Agenda — Lynwood City Council, September 15, 2026 (part 1 of 3)

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AGENDA
City Council Regular Meeting

TO BE HELD ON
September 15, 2026
6:00 PM
COUNCIL CHAMBERS - 11350 BULLIS ROAD. LYNWOOD, CA 90262 OR WEBINAR VIA ZOOM
Duly Posted on 9/11/26 By MQ
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City Council Regular Meeting
1 1.

CALL TO ORDER

2. CERTIFICATION OF AGENDA POSTING BY CITY CLERK

3. ROLL CALL OF COUNCIL MEMBERS

4. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

5. INVOCATION

6. PRESENTATIONS/PROCLAMATIONS

7. PUBLIC HEARING

7.1 CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL PERFORMANCE AND EVALUATION REPORT (CAPER)

FOR FISCAL YEAR
2025–26

Elario Lazaro Rivera, Kid Mayor
Gabriela Camacho, Mayor
Lorraine Avila Moore, Mayor Pro Tem - Remote Participation - Horton Grand Hotel, 311 Island Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101, Hotel Lobby
Luis Gerardo Cuellar, Council Member
Juan Munoz-Guevara, Council Member
Rita Soto, Council Member
Update on Law Enforcement Issues

PUBLIC ORAL COMMUNICATIONS

(Regarding Agenda Items Only)

NON-AGENDA PUBLIC ORAL COMMUNICATIONS

THIS PORTION PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE PUBLIC TO ADDRESS THE

COUNCIL ON ITEMS WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF THE COUNCIL AND NOT LISTED ON THE AGENDA. IF AN ITEM IS NOT ON THE AGENDA, THERE SHOULD BE NO

SUBSTANTIAL DISCUSSION OF THE ISSUE BY THE COUNCIL, BUT COUNCIL MAY

REFER THE MATTER TO STAFF OR SCHEDULE SUBSTANTIVE DISCUSSION FOR A FUTURE MEETING. (The Ralph M. Brown Act, Government Code Section 54954.2 (a).)

Executive Summary:

The City of Lynwood completed the Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) for Fiscal Year 2025–26
(Attachment 2)
. The CAPER evaluates the
City’s progress toward the goals and activities in its Five-Year Consolidated Plan and Fiscal Year 2025–26 Annual Action Plan and satisfies an annual reporting requirement of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). During Fiscal Year 2025–26, unaudited estimated expenditures were approximately $1.6 million in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds, $205,322.84 in HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) funds, and $136,804 in HOME Investment Partnerships City Council Regular Meeting 2

8. CONSENT CALENDAR

8.1 APPROVAL OF THE WARRANT REGISTER

8.2 APPOINTMENT OF A BOARD MEMBER AND ALTERNATE BOARD MEMBER TO

THE GATEWAY WATER MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY
American Rescue Plan Program (HOME-ARP) funds for eligible housing and community development activities that primarily benefited low- and moderate-income residents.

The CAPER describes program accomplishments, expenditures, households and persons assisted, and actions taken to affirmatively further fair housing. The City made the CAPER available for a 15-day public review and comment period from August 27, 2026, through September 15, 2026. The City received no public comments as of the date of this report. Staff recommends that the City Council conduct the public hearing, adopt the resolution approving the CAPER, and authorize its submission to HUD. (CD) Recommendation:

Staff recommends City Council:
1 .

Open the public hearing, receive public testimony, and close the public hearing; 2 .

Adopt a resolution
(Attachment 1)
approving the Fiscal Year 2025–26 Consolidated
Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER); and
3 .

Authorize the City Manager, or designee, to submit the Fiscal Year 2025–26 CAPER to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

ALL MATTERS LISTED UNDER THE CONSENT CALENDAR WILL BE ACTED UPON BY ONE MOTION AFFIRMING THE ACTION RECOMMENDED ON THE AGENDA. THERE

WILL BE NO SEPARATE DISCUSSION ON THESE ITEMS PRIOR TO VOTING UNLESS

MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL OR STAFF REQUEST SPECIFIC ITEMS TO BE REMOVED FROM THE CONSENT CALENDAR FOR SEPARATE ACTION.

Executive Summary:

Request for approval of the warrant register dated August 14, 2026 to August 27, 2026 for FY
2025–26 and FY 2026–27. (FIN)
Recommendation:

Staff recommends City Council approve the warrant register dated August 14, 2026 to August 27, 2026 for FY
2025–26
and FY
2026–27
. Staff certifies the accuracy of the
demands.

Executive Summary:

8.3 APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING SUBMITTAL OF A GRANT

APPLICATION TO THE STRATEGIC GROWTH COUNCIL FOR A TRANSFORMATIVE CLIMATE COMMUNITIES ROUND 6 PROJECT DEVELOPMENT GRANT FOR THE

LEAN ON LYNWOOD RESILIENCE NETWORK
Preciado, Public Works Operations Manager, as Alternate Board Member. In accordance with the GWMA Amended and Restated Joint Powers Agreement and the GWMA Bylaws, non-Legislative Body appointments to the GWMA Board must be made by resolution.

There is no fiscal impact associated with the recommended action. (PW) Recommendation:

Staff recommends City Council:

Adopt a resolution
(Attachment 1)
appointing Andrew Maximous, Director of Public
Works, as Board Member, and Juan Preciado, Public Works Operations Manager, as Alternate Board Member, to the Governing Board of the Gateway Water Management Authority (GWMA), to serve continuously at the pleasure of the City until the City Council designates a successor.

Executive Summary:

Lynwood experiences extreme heat at levels that pose a growing risk to residents, and the City does not currently have facilities capable of remaining operational and habitable during a heat event coupled with a power outage. The Energy Resilience Action Plan, completed in November 2024 (Attachment 3), identified and ranked City facilities by resilience readiness and confirmed that none is presently equipped to serve as a reliable cooling and refuge location.

The Strategic Growth Council administers the Transformative Climate Communities Program, which funds community-driven climate investment in disadvantaged communities. Round 6 includes a Project Development Grant track that funds the design, engineering, and community engagement work needed to bring projects to a construction-ready state. The Strategic Growth Council will award three Project Development Grants statewide of up to $5 million each.

Staff proposes that the City apply as Lead Applicant, with City Fabrick and the Gateway Cities Council of Governments as Co-Applicants, for a Project Development Grant to advance the Lean on Lynwood Resilience Network. The grant would fund design of four civic facilities as Tier 1 resilience hubs, concept design of neighborhood resilience nodes and green-blue corridors, workforce development planning, community engagement, and an anti-displacement policy pathway.

The Strategic Growth Council requires an adopted resolution as a condition of application. Staff recommends that Council adopt a resolution authorizing the application, acceptance of an award, and execution of related documents in a single action, because a second resolution at the execution stage would delay the start of the grant term. (CD) City Council Regular Meeting 4

9. NEW/OLD BUSINESS

9.1 AUTHORITY TO EXECUTE CONTRACTS FOR TEMPORARY STAFFING SERVICES

WITH VENDORS ON THE FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION TEMPORARY

STAFFING VENDOR LIST
Recommendation:

Staff recommends City Council:
1 .

Adopt a resolution
(Attachment 1)
authorizing submittal of a grant application to the
Strategic Growth Council for a Transformative Climate Communities Round 6 Project Development Grant
(Attachment 2)
for the Lean on Lynwood Resilience
Network in an amount not to exceed $5 million, authorizing acceptance of the grant if the application is selected for award, and authorizing the City Manager to execute the grant agreement and all related documents on behalf of the City; and 2 .

Authorize the City Manager to execute the Collaborative Governance Agreement worksheet required with the application and, if the application is selected for award, subagreements with City Fabrick and the Gateway Cities Council of Governments as Co-Applicants and the final Collaborative Governance Agreement, subject to approval as to form by the City Attorney

Executive Summary:

Staff recommends City Council adopt a resolution authorizing the City Manager, or designee, to execute contracts with vendors on the Finance and Administration Temporary Staffing Vendor List to address short-term staffing needs within the Finance and Administration Department, subject to available budget appropriations, City purchasing policies, and a maximum contract amount of $200,000 per vendor. The list consists of two qualified staffing agencies, Robert Half International Inc. and Temporary Staffing Professionals Inc.

The Finance and Administration Temporary Staffing Vendor List would provide the Department with timely access to qualified personnel to address vacancies, leaves of absence, increased workloads, and short-term or specialized assignments. This streamlined process would improve operational flexibility and continuity of essential financial and administrative functions while ensuring that temporary staffing remains supplemental to the City’s permanent recruitment process.

The proposed action does not request additional budget appropriations, as temporary staffing costs would be managed within the FY 2026–27 General Fund Finance and Administration Department budget. (FIN)
Recommendation:

Staff recommends City Council adopt a resolution
(Attachment 1)
authorizing the City
Manager, or designee, to execute contracts for temporary staffing services with vendors City Council Regular Meeting 5

9.2 APPROVAL OF A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT WITH
WATERWORKFORCE, INC. FOR INTERIM WATER OPERATIONS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FROM OCTOBER 1, 2026, THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30, 2027, IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $138,600
included on the Finance and Administration Temporary Staffing Vendor List (Attachment
2)
, consisting of Robert Half International Inc. and Temporary Staffing Professionals Inc., with each vendor not to exceed $200,000 and subject to available appropriation in the adopted budget.

Executive Summary:

The City requires continued specialized certified-operator oversight and drinking-water regulatory compliance support while Public Works continues to increase its in-house water operations capability. The City does not currently employ a California Grade D5 Water Distribution Operator who can serve as the water system’s designated Chief Operator. The City has therefore relied on contracted specialized services to provide the required certified oversight and regulatory support.

On August 17, 2026, Public Works issued a Request for Letter Proposal for Interim Water Operations Professional Services. The request focused on three specialized service components: D5 Chief Operator coverage, specialized water utility regulatory compliance support, and as-needed specialized technical and emergency support. The City sent the request to four firms and received three proposals by the September 1, 2026, deadline from WaterWorkforce, Inc., waterTALENT, and MLA Consulting.

Public Works staff reviewed the proposals based on the factors identified in the solicitation, including relevant experience, qualifications and certifications of proposed personnel, service-delivery approach, availability, continuity, and cost. Staff determined that WaterWorkforce best meets the City’s interim needs based on its experience, existing familiarity with the City’s water system, ability to provide continuity with minimal transition, and overall cost.

WaterWorkforce currently provides personnel and operational support to Waterworks Technology, Inc., the City’s existing contractor, as a subcontractor under the current City agreement. Accordingly, the proposed agreement would establish a direct contractual relationship between the City and WaterWorkforce while retaining substantial continuity in the personnel, operational knowledge, and specialized support currently serving the City.

Staff recommends approving a month-to-month professional services agreement with WaterWorkforce beginning October 1, 2026, for a maximum term through September 30, 2027, and a total not-to-exceed amount of $138,600. (PW) Recommendation:

Staff recommends City Council:

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9.3 APPROVAL OF A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT WITH LOS ANGELES

CONSERVATION CORPS FOR AN URBAN FOREST MANAGEMENT PLAN AND

COMMUNITY TREE PLANTING SERVICES IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $832,212.50
1 .

Adopt a resolution
(Attachment 1)
approving a professional services agreement
with WaterWorkforce, Inc. for interim California Grade D5 Water Distribution Chief Operator services, specialized water utility regulatory compliance support, and as- needed specialized technical and emergency support, on a month-to-month basis beginning October 1, 2026, and ending no later than September 30, 2027, unless terminated earlier in accordance with the agreement, for a total not-to-exceed amount of $138,600; and
2 .

Authorize the Mayor to execute the agreement
(Attachment 2)
and the City Clerk to
attest the agreement, subject to approval as to form by the City Attorney.

Executive Summary:

The City requires professional services to prepare an Urban Forest Management Plan (UFMP), complete a citywide tree inventory and canopy assessment, and implement related community tree planting and outreach services. The City issued a Request for Proposals on April 30, 2026, and received three proposals. A three-member evaluation panel reviewed the proposals using the criteria identified in the Request for Proposals.

Los Angeles Conservation Corps (LACC) received the highest overall ranking and proposed the lowest fee. LACC offered the strongest overall combination of technical urban-forestry expertise, community engagement, long-term tree establishment care, workforce development, and inventory-management tools. Staff recommends approving the 19-month agreement with LACC for the UFMP, citywide tree inventory and canopy assessment, community tree planting and distribution, outreach, and related services. (PW)
Recommendation:

Staff recommends City Council:
1 .

Adopt a resolution (Attachment 1) approving a professional services agreement with Los Angeles Conservation Corps for the development of an Urban Forest Management Plan (UFMP) (Project No. 3561.68.197), a citywide tree inventory and canopy assessment, and related community tree planting and outreach services, for a 19-month term and a total not-to-exceed amount of $832,212.50; and 2 .

Authorize the Mayor, or designee, to execute the agreement (Attachment 2) and the City Clerk to attest the agreement, subject to approval as to form by the City Attorney; and
3 .

Authorize the appropriation of the total grant award amount of $852,500 in the City’s Grant Fund 3561.

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10. CITY COUNCIL ORAL AND WRITTEN COMMUNICATION

11. STAFF ORAL COMMENTS
City Council Members Reporting on Meetings Attended (Gov. Code Section 53232.3 (D)).

ADJOURNMENT

THE NEXT REGULAR MEETING WILL BE HELD ON OCTOBER 6, 2026 AT 6:00 P.M. IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS OF THE CITY HALL ANNEX, 11350 BULLIS ROAD, CITY OF LYNWOOD, CALIFORNIA.

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AGENDA STAFF REPORT
DATE: September 15, 2026
TO: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
APPROVED BY: Suja Lowenthal, City Manager
PREPARED BY: Suzanne Trejo, Administrative Analyst II
SUBJECT:

CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL PERFORMANCE AND EVALUATION
REPORT (CAPER) FOR FISCAL YEAR 2025–26
Agenda Item # 7.1.

Recommendation:

Staff recommends City Council:

1. Open the public hearing, receive public testimony, and close the public hearing;

2. Adopt a resolution (Attachment 1) approving the Fiscal Year 2025–26 Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER); and

3. Authorize the City Manager, or designee, to submit the Fiscal Year 2025–26 CAPER to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Executive Summary:

The City of Lynwood completed the Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) for Fiscal Year 2025–26 (Attachment 2). The CAPER evaluates the City’s progress toward the goals and activities in its Five-Year Consolidated Plan and Fiscal Year 2025–26 Annual Action Plan and satisfies an annual reporting requirement of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). During Fiscal Year 2025–26, unaudited estimated expenditures were approximately $1.6 million in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds, $205,322.84 in HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) funds, and $136,804 in HOME Investment Partnerships American Rescue Plan Program (HOME-ARP) funds for eligible housing and community development activities that primarily benefited low- and moderate-income residents.

The CAPER describes program accomplishments, expenditures, households and persons City Council City Council Regular Meeting
9 assisted, and actions taken to affirmatively further fair housing. The City made the CAPER available for a 15-day public review and comment period from August 27, 2026, through September 15, 2026. The City received no public comments as of the date of this report. Staff recommends that the City Council conduct the public hearing, adopt the resolution approving the CAPER, and authorize its submission to HUD. (CD)
Background:

As a direct recipient of federal CDBG and HOME funds, the City must prepare and submit an annual CAPER to HUD. The CAPER summarizes the resources available during the program year, reports accomplishments based on the priorities in the Consolidated Plan, and assesses the City's annual performance. Through its CDBG and HOME programs, the City seeks to develop viable communities by providing decent housing, a suitable living environment, public services, and expanded economic opportunities, primarily for low- and moderate-income persons or households.

Past Council Actions
Meeting Date
Description
July 1, 2025
City Council approved the five-year 2025–2029 Consolidated Plan and the Fiscal Year 2025–26 Annual Action Plan for the allocation of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME
Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) funds.

Discussion and Analysis:

The CAPER reports the City's progress toward the goals in its Five-Year Consolidated Plan and Annual Action Plan. It identifies funds invested in projects and activities, households and persons assisted, actions taken to affirmatively further fair housing, and other information about City-administered grant activities that address local housing and community development needs. This information allows HUD, the City Council, and the public to evaluate the City's performance.

During Fiscal Year 2025–26, the City expended approximately $1.6 million in CDBG funds, $205,322.84 in HOME funds, and $136,804 in HOME-ARP funds on eligible activities.

Following the public hearing and City Council approval, staff would submit the CAPER to HUD by the applicable HUD deadline.

CDBG accomplishments:

Assisted 570 low- and moderate-income residents through CDBG-funded public service, fair housing, and homelessness prevention activities.

Provided fair housing counseling, outreach, and landlord-tenant dispute resolution services to 125 residents through the Fair Housing Foundation, exceeding the annual goal by 25 City Council City Council Regular Meeting 10
residents.

Delivered homeless outreach, housing navigation, and supportive services to 36 individuals experiencing or at risk of homelessness through HOPICS, exceeding the annual goal by 144 percent.

Supported community services benefiting 409 residents, including youth recreation, after- school programming, senior services, music education, and swim programs, and Conducted 175 code enforcement activities in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods to help preserve housing quality and neighborhood conditions.

Maintained compliance with HUD expenditure caps, keeping public service and administrative costs within required CDBG limits.

HOME accomplishments:

Expended $204,902 in HOME funds to support affordable housing program administration and housing program implementation activities.

Continued implementation of the Owner-Occupied Rehabilitation Program, including advancing an environmental review for a qualifying residential property and preserving the program as a key affordable housing strategy.

Allocated HOME resources for owner-occupied rehabilitation grants, rehabilitation loans, and CHDO set-aside activities to support future affordable housing preservation and development efforts.

Strengthened HOME program capacity through the engagement of consultants to assist with program delivery, compliance, and housing rehabilitation activities.

HOME-ARP accomplishments:

Committed approximately $479,550 in HOME-ARP funds for a Tenant-Based Rental Assistance (TBRA) Program serving qualifying households.

Provided rental assistance to 23 income-qualified households, helping residents maintain stable housing and prevent homelessness.

Continued monthly HOME-ARP fund expenditures in accordance with HUD requirements and grant agreements.

Advanced housing stability efforts by targeting assistance to vulnerable households impacted by housing cost burdens and economic hardship.

The City published a Notice of Public Hearing in the Lynwood Press Wave on August 27, 2026 (Attachment 3)
. The City made the CAPER available for public review and comment for no fewer than 15 days, from August 27, 2026, through September 15, 2026. The City received no public comments as of the date of this report.

Fiscal Impact:

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1. Resolution_2026_CAPER_Lynwood.docx

2. FY2025-26 CAPER Lynwood.docx

3. Public Hearing Notice.pdf
There is no fiscal impact associated with the recommended action.

Coordinated With:

City Manager's Office
ATTACHMENTS:

Description
City Council City Council Regular Meeting 12
RESOLUTION NO. 2026.____

A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LYNWOOD APPROVING THE FISCAL YEAR 2025-26 CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL

PERFORMANCE AND EVALUATION REPORT AND AUTHORIZING ITS
SUBMISSION TO THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN

DEVELOPMENT
WHEREAS, the City of Lynwood ("City") receives Community Development Block Grant ("CDBG"), HOME Investment Partnerships Program ("HOME"), and HOME Investment Partnerships American Rescue Plan Program ("HOME-ARP") funds from the United States under federal housing and community development programs; and WHEREAS, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ("HUD") promulgates regulations and oversees the administration of the CDBG, HOME, and HOME-ARP programs; and
WHEREAS, HUD requires entitlement j urisdictions to evaluate their grant programs annually through a Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report ("CAPER"); and
WHEREAS, the Fiscal Year 2025 -26 CAPER reports the City's progress toward the goals and activities in its Five -Year Consol idated Plan and Fiscal Year 2025 -26 Annual Action Plan for the period from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026; and WHEREAS, the City published a notice in the Lynwood Press Wave on August 27, 2026, announcing the availability of the draft CAPER and a 15 -day public review and comment period from August 27, 2026, through September 15, 2026; and WHEREAS, on September 15, 2026, the City Council held a duly noticed public hearing to receive public testimony and consider the Fiscal Year 2025-26 CAPER.

NOW THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LYNWOOD DOES HEREBY FIND, PROCLAIM, ORDER, AND RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:

SECTION 1. The City Council finds and declares that the foregoing recitals are true and correct and incorporates them herein as findings and as a subst antive part of this Resolution.

SECTION 2. The City Council approves the Fiscal Year 2025 -26 Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report.
13 SECTION 3. The City Council authorizes the City Manager, or designee, to submit the Fiscal Year 2025 -26 CA PER to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

SECTION 4. The City Council authorizes City staff to make minor technical modifications or corrections to the CAPER as required by HUD, provided that such modifications or corrections do not mat erially alter the programs, funding allocations, or accomplishments approved by the City Council.

SECTION 5. The Mayor is authorized to execute this Resolution for and on behalf of the City of Lynwood.

SECTION 6. This Resolution shall take full force and effect immediately upon its adoption by the City Council.

SECTION 7. The City Clerk shall certify as to the adoption of this City Council Resolution.

PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this 15th day of September, 2026. _______________________________
Gabriella Camacho

ATTEST:

MAYOR
_______________________________

Maria Quinonez

CITY CLERK

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

_______________________________
Noel Tapia

CITY ATTORNEY

_______________________________
Suja Lowenthal

CITY MANAGER

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City of Lynwood
11330 Bullis Road
Lynwood, California 90262

August 17, 2026

CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL PERFORMANCE

AND EVALUATION REPORT FOR THE

PERIOD COVERING
JULY 1, 2025 - JUNE 30, 2026
for

THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING

AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
15 TABLE OF CONTENTS

CR-05 - Goals and Outcomes ......................................................................................................... 3 CR-10 - Racial and Ethnic composition of families assisted .......................................................... 7 CR-15 - Resources and Investments 91.520(a) ............................................................................. 8 CR-20 - Affordable Housing 91.520(b) ......................................................................................... 12 CR-25 - Homeless and Other Special Needs 91.220(d, e); 91.320(d, e); 91.520(c) .................... 15 CR-30 - Public Housing 91.220(h); 91.320(j) ................................................................................ 17 CR-35 - Other Actions 91.220(j)-(k); 91.320(i)-(j) ......................................................................... 18 CR-40 - Monitoring 91.220 and 91.230 ....................................................................................... 24 CR-45 - CDBG 91.520(c) ............................................................................................................... 26 CR-50 - HOME 91.520(d).............................................................................................................. 28

Attachments:

Attachment 1 – Public Notice .................................................................................................33 Attachment 2 – CDBG: PR26; PR23 CDBG & HOME; PR03 .....................................................35 16 CAPER 3
City of Lynwood Program Year 2025 CAPER

CR-05 - Goals and Outcomes
Progress the jurisdiction has made in carrying out its strategic plan and its action plan. 91.520(a)

This could be an overview that includes major init iatives and highlights that were proposed and executed throughout the program year.

The Consolidated Annual Performance Evaluation Report (CAPER) for Fiscal Year (FY) 202 5-2026 details the expenditures, accomplishments, and progress made toward the strate gies and goals outlined in the approved FY 2025-2026 Action Plan. The CAPER highlights achievements in affordable housing, homeless services, and community development programs. The City of Lynwood's U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Programs include the Community Development Block Gran t (CDBG) and the HOME Investment Partnership. This FY 2025-2026 CAPER covers the period from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026, and it serves as the first annual report for the FY 2025-2029 Consolidated Plan period.

Each activity funded under the FY 202 5-2026 CDBG program addressed one of the three national objectives:
providing a principal benefit to low - and moderate-income individuals, eliminating or preventing slums and blight, or meeting urgent community development needs. The table (table 1) below comp ares the proposed goals for the FY 2025-2026 program year with the actual outcomes. These outcomes are measured in terms of units produced, the number of assisted households, or the number of individuals assisted.

The number of residents benefiting from C DBG and HOME program funds has surpassed expectations for delivering services to low- and moderate-income individuals. Lynwood successfully met its spending targets for these beneficiaries through its housing and public service activities, staying within the required limits of 15% for public services and 20% for administrative expenditures.

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 to ward meeting goals and objectives. 91.520(g)

Categories, priority levels, funding sources and amounts, outcomes/objectives, goal outcome indicators, units of measure, targets, actual outcomes/outputs, and percentage completed for each of the grantee’s program year goals.

17 Goal Category Source /
Amount Indicator Unit of
Measure
Expected–
Strategic
Plan
Actual –
Strategic
Plan
Percent
Complete
Expected –
Program
Year
Actual –
Program
Year
Percent
Complete
Code Enforcement

Affordable
Housing

CDBG:
$190,000
Housing Code
Enforcement/ Foreclosed
Property
Care
Household
Housing Unit 1,000 175 18% 200 175 88%
Expand Affordable
Housing Opportunities
Affordable
Housing
HOME:
$480,000
Direct Financial
Assistance to
Homebuyers
Households
Assisted 15 0 0.00% 3 0 0.00%
Expand Fair Housing
Choice and Access Fair Housing

CDBG:
$13,000
Public service activities
for Low/Moderate
Income Housing
Benefit
Households
Assisted 900 125 14% 180 125 69%
Improve/ Upgrade Public
Facilities/ Infrastructures
Non-Housing
Community
Development
CDBG:
$601,850
Public Facility or
Infrastructure Activities
for Low/Moderate
Income Housing
Benefit
Households
Assisted 25,675 0 0% 9,605 0 0.00%
Increase the Supply of
Lead Safe Housing
Affordable
Housing
CDBG:
$10,500

Homeowner Housing
Rehabilitated
Household
Housing
Unit
30 0 0% 6 0 0.00%
Planning and
Administration Administration
CDBG:
$175,203

HOME:
$34,255
Other Other 1 1 100% 1 1 100.00%
Planning and
Administration CDBG
Rehabilitation
Planning and
Administration
CDBG:
$94,932 Other Other 1 1 100% 1 1 100%
18 Provide Vital Homeless
Services Homeless CDBG:
$20,000
Public service activities
other than
Low/Moderate Income
Housing
Benefit
Person
Assisted 4825 36 1% 25 36 144%
Provide Vital Public
Services
Non-Homeless
Special Needs
CDBG:
$121,000
Public services activities
other than
Low/Moderate Income
Housing Benefit
Persons
Assisted 5200 341 7% 965 341 35%
Repair Aging Housing
Infrastructure
Affordable
Housing
CDBG:
$15,000
HOME:
$861,919
Homeowner Housing
Rehabilitation
Household
Housing Unit 34 0 0% 177 0 0%
19 CAPER 6
City of Lynwood Program Year 2025 CAPER

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 outcomes reported in Table 1 above are based on activities completed in the HUD Integrated Disbursement and Informat ion System (IDIS). Table 1 provides information regarding annual goals, activities, and accomplishments for the FY 2025 program year. All numbers reflect completed services.

It should be noted that under the "Repair Aging Housing Infrastructure" category for FY 2025-2026, 0 housing units were funded with CDBG funds, and 0 housing units were funded with HOME funds.

In the fiscal year 202 5, the City exceeded one of its goals. However, when comparing the strategic goals and actual accomplishments to the fiscal year 2025-2029 Consolidated Plan for the aforementioned HUD programs, the City fell slightly short of its overall annual expectations for nearly all its objectives.

