CITY OF SAN MATEO
CITY OF SAN MATEO
Agenda Report
City Hall
330 W. 20th Avenue
San Mateo CA 94403
www.cityofsanmateo.org
Agenda Number: 10 Section Name: CONSENT CALENDAR Account Number: 23-3133 File ID: 26-11532 TO: City Council
FROM: Alex Khojikian, City Manager
PREPARED BY: Community Development Department
MEETING DATE: September 8, 2026
SUBJECT:
Consolidated Annual Progress and Evaluation Report for the Community Development Block Grant 2025-26 — Adoption RECOMMENDATION:
Adopt the 2025-26 Consolidated Annual Progress and Evaluation Report (CAPER) and direct staff to submit it to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
BACKGROUND:
Each year, the City is required to submit to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) a Consolidated Annual Performance Evaluation Report (CAPER). The primary focus of the CAPER is on the use of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds, which the City receives on an annual basis from HUD. It also serves to document progress made towards the City’s housing and community development goals as identified in associated planning documents. These include the five-year Consolidated Plan and Annual Action Plan, which outline where the annual CDBG funding will be spent and what goals the City would like to achieve with those activities. This year’s CAPER documents progress made on the 2025-26 Annual Acton Plan and the 2023-27 Consolidated Plan.
The City uses CDBG funds to assist the public in many categories, as defined by HUD. These include public services, economic development, community development, fair housing administration, and minor home rehabilitation. The CAPER responds to questions asked in a template provided by HUD and consists of narrative on the progress of San Mateo’s community development programs and accomplishments made possible by use of CDBG funds.
It should be noted that there was a delay in receiving 2025-26 CDBG entitlement funds due to the City and HUD not jointly executing the CDBG Grant Agreement until June 2026. Prior-year CDBG funds were used in place of the entitlement to continue supporting the City’s community partners until the time that the Grant Agreement was executed and the City received its entitlement funds. However, since prior-year funds were limited, larger projects such as National Rebuilding Day (Rebuilding Together) and Public Works-led street and sidewalks improvements were excluded from this year’s activities. Once the City received its entitlement funds, the halted projects were able to resume.
The CAPER in Attachment 1 is the narrative portion of the report, describing program activities and achievements. Much of this information is generated from the HUD computer system, Integrated Disbursement and Information System (IDIS), and from internal reporting systems.
Several areas are highlighted in this year’s CAPER, including:
1.Community Funding
The City funded several activities through its Community Funding program such as public services, minor home rehabilitation, and fair housing. A total of eleven programs were funded, all administered by local organizations who serve
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low- and moderate- income residents. In Program Year 2025-26, the City funded $251,800 in total to the following areas:
•Seven public service grants totaling $114,800, which assisted 15,285 people. Each grantee received $16,400 each. oCALL Primrose, is a drop-in food pantry for low-income residents and served 996 people. oCORA, provided victims and survivors of domestic and their children with a safety net of legal services, and served 177 people.
oFriends for Youth, is a mentorship program for low-income students in San Mateo schools and served 10 students.
oLegal Aid Society of San Mateo County, provided legal services for tenants at-risk of evictions and served 162 people.
oLifeMoves’ First Step Shelter, is an emergency shelter for families and served 40 people. oRape Trauma Services, provided mental health services for children and youth to address the multiple healing needs of child survivors of sexual trauma, and served 89 people. oSamaritan House, provided a broad spectrum of assistance, including backpack drives, case management, emergency assistance - food, clothing, shelter, healthcare - as well as financial assistance and empowerment services, and served 13,766 people.
