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Rudy E. Munoz President PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: MDG Associates, Inc. — Rancho Cucamonga, CA President: 1991-Present Founder of MDG Associates, Inc., a community development consulting firm that provides services to municipal agencies. Focus on assisting municipal agencies with all aspects of the administration and implementation of HUD funded CPD Programs. These include, but are not limited to the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnership Act (HOME), Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) and Community Developmet Block Grant — Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) programs. Works hand -in -hand with municipalities on the development of implementation strategies and tools that facilitate the management of their CPD programs; provides training for the HUD CPD Programs; if requested provides day-to-day implementation functions of the programs. This includes the development of Consolidated Plans and Action Plans for various programs through programmatic and financial closeout of projects and grants. Assists grantees in developing HUD mandated Policies and Procedures for the management and oversight of various CPD Programs as well as implementation of individual activities such as Housing Rehabilitation, Commercial Rehabilitation, and Homebuyer Programs. Works as a subcontractor to several national Technical Assistance (TA) providers through HUD's Community Compass initiatives. Through the initiative, provides TA and staff capacity buildding to municipalities throughout the U.S. in the CDBG, HOME, NSP (1, 2, and 3) and CDBG-DR. Provides in class training and TA in two of HUDs reporting systems; the Integrated Disbursement and Information Systems (IDIS), and the Disaster Recovery Grant Reporting System (DRGR). Assists HUD Headquarters as a beta tester for the updates to the Disaster Recovery Grant Reporting system. Provides training and TA in federal cross -cutting elements inleuding Financial Management Systems (Uniform Administrative Systems), Davis -Bacon and Related Acts (DBRA), and Assessment of Fair Housing (AFH). Has provided many of the aforementioned training in Spanish for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and its municipalities. City of Huntington Park —Assistant Director of Comm. Development/Redevelopment Assisted the Director of Community Development in the administration of the department. Directly responsible for the day-to-day administration and management of municipal staff on the CDBG and HOME programs, current and advanced planning functions and code enforcement activities. Acted as Secretary to the City's Planning Commission. City of Montclair —Associate Planner Assisted in the day-to-day planning functions including, but not limited to, California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) review, Design Review, Subdivisions, Annexations, and Development proposals. Responsible for reviewing and processing Zone Changes, Variances, Conditional Use Permits, and other entitlements.