The City routinely allocates a percentage of its HOME funding to CHDO reserve. In FY202 6 the City intends to certify an eligible CHDO for an affordable housing project. Staff capacity has reduced the City’s ability to verify an eligible HOME project and certify a relevant CHDO entity.

As COVID-19 restrictions were lifted, the City continued to enhance its marketing efforts for various programs offered to the community. The City also maintained its response to the coronavirus pandemic. To date, the City has spent $994,595.64 of CDBG-CV funds. The City has committed $479,550.45 from HOME-ARP funds for the Tenant-Based Rental Assistance.

It should also be noted that the City's expenditure limits applicable to CDBG were within percentage limits allowed by HUD for FY 2025-2026. The limits are as follows: 1) Administrative and Planning programs - 20% of the annual allocation and program income, and 2) Public Service expenditure limitation - 15% of annual allocation and the prior year program income.
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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)

CDBG HOME
White 248 0
Black or African American 56 0
Asian 1 0
American Indian or American Native 3 0
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander 0 0
Other 194 0
Total 502 0
Hispanic 374 0
Not Hispanic 128 0

Table 1 – Table of assistance to racial and ethnic populations by source of funds

Narrative

The racial and ethnic breakdown identified Table 2 includes data from the City’s public service activities and fair housing services. The breakdown includes the following numbers:

Fair Housing:
 Fair Housing Foundation provided services to 125 residents. Services included outreach, referrals, case management, resolve landlord tenant disputes, and community presentations.

Public Services:
 City of Lynwood Afterschool Program provided meals to 67 students.  City of Lynwood Senior Program provided programs such as technology 101, wellness classes, active clubs, arts and crafts, and social & fun activities to 54 seniors.  City of Lynwood Sports Program offers opportunities for youth and adults to participate in leagues and teams three 3 seasons each year, this FY they assisted 128 youths.  Lynwood Athletics Community Services faced a couple of challenges this FY, however, they were able to service 13 residents.
 The Harmony Project in collaboration with elementary schools provided music instructions to 15 young students.
 The Lynwood Marlins Swim program provided youth swim programs for 64 youths ages 3 through 18 years olds.
 HOPICS provided services to 36 Lynwood residents facing homelessness.

The total demographics for the CDBG racial and ethnic assistance is 502 individuals.

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CR-15 - Resources and Investments 91.520(a)
Identify the resources made available
Source of Funds Source Resources Made
Available
Amount Expended
During Program Year
CDBG public - federal $3,789,103 $1,000,000.59
HOME public - federal $1,358,877.36 $204,902.38
Table 2 - Resources Made Available

Narrative
CDBG
Resources Made Available During FY 2025-2026: The total CDBG funds available during FY were $3,784,932 ($946,233 Entitlement Grant, $82,448 Program Income, and $1,269,422.71 Carryover funds).

Amount Expended During FY 202 5-2026: The total amount expended under the CDBG program during FY2025 was $1,000,000.59 comprised of both the current year entitlement grant and carryover funds from prior years.

HOME
Resources Made Available During FY 2025-2026: The total HOME funds available during the funding year was $339,719.34 Entitlement Grant, $77,678 Program Income, and $2,590,895 Carryover funds.

Amount Expended During FY 2025-2026: The total HOME funds expended during FY was $204,902.38

CDBG-CV
The CDBG-CV funding is separate from the regular annual CDBG funds that the City receives each year. The City did not spend any CDBG -CV funding during FY 202 5-26. A total of $994,595 has been expended under the CDBG-CV grant funds thus far.

HOME-ARP
The HOME-ARP grant is separate from the regular annual HOME funds that the City receives each year and was provided to the City in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The City has committed $475,550.45 for the HOME-ARP funded Tenant Based Rental Assistance Program (TBRA).

Identify the geographic distribution and location of investments Target Area Planned
Percentage of
Allocation
Actual Percentage of
Allocation
Narrative Description
City-wide 60.44 2.62 City-wide
Deteriorating and/or
Deteriorated Area 6.21 4.42 Other
Not Applicable 3.58 3.58 Not Applicable
Area Benefit Neighborhood 29.77 14.49 Area Benefit
Neighborhood
Table 3 – Identify the geographic distribution and location of investments

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Narrative
CDBG and HOME grant assistance is provided to low - and moderate-income residents and qualifying low - income census tracts & block groups throughout the City. Lynwood's four distinct geographic areas include Area Benefit Neighborhood, Citywide Benefits, Deteriorated/Deteriorating Areas, and Not Applicable.

CDBG investments for Public Infrastructure Improvements are made in Area Benefit Neighborhoods, that is, in block groups where 51% or more of the population have low and moderate incomes. CDBG investments for Fair Housing and Public Services (i.e. HOPICS, Lynwood Senior Program, Lynwood Sports Program, Lynwood Afterschool Program, Lynwood Athletics Community Services, Lynwood Marlins Swim Program, and The Harmony Project) are available citywide along with HOME investment for the CHDO Project, Down Payment Assistance Program, and the Owner -Occupied Rehabilitation program, which are all direct benefits to residents. CDBG investment for Code Enforcement is accomplished in low - and moderate -income deteriorated or deteriorating areas. A map describing the City's official low - and moderate -income "Deteriorate/Deteriorating Areas" (i.e., those areas where at least 51% of the residents have income at or below 80% of the area median income as adjusted for family size) has been attached as an appendix. The Not Applicable area is for the CDBG and HOME Administration activities.

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.

The City has continuously sought public and private resources to leverage its entitlement funds and assist with implementing policies and programs to implement the Consolidated Plan.

Federal Resources and Program Funds Used —The City aims to maximize the use of available resources by committing to projects that are financially feasible and assist the greatest number of people and families. To this end, two resources were utilized during FY 2025-2026: the CDBG Program, the HOME Program, and the HOME-ARP Program.

Non-Federal Resources and Program Funds Used - The City of Lynwood’s General Fund contributed funding as leverage during the FY 2025-2026 to assist in the funding of the Code Enforcement Program.

Leveraging of non-Federal Resources - See above.

Matching Contributions - The City is a 100% HOME match reduction community; therefore, no HOME match is required. (see IDIS report PR33).

Publicly Owned Land or Property Located within the Jurisdiction - The City did not utilize any publicly owned land or property to address a need identified in the Consolidated Plan.

Fiscal Year Summary – HOME Match

1. Excess match from prior Federal fiscal year $0

2. Match contributed during current Federal fiscal year $0

3. Total match available for current Federal fiscal year (Line 1 plus Line 2) $0

4. Match liability for current Federal fiscal year $0

5. Excess match carried over to next Federal fiscal year (Line 3 minus Line 4) $0 Table 4 – Fiscal Year Summary - HOME Match Report
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Match Contribution for the Federal Fiscal Year
Project
No. or
Other ID
Date of
Contribut
ion
Cash
(non-
Federal
sources)
Foregone
Taxes,
Fees,
Charges
Appraise
d
Land/Rea
l Property
Required
Infrastruc
ture
Site
Preparati
on,
Construct
ion
Materials
, Donated
labor
Bond
Financing
Total
Match
$0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
Table 5 – Match Contribution for the Federal Fiscal Year

Program Income – Enter the program amounts for the reporting period Balance on hand
at beginning of
reporting period
$
Amount received
during reporting
period
$
Total amount
expended during
reporting period
$
Amount
expended for
TBRA
$
Balance on hand
at end of
reporting period
$
$0 $35,000 $35,000 $0 $0
Table 6 – Program Income

HOME MBE/WBE report
Minority Business Enterprises and Women Business Enterprises – Indicate the number and dollar value of contracts for HOME projects completed during the reporting period Total Minority Business Enterprises White Non-
Hispanic Alaskan
Native or
American
Indian
Asian or
Pacific
Islander
Black Non-
Hispanic
Hispanic
Contracts
Number 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dollar
Amount $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
Sub-Contracts
Number
Dollar
Amount
$0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
Total Women
Business
Enterprises
Male
Contracts
Number 0 0 0
Dollar
Amount $0 $0 $0
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Sub-Contracts
Number 0 0 0
Dollar
Amount

$0
Table 7 - Minority Business and Women Business Enterprises

Minority Owners of Rental Property – Indicate the number of HOME assisted rental property owners and the total amount of HOME funds in these rental properties assisted Total Minority Property Owners White Non-
Hispanic Alaskan
Native or
American
Indian
Asian or
Pacific
Islander
Black Non-
Hispanic
Hispanic
Number
Dollar
Amount

Table 8 – Minority Owners of Rental Property

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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.

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 3 0
Number of Special-Needs households to be
provided affordable housing units 0 0
Total: 0 0
Table 11 – Number of Households

One-Year Goal Actual
Number of households supported through
Rental Assistance 0 23
Number of households supported through
The Production of New Units 0 0
Number of households supported through
Rehab of Existing Units 0 0
Number of households supported through
Acquisition of Existing Units 0 0
Total: 0 23
Table 12 – Number of Households Supported

Discuss the difference between goals and outcomes and problems encountered in meeting these goals.

In FY2025, the City committed to residents $479,550.45 of their HOME-ARP funds through the Tenant- Based Rental Assistance Program (TBRA). The City is expending these funds according to HUD and program funding regulations, which is monthly, per the grant agreement. The City’s HOME-funded Owner-Occupied Housing Rehab Program ( OOR) is in the process of doing an Environmental Review Report on one (1) residential property. The program awards both grant and loan funds. The OOR HOME-funded program did not assist any household in FY 2025. Challenges the City faced were related to internal staff capacity to complete required HUD activity processes, procurement, project management and reporting . For FY 2026 -2027, the city has hired consultants to assist in carrying out the program. 26 CAPER 13
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Patterns of actual investment compared to planned investment patterns for FY2025

Overall, all investments occurred as planned during the Fiscal Year. The planned investments in the community included rehabilitation of owner-occupied single-family homes, down payment assistance program, and CHDO participation.
 Owner-Occupied Rehabilitation (OOR) Grant and Loan Program (HOME) - Through the HOME program, a maximum of $45,000 is available per homeowner in the form of a $35,000 deferred payment loan and/or a $10,000 grant. Funding can assist i ncome eligible homeowners who meet the low - to moderate- income criteria for repairs related to interior and exterior code deficiencies and general home improvements. There were zero (0) properties assisted with both grants and loans during FY2025.  Tenant Rental Assistance – Through HOME-ARP funds the city provided rental assistance to twenty-three (23) income qualifying household.
 Community Housing Development Organization (CHDO) - The City did not approve any new projects during the Fiscal Year 2025.

Discuss how these outcomes will impact future annual action plans.

The City prioritized this program by increasing program funding, contracting a HOME program consultant to assist with staff capacity, and program promotion, future annual action plans will include housing rehab as a viable means of preserving affordable housing . The City will continue monitoring the progress of housing projects that have been funded but not closed as well as projects that are underway but delayed due to various capacity and or funding reasons. Although no HOME OOR projects have been completed, there is one project that is currently undergoing the Environmental Review Reporting phase.

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.

Number of Households Served CDBG Actual HOME Actual
Extremely Low-income 270 0
Low-income 125 0
Moderate-income 107 0
Total 502 0
Table 13 – Number of Households Served

Narrative Information

The above chart does not include the non-low/moderate-income persons assisted with CDBG, and HOME-ARP funds during the program year, bringing the total served to 525. The City completed zero (0) grant and loan projects through the HOME funded Owner-Occupied Rehabilitation program. The City provided rental assistance to 23 households via the HOME-ARP grant.

Efforts to Address Worst Case Needs

The City and County partner to provide assistance for worst case housing needs. Worst case is defined as low income (0 to 50% of MFI) renter households who pay more than half their income for rent, live in 27 CAPER 14
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seriously substandard housing (which includes homeless people) or have been involuntarily displaced. In an effort to address worst case housing needs, a number of programs and services were offered during the FY. These include the following:

 Section 8 Housing Assistance Agency - The Los Angeles County Development Authority (LACDA) administers the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program for jurisdictions throughout the LOS Angeles County. LACDA provides rental assistance to eligible low-income households, including seniors, person with disabilities, and individuals who are homeless or at -risk of homelessness.

The program’s primary objective it to make rents affordable and promote housing st ability for extremely low-income households.
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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 Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), a Joint Powers Authority (JPA), is the lead agency for the Los Angeles Continuum of Care and administers the funding for programs providing shelter, housing, and services to homeless persons in Los Angeles County. LAHSA partners with the County of Los Angeles and regional partners to integrate services and housing opportunities to ensure a wide distribution of servi ce and housing options throughout the Los Angeles Continuum of Care. The City of Lynwood is in Service Planning Area (SPA) 6 and will continue to collaborate with LAHSA and other local agencies in providing services for homeless persons.

In addition, the City of Lynwood provides funding towards HOPICS, which is a resource center to assist the homeless or those at-risk of homelessness. HOPICS’ provides a full range of social services for clients including providing temporary housing. Homeless persons were engaged by HOPICS Multi-Disciplinary Teams ( MDT) through Lynwood or basic outreach in the area. Teams connected and referred clients to supportive services and provided essential needs and resources. Programs offered are crisis housing, housing identification assistance, food assistance, medical treatment, linkages to the CES system and more. A total of 36 individuals were assisted through HOPICS in FY202 5. One of the primary objectives was to reduce unsheltered homelessness by increasing placements into interim housing. HOPICS staff successfully met its interim housing goal by transitioning numerous individuals from the streets into A Bridge Home (ABH) facilities and shelters as well as connected clients to alternative housing opportunities, including Pathway Home and Inside Safe.

HOPICS strengthen housing navigation services, achieved through the completion of Universal Housing Applications (UHAs) for clients across Lynwood and sustained engagement with clients who had previously declined services. Outreach teams facilitated connections to mental health, substance-use, and medical care for high-need individuals. In FY2025 the goal attainment was surpassed and reached a goal performance of 144%.

The program remained adaptable and sustained service del ivery through strong community partnerships and consistent field engagement. Overall, HOPICS MADE made meaningful progress toward outreach and interim housing placement goals.

The City also coordinated with PATH’s (People Assisting the Homeless) efforts in the development of the Gateway Cities Homeless Plan. The City is an active member of the Gateway Cities Council of Governments (GCCOG). The GCCOG is providing the services of Cicco Solutions to assist the City in preparing a Homelessness Plan for Lynwood.

Addressing the emergency shelter and transitional housing needs of homeless persons The City is not a direct provider of homeless services; however, they provide CDBG funding to HOPICS, a resource center assisting the homeless or those at-risk of homelessness. HOPICS provides a full range of social services for clients, including providing temporary housing. In addition, the City refers homeless persons to emergency shelters, transitional housing, and supportive housing operated by public and private agencies located near the City. To increase shelter opportunities, the City amended the Zoning Code to include provisions permitting transitional and supportive housing.

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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 The City continues to dedicate itself to combating homelessness, especially with the increases in persons experiencing homelessness within the City, county and state. In order to prevent families and individuals from falling into homelessness, the City continues to refer low-income individuals, families, and those at high risk of homelessness to the appropriate service provider in or near the Lynwood area, who have a variety of programs to assist those in need. These providers include the Fair Housing Foundation, Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, HOPICS Lynwood Access Center, Shields for Families, Los Angeles County Development Authority (Section 8 assistance), St. Francis Hospital, and Department of Social Serv ices. The City maintains contact with agencies whose service area includes the City of Lynwood to properly triage and refer individuals to the agency that best serves their needs. By working with agencies and local groups, the City of Lynwood effectively addresses homelessness through collaborative action -oriented solutions. The City also maintains a Homelessness Resource Directory on the City website, which can be accessed by the public. The HOPICS program provides a full range of social services for clien ts, including temporary housing, behavioral health referrals, case management, benefits assistance, transportation, and employment services to those homeless and those at risk of homelessness.

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.

As stated above, the City coordinates efforts with LAHSA and HOPICS to assist homeless persons in making the transition to permanent housing and independent living, including shortening the period of time that individuals and families experience homelessness, facilitating access f or homeless individuals and families to affordable housing units, and preventing individuals and families who were recently homeless from becoming homeless again. In addition, as previously mentioned, the City amended the Zoning Code to permit the develop ment of transitional and supportive housing. The City’s Housing Element recommends the City revised the Long Beach Boulevard Specific Plan ( LBBSP) and the Lynwood Transit Area Specific Plan (LTASP) to allow and regulate transitional and emergency housing.

The University of Berkley prepared a study, Urban Displacement Project, that examined which neighborhoods in the City are at risk of displacement, eviction, and long -term poverty. The areas in the City most vulnerable are located in the northern areas near Lynwood High School, and land near Interstate 105 between Long Beach Boulevard and Thorson Avenue.
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CR-30 - Public Housing 91.220(h); 91.320(j)
Actions taken to address the needs of public housing

There are no public housing developments in the City. Consequently, this section does not apply.

Actions taken to encourage public housing residents to become more involved in management and participate in homeownership
N/A

Actions taken to provide assistance to troubled PHAs

N/A
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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)

Lynwood has taken steps to address some of the barriers to affordable housing. The City has updated its Housing Element for the 2021 -2029 planning period, identifying strategies to conserve existing affordable housing, provide adequate housing sites, assist in developing affordable housing, remove governmental constraints, and promote equal housing opportunities. The City is committed to addressing the negative effects of public policies over which it has control. In order to promote integration and prevent low -income concentrations, the City designed its affordable housing programs to be available Citywide. This priority also serves to make sure that the City does not have any policies, rules, or regulations that would lead to minority or racial concentrations.

The City approved several zone changes and code amendments to allow for development of a variety of housing types, including those that benefit low and moderate -income people. The city is also making positive strives towards fast-tracking priority affordable housing projects and will process permits in a timely manner.

Through the City’s Housing Element implementation and HUD funding , city administration and housing providers must work cooperatively to develop and/or encourage public policies that foster further affordable housing development and provide resident assistance.

During the next four years, the City will continue to work cooperatively within existing legislatively mandated constraints and work to develop or encourage public policies that foster further affordable housing development and assistance. To promote integration and prevent low-income concentrations, the City designed its affordable housing programs to be available Citywide. This priority also serves to make sure that the City does not have any policies, rules, or regulations that would lead to minori ty or racial concentrations. Over the years, the City has demonstrated a willingness to encourage housing development of all types. It has approved several zone changes and code amendments to allow for the development of a variety of housing types, including those that benefit low - and moderate-income people. It also makes an effort to fast -track projects and process permits in a timely manner. The City maintains its current posture of openness and willingness to entertain new ideas and eliminate any regula tory barriers under its control in the provision of a variety of housing to meet the needs of all income groups. In addition, the City continues to work cooperatively within existing legislatively mandated constraints and works to develop and/or encourage public policies that foster further affordable housing development and assistance.

Actions taken to address obstacles to meeting underserved needs. 91.220(k); 91.320(j)

The City faces a number of potential obstacles in meet ing affordable housing and community development needs and underserved needs through the CDBG and HOME program including lack of affordable land for housing development, funding constraints to address community development needs, and continued reductions for CDBG, HOME, and other federal funding sources in each fiscal year.

As entitlement grants shrink or remain level -funded, the cost of delivering services and completing projects increases, resulting in financial obstacles to meet needs. Although the av ailability of federal, state and other private resources continues to decline, the City has been able to meet underserved needs by leveraging General Fund allocations with CDBG and HOME funds. The City directly assists or provides outside agency referrals to residents with special needs with various services, activities, and programs operated by the City and or social 32 CAPER 19
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service agencies and institutions.

The City will continue to look for non -traditional ways to preserve and or develop affordable housing units to meet the community’s housing needs. Program financing may include combining funding sources and leveraging private funds to develop affordable housing. The City intends to apply and leverage state and federal government resources to fund priority programs needed.

In an effort to address worst case housing needs, a number of programs and services were offered during FY2025 including:
 Section 8 Housing Assistance through the Los Angeles County Development Authority (LACDA)  Fair Housing Advocacy and Accessibility Needs through Fair Housing Foundation  Owner-Occupied Rehabilitation Program
 Tenant Based Rental Assistance
 HOPICS
 Senior Program through City of Lynwood
 Service accessibility through Metro Access, Dial-A-Taxi, and increased public transportation routes

Actions taken to reduce lead-based paint hazards. 91.220(k); 91.320(j) This section should be titled "Actions taken to address Lead Based Paint Hazards" 91.220 (k); 91.320 (j).

The City of Lynwood implemented the HUD Lead Based Paint Regulations (Title X), which requires all federally assisted housing programs, including rehabilitation, homeownership and tenant -based subsidy systems, to address lead hazards.

The City’s OOR program assesses lead-based paint presence in each of its projects, currently in progress. Often low-income homeowners live in older homes throughout the City that are most likely to contain lead-based paint.

In 2022, the City procured the service of a State Certified Lead Consultant to provide the following services:
 Lead-based paint and soil inspection
 Lead-based paint risk assessment
 Lead-based paint hazard reduction monitoring
 Post-hazard reduction clearance test.

The OOR p rogram ensures each owner participat ing in the progra m has both oral and written information regarding the dangers of lead-based paint and what to do about it. Owners of properties constructed prior to 1978 were required to meet certain lead- based paint requirements prior to being assisted. These requirements include the following:
 Distribution of lead-based paint notification pamphlets to all households occupying assisted units.  Inspection of all properties for defective paint surfaces.  Abatement of all defective paint surfaces that are identified at the time of the inspection.

As needed, full abatement is undertaken in any rehabilitation projects over $25,000. It was the responsibility of the City's Community Development Department to ensure that properties constructed prior to 1978 met the lead-based paint requirements and any abatement of defective paint surfaces were completed by contractors certified by the State of California Department of Health Services. A copy of the contractor's certification is kept on file.

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The City operates a Tenant-Based Rental Assistance (TBRA) program; therefore, the requirements relating to Children with Environmental Intervention Blood Lead Levels (EIBLL) under 24 CFR 35 Subpart M apply to the program. The City ensures compliance through required notifi cations, environmental review procedures, and coordination with the local health department when applicable.

Actions taken to reduce the number of poverty-level families. 91.220(k); 91.320(j)

The City will continue to provide resources to households living in poverty through networks of social and public service agencies and programs. Specifically, poverty -level families will receive health education services, fair housing services, recreational services, improved infrastructure, and referrals to County services offering other financial assistance. In addition, during FY 2026-2027, the City is in the process of a FY 25-26 HOME Substantial Amendment to allocate unspent funds to a HOME-funded Tenant Bas ed Rental Assistance program, and the Development, Acquisition, and Rehabilitation of Affordable Housing. In addition, services in the form of referrals were provided to households living in poverty through networks of social and public service agencies and programs for health services, food, housing, and shelters and Los Angeles County offices offering financial assistance. The City provides resources to households living in poverty through networks of social and public service agencies and programs. Specifically, resources, food and shelter referrals are provided to assist households on need. In FY2025 the City spent $334,671.15 on community services and $0 on housing projects with both CDBG ( 502 persons) and HOME ( 0 persons) funds benefitting a total of 502 households and or persons. Referrals are made to:
 Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services for financial assistance to a variety of disabled persons including cooking, cleaning, personal care and transportation  Lynwood Senior Program for health, safety, and exercise classes, legal aid and Dial-A-Ride.  The Steelworkers Foundation for hot meals Monday through Friday at a City Facility  Health Care Screening and vaccinations, free of charge, through St. Francis Medical Center  OOR program for low-income households in need of repairs  Youth after school, sports and music programs

Actions taken to develop institutional structure. 91.220(k); 91.320(j)

The implementation of the FY 2025 Annual Action Plan was dependent upon the support and cooperation of numerous levels of government and the private sector, including for -profit and non- profit organizations. The City’s Community Development Department was the lead agency in the coordination and submission of the Action Plan. City Council holds hearings, reviews and approves the Plan’s projects and activities and relies upon administration and its staff for implementation. In order to eliminate gaps in institutional structures and to enhance coordination, the City staff remains actively involved with outside agencies and regional governmental entities, especially in the area of economic development. The Community Development Department coordinated with subrecipients and monitored their program success. The Department also administers and implemented ORR Program to help preserve low-income homeowners and neighborhoods. The Department provided rental assistance referrals to the very low-income and special-needs segments of the City's population.

There were several City administered inter-departmental programs, primarily in the area of neighborhood quality of life including:
 Codes Enforcement Department – identifying deteriorating homes and areas  Planning Department – amending land regulatory ordinances to permit a greater variety of homes, home sizes and home location.
 Public Works Department – street improvement projects  Housing Division – OOR Program and Tenant- Based Rental Assistance Program 34 CAPER 21
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All were funded through CDBG, HOME, and HOME-ARP as funding sources as well as other funding mechanisms that helped augment and leverage Annual Action Plan Resources. Policies and Procedures for expenditure of CDBG and HOME funds have been adopted and are amended when needed changes to programs occurs. The Community Development Department provided other City departments and Subrecipients with training in HUD grant regulations related to reporting, expenditures, project eligibility, spending and the importance of goal attainment.

The City, every five years, updates their Analysis to Impediments to Fair Housing Choice and the Housing Element reports. Both documents explain, promote and encourage fair housing, housing assistance needs, and affordable housing rehabilitation and production. One of the biggest challenges the City faced in FY2025, and going forward the reduction of federal grant funds dedicated to maintaining and furthering housing rehab and production.

Although funding remains available, the primary barrier to expenditure is that many homes do not meet program eligibility due to low after-rehab value, which limits the number of units that qualify for assistance.

City staff and external consultant services have provided the capacity needed to overcome program challenges with subrecipient coordination, report preparation and submission, monitoring, and overall HUD compliance needs.

The City works with HOPICS and Continuum of Care to assist and reduce homelessness by implementing programs and activities. This seamless approach to the provision of transitional and permanent housing services requires that such housing providers be actively involved in each facet of the Continuum of Care. The key to a strong institutional structure was the ability of social service providers to de velop and share data on the progress and status of beneficiaries through the development of integrated information systems. There are several data information systems in place that, to various degrees, track the progress of beneficiaries from initial intake, through provision of services, and to completion of participation. However, the City feels needed social services and healthcare should be more integrated with housing activities.

Actions taken to enhance coordination between public and private housing and social service agencies.

91.220(k); 91.320(j)

The City carried out the FY2025 Annual Action Plan through various organizations including a number of social service agencies funded through CDBG grant funds (Fair Housing Foundation, HOPICS, Lynw ood Athletics Community Services, Lynwood Senior Program, Lynwood Afterschool Program, Lynwood Sports Program, Lynwood Marlins Swim Team, and The Harmony Project). In addition, various City departments worked together to achieve the goals of the Action Plan, including the Community Development Department Housing & Economic Development Division (Owner -Occupied Rehabilitation Program and the Tenant Based Rental Assistance Program) and Public Safety Division (Code Enforcement) and the Public Works (Street Improvement Projects).

The City Planning Department work adjacent to the Community Development department leveraging other funds for affordable housing including:
 Permanent Local Housing Allocation
 SB 2 Planning Grants Program
 Local Housing Trust Fund Program
 CalHFA FHA Loan Program
 CalPLUS FHA Program
 CalHFA Veterans Affairs Program
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 CalHome Program – Mortgage Assistance Program
 CalHome Program – Owner-Occupied Program

The draft 2025-2029 Consolidated Plan notes the City’s commitment to extend and stre ngthen partnerships among all levels of government and the private sector, including for -profit and non-profit organizations. The means of cooperation and coordination with these various groups will continue to enhance the services , leverage more funds that will benefit more residents.

