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City of Santa Maria
Community Development Block Grant Program
Fiscal Year 2023-24 Funding
Public Service Summary / Staff Analysis / Agency Performance
Rating Scale
1 – Unacceptable Agency did not submit any required documents (reports / invoices) in timely manner and did not fully expend its allocation in previous years.
2 Agency did not submit more than three of the required documents (reports / invoices) in a timely manner; requires extensive follow-up and/or did not fully expend its allocation in previous years. Agency’s projects have not been “shovel-ready” in the past.
3 – Needs Improvement
Agency has difficulties submitting required documents (reports and/or invoices) in a timely manner, requires follow up and/or did not fully expend its full allocation. Agency has entered into executed contract amendments due to the inability to expend its full allocation during the contract period.
4 Agency has submitted an invoice and/or report late. Agency is responsive when revisions need to be made. 5 – Satisfactory Agency does a great job submitting its required documents in a timely manner; expends allocation in a timely manner; and is responsive when revisions need to be made.
NEW – The agency has not received CDBG funding in the last five years
NOTE: Agency monitoring review letters mentioned in the staff analysis are available for review upon request. Please contact City staff.
1. Application Name Alliance for Pharmaceutical Access
Patient Advocacy for Affordable or No Cost Medications
Activity Description Alliance for Pharmaceutical Access (APA) provides a vital service to Santa Maria residents who have chronic or other serious health conditions which require compliance with medication treatments. Through patient advocacy, APA helps provide people with the medications they need, at a nominal or no cost. The program is designed to help those who most often encounter barriers to accessing healthcare services such as the uninsured or underinsured and other individuals who are at risk of not receiving access to medications due to language, financial, or other barriers. The program plans on serving 84 unduplicated Santa Maria residents with CDBG fundi ng by
securing approximately 252 prescription medications.
Performance Rating 5
Notes Regarding
Application / CDBG
Performance
• Agency submits invoices and quarterly reports in a timely manner.
• Agency is responsive when revisions need to be made.
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2. Application Name
NEW
Boys & Girls Clubs of Mid Central Coast
Opportunity to Thrive
Activity Description They provide area youth with a safe place for out of school time programming as well as mentors to interact with.
Guidance from a mentor creates a lasting positive impact on our participants. It is also a way for youth and teens to meet other young people outside of their normal circles. This teaches them how to interact with kids from different age groups with different skill sets who all share similar interests. BGCMCC operates thirteen (13) clubs in Santa Maria. The program plans to serve 18 unduplicated hou
seholds with CDBG funding with 1,800 units of
service. Service units are the number of hours provided for mentoring and guiding youth members.
Performance Rating N/A
Notes Regarding
Application / CDBG
Performance
• The Boys and Girls Club has received CDBG funding for capital projects, but not for public service activities.
3. Application Name Catholic Charities
Community Services' Program
Activity Description The Community Services Program provides food, clothing, rent/utility assistance, case management and referrals.
The funds will be used exclusively for the Santa Maria program, providing emergency services to qualifying, low- income clients to allow them to become more stable and self-sufficient. The program will provide 452 units of service to at least 226 clients with the use of CDBG funds.
Performance Rating 4
Notes Regarding
Application / CDBG
Performance
• City staff is concerned about the inconsistencies with proposed goals and reporting.
• During FY 2021-22, the agency submitted its final report (Exhibit C) late.
• In previous monitoring reviews, concerns regarding the agency’s timeliness and grant administration were addressed. However, the agency has implemented procedures to ensure that operations are managed in an effective and efficient manner.
4. Application Name Child Abuse Listening Mediation (CALM) Childhood Trauma Prevention and Treatment
Activity Description CALM provides a variety of trauma -informed, evidence-based programs and services that effectively treat child abuse and promote healing, as well as programs successful in preventing abuse through family strengthening and support. CALM will provide approximately 56 units of service through case management, individual therapy, group support series, or referral and advocacy to approximately 3 residents with the use of CDBG funds.
Performance Rating 5
Notes Regarding
Application / CDBG
Performance
• Agency submits invoices and quarterly reports in a timely manner.
