply and Demand Comparison (AF) ....................................................7-11 Table 7-5 A: DRA Supply and Demand by Source (AFY) ........................................................................7-12 Table 7-5: Five-Year Drought Risk Assessment Tables ..........................................................................7-13 Table 8-1A: AWSDA Timeline and Recommended Actions ....................................................................... 8-4 Table 8-1B: Water Shortage Contingency Plan Levels .............................................................................. 8-5 Table 8-1: Water Shortage Contingency Plan Levels ................................................................................ 8-7 Table 8-2: Supply Augmentation and Other Actions .................................................................................. 8-8 Table 8-3: Demand Reduction Actions ....................................................................................................... 8-9 Table 8-4A: Per Capita Health and Safety Water Quantity Calculations .................................................8-12 Table 8-4B: WSCP Penalties and Charges ..............................................................................................8-21 Table 10-1 Retail: Notification to Cities and Counties ..............................................................................10-1

FIGURES
Figure 3-1: Imperial IRWMP Regional Setting: Imperial Region ................................................................ 3-2 Figure 3-2: Imperial Irrigation District Units ................................................................................................ 3-3 Figure 3-3: City and Sphere of Influence Boundaries Map ........................................................................ 3-4 Figure 3-4: Imperial Irrigation District Main Canal and Lateral System Map .............................................. 3-6 Figure 6-1: Colorado River Basin States .................................................................................................... 6-3 Figure 6-2: Prescribed Operations of Lake Powell and Lake Mead in the Interim Guidelines ................. 6-16 Figure 6-3: Historic Lake Mead Elevation Levels 1935 to 2026 in the Interim Guidelines ....................... 6-17 PHOTOS
Photo 3-1: El Centro Water Treatment Plant.............................................................................................. 3-7 Photo 6-1: El Centro Wastewater Treatment Plant .................................................................................. 6-19

APPENDICES

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Appendix A – UWMP Checklist
Appendix B – DWR Submittal Tables
Appendix C – City of El Centro Water Conservation Ordinance No. 17-01 Appendix D – Proof of Publication Notice for Public Hearing Appendix E – Resolution No. 26-XX Adopting 2025 UWMP and WSCP Appendix F –Water Loss Audit Reports

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ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
20x2020 20% water use reduction in GPCD by year 2020
AAC All-American Canal
AB Assembly Bill
Act Urban Water Management Planning Act
AF Acre-Feet
AFY Acre-Feet per Year
AMI Area Median Income (Same as HMI)
AMI/AMR Advanced Metering Infrastructure or Automatic Meter Reading AOP Annual Operating Plan
AWSDA Annual Water Supply and Demand Assessment
AWWA American Water Works Association
BiOps Biological Opinions
BMP Best Management Practice
CalARP California Accidental Release Program
CAP Central Arizona Project
CCF Hundred Cubic Feet
CDCR California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Facilities CEC Constituents of Emerging Concern or California Energy Commission CEQA California Environmental Quality Act
CFR Code of Federal Regulations
CFS Cubic Feet per Second
CII Commercial, Industrial, and Institutional
CIMIS California Irrigation Management Information System City City of El Centro
CRA Colorado River Aqueduct
CRWDA Colorado River Water Delivery Agreement
CVP Central Valley Project
CVWD Coachella Valley Water District
CWC California Water Code
DDW Division of Drinking Water
Delta Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta
DMM Demand Management Measure
DOE Department of Energy
DOF Department of Finance
DRA Drought Risk Assessment
DU Dwelling Unit
DWR Department of Water Resources
EDP Equitable Distribution Plan

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EIR Environmental Impact Report
EOC Emergency Operations Center
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
ESA Endangered Species Act
ET Evapotranspiration
Eto Evapotranspiration from a Standardized Grass Surface Etr Evapotranspiration from a Standardized Alfalfa Surface FWS US Fish and Wildlife Service
FY Fiscal Year
GAC Granulated Activated Carbon
GCM Global Climate Model
GDD Growing Degree Day
GPCD Gallons per Capita per Day
GPD Gallons per Day
GPF Gallons per Flush
GPM Gallons per Minute
HCF Hundred Cubic Feet
HECW High Efficiency Clothes Washer
HET High Efficiency Toilet
HMI Household Median Income (Same as AMI)
ICS Intentionally Created Surplus
IID Imperial Irrigation District
In Inches
IOPP Inadvertent Overrun Payback Policy
IRP Integrated Water Resources Plan
IRWMP Integrated Regional Water Management Plan
ITP Independent Technical Panel
IWA International Water Association
IWSP Improved Water and Wastewater Services Program
KAF Thousand Acre Feet
KAFY Thousand Acre Feet per Year
LAFCO Local Agency Formation Commission
LCR Lower Colorado River
LRP Local Resources Program
LTFP Long-Term Facilities Plan
MAF Million Acre-Feet
MAFY Million Acre-Feet per Year
MCL Maximum Contaminant Level
MCI Municipal, Commercial and Industrial
Metropolitan Metropolitan Water District of Southern California

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MG Million Gallon
MGD Million Gallons per Day
Mg/L Milligrams per Liter
MHMP Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan
MIN Minutes
M&I Municipal and Industrial
MHI Median Household Income
MOU Memorandum of Understanding
MSCP Multi-Species Conservation Program
MSL Mean Sea Level
MTBE Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether
MWD/MWDSC Metropolitan Water District of Southern California NA Not Available
NBGPP North Basin Groundwater Protection Project
NDMA N-nitrosodimethylamine
NEPA National Environmental Policy Act
NF Nanofiltration
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NPDES National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
OES California Office of Emergency Services
PCE Perchloroethylene
pci/L Picocuries per Liter
PPCP Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Product
PPR Present Perfected Rights
QSA Quantification Settlement Agreement
REOC Regional Emergency Operations Center
RHNA Regional Housing Needs Assessment
RO Reverse Osmosis
RTP Regional Transportation Plan
RUWMP Regional Urban Water Management Plan
RWQCB Regional Water Quality Control Board
SAP Service Area Plan
SB Senate Bill
SBx7-7 Senate Bill 7 as part of the Seventh Extraordinary Session SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
SCAG Southern California Association of Governments
SCS Sustainable Communities Strategy
SDI Supply & Demand Imbalance
SDCWA San Diego County Water Authority
SDWA Safe Drinking Water Act

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SOI Sphere of Influence
Study Colorado River Basin Water Supply and Demand Study SWP State Water Project
SWRCB California State Water Resources Control Board
TAF Thousand Acre-Feet
TDS Total Dissolved Solids
ug/L Micrograms per Liter
USBR United States Bureau of Reclamation
USEPA United States Environmental Protection Agency
USGS United States Geological Survey
UV Ultraviolet
UWMP Urban Water Management Plan
VOC Volatile Organic Compound
WAPA Western Area Power Administration
WARN Water Agencies Response Network
WBIC Weather-Based Irrigation Controller
WCAB Water Conservation Advisory Board (of IID)
WRCC Western Regional Climate Center
WSAP Water Supply Allocation Plan
WSCP Water Shortage Contingency Plan
WTP Water Treatment Plant
WUE Water Use Efficiency
WWTP Wastewater Treatment Plant

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1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Urban Water Management Plan Requirements
The City of El Centro (City) prepared this 2025 Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP) to submit to the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) to satisfy the UWMP Act of 1983 (UWMP Act or Act) and subsequent California Water Code (CWC or Water Code) requirements. This 2025 UWMP contains all elements required by the Act.

