REPORT TO HOUSING AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION
SUBJECT
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Consider Approval of Fifth Substantial Amendment to the 2019/20 HUD Annual Action Plan to Allocate Remaining COVID-19 CARES Funds (CDBG-CV)
Report
BACKGROUND
Sunnyvale receives an annual allocation of Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) and Home Investment Partnership Program (HOME) funds from the federal government to support community development programs and local housing strategies that aim to increase opportunities for low- and very low-income residents. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, on March 27, 2020 the Federal Government signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES Act). The CARES Act provided up to $5 billion in CDBG supplemental funding. Of that amount, $2 billion was distributed to states and entitlement jurisdictions using the same statutory formula used to distribute the annual CDBG allocations.
Sunnyvale is an entitlement jurisdiction and received approximately $1.7 million from HUD in CDBG CARES ("CDBG-CV") funds through the CARES Act in two allocation rounds of funding. The CARES Act funds were designed to provide emergency assistance and healthcare response for individuals, families, and businesses affected by the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic.
All CDBG-CV funds received must be allocated and planned under the FY 2019/20 Action Plan, meaning any funding award made, no matter what year the funds are actually received, must amend the FY 2019/20 Action Plan using the approved HUD streamlined approach.
* The City made the first substantial amendment to the FY 2019/20 Action Plan in December 2019 to assist Sunnyvale Community Services (SCS) in acquiring a new, larger facility to administer their services to the Sunnyvale community (RTC No. 19-0991). This amendment was not related to CDBG-CV funds.
* In June 2020, the second amendment occurred shortly after receiving the first allocation of CDBG-CV funds, and the City awarded Sunnyvale Community Serv...
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