• Agency is responsive when revisions need to be made.
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5. Application Name
NEW
City of Santa Maria Recreation and Parks Department
Tutoring Services at the Abel Maldonado Community Youth Center Activity Description The City of Santa Maria Recreation and Parks Department will provide tutoring for community teens in grades 7 through 12. The tutor(s) will be stationed at the Abel Maldonado Community Youth Center from 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on weekdays and from noon to 5:00 p.m. on Saturdays. The program plans to serve 92 unduplicated teens with approximately 920 hours of tutoring services with CDBG funding.
Performance Rating N/A
Notes Regarding
Application / CDBG
Performance
• The Rec & Parks Dept. has received CDBG funding for capital projects, but not for public service activities.
• The program does not have other funding sources committed. The agency must demonstrate it has sought funding from a variety of sources. The budget states that Recreation and Parks will request $1,500 from PLAY for an overall program budget of $22,000 ($20,500 from CDBG; $1,500 from PLAY).
6. Application Name Community Partners in Caring
Volunteer Caregiving Program
Activity Description Through community volunteers, Community Partners in Caring provides door-through-door transportation to medical appointments, grocery shopping, and other health/wellness appointments; friendly visits; reassurance calls; shopping/errands for those that can’t leave their home; and help with yard work. With the use of CDBG funds, this program will provide 240 units of service to 16 seniors. Services include prescription and grocery shopping, friendly visits/calls, and food delivery.
Performance Rating 4
Notes Regarding
Application / CDBG
Performance
• During FY 2021-22, the agency submitted its second quarter report late.
• Note: The agency experienced unexpected staffing changes at the beginning of FY 2021-22.
• Agency is responsive when revisions need to be made.
7. Application Name
NEW
Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
Santa Maria Mentor Program
Activity Description The Santa Maria Mentor Program will recruit, train, and supervise adult volunteer mentors who will be matched with students in grades 3 – 8 to provide one- to-one mentoring services that support students' improved academic performance and social and emotional health. Mentors meet with their Mentees for at least one hour weekly at school or community -based locations, talking about the student’s issues and concerns, working on school assignments, setting goals, and building a supportive relationship. With CDBG funds, this program will provide approximately 333 units of service (minimum of 37 hours of service) to nine (9) unduplicated persons.
Performance Rating N/A
Notes Regarding
Application / CDBG
Performance
• The City has not provided CDBG funding in the past for the proposed program; however, the agency has received funding for its Teen Court program.
8. Application Name Domestic Violence Solutions
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Emergency Shelter
Activity Description The Santa Maria Emergency Shelter provides 60 days or more of safe, confidential housing along with necessities (food, clothing, and household goods) and wrap -around services that support clients in their goals to heal from trauma, go forward to establish independent households and enjoy a life free from violence. The program is built on a client advocate and case management model supplemented with professional psychological counseling. This program will serve 2 households with 48 safety bed nights with the use of CDBG funds.
Performance Rating 4
Notes Regarding
Application / CDBG
Performance
• During FY 2021-22, the agency sent its second quarter report late.
• Agency is responsive when revisions need to be made.
9. Application Name Family Service Agency / SMV Youth & Family Center Family Resource Center
Activity Description Santa Maria Family Resource Center (FRC) will provide intensive support to help underserved families stabilize during times of crisis and move towards long- term self-sufficiency. The program provides an array of services to disadvantaged families, helping them to navigate crisis and move toward self -sufficiency, including basic needs assistance and parent support/education. This includes helping families apply for health insurance, unemployment, CalFresh, utility assistance, distribution of food/supplies, referrals, and case management. This program will serve 74 unduplicated individuals with at least 74 units of intensive service completed with the use of CDBG funds.
Performance Rating 3
Notes Regarding
Application / CDBG
Performance
• During FY 2018-19, the agency did not spend $329.44 of its grant allocation. (Safe Child Program)
• During FY 2019-20, the agency did not expend $720.45 of its grant allocation. (Safe Child Program)
• The agency did not receive public service funding in FY 2020- 21. However, during FY 2020 -21 the agency received capital funding and did not expend $2,197.60 of its allocation.