The UWMP Act, enacted by the California legislature, requires every Urban Water Supplier (Supplier) providing water for municipal purposes to more than 3,000 customers or supplying more than 3,000 acrefeet (AF) of water annually to prepare, adopt, and file a UWMP with the DWR every five years in the years ending in six and one.

This 2025 UWMP provides a detailed summary of present and future water supplies and demands and provides an assessment of the City’s water resource needs. Specifically, the UWMP provides water supply planning for a 25-year planning period in five-year increments and identifies water supplies needed to meet existing and future demands. The demand analysis must identify supply reliability under three hydrologic conditions: a normal year, single dry-year, and five consecutive dry-years. The City’s 2025 UWMP updates the 2020 UWMP, in compliance with new requirements of the Act.

For this 2025 UWMP cycle, DWR continues to place emphasis on achieving improvements for long-term reliability and resilience to drought and climate change in California. Despite there being no new statutory requirements, Suppliers must now report progress on meeting their 2028 Water Loss Standards and continue to state their compliance with Senate Bill (SB) X7-7 2020 Targets.

This UWMP is organized into 10 chapters aligned with the DWR guidebook recommendations as listed below:

Chapter 1 Introduction and UWMP Overview gives an overview of the UWMP fundamentals and requirements for the 2025 UWMP and a lay description of the Plan.

Chapter 2 UWMP Preparation identifies this UWMP as an individual planning effort of the City, lists the type of year and units of measure used, and introduces the coordination and outreach activities conducted by the City to develop this UWMP.

Chapter 3 System Description gives a background on the City's water system and its climate characteristics, population projections, demographics, socioeconomics, and predominant current and projected land uses of its service area.

Chapter 4 Water Use Characterization provides historical, current, and projected water use by customer category for the next 25 years for the City and the projection methodology used by the City to develop the 25-year projections.

Chapter 5 Conservation Target Compliance states that the City's 2020 per capita water use in gallons per capita per day (gpcd) met the compliance target defined by SBx7-7, including documentation on compliance.

Chapter 6 Water Supply Characterization describes the current water supply portfolio of the City as well as the planned and potential water supply projects and water exchange and transfer opportunities.

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Chapter 7 Water Supply Reliability Assessment describes the assessment of the reliability of the City's water supply service to its customers for a normal year, single dry year, and five consecutive dry years scenarios. This section also includes a Drought Risk Assessment of all the supply sources for a consecutive five-year drought period beginning in 2026.

Chapter 8 Water Shortage Contingency Plan provides a structured guide for the City to deal with water shortages, incorporating prescriptive information and standardized action levels, lists the appropriate actions and water use efficiency measures to be taken to ensure water supply reliability in times of water shortage conditions, along with implementation actions in the event of a catastrophic supply interruption.

Chapter 9 Demand Management Measures provides a description of the City's current and planned measures and programs to help customers in its service area be water efficient and comply with the City’s urban water use reduction targets.

Chapter 10 Plan Adoption, Submittal, and Implementation provides a record of the process the City followed to adopt and implement its UWMP.

Senate Bill 7 of the Seventh Extraordinary Session of 2009, Water Conservation in the Delta Legislative Package
The state Legislature passed Senate Bill 7 as part of the Seventh Extraordinary Session, referred to as SBx7-7, on November 10, 2009, which became effective February 3, 2010. This law was the water conservation component to the historic Delta legislative package and sought to achieve a 20 percent statewide reduction in urban per capita water use in California by December 31, 2020. The law requires each urban retail water supplier to develop urban water use targets to help meet the 20 percent goal by 2020.

The bill states that the legislative intent is to require all water suppliers to increase the efficiency of use of water resources and to establish a framework to meet the state targets for urban water conservation called for by the Governor. The bill is intended to promote urban water conservation initiatives, while establishing methods for urban retail water suppliers to determine targets to help achieve increased water use efficiency by the year 2020.

The 2020 UWMP provided the 2020 per-capita target value that was adopted in the 2015 UWMP, and the compliance value based upon actual 2020 customer water use. The details of this analysis are included in Chapter 5.

Assembly Bill 1668 and Senate Bill 606
In 2018, Governor Brown signed into law the water conservation bills AB 1668 and SB 606. These bills created a long-term regulatory framework titled “Making Conservation a California Way of Life”. On January 1, 2025, the Making Conservation a California Way of Life regulation went into effect. This regulation sets forth a framework for retail water providers to more accurately gauge water use in their service area, submit annual water use reports to the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB), and implement performance measures to reach urban water use objectives.

The regulation establishes a water-use “budget” for urban retail water suppliers across the state whereby each supplier must calculate a customized Urban Water Use Objective each year based on four main efficiency standards:

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• Indoor Residential Use: Initially set at 55 gallons per person per day, decreasing to 47 gallons by 2025 and 42 gallons by 2030.
• Outdoor Residential Use: Based on local climate and irrigable landscape area. • Commercial/Industrial/Institutional (CII): Performance measures for large landscapes and high-use sectors, including dedicated irrigation meters for areas of 0.5 acres or more. • Water Loss: Standards to reduce leaks in distribution system.

1.2 Lay Description
The City of El Centro (City) has prepared this 2025 Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP) in compliance with the California Water Code (CWC). This summary satisfies the requirement of CWC to include a simple lay description of information necessary to provide a general understanding of the Plan, including a description of City’s water supply reliability, as well as its strategies and potential challenges for the foreseeable future. The City’s Lay Description for this 2025 UWMP is presented below:

Chapter 1: Introduction
On November 10, 2009, the state Legislature passed Senate Bill 7 now known as SBx7-7. That goal of that law, which took effect on February 3, 2010, was to reduce the average amount of water each California resident uses on a daily basis. The target date for meeting that reduction was December 31, 2020.

Executive Orders issued by California’s Governor, as well as additional legislation stemming from the recent drought required improved efficiency in both indoor and outdoor water use, provided water agencies with incentives to recycle water and required water suppliers to prepare for future droughts. The City of El Centro’s 2025 UWMP provides a detailed summary of its present and future water supplies and demands and assesses its water resource needs over the next 25 years.

