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The Seva Collective will comply with the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds, Compliance and Reporting responsibilities for the following categories, Negative Economic Impacts and Household Assistance: Food Programs. We understand that we must comply with the Statutory Eligible Uses, Treasury's Interim Final Rule, Uniform Guidance (2 GFR) and any other Award Terms and Conditions. We understand that there are four Eligible and certain Restricted Uses for these funds, and we fall under the Negative Economic Impacts and Household Assistance Food Programs sections. We also understand that Eligible Cost Time Frame currently are for Eligible costs incurred once the grant has been awarded and December 31, 2024. With additional funds possibly obligated by December 31, 2024 and expended by December 31, 2026. Most importantly we understand that the Reporting Requirements typically include an initial interim report, quarterly or annual Project and Expenditure reports and a Recovery Plan. Our interim report will include the Initial overview of status and uses of funding, and it will be due one time. Our Project and Expenditure reports are due quarterly and will cover the types of projects funded, our financial data and any information on contracts, grants and subawards when applicable. Our Recovery Plan is due annually and covers our approach and objectives, descriptions of funded projects, performance and evidence information and how we are promoting equity. We further understand that our recovery plan must be published on our public -facing website as well as submitted to the City and Treasury, and that some data from the Recovery Plan will be entered into the Treasury reporting system. We understand that a Recovery plan must include: Executive Summary, Use of Funds, Promoting Equitable Outcomes, Community Engagement, Labor Practices and Use of Evidence. It should also cover project inventory with a table of expenses by expenditure category and Project Inventory. Lastly at minimum it should cover program data and performance indicators including Performance Report, Required Performance Data and Ineligible Activities: Tax Offset Provisions. For Project and Expenditure reports, we understand that the Project Demographic Distribution reporting is key. We will identify whether or not the project is serving an economically disadvantaged community, based on if: program or service is provided at a physical location in a Qualified Census Tract (QCT) (which it is), Primary intended beneficiaries live within a QCT (the majority of recipients are local to the OCT, eligibility criteria are such that the primary intended beneficiaries earn less than 60 percent of the median income; or that eligibility criteria are such that over 2S percent of intended beneficiaries are below the federal poverty line; based upon the expenditure category Household assistance. We will be able to provide Evidence of Use by maintaining and sharing food distribution totals for each event, pictures of events, testimony from recipients, testimony from volunteers, and corroboration from participating local agencies (e.g. Santa Ana Unified School District, Santa Ana Police Department, local organizations such as OC Food Bank, etc). Our current distribution site serves the QCTs within Santa Ana. Our robust and redundant notification systems to recipients ensures that we effectively reach residents of the QCTs surrounding our distribution site. We are 15