• City staff have addressed these issues in the agency’s monitoring letters.
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10. Application Name Fighting Back Santa Maria Valley (FBSMV) Youth and Young-Adult Homeless Services (YHS)
Activity Description FBSMV is requesting funds to support its Homeless Transitional Youth Services program. This program will provide outreach to the homeless youth (age 16- 24) in the community and connect them to necessary resources and services to get them into permanent housing and in improved health. The program will serve 5 unduplicated individuals with 250 units of service with the use of CDBG funds.
Performance Rating 5
Notes Regarding
Application / CDBG
Performance
• Agency submits invoices and quarterly reports in a timely manner.
• Agency is responsive when revisions need to be made.
11. Application Name Foodbank of Santa Barbara County
Warehouse Food Distribution Program
Activity Description The Foodbank’s Food Distribution Program works with a variety of sources to acquire, store, distribute food from a large warehouse in Santa Maria. It provides food distributions through its network in the City of Santa Maria as well as through Foodbank’s “ Direct-to-Client” programs that will address clients’ nutritional needs. This program will provide approximately 17,746 meals to 467 unduplicated individuals with the use of CDBG funding.
Performance Rating 5
Notes Regarding
Application / CDBG
Performance
• Agency submits invoices and quarterly reports in a timely manner and agency is responsive when revisions need to be made.
12. Application Name Good Samaritan Shelter
Freedom Warming Center
Activity Description Freedom Warming Center (FWC) provide s overnight shelter to homeless and chronically homeless individuals.
Guests are provided a hot meal, a warm place to sleep, and access to resources designed to meet their immediate needs. FWC operates low -barrier services in Santa Maria when life- threatening weather conditions exist. The organization is expecting to serve 12 unduplicated individuals with 120 shelter bed nights.
Performance Rating 3
Notes Regarding
Application / CDBG
Performance
• The Freedom Warming Center program was formerly administered by Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara. FY 2021-22 was the first year the program was managed by Good Samaritan Shelter.
• During FY 2021-22, the agency was unable to expend $7,288.53, approximately 49 percent of its allocation.
The agency reported that it received a significant amount of funding through the Emergency Solutions Grants – CARES Act (ESG-CV). The agency informed staff that HUD was adamant about expending these funds first, therefore most of the costs associated with this program was billed to ESG-CV. Per Good Sam, this would not occur again.
• During FY 2021-22, the agency submitted its second quarter report late; however, agency is responsive when revisions need to be made.
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13. Application Name Good Samaritan Shelter
Homeless Shelter Programs
Activity Description The emergency shelter provides shelter, food, mental/physical health care and clothing for homeless persons and families on a year-round basis. The Emergency Shelter facility serves up to 90 clients per night, and residents have an extended length of stay of up to 90 days per year. This program will provide 990 shelter bed- nights to approximately 11 unduplicated persons with the use of CDBG funds.
Performance Rating 5
Notes Regarding
Application / CDBG
Performance
• Agency submits invoices and quarterly reports in a timely manner.
• Agency is responsive when revisions need to be made.
14. Application Name Independent Living Resource Center (ILRC) Community Living and Transition Services for Older Adults and People with Disabilities Activity Description Diversion services prevent homelessness and institutionalization amongst individuals with disabilities and older adults. Transition services facilitate the transition from an institutional setting, such as a skilled nursing facility (SNF) or hospital, or homelessness to community -based living for the same demographic. Clients receive individualized training from staff to learn adaptive skills and practice essential life activities. The agency provides (among other services): peer role modeling and support w ith adapting to a newly acquired disability or lifelong disability experience, applying for benefits, locating affordable/accessible housing, and personal assistance training & referral so that consumers may maintain their home and independent living statu s.
This program will serve 14
unduplicated individuals with 70 units of service with the use of CDBG funds.
Performance Rating 5
Notes Regarding
Application / CDBG
Performance
• Agency submits invoices and quarterly reports in a timely manner.
• Agency is responsive when revisions need to be made.