Identify actions taken to overcome the effects of any impediments identified in the jurisdictions analysis of Impediments to fair housing choice. 91.520(a)

In a recent update to the City’s Analysis of Impediments (AI), the report determined impediments to fair housing choice are presented in two categories:
 Fair Housing Related Impediments
 Affordable Housing Impediments

Recommendations have been made that can help to alleviate these impediments by moving the City forward furthering fair housing initiatives. Key findings identified in the AI are:

1. Limited available land

2. Overcrowding

3. Aging housing stock

4. High poverty rate and lower household incomes

5. High number of cost burdened households

6. Low proximity to jobs

The City has always had an ongoing commitment to prevent, reduce, and ultimately eliminate housing discrimination and other barriers related to equal opportunity in housing choice. In order to expand housing opportunities for all groups, make a significant impact in affirmatively furthering the goal of fair housing choice, and eliminating impediments for fair housing choice, the City continued to contract with a fair housing organization (Fair Housing Foundation). This agency implemented a Fair Housing Program within Lynwood that provided an extensive and comprehensive community education program to inform the community about fair housing laws.

The Housing Element notes ‘the purpose of the analysis is to replace segregated living patterns with t ruly integrated and balanced living patterns to transform racially and ethnically concentrated areas of poverty into areas of opportunities. The City refers discrimination complaints to the Fair Housing Foundation (FHF) and Homeless Outreach Program Integrated Care Services (HOPICS) to conduct outreach related to fair housing. The City actively refers residents to the Fair Housing Foundation and receives quarterly reports to stay informed of the types of complaints received.

FHF is committed to affirmatively furthering fair housing within the City through a program designed to address its unique challenges. This program consists of a range of services, including but not limited to:
• Landlord and Tenant counseling and mediations. As well as referrals for ten ants, landlords, managers, and rental property owners.
• Fair Housing counseling, complaint intake, investigative process, and resolution. • Audits of housing practices based on areas of impediments uncovered through counseling and/or testing.
• Targeting spe cific concerns. Educating and training to Housing Consumers, and Housing Providers; 36 CAPER 23
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including low-income areas.
• Conducting workshops designed to educate the public on fair housing laws, issues and their housing rights.
• Providing presentations at city hall to local government officials. Along with local enforcement agencies and community-based organizations.
• Convening with Community Based Organizations to foster conversation regarding fair housing. Utilizing their services as referrals to the community.
• Establish booths and meetings in the cities we service to reach the local population.

• Promoting media interest in housing violations and discrimination, housing segregation, and state and federal fair housing law.

A summary of demographic information for all unduplicated FHF in FY2025 is as follows:
 Total client goal: 100
 Total clients actual: 125
 English speaking clients: 56.8%
 Largest client race/ethnicity percentage: White/Hispanic 92.8%  Majority income category: extremely low 66.4%
 Majority special group: female head of household 24%
 Majority of type of caller: Tenants wanting to remain in place 76.8%  Greatest referral source: City 55.2%

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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

The City understands that all efforts using federal, state, and local resources to carry out its Action Plan must be conducted in accordance with established laws, regulations, and sound management and accounting practices.

The following procedures have been established for monitoring activities for the CDBG, CDBG -CV, HOME and HOME-ARP funded programs:

 Ongoing, internal reviews of progress reports and expenditures  Regular internal meetings to coordinate staff efforts in regard to performance and compliance  Periodic reports to appropriate City officials and other stakeholders  Full review of audit statements and other documentation from sub-recipients prior to disbursement of funds
 On-site visits of all sub-recipients to ensure compliance with federal regulations. Technical assistance is provided where necessary.
 Project and financial data on CDBG-funded activities will be maintained using IDIS.  Use of this system will allow HUD staff easy access to local data for review and progress evaluation.  Timely submission of the CAPER.

The lead department for the Annual Action Plan, CAPER, annual and semi -annual report preparation is the Community Development Department under the supervision of the City Manager . The Community Development Department oversees the CDBG and HOME funded programs for the City. The Department ensures that all funded programs are implemented in compliance with federal regulations and local policy. This would include ensuring compliance with Davis Bacon, environmental review, fair housing, minority and women owned business enterprises, Section 3 affirmative marketing through on -going monitoring of programs and services.

The Department coordinates with other internal departments (i.e. Pu blic Works Department , Parks and Recreation Department), as well as external social service agencies including ( i.e., Fair Housing Foundation, Lynwood Athletics Community Services, Lynwood Marlins Swim Program , Lynwood Alumni Center, The Harmony Project and HOPICS) when receiving CDBG funds to operate the various projects and social service programs. Social Service entities are given program parameters to which they must administer, coordinate and provide reporting. The City ensures social services staff a re qualified to implement their program and are supervised by a department d irector (i.e. Lynwood After School Program, Lynwood Senior Center, Lynwood Recreational Sports Program ). The City’s Housing and Economic Development Division of the Community Development Department manages the Owner-Occupied Home Improvement Program.

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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.

Public participation has been encouraged in compliance with the City ’s Citizen Participation Plan (CPP) , as revised, and by the Final Rule on the Consolidated Submission issued January 5, 1995. On August 27, 2026, a Notice of the Public Comment and Public Hearing of the Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) for the period of August 27, 2026, to September 11, 2026, was published in the Lynwood Press Wave announcing the 15-day public comment period. Three (3) notices of the availability of the CAPER were also posted within the City of Lynwood (inside City Hall, outside City Hall at the kiosk, and on the City’s website).

A Spanish language 15-day public comment period began on August 27, 2026, through September 11, 2026. No comments have been received to date.

The CAPER was made available for review at the City Clerk’s Office and the Community Development Department at City Hall, and on the City's website (https://www.lynwoodca.gov/).

No Comments were received.
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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 response to the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Econ omic Security Act (CARES Act), which made available supplemental CDBG funding (CDBG-CV grants) to entitlement communities to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus pandemic. Under the CARES Act, the City of Lynwood received a total amount of $1,271,928.

CDBG-CV funds were programmed for Housing and Utility Assistance, Essential Goods Reimbursement, Senior Nutrition Program, Small Business Assistance Program, Burial Costs, HOPICS, and CV Program Administration.

To date, the City as expended $994,595.64of CDBG-CV funds. There were no CDBG-CV funds expended in FY2025.

Public agencies, non -profit organizations, and for -profit organizations all contribute to providing community development and support services in Lynwood. The City continues to monit or CDBG program performance to assess whether or not changes in program objectives are necessary.

The City continues to carry out its CDBG Program with the HUD resources indicated in the Consolidated Plan.

The City provided all requested certifications of consistency in its FY2025 Annual Action Plan, in a fair and impartial manner. More importantly, the City did not hinder Consolidated Plan implementation by action or willful inaction. The City’s five-year FY 2025-2029 Consolidated Plan is in it’s first year.

Impact On Identified Needs
The City’s Housing Element has identified the greatest need for affordable housing among the Very Low-income households, with additional needs among the Low-Income Households. The Horizon Recuperative Care facility located in Lynwood offers Homeless Case Management services, which is a key service that Horizon Recuperative Care offers to all of their patients as part of their standard treatment process for recuperation and rehabilitation. Recuperative care (also known as medical respite) provides the homeless with the comprehensive health care that they need following inpatient care at an acute care facility. Horizon creates a tailored treatment plan for each patient. Every plan is formulated by a team of medical experts to provide every individual with the post-acute care that they need to regain their very best quality of life. The People Concern, one of Los Angeles County’s largest social services agencies, provides outreach, i nterim housing, mental and medical health care, substance abuse services, domestic violence service programs, and permanent supportive housing – tailored to the unique needs of homeless individuals, survivors of domestic violence, challenged youth, and others who have nowhere else to turn.

The City is not a direct provider of homeless services. Through the CDBG program, the City will be providing funding towards HOPICS, which is a resource center to assist the homeless or those at -risk of homelessness. HOPICS’ provides a full range of social services for clients including providing temporary housing. In addition, the City refers homeless persons to emergency shelters, transitional housing, and supportive housing operated by public and private agencies located near the City.

The City also collaborates and is an active partner with LAHSA. The City participated in LAHSA’s 2026 Homeless Youth and Homeless Adult Count, which was conducted in January 2026. In alignment with this strategy the City has set a goa l of providing public services to 4,825 at risk of homelessness, homeless, and special needs residents during the fiscal years 2025-2029.

Barriers To Fulfilling Strategies
The greatest barrier to fulfilling strategies is the lack of available public and private financial resources. Needs identified in the Consolidated Plan include, but are not limited to: additional public services, infrastructure and 40 CAPER 27
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facility improvements, and housing.

The greatest barriers to affordable housing has been determined to be addressing the negative effects of public policies over which it has control. In order to promote integration and prevent low-income concentrations, the City designed its affordable housing programs to be available Citywide. This p riority also serves to make sure that the City does not have any policies, rules, or regulations that would lead to minority or racial concentrations. The City maintains its current posture of openness and willingness to entertain new ideas and eliminate any regulatory barriers under its control in the provision of a variety of housing to meet the needs of all income groups.

While CDBG funds positively impact community development and housing needs, the demand for services is enormous. The City continues to fund those social service programs and activities that address the highest and greatest needs as indicated by resident input, community leaders and consultation with community stakeholders.

As FY2025 is the City’s first annual program implementation report under the 2025-2029 Consolidated Plan, overall, public service goals are in progress. The Annual Action Plan estimated 11,063 households would benefit from both CDBG and HOME funds. However, there were 679 served in FY2025. The City has revitalized the OOR Program by increasing staff capacity to complete future program goals. Additionally there is a HOME Substantial Amendment in progress reprogramming unspent funds for a HOME-funded Tenant Based Rental Assistance program, and the Development, Acquisition, and Rehabilitation of Affordable Housing.

Does this Jurisdiction have any open Brownfields Economic Development Initiative (BEDI) grants? No. Does not apply.

[BEDI grantees] Describe accomplishments and program outcomes during the last year. 41 CAPER 28
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CR-50 - HOME 91.520(d)
Include the results of on-site inspections of affordable rental housing assisted under the program to determine compliance with housing codes and other applicable regulations.

Please list those projects that should have been inspected on-site this program year based upon the schedule in §92.504(d). Indicate which of these were inspected and a summary of issues that were detected during the inspection. For those that were not inspected, please indicate the reason and how you will remedy the situation.

At this time, the City does not have any HOME funded rental housing program.

Provide an assessment of the jurisdiction's affirmative marketing actions for HOME units. 92.351(b)

In addition to prohibiting discrimination, fair housing and equal opportunity laws require recipients of federal housing funds to be proactive in encouraging participation in any projects or programs funded through federal sources. They must affirmatively market housing, employment and contracting opportunities to minorities, women, and low-income residents and businesses.

The City’s housing rehab program has elected to design and implement HOME funded activities to meet the following objectives on a first-come-first-served basis:

1. Implement a City-wide program designed to serve very low and low-income households,

2. Provide valuable service to qualified homeowners and residents,

3. Preserve existing single-family homes, either detached, or attached, within the City limits.

The City's objective to project selection is to establish meaningful criteria for determining which future projects and programs are chosen (i.e., the level of needed repair or ability of the owner to leverage other funds) and assertively marketing activities to ensure p rogram information is widely and fairly distributed (i.e. application packages are available at City Hall and information available via the city’s Web site)

The City completed an update to their Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice report, entitled, 2025 Fair Housing Assessment and Equity Plan. The City and its fair housing partners effectively promote affirmative marketing strategies through the following actions:
 Use of the fair housing logo or equal opportunity language in marketing materials, posters on office walls, and referrals to a fair housing agency
 Use of funding agreements to require subrecipients to comply with requirements relating to equal employment opportunities;
 Use of non-English language newspapers (as needed), informing service agencies about projects, and translators at public meetings
 Furthermore, the City maintained the following marketing requirements and procedures:
 Methods of informing the public, owners, and potential tenants about federal fair housing laws and the City's affirmative marketing policy
 Procedures to be used to inform and solicit applications from the persons in the housing market area that are not likely to apply for housing without special outreach.  Records that will be kept describing actions taken by the City and subrecipients in affirmatively marketing programs and projects.

For employment and other economic development opportunities generated by certain HUD financial assistance, 42 CAPER 29
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the City shall, to the greatest extent feasible, and in conformance with existing Federal, State, and local law and regulations, be directed to low and very-low income persons, particularly those who are recipients of government assistance for housing, and to building contractors which provide economic opportunity to low and very-low income persons as required under Section 3. All Housing rehab contracts are competitively bid with bid package language encouraging women-owned and minority contractor businesses to submit.

In addition, the City maintains the following employment and contracting policies:
 Adoption of a formal policy concerning nondiscrimination in employment, and a designated department to oversee compliance;
 Procedures in notifying minority and women-owned contractors for any Request for Proposals on City projects;
 Placement of minority and women-owned businesses (MBE/WBEs) on solicitation lists; and  Use the services and assistance of the Small Business Administration and Minority Business Development Agency, to encourage MBE/WBD participation in City projects.

For all federally funded contracts, the City ha s a standardized format for all bid packages. The bid package consists of a listing of federal equal employment opportunity/affirmative action requirements, requirements for contracting with small and minority-owned firms, women-owned business enterprises and labor surplus area information, certification regarding performance of previous contracts or subcontracts subject to the equal opportunity clause and the filing of required reports.

Refer to IDIS reports to describe the amount and use of program income for projects, including the number of projects and owner and tenant characteristics
During FY2025, a total of $339,719 was received in HOME Funds and $ 77,678 was received in HOME program income. The total program income received was receipted in IDIS during the program year . An additional $2,590,895 was available as carryover funds including program income from prior years.

HOME Program activities are consistent with the City's stated goals and objectives of the Consolidated Plan.

However, due to continued annual reductions in HOME funds, the City has begun to re-evaluate its housing priorities. The 2025-2029 Consolidated Plan acknowledges future housing priorities include affordable housing preservation.

During this reporting period, the City allocated HOME funds to the following projects/programs:

Project Activity Amount
Allocated Actual Expended
Home Administration Administration $41,739.73 $41,739.73 Owner-Occupied Housing
Rehabilitation Program – HOME
Grants
Rehabilitation $1,390,402.60 $0
Owner-Occupied Rehabilitation
Program –
HOME Loans Rehabilitation $1,425,192.10 $0
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Community Housing Development
Organization (CHDO)
Acquisition,
Rehabilitation,
and/or
Construction

$50,957.91

$0
Table 14 – Funds Made Available

The City administered owner-occupied rehabilitation program provides grants and/or loans to low- and moderate- income owner-occupied households that need financial assistance to bring their house up to current housing quality standards. Zero (0) grant and loan were provided to eligible Lynwood residents during this program year.

Describe other actions taken to foster and maintain affordable housing. 91.220(k) (STATES ONLY: Including the coordination of LIHTC with the development of affordable housing).

91.320(j)

The City prioritizes homeownership for everyone therefore housing rehabilitation of existing affordable housing stock is important. Previous funding y ears as well as future funding years will maintain and shape the Owner- Occupied Rehabilitation (OOR) Program using CDBG and HOME funds. Successful implementation of this effort relies on the collaborative effort of many community partners including public agencies, government, housing developers, non-profit agencies, and groups. The City uses several key promotion outlets including: the City newsletter ‘Lynwood N' Perspective’, website postings, social media outlets (i.e. Facebook, twitter, etc.), and community events to promote housing and community services service and housing rehab programs.

Housing preservation efforts that assist low- and moderate-income families include: OOR program provides assistance to preserve housing standards ; and c ode enforcement activities . These two programs remain an important component for maintaining and improving the City’s housing stock, focused on solving problems that threaten resident safety and security.
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CR-58 – Section 3
Identify the number of individuals assisted and the types of assistance provided

Total Labor Hours CDBG HOME
Total Number of Activities 0 0
Total Labor Hours 0 0
Total Section 3 Worker Hours 0 0
Total Targeted Section 3 Worker Hours 0 0
Table 15 – Total Labor Hours

Qualitative Efforts - Number of Activities by Program CDBG HOME Outreach efforts to generate job applicants who are Public Housing Targeted Workers 0 0
Outreach efforts to generate job applicants who are Other Funding Targeted Workers. 0 0
Direct, on-the job training (including apprenticeships). 0 0 Indirect training such as arranging for, contracting for, or paying tuition for, off-site training. 0 0
Technical assistance to help Section 3 workers compete for jobs (e.g., resume assistance, coaching). 0 0
Outreach efforts to identify and secure bids from Section 3 business concerns. 0 0 Technical assistance to help Section 3 business concerns understand and bid on contracts. 0 0
Division of contracts into smaller jobs to facilitate participation by Section 3 business concerns. 0 0
Provided or connected residents with assistance in seeking employment including: drafting resumes, preparing for interviews, finding job opportunities, connecting residents to job placement services.

0 0
Held one or more job fairs. 0 0
Provided or connected residents with supportive services that can provide direct services or referrals. 0 0
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.

0 0
Assisted residents with finding child care. 0 0
Assisted residents to apply for, or attend community college or a four year educational institution. 0 0
Assisted residents to apply for, or attend vocational/technical training. 0 0 45 CAPER 32
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Assisted residents to obtain financial literacy training and/or coaching. 0 0 Bonding assistance, guaranties, or other efforts to support viable bids from Section 3 business concerns. 0 0
Provided or connected residents with training on computer use or online technologies. 0 0
Promoting the use of a business registry designed to create opportunities for disadvantaged and small businesses. 0 0
Outreach, engagement, or referrals with the state one-stop system, as designed in Section 121(e)(2) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.

0 0
Other. 0 0
Table 16 – Qualitative Efforts - Number of Activities by Program

Narrative
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HRG - NOTICE OF HEARING
Final FY 25 CAPER - Public Notice English
I am a citizen of the United States and a resident of the State of California; I am over the age of eighteen years, and not a party to or interested in the above entitled matter. I am the principal clerk of the printer and publisher of the LYNWOOD PRESS WAVE, a newspaper published in the English language in the city of LYNWOOD, county of LOS ANGELES, and adjudged a newspaper of general circulation as defined by the laws of the State of California by the Superior Court of the County of LOS ANGELES, State of California, under date 02/27/1933, Case No. LBC-5394. That the notice, of which the annexed is a printed copy, has been published in each regular and entire issue of said newspaper and not in any supplement thereof on the following dates, to-wit:
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING AND 15 -DAY

COMMENT PERIOD

CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL PERFORMANCE

AND EVALUATION REPORTING
FISCAL YEAR 2025 -2026
The City of Lynwood (City) hereby notifies the
public of a public hearing on September 15, 2026,
to rece ive public comment on the Consolidated
Annual Performance and Evaluation Report
(CAPER) for the 2025 -2026 Fiscal Year. The
CAPER reports the City's progress in meeting the
proposed Community Development Block Grant
(CDBG) funded activities and projects not ed in
the City's 2025 -2026 Action Plan, as well as its
progress in carrying out the City's Consolidated
Plan's five -year strategies.

Hearing Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Time: 6:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter as the
matter may be heard
Place: City Hall Annex Council Chambers –
11350 Bullis Road, Lynwood, CA 90262
Public Review and Comment Period: The draft
Fiscal Year 2025 -2026 CAPER will be available
for a fifteen -day public review and comment
period commencing on August 27, 2026, through
September 15, 2026. The draft CAPER, staff
report, and related materials will be available at
the City's Community Development Department,
online at https://www.lynwoodca.gov/ or by
contacting Suzanne Trejo, Administrative Analyst
II, at (310) 603 -0220, Ext. 601; or th e City Clerk's
Office at (310) 603 -0220, Ext. 523;
Public Participation: All interested persons are
invited to attend the Public Hearing to be heard.

Written comments on the FY 2025 -26 CAPER will
be accepted during the fifteen -day comment
period, from Augu st 27, 2026, through September
11, 2026. Comments received after Tuesday,
September 15, 2026, cannot be accepted. Written
comments may be submitted via email to
[email protected] or mailed to: City of
Lynwood – Community Development Department
Attn: Suz anne Trejo, Administrative Analyst II
11330 Bullis Road
Lynwood, CA 90262
Accessibility: The City of Lynwood complies
with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
and will make reasonable accommodations for
individuals wishing to participate. Please cont act
the City at least 72 hours before the public
hearing to request accommodations.
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HRG - NOTICE OF HEARING
Final FY 25 CAPER Spanish Public notice
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AVISO DE AUDIENCIA PÚBLICA Y PERIODO
DE COMENTARIOS DE 15 DÍAS

INFORMES CONSOLIDADOS ANUALES DE
DESEMPEÑO Y EVALUACIÓN
AÑO FISCAL 2025 -2026
La Ciudad de Lynwood (Ciudad) notifica al
público la convocatoria pública el 15 de
septiemb re de 2026 para recibir comentarios
públicos sobre el Informe Anual Consolidado de
Desempeño y Evaluación (CAPER) para el año
fiscal 2025 -2026. El CAPER informa sobre los
avances de la Ciudad en el cumplimiento de las
actividades y proyectos financiados po r la
Subvención Bloqueada de Desarrollo
Comunitario (CDBG) propuesta, recogidos en el
Plan de Acción 2025 -2026 de la Ciudad, así
como sus avances en la ejecución de las
estrategias quinquenales del Plan Consolidado
de la Ciudad.

Fecha de la audiencia: mart es, 15 de
septiembre de 2026
Hora: 18:00 o tan pronto como se pueda conocer
el asunto
Lugar: Sala del Ayuntamiento de la Ciudad de
Lynwood – 11350 Bullis Road, Lynwood, CA
90262
Periodo de Revisión y Comentarios Públicos:

El borrador del CAPER del Año Fisc al 2025 -2026
estará disponible para un periodo de revisión
pública y comentarios de quince días que
comenzará el 27 de agosto de 2026 hasta el 15
de septiembre de 2026. El borrador del CAPER,
el informe del personal y los materiales
relacionados estarán di sponibles en el
Departamento de Desarrollo Comunitario de la
Ciudad, en línea en https://www.lynwoodca.gov/
o contactando con Suzanne Trejo, Analista
Administrativa II, en el (310) 603 -0220, Ext. 601;
o con la Oficina del Secretario Municipal en el
(310) 6 03 -0220, Ext. 523;
Participación pública: Se invita a todas las
personas interesadas a asistir a la Audiencia
Pública para ser escuchadas. Los comentarios
escritos sobre el CAPER del año fiscal 2025 -26
serán aceptados durante el periodo de quince
días, del 27 de agosto de 2026 al 15 de
septiembre de 2026. No se pueden aceptar
comentarios recibidos después del martes 15 de
septiembre de 2026. Los comentarios escritos
pueden enviarse por correo electrónico a
[email protected] o enviado por correo a:

Ciudad de Lynwood – Departamento de
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Lynwood, CA 90262
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8/27/26
WWA -4072906#

LYNWOOD PRESS WAVE
48 AGENDA STAFF REPORT

DATE:

September 15, 2026
TO:

Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
APPROVED BY:

Suja Lowenthal, City Manager
PREPARED BY:

Carol Molina, Interim Director of Finance & Administration Mohammad Islam, Accounting Technician
SUBJECT:

APPROVAL OF THE WARRANT REGISTER
Agenda Item # 8.1.

Recommendation:

Staff recommends City Council approve the warrant register dated August 14, 2026 to August 27, 2026 for FY
2025–26
and FY
2026–27
. Staff certifies the accuracy of the demands.

Executive Summary:

Request for approval of the warrant register dated August 14, 2026 to August 27, 2026 for FY 2025–26 and FY 2026–27. (FIN)
Background:

Discussion and Analysis:

Fiscal Impact:

Coordinated With:

City Manager
City Attorney
ATTACHMENTS:

City Council City Council Regular Meeting 49
09-15-2026-CITY__COUNCIL__WARRANT__RESOLUTION__TEMPLATE-2026.docx WARRANT RUN CITY COUNCIL -9-15-2026.pdf
Description
City Council City Council Regular Meeting 50
RESOLUTION NO. 2027.xxx

Warrant Registers Dated 08–14–2026 to 08–27–2026

PASSED, APPROVED, and ADOPTED this 15th day of September, 2026.

Gabriela Camacho, Mayor

ATTEST:

__________________________
Maria Quiňonez Suja Lowenthal
City Clerk City Manager

APPROVED AS TO FORM: APPROVED AS TO CONTENT:

________
Noel Tapia Carol Molina
City Attorney Interim Director of Finance & Administration

51 STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
) §

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )

I, Maria Quinonez, the undersigned, City Clerk of the City of Lynwood, do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Lynwood at a meeting held on the 15th day of September, 2026.

AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS CUELLAR, SOTO, MUṄOZ-GUEVARA, MAYOR PRO

TEM AVILA MOORE, AND MAYOR CAMACHO

NOES: NONE

ABSENT: NONE

ABSTAIN: NONE

_____________________ Date: _______________________
Maria Quiňonez
City Clerk

STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
) §

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )

I, Maria Quinonez, the undersigned, City Clerk of the City of Lynwood, and the Clerk of the City Council of said City, do hereby certify that the above foregoing is a full, true, and correct copy of Resolution No. 2027.xxx on file in my office and that said Resolution was adopted on the date and by the vote therein stated. Dated this 15th day of September, 2026.

