Title
2025-26 CDBG Needs Staff Report
Body
Discussion with Nonprofit Organizations and Recommendation to Direct the Preparation of a Needs Statement to Confirm the Community Needs for the Fiscal Year 2025-26 Community Development Block Grant Action Plan; to Designate the President of the Social Service Human Relations Board and/or another Board Member to Review the Statement and Represent the Board at the December 5, 2024 City Council Needs Public Hearing; and to Determine that CDBG Public Services Funding Will Be Prorated for Fiscal Year 2025-26, based on available funds.
To: Honorable President Scott Means and Members of the Social Service Human Relations Board
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
In 2020, the City of Alameda (City) prepared its Five-Year Consolidated Plan (Consolidated Plan), which identified the following priorities:
* Preserving and increasing affordable housing and supportive services;
* Reducing housing discrimination;
* Preventing and addressing homelessness; and
* Addressing non-housing community development needs such as neighborhood improvements, public services, accessibility improvements and economic development.
Each year, the City holds a public comment period on housing and community development needs to support the City's effort to identify the community's social service needs and to direct the preparation of the needs statement for the upcoming fiscal year (FY). The Needs Statement will be presented to City Council for approval at the public hearing, and this item is tentatively scheduled for December 5, 2024. The approved Needs Statement will be included in the upcoming Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) FY 2025-26 Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA)/ Request for Proposals (RFP). The Action Plan FY 2025-26 Schedule is attached as Exhibit 1.
In 2023, the Social Service Human Relations Board (SSHRB) completed the 2023 Community Needs Assessment (2023 CNA). The 2023 CNA was reviewed and accepted by the City Council at its May 2,...
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