15. Application Name Mixteco/Indigena Community Organizing Project (MICOP) Puente a la Comunidad (Bridge to the Community)
Activity Description MICOP’s case management, literacy, health education and language interpretation programs eliminate the language and literacy barriers that hinder Indigenous immigrants from fully accessing and effectively utilizing available health, mental health, and social programs. The program will serve 63 unduplicated persons with 189 hours of case management with the use of CDBG funds.
Performance Rating 5
Notes Regarding
Application / CDBG
Performance
• Agency has not received CDBG public service funding since FY 2020-21.
• Agency submits invoices and quarterly reports in a timely manner.
• Agency is responsive when revisions need to be made.
16. Application Name New Beginnings Counseling Center (NBCC)
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NEW Safe Parking Shelter and Rapid Rehousing Program
Activity Description The Safe Parking Shelter and Rapid Re -Housing Program provides safe overnight shelter for vehicular homeless persons. Safe Parking also provides rapid rehousing, case management, street outreach, housing navigation and housing retention services, and financial assistance to program shelter clients and the homeless referred through Coordinated Entry, to transition them into, and help them to maintain, secure housing. This program will serve 4 unduplicated individuals with 960 units of service with the use of CDBG funds.
Performance Rating N/A
Notes Regarding
Application / CDBG
Performance
• Agency has not received CDBG funding from the City of Santa Maria in the past. The agency has been consistently funded by the City of Santa Barbara, County of Santa Barbara, and City of Goleta CDBG funds.
• There is currently an ordinance in place that does not allow for safe parking in the city limits. As a result, New Beginnings would need to use the funding in other ways to assist the unhoused besides using it for safe parking.
17. Application Name North County Rape Crisis and Child Protection Activity Description The Santa Maria Program provides education, prevention, and intervention services to victims of sexual assault and child abuse. This includes 24 -hour Hotline assistance, emotional support, and case management, ChildSAFE education programs, individual and s upport group counseling services, and accompaniment to hospital, law enforcement, Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) facilities, and court. This program will serve 417 unduplicated individuals with 784 units of service with the use of CDBG funds.
Performance Rating 5
Notes Regarding
Application / CDBG
Performance
• Agency submits invoices and quarterly reports in a timely manner.
• Agency is responsive when revisions need to be made.
18. Application Name
NEW Partners in Housing Solutions, Inc.
Activity Description Partners in Housing Solutions works with people experiencing homelessness and assists them in finding and securing permanent housing through its network of private property owners. PHS offers services to clients and the property owners who house them. The agency helps with housing search and placement services, including budgeting, navigation, communicating with property owners, and advocacy while clients receive case management from PHS’ partners. Once housed, PHS offers housing- related support services while clients continue to receive support from social service agency partners. PHS also offers services to the property owners who house our clients including a financial safety net, access to a 24-hour turnaround helpline, and incentives for eligible households. This program will serve 5 unduplicated individuals with 25 units of service with the use of CDBG funds.
Performance Rating N/A
Notes Regarding
Application / CDBG
Performance
• Agency has not received CDBG funding from the City of Santa Maria in the past. However, the agency has been previously funded by the City of Santa Barbara.
19. Application Name
NEW
People's Self-Help Housing
Supportive Housing Program for Low-Income USDA Farmworker Households
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Activity Description The Supportive Housing Program (SHP) is located at three affordable, supportive properties for farmworker households, Los Adobes de Maria I, II, and III (the LADMs), which house 151 families with over 600 Santa Maria residents. Clinical case management services are provided by licensed and associate clinical social workers and marriage and family therapists (LCSWs, ACSWs, LMFTs, and AMFTs).
With the use of CDBG funding, this
program will serve 14 unduplicated households with approximately 196 hours of clinical services provided.
Performance Rating N/A
Notes Regarding
Application / CDBG
Performance
• Agency has not received CDBG public service funding since FY 2015-16.
• The agency has received CDBG funding for several capital projects.
20. Application Name Santa Maria Valley FISH Meals on Wheels Santa Maria Valley Activity Description Meals on Wheels Santa Maria Valley provides home delivery of nutritious, hot meals to low -income elderly and disabled community members with special dietary needs. Home delivered meals drastically reduces the need for an assisted living placement. The service goes well beyond the delivery of a meal, the agency provides informal health & welfare check. This program will serve 22 unduplicated seniors with 5,808 meals and visits for a full year with the use of CDBG funds.