__________________________ Date: _________________________ Maria Quiňonez
City Clerk

52 apCkHist
08/31/2026 8:15AM
Bank code: c-ap01
Void Check# Date Vendor
304004 06/22/2026 014941 SUJATHA J. LOWENTHAL
1 checks in this report
Void Check Listing
City of Lynwood
ClearNoid Date Invoice
08/26/2026 REISSUED-304616
Page: 1
Inv. Date Amount Paid Check Total
05/17/2026 191.40 191.40
c-ap01 Total: 191.40
Total Checks: 191.40
Page:1
53 vchlist
08/17/2026
Bank code:

Voucher
1006367
5:03:21PM
c-ap01
Date Vendor
6/23/2026 000053 CALPERS
1 Vouchers for bank code :
1 Vouchers in this report
c-ap01
Electronic Financial Transaction List
City of Lynwood
Invoice
100000018332911
100000018333714
PO# -------
Description/ Account
1959 SUVIVOR BILLING INVOICE
1959 SUVIVOR BILLING INVOICE
Total:

Bank total:

Total vouchers :

Page: 2
Amount
2,683.20
3,437.20
6,120.40
6,120.40
6,120.40
Page: 2
54 vchlist
08/19/2026
Bank code:

Voucher
304579
304580
4:21:47PM
c-ap01
Date Vendor
8/20/2026 008671 RESOURCE BLDG. MATERIALS
8/20/2026 002912 WATERLINE TECHNOLOGIES.INC
Voucher List
Fiscal Year 2025-26
City of Lynwood
Invoice
4232102
5801042
5801808
5801809
Page: 3
PO# Description/ Account Amount
06-010464 MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES 1,046.75
Total: 1,046.75
06-010485 OPERATING SUPPLIES 915.02
06-010485 OPERATING SUPPLIES 1,235.59
06-010485 OPERATING SUPPLIES 1,239.96
Total: 3,390.57
Page: 3
55 vchlist Voucher List Page: 4
08/27/2026 11:43:41AM City of Lynwood
Bank code: c-ap01
Voucher Date Vendor Invoice PO# Description/Account Amount 304612 8/27/2026 010746 ALVAREZ-GLASMAN & COLVIN 2026-05-21801 01-001878 LEGAL SERVICES 1,457.00 2026-06-21821 01-001878 LEGAL SERVICES 305.50
Total: 1,762.50
304613 8/27/2026 003312 AMERICAN RENTALS 611416 06-010422 SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT 642.90 611644 06-010422 SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT 345.23
611969 06-010422 SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT 323.28
612062 06-010422 SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT 361.61
612488 06-010422 SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT 119.88
612501 06-010422 SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT 348.97
613067 06-010422 SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT 671.67
Total: 2,813.54
304614 8/27/2026 014026 IBE DIGITAL CW1001 INTERNET SERVICES-SENIOR 650.00 Total: 650.00
304615 8/27/2026 000353 INFOSEND, INC. 312902 02-002713 PRINTING/MAILING OF UTILITY 3,719.48 Total: 3,719.48
304616 8/27/2026 014941 LOWENTHAL, SUJATHA J. 014941-051726-1 RIMBURSEMENT-MILEAGE CCCA 191.40 Total: 191.40
304617 8/27/2026 007308 MEEDER PUBLIC FUNDS Lynwood#61 INVESTMENT ADVISORY SERVICES 3,000.00 Total: 3,000.00
304618 8/27/2026 000078 ODP BUSINESS SOLUTIONS,LLC 472834901001 02-002719 OFFICE SUPPLIES 973.58 473126191001 02-002719 OFFICE SUPPLIES 61.13
473126228001 02-002719 OFFICE SUPPLIES 70.77
473126229001 02-002719 OFFICE SUPPLIES 129.21
Total: 1,234.69
304619 8/27/2026 008526 RENTALS, INC, STEPHEN DORECK 26MS15-01 06-010692 EMERGENCY REPAIRS SERVICE 10,670.00 Total: 10,670.00
304620 8/27/2026 014812 SOUTHWEST PATROL, INC 83084 11-002535 SECUIRTY PATROL SERVICES 19,200.00 Total: 19,200.00
Page: 4
56 vchlist
08/27/2026 11:43:41AM
Bank code: c-ap01
Voucher
304621
304622
304623
Date Vendor
8/27/2026 014709 SPRINGBROOK HOLDING COMPANY
8/27/2026 015069 STAFFING PROFESSIONALS INC.,
8/27/2026 002938 TAJ OFFICE SUPPLY
14 Vouchers for bank code:
14 Vouchers in this report
c-ap01
Voucher List
City of Lynwood
Invoice
TMINV-011238
002714
08238
Page: 5
PO# Description/Account Amount
02-002705 SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES 1,419.00
Total: 1,419.00
02-002740 FINANCE TEMPORARY STAFFING 2,932.02
Total: 2,932.02
02-002736 SUPPLIES EXPENSE 54.27
Total: 54.27
Bank total: 52,084.22
Total vouchers: 52,084.22
Page: 5
57 vchlist
08/19/2026
Bank code:

Voucher
304581
304582
304583
304584
304585
304586
304587
304588
304589
304590
4:59:34PM
c-ap01
Date Vendor
8/20/2026 011719 ALL STAR ELITE SPORTS
8/20/2026 000926 AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
8/20/2026 001168 CINTAS CORPORATION NO. 2
8/20/2026 004523 CITY OF LOS ANGELES
8/20/2026 010754 COOL IMAGE WATER, DBA/ AMERICAN
8/20/2026 000305 CULLIGAN
8/20/2026 014467 DELGADILLO, LILIANA
8/20/2026 014467 DELGADILLO, LILIANA
8/20/2026 004089 ELDER, BRUCE A.
8/20/2026 013973 ENTERPRISE FM TRUST
Voucher List
Fiscal Year 2026-27
City of Lynwood
Invoice
6226
151220
151221
5353072807
5353072809
48H-50-3811-27-008
2954
2968
2971
2975
2976
2060749
2064642
2066175
014467-073126
014467-083126
004089-082626
FBN5693706
FBN5719799
Page: 6
PO# Description/Account Amount
SUPPLIES EXPENSE 906.14
Total: 906.14
TRANSPORTATION EXPENSE 834.00
TRANSPORTATION EXPENSE 1,181.50
Total: 2,015.50
08-005476 FIRST AID CABINETS 195.13
08-005476 FIRST AID CABINETS 172.28
Total: 367.41
MEMBERSHIP FEE LARA 17,490.06
Total: 17,490.06
WATER SERVICES 162.00
08-005477 WATER SERVICES 95.18
08-005477 WATER SERVICES 33.00
08-005477 WATER SERVICES 16.50
08-005477 WATER SERVICES 57.75
Total: 364.43
06-010683 RENTAL OF DRINKING WATER 81.52
06-010683 RENTAL OF DRINKING WATER 25.06
06-010683 RENTAL OF DRINKING WATER 81.52
Total: 188.10
ELECTRONIC/MEDIA AND AUTO 500.00
Total: 500.00
ELECTRONIC/MEDIA AND AUTO 500.00
Total : 500.00
08-005485 RECREATIONAL CLASSES 776.00
Total: 776.00
06-010694 CITY VEHICLE REPLACEMENT 33,093.27
06-010694 CITY VEHICLE REPLACEMENT 33,093.27
--
Page: 6
58 vchlist Voucher List Page: 7
08/19/2026 4:59:34PM City of Lynwood
Bank code: c-ap01
Voucher Date Vendor Invoice PO# Description/ Account Amount 304590 8/20/2026 013973 013973 ENTERPRISE FM TRUST (Continued) Total: 66,186.54 304591 8/20/2026 003334 FED EX 9-393-49834 OVERNIGHT MAIL SERVICE 73.05 Total: 73.05
304592 8/20/2026 000003 FIRST CHOICE SERVICES LA-1518659 06-010642 COFFEE SERVICES 150.44 Total: 150.44
304593 8/20/2026 014112 GONZALEZ, CHLOE 014112-073126 08-005486 YOUTH RECREATIONAL CLASSES 528.00 Total : 528.00
304594 8/20/2026 015204 GRACE-REED, MARTHA 004127-0154 SUMMER DAY CAMP 2026 REFUND 75.00 Total : 75.00
304595 8/20/2026 013930 HD SUPPLY.INC 0883307518 06-010668 SUPPLIES EXPENSE 4,684.73 0883320277 06-010669 SUPPLIES EXPENSE 1,737.91
Total: 6,422.64
304596 8/20/2026 003338 HILLYARD-LOS ANGELES 90245269 06-010648 SUPPLIES EXPENSE 1,379.20 Total: 1,379.20
304597 8/20/2026 001681 HUMAN SERVICES ASSOCIATION 07312627 08-005478 SENIOR MEAL PROGRAM 4,432.00 Total : 4,432.00
304598 8/20/2026 000001 KING FENCE, INC 60230 06-010672 FENCE REPAIRS AND RENTAL 65.50 Total: 65.50
304599 8/20/2026 014469 MOORE, LORRAINE 014469-081626 PER DIEM-2026 INTERNATIONAL 376.00 Total: 376.00
304600 8/20/2026 011922 NORTH STAR LAND CARE 1601-1395 06-010681 TREE TRIMMING, MAINTENANCE 8,900.00 1601-1405 06-010681 TREE TRIMMING, MAINTENANCE 13,820.00 Total: 22,720.00
304601 8/20/2026 000078 ODP BUSINESS SOLUTIONS,LLC 474343680001 06-010635 SUPPLIES EXPENSE 256.45 476607944001 SUPPLIES EXPENSE 173.87
Total : 430.32
Page: 7
59 vchlist Voucher List Page: 8
08/19/2026 4:59:34PM City of Lynwood
Bank code: c-ap01
Voucher Date Vendor Invoice PO# Description/Account Amount - -
304602 8/20/2026 002336 PLUMBING & HEATING CO. INC., 352654 06-010675 PLUMBING REPAIRS 300.00 Total: 300.00
304603 8/20/2026 002032 QUINN RENTAL SERVICE 35932201 EVENT SERVICE EXPENSE 455.45 Total: 455.45
304604 8/20/2026 014674 RESOURCE BUILDING MATERIALS 4244433 SUPPLIES EXPENSE 774.27 Total: 774.27
304605 8/20/2026 005067 ROADLINE 23243 06-010662 SUPPLIES EXPENSE 1,690.93 Total: 1,690.93
304606 8/20/2026 014812 SOUTHWEST PATROL, INC 83922 08-005483 SECURITY SERVICES SPECIAL 1,215.00 Total: 1,215.00
304607 8/20/2026 002938 TAJ OFFICE SUPPLY 08266 06-010638 OFFICE & OPERATING SUPPLIES 52.05 Total: 52.05
304608 8/20/2026 000166 UNDERGROUND SERVICE ALERT/SC 26-270269 06-010688 UNDERGROUND SERVICE ALERT 109.42 720260444 06-010688 UNDERGROUND SERVICE ALERT 376.60
Total: 486.02
304609 8/20/2026 002912 WATERLINE TECHNOLOGIES.INC 5802856 06-010646 OPERATING SUPPLIES 813.35 5802857 06-010646 OPERATING SUPPLIES 677.79
5802858 06-010646 OPERATING SUPPLIES 847.24
5809423 06-010646 OPERATING SUPPLIES 440.56
5809644 06-010646 OPERATING SUPPLIES 982.80
5809647 06-010646 OPERATING SUPPLIES 643.90
5810612 06-010646 OPERATING SUPPLIES 796.40
5810613 06-010646 OPERATING SUPPLIES 779.46
Total: 5,981.50
304610 8/20/2026 009100 WATERWORKS TECHNOLOGY.INC. 7380 06-010680 WATER AND SEWER OVERSIGHT 34,700.00 Total: 34,700.00
304611 8/20/2026 011963 WEX BANK 114496050 06-010639 FUEL CHARGES FOR CITY 15,309.43 Total: 15,309.43
Page: 8
60 vchlist Voucher List Page: 9
08/27/2026 4:01:41PM City of Lynwood
Bank code: c-ap01
Voucher Date Vendor Invoice PO# Description/Account Amount 304624 8/27/2026 000743 ADMINISTRATIVE SVCS. CO-OP 260713 08-005475 DIAL- A -RIDE PROGRAM 16,455.17 Total: 16,455.17
304625 8/27/2026 015105 ALEJO, ANTONIO ANGEL 3-B-062426 11-002575 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 363.19 3-C-062426 11-002576 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 667.65 3-D-062426 11-002574 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 1,175.20 4-B-072726 11-002575 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 363.19 4-C-072426 11-002576 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 667.65 4-D-072726 11-002574 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 1,175.20 Total: 4,412.08
304626 8/27/2026 014671 AMCAL PARK PLACE FUND LP 2-2307-062426 11-002577 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 1,162.79 3-2207-062426 11-002579 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 139.22 3-2307-072726 11-002577 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 1,162.79 4-2207-072726 11-002579 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 139.22 4-2318-072726 11-002578 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 329.10 Total: 2,933.12
304627 8/27/2026 014671 AMCAL PARK PLACE FUND LP 3-2318-062426 11-002578 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 329.10 Total: 329.10
304628 8/27/2026 015100 AQP BARLOW LLC 2-A-062426 11-002580 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 1,133.00 3-A-072726 11-002580 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 1,133.00 3-D-062426 11-002581 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 672.59 4-D-072726 11-002581 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 672.59 Total: 3,611.18
304629 8/27/2026 006399 AT&T 333404869-080826 INTERNET SERVICES 252.99 Total: 252.99
304630 8/27/2026 015198 BRADY, TONY 003951-0063 REFUNDABLE DEPOSIT-CONST 3,000.00 Total: 3,000.00
304631 8/27/2026 000955 CENTRAL BASIN MUNICIPAL WATER LYN-JUL26 06-010631 IMPORTED DRINKING WATER 55,235.17 Total: 55,235.17
304632 8/27/2026 001168 CINTAS CORPORATION NO. 2 4275211938 06-010679 UNIFORM SERVICES 437.53 Page: 9
61 vchlist Voucher List Page: 10
08/27/2026 4:01:41PM City of Lynwood
Bank code: c-ap01
Voucher Date Vendor Invoice PO# Description/Account Amount 304632 8/27/2026 001168 CINTAS CORPORATION NO. 2 (Continued) 4275211941 06-010679 UNIFORM SERVICES 195.07
4275945399 06-010679 UNIFORM SERVICES 437.53
4275945494 06-010679 UNIFORM SERVICES 194.39
4276695239 06-010679 UNIFORM SERVICES 437.53
4276695353 06-010679 UNIFORM SERVICES 190.86
4277419209 06-010679 UNIFORM SERVICES 437.53
4277419278 06-010679 UNIFORM SERVICES 190.86
4278208862 06-010679 UNIFORM SERVICES 190.86
4278208891 06-010679 UNIFORM SERVICES 437.53
Total: 3,149.69
304633 8/27/2026 001168 CINTAS CORPORATION NO. 2 8408533654 08-005476 FIRST AID CABINETS 241.73 Total: 241.73
304634 8/27/2026 010754 COOL IMAGE WATER, DBA/ AMERICAN 2969 02-002741 DRINKING WATER SERVICES 82.50 Total: 82.50
304635 8/27/2026 000138 DAILY JOURNAL CORPORATION B4058933 11-002607 PUBLICATION SERVICES 1,212.08 B4058934 11-002607 PUBLICATION SERVICES 1,212.08
Total: 2,424.16
304636 8/27/2026 010434 DEL RIO, FRANCISCO 010434-071526 REIMBURSEEM ENT-EUTHANASIA 1,484.20 Total: 1,484.20
304637 8/27/2026 015108 DURFEE PINES LLC 3-K9-062426 11-002582 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 500.47 4-K9-072726 11-002582 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 500.47 Total: 1,000.94
304638 8/27/2026 001087 FANTASY FLOWERS AND GIFTS 1212 08-005480 EVENT SERVICE EXPENSE 387.63 Total: 387.63
304639 8/27/2026 003334 FED EX 9-422-26816 06-010633 COURIER SERVICES 10.42 Total: 10.42
304640 8/27/2026 014701 FLORES, URIEL 003798-0022 REFUNDABLE DEPOSIT-CONS 3,300.00 Total: 3,300.00
Page: 10
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08/27/2026 4:01:41PM City of Lynwood
Bank code: c-ap01
Voucher Date Vendor Invoice PO# Description/Account Amount 304641 8/27/2026 005282 FRANCHISE TAX BOARD Ben181649 FRANCHISE TAX BOARD: PAYMENT 125.00 Total: 125.00
304642 8/27/2026 006902 FULMORE, DENNIS 006902-8726 EVENT SERVICE EXPENSE 375.00 006902-8826 EVENT SERVICE EXPENSE 375.00
Total: 750.00
304643 8/27/2026 013838 GEORGE, LINDA MAE 013838-073026 COMMISSIONER STIPEND 50.00 Total: 50.00
304644 8/27/2026 000993 GRM INFORMATION MANAGEMENT 0556992 05-002029 STORAGE AND MAINTENANCE FEE 19.64 0558966 05-002029 STORAGE AND MAINTENANCE FEE 19.64
Total: 39.28
304645 8/27/2026 013930 HD SUPPLY,INC 0883343413 06-010669 SUPPLIES EXPENSE 419.07 0883356327 06-010669 SUPPLIES EXPENSE 456.35
Total: 875.42
304646 8/27/2026 001681 HUMAN SERVICES ASSOCIATION 004105-0013 REFUNDABLE DEPOSIT- BATEMAN 100.00 Total: 100.00
304647 8/27/2026 015101 HUNTINGTON WEST PROPERTIES INC, 2-b-062426 11-002584 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 936.42 3-8-072726 11-002584 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 936.42 Total: 1,872.84
304648 8/27/2026 015163 INSTITUTE LLC, LIGHTHOUSE 1267 05-002026 EMPLOYEE COACHING-TRAINING 500.00 1281 05-002026 EMPLOYEE COACHING-TRAINING 2,000.00
Total: 2,500.00
304649 8/27/2026 008254 JCL TRAFFIC SERVICES 135617 06-010666 STREET SIGNS AND SUPPLIES 2,385.56 Total: 2,385.56
304650 8/27/2026 014789 LYNWOOD FAMILY APARTMENT, LP 3-204-062426 11-002586 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 401.60 3-223-062426 11-002593 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 337.92 3-302-062426 11-002587 HOME TBRA RENT AL ASSISTANCE 637.81 3-401-062426 11-002588 HOME TBRA RENT AL ASSISTANCE 456.20 4-204-072726 11-002586 HOME TBRA RENT AL ASSIST ANGE 401.60 4-223-072726 11-002593 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 337.92 Page: 11
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08/27/2026 4:01:41PM City of Lynwood
Bank code: c-ap01
Voucher Date Vendor Invoice PO# Description/Account Amount - - 304650 8/27/2026 014789 LYNWOOD FAMILY APARTMENT, LP (Continued) 4-302-072726 11-002587 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 637.81 4-305-062426 11-002590 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 976.20 4-308-062426 11-002591 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 1,023.14 4-324-062426 11-002595 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 1,396.62 4-401-081326 11-002588 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 456.20 4-406-062426 11-002594 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 266.62 4-410-062426 11-002589 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 454.56 4-418-062426 11-002592 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 1,238.00 5-305-072726 11-002590 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 976.20 5-308-072726 11-002591 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 1,023.14 5-324-072726 11-002595 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 1,396.62 5-406-072726 11-002594 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 266.62 5-410-072726 11-002589 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 454.56 5-418-072726 11-002592 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 1,238.00 Total: 14,377.34
304651 8/27/2026 007308 MEEDER PUBLIC FUNDS Lynwood#62 INVESTMENT ADVISORY SERVICES 1,612.90 Total: 1,612.90
304652 8/27/2026 013721 MUNOZ-GUEVARA, JUAN 013721-080326 REIMBURSEMENT-DONATION 29.76 Total: 29.76
304653 8/27/2026 014655 MURILLO, RAFAEL 3-3-062426 11-002596 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 1,411.47 4-3-072726 11-002596 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 1,411.47 Total: 2,822.94
304654 8/27/2026 002592 NAULLS SR, BRUNO M 002592-073026 COMMISSIONER STIPEND 50.00 Total: 50.00
304655 8/27/2026 014796 OJEDA, NORMA CHRISTINA 4-3164-062426 11-002597 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 1,534.00 5-3164-072726 11-002597 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 1,534.00 Total: 3,068.00
304656 8/27/2026 013106 PALM VILLA APARTMENTS 4-D-062426 11-002598 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 1,587.30 5-D-072726 11-002598 HOME TBRA RENTAL ASSISTANCE 1,587.30 Total: 3,174.60
Page: 12
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08/27/2026 4:01:41PM City of Lynwood
Bank code : c-ap01
Voucher Date Vendor Invoice PO# Description/Account Amount 304657 8/27/2026 008745 SAN FRANCISCO LAUNDRY 72043 DRY CLEANING OF LINEN 398.19 Total: 398.19
304658 8/27/2026 000163 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON 000163-082026 LIGHT & POWER SERVICE 77,360.80 Total: 77,360.80
304659 8/27/2026 014812 SOUTHWEST PATROL, INC 83921 08-005483 SECURITY SERVICES 135.00 84106 08-005483 SECURITY SERVICES 630.00
Total: 765.00
304660 8/27/2026 014709 SPRINGBROOK HOLDING COMPANY TMINV-011390 02-002742 SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES 3,049.50 Total: 3,049.50
304661 8/27/2026 013096 STATE DISBURSEMENT UNIT Ben181651 STATE DISBURSEMENT UNIT 353.53 Total: 353.53
304662 8/27/2026 000164 THE GAS CO. 000164-082126 GAS SERVICES 348.84 Total: 348.84
304663 8/27/2026 002912 WATERLINE TECHNOLOGIES.INC 5811608 06-010646 OPERA TING SUPPLIES 440.56 5811609 06-010646 OPERATING SUPPLIES 864.18
5811610 06-010646 OPERATING SUPPLIES 1,016.69
Total: 2,321.43
304664 8/27/2026 007609 WILLDAN FINANCIAL SERVICES 010-66934 ARBRITRAGE REBATE SERVICES 1,250.00 Total: 1,250.00
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65 AGENDA STAFF REPORT

DATE:

September 15, 2026
TO:

Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
APPROVED BY:

Suja Lowenthal, City Manager
PREPARED BY:

Andrew Maximous, Director of Public Works
Pamela Torres, Administrative Analyst II
SUBJECT:

APPOINTMENT OF A BOARD MEMBER AND ALTERNATE BOARD

MEMBER TO THE GATEWAY WATER MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY
Agenda Item # 8.2.

Recommendation:

Staff recommends City Council:

Adopt a resolution
(Attachment 1)
appointing Andrew Maximous, Director of Public Works, as Board Member, and Juan Preciado, Public Works Operations Manager, as Alternate Board Member, to the Governing Board of the Gateway Water Management Authority (GWMA), to serve continuously at the pleasure of the City until the City Council designates a successor.

Executive Summary:

The City currently has a vacancy in its GWMA Board Member seat, created when the former Public Works Director left the City, and its Alternate Board Member, Pamela Torres, has been reassigned to other responsibilities. With the recent hiring of a new Public Works Director, staff recommends that the City Council adopt a resolution designating Andrew Maximous, Director of Public Works, as Board Member and Juan Preciado, Public Works Operations Manager, as Alternate Board Member. In accordance with the GWMA Amended and Restated Joint Powers Agreement and the GWMA Bylaws, non-Legislative Body appointments to the GWMA Board must be made by resolution. There is no fiscal impact associated with the recommended action. (PW)
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Background:

The Los Angeles Gateway Region Integrated Regional Water Management Joint Powers Authority, known as the Gateway Water Management Authority (GWMA), was formed in 2007 in response to the passage of two voter-approved water bonds: Proposition 50, passed in 2002, and Proposition 84, passed in 2006. The GWMA was formed to jointly prepare and adopt a regional plan for the management of water resources, and to implement and operate qualified projects and programs and prepare qualified reports and studies.

Member entities of the GWMA include the cities of Artesia, Bell, Bell Gardens, Bellflower, Cerritos, Commerce, Cudahy, Downey, Hawaiian Gardens, Huntington Park, La Mirada, Lakewood, Long Beach, Lynwood, Maywood, Montebello, Norwalk, Paramount, Pico Rivera, Santa Fe Springs, Signal Hill, South Gate, Vernon, and Whittier, as well as the Central Basin Municipal Water District and the Long Beach Water Department.

The Joint Powers Agreement establishing the GWMA calls for each member public agency to appoint, by name, a Board Member and Alternate Board Member to the GWMA Governing Board, which is the governing body of the Authority. Under the GWMA Bylaws, adopted on October 12, 2015, all non-Legislative Body appointments to the GWMA Board must be made by resolution; Legislative Body appointments may be made by minute order.

On February 21, 2023, the City Council replaced the City's previous GWMA appointees and designated the Director of Public Works as Board Member and Pamela Torres, Senior Management Analyst, as Alternate Board Member. The Board Member seat has since become vacant due to the departure of the former Public Works Director, and Ms. Torres has been reassigned away from the responsibilities associated with the Alternate Board Member role.

Past Council Actions:

Meeting Date
Description
October 5, 2010
City Council adopted Resolution No. 2010-208, authorizing the City join the Los Angeles Gateway Region Integrated Regional Water Management Authority known as the Gateway Water Management Authority (GWMA)
February 21, 2023
City Council adopted a resolution replacing the City's prior GWMA appointees and designating the Director of Public Works as Board Member and Pamela Torres, Senior Management Analyst, as Alternate Board Member.

Discussion and Analysis:

GWMA Board Members and Alternate Board Members serve at the pleasure of the City of Lynwood. The draft resolution (Attachment 1) would designate a Board Member and Alternate Board Member to serve continuously, unless the City Council later elects to change its designated appointees or must otherwise fill a vacancy.

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Resolution - GWMA_Board Appointment.docx
With the recent hiring of a new Public Works Director, staff recommends that the City Council designate a new Board Member to fill the vacancy and a new Alternate Board Member in place of Ms. Torres. Staff recommends the following appointments by name and title:

Board Member—Andrew Maximous, Director of Public Works
Alternate Board Member—Juan Preciado, Public Works Operations Manager These appointments would fill the current Board Member vacancy and align the Alternate Board Member designation with Mr. Preciado's role in the Public Works Department, consistent with the City's practice of designating the Director of Public Works and a Public Works Department manager to represent the City on the GWMA Governing Board.

Fiscal Impact:

There is no fiscal impact associated with the recommended action.

Coordinated With:

City Manager’s Office

ATTACHMENTS:

Description
City Council City Council Regular Meeting 68
RESOLUTION NO. XX-XXX

A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE LYNWOOD APPOINTING A

MEMBER AND ALTERNATE(S) TO THE LOS ANGELES GATEWAY REGION

INTEGRATED REGIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT JOINT POWERS AUTHORITY

GOVERNING BOARD

WHEREAS, the Los Angeles Gateway Region Integrated Regional Water Management Joint Powers Authority (GWMA) was formed in 2007 in response to the passage of two voter approved water bonds; Proposition 50, passed in 2002 and Proposition 84, passed in 2006; and
WHEREAS, the City of Lynwood is a member of the GWMA; and WHEREAS, under the GWMA Joint Powers Agreement, each member agency shall appoint one member and up to three alternate members to the Governing Board in accordance with the GWMA Bylaws; and

WHEREAS, The City currently has a vacancy in its GWMA Board Member seat, created when the former Public Works Director left the City, and its Alternate Board Member, was reassigned to other responsibilities; and

WHEREAS, staff recommends designating Public Works Director Andrew Maximous, as Board Member and Juan Preciado Public Works Operations Manager, as Alternate Board Member

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Amended and Restated Joint Powers Agreement, the member and alternate members appointed by this Resolution shal l hold office until removed by the City of Lynwood.

NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LYNWOOD DOES HEREBY FIND, PROCLAIM, ORDER, AND RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:

Section 1. The City Council of the City of Lynwood hereby finds that the above recitals are true and correct and incorporates them herein by this reference.

Section 2. The City Council appoints Public Works Director Andrew Maximous, as Board Member and Juan Preciado Public Works Operations Manager, as Alternate Board Member representing the City of Lynwood.

Section 3. The City Council authorizes the Mayor to execute this Resolution for and on behalf of the City of Lynwood.
69 Section 4. The City Clerk shall attest and certify to the passage and adoption of this Resolution and enter it into the book of original resolutions, and it shall become effective immediately upon its adoption.

PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 15th day of September, 2026

______________________________
Gabriela Camacho
Mayor
ATTEST:

___________________________
María Quiñónez
City Clerk

APPROVED AS TO FORM: APPROVED AS TO CONTENT:

__________________________ ______________________________ Noel Tapia Suja Lowenthal
City Attorney City Manager

70 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
I, the undersigned, City Clerk of the City of Lynwood, do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Lynwood at a regular meeting held on the 15th day of September, 2026, and passed by the following votes:

AYES:

NOES:

ABSTAIN:

ABSENT:

Maria Quinonez, City Clerk

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

I, the undersigned, City Clerk of the City of Lynwood, and the Clerk of the City Council of said City, do hereby certify that the above foregoing is a full, true, and correct copy of Resolution No. on file in my office and that said Resolution was adopte d on the date and by the vote therein stated. Dated this 1 5th day of September 2026

Maria Quinonez, City Clerk

71 AGENDA STAFF REPORT

DATE:

September 15, 2026
TO:

Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
APPROVED BY:

Suja Lowenthal, City Manager
PREPARED BY:

Meredith T. Elguira, Interim Community Development Director SUBJECT:

APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING SUBMITTAL OF A

GRANT APPLICATION TO THE STRATEGIC GROWTH COUNCIL FOR A TRANSFORMATIVE CLIMATE COMMUNITIES ROUND 6 PROJECT

DEVELOPMENT GRANT FOR THE LEAN ON LYNWOOD RESILIENCE

NETWORK
Agenda Item # 8.3.

