19C - CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL PERFORMANCE AND EVALUATION RPT

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III. GENERAL CAPER NARRATIVE CDBG, HOME, HOPWA and ESG funds are awarded to the City by HUD's Community Planning and Development (CPD) division. As a recipient of these funds the City is required to prepare a CAPER at the end of each fiscal year. The City has prepared this CAPER for the recently completed 2011- 2012 Program Year, which began July 1, 2011 and ended on June 30, 2012. A. Assessment of 5-Year Consolidated Plan Goals & Objectives The 2010-2014 Consolidated Plan was developed through a citizen participatory process and identified the City's housing and community needs, prioritized these needs, and established five- year objectives and annual goals aimed at addressing priority needs. The goal of the Consolidated Plan was to improve the quality of life for all Santa Ana residents with an emphasis on the City's lower income households. HUD defines a lower income household as a household earning no more than 80% of the county's median income, adjusted for family size.4 EXHIBIT 3 provides a summary of the City's activities undertaken during the 2011-2012 report period to address priority housing and community development needs. 1. Activities Undertaken to Address Goals and Objectives EXHIBIT 4 provides an overview of activities undertaken by the City during the 2010-2014 Consolidated Plan timeframe, including accomplishment information for the recently concluded 2011-2012 Program Year - the second year of the five-year cycle. In recent years HUD has implemented an outcomes performance management system that requires communities that receive HCD funds to link accomplishment data more directly to goals and objectives delineated in the Consolidated Plan. To this end, HUD has recommended that several tables be incorporated into the City's CAPER. These tables are incorporated into this performance report as EXHIBIT 5. 2. Use of CPD Grant Funds Table 4 lists the amount of CPD funds that were allocated to the City by HUD for the 2011-2012 report period. Additionally, the City received $42,802.72 in CDBG program income and $189,659.30 HOME program income during the report period. No program income was generated by HOPWA or ESG funded activities. Table 4 also delineates the amount of HCD funds committed 4 Orange County's 2012 median income is $85,300 for a family of 4 - HUD's uncapped