Performance Rating 5
Notes Regarding
Application / CDBG
Performance
• Agency submits invoices and quarterly reports in a timely manner.
• Agency is responsive when revisions need to be made.
21. Application Name
NEW
Savie Health Corporation
Free Health Care for Uninsured Santa Maria Residents
Activity Description Savie Health will provide primary, preventive, and behavioral healthcare, health education, and care coordination to uninsured SM residents. The agency will cover the cost of patients’ lab and imaging expenses and provide discounted medication cards so that usually patients will not be paying more than $4 per prescription. With telehealth, residents of Santa Maria will be able to have follow-up medical visits, care coordination visits, and initial and ongoing behavioral healthcare without needing to drive back to the Lompoc clinic. With the use of CDBG funding, this program will serve 45 unduplicated households with approximately 135 units of service which includes healthcare visits, care coordination, labs, imaging, and/or Medi-Cal enrollment.
Performance Rating N/A
Notes Regarding
Application / CDBG
Performance
• Agency has not received CDBG funding from the City of Santa Maria in the past.
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22. Application Name
NEW
SLO Noor Foundation
Mobile Healthcare
Activity Description The Mobile Health project is a partnership between Noor Clinics and Cal Poly Health Research. Mobile Clinics will provide primary care to underserved populations, deliver preventative health exams directly to uninsured adults, screen for chronic health risks, enroll new patients, and create wellness plans for continued primary and specialty care at Noor Health Clinics, and telehealth. Services will be delivered several times a week over the course of a year. Host sites for the mobile services include the Mi nami Community Center, Los Adobes de Maria II, Salvation Army, and the Veterans Hall in Santa Maria.
With the use of CDBG funding, this program will serve
approximately 90 unduplicated persons with approximately 153 units of service.
Performance Rating N/A
Notes Regarding
Application / CDBG
Performance
• Agency has not received CDBG funding from the City of Santa Maria in the past.
23. Application Name
NEW
SMOOTH, Inc.
Senior Dial A Ride
Activity Description The Senior Dial A Ride program provides origin to destination transportation for seniors. Wheelchair accessible vans are available to take seniors to medical appointments, grocery shopping, to the beauty parlor, to visit a friend, or for any reason. Many of the clients do not have alternate transportation available, often do not qualify for services such as ADA and cannot afford other private options such as a taxi. This program will serve approximately 1,118 unduplicated seniors with an estimated 6,708 rides with the use of CDBG funds.
Performance Rating N/A
Notes Regarding
Application / CDBG
Performance
• Agency has not received CDBG public service funding since FY 2015-16.
24. Application Name The Salvation Army
Hot Lunch Program
Activity Description The program helps decrease and prevent food insecurity and helps provide a means to help them achieve economic stability. The Hot Lunch Program will provide hot and nutritious lunches, free of charge, Monday through Friday, from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM, at The Salvation Army's Santa Maria Corps Community Center. The program is offered and served to all persons in Santa Maria facing hunger or lack consistent access to a food source to address food insecurity. As such, program beneficiaries are primarily low-income and homeless households. This program will serve 8,250 individuals with 33,000 meals with the use of CDBG funds.
Performance Rating 3
Notes Regarding
Application / CDBG
Performance
• During FY 202 0-21, the agency submitted its first quarter report late In addition, the agency did not expend $208.47 of its grant allocation.
• In the agency’s FY 2020 -21 monitoring letter, City staff addressed issues regarding the agency’s timeliness, administrative capacity, and file retention.
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City of Santa Maria
Community Development Block Grant Program
Fiscal Year 2023-24 Funding
Capital Project Summary / Staff Analysis / Agency Performance
Rating Scale
1 – Unacceptable Agency did not submit any required documents (reports / invoices) in timely manner and did not fully expend its allocation in previous years.
2 Agency did not submit more than three of the required documents (reports / invoices) in a timely manner; requires extensive follow-up and/or did not fully expend its allocation in previous years. Agency’s projects have not been “shovel-ready” in the past.