Recommendation:

Staff recommends City Council:
1 .

Adopt a resolution
(Attachment 1)
authorizing submittal of a grant application to the
Strategic Growth Council for a Transformative Climate Communities Round 6 Project Development Grant
(Attachment 2)
for the Lean on Lynwood Resilience Network in an
amount not to exceed $5 million, authorizing acceptance of the grant if the application is selected for award, and authorizing the City Manager to execute the grant agreement and all related documents on behalf of the City; and
2 .

Lynwood experiences extreme heat at levels that pose a growing risk to residents, and the City does not currently have facilities capable of remaining operational and habitable during a heat event coupled with a power outage. The Energy Resilience Action Plan, completed in City Council City Council Regular Meeting 72
November 2024 (Attachment 3), identified and ranked City facilities by resilience readiness and confirmed that none is presently equipped to serve as a reliable cooling and refuge location.

The Strategic Growth Council requires an adopted resolution as a condition of application.

Staff recommends that Council adopt a resolution authorizing the application, acceptance of an award, and execution of related documents in a single action, because a second resolution at the execution stage would delay the start of the grant term. (CD) Background:

CalEnviroScreen 4.0 identifies Lynwood as among the top 25 percent most burdened communities in California, and the City qualifies as a disadvantaged community for purposes of state climate investment. Residents face compounding environmental burdens, including elevated heat exposure, limited tree canopy, and proximity to freight corridors.

In November 2024, the City completed the Energy Resilience Action Plan in partnership with the Southern California Regional Energy Network and the Gateway Cities Council of Governments. The plan assessed City facilities and ranked them by suitability to operate as resilience hubs during grid outages and extreme heat events. The plan also included a community survey. Of the 129 residents who responded, 58 percent identified access to cooling as their highest priority, ranking it above all other resilience measures presented.

The Energy Resilience Action Plan examined four facilities: the Lynwood Community and Transit Center, Bateman Hall, City Hall, and the Senior Center. The plan addressed both the capacity of facilities to serve residents during an emergency and the need to make essential City facilities more resilient generally. The plan did not fund design, engineering, or construction. Advancing these facilities to a construction-ready state requires a dedicated funding source, which the Transformative Climate Communities Project Development Grant would provide.

Independent survey research conducted for the City in July 2026 documents resident priorities consistent with the proposed scope. Among 147 Lynwood residents surveyed in English and Spanish, 96 percent rated maintaining safe routes to schools as extremely or very important, City Council City Council Regular Meeting 73
95 percent rated ensuring safe places for children to play as extremely or very important, and 92 percent rated keeping parks and public areas safe and clean as extremely or very important. Maintaining parks and maintaining park and recreation programs were rated extremely or very important by 83 percent and 82 percent, respectively. The same research reported that an independent engineering assessment rated 48 percent of Lynwood streets and roads as fair, poor, or very poor.

The findings support the proposed emphasis on neighborhood facilities and on the pedestrian connections between residents and those facilities. Approximately 3,000 children participate in City-run after-school and summer programs, which indicates the reach available through the Parks and Recreation network for engagement and for programming at the proposed resilience nodes.

Lynwood is also a community of focus of the Gateway Cities Regional Climate Collaborative, a partnership of the Gateway Cities Council of Governments, the Southeast Los Angeles Collaborative, TreePeople, GRID Alternatives, and the Los Angeles County Chief Sustainability Office, funded through the Strategic Growth Council Regional Climate Collaboratives Program. The collaborative has completed a regional review of extreme heat data identifying tree canopy coverage in Southeast Los Angeles at 12.3 percent, compared with a countywide average of 17 percent, and impervious surface coverage at 76.3 percent, compared with a countywide average of 60.1 percent. The regional findings are consistent with the facility conditions documented in the Energy Resilience Action Plan.

Staff has monitored the Transformative Climate Communities Program across prior rounds.

Round 6 is the first round in which a Project Development track has been available at a scale matched to the work Lynwood requires.

Discussion and Analysis:

Grant Program
The Transformative Climate Communities Program is funded through the California Climate Investments program and administered by the Strategic Growth Council. The program funds community-led climate projects in disadvantaged communities and emphasizes collaborative governance, community engagement, and displacement avoidance.

Project Development Grants fund the predevelopment work required to make a set of related projects construction-ready. Eligible activities include architectural and engineering design, technical studies, community engagement, workforce planning, and policy development.

Round 6 will award three Project Development Grants of up to $5 million each over a two-year grant term. The program does not require leverage funding or a local match for Project Development Grants.

Proposed Project
The proposed application would advance the Lean on Lynwood Resilience Network, a tiered, citywide system consisting of three components:

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Tier 1 resilience hubs. Design and engineering to approximately 60 percent completion for the four facilities examined in the Energy Resilience Action Plan. Scope would be determined through design and may include solar generation, battery storage, electric vehicle charging, building envelope and mechanical improvements, and the improvements needed for each facility to serve residents during heat events and power outages.

Tier 2 resilience nodes. Concept-level design for neighborhood facilities, including parks and youth and senior facilities, that would extend the reach of the network into residential areas.

Green-blue corridors. Concept design for shaded, cooled pedestrian connections linking residents to the hubs and nodes, addressing sidewalk condition, tree canopy, lighting, and stormwater management along those routes.

The application would also fund community engagement, workforce development planning tied to the Capital Improvement Program, and development of an anti-displacement policy pathway addressing housing along Lynwood commercial corridors.

Community engagement would be implemented by City Fabrick and the City, drawing on City staff across the Community Development Department, the Public Works Department, and Parks and Recreation. The Lynwood parks system functions as the primary point of connection between the City and residents, and engagement would be delivered through that network, including programming reaching seniors and youth. Engagement would be sequenced to run ahead of and alongside the technical work so that resident input informs the design, the cost estimates, and the plans produced under each component.

Applicant Team
The Transformative Climate Communities Program requires that a Project Development Grant application include at least two Co-Applicants and at least one public agency partner. Staff proposes the following team:

City of Lynwood, Lead Applicant. The City would hold the grant agreement, administer the grant, manage reporting and invoicing, and direct the work as owner of the Tier 1 facilities.

City Fabrick, Co-Applicant. City Fabrick is a nonprofit design and planning organization that would lead architectural and landscape architectural design, community engagement, the network plan, corridor design, and the housing policy pathway. City Fabrick would procure engineering subconsultants directly.

Gateway Cities Council of Governments, Co-Applicant. The Gateway Cities Council of Governments would lead workforce development planning, including an employment opportunities assessment tied to the Capital Improvement Program and development of a workforce resource hub. The Gateway Cities Council of Governments would engage the Gateway Cities Regional Climate Collaborative in delivering this scope.

The Gateway Cities Council of Governments serves as Managing Stakeholder of the Gateway Cities Regional Climate Collaborative and would engage the collaborative to inform the design work, cost estimates, and plans produced under the grant. GRID Alternatives would inform the clean energy and resilience scope for the Tier 1 hubs, TreePeople would inform the nature- based solutions in the Tier 2 nodes and green-blue corridors, and the Southeast Los Angeles Collaborative and the Los Angeles County Chief Sustainability Office would inform regional City Council City Council Regular Meeting 75
alignment. Engaging the collaborative would connect the proposed work to an established regional network rather than building a new one.

The Gateway Cities Council of Governments would also convene the collaborative governance body established for the grant, including resident representatives, and would coordinate the participation of collaborative partners and community-based organizations during the initial planning and engagement period. The Gateway Cities Council of Governments would contract with and compensate collaborative partners and community- based organizations for their participation in engagement, drawing on its existing relationships with those organizations. This structure consolidates those agreements with the Gateway Cities Council of Governments rather than requiring separate City procurements.

Technical design, engineering, and cost estimating would remain with City Fabrick, which would subcontract directly for that work, including with collaborative partners where their expertise applies. City Fabrick and the City would implement community engagement alongside the convening role described above.

The Transformative Climate Communities Program requires a Collaborative Governance Structure that includes the Lead Applicant, the Co-Applicants, and resident representatives.

The application requires a Collaborative Governance Agreement worksheet signed by the City and both Co-Applicants, which defines roles, responsibilities, and financial relationships. If the application is selected for award, the Strategic Growth Council may require revisions to the worksheet during its post-award consultation process, and the final Collaborative Governance Agreement would be executed within 90 days of execution of the grant agreement. Pre- authorizing that execution avoids a return to Council inside that period.

Resolution Requirements
The Strategic Growth Council requires that a public agency Lead Applicant submit an adopted resolution with the application. The resolution must authorize the City to apply for and accept a Transformative Climate Communities award and must include authority to execute all related documents.

The Strategic Growth Council identifies the authority to execute related documents as a streamlining measure drawn from prior grant rounds. Without it, an awarded applicant must return to its governing body for a second resolution before the grant agreement can be executed, which the Strategic Growth Council states can extensively delay the start of the grant term. The recommended resolution therefore combines both authorizations in a single action.

The resolution does not commit the City to a specific dollar figure beyond the not-to-exceed amount, so that adjustments to the final application budget would not require re-adoption.

Submittal of the grant application is not a “project” under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). State CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(4) provides that the creation of government funding mechanisms or other government fiscal activities that do not involve any commitment to any specific project that may result in a potentially significant physical impact on the environment are not projects. Any physical improvements designed under the grant would be subject to CEQA review before construction.

Options
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Staff evaluated three options:

Option 1. Recommended. Adopt a resolution authorizing the application, acceptance of an award, and execution of all related documents. This option preserves the application schedule and would allow the grant term to begin without a return to Council. Staff supports this option.

Option 2. Adopt a resolution authorizing only the application and acceptance of an award, and return to Council for a second resolution before execution. This option meets the minimum program requirement but would delay the start of the grant term and shorten the time available to complete the scope within the grant period.

Option 3. Do not apply. This option would leave the facilities identified in the Energy Resilience Action Plan without a funding pathway to design and would forgo an opportunity for which the City is competitively positioned. Staff does not support this option.

Community Outreach
Community input to date comes from the survey conducted for the Energy Resilience Action Plan, to which 129 residents responded and in which cooling ranked as the highest community priority. That survey informs the focus of the proposed application. If the grant is awarded, community engagement would be a funded component of the scope, implemented by City Fabrick and the City.

Engagement would inform the programming and design of the Tier 1 hubs, the criteria used to prioritize Tier 2 nodes, and the alignment and features of the green-blue corridors, and would carry through to the cost estimates and plans that result. The four Tier 1 facilities were identified through the facility assessment completed in the Energy Resilience Action Plan.

Engagement would shape how those facilities are designed and programmed rather than which facilities are selected.

Additional community engagement is underway in advance of submittal, including sessions at the Senior Center and outreach through Parks and Recreation programming, to confirm resident priorities on extreme heat, power reliability, and access to community facilities.

The Gateway Cities Regional Climate Collaborative has separately conducted regional engagement across its communities of focus, which include Lynwood, through more than 35 external meetings reaching over 1,400 community members and local representatives.

Engaging the collaborative would extend that reach into the proposed scope.

Fiscal Impact:

There is no fiscal impact associated with the recommended action. If the Strategic Growth Council selects the application for award, the City would receive up to $5 million in grant funding, and the program does not require a local match.

Coordinated With:

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1._Resolution_2026-_Lynwood_TCC.docx

2. Transformative Climate Communities Round 6 Program Guidelines.pdf

3. Lynwood Energy Resilience Action Plan with Appendix.pdf City Manager's Office
City Attorney's Office
Public Works Department
Recreation and Community Services Department
Gateway Cities Council of Governments
City Fabrick

ATTACHMENTS:

Description
City Council City Council Regular Meeting 78
RESOLUTION NO. 2026-____

A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LYNWOOD,

CALIFORNIA, AUTHORIZING SUBMITTAL OF A GRANT APPLICATION TO THE

STRATEGIC GROWTH COUNCIL FOR A TRANSFORMATIVE CLIMATE
COMMUNITIES ROUND 6 PROJECT DEVELOPMENT GRANT FOR THE LEAN ON

LYNWOOD RESILIENCE NETWORK, AUTHORIZING ACCEPTANCE OF THE

GRANT, AND AUTHORIZING EXECUTION OF ALL RELATED DOCUMENTS WHEREAS, the Legislature established the Transformative Climate Communities Program to fund community -led development and infrastruc ture projects that achieve environmental, health, and economic benefits in disadvantaged communities; and WHEREAS, the Transformative Climate Communities Program is funded through California Climate Investments and is administered by the Strategic Growth Council; and WHEREAS, the Strategic Growth Council has released Round 6 Program Guidelines, which include a Project Development Grant track that funds the design, engineering, community engagement, and planning work required to advance projects to a construction-ready state; and
WHEREAS, Round 6 Project Development Grants are available in amounts up to $5,000,000 over a two -year grant term, and do not require leverage funding or a local match; and
WHEREAS, the City of Lynwood is identified by CalEnviroScreen 4.0 as among the most environmentally burdened communities in California and qualifies as a disadvantaged community for purposes of state climate investment; and WHEREAS, residents of Lynwood face elevated exposure to extreme heat, limited tree canopy, and the effects of the urban heat island; and WHEREAS, the City completed the Energy Resilience Action Plan in November 2024 in partnership with the Southern California Regional Energy Network and the Gateway Cities Council of Governments; and
WHEREAS, the E nergy Resilience Action Plan assessed City facilities, ranked them by their suitability to operate during grid outages and extreme heat events, and identified the Community and Transit Center, Bateman Hall, City Hall, and the Senior Center as the strongest candidates for resilience hub investment; and WHEREAS, the Energy Resilience Action Plan included a community survey to which 129 residents responded, in which access to cooling was identified as the highest community priority; and
79 WHEREAS, the City propo ses to apply for a Project Development Grant to advance the Lean on Lynwood Resilience Network, consisting of Tier 1 resilience hubs at the facilities identified in the Energy Resilience Action Plan, Tier 2 neighborhood resilience nodes, and green -blue cor ridors connecting residents to those facilities, together with community engagement, workforce development planning, and an anti - displacement policy pathway; and
WHEREAS, the Round 6 Program Guidelines require that a Project Development Grant application i nclude at least two Co -Applicants and at least one public agency partner; and
WHEREAS, the Round 6 Program Guidelines require applicants to form a Collaborative Governance Structure that includes the Lead Applicant, the Co-Applicants, and resident represen tatives, and to submit a Collaborative Governance Agreement worksheet signed by all parties with the application, with the final Collaborative Governance Agreement to be executed within 90 days of execution of the grant agreement; and
WHEREAS, City Fabrick and the Gateway Cities Council of Governments would serve as Co-Applicants, with the City of Lynwood serving as Lead Applicant; and WHEREAS, the Round 6 Program Guidelines require that a public agency Lead Applicant submit an adopted resolution authorizing the agency to apply for and accept a Transformative Climate Communities award, including the authority to execute all related documents; and
WHEREAS, the Strategic Growth Council identifies the authority to execute related documents as a streamlining mea sure, and states that requiring a second authorization before execution can extensively delay the start of the grant term; and WHEREAS, the grant application is exempt under the California Environmental Quality Act Section 15378(b)(4) which explicitly excludes government fiscal activities or funding mechanisms that do not involve any commitment to any specific project which may result in a potentially significant physical impact on the environment.

NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LYNWOO D DOES HEREBY FIND, DETERMINE, ORDER, AND RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:

Section 1. Recitals. The City Council finds that the recitals set forth above are true and correct and are incorporated into this Resolution by this reference.

Section 2. Authorization to Apply. The City Council authorizes the submittal of an application to the Strategic Growth Council for a Transformative Climate Communities 80 Round 6 Project Development Grant for the Lean on Lynwood Resilience Network, in an amount not to exceed $5,000,000.

Section 3. Authorization to Accept. The City Council authorizes the City to accept a Transformative Climate Communities Project Development Grant award from the Strategic Growth Council if the application is selected for funding.

Section 4. Authorization to Exe cute. The City Council authorizes the City Manager, or designee, to execute the grant agreement and any and all documents related to the grant, including amendments, certifications, assurances, and payment requests, on behalf of the City, subject to approval as to form by the City Attorney.

Section 5. Collaborative Governance and Co -Applicant Agreements. The City Council authorizes the City Manager, or designee, to execute the Collaborative Governance Agreement worksheet required with the application, and, if the application is selected for award, to execute subagreements with City Fabrick and the Gateway Cities Council of Governments as Co -Applicants and the final Collaborative Governance Agreement, subject to approval as to form by the City Attorney.

Section 6. Further Actions. The City Council authori zes the City Manager, or designee, to take all actions necessary to submit the application, to designate an authorized representative to act on behalf of the City in connection with the grant, and to administer the grant if awarded.

Section 7. No Present A ppropriation. Adoption of this Resolution does not appropriate funds. Staff would return to the City Council with an appropriation request if the application is selected for award.

Section 8. Environmental Determination. The grant application is exempt und er the California Environmental Quality Act Section 15378(b)(4) which explicitly excludes government fiscal activities or funding mechanisms that do not involve any commitment to any specific project which may result in a potentially significant physical impact on the environment.

Section 9. Severability. If any provision of this Resolution is held invalid, that invalidity does not affect the remaining provisions, and the City Council declares that it would have adopted this Resolution and each provision of it irrespective of any provision being declared invalid.

Section 10. Effective Date. This Resolution takes effect immediately upon adoption.

Section 11. Certification. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Resolution and shall enter it into the book of original resolutions. 81 PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this 15th day of September, 2026.

_____________________________
Gabriela Camacho
Mayor

ATTEST:

__________________________
Maria Quinonez
City Clerk

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

___________________________ _______________________________ Noel Tapia Suja Lowenthal
City Attorney City Manager
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Transformative Climate
Communities
Program

Round 6 Program Guidelines

April 29, 2026
Final Guidelines
Program information can be accessed at: https://sgc.ca.gov/grant-programs/tcc/ To sign up to receive notices, updates, and information regarding the Transformative Climate Communities Program (and other Strategic Growth Council (SGC) grant programs and initiatives), visit the SGC website and click on the “E-lists” link at: http://sgc.ca.gov/

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TCC At-A-Glance
What is the Transformative Climate Communities Program? The Transformative Climate Communities Program (TCC):
 Empowers communities to choose their own strategies that achieve major environmental, health, and economic benefits while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.  Prioritizes California’s most disadvantaged communities.  Develops a shared community vision through partnerships formed in the Collaborative Governance Structure.
 Funds community-led development and infrastructure projects, such as energy efficiency upgrades, solar installation, urban greening, affordable and sustainable housing developments, transit access and mobility, health equity, community microgrids, and more.  Provides the opportunity for advance payment to eligible 501(c)3 nonprofits, Federally and non-federally recognized California Native American Tribes, and Tribally-owned nonprofits.

What activities does the TCC program fund?
TCC funds three grant types:
• Planning Grants
• Project Development Grants
• Implementation Grants
The number of awards per grant type and dollar amount will be determined in the Notice of Funding Availability.

How much funding is available?
Approximately $98.8 million from the Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024, commonly known as the “Climate Bond,” was set aside for TCC.

Who is eligible to apply?
Lead Applicants must be a public or local agency, nonprofit organization, special district, joint powers authority, Tribe, Tribally-owned nonprofit, public utility, local publicly owned utility, or mutual water company.

How do you apply?
Applicants submit Application Requirements, outlined in Section 10, through Submittable.

The tentative Round 6 timeline is:
• Fall 2025: TCC staff release Draft Guidelines for public comment • Spring/Summer 2026: TCC staff release Final Guidelines and open applications • Spring/Summer 2027: Awards announced
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For more information:
• See Frequently Asked Questions in Appendix H of the Guidelines. • Visit https://sgc.ca.gov/grant-programs/tcc/.
• Sign up for our email list at TCC mailing list.
• Contact Program Manager, Nicole Cartwright, [email protected]. • Email [email protected].
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Table of Contents
Transformative Climate Communities Program ........................................................................... 1 TCC At-A-Glance ......................................................................................................................2 Table of Contents .....................................................................................................................4 How to Use This Document ......................................................................................................9 Section 1. Program Overview .................................................................................................. 10

1.1 Background 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ......................................................................................................... 10

1.2 Program Summary 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ............................................................................................... 12

1.3 Program Objectives 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ............................................................................................. 14

1.4 Program Approach 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 .............................................................................................. 14

1.5 Investing in Priority Communities 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ......................................................................... 15

1.6 Funding Goals and Priorities 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ................................................................................ 17 Section 2. California Native American Tribes and Tribal Applicants .......................................... 18

2.1 Important Terminology .................................................................................................. 18

2.2 Tribal Funding Goal 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ............................................................................................. 18

2.3 Limited Waiver of Sovereign Immunity 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ................................................................. 19

2.4 Leverage Funding Exemption 🅟🅟 ................................................................ ..................... 19

2.5 Modifications and Special Considerations 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ........................................................... 19

2.6 Data Sovereignty 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ................................................................................................. 20

2.7 Tribal Notification 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ................................................................................................ 20

2.8 Technical Assistance 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ........................................................................................... 21 Section 3. Eligibility ................................................................................................................ 22

3.1 Eligible Applicants 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ............................................................................................... 22

3.2 Collaborative Governance 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ................................................................................... 27

3.3 Project Area Eligibility 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 .......................................................................................... 33 Section 4. Planning Grants ..................................................................................................... 39

4.1 Planning Grant Objectives 🅟🅟 ......................................................................................... 39

4.2 Eligible Planning Grant Activities 🅟🅟 ................................................................................ 40

4.3 Planning Grant Timeline 🅟🅟 ............................................................................................. 40

4.4 Developing a Planning Grant Application 🅟🅟 .................................................................... 40 Section 5. Project Development Grants ................................................................................... 42 86 Transformative Climate Communities Round 6 Final Guidelines April 2026

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5 .1 Project Development Grant Objectives
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5.2 Eligible Project Development Activities 🅟🅟 ................................ ...................................... 42

5.3 Project Development Grant Timeline 🅟🅟 ................................ .......................................... 43

5.4 Developing a Project Development Application 🅟🅟 ................................ .......................... 44 Section 6. Implementation Grants .......................................................................................... 45

6.1 Implementation Grant Objectives 🅟🅟 ................................ .............................................. 45

6.2 Eligible Implementation Grant Activities 🅟🅟 ................................ ..................................... 45

6.3 Vision Statement 🅟🅟 ................................ ....................................................................... 45

6.4 Implementation Grant Framework 🅟🅟 ................................ ............................................. 46

6.5 Implementation Grant Transformative Elements 🅟🅟 ................................ ........................ 47

6.6 Implementation Grant Timeline 🅟🅟 ................................ ................................................. 47

6.7 Implementation Grant Phases 🅟🅟 ................................ ................................................... 48

6.8 Developing an Implementation Grant application 🅟🅟 ................................ ....................... 50 Section 7. Transformative Elements ........................................................................................ 52

7.1 Transformative Elements Overview 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ...................................................................... 52

7.2 Grant Evaluation 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ................................................................................................. 54

7.3 Community Engagement 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ..................................................................................... 56

7.4 Displacement Avoidance 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ..................................................................................... 60

7.5 Workforce Development and Economic Opportunities 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ......................................... 64

7.6 Climate Adaptation and Resilience 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ...................................................................... 69

7.7 Leverage Funding 🅟🅟 ................................ ...................................................................... 70 Section 8. Program Costs ....................................................................................................... 74

8.1 Eligible Costs 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ...................................................................................................... 74

8.2 Ineligible Costs 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ................................................................................................... 78

8.3 Cost Categories and Caps 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ................................................................................... 79 Section 9. Application Overview .............................................................................................. 81

9.1 Award Amounts 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ................................................................................................... 81

9.2 Application Submission Process 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 .......................................................................... 82

9.3 Application Review Process 🅟🅟 ................................ ....................................................... 83

9.4 Funding Goals and Priority Points 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ........................................................................ 84

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9 .6 Project Development Grants: Program Thresholds and Scoring Criteria 🅟🅟 ......................
92 9.7 Implementation Grants: Program Thresholds and Scoring Criteria 🅟🅟 .............................. 97

9.8 Close Scores Protocol 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ....................................................................................... 105 Section 10. Application Requirements .................................................................................. 107

10.1 Application phases 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 .......................................................................................... 107

10.2 Summary of Application Components 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 .............................................................. 107

10.3 Early Application Components 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ......................................................................... 111

10.4 Applicant Eligibility 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 .......................................................................................... 112

10.5 Project Area 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 .................................................................................................... 114

10.6 Prior Community Engagement 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ......................................................................... 115

10.7 Financial Capacity 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ........................................................................................... 116

10.8 Management Capacity 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ..................................................................................... 117

10.9 Collaborative Governance 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ............................................................................... 118

10.10 Work Plan and Budget 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ................................................................................... 119

10.11 Additional Requirements for Specific Strategies – Implementation Grants Only 🅟🅟 ..... 121

10.12 Leverage Funding 🅟🅟 ................................ ................................................................ 121

10.13 Site Control 🅟🅟🅟🅟 ................................ ...................................................................... 122

10.14 California Environmental Quality Act 🅟🅟🅟🅟 ................................ ................................. 124

10.15 Permits 🅟🅟🅟🅟 ................................ ............................................................................ 126

10.16 Operations and Maintenance Plans 🅟🅟🅟🅟................................ ................................... 127

10.17 Long-term Use and Ownership 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ....................................................................... 127

10.18 Interviews 🅟🅟 ................................ ............................................................................ 128

10.19 Program Policy Priorities 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ................................................................................ 129 Section 11. Grant Administration and Program Expectations ................................................. 134

11.1 Grant Terms 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 .................................................................................................... 134

11.2 Lead Grantee, Partners, and Subcontractors 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 .................................................... 134

11.3 Strategic Growth Council and Department of Conservation 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 .............................. 135

11.4 Post-Award Consultation Process 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 .................................................................... 135

11.5 Disbursement and Accounting of Funds 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ........................................................... 135

11.6 Reporting Requirements 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 .................................................................................. 137

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11.8 Prevailing Wage Requirements 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟......................................................................... 139

11.9 Publicity Requirements 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟.................................................................................... 140

11.10 Audit and Record Retention 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ........................................................................... 140 Section 12. Technical Assistance .......................................................................................... 142

12.1 Application Technical Assistance 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟..................................................................... 142

12.2 Pre-Development Phase Technical Assistance 🅟🅟 ................................ ....................... 143

12.3 Implementation Technical Assistance 🅟🅟 ................................ .................................... 143

12.4 Evaluation Technical Assistance 🅟🅟 ................................ ............................................ 143 Section 13. List of Appendices .............................................................................................. 145 Appendix A – Terms and Definitions ...................................................................................... 147 Appendix B – TCC-funded Projects by Strategy 🅟🅟 ................................ .................................. 157 Eligible Application Requirements ..................................................................................... 157 Strategy 1: Equitable Housing and Neighborhood Development ......................................... 158 Strategy 2: Land Acquisition for Neighborhood Stabilization ............................................... 164 Strategy 3: Transit Access and Mobility Strategy ................................................................ 168 Strategy 3.1: Active Transportation .................................................................................... 169 Strategy 3.2: Transit and Rail Access ................................................................................. 172 Strategy 3.3: Car Sharing and Mobility Enhancement ......................................................... 176 Strategy 4: Solar Installation, Energy Efficiency, and Appliance Electrification .................... 178 Strategy 5: Water Efficiency and Resiliency ........................................................................ 185 Strategy 6: Recycling, Composting, and Waste Reduction .................................................. 189 Strategy 7: Urban Greening and Green Infrastructure ......................................................... 192 Strategy 8: Health Equity and Well-Being ........................................................................... 195 Strategy 9: Indoor Air Quality ............................................................................................. 199 Strategy 10: Community Microgrids ................................................................................... 203 Strategy 11: Brownfield Redevelopment ............................................................................ 206 Strategy 12: Community Resilience Centers ...................................................................... 211 Strategy 13: Other Climate Innovation ............................................................................... 215 Appendix C – Transformative Elements 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟 ....................................................................... 217 Appendix C-1: Community Engagement Plan Examples ..................................................... 217 Appendix C-2: Displacement Avoidance Plan Examples ..................................................... 219 Appendix C-3: Workforce Development and Economic Opportunities Plan Examples ......... 223 Appendix C-4: Climate Adaptation and Resilience Examples.............................................. 224 89 Transformative Climate Communities Round 6 Final Guidelines April 2026

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Appendix D – Collaborative Governance Structure 🅟🅟🅟🅟 .......................................................... 226 Governance and Conflict Resolution ................................................................................. 226 Representation ................................................................................................................. 226 Appendix E-1 – Post-Award Process and Policies – Planning Grants and Project Development Grants 🅟🅟🅟🅟 ........................................................................................................................... 228 Summary .......................................................................................................................... 228 Appendix E-2 – Post-Award Process and Policies – Implementation Grants 🅟🅟 ........................ 232 Summary .......................................................................................................................... 232 Appendix F – Air Pollution Reduction and Mitigation .............................................................. 239 Policies and Programs to Reduce or Mitigate Local Air Pollution ......................................... 239 Appendix G – Close Scores Protocol Example ....................................................................... 242 Appendix H – Frequently Asked Questions ............................................................................ 244 Appendix I – Sample grant agreement ................................................................................... 247

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How to Use This Document
This Guidelines document governs Round 6 of the Transformative Climate Communities Program and provides resources and guidance for applicants. This document includes information on the three available grant types:
• Planning Grants
• Project Development Grants
• Implementation Grants
All information in this document applies to all grant types unless specifically stated otherwise.