•One minor home rehabilitation grant program of $32,000. oRebuilding Together Peninsula – Safe at Home Program, provided minor home repair and renovation services for low-income homeowners. The term for this grant was extended to December 31, 2026, and is currently in progress. Metrics for this year will be presented in next year’s CAPER. oRebuilding Together Peninsula’s National Rebuilding Day was awarded $75,000 in the 2025-26 Annual Action Plan. Due to the delay in receiving entitlement funds, Rebuilding Together Peninsula made the decision to carry over a portion of the funds on to next year’s project for 2026-27. •Two economic development grants totaling $80,000, which assisted 29 people. oRenaissance Entrepreneurship Center, provided microenterprise services for low-income prospective business owners and served 24 people.
oUpwards, provided technical assistance for daycare businesses (prospective or established) and served 5 people.
•One grant for fair housing services totaling $25,000, which assisted 16 people. oProject Sentinel, provided fair housing services for low-income tenants.
2.Public Facilities
Public facilities are another category of CDBG funding. The City uses these funds to support City street and sidewalk improvements in identified CDBG priority neighborhoods and local non-profits that primarily serve low- and moderate- income households. The North Central and North Shoreview neighborhood areas are identified as San Mateo’s CDBG priority neighborhoods. In Program Year 2025-26, Public Works programmed CDBG funds to make pedestrian-type improvements within the CDBG Priority Neighborhood near senior facilities and points of interest identified in the Age- Friendly San Mateo Action Plan. Due to the aforementioned challenges in receiving entitlement funds, this project was halted, but the work will be completed in the following year utilizing the programmed 2025-26 entitlement funds.
3.Other Accomplishments
In 2025-26, the City accomplished additional efforts that address affordable housing, homelessness, and poverty reduction. These accomplishments help support the goals listed in planning documents, including the 2023-27 Consolidated Plan, 2025-26 Annual Action Plan, and the 2023-2031 Housing Element:
•City Council approved the collaboration with an affordable housing developer, Alta Housing and commercial developer Harvest Properties/Prometheus, on the “Bespoke” mixed-use development. Bespoke combines commercial and residential components, including a 71-unit affordable housing development, all located on a City- owned parking lot on 4th Avenue and B Street and adjacent sites with a shared underground parking garage.
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•Through the state-grant, Permanent Local Housing Allocation (PLHA) fund, the City funded a homeless shelter, rapid rehousing, and home-sharing, and supportive housing programs. A total of 177 San Mateo residents were supported through these programs.
•An Emergency Rental Assistance Program was adopted in July 2025 to prevent homelessness and displacement among low-income San Mateo residents. The program successfully assisted 66 households by the end of the third quarter, exceeding the projected goal of 37 households.
HUD requires that the CAPER be submitted no more than 90 days after the close of the Program Year, which was June 30, 2025. This year, the deadline for submittal is September 29, 2026. The submittal of the CAPER must be preceded by a public comment period, during which the time the draft CAPER must be available to the public. The draft 2025-26 CAPER was published and posted to the City’s website on August 14, 2026, with the public comment period closing on the date of this meeting, August 31, 2026. Any public comments received after agenda publication will be provided at the meeting.
BUDGET IMPACT:
There are no budget impacts involved in the presentation, approval, and submission of this report.
ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATION:
This administrative review of the 2025-26 CAPER is not a project subject to CEQA, because it can be seen with certainty that it will not cause a physical change in the environment. (Public Resources Code Section 21065.)
STRATEGIC PLAN ALIGNMENT
This staff report supports the Housing initiative.
NOTICE PROVIDED
All meeting noticing requirements were met. The draft CAPER was published on the City’s website on August 14, 2026. A notice was also published on August 14, 2026, in the San Mateo Daily Journal to inform the public of the public comment period from August 15, 2026, to August 31, 2026; this meets the required 15-day period as stated in the City’s Citizen Participation Plan. The same public notice provided information about the Public Hearing hosted by the Community Relations Commission on August 19, 2026, and this City Council meeting on September 8, 2026.
ATTACHMENTS
Att 1 – Draft 2025-26 Consolidated Annual Performance Evaluation Report
STAFF CONTACT
Jennifer Mora, Housing Specialist I
[email protected]
(650) 522-7230