DATE: December 8, 2020
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Deputy City Manager
SUBJECT
Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) COVID-19 Emergency-Related Funding: Adopt a Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Implement a Contingency Plan for Allocation and Expenditure of Up to $1.69 Million in Available CDBG Funds for COVID-19 Emergency Expenditures, and Approving a Substantial Amendment to the CDBG Fiscal Year 2020 Annual Action Plan
RECOMMENDATION
That the City Council:
1. Adopts a Resolution (Attachment II)
a. Authorizing the City Manager to implement a plan to allocate and expend up to $1.69 million in available CDBG funds for COVID-19 emergency expenditures; and
b. Approving a Substantial Amendment to the CDBG FY 2020 Annual Action Plan (Attachment III).
2. Adopts a Resolution (Attachment IV) authorizing the City Manager to negotiate and execute an amendment to the agreement with Bay Area Community Services (BACS) to increase the contract amount to increase the funds available for rent relief grants in the City's Rental Housing Relief Program.
SUMMARY
The federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), passed in March 2020, allocates over two trillion in funds to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic at the federal, state, and local levels. In doing so, it makes available $5 billion in supplemental CDBG funding (i.e. CDBG-CV) for grants to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus. Additionally, the CARES Act provides CDBG grantees with flexibilities that make it easier to use CDBG-CV grants as well as FY 2020 and FY 2021 CDBG funds for coronavirus response and authorizes the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to grant waivers and alternative requirements. Through the CARES Act, the City of Hayward has received two separate allocations of CDBG-CV funding:
* Round 1: $902,238 awarded in April 2020
* Round 3: $1,191,514 awarded in September 2020
Round 2 funding from the CARES Act w...
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