Please read all relevant sections. It is important for past applicants to read the Guidelines, as requirements have changed from past funding rounds. This document is not the only source of information on TCC requirements. The forthcoming Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA), application, and application instructions contain additional requirements and pertinent information and resources for applicants.

If an applicant finds any ambiguity, conflict, discrepancy, omission, or other error in the TCC Guidelines, the applicant should immediately notify TCC staff of such error via email and request a corresponding change or clarification in the document. TCC staff, at its discretion, may provide changes or clarifications by amending the Guidelines, without divulging the source of the request.

If other materials differ from the Guidelines, the Guidelines supersede. During the Application Period, SGC reserves the right to issue clarifications and minor modifications to the application instructions and requirements as needed. SGC shall not be responsible for failure to fix errors.

For the most current information, please reference the TCC webpage.

For ease of navigation, some section headers are accompanied by one or more icons indicating which grant type(s) that section applies to (🅟🅟 for Planning Grants, 🅟🅟 for Project Development Grants, or 🅟🅟 for Implementation Grants). If the icons and text differ, the text supersedes. Grant type sub-sections have been omitted and/or combined as appropriate. Sections that contain information on a mixture of grant types will be structured as follows:

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Information that applies to all grant types. All applicants must read this section.

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Information that only applies to Planning Grants.

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Section 1. Program Overview
Summary of Section 1:
• The Transformative Climate Communities Program (TCC) was established to fund community-led development and infrastructure projects that achieve major environmental, health, and economic benefits in California’s most disadvantaged communities.
• TCC’s Round 6 is expected to be funded by the Climate Bond for Planning, Project Development, and Implementation Grants. Funding amounts for each grant type will be announced in the Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA).

1.1 Background 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟
Budget and Legislative Background
The Transformative Climate Communities (TCC) Program funds community-led projects that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while improving public health, economic opportunity, and environmental conditions.

The California Strategic Growth Council (SGC) launched TCC in 2016 as part of California Climate Investments, a statewide initiative that uses Cap-and-Invest (also known as Cap-and-Trade) dollars to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, strengthen the economy, and improve public health outcomes, particularly in disadvantaged communities. Cap-and-Invest-funded TCC Rounds 1, 2 and 3. The California General Fund supported Rounds 4 and 5.

In November 2024, California voters approved the Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024 (Proposition 4), a $10 billion General Obligation Bond commonly known as the Climate Bond. The Climate Bond funds TCC Round 6 and supports projects that strengthen community resilience and provide economic, environmental, and health benefits.

Assembly Bill (AB) 2722 (Burke, Chapter 371, Statutes of 2016) established the TCC Program to “fund the development and implementation of neighborhood-level transformative climate community plans that include multiple coordinated greenhouse gas emissions reduction projects that provide local economic, environmental, and health benefits to disadvantaged communities as described in Section 39711 of the Health and Safety Code” (Pub. Resources Code § 75240).

In addition to reducing GHG emissions in disadvantaged communities, AB 2722 includes the following goals:
• Maximize community benefits: “Projects shall maximize climate, public health, environmental, workforce, and economic benefits.”
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• Avoid displacement: “In adopting the guidelines, SGC shall consider whether eligible plans and projects avoid economic displacement of low-income disadvantaged community residents and businesses.”
• Comprehensive community engagement: “SGC shall award grants for projects that demonstrate community engagement in all phases.”
• Leverage additional funds: “By making such comprehensive public investments, it is the intent of the Legislature that private resources can be more effectively catalyzed to support innovative community and climate transformation in disadvantaged communities,” and “SGC and all funded entities shall endeavor to identify additional public and private sources of funding to sustain and expand the program.”
• Technical assistance: “SGC shall fund technical assistance providers to assist in application development and project development and implementation.” In addition to AB 2722, the following legislation also govern the TCC Program:
• Assembly Bill 32 (Nunez, Chapter 488, Statutes of 2006): Requires California to reduce its GHG emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and authorizes the cap-and-trade program. • Senate Bill 535 (De León, Chapter 830, Statutes of 2012): Requires that state and local agencies direct at least 25%of Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) investments to benefit disadvantaged communities, as defined by the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA).
• Senate Bill 32 (Pavley, Chapter 249, Statues of 2016): Requires California to reduce GHG emissions to 40% below 1990 levels by 2030.
• Assembly Bill 1550 (Gomez, Chapter 369, Statutes of 2016): Expands requirements for GGRF to include other Priority Populations based on income. In addition to SB 535 requirements, AB 1550 requires that at least 5% of funds benefit low-income households or communities statewide, and an additional 5% must benefit those located within one- half mile of a disadvantaged community. Together, SB 535 and AB 1550 prioritize investments to disadvantaged and low-income communities and households in need of assistance.
• Senate Bill 351 (Hurtado, 2019): Requires SGC to make unincorporated areas eligible for the TCC Program.
• Assembly Bill 3017 (Hart, 2024): Authorizes advance payment of grant funds to nonprofit organizations, and federally recognized Tribes.

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1.2 Program Summary 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟
The California Strategic Growth Council (SGC) administers the TCC Program in partnership with the California Department of Conservation (DOC).

TCC Round 6 will fund three grant types: Planning, Project Development, and Implementation. All grants must align with the Program Objectives. SGC will determine award amounts and the number of awards in the Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA).

Applicants may apply for multiple funding programs for the same scope of work. However, awarded applicants will only be able to receive full funding from one award. If selected for more than one award, SGC will work with applicants to modify the scope of work to eliminate duplication of funding.

Planning Grants 🅟🅟
Grant purpose: Fund planning activities that prepare communities for future funding opportunities aligned with TCC Program Objectives.

Examples of eligible activities:
• Community engagement
• Climate Action Plan development
• Policy and code evaluation and updates
• Capacity building
Award amount: Up to $300,000
Grant term: Two years
Project area size: No size requirements
Special requirements:
• Application must address at least one Transformative Element (see Section 7 for more information).

For more information about Planning Grants, see Section 4.

Project Development Grants 🅟🅟
Grant purpose: Fund pre-development activities and water supply and wastewater infrastructure to support communities to meet their climate and community resilience goals.

Examples of eligible activities:
• All Planning Grant eligible activities
• Feasibility studies
• Remediation
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• Permitting
• Pilot projects
• Implementation preparation
Award amount: Up to $5 million
Grant term: Two years
Project area size: No size requirements
Special requirements:
• Application must address two Transformative Elements below:
o Community engagement
o Climate adaptation and resilience
For more information about Project Development Grants, see Section 5.

Implementation Grants 🅟🅟
Grant purpose: Fund neighborhood-level projects that include multiple, coordinated activities that reduce GHG emissions and achieve community benefits.

Examples of eligible activities:
• Infrastructure: affordable housing, bike lanes, transit services, urban greening • Social programs: supportive services, food distribution, transit pass distribution • Pre-development for construction activities
See Appendix B for all eligible project types for Implementation Grants.

Award amount: Up to $27.5 million. Applicants may request smaller amounts if it is relevant to their community’s context and capacities.

Grant term: Six years total, including the following phases:
• Pre-Development: Nine months
• Administrative Transition: Three months
• Implementation: Four years
• Evaluation: One year
Project area size
• Up to five square miles for urban areas, and
• Up to 15 square miles for rural areas
Special requirements:
• Robust prior community engagement
• Two-phased application process
• Must address all six Transformative Elements listed below: (See Section 7) 95 Transformative Climate Communities Round 6 Final Guidelines April 2026

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1. Community Engagement

2. Displacement Avoidance

3. Workforce Development and Economic Opportunities

4. Climate Adaptation and Resilience

5. Leverage Funding

6. Grant Evaluation
For more information about Implementation Grants, see Section 6.

1.3 Program Objectives 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟
All applicants must consider the three TCC Program Objectives when designing their applications. • Planning Grant and Project Development Grant applicants must describe how their proposed activities will support achieving these Objectives through future implementation. • Implementation Grant applicants must comprehensively address how their proposed activities will achieve all three Objectives.

The Program Objectives are:

1. Achieve significant reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions Applicants must develop an application with integrated projects that will reduce GHG emissions and further the objectives of California Health and Safety Code Section 38566.

2. Improve public health and environmental benefits
Applicants must describe how their projects will improve public health outcomes and achieve environmental benefits within the Project Area.

3. Expand economic opportunity and shared prosperity
Applicants must describe how their projects will create economic opportunities for Project Area residents and ensure that benefits are accessible and equitable.

1.4 Program Approach 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟
Vision for Racial Equity
SGC is committed to achieving racial equity in its operations, investments, and policy initiatives and to achieving its vision that all people in California live in healthy, thriving, and resilient communities regardless of race. (See SGC Racial Equity Action Plan: 2023-2025) Vision for Transformation
The TCC Program framework for achieving California’s climate goals represents an evolution in the State’s typical funding models in four significant ways.

1. Place-Based Approach: TCC invests in defined geographic areas to address multiple community needs at once. This approach empowers communities to identify priorities and propose solutions that address climate change and equity challenges at a neighborhood scale, while embracing their many strengths and assets. 96 Transformative Climate Communities Round 6 Final Guidelines April 2026

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2. Integrated Strategies and Projects: Implementing multiple integrated Strategies and Projects makes the whole of each grant greater than the sum of its parts. By integrating cross-sector activities within a single application, the State can maximize GHG reductions and deliver broader community benefits.

3. Transformative Elements: The TCC Program focuses on ensuring investments provide direct benefits to neighborhood residents. Robust community engagement and workforce development requirements ensure that TCC applications are designed to reflect community needs. Grant recipients must also implement measures to avoid the displacement of existing residents and businesses so they can benefit from the program’s investments in the long run. Communities select projects that build resilience to current and future climate impacts affecting vulnerable populations and the built environment, including infrastructure and public spaces. The program also catalyzes local, multi-sector partnerships that leverage public and private funding to support long-term community revitalization and equitable development. Long-term grant evaluation allows the TCC Program to assess outcomes and apply lessons learned.

4. Developing Partnerships: The TCC Program supports the development of long-term partnerships at multiple levels. Applicants must establish Collaborative Governance Structures that bring together public agencies, nonprofit organizations, residents, and other local entities to advance a shared community vision. The TCC Program partners with applicants, Lead Grantees, and Partners through outreach and technical assistance to help build these networks. SGC has also fostered partnerships at the State level through coordination with multiple agencies during guideline development and application review.

1.5 Investing in Priority Communities 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟
The TCC Program prioritizes investments in communities most burdened by environmental, socioeconomic, and health inequities.

The following definitions that are marked with an asterisk (*) are income-based definitions of disadvantaged communities (DACs), severely disadvantaged communities (SDACs), and climate vulnerable populations. TCC will follow these definitions for reporting purposes in accordance with the Climate Bond to ensure that projects will provide meaningful and direct benefits to priority communities. These definitions do not determine eligibility. See Section 3.3 for information on TCC eligibility.

Disadvantaged Community (DAC)
Disadvantaged communities (DACs) include:

1. Census tracts disproportionately affected by pollution and environmental burdens a. The California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) identifies these tracts using geographic, socioeconomic, public health, and environmental hazard criteria through the California Communities Environmental Health Screening Tool 97 Transformative Climate Communities Round 6 Final Guidelines April 2026

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(CalEnviroScreen or CES), a mapping tool developed by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA)1
b. A high CES percentile indicates that a community is disproportionately burdened by multiple sources of pollution, environmental degradation, socioeconomic stressors, and adverse health conditions

2. Federally recognized Native American Tribes or non-federally recognized Native American Tribes listed on the California Tribal Consultation List maintained by the Native American Heritage Commission

3. *Communities with a median household income of less than 80% of the area average or less than 80% of statewide median household income
*Severely Disadvantaged Community (SDAC)
A community with a median household income of less than 60% of the area average or less than 60% of statewide median household income.
*Vulnerable Population:

A subgroup population within a region or community that faces a disproportionately heightened risk or increased sensitivity to impacts of climate change and that lacks adequate resources to cope with, adapt to, or recover from such impacts. TCC will report Tribes as vulnerable populations in accordance with the Climate Bond.

TCC uses the Vulnerable Communities Platform (VCP), which combines climate hazard and social vulnerability data to assess five major climate hazards: wildfire, extreme heat, flooding, sea level rise, and drought. This tool helps staff verify that TCC investments will benefit communities most vulnerable to current and projected climate impacts.

Note on Terminology
Communities defined as “disadvantaged” often include populations with lower incomes and higher exposure to pollution and environmental hazards. Residents may experience elevated rates of health challenges, as well as increased socioeconomic and environmental vulnerability. These communities often face heightened risks from climate impacts while having fewer resources to cope with, adapt to, or recover from those impacts. These conditions are shaped by physical, social, political, and economic factors, including a history of inequitable land use, underinvestment, and a lack of meaningful engagement with community residents in planning and policy decisions.

SGC recognizes that the term “disadvantaged” does not reflect the full range of assets and strengths within these communities. The term is used to align with statutory requirements, not to define communities by their challenges. In many of these communities, organized groups of neighborhood leaders are actively engaged in local planning efforts, policy campaigns, and other activities to make their communities healthier, safer, and more sustainable. These efforts are particularly important today since these communities will disproportionately experience the

1 Health and Safety Code § 39711(a)
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impacts of climate change. The TCC Program is designed to support residents, businesses, and local partners in building upon existing strengths, advancing community-led efforts, and ensuring they benefit from program investments.

1.6 Funding Goals and Priorities 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟
TCC prioritizes priority communities and Project Areas through application scoring. Eligible applications representing Tribal applicants, disadvantaged unincorporated communities, or previous SGC or California Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation (LCI) grantees may receive additional points if they meet certain requirements.

Funding Goals
• Tribal Funding Goal: SGC intends to award at least one grant of each grant type to eligible applications from California Native American Tribes or Tribally-owned nonprofits. • Disadvantaged Unincorporated Community Funding Goal: SGC intends to award one grant of each grant type to eligible applications with Project Areas in disadvantaged unincorporated communities.

Priority Points: Eligible applications representing Tribal applicants, disadvantaged unincorporated communities, or previous SGC or LCI grantees will receive additional points if they meet certain requirements. Please see Section 9.4 for more information. 99 Transformative Climate Communities Round 6 Final Guidelines April 2026

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Section 2. California Native American
Tribes and Tribal Applicants
Summary of Section 2:
• Federally and non-federally recognized California Native American Tribes are eligible to apply as Lead Applicants or Co-Applicants and are encouraged to participate. • SGC intends to fund at least one eligible Planning Grant, Project Development Grant, and Implementation Grant with a California Native American Tribe or Tribally-owned nonprofit as the Lead Applicant.
• Tribal applicants receive flexibility in certain program and application requirements and are eligible for technical assistance during both the application process and the grant term.

2.1 Important Terminology
• “California Native American Tribe” means either a federally recognized Native American Tribe or a non-federally recognized Native American Tribe listed on the California Tribal Consultation List maintained by the Native American Heritage Commission as of February 19, 2026.
• “Tribal applicants” refers to applicants whose Lead Applicant is a California Native American Tribe or a Tribally-owned nonprofit.
• “Tribally-owned nonprofit” refers to an organization exempt from taxation under Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(3) (26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3)), a nonprofit incorporated under Tribal law, a California nonprofit public benefit corporation (Corp. Code, § 5110 et seq.), or an equivalent entity that has a majority Tribal-led board, is operated by a Tribe, and advances the Tribe’s goals and priorities. A Tribal nonprofit is required to provide a Letter of Authorization or Resolution on behalf of the Tribe they represent.

See Appendix A for full definitions of “California Native American Tribe” and “Tribally-owned nonprofit,” and Section 3 for additional information on applicant eligibility.

2.2 Tribal Funding Goal 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟
Federally and non-federally recognized California Native American Tribes are eligible to apply as either Lead Applicants or Co-Applicants and are encouraged to participate.

SGC intends to fund at least one eligible Planning Grant, Project Development Grant, and Implementation Grant with a California Native American Tribe or Tribally-owned nonprofit (as defined in Appendix A) serving as the Lead Applicant. California Native American Tribes, Tribally- owned nonprofits, and certain other nonprofits that serve Tribal communities will also receive Priority Points. See Section 9.4 for additional details. 100
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2.3 Limited Waiver of Sovereign Immunity 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟
If a Tribe is receiving TCC payments on a reimbursement basis from SGC, Tribes will not be required to sign a Limited Waiver of Sovereign Immunity. If a Tribe is receiving TCC payments via advance pay, SGC may require a Limited Waiver of Sovereign Immunity.

TCC is committed to working collaboratively with Tribes on tailoring the terms of a Limited Waiver of Sovereign Immunity to support Tribal priorities while also meeting the State’s obligations under the law. Tribes who are Co-Applicants should work with their Lead Applicant to determine whether they will need to sign a Limited Waiver of Sovereign Immunity prior to submitting an application.

2.4 Leverage Funding Exemption 🅟🅟
Applicants with a California Native American Tribe or Tribally-owned nonprofit serving as the Lead Applicant are exempt from the Implementation Grant leverage funding requirement.

Planning Grants and Project Development Grants do not have a leverage funding requirement. See Section 7.7 for more information on leverage funding.

2.5 Modifications and Special Considerations 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟
SGC intends for the TCC Program to be accessible and relevant to Tribal applicants. Certain sections of these Guidelines provide flexibility for Lead Applicants who are California Native American Tribes or Tribally-owned nonprofits (as defined in Appendix A). These applicants may also request further modifications to specific requirements. Applicants must submit modification requests related to grant application requirements for pre-approval before the application due date. Final guidance on how to submit a Tribal modification request will be included in the NOFA.

In general, this flexibility applies only when the Lead Applicant is a California Native American Tribe or Tribally-owned nonprofit. Two of these modifications are also available when a California Native American Tribe or Tribally-owned nonprofit serves as a Co-Applicant, as noted in italics below. SGC may also consider extending modifications to applicants with a Tribal Co-Applicant if doing so would support meaningful Tribal participation.

The sections listed below describe special considerations and eligible modifications. Applicants should look for the bolded words “Tribal applicants”, or a subsection titled “Tribal applicants” within each section for more details.
• Public agency support: Includes automatic flexibility (See Section 3.1) • Co-Applicant requirements and Collaborative Governance: Includes some automatic flexibility; applicants can request further modifications (See Section 3.2) • Project Area requirements: Includes some automatic flexibility; applicants can request further modifications (See Section 3.3)
• Protecting data sovereignty in application materials and reporting (See Section 7.2 and Section 11.6)
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o This modification is available to all California Native American Tribes and Tribally- owned nonprofits regardless of whether they are a Lead Applicant or Co-Applicant.

It is not available to any other Lead or Co-Applicants involved in an application. o Includes automatic flexibility; applicants can request further modifications. • Displacement Avoidance Plan requirements: Applicants can request modifications (See Section 7.4).
• Workforce Development and Economic Opportunities Plan requirements: Applicants can request modifications (See Section 7.5)
• Leverage funding: Includes automatic flexibility (See Section 7.7) • Indirect cost caps (See Section 8.1)
o This modification is available to all California Native American Tribes and Tribally- owned nonprofits regardless of whether they are a Lead Applicant or Co-Applicant.

It is not available to any other Lead or Co-Applicants involved in an application. o Includes some automatic flexibility; applicants can request further modifications • Water supply and wastewater infrastructure cost caps: Includes automatic flexibility (See Section 8.3)
• Prohousing designation: The Prohousing policy incentive does not apply to applications for projects located within federally recognized Tribal boundaries. These applications will receive maximum points in this category. (See Section 10.19)

2.6 Data Sovereignty 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟
SGC is committed to honoring Tribal data sovereignty, and the TCC Program reflects this commitment by collaborating with Tribal communities throughout all phases of program development. The Program seeks to align with the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance (Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, and Ethics) to ensure that data pertaining to Tribal communities is governed in a manner consistent with Tribal rights and governance.

Tribal data and Traditional Ecological Knowledge may be excluded from project deliverables to protect confidentiality. SGC will work with the Lead Grantee to establish a clear process for excluding confidential Tribal data in the grant agreement.

Under California Government Code Section 8450, any record containing financial information submitted by Tribes to fulfill obligations as party to a grant agreement under this program will be confidential, will not be a public record, and will not be open to public inspection.

2.7 Tribal Notification 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟
To formally acknowledge the land and the Indigenous peoples where the grant application is proposed, applicants should notify surrounding Tribes of their project. Where appropriate and desired by all parties, applicants are encouraged to pursue consent-based collaboration that is flexible, equitable, culturally appropriate, and respectful during application development and throughout the grant term.
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After applications are submitted, TCC staff will notify California Native American Tribes listed on the California Tribal Consultation List maintained by the Native American Heritage Commission as of February 19, 2026. Notification will be sent via email at least 60 days before the Strategic Growth Council considers award approvals. Tribes not currently on the NAHC list that wish to receive notifications may contact TCC staff at [email protected].

The purpose of Tribal notification is to:
• Inform Tribes of proposed projects in their regions
• Ensure transparency in the application process
• Provide opportunities to raise comments or concerns
• Include Tribal input where ancestral lands are concerned • Support coordinated efforts toward protection of the land and sensitive cultural sites • Avoid impacts to cultural resources
These notifications will include the following project information:
• Brief project description
• Project location
• Requested funding amount
• Lead Applicant and Co-Applicants
• Contact information for Lead Applicant
• Instructions for contacting SGC or the Lead Applicant regarding a proposed project • A timeline for submitting comments or concerns regarding an application to SGC to ensure that SGC can consider feedback and concerns before making award decisions SGC will work with Tribes to address concerns raised within the constructs of the Guidelines and operating statutes. In cases where an unresolved conflict remains for an application recommended for funding, SGC will determine funding and next steps for the application on a case-by-case basis.

2.8 Technical Assistance 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟
SGC will provide technical assistance to all California Native American Tribes and Tribally-owned nonprofits serving as Lead Applicants during the application process. SGC also intends to provide Implementation Technical Assistance during the grant term, pending funding availability.

See Section 12 for more information.
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Section 3. Eligibility
Summary of Section 3:
• Applications must include an eligible Lead Applicant and eligible Co-Applicants. • Project Development Grants and Implementation Grants require that Lead Applicant and Co-Applicants engage in collaborative governance throughout the grant term. • Applicants must select a Project Area where grant activities will take place. The Project Area must meet certain requirements, including population characteristics and size.

3.1 Eligible Applicants 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟
The Lead Applicant will collaborate with Co-Applicants.

Each application must include one Lead Applicant and one or more Co-Applicants (except in the case of certain Tribal applicants). The Lead Applicant submits a single application on behalf of the team. Together, the Lead Applicant and Co-Applicants are referred to as “applicants.” Lead Applicant Eligibility
A Lead Applicant must be based in California and be one of the following:
• California Native American Tribes
• Tribally-owned nonprofit
• IRC 501 (c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit organization
• Public agency
• Local agency
• Special district
• Joint powers authority
• Public utility
• Local publicly owned utility
• Mutual water company
Private shareholder corporations (as defined in Appendix A) are not eligible as Lead Applicants or Co-Applicants.

Co-Applicant Eligibility and Partnerships
Applications should demonstrate strong, diverse partnerships rooted in the community.

Applicants must submit a description of the partnership structure and roles and responsibilities of each Co-Applicant.

Tribal applicants (California Native American Tribes and Tribally-owned nonprofits as defined in Appendix A) are not required to include Co-Applicants in certain cases. See “Tribal applicants” in Section 3.2 for more information.
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Any eligible Lead Applicant organization listed above is eligible to serve as a Co-Applicant. For Implementation Grants, Co-Applicants may also serve as eligible Project Leads for specific Strategies. (See Appendix B)
Private shareholder corporations are not eligible as Lead Applicant or Co-Applicants.

Corporate entities (as defined in Appendix A) may serve as Co-Applicants only for some Strategies.

See Appendix B for strategy specific eligibility.

Minimum Co-Applicant Requirements by Grant Type
Tribal applicants (California Native American Tribes and Tribally-owned nonprofits, as defined in Appendix A) do not need Co-Applicants in certain situations. See “Tribal applicants” in Section 3.2 for more information.

Planning Grants 🅟🅟
Planning Grants: At least one Co-Applicant is required. TCC strongly encourages including more than one Co-Applicant.

Proj
ect Development Grants and Implementation Grants 🅟🅟🅟🅟
Proj
ect Development and Implementation Grants: At least two Co-Applicants are required. TCC strongly encourages applications to include more than two Co-Applicants.