3 – Needs Improvement
Agency has difficulties submitting required documents (reports and/or invoices) in a timely manner, requires follow up and/or did not fully expend its full allocation. Agency has entered into executed contract amendments due to the inability to expend its full allocation during the contract period. 4 Agency has submitted an invoice and/or report late. Agency is responsive when revisions need to be made. 5 – Satisfactory Agency does an excellent job submitting its required documents in a timely manner; expends allocation in a timely manner; and is responsive when revisions need to be made.
NEW – The agency has not received CDBG funding in the last five years
NOTE: Agency monitoring review letters mentioned in the staff analysis are available for review upon request. Please contact City staff.
1. Application Name City of Santa Maria / Community Programs Division Tenant Based Rental Assistance (TBRA) Program Administration Activity Description This funding is set aside to assist the Community Programs Division in covering the administrative costs associated with managing the Tenant Based Rental Assistance (TBRA) Program. TBRA provides up to $2,500 to income qualifying individuals that need assistance covering their rental deposit in Santa Maria. It is funded through HOME, but since the City obtains its funding through the County of Santa Barbara's HOME Consortium, the City cannot use any of that funding to cover the administration of the grant. CDBG Capital funding can be used to help cover the administrative costs associated with a HOME program.
Performance Rating 5
Notes Regarding
Application / CDBG
Performance
• This funding is necessary to cover the cost of City staff’s administration of the program. Without the funding, general fund dollars will need to be used to cover Staff's time.
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2. Application Name Community Action Commission of Santa Barbara County dba CommUnify Safe at Home
Activity Description
The agency will provide minor repairs, structural repair services (such as improved exterior lighting for security, extended exterior rails, handicap toilet installations, exterior ramps), installation of slip-and-fall prevention measures to seniors aged 62 and above. In addition, CommUnify proposes to offer non- emergency maintenance services to approximately 41 clients to assist with upkeep of current senior occupied housing stock. The agency will also install slip-and-fall prevention and other measures for disabled adults age 21 to 61. *Prevailing wage and Section 3 do not apply*
Performance Rating 1.5
Notes Regarding
Application / CDBG
Performance
• During FY 2019-20 the agency was unable to expend its full allocation and left a remaining balance of $55,612, approximately 70 percent of its original grant allocation.
• In the agency’s monitoring letter and visit for FY 2020-21, City staff addressed the agency’s timeliness and goal outcomes regarding the Minor Home Repair program. The agency was unable to expend its FY 2020- 21 allocation due to unforeseen obstacles related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The contract was extended into FY 21-22.
• Several meetings took place during FY 2021- 22 to address performance concerns related to invoicing, timeliness, project implementation and record keeping. Discrepancies were found within the agency’s invoices along with the final demographic reports.
• The agency was given two fiscal years to expend $71,250 it was unable to expend its full allocation and left a remaining balance of $6,559
• The agency is currently funded for FY 2022-23. CommUnify has been responsive when additional information is needed; however, City staff continues to address concerns re garding the agency’s administrative performance.
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3. Application Name Community Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo County, Inc. (CAPSLO) Minor Home Repair
Activity Description The agency will provide essential home repair services including handicapped access improvements, plumbing, heating, drywall, flooring and other general repairs for low-income residents of the City of Santa Maria. The agency estimates that it will serve approximately 25 Santa Maria residents. The minor home repair is significantly more intense than what can be offered by CommUnify, hence why the number of people served, and the amount requested is different than CommUnify's. These repairs include wheelchair ramps, accessible showers, accessible sinks and widened doorways. CAPSLO crews have extensive experience completing these kinds of repairs and improvements. *Prevailing wage and Section 3 do not apply* Performance Rating 3.5
Notes Regarding
Application / CDBG
Performance
• During FY 2019-20 the agency was unable to expend the allocated funding for the Minor Home Repair program.
City staff allowed the remaining funding to be carried over to FY 2020-21.
• In the agency’s FY 2020 -21 monitoring letter and visit, City staff addressed the agency’s timeliness and goal outcomes regarding the Minor Home Repair program.