Chapter 2: Plan Preparation
The California Water Code requires all “urban water suppliers” to prepare and submit an Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP) to the Department of Water Resources (DWR) every five years (in years ending in “00” or “05” or by specific dates specified by the State. The Water Code defines an urban water supplier as a public or private water agency, which provides water for municipal purposes either directly or indirectly to more than 3,000 customers or supplies more than 3,000 acre-feet (AF) of water annually (an acre-foot is a volume of water equal to one acre covered to a depth of one foot, which is approximately 325,851 gallons). The City of El Centro is a public water supplier, which meets the definition of an urban water supplier. The City has 10,315 municipal water service connections and supplied 7,970 AF of water to its customers in 2025.

Chapter 3: System Description
The City of El Centro, which is located approximately 120 miles east of San Diego along the I-8 corridor, is situated in an arid region where annual rainfall averages 2.54 inches. El Centro is the largest City and the principal trading center of Imperial County and had a population of approximately 46,029 in 2025, which is projected to increase by 11% to 50,900 by 2050. The City purchases all its water from the Imperial Irrigation District (IID), which delivers raw Colorado River water to all agricultural lands and urban water retailers

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within its water service area including the City of El Centro. Raw water purchased from IID is stored in four

12.5 Million Gallon (MG) open reservoirs at the City’s water treatment plant. After the raw water is treated to drinking water standards, it is stored in three tanks at the treatment plant, which have a combined capacity of 10.0 MG, and in one 4.0 MG tank located approximately two miles away. The treated drinking water is pumped from these tanks into the distribution system, which includes approximately 148 miles of pipeline ranging in size from ¾ inches to 30-inches in diameter.

Chapter 4: System Water Use Characterization
This chapter presents the City’s current water demands by customer type and projects future water demand over the next 25 years. Approximately 70 percent of all water usage in the City is residential use, with just over half that being used by lower income residents. The remaining 30 percent is used by businesses, industries, landscape irrigation, schools, and government offices. Over the past five years, City water losses have averaged 13.4%. Those losses consist of: (1) unbilled but authorized uses such as fire hydrant flushing and firefighting; (2) real losses incurred through leakage in mains and service lines; and (3) unauthorized uses and customer metering inaccuracies. Based on current population projections, and taking into account future water conservation, total water usage in El Centro is expected to increase by 7% over the next 25 years (compared with a 13% projected increase in population over the same period).

Chapter 5: Conservation Target Compliance
To comply with SBx7-7, the City had to determine its baseline water use and set targets for the years 2015 and 2020 to meet the State’s 20% and 15% reduction goals for 2020 and 2015, respectively. The City met the first 2015 goal, which was an early indication it was on track to meet its 2020 goal as well. The State allows water suppliers to establish their target goals based on one of four methods. El Centro chose to set its goal based on using a regional hydrologic target set forth in the State’s 20x2020 Water Conservation Plan (Method 3). Using Method 3, the City’s target goal was set at 198.6 gallons per person per day. The City’s actual water use in 2020 was 148 gallons per person per day, which represents a 25,5% reduction over its baseline target, thus demonstrating compliance with the State’s 20% reduction requirement.

Chapter 6: Water Supply Characterization
As the result of multiple agreements, State and Federal laws, and numerous court decisions extending all the way to the US Supreme Court, some of which date back to 1885, IID has the legal rights to take up to

3.1 Million Acre-Feet (MAF) from the Colorado River in most years with a guarantee of at least 2.6 MAF.

Taken together, these legal documents and court rulings are known collectively as the “Law of the River.” These legal rights are important, given the Colorado river is in the midst of a long-term drought brought on by the impacts of climate change, as demonstrated by historically low storage volumes and water surface elevations in both Lakes Mead and Powell in recent years. IID’s legal rights to a significant portion of Colorado River water is particularly important to El Centro and other Imperial Valley communities, given the poor quality of regional groundwater and the lack of recycled water (which is not economically justifiable).

Chapter 7: Water Supply Reliability Assessment
The State requires all urban water suppliers determine the reliability of its ability to provide water service under normal, dry, and multiple dry water years. To make this determination, the City reviewed rainfall

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records and compared them with water usage over the past several decades. The average or normal year during this period was 2008 when annual rainfall of 2.60 inches was closest to the long-term historic average of 2.54 inches dating back to 1932. The single driest year was 2006, which had the lowest amount of annual rainfall – 0.42 inches – over the past several decades. The five-multiple year dry period, and the only five consecutive years over the past several decades where rainfall was below average for each of those years was 2000-2004 when total rainfall measured 5.66 inches. Based on water usage (as a percentage of average use) during these years, the City was able to project future use during normal, single dry and multiple dry years. Because of the reliability of IID’s Colorado River water rights under the “Law of the River,” El Centro will have a sufficient supply of water to meet all future needs through 2050 during single and multiple dry years. The State also requires every urban water supplier to include a Drought Risk Assessment (DRA) in their UWMP. This analysis assumes five consecutive years of drought will occur beginning in 2026 and continuing through 2030. Again, due to the highly reliable nature of IID’s water source, the City will be able to meet all its projected demands through 2030, assuming 2026 is the first year of a five-year drought.

Chapter 8: Water Shortage Contingency Plan
The California Water Code requires suppliers to prepare and adopt a Water Shortage Contingency Plan (WSCP) which incorporates appropriate stages of response actions to be implemented during extended periods of water shortages. The Water Code sets six standard stages of water shortages (ranging from a 10% shortage to a greater than 50% shortage) but allows water suppliers to differ from that provided they cross-reference their stages to the State’s six standard stages. The City established five water conservation stages (shortages of 10%, 20%, 30%, 40% and 50% or greater) in Ordinance No. 17-01 adopted on February 21, 2017. These stages, which have since been incorporated into the El Centro Municipal Code, are declared by the City Council and require the implementation of an increasing number of water use restrictions and prohibitions, depending on the stage. Violations of the restrictions and/or prohibitions can result in penalties ranging from $100 to $500 per violation. Water rates will also be increased by 25%, 50% and 100% percent upon the declaration of a Stage 3, 4 or 5 emergency, respectively. The City’s 2025 WSCP was adopted by Resolution No. 26-XX, along with this UWMP on September 1, 2026.