Public Agency Support 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟
Either the Lead Applicant or one of the Co-Applicants must be a public agency. In most cases, this will mean that:
• Applicants with unincorporated Project Areas need the relevant county or counties as Lead Applicant or Co-Applicant(s).
• Applicants with incorporated Project Areas need the relevant city or cities as Lead Applicant or Co-Applicant(s).
• Applicants with Project Areas on federally recognized Tribal territories need the relevant Tribal government(s) or Tribally-owned nonprofit(s) (as defined in Appendix A) as Lead Applicant or Co-Applicant(s).

Tribal applicants (as defined in Appendix A) applying for a Planning Grant or Project Development Grant on a Project Area outside of a federally recognized Tribal territory need Letters of Support from the relevant cities or counties. They do not need to include the city or county as a Co- Applicant.

Project Areas that Cross Boundaries
Applicants must demonstrate public agency support when a Project Area crosses:
• Municipal boundaries
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• Federally recognized Tribal territory boundaries
• Similarly relevant jurisdictional boundaries
At a minimum, one of these public agencies must be a Co-Applicant. All public agencies who have jurisdiction over part of the Project Area but are not Lead Applicants or Co-Applicants must submit Letters of Support. Letters of Support and Letters of Commitment are defined in Appendix A.

Documentation of Support
If the Lead Applicant is a public agency, they must provide evidence of a passed, formal resolution that includes authorization to apply for and accept a TCC grant, and authority to execute all related documents if awarded.2
For Planning Grants, if a public agency is a Co-Applicant, the applicant must provide a Letter of Commitment from that agency. The letter must demonstrate the agency’s support for the application and commitment to its proposed role. For Project Development Grants and Implementation Grants, public agency Co-Applicants may demonstrate support for the application and commitment to its proposed role through the Collaborative Governance Agreement. At a minimum, the agency should receive grant funding to engage in the TCC Collaborative Governance Structure and coordinate with Collaborative members.

If the TCC application does not include TCC funding for the public agency Co-Applicant, the agency must still be included in the work plan. The agency must also quantify and document the staff hours that it will donate or provide as leverage to the TCC Grant, if applicable. These staff hours must be documented in the budget as leverage funds and will be subject to all reporting requirements for leverage funding.

Tribal applicants (as defined in Appendix A) serving as Lead Applicant may provide a letter from a Tribal Chairperson instead of a passed, formal resolution. If the application is chosen for award, a formal resolution will be required before the grant can be executed.

Pl
anning Grants and Project Development Grants 🅟🅟🅟🅟
Fo
r Planning Grants and Project Development Grants, the most relevant public agency may differ from what’s listed above. Depending on the proposed scope of activities, the agency may instead be a transportation agency, special district, community services district, regional air quality district, or another public agency as defined in Appendix A. Applicants must identify the most relevant agency or agencies to include as a Lead Applicant or Co-Applicant and demonstrate their support and involvement. The intent is to ensure that the application has the support and

2 A lesson learned from previous grant cycles is to include this streamlining measure , which allows the Lead Applicant to execute agreements without the need to return the agreement to the Council or Board for approval. Otherwise, the final grant execution stage can extensively delay the grant term start date. If the authorization to execute the related documents is against the agency’s policy , they may submit just a resolution to apply for and accept a TCC award. They would then need a second resolution before the grant agreement can be executed.
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involvement of the public agency or agencies necessary to complete the grant activities and any related future implementation activities.

Impleme
ntation Grants 🅟🅟
Implem
entation Grants must always include a city, county, or Tribal government as a Co- Applicant. Multiple public agencies may serve as Co-Applicants. If multiple departments within one public agency are involved in the grant, each department may participate as individual Co- Applicants or the entire public agency may participate as a single Co-Applicant. In either case, only one letter or resolution (whichever is applicable) per agency is required.

Past Grantees
• Previous TCC grantees are eligible to apply again.
• Lead Grantees (Lead Applicants) on previously awarded grants may apply as Lead Applicants or Co-Applicants to Round 6, if they demonstrate the capacity to administer both grants.
• Partners (Co-Applicants) on current grants may apply as Lead Applicants or be included as Co-Applicants.
• Organizations from the same jurisdiction as an existing TCC Implementation Grant are eligible to apply.
• Implementation Grant Project Areas may not overlap with a current or former TCC Implementation Grant.

Although past grantees may be eligible as described above, TCC will prioritize geographic diversity.

Eligibility does not equal competitiveness. For example, an organization that was previously awarded a Planning Grant in a certain Project Area, may not be competitive for another Planning Grant in the adjacent area.

Partnership Requirement Summary Tables
Use the tables below to identify the required public agency involvement based on your Lead Applicant type and the characteristics of your Project Area (e.g., incorporated, unincorporated, or within federally recognized Tribal boundaries). These tables clarify whether a public agency must serve as a Lead Applicant or Co-Applicant, or whether a Letter of Support is sufficient.

Partnership Requirements for Non-Tribal Lead Applicants If the Lead Applicant is not a California Native American Tribe or a Tribally-owned nonprofit acting on behalf of a Tribe, the following requirements apply:

Grant Type Incorporated Area Unincorporated
Area
Area Within Federally
Recognized Tribal
Boundaries
Planning or
Project
Development
Grant
Relevant public
agency (typically the
city) must be a Lead
Relevant public
agency (typically the
county) must be
A Tribe or Tribally-owned
nonprofit must be a Lead
Applicant or Co-Applicant. If
a Tribally-owned nonprofit
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Applicant or Co-
Applicant
Lead Applicant or
Co-Applicant
serves in this role, the Tribe
must also provide a Letter of
Support.

Implementation
Grant
City must be a Lead
Applicant or Co-
Applicant.

County must be a
Lead Applicant or
Co-Applicant.

A Tribe or Tribally-owned
nonprofit must be a Lead
Applicant or Co-Applicant. If
a Tribally-owned nonprofit
serves in this role, the Tribe
must also provide a Letter of
Support.

Partnership Requirements for Tribal Lead Applicants
If the Lead Applicant is a California Native American Tribe or a Tribally-owned nonprofit, different public agency and documentation requirements apply, as shown below:

Grant Type Incorporated Area Unincorporated
Area
Area Within Federally
Recognized Tribal
Boundaries
Planning or
Project
Development
Grant
Relevant public
agency (typically the
city) must provide a
Letter of Support (not
required to be a Co-
Applicant)
Relevant public
agency (typically the
county) must provide
a Letter of Support
(not required to be a
Co-Applicant)
The Tribe or Tribally-owned
nonprofit must provide a
letter from the Tribal
Chairperson or a Tribal
Council resolution
authorizing the application.

If the application does not
include a Tribal Council
resolution, the Tribal
Council must adopt a
resolution authorizing
acceptance of the award
before grant execution.

Implementation
Grant
City must be a Lead
Applicant or Co-
Applicant
County must a Lead
Applicant or Co-
Applicant
The Tribe or Tribally-owned
nonprofit must provide a
letter from the Tribal
Chairperson or a Tribal
Council resolution
authorizing the application.

If the application does not
include a Tribal Council
resolution, the Tribal
Council must adopt a
resolution authorizing
acceptance of the award
before grant execution.

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3.2 Collaborative Governance 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟
Partnerships and collaborative governance are core requirements for all TCC grants and are essential to achieving transformative outcomes.

The Collaborative Governance Agreement (formerly called the Partnership Agreement) defines the governance, organizational structure, and financial relationships of the Collaborative Governance Structure (formerly called the Collaborative Stakeholder Structure).

The Lead Applicant and all Co-Applicants must jointly develop and sign the Collaborative Governance Agreement. After award, the Lead Applicant becomes the Lead Grantee, and Co- Applicants become Partners.

At a minimum, the Collaborative Governance Structure must include:
• Lead Grantee
• Partners
• Community residents
Applicants should notify local and/or surrounding Tribes of their project to formally acknowledge the land and the Indigenous peoples of the land where the project is taking place. See Section 2.7 for Tribal notification requirements and procedures. If desired by all parties, applicants should engage in consent-based collaboration that is flexible, equitable, culturally appropriate, and respectful during the application development and throughout the grant term.

Requirements by Grant Type
All Grant Types 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟
The level of partnership formality varies by grant type. After award, all members of the Collaborative Governance Structure must participate in an SGC-led collaborative governance training focused on best practices.

Planning Grants 🅟🅟
Planning Grant applicants must describe the:
• Partnership structure
• Roles and responsibilities of each Co-Applicant
A formal Collaborative Governance Structure and Agreement are not required. Letters of Commitment from all Co-Applicants are required with the application. If the Project Area crosses jurisdictional boundaries, applicants must obtain a Letter of Support from a relevant public agency for each portion of the Project Area. Letters of Commitment and Letter of Support are defined in Appendix A.
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Project Development Grants and Implementation Grants 🅟🅟🅟🅟 Project Development Grant and Implementation Grant applicants must:
• Form a Collaborative Governance Structure with the Lead Applicant and Co-Applicants • Develop and submit one combined application
• Submit a Collaborative Governance Agreement worksheet

Co-Applicants do not need to submit separate Letters of Commitment if their roles and commitments are clearly defined in the Collaborative Governance Agreement worksheet.

The Collaborative Governance Structure:
• Must include residents (required unless SGC approves a waiver due to extenuating circumstances)
• May include community-based organizations that are not Co-Applicants Applications will be evaluated based on the extent of community leadership. Applicants are strongly encouraged to provide stipends for resident participation. These stipends are eligible costs under the Community Engagement Plan.

If the Project Area crosses multiple jurisdictions:
• Applicants must obtain a Letter of Support from a relevant public agency for each jurisdiction that is not a partner of the Collaborative Governance Agreement worksheet • The Collaborative Governance Agreement worksheet must describe how relevant public agencies and Tribal governments will coordinate and implement the grant collectively Lead Applicants that are California Native American Tribes or Tribally-owned nonprofits have additional flexibility in meeting Collaborative Governance requirements.

Collaborative Governance Agreement
Applicants must submit a Collaborative Governance Agreement worksheet signed by the Lead Applicant and all Co-Applicants.

Lead Applicants that are California Native American Tribes or Tribally-owned nonprofits without Co-Applicants may submit the Collaborative Governance for Tribes worksheet instead. (See Tribal applicants section below)
If awarded, SGC may require revisions to the Collaborative Governance Agreement worksheet during the Post-Award Consultation Process to be included in the final agreement. Awardees must finalize and execute the Collaborative Governance Agreement within 90 days of grant execution.

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Collaborative Governance Structure

The Collaborative Governance Structure and Agreement govern implementation of the entire TCC grant. Applicants may design the structure and agreement to align with their needs; however, the Collaborative Governance Agreement must, at a minimum, include the following:
• Identification of the Lead Grantee (Lead Applicant) and Partners (Co-Applicants) • Roles and responsibilities for the Lead Grantee (Lead Applicant), all Partners (Co- Applicants), residents, and any community-nominated members • Governance procedures, including processes for dispute resolution and for adding, removing, or modifying members
• Legal and financial provisions, including liability, financial relationships between the Lead Grantee and Partners, reimbursement processes, and procurement procedures • Transparent decision-making processes
• A non-discrimination clause
• Meeting procedures, including frequency, minimum number of meetings open to the public, methods for publishing agendas and notes, and accessibility • A clear and transparent process for involving community representatives and community- based organizations in decision-making
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development of the Collaborative Governance Structure. The Collaborative Governance Agreement must also define measures to protect the confidentiality of Tribal data and Traditional Ecological Knowledge collected or shared as part of grant activities.

If the Project Area crosses multiple jurisdictions, the applicants must include the following in the proposed Collaborative Governance Agreement:
• The arrangement and commitment of full-time equivalent positions from each public agency and/or Tribal government to carry out the following TCC grant activities:
o Implementing capital projects
o Conducting planning activities
o Developing and implementing policies
o Participating in collaborative governance
• Systems to coordinate successful execution of the TCC grant for each entity:
o Responsibilities
o Expectations
o Communication systems
o Staffing plans
o Budget
• Identification of the public agency or Tribal government responsible for leading coordination among entities and resolving challenges associated with multiple jurisdictions within the Project Area. This entity may be the Lead Applicant, a Co-Applicant, an independent project manager contracted by the Lead Applicant, or another appropriate arrangement.

See Appendix D for more information on the Collaborative Governance Structure.

Tribal Applicants
Lead Applicants that are California Native American Tribes or Tribally-owned nonprofits have additional flexibility in the following areas.

Co-Applicant
Requirements 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟
A California
Native American Tribe or Tribally-owned nonprofit (as defined in Appendix A) who is applying as a Lead Applicant is typically not required to have Co-Applicants.

However, Co-Applicants are required if:
• Other entities will lead specific components of the grant-funded work (such as Projects under an Implementation Grant). These entities, including any additional Tribes, must be included as Co-Applicants.
• The application is for an Implementation Grant, and the Project Area includes non-Tribal areas not under the control of federally recognized Tribes. In this case, a city or county must be included as a Co-Applicant.

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Collaborative Governance Agreement that meet all standard requirements. If Tribal applicants are included as Lead Applicants or Co-Applicants, applicants must respect and uphold Tribal sovereignty in the development of the Collaborative Governance Structure. The Collaborative Governance Agreement must also define measures to protect the confidentiality of Tribal data and Traditional Ecological Knowledge collected or shared as part of grant activities.

Collaborative Governance Structure 🅟🅟🅟🅟
Tribal Applicants with Co-Applicants
The Collaborative Governance Structure for California Native American Tribes or Tribally-owned nonprofit applicants should:
• Fit the unique circumstances and existing relationships of a community • Meet the overall goals of collaborative governance and accountability to the relevant community
• Be appropriate for the dynamics within that community Tribal Lead Applicants may request modifications to one or more requirements of the Collaborative Governance Structure and/or Collaborative Governance Agreement. Requests must include justification and demonstrate alignment with the overall intent of the requirements. SGC will evaluate requests on a case-by-case basis.

Tribal Applicants without Co-Applicants
If a California Native American Tribe or Tribally-owned nonprofit serves as the Lead Applicant for a Project Development Grant or Implementation Grant and does not include Co-Applicants:
• A formal Collaborative Governance Structure and Collaborative Governance Agreement are not required
• The applicant must complete the Collaborative Governance for Tribes worksheet • Tribal applicants may use existing governance structures or create new ones Applicants must demonstrate that they meet the intent of collaborative governance, including:
• Informing and involving the Tribal community in grant implementation • Ensuring accountability and transparency to the Tribal community • Providing a forum for community input and for raising concerns throughout the grant term • Defining clear roles and responsibilities for all entities and individuals involved (e.g., Tribal departments)
• Establishing clear decision-making processes during the grant term • Ensuring decisions are informed by Tribal community input

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Collaborative Governance Summary Tables
Collaborative Governance requirements by grant type and Lead Applicant type Scenario
Co-
Applicants
Required?
Formal
Collaborative
Governance
Structure
Required?
Collaborative
Governance
Agreement
Required? Key Notes
Planning Grant
(Non-Tribal Lead
Applicant)
Yes
(at least 1) No No
Must describe partnership
structure and roles.

If Project Area crosses
jurisdictions, Letters of Support
required from each relevant
public agency.

Planning Grant
(Tribal Lead
Applicant)
Not required No No
No additional governance
requirements if no Co-
Applicants.

Letters of Support required if
outside Tribal territory.

Project
Development
Grant (Non-Tribal
Lead Applicant)
Yes (minimum
2) Yes Yes
Must include residents.

Agreement defines governance,
roles, and decision-making.

Project
Development
Grant (Tribal
Lead Applicant,
with Co-
Applicants)
Yes (may
request
modification
to
requirements)
Yes Yes
May request modifications to
requirements.

Must still meet overall intent.

Project
Development
Grant (Tribal
Lead Applicant,
no Co-
Applicants)
No No No (use Tribal
worksheet)
Must complete Collaborative
Governance for Tribes
worksheet and demonstrate
community accountability.

Implementation
Grant (Non-Tribal
Lead Applicant)
Yes (minimum
2) Yes Yes
Must include residents.

Required regardless of
structure complexity.

Implementation
Grant (Tribal
Lead Applicant,
with Co-
Applicants)
Yes (may
request
modification
to
requirements)
Yes Yes
May request modifications.

Standard requirements apply if
Co-Applicants are included.
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Implementation
Grant (Tribal
Lead Applicant,
no Co-
Applicants)
No No No (use Tribal
worksheet)
Must demonstrate governance
intent through Tribal worksheet.

3.3 Project Area Eligibility 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟
All Grant Types 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟
To support TCC’s place-based approach to investing in historically marginalized communities at a neighborhood scale, applicants must identify a specific Project Area where planning and project activities will occur.

Project Area Requirements
Project Areas:
• May be any shape
• Do not need to follow census tract boundaries
• May include eligible incorporated, unincorporated, and Tribal areas within federally recognized Tribal territories
• Must include a specific community and residential areas with demonstrated needs for planning and implementing integrated infrastructure and connectivity, areas in addition to the specific development location
• Must have a continuous boundary, except:
• Tribal applicants are exempt and may have discontinuous boundaries (See Tribal applicants section below)
• Applicants whose Project Areas are in rural areas who receive TCC approval for a discontinuous Project Area. See Section 10.3 for how to request an exception.

Applicants must submit a map of the Project Area that meets all Project Area requirements.

Applicants can use the free TCC Mapping Tool to identify an eligible Project Area and generate a map for the application.3
Integrated Infrastructure and Connectivity
All Project Areas must have a specific community or neighborhood with demonstrated needs for planning and implementing integrated infrastructure and connectivity.

Integrated infrastructure refers to physical structures, facilities, or amenities that have a role among existing assets. Integrated connectivity refers to transit, walkways, bike paths, or other

3 Round 6 version of the TCC Mapping Tool will be released with the Notice of Funding Availability and will be available to the public.
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methods of mobility that connect to a broader network of transportation or mobility options that connect to a broader transportation network or to alternate modes of travel (existing assets).

Project Area Size
Planning Grants and Project Development Grants do not have Project Area size requirements.

Applicants are encouraged to review the size restrictions for Implementation Grants and to consider their ability to align the focus area for future funding opportunities.

Implementation Grants are subject to maximum size limits for Project Areas:
• Rural areas: Up to 15 continuous square miles. Applicants may request exceptions to this requirement as part of the Pre-Proposal. Requests may be approved on a case-by-case basis (See Section 10.3)
• Urban areas: Up to 5 continuous square miles
• Tribal applicants: Are exempt from size requirements. Tribal applicants may propose non- continuous, non-adjacent Project Areas, provided they meet the requirements (See Tribal applicants)
o Tribal applicants may also request additional modifications (See Tribal applicants) Urban and Rural Designation
Project Area size limits for Implementation Grants depend on whether the area is classified as urban or rural.

Urban areas include:
• Areas designated as urbanized in the 2020 U.S. Census • Census tracts within cities with populations greater than 50,000 • Census tracts within Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) (See list of California MSAs) Rural areas include areas that are not designated an urbanized area by the United States Census Bureau in the 2020 U.S. Census, OR meets either of the following:
• An area that meets both of the following conditions:
o An incorporated area of a city whose total population is 50,000 or less, and o Not part of a larger labor market area as indicated by the latest Rural-Urban Commuting Area Codes (RUCA) where the census tracts with a RUCA Code of 6 to 10 are considered rural areas (See RUCA Code information) • Applicants in rural areas who pursue Strategy 1: Equitable Housing and Neighborhood Development or Strategy 12: Community Resilience Centers must use the definition of “rural area,” as defined by the CA Health & Safety Code § 50199.21 (2024). See Appendix A for the full definition.

If a Project Area includes both urban and rural areas:
• It will be designated as “urban” if the majority of the Project Area is in urban areas. • If an area can be designated as both urban and rural, TCC has the authority to make a final determination on the maximum Project Area size.
•
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Overlap with Previously Awarded Project Areas 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟
To be considered an eligible Project Area,
• A proposed Implementation Grant Project Area may not overlap with any Project Areas from current or previous TCC Implementation Grant awards. • A proposed Planning Grant or Project Development Grant Project Area may not overlap with any Project Areas from current or previous TCC Implementation Grant awards. • A proposed Implementation Grant Project Area may overlap with previous TCC Project Development Grant and Planning Grant awards.
• A proposed Project Development Grant Project Area may overlap with previous TCC Planning Grant awards.

Applicants can find previous awards and award maps on the TCC website.

Please contact [email protected] if you are unsure if there has been a previously awarded TCC grant in your desired location.

Project Area Priority Populations Requirements 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟
Disadvantaged communities (DACs) are geographic areas most burdened by socioeconomic, public health, and environmental hazards, making them more sensitive to pollution. The minimum required proportion of disadvantaged communities in each Project Area is 51%. The remainder of the Project Area must include areas with low-income communities or households, pursuant to Section 39713 of the Health and Safety Code.

The following sections describe when incorporated, unincorporated, and Tribal areas are designated as disadvantaged.

DAC Eligibility by Area Type
Incorporated Areas
• Census tracts with a CalEnviroScreen (CES) 4.0 score at or above the 75th percentile, or • Census tracts with CES pollution burden scores at or above the 95th percentile (if overall CES score is unavailable)
Tribal Areas
Areas within federally recognized Tribal boundaries are eligible Project Areas.4 Unincorporated Areas
Applicants may demonstrate DAC designation and eligibility of an unincorporated area using one or more of the following: methods:

1. Prior designation through a TCC Planning or Project Development Grant

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• Unincorporated areas that are within the Project Area boundaries of a previously awarded TCC Planning Grant or Project Development Grant that established eligibility as a disadvantaged unincorporated community

2. Verification by the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) or another equivalent public agency, AND
• Census tracts have a CES score at or above the 75th percentile, OR • Census tracts with CES cumulative pollution burden scores at or above the 95th percentile (if overall CES score is unavailable)

3. Where there is no verified disadvantaged unincorporated community status through a LAFCo or equivalent public agency, an unincorporated area that meets ALL the following criteria:
• Census tracts have a CES score at or above the 75th percentile, OR census tracts with CES cumulative pollution burden scores at or above the 95th percentile (if overall CES score is unavailable)
• Project Area contains at least one cluster of unincorporated parcels at a density of 250 parcels per square mile OR at least one Census Designated Place with a total population of at least 250 residents
• Hard-to-count census block group (score of 57 or higher) per the California Hard- to-Count Index

4. Self-identified disadvantaged unincorporated communities may provide local data demonstrating that the community has all of the following:
• Pollution or environmental burden
• Socioeconomic factors designating the community as disadvantaged • At least one cluster of unincorporated parcels at a density of 250 parcels per square mile, or a total population of at least 250 residents Local data may be quantitative, qualitative, or both. Examples of local data include, but are not limited to any combination of the following:
• Designation as a disadvantaged unincorporated community or DAC in the county’s Environmental Justice or Land Use Element of the General Plan • Qualitative description of environmental or pollution burdens, exposures, and their effects on the community
• CalEnviroScreen (CES) pollution burden indicators at or above the 75th percentile (See CES Indicators)
• Healthy Places Index 3.0 scores at or below the 25th percentile (See Healthy Places Index 3.0)
• Population estimates from Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s LandScan tool (See Oak Ride National Laboratory LandScan)
• Local climate and environmental quantitative data
• Local climate action plans
• Peer-reviewed academic journals and articles
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Local data approval
• Applicants may request pre-approval of local data during the Application Period. (See Section 10.3)
• SGC approval of disadvantaged community status for unincorporated areas confirms that minimum eligibility requirements have been met. It does not indicate the competitiveness of the proposed Project Area.

Multiple Jurisdictions
A Project Area may include a combination of incorporated, unincorporated, and Tribal areas if all of the following criteria are met:
• Each area type meets its applicable eligibility requirements, including that at least 51% of each area type qualifies as disadvantaged
• Each area is represented by the appropriate public agency or Tribal government (e.g., city, county, local agency, or Tribal government)
• Applicants demonstrate in their application that they have identified and are prepared to address coordination challenges associated with a multi-jurisdictional Project Area Tribal Applicants
If the Lead Applicant is a California Native American Tribe or a Tribally-owned nonprofit (as defined in Appendix A), flexibility is available for certain Project Area requirements.

Maximum Project Area Size
Lead Applicants that are California Native American Tribes or Tribally-owned nonprofits are not subject to the 5- or 15-square mile Project Area limits for Implementation Grants. Project Areas may be any size for all grant types, provided all eligibility requirements are met.

Non-continuous Project Area
Lead Applicants who are California Native American Tribes or Tribally-owned nonprofits may propose non-contiguous Project Areas consisting of multiple, non-adjacent areas. This allows one or more Tribes to participate in a single application.

Non-continuous Project Areas must meet the following requirements:
• All areas must be located within the same region and close enough to support regular in- person collaboration during the grant term
• If multiple Tribes are submitting a single application, at least some proposed activities must involve and directly benefit all Tribes participating in the application A non-continuous Project Area is eligible whether one or multiple Tribes are involved in an application.

There is no scoring advantage for multi-Tribe applications. See Section 10.9 for collaborative governance requirements for multi-entity applications.
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Applicants are encouraged to consult with the Application Technical Assistance provider or contact TCC staff at [email protected] during the Application Period to confirm that a proposed non- continuous Project Area meets these requirements.

Additional Modifications
Lead Applicants who are California Native American Tribes or Tribally-owned nonprofits may request modifications to Project Area requirements, including priority population requirements.

Modification requests must be submitted before the application due date and will be considered if all of the following conditions are met:
• The proposed Project Area aligns with TCC Program Objectives and supports effective implementation
• The application includes all entities necessary for project implementation and any resulting activities
• If the Project Area includes areas outside Tribal authority:
o Planning Grants require Letters of Support from the relevant city (incorporated areas) or county (unincorporated areas) if they are not a Co-Applicant o Project Development Grants require Letters of Support from the relevant city (incorporated areas) or county (unincorporated areas) if they are not a Co- Applicant or have not signed the Collaborative Governance Agreement worksheet o Implementation Grants require the relevant public agency to be included as a Co- Applicant. (See Section 3.1)
Please see Section 3.1 for more information on this requirement. Applicants may work with technical assistance providers and TCC staff during the Application Period to define a compliant Project Area.

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Section 4. Planning Grants
Summary of Section 4:
• Planning Grants fund preparation work for future programs to benefit communities. • Eligible activities include capacity-building, writing policies and plans, community engagement, and more.
• Leverage funding is not required for Planning Grants. • The grant term is two years.

4.1 Planning Grant Objectives 🅟🅟
Planning Grants support planning activities that prepare low-income, disadvantaged, and Tribal communities for future implementation of programs aligned with TCC Program Objectives.

Planning activities should address community priorities and directly benefit these communities.

Planning Grant Application Requirements

1. Applicants must explain how the proposed planning activities will advance the objectives prioritized in local, adopted plans and support TCC Program Objectives. (See Section 1.3)

2. Applicants must explain how the planning process furthers a neighborhood’s ability to address one or more of the Transformative Elements (See Section 7). Specifically, applicants will describe how engaging in a particular task will:
a. Evaluate displacement vulnerability and identify policies or programs to prevent displacement of residents and small businesses
b. Design or enhance meaningful community engagement practices that incorporate input from community members, local agencies, community-based organizations, workforce development boards, and other partners
c. Identify economic development needs and career pathways, and plan for workforce development and training programs
d. Increase readiness to secure leverage funding for future implementation (e.g., identifying funding sources and partnerships)
e. Identify projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and support California Health and Safety Code Section 38566
f. Assess how climate change and pollution will impact the community, including vulnerable populations, infrastructure, and natural systems, and identify strategies to adapt and respond to those impacts

3. Applicants must demonstrate consistency with the State Planning Priorities (Government Code Section 65041.1), which promote equity, economic strength, environmental protection, and public health and safety across urban, suburban, and rural communities.