• In the agency’s FY 2021-22 monitoring letter, City staff addressed the agency’s timeliness. During the reporting period, the agency’s second quarter progress report and final annual report were submitted late.
• The agency’s overall performance has improved; however, the rating is based upon past performance.
4. Application Name Good Samaritan Shelter
Family Shelter Rehabilitation
Activity Description Good Samaritan Shelter is proposing to rehabilitate the Family Shelter facility located at 401 -A West Morrison Avenue. The project will include the purchase and installation of new retrofit windows for energy efficiency, replacing all flooring throughout the facility, painting the entire inside of the building, upgrade laundry room, and rehabilitate the restrooms to include new toilets, sinks, panels, floors. *Prevailing wage and Section 3 WILL apply* Performance Rating 5
Notes Regarding
Application / CDBG
Performance
• City Staff has not experienced issues with Good Samaritan, reports and invoices are submitted in a timely manner.
• The facility received funding during FY 2015-16 for rehabilitation on the men's bathroom and laundry room. The agency stated that the primary work would include the windows, floors, and painting of the buildings. The proposed project includes the rehabilitation of previously upgraded restrooms due to “wear and tear” - primarily surface items, nothing structural.
• Agency is open to phasing alternatives.
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5. Application Name Los Adobes de Maria I, L.P. (LADMI) Relocation Expenses for Residents of LADMI
Activity Description Los Adobes de Maria I was built in 1995 to serve farmworker households and consists of 65 units of deed-restricted affordable housing. The townhome -style units consist of 12 two- bedroom units, 33 three -bedroom units, 14 four - bedroom units, and 2 five- bedroom units in 12 separate residential buildings. Accessibility upgrades and improvements and parking reconfiguration will also be included in the scope. The upgrades include converting 6 townhouses to flat style apartments which are ADA accessible. This will allow the current tenants the opportunity to move into first story, one floor units as they age and can no longer use the stairs. As this is a renovation project, it is necessary to relocate the residents either temporarily or permanently under State Relocation Assistance Law regarding displacement of residents. The CDBG funds will be utilized to help offset the difference in rent being charged to the residents housed in temporary housing as well as down- payment assistance provided to residents who are choosing permanent displacement from the property. *Prevailing wage and Section 3 MAY apply* Performance Rating 1
Notes Regarding
Application / CDBG
Performance
• The agency has received CDBG funding in the past for several capital project.
• The agency originally submitted a proposal for renovation costs to assist with the expenses associated with LADMI. This is what was submitted to the City Council in October. However, the agency changed the use of the funds to relocation costs after that and ev
en with Staff’s suggestions, moved forward with applying for relocation costs.
• Relocation is an eligible CDBG expense. However, based on guidance from the City’s HUD representative, this activity is administratively burdensome and difficult to manage.
• The liability to ensure that this project complies with the guidance from the City’s HUD representative, this activity is administratively burdensome and difficult to manage.
• The costs associated with relocation of one household is substantial and the number of households served with this funding source would be minimal.
• The rating for this project is based on Staff’s analysis of the type of activity and use of CDBG funds, not based on past performance.
• City Staff and the Block Grants Advisory Committee do not support using CDBG funds for this project. This is based on analysis of the regulations and consultation with the City’s HUD representative. It is too much of a liability for the City to take on based on the information collected.
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6. Application Name
NEW
Vocational Training Center (VTC) Enterprises
Accessibility Improvements Project
Activity Description The proposed goal of the project is to increase the safety, access, comfort, and service experience for persons served (individuals with physical and developmental disabilities) by VTC Enterprises at 2445 ‘A’ Street. The funding will be used to replace or make improvements to walkways, ramps, and patio areas. Improvements will include widening of walkways and ramps, reengi neering of walkways to prevent flooding and promote drainage, and construction of a weatherproof patio/waiting area cover. *Prevailing wage and Section 3 WILL apply* Performance Rating N/A
Notes Regarding
Application / CDBG
Performance
• The agency has not received CDBG funding since FY 2011-12.
• The agency reported that this project could be phased into two distinctive projects, in needed.