Chapter 9: Demand Management Measures
This UWMP addresses Demand Management Measures (DMM), which are measures the City can take to promote water conservation practices. The City’s DMMs include adopting City water waste ordinances, metering all water usage in the City, conservation pricing, instituting programs to manage water system losses in the distribution system, assigning City staff to coordinate water conservation efforts, and participating in public education and outreach activities, which include offering rebates, distributing water conservation information in customer bills, publishing press releases, newsletters, newspaper articles, posting information on the City’s website, utilizing social media to promote water conservation, participating in school education programs, and staffing booths at public fairs and other similar events. This Plan also provides information on various water conservation programs implemented by IID, El Centro’s wholesale supplier, which include equitably apportioning water when necessary, fallowing (temporarily taking agricultural land out of production) and implementing miscellaneous conservation programs including lining the All-American Canal and coordinating water conservation efforts closely with other regional suppliers.

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Chapter 10 Plan Adoption, Submittal, and Implementation A public hearing was held in the City of El Centro Council Chambers on September 1, 2026, at the City Council meeting, which began at 6:00 p.m. At the conclusion of that public hearing, the City Council adopted the 2025 UWMP along with the WSCP by Resolution No. 26-XX. Imperial County and Imperial Irrigation District were notified of the preparation of the UWMP by letter dated June 16, 2026. Notification of the public hearing was also provided to the public via two separate notices published in the Imperial Valley Press on August 18 and August 25, 2026. A copy of the Final Draft of El Centro’s 2025 UWMP was also posted on the City’s website on August 18, 2026. Copies of the Final adopted 2025 UWMP, including its accompanying WSCP, will be submitted electronically to DWR through the WUE Data Portal. Additionally, a CD containing a digital copy of the 2025 UWMP and WSCP will be submitted to the California State Library, Imperial County, and the Imperial Irrigation District within 30 days of the date of adoption. The 2025 UWMP and WSCP will also be posted on the City’s website and made available to the public within 30 days of the date of adoption. And lastly, any amendments to this adopted UWMP and/or WSCP, will follow each of the steps for notification, public hearing, adoption, and submittal referenced in this paragraph.

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2 PLAN PREPARATION

2.1 Basis for Preparing a Plan
Per California Water Code (CWC), “urban water supplier” means a supplier, either publicly or privately owned, providing water for municipal purposes either directly or indirectly to more than 3,000 customers or supplying more than 3,000 acre-feet of water annually. An urban water supplier includes a supplier or contractor for water, regardless of the basis of right, which distributes or sells for ultimate resale to customers. This part applies only to water supplied from public water systems. Every urban water supplier must adopt an urban water management plan within one year after it has become an urban water supplier.

The City of El Centro is a public water supplier that meets the definition of an urban water supplier with 10,315 municipal water service connections and a total 7,970 acre-feet (AF) of water supplied to customers in their water service area in 2025. See Submittal Table 2-1.

Table 2-1: Public Water Systems
Table 2-1: Retail Only: Public Water Systems
Public Water System
Number
Public Water System
Name
Number of Municipal
Connections 20251
Volume of
Water Supplied
2025 (AF)2
CA1310004 City of El Centro 10,315 7,970
TOTAL 10,315 7,970

2.2 Individual or Regional Planning and Compliance
The City of El Centro has developed an individual UWMP (as opposed to a Regional UWMP) that reports solely on its service area; addresses all requirements of the CWC; and notifies and coordinates with appropriate regional agencies and constituents. See Submittal Table 2-2. 1 Municipal connections include active, inactive, and temporary service connections. 2 Volume of water supplied includes water entering the potable water system (for El Centro, that includes only treated imported water).

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Table 2-2: Plan Identification
Table 2-2: Plan Identification
Select
Only One Type of Plan Name of RUWMP or Regional Alliance Individual UWMP

Water Supplier is also a member of
a RUWMP
Water Supplier is also a member of
a Regional Alliance

Regional Urban Water Management Plan
(RUWMP)
A retail supplier may choose to meet the SBx7-7 targets on its own or it may form a regional alliance with other retail suppliers to meet the water use target as a region. Within a Regional Alliance, each retail water supplier will have an additional opportunity to achieve compliance under both an individual target and a regional target. The City is not a member of a regional alliance and will report individual compliance with SBx7-7 targets.

2.3 Fiscal or Calendar Year and Units of Measure
The City of El Centro is a water retailer (as opposed to a water wholesaler). The City’s 2025 UWMP has been prepared using calendar years (as opposed to fiscal years) and has been prepared using acre-feet (AF) as the units of water volume measure. See Submittal Table 2-3.

Table 2-3: Supplier Identification
Table 2-3: Supplier Identification
Type of Agency
Agency is a wholesaler
Agency is a retailer
Fiscal or Calendar Year
UWMP Tables Are in Calendar Years
UWMP Tables Are in Fiscal Years
Units of Measure Used in UWMP
Unit AF

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2.4 Coordination and Outreach
Per CWC Section 10631, an urban water supplier that relies upon a wholesale agency for a source of water shall provide the wholesale agency with water use projections from that agency for that source of water in five-year increments to 20 years or as far as data is available. The wholesale agency shall provide information to the urban water supplier for inclusion in the urban water supplier’s plan that identifies and quantifies, to the extent practicable, the existing and planned sources of water as required by subdivision (b), available from the wholesale agency to the urban water supplier over the same five-year increments, and during various water-year types in accordance with subdivision (c). An urban water supplier may rely upon water supply information provided by the wholesale agency in fulfilling the plan.

The City of El Centro has worked closely with Imperial Irrigation District (IID), the City’s water wholesaler, in estimating projected water use in accordance with CWC and has relied upon water supply information provided by IID in fulfilling its 2025 UWMP. See Submittal Table 2-4.

Table 2-4: Water Supplier Information Exchange
Table 2-4: Retail: Water Supplier Information Exchange
The retail supplier has informed the following wholesale supplier(s) of projected water use in accordance with CWC 10631.

Imperial Irrigation District
The City’s water supply planning relates to the policies, rules, and regulations of its regional and local water providers. Recognizing that close coordination among other relevant public agencies is key to the success of its UWMP, the City worked closely with other entities to develop and update this planning document.

The City encouraged community and public interest involvement in the plan update through a public hearing and inspection of the draft document. The public hearing was conducted on September 1, 2026. Public hearing notifications were published in local newspapers, both one week and two weeks prior to the public hearing. A copy of the published Notice of Public Hearing is included in Appendix D. The notice was also posted on the City’s website, along with a draft copy of the UWMP, two weeks prior to the public hearing.

The hearing provided an opportunity for all residents and employees in the City’s water service area to learn and ask questions about their water supply in addition to the City’s plans for providing a reliable, safe, high-quality water supply.

Table 2-4A lists the entities the City or Psomas staff coordinated with in the development of the City’s 2025 UWMP. Information from IID’s 2021 Water Conservation Plan, 2023 Equitable Distribution Plan, Draft 2026 Water Supply Assessment (WSA) Template document, IID 2020 Service Area Plan, and the “Urban Water Management Plan Guidebook 2025” prepared by DWR were utilized in preparing the City’s 2025 UWMP.