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4.2 Eligible Planning Grant Activities 🅟🅟
Some examples of eligible planning activities include:
• Building internal and partner capacity to support collaborative partnerships that align land use with environmental, economic, and social justice priorities • Evaluating, updating, and streamlining policies and codes administered by the Planning Department and other local departments (e.g., public works, health and safety, fire, parks, and open space)
• Conducting fiscal analyses to assess long-term service costs of future development and inform fee structures
• Preparing climate action and climate adaptation plans • Conducting inclusive community engagement that incorporates input from local residents and supports and prepares for the future development of innovative and meaningful programs and practices
• Preparing for future funding opportunities, including TCC Implementation Grants or similar programs, through activities such as community needs assessments, community health needs assessments, partnership development, engagement to inform project selection, and development or formalization of a shared governance structure (e.g., a Collaborative Governance Structure)
o Activities that support development of a Collaborative Governance Structure are strongly encouraged for applicants anticipating a future TCC Implementation Grant • Defining Health Equity and establishing related goals for the Project Area using available resources from the California Department of Public Health and other place-based sources • Identifying and preparing project sites for future community-serving uses, including feasibility studies, site identification (e.g., community land trusts or climate resilience projects), and planning for project implementation

4.3 Planning Grant Timeline 🅟🅟
Anticipated timeline:
• Post-Award Consultation Process: approximately three to six months following award • Grant term: Two years

4.4 Developing a Planning Grant Application 🅟🅟
Applicants should begin by identifying the partnerships and planning activities that they would like to include in their application. If an applicant is pursuing a Planning Grant with the intention of pursuing a TCC Implementation Grant in a future round, it is highly encouraged that the applicant familiarize themselves with the Implementation Grant requirements and propose Planning Grant activities that prepare the applicant to submit a future Implementation Grant application. Please note that the Planning Grant can prepare applicants to apply for multiple sources of implementation funding, not just TCC.
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Application Technical Assistance recipients can work with their state-funded technical assistance provider to understand the TCC Implementation Grant requirements and identify supportive planning activities. Applicants who are not eligible for Application Technical Assistance can reach out to TCC staff with questions about the TCC Implementation Grant requirements described in these Guidelines.

Planning Grants do not require leverage funding. Please see Section 9 and Section 10 for more information on Planning Grant applications and scoring criteria. Visit the SGC website for past examples of awarded Planning Grants.

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Section 5. Project Development Grants
Summary of Section 5:
• Project Development Grants bridge the gap between Planning Grants and Implementation Grants to help move projects to implementation.
• Eligible Project Development Grant activities include demonstration projects and pre- development activities.
• Leverage funding is not required.
• The grant term is two years.

5.1 Project Development Grant Objectives 🅟🅟
Project Development Grants fund pre-development activities that advance community climate and resilience goals and prepare projects that align with TCC Program Objectives for future implementation funding.

These grants are intended for communities that have completed prior planning and identified priority projects but require additional development to advance those projects toward implementation. This grant type addresses the gap between Planning Grants and Implementation Grants.

Applicants must demonstrate the following:

1. Alignment with prior planning and TCC objectives
Applicants must explain how proposed Project Development activities build on previous community planning efforts and advance TCC Program Objectives.

2. Advancement of climate and community resilience
Applicants must explain how proposed activities strengthen the neighborhood’s ability to develop climate-resilient infrastructure and social resilience by addressing two TCC Transformative Elements, Community Engagement and Climate Adaptation and Resilience, at a minimum.

3. Consistency with State Planning Priorities
Applicants must demonstrate consistency with the State Planning Priorities (Government Code Section 65041.1), which promote equity, economic strength, environmental protection, and public health and safety across urban, suburban, and rural communities.

5.2 Eligible Project Development Activities 🅟🅟
Eligible Project Development activities include, but are not limited to:
• Pre-development activities, including:
o Community engagement
o Feasibility studies
o Market analysis
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o Environmental assessments
o Land and project management surveys
o Remediation
o Site and development plans
o Project designs
o Permitting
o Financial planning (e.g., preliminary budget and construction financing) • Infrastructure pre-development and development of its long-term operations and maintenance plans for clean water supply systems and wastewater infrastructure • Developing or initiating pilot or demonstration projects o These are small-scale, preliminary tests of a project designed to evaluate its feasibility, effectiveness, and potential challenges before committing to full-scale implementation. These projects should be used as opportunities to gather data, refine processes, and make informed decisions for future full-scale implementation.
• Other project planning and pre-development activities that lead to basic transportation infrastructure, such as: planning costs related to regional transit connectivity to job and service centers.
• Other project planning activities that prepare community-prioritized project sites for development, including but not limited to community health needs assessments. • Supporting capacity building for Project Leads and Partners, including:
o Staff development and training
o Funding new or critical positions
o Access to tools and resources that support project planning and implementation o Organizational capacity activities (e.g., financial services, legal review) o Participation in, or partnerships with, workforce programs o Providing or securing technical assistance for partners The proposed grant activities must include community engagement activities and address climate resilience. Applicants may also address other Transformative Elements such as displacement avoidance and workforce development, if applicable.

Ineligible Project Development Activities
The following project development activities are not eligible:
• Site acquisition
• Construction costs (except for water supply and wastewater infrastructure or pilot projects)
• Purchase of equipment

5.3 Project Development Grant Timeline 🅟🅟
Anticipated timeline:
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• Grant Term: Two years

5.4 Developing a Project Development Application 🅟🅟
Applicants should begin by identifying the Project Area, community planning and project priorities, and partnerships to include in the application. Applicants should then identify the key threshold requirements needed to pursue climate resilience implementation funding such as TCC’s policy priorities, project feasibility and capacity thresholds.

Project Development Grants can help applicants address some of the threshold requirements and prepare for a range of future implementation funding opportunities.

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Section 6. Implementation Grants
Summary of Section 6:
• Implementation Grants fund multiple projects in a neighborhood to support climate resilience and community needs.
• Eligible projects must fulfill at least three strategies from a provided list. All projects must reduce greenhouse gas emissions or improve public health. • Implementation Grants must include all 6 Transformative Elements, one of which is leverage funding.
• The Pre-Development Phase of the Implementation Grant is nine months. The Implementation Phase is four years.

6.1 Implementation Grant Objectives 🅟🅟
Implementation Grants fund neighborhood-scale applications that include multiple, coordinated projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and deliver broader community benefits. These grants support climate resilience projects and infrastructure that respond to community-identified needs in Tribal, disadvantaged, and low-income communities.

1. Applicants must explain how the proposed Implementation Projects advance the community’s vision and TCC Program Objectives.

2. Applicants must explain how the proposed implementation activities will increase neighborhood climate and social resilience through infrastructure investments and TCC Transformative Elements.

3. Applicants must demonstrate consistency with State Planning Priorities in Section 65041.1 of the Government Code

6.2 Eligible Implementation Grant Activities 🅟🅟
Implementation Grant applications must address all three TCC Program Objectives and include the following interrelated components: Vision Statement, Strategies, Projects, Transformative Elements, and all applicable Program Policy Priorities.

Implementation Grant applicants should read all applicable sections of these Program Guidelines closely to understand grant objectives and requirements. Visit the SGC website for past examples of awarded Implementation Grants.

6.3 Vision Statement 🅟🅟
Implementation Grant applicants must develop a shared Vision Statement that is specific to the community and aligns with the TCC Program Objectives.

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integrated to achieve neighborhood-scale transformation. The Applicant must also describe the community’s assets, resources, and characteristics that demonstrate readiness for Implementation Grant funding.

6.4 Implementation Grant Framework 🅟🅟
The Program framework establishes the structure for all TCC Implementation Grant applications.

Implementation Grant Program Framework

Implementation Grant Strategies 🅟🅟
Applicants must select at least three Strategies from the list below and propose Projects that advance those Strategies. Strategies should be thoughtfully selected and integrated to best meet the community’s needs.

Eligible activities for funding for each Strategy are outlined in Appendix B. At least 51% of the TCC grant award must be allocated to direct implementation costs for Projects under these Strategies.

1. Equitable Housing and Neighborhood Development

2. Land Acquisition for Neighborhood Stabilization

3. Transit Access and Mobility

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5. Water Efficiency and Resiliency

6. Recycling, Composting, and Waste Reduction

7. Urban Greening and Green Infrastructure

8. Health Equity and Well-Being

9. Indoor Air Quality

10. Community Microgrids

11. Brownfield Redevelopment

12. Community Resilience Centers

13. Other Climate Innovation
Implementation Grant Projects 🅟🅟
Applicants must develop Projects using eligible activities outlined for each Strategy in Appendix B.

Applicants may propose multiple Projects under a single Strategy, as long as the application includes Projects from at least three Strategies. There is no maximum number of Projects or Strategies that may be included.

Applicants also must ensure Projects meet the following requirements:
• All Projects must meet all Pre-Development Requirements by the end of the Pre- Development Phase (the first nine months of the grant term, though shorter timelines are also acceptable) in order to access funds for implementation. (See Section 6.7 for more information on grant phases)
• All Projects must be completed within the four-year Implementation Phase. Shorter timelines are also acceptable.
• There must be at least three Projects and at least three Strategies. • At least one Project must directly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. All Projects must either directly reduce greenhouse gas emissions or contribute directly to meaningful public health benefits.

6.5 Implementation Grant Transformative Elements
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Implementation Grants must include six required Transformative Elements. These requirements and their minimum funding amounts are described in detail in Section 7. They are:

1. Grant Evaluation

2. Community Engagement

3. Displacement Avoidance

4. Workforce Development and Economic Opportunities

5. Climate Adaptation and Resilience

6. Leverage Funding

6.6 Implementation Grant Timeline 🅟🅟
All anticipated timelines are approximate and will be finalized by the Notice of Funding Availability:
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1. Post-Award Consultation Process: Approximately two to three months following award

2. Grant Term: Six years total
o Pre-Development Phase: up to nine months from grant execution o Administrative transition from the Pre-Development to Implementation Phase:
approximately three months
o Implementation Phase: A least four years after Pre-Development Phase. Ends no more than five years after grant agreement execution
o Evaluation Phase and Close Out: One year from Implementation Phase

6.7 Implementation Grant Phases 🅟🅟
The Implementation Grant process has been modified in Round 6 to include a funded Pre- Development Phase. The intent of the Pre-Development Phase is to:
• Reduce the burden of applying and engaging in the competitive award process • Provide more funding and support for pre-development activities Implementation Grants now consist of the phases described below. All timelines are approximate and will be finalized by the Notice of Funding Availability.

Application Period (4-5 months)
Applicants complete and submit all required documentation during the Application Period. Only applications that meet all Application Requirements will be considered for award. See Section 9.7 for an overview of program threshold and application requirements. TCC Program staff will recommend awards to the Council based on application scores and TCC Funding Goals. (See Section 9.4 for more information)
Post-Award Consultation (PAC) Process (2-3 months)
The Post-Award Consultation (PAC) Process begins following the Strategic Growth Council’s award announcement. During this period, awarded applicants work with SGC staff to finalize and execute the grant agreement and ensure the scope of work meets program requirements.

Activities during the PAC Process include:
• Refining the scope of work, and developing a detailed work plan and budget for the Pre- Development Phase
• Refine grant agreement and accompanying attachments to comply with administrative, statutory, and TCC program requirements
• Revising budget to eliminate any ineligible costs
• Incorporating TCC staff recommendations to scope of work The grant agreement will divide the scope of work into two phases:
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• Implementation Phase: Lead Grantees may access Implementation funds only after completing the Pre-Development Phase, meeting all Pre-Development Requirements, and amending the grant agreement to include a detailed work plan and budget for the Implementation Phase.

Pre-Development Phase (up to 9 months)
The Pre-Development Phase begins when the grant agreement is executed. Lead Grantees must complete all Pre-Development Requirements before proceeding to the Implementation Phase.

During this phase, Lead Grantees may use grant funds to support:
• Staff time
• Pre-development activities as outlined in the detailed work plan • Continued community engagement to refine Project plans and prepare for Implementation Phase
Work completed during the Pre-Development Phase will include:
• Developing a detailed work plan and budget for the Implementation Phase • Executing a grant agreement amendment to include the Implementation Phase work plan and budget
Lead Grantees have up to nine months to complete the Pre-Development Phase but may complete it earlier if all requirements are met. Once SGC verifies completion, Lead Grantees may begin the Implementation Phase and retain the remaining grant term for project delivery.

Once all Pre-Development Requirements are completed by month nine, SGC will initiate an approximately three-month Administrative Transition to the Implementation Phase. During this period, Lead Grantees and Partners may bill for staff time needed to finalize and execute the amended grant agreement.

Implementation Phase (4 years)
Lead Grantees must complete all implementation activities in accordance with their approved work plans and budgets, TCC Program Guidelines, and grant agreement requirements.

Evaluation Phase (up to 1 year)
No project implementation activities may occur during the Evaluation Phase. However, Lead Grantees, Partners, and the Evaluation Partner can continue to access funds for evaluation and reporting.

Implementation Grant Phases
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6.8 Developing an Implementation Grant application
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Implementation Grants have the most extensive requirements of the three grant types. These requirements include:
• Application Requirements: Items that must be completed by the application due date • Pre-Development Requirements: Items will be developed during the nine-month Pre- Development Phase but must be completed before Lead Grantees and Partners can implement Projects
See Section 10 Application Requirements for more information.

Applicants considering an Implementation Grant should begin planning early and should expect to invest significant time in the application process. Applicants should start with a community planning and visioning process to identify community needs and Projects that respond to those needs. As part of this process, applicants should assess existing community assets and resources that can be strengthened and integrated into proposed Projects.

Strong applicants will have already completed this visioning, project identification, approximate budget estimates, and initial project scoping through a robust community engagement and planning process prior to the Application Period. Applicants who have not yet completed this process should consider applying for a Planning Grant or Project Development Grant instead.

Applicants should also review Implementation Grant threshold requirements. (See Section 9.7) Applicants are strongly encouraged to collaborate with community members and organizations to develop innovative, impactful Projects, including those that span multiple Strategies. Project and activity selection should be driven by community priorities.

Please see Sections 9 and Section 10 for more information on Implementation Grant applications and scoring criteria.

Leverage Funding
Implementation Grants require leverage funding. Leverage funding requirements vary by community type:
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• Applicants who qualify for the Disadvantaged Unincorporated Community Funding Goal as described in Section 9.4 must leverage additional funding sources that equal a minimum of 25% of the total requested grant funds.
• Applicants who qualify for the Tribal Funding Goal (those who have a Lead Applicant that is a California Native American Tribe or a Tribally-owned nonprofit, as defined in Appendix A) do not have to provide any leverage funding.
• All other applicants must secure additional funding equal to at least 50% of the total requested grant amount.

Applicants must complete a leverage funding worksheet as part of the Application Requirements.

Leverage funding does not need to be secured by the application due date. Awarded applicants secure leverage funding during the nine-month Pre-Development Phase.

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Section 7. Transformative Elements
Summary of Section 7:
• TCC includes six Transformative Elements:
o Grant Evaluation
o Community Engagement
o Displacement Avoidance
o Workforce Development and Economic Opportunities
o Climate Adaptation and Resilience
o Leverage Funding
• All applicants must address at least some of the Transformative Elements; requirements vary based on grant type. Implementation Grant applicants must address all of the Transformative Elements.

7.1 Transformative Elements Overview 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟
Transformative Elements are critical to furthering the TCC Program Objectives and supporting the implementation of Strategies and Projects.

Planning Grants 🅟🅟
Planning Grant applicants must explain how the planning process furthers a neighborhood’s ability to address one or more of the six Transformative Elements described below. Please see Section 4 for more information on Planning Grant requirements.

Project Development Grants 🅟🅟
Project Development Grant applicants must address Community Engagement and Climate Adaptation and Resilience as described below. All other Transformative Elements are optional.

Please see Section 5 for more information on Project Development Grant requirements.

Implementation Grants 🅟🅟
Implementation Grant applicants must address all six Transformative Elements as detailed below.

Please see Section 6 for more information on Implementation Grant requirements.

All Grant Types 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟
The six Transformative Elements are:

1. Grant Evaluation

2. Community Engagement

3. Displacement Avoidance
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4. Workforce Development and Economic Opportunities

5. Climate Adaptation and Resilience

6. Leverage Funding
A brief description of the goals and expectations for each Transformative Element is below.

Specific information about eligible activities, eligible costs, and additional requirements can be found in Appendix C.

Three of the Transformative Elements are called Transformative Plans and require designated work plans and budgets. These Plans can also be integrated within Strategies and Projects, as appropriate. For example, workforce development and community engagement could be components of most Projects.
• Some Transformative Elements may be paid with grant funds, while others are integrated into application components or require leverage funding. • For Implementation Grants, all Transformative Elements must last the entire four-year Implementation Phase. Applicants must consider this in work plans and budgets for all Transformative Plans.

Transformative Elements Percentage Breakdown Required for Implementation Grants 🅟🅟 Transformative Elements Percent of TCC Grant Award (Total = Up to 16% of TCC Grant Award)
Grant Evaluation 3% required for 3rd party evaluator
Community Engagement Plan Up to 5%*
Displacement Avoidance Plan Up to 3%*
Workforce Development and Economic
Opportunities Plan
Up to 5%
Climate Adaptation and Resilience Threshold requirement – No additional TCC grant funds may be allocated**
Leverage Funding*** None – Lead Grantee and Partners must meet leverage funding requirements as
stated in Section 7.7 Leverage Funding
*Funding requests that exceed the 5% CEP cap and 3% DAP cap will be reviewed on a case-by- case basis during the Pre-Development Phase.
** No TCC grant funds will be allocated for the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Transformative Element as this is a requirement to have completed at application. Applicants must incorporate adaptation and resilience measures into their proposed projects. *** Applicants with a Lead Applicant that is a California Native American Tribe or a Tribally-owned nonprofit (as defined in Appendix A) are exempt from the Implementation Grant leverage funding requirement.
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7.2 Grant Evaluation 🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟🅟
Planning Grants and Project Development Grants 🅟🅟🅟🅟
Planning Grants and Project Development Grant applicants that choose to address this Transformative Element do not have to allocate a minimum or maximum amount of the budget for Grant Evaluation.

Implementation Grants 🅟🅟
Applicants must allocate 3% of their grant budget for a third-party Evaluation Partner. The evaluator will assist with tracking and documenting the TCC Projects’ progress and outcomes. (See Section 12.4)
Program Evaluation Goals
TCC Implementation Grant recipients are required to identify and work with a third-party Evaluation Partner during grant implementation. The role of the Evaluation Partner is:

1. Evaluate the overall TCC grant.
a. Create a program evaluation framework to measure, track, and assess the progress and outcome of the overall TCC grant.
b. Perform a holistic evaluation of the environmental, economic, health, and social impacts of TCC’s community investment.

2. Provide technical assistance to Lead Grantee and Partners. a. Create reporting tools and a technical assistance plan for Lead Grantee and Partners.
b. Provide technical assistance during data collection that helps facilitate the process and helps achieve shared impact tracking goals with all TCC Partners.

Indicator Tracking Plan
Grant recipients are responsible for gathering and reporting data according to the Indicator Tracking Plan. In addition, you must participate in other evaluation activities. The Evaluation Partner will support you with creating an Indicator Tracking Plan, coordinate data collection, provide technical assistance, process data, and deliver all required reports to SGC. Reporting is required during key stages of the grant cycle, as outlined below.

The Indicator Tracking Plan will include data indicators required by the TCC Program and identified by Lead Grantee and Partners. SGC has worked with academic institutions to develop indicators to track overall impact of TCC investments. The Evaluation Partner will work with you to apply and develop other indicators relevant to the TCC grant goals. A list of specific indicators will be finalized by the TCC Evaluation Partner in the first quarter of the Implementation Phase.

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Resources
A sample list of suggested indicators can be found in the sample grant agreement in Appendix K.

Reporting Timeline
Staff will provide final guidance for the required deliverables and timeline for Round 6 after awards are made.
• During the Pre-Development Phase:
o Site-specific Evaluation Plan: Provides an overall methodological framework for holistically evaluating the environmental, economic, social, and health impacts of the awarded TCC grant5
o Program Indicator Tracking Plan: Provides list of specific indicators the Evaluation Partner will be tracking (Appendix K)
o Reporting tools and technical assistance plan
• Provided annually or biannually within the Implementation Phase:
o Case studies
o Reports on the TCC grant
o Process evaluations of the TCC grant
In addition to these reports conducted by the TCC Evaluation Partner, the Lead Grantee is also required to conduct reporting in the form of check-in meetings with TCC staff. See Section 11.6 for reporting requirements for the Lead Grantee.

TCC Evaluation Partner Selection and Contract
During the PAC process, the Evaluation Partner identified by the applicant will enter a direct contract with SGC. Applicants may propose a TCC Evaluation Partner during the PAC process or select from a list of pre-qualified TCC Evaluation Partners. The proposed TCC Evaluation Partner will submit a qualifications package to SGC staff for review and approval. The TCC Evaluation Partner must have the following qualifications:
• Expertise in urban planning, climate resilience infrastructure, and public policy research • Expertise in conducting both quantitative and qualitative research methods including, but not limited to, interviews, focus groups, surveys, socio-economic data analysis, and greenhouse gas emissions quantification
• Expertise in communicating technical findings in plain language targeted at a broad audience
• Experience conducting socio-economic, environmental, transportation, and health data collection and program evaluation, or related technical assistance

5 The TCC Evaluation Partner will adapt the original TCC Evaluation Plan to develop the Site -Specific Evaluation Plan for awarded TCC Projects: UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation and UC Berkeley Center for Resource Efficient Communities, November 2018. Transformative Climate Communities Evaluation Plan: A Road Map for Assessing Progress and Results of the Round 1 Place-based Initiatives. http://sgc.ca.gov/programs/tcc/docs/20190213-TCC_Evaluation_Plan_November_2018.pdf. 137
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• Experience providing technical assistance to Tribes and disadvantaged, low-income, and/or underserved communities in California
• Experience coordinating with public, private, and nonprofit organizations • Experience with data collection and entry for required governmental program reporting • Demonstrated organizational capacity with a sound project management structure and approach
Confidentiality of Tribal Data (Data Sovereignty)
During the PAC Process, SGC will work with each awarded Tribe and their TCC Evaluation Partner to reach a mutually agreeable evaluation plan that protects confidentiality of Tribal data and Traditional Ecological Knowledge while also meeting SGC program evaluation goals. This may include modification of deliverables and Indicator Tracking Plan requirements.

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Planning Grants 🅟🅟
If Planning Grant applicants choose to address this Transformative Element, they do not have to allocate a minimum or maximum amount of their budget for community engagement.

Project Development Grants 🅟🅟
Project Development Grant applicants must include community engagement as part of their proposed activities. There is no minimum or maximum budget requirement for community engagement.

Applicants must use proven methods of engagement to facilitate direct participation of community residents throughout the grant term, including:
• Providing translation and interpretation for meetings and materials • Scheduling meetings at times that are convenient to community members • Engaging community members in both outreach and information gathering See Appendix C for a list of recommended activities to ensure meaningful community engagement.

Implementation Grants 🅟🅟
Implementation Grants may allocate up to 5% of their budget for eligible community engagement and outreach activities and displacement avoidance during grant implementation. SGC recognizes that many effective strategies for conducting community engagement and outreach are cost intensive. SGC will review requests that exceed the 5% cap on a case-by-case basis during the Pre-Development Phase.
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To ensure that grant funds provide direct and meaningful benefits to disadvantaged communities, applicants must engage residents, businesses, and partners in the Project Area throughout all phases of application development and implementation. Applications must reflect community needs identified through a documented outreach and engagement process.

Applicants must use proven methods of engagement to facilitate direct participation of community residents throughout the grant term, including:
• Providing translation and interpretation for meetings and materials • Scheduling meetings at accessible times and locations • Engaging community members in information gathering and outreach See Appendix C for recommended engagement activities.

Community Engagement Plan Requirements
All Implementation Grant applications must include a Community Engagement Plan with two components:

1. Description of community engagement during application development Priority will be given to TCC applications that meaningfully include residents and key partners during application development, from the visioning process to selecting Strategies and Projects, using proven methods of community engagement such as Participatory Budgeting or the creation of an Advisory Board.

Applicants must describe how community input informed the application, including:
• Key community priorities identified through community engagement and how input informed project and application development
• Engagement activities conducted within the past five years, centered around issues related to climate impact and community development
• Description of the most impactful/successful engagement activities • Identification of systemic and local barriers to community participation and how barriers were addressed
Applicants may also submit an optional Prior Community Engagement Log for reference. The log will be used to further inform community engagement efforts but will not be scored or have any impact on application scoring.

2. Description of plans for future community engagement Applicants must describe how they will engage the community during the Pre-Development and Implementation Phases, including:
• Strategies and methods that will be used to engage residents and key partners during the Pre-Development Phase and into the Implementation Phase. • Applications that include a robust governance structure and combination of activities to meaningfully engage community members will score higher.

This section of the Community Engagement Plan must describe, at a minimum:
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• Mechanism(s) (group, advisory board, process, etc.) established to continuously inform and engage the community as well as to ensure ongoing participation of members of the community during the implementation of the project
• Anticipated timeline of engagement activities
o See Appendix C for list of recommended activities to ensure meaningful community engagement
• How the public will be informed of implementation progress, including updates on project performance and other indicators being tracked, as well as implementation progress on the Displacement Avoidance, Workforce Development and Economic Opportunities, and Community Engagement Plans
• The ways in which community will provide feedback on implementation of the grant • How community feedback will be collected and incorporated • How the Collaborative Governance Structure and Agreement will support implementation of the Community Engagement Plan
Community Engagement Requirements
TCC funds must be used to support community engagement and outreach activities that meet all of the following criteria:
• Activity is directly related to the implementation of the TCC-funded grant activities • Activity is located within the defined TCC Project Area • Activity is focused on meaningfully engaging community members located or involved within the defined TCC Project Area
Eligible Costs
Eligible costs include but are not limited to:
• Preparation of outreach materials including printings and mailings • Staff time dedicated to community outreach and education • Translation and interpretation for meetings or written materials • Creating and distributing communication materials in multiple languages to further broaden engagement for future events, including printed and digital materials, radio, television, or promoted social media coverage
• Hiring professional or consultation services that aid in reaching priority populations that may be non-organized, non-English speaking, such as health clinics or farmers markets, which can aid a grantee in reaching these groups
• Educational events and training programs that develop public awareness of the TCC Projects
• TCC-branded materials for program staff to attend community engagement events, such as table banners, t-shirts for staff, or stickers. Check with TCC staff for pre-approval. • Participant compensation that is an exchange of payment for services rendered in the development of community work products and appropriately documented with deliverables such as sign-in sheets or written surveys. Participant compensation is not available to members of the public otherwise compensated through the grant 140
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