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City of Santa Ana Page 1 of 3 Revive Santa Ana Resident Stimulus Program - NOV 2021 Program Guidelines The Revive Santa Ana Resident Stimulus program provides $300 pre-paid visa cards as an economic support to mitigate negative economic impacts of the pandemic. The support is targeted to rental households in economically disadvantaged areas as determined by HUD’s Qualified Census Tracts and Census Tracts and to areas with poverty rates of over 42%. Funding for this program is made possible by the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) through U.S. Department of Treasury Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) allocated to the City of Santa Ana. I.Program Eligibility Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Fund Section 603(c)(1)(a) provides that funds may be used to respond to the public health emergency or its negative economic impacts, including assistance to households, small businesses, and nonprofits, or aid to impacted industries such as tourism, travel, and hospitality. The program responds to negative economic impacts caused by the public health emergency by providing direct assistance to households classified as Expenditure Category (EC) 2.3 Household Assistance: Cash Transfers. Per the interim final rule, in assessing whether a household or population experienced economic harm as a result of the pandemic, a recipient may presume that a household or population that experienced unemployment or increased food or housing insecurity or is low- or moderate-income experienced negative economic impacts resulting from the pandemic. The City will provide cash assistance via a pre-paid visa cards to a population that is low- or moderate-income meeting the presumed benefit criteria. The support will be disbursed to rental households in economically disadvantaged areas as determined by HUD’s Qualified Census Tracts and Census tracts and Census Tracts in areas with poverty rates of over 42%. (See Revive Santa Ana Resident Stimulus Program Eligible Areas Map) The City recognizes the disproportionate impact of the pandemic in low-income, high poverty, dense and overcrowded living conditions, and as such is targeting the distribution of the cash assistance to rental units in the target areas. II.Size of the cash assistance: The Revive Santa Ana Business Program will provide $300 in the form of a pre-paid visa card. EXHIBIT 1