The City’s water supply planning considers the programs of local and regional water agencies.

The 2025 UWMP is intended to serve as a general, flexible, and open-ended document that is updated every five years (or more often if necessary) to reflect changes in the City’s water supply trends, and conservation and water use efficiency policies. The 2025 UWMP will be used by City staff to guide the water use and management efforts through the year 2030, when the 2025 UWMP will require an update.

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Table 2-4 A: City of El Centro Coordination and Public Involvement Table 2-4 A: City of El Centro Coordination and Public Involvement Participated
In Plan
Preparation
Contacted
for
Assistance
Commented
on Draft
Notified
of Public
Hearing
Attended
Public
Hearing
City Water Division X X X X X
City Public Works Department X X X X X
City Engineering Division X X X X X
City Planning & Zoning
Division X X X X X
City Community Development
Department X X X X X
City Manager’s Office X X X X X
El Centro City Council X X

IID X X
Imperial County X
Interested General Public X

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3 SYSTEM DESCRIPTION
Water demands within the City’s service area are dependent on many factors such as local climate conditions, population, demographics, land use, and economics. This chapter describes the City’s service area and the characteristics which relate to water demand.

3.1 General Description
Regional Setting
The City of El Centro’s regional setting is defined by the boundary set forth as the “Imperial Region”. The Imperial Region is located in the southeast corner of Imperial County – bordered to the east by the crest of the Chocolate Mountains (which lie west of the Colorado River), to the west by San Diego County, to the north by the Coachella Valley IRWM boundary, the Salton Sea and Riverside County, and to the south by the U.S./Mexico international border. Figure 3-1 shows the location of the Imperial Region. The Imperial Region boundaries were selected for the following reasons:
• Imperial Water Forum members have experience working together to address complex issues, so they were well-equipped to develop an IRWMP.
• Primary conflicts within the region related to new water demands and future land use changes are intensified by issues surrounding the cap on Colorado River supplies, the approach to apportioning water supplies, and competing uses within the Imperial Valley. • Urban and rural development of the Imperial Valley tie together IID, the County, and the region’s Cities to better integrate land use and water supply plans and the planning process. • The Imperial Region presents opportunities for recycled and reclaimed water use because of the geographic proximity of its users.
• The Imperial Region has opportunities to help the state meet its renewable energy goals by developing geothermal and solar generating facilities.

The area, having annual average rainfall of less than three inches a year, relies almost exclusively on imported Colorado River water. Groundwater development has occurred to a very limited degree in areas outside of the IID water service area. The Coachella Valley is to the north and the Mexicali Valley (Baja California, Mexico) to the south, while the Imperial Valley is central to the Imperial Region, all three of which lie within the Salton Sea watershed. The Region, which abuts the Coachella Valley IRWM and Anza Borrego IRWM regions and is nestled among surrounding mountain ranges, lies entirely within the state’s Colorado River Hydrologic Region. The major population centers are located along California State Route (SR) 86 and SR 111 in the Imperial Valley.

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Figure 3-1: Imperial IRWMP Regional Setting: Imperial Region IID holds the water rights to and is responsible for delivering untreated Colorado River water to users in its service area. The County is responsible for land use planning in the unincorporated areas of Imperial County and for groundwater management. The IID and County boundaries are shown on Figure 3-1.

The area selected for the Imperial Region lies completely within DWR’s Colorado River Hydrologic Region.

It is also entirely within the State Water Resources Control Board Region 7, Colorado River Basin Region.

The Urban Area designation on the County’s Land Use Plan includes areas surrounding seven incorporated cities: El Centro, Brawley, Calexico, Calipatria, Holtville, Imperial, and Westmorland. These Cities and the County have authority over land use, authority to adopt General Plans and zoning to guide land use, prepare Urban Water Management Plans to guide use of their available water supplies where required to do so, and to act as lead agency pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

Imperial Region includes five unincorporated communities: Niland to the north; Heber, Seeley, and the El Centro Naval Air Facility in the center; and Ocotillo/Nomirage in the West Mesa area.

Colorado River Water Supply via Imperial Irrigation District Colorado River water provided by the Imperial Irrigation District is the primary water supply for the Imperial Region. The IID service area, lying entirely within Imperial Valley, is divided into four units: Imperial, West Mesa, East Mesa, and Pilot Knob (refer to Figure 3-2), with a gross area of 1,061,637 acres. The City of El

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Centro and the City’s Sphere of Influence is located within the Imperial Unit of IID’s service area. The Imperial Unit of IID, serves an area of 699,092 acres including the seven major urban areas and approximately, a quarter of Imperial County's unincorporated area.

Figure 3-2: Imperial Irrigation District Units
The East Mesa and West Mesa areas use groundwater that is outside of the IID water service area, but inside the Imperial Region.

Surface water imported from the Colorado River by IID is used to meet all current agricultural and nonagricultural water demands in the IID water service area. Non-agricultural includes municipal, commercial, and industrial including renewable energy; environmental; and recreational water users. IID is a wholesale water provider, which delivers untreated (raw) water to individual user accounts. The cities, including the City of El Centro, are retail water purveyors that treat and convey Colorado River water to retail water accounts.

All water supply for the City of El Centro comes from untreated Colorado River water imported and delivered by IID through a canal system. The raw water is then treated at the City’s water treatment plant, stored, and then pumped into the City’s water distribution system.

City of El Centro
The City of El Centro was incorporated on April 16, 1908 and is operated by a Council/Manager form of government. El Centro is a charter city and owns the local hospital El Centro Regional Medical Center. The members of the City Council are also the Successor Agency to the Redevelopment Agency and Successor Housing Agency governing board. The City Council is composed of five elected members who serve four year, staggered, terms. The City Council selects a Council member to serve as Mayor for a one-year term.

The City of El Centro is located in Imperial County, approximately 120 miles east of San Diego, at the intersection of Interstate 8 and Highway 86. The City encompasses an area of 11.019 square miles (7,052

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acres). The Imperial County seat is located in the City of El Centro. The population inside the City boundaries was 46,029 on January 1, 2025 as reported by the California Department of Finance (DOF).

The City is the largest city and principal trading center in the County.

The City has defined a Sphere of Influence (SOI) and has included this land in their land use planning (Planning Area) and in their Urban Development Program to facilitate residential, industrial, and business growth in those areas where public services are available. The SOI provides a variety of growth locations so an adequate supply of developable land will maintain reasonable housing costs and promote economic development.

The City’s incorporated and SOI boundaries are shown on Figure 3-33 . In all, the City’s SOI consists of
approximately 16,000 acres of land bound on the north by the Central Drain/Treshill Road, the south by McCabe Road, the east by State Route 111, and the west by Austin Road. The City of Imperial is located directly north of the City’s northern SOI boundary. The unincorporated township of Heber is located directly south of the City’s southern SOI boundary.

Figure 3-3: City and Sphere of Influence Boundaries Map 3 Extracted from June 2021 El Centro General Plan Update 2040 Land-Use-Element-PDF.

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The City’s SOI outside the existing boundaries of the City is currently in the jurisdiction of the County but is planned for possible incorporation into the City boundaries at some future time.

Much of the land surrounding the City is involved in agricultural uses, as farming has historically been a principal component of the region’s economy. The current adopted General Plan (2004) as well as the March 2021 Draft Public Review General Plan does not contain an exclusive agricultural land use designation, but both documents allow agricultural uses within the Rural Residential designation. It is generally the City’s policy to allow continuation of existing agricultural activity on land while planning for the development of this land for other uses.

3.1.3.1.1 City Water System Description
As previously noted, IID is the regional water supplier in the Imperial Valley, delivering wholesale, raw Colorado River water to all agricultural lands and urban water retailers within its water service area including the City of El Centro. The City receives all of its water supply from the Colorado River through IID’s AllAmerican Canal and Central Main Canal. The South Date Canal and the Dahlia Lateral Number 1 deliver the raw water to the City from the Central Main Canal at a combined supply capacity of 31.6 MGD. The IID’s canal system is depicted in Figure 3-4.

Raw water imported from IID is stored in four open, concrete reservoirs, each rated at 12.5 MG for a total City raw water storage capacity of 50 MG. The raw water is treated to potable water standards at the City’s water treatment plant. Water treatment includes clarification, filtration, and chlorination. Potable water is stored in three reservoirs at the treatment plant with a combined storage capacity of 10.0 MG, and in one

4.0 MG reservoir located approximately two miles northwest of the treatment plant (total potable water storage capacity of 14.0 MG). Potable water is pumped from the potable water reservoirs into the distribution system. The treatment Plant and storage facilities can be seen in Photo 3-1.

The topography of the City is essentially flat, with ground elevations within the City’s Sphere of Influence ranging from 20 feet to 51 feet below mean sea level. Due to the minor variations in ground elevation throughout the SOI, the City’s water distribution system consists of only one pressure zone. This zone is supplied by two booster pump stations, which are located at the water treatment plant (WTP) and the remote ground storage tank site (La Brucherie). The City’s distribution system consists of approximately 148 miles of pipeline, which range from 3/4 inch to 30 inches in diameter.

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Figure 3-4: Imperial Irrigation District Main Canal and Lateral System Map

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Photo 3-1: El Centro Water Treatment Plant

3.2 Service Area Boundaries
The boundaries of the City and the City’s Sphere of Influence, along with existing and planned land use, within these boundaries are shown on Figure 3-3. The area within the City boundaries is currently estimated to be approximately 70 percent developed, and the total area within the SOI boundary is estimated to be approximately 20 percent developed. However, almost all the land developed outside the City boundaries and within the City’s SOI boundaries is currently serviced by other water supplies, i.e., private wells. The City reports that of the 10,315 water service connections in the City’s water service area in 2025, all were within the City boundaries, i.e., none were within the City’s unincorporated Sphere of Influence areas.

Hence, the City’s water service area coincides exactly with the City’s incorporated boundaries.

3.3 Service Area Climate
Located within the Imperial Valley, the City of El Centro is part of an arid desert area, characterized by hot, dry summers and mild winters. Summer temperatures typically exceed 100 degrees Fahrenheit (°F), and the winter low temperatures rarely drop below 32 °F.

The average monthly evapotranspiration, rainfall, and temperatures are listed in Table 3-1A. As shown, the average high and low temperatures for this area are 89.0 °F and 57.2 °F dating back to 1932, and the average rainfall is 2.71 inches. Most of the rainfall occurs from December through March. Periodic summer thunderstorms are common in the region. The Standard average evapotranspiration (ETo) for this area is

73.43 inches dating back to 1989.

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Table 3-1 A: Historical City Climate Characteristics
Table 3-1 A: Historical City Climate Characteristics
Month
Standard
Average ETo4
(inches)
Average
Rainfall4
(inches)
Daily Max
Temperature5
(degrees F)
Daily Min
Temperature5
(degrees F)
January 2.60 0.32 70.1 40.5
February 3.41 0.27 74.1 44.0
March 5.79 0.30 79.9 48.6
April 7.62 0.04 86.8 54.0
May 9.08 0.05 94.8 60.7
June 9.43 0.01 103.5 68.0
July 9.16 0.04 108.1 76.3
August 8.54 0.18 106.9 76.8
September 7.05 0.24 102.6 70.3
October 5.25 0.91 92.0 59.2
November 3.20 0.14 79.1 47.6
December 2.30 0.21 70.4 40.8
Annual 73.43 2.71 89.0 57.2
Imperial Valley elevations range from a few feet above to 273 feet below mean sea level (MSL). The U.S./Mexico border, located at the southern end of Imperial Valley, has an elevation of four feet above MSL.

The Salton Sea, located at the northern end of Imperial Valley, has a water level of 230 feet below MSL (the sea bottom is 273 feet below MSL). El Centro is the largest American city to lie entirely below sea level (39 feet below MSL on average).

The relatively flat topography (235 feet in 35 miles) of the Imperial Valley and surrounding areas, in conjunction with strong night and day temperature differentials, particularly in the summer months, produce moderate winds and deep thermal circulation systems. The thermal systems facilitate general dispersion of the air.

The local and regional climates are being impacted by climate change which, in turn, has an impact on water demands, supplies and supply reliability. Scientists and water purveyors are already observing the effects of climate change and the resulting risks related to water planning. A discussion of the effects of climate change on water demands, supplies, and reliability is presented in later sections of this UWMP. 4 Standard Average ETo from California Irrigation Management Information System (CIMIS) Meloland Station 87, the CIMIS station closest to the city of El Centro (approximately 7 miles east of El Centro; elevation -50 feet below MSL; Average for 12/12/1989 through 05/01/2026.
5 Data obtained from Western Regional Climate Center (WRCC), Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada (http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?ca2713 ); WRCC program administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); data extracted from monitoring Station 042713 at El Centro 2 SSW, CA for period 3/01/1932 through 05/30/2026.

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3.4 Service Area Population and Demographics
Service Area Population
As previously noted, the City reports that all of its 10,315 water service connections in the El Centro’s water service area in 2025 are located within the City’s boundaries. That being the case, there is a 100 percent match between the City water service area and City jurisdictional boundaries.

Historical and current City population, as reported by the City Planning & Zoning Division and the California DOF, is shown in Table 3-1B. While the City’s population grew by 42.9% between 1990 and 2015, growth between 2015 and 2025 slowed considerably, which was consistent with declining growth patterns in many other areas of California.

Table 3-1 B: Historical and Current Population
Table 3-1 B: Historical & Current Population6
1990 2000 2010 2015 2020 2025
City of El Centro 31,384 37,835 42,598 44,847 45,657 46,029 % Increase since 1990 --- 20.6% 35.7% 42.9% 45.4% 46.7% Population projections provided to the City of El Centro by the Southern California Association of Government’s (SCAG), suggest the City’s urban area population will grow to 50,900 by 2050, which is an increase of 13.0% relative to 2025. The SCAG population projections for the City’s urban area for the years 2030 through 2050, which are recognized and used by the City’s Planning & Zoning Division, are shown in Table 3-1.

Table 3-1: Retail Population – Current and Projected
Table 3-1: Retail: Population - Current and Projected7
Population
Served
2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 2050
46,029 46,350 47,600 48,700 49,800 50,900
% Increase
Since 2025 --- 1% 3% 6% 8% 11%
6 Population data for the years 1990-2010 was extracted from the City of El Centro 2013-2021 Housing Element, September 2013 (http://www.cityofelcentro.org/userfiles/file/Planning/General%20Plan/General%20Plan%20Upload/El%20Centro%20GP_Housin g.pdf); Population data for 2010-2020 was obtained from the California Department of Finance Website https://www.dof.ca.gov/Forecasting/Demographics/Estimates/e-4/2010-20/). 7 2025 Population estimate was obtained from DOF website (please refer to footnote in Table 3-1A for a link to the source).

Population projections for 2030, 2035 and 2045 were based on SCAG SoCal Connect Regional Transportation Plan growth projections provided to the City of El Centro.

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As previously noted, the area within the City boundaries is currently estimated to be approximately 70 percent developed, and the total area within the SOI boundary is estimated to be approximately 20 percent developed. However, almost all the developments outside the City boundaries and within the City’s SOI boundaries are currently serviced by other water supplies, i.e., private wells, etc.

It is anticipated that by 2050, land inside the SOI will be developed and will receive water service from the City. To identify those areas that will require more extensive planning, ensuring the provision of adequate levels of public services and facilities including water system infrastructure, the City has divided the undeveloped portion of their Planning Area into three development tier areas as discussed in Section 3.4.2.

Other Demographic Factors
The U.S. Census Bureau estimated the median household income in California at $99,122 in 2024. In comparison, median household income in Imperial County was $57,681 with a per capita income of $23,552 and the City of El Centro’s median household income was $53,082 with a per capita income of $23,590.

The U.S. Census Bureau also estimated that while 11.8 percent of Californians are below the poverty level, in El Centro 21.6 percent are below the poverty level compared to the 18.8 percent for the Imperial County (Census 2025)8
. Imperial County as a whole, and the City of El Centro, are each designated as a disadvantaged community. Per the California Code of Regulations Section 596.1 (b)(2) “disadvantaged community” means a community with a median household income that is less than 80 percent of the statewide annual median household income.

Water-Use-Related Land Use Planning
As noted in Section 3.4.1, the City’s population increased 46.7% between 1990 and 2025 and is projected to increase another 13% by 2050. While the growth rate has slowed over the past five years, even slower growth necessitates well-conceived land use planning by the City as a pre-condition to meet the City’s future water needs.

Existing land use in the City is governed by the provisions of the City of El Centro Zoning Ordinance and is guided by the goals and policies presented in the current adopted General Plan (2004) as well as in the proposed General Plan, which is currently out for public review. By implementing the language of the General Plan Land Use Element, the City dictates what type of land uses are allowed throughout specific areas within its boundaries. The General Plan Land Use Element lists the following land use designations:

Rural Residential, Low Density Residential, Medium Density Residential, High Medium Density Residential, Mixed Use (includes Master Planned and Mixed Use 1), Commercial (includes General, Heavy, Tourist, Downtown, Neighborhood and Office Commercial), Industrial (includes General and Light Industrial), Civic, and Public. Land use designations within the City and SOI boundaries are also shown on Figure 3-3.

To identify those areas that require more extensive planning, ensuring the provision of adequate levels of public services and facilities, the City has divided the undeveloped portion of the Planning Area into three development tier areas: Tier I, Tier II, and Tier III.

Designation of an area in one of the three tiers does not determine the sequence of development within the Planning Area, but rather, delineates those areas that, due to a lack of public facilities, may require more 8 https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/elcentrocitycalifornia,imperialcountycalifornia,CA,US/PST045219.

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detailed planning prior to development. For example, development in Development Tier II and III may require a greater cost for infrastructure improvements than would the same development if located within the Development Tier I area since Tier I has greater access to existing public services and facilities.

Tier II and III areas may also require that facilities be sized, at developer expense, to accommodate additional development within an entire Tier Subarea (described below), or such larger area as may be required by the City. Reimbursement agreements, improvement districts, and other public finance strategies may be used to cost-effectively provide needed public infrastructure, as deemed necessary by the City Council. The Urban Development Program tier geographical areas are shown in Figure LUE-11 of the June 2021 El Centro General Plan Update 2040 Land Use Element.

The following language describing the three development tiers has been extracted from the City’s Land Use Element dated June 2021 (this language is similar, if not identical, to prior language included in the City’s 2004 Adopted General Plan:
• Development Tier I – Current Urban Service Area: Development Tier I includes land within and adjacent to the present City limits. In most cases, new development within this area can be served by gravity sewer lines to existing trunk sewers. Generally, water lines and reservoirs are also adequate to serve new development; however, easements and financial contributions to improve the ultimate sewer and water systems may be required. Fire, police, schools, parks, library, medical, roads, and other City facilities and services also are in proximity to these areas, though service capacities are likely to be limited and improvements to existing facilities and/or new facilities may be needed to adequately accommodate new development. Subdivisions of land and commercial, industrial, and mixed-use development within Development Tier I generally would follow standard zoning, subdivision, and environmental review procedures and would not require a Community Facilities Study. • Development Tier II – Planned Urban Service Area: Development Tier II includes land both within and adjacent to the City limits but differs from Development Tier I in that public infrastructure to serve new development is more limited. Essential required improvements may include sewer and water pump stations, water storage reservoirs, and sewer trunk lines for force mains. New schools, parks, roadway, pedestrian, and bicycle improvements, and fire stations also may be required to adequately serve development of Development Tier II areas. As with Development Tier I, additional service capacity for police, library, medical, and other services also may be needed to accommodate new development.

Preparation of a Community Facilities Study is required for most development within Development Tier II areas, including residential subdivisions, multi-family projects, and commercial, industrial, or mixeduse development, unless otherwise exempted as described in the Community Facilities Study Requirements and Exemptions.
• Development Tier III – Future Urban Service Area: Development Tier III encompasses unincorporated lands that are not anticipated to be developed for at least 10 years. If development other than agricultural and related business or residential subdivisions of five or fewer parcels is proposed within currently unincorporated portions of Development Tier III areas, the developer or subdivider will be required to obtain concurrence of the City to allow the project, and the improvement of all public facilities will be required to be provided by the developer to City standards. Uses that do not require treated water from, or disposal of sewage to City systems, may be permitted. Subdivision of land and commercial, industrial, and mixed-use development within this area will require that a Community Facilities Study be prepared, unless otherwise exempted as described in the Community Facilities

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Study Requirements and Exemptions. In addition, if a project is proposed within the Development Tier III area, a Development Tier Subarea shall be established by the City for which a Community Facilities Study will be required to be prepared, as described below. • Development Tier Subarea: A Development Tier Subarea will be established for development projects proposed in the Development Tier III area to allow for the planning for water and sewer services through the preparation of a Community Facilities Study. This is not required for development in the Development Tiers I and II since the City’s Water and Sewer Master Plans delineate water and sewer improvements needed to serve those areas.

The City prepared a Service Area Plan (SAP) dated February 2016 in accordance with the Cortese-KnoxHertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000, which requires that a plan identifying the existing and projected demand for public facilities and services (including water system facilities and water service) be prepared by all incorporated cities and special districts within the State. The City subsequently updated their SAP in December 2024.

The 2000 legislation is implemented by Imperial County Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo), whose policy states that a city within the jurisdiction of Imperial County LAFCo must prepare an SAP before any formal annexation of land into the city’s boundaries can take place. The City’s SOI outside the existing boundaries of the City is currently in the jurisdiction of the County, but all land outside the City boundaries and inside the SOI boundaries is planned for future incorporation into the City boundaries.

The City has developed 11 General Plan land use designations and five sub-designations within the Planning Area and a corresponding indication of maximum density or intensity of development. The maximum allowable development on individual parcels is governed by these measures of density or intensity, which are intended as policy-level guidance for future development within the City. These and other General Plan land use policies are implemented through the City’s Zoning Ordinance.

The Residential categories include four designations that allow for a range of housing types and densities, including Rural Residential, Low Density Residential, Medium Density Residential, and High-Medium Residential. These designations provide a range of densities to ensure compatibility with existing residential development, provide a range of housing types and prices, and allow for appropriate densities around areas that are not appropriate for higher population densities, such as the area around the wastewater treatment plant.

The non-residential land use categories include a variety of designations such as Commercial, Industrial, and Community Facilities more fully described as follows:
• General Commercial – The General Commercial designation in the currently adopted General Plan (2024) includes three subcategories: Neighborhood Commercial, Office Commercial, and Heavy Commercial, which are defined geographically on the Zoning Map. • Downtown Commercial – The Downtown Commercial applied in the downtown area. This designation is included to ensure the land uses occurring in the downtown area are appropriate to support the continued commercial viability of the area. • General Industrial – The General Industrial category in the currently adopted General Plan includes a single categories: General Industrial, which is geographically defined on the Zoning Map. The

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General Industrial category is further broken down into two subcategories: Light Manufacturing and General Manufacturing. The City’s Land Use Element dated June 2021 excluded the Planned Industrial category, while maintaining the General Industrial category (and Light Manufacturing and General Manufacturing subcategories).
• Community Facilities – The Community Facilities designations include Civic and Public, which allow for the provision of important public facilities.

For various reasons, many parcels in the community have not been developed to their maximum density or intensity. In the future, maximum development can be expected to occur only on a limited number of parcels. Therefore, the overall future development of the City is anticipated to occur at the average level of development intensity or density. This does not mean that developers can only develop at the average density and intensify, but the average development projection allows the City to plan for future public services to support anticipated future development.

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4 WATER USE CHARACTERIZATION
Southern California’s urban water demand has been largely shaped by the efforts to comply with SBx7-7.

This law requires all California retail urban water suppliers serving more than 3,000 acre-feet per year (AFY) or 3,000 service connections to achieve a 20 percent water demand reduction (from a historical baseline) by 2020 and continue to maintain this reduction indefinitely. The City has been actively engaged in efforts to reduce water use in its service area and has met the final 2020 water use target. Meeting this target is critical to ensure the City’s eligibility to receive future state water grants and loans.

In April 2015 Governor Brown issued an Executive Order as a result of one of the most severe droughts in California’s history, requiring a collective reduction in statewide urban water use of 25 percent by February 2016, with each agency in the state given a specific reduction target by DWR. In response to the Governor’s mandate, the City updated the Water Use Efficiency Regulations, establishing provisions against water waste and implementing higher (more restrictive) stages of water conservation to achieve its demand reduction target of 20 percent. The City met the mandated water use reduction from June 2015 through the end of 2016 with an average of 20.2%. Since 2015, the City has kept a rolling average reduction of over 20% with much of the water savings attributed to a significant reduction in outdoor water use.

In March 2016, then-Governor Brown’s Executive Order (EO) B-37-16 charged the SWRCB and the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) with developing new efficient water use targets, paving the way for AB 1668 and SB 606 in May 2018. AB 1668 and SB 606 regulations, also known as the “Making Conservation a California Way of Life” framework, became effective on January 1, 2025. It set standards for efficient indoor and outdoor residential water use, and efficient outdoor use for CII properties with dedicated irrigation meters (DIMs), incorporated a supplier’s real water loss budget, and established performance measures for the CII indoor and mixed-use sectors. These components of AB 1668 and SB 606 are summated to develop an agency’s Urban Water Use Objective (UWUO) at the service area level, or an overall target for efficient water use.

AB 1668 and SB 606 were enacted in 2018; the resulting UWUO regulations and performance measures were formally adopted in 2024, and made effective in 2025, with the intent to prepare the state for future long-term drought conditions.

Future conservation efforts are shaped by evolving state regulations and water use efficiency standards, including implementation of the California UWUO requirements. Meeting these requirements will present both challenges and opportunities, requiring expanded customer engagement, enhanced data tracking, and innovative conservation strategies to sustain long-term water reliability for the City and the State of California.

This section analyzes the City’s current water demands by customer type, factors that influence those demands, and projections of future water demand for the next 25 years.

4.1 Recycled Versus Potable and Raw Water Demand
Surface water imported from the Colorado River by IID is the sole water supply for the City of El Centro.

The raw water is treated to potable water standards at the City’s water treatment plant before being distributed to the City’s water service area. For the City of El Centro, there is no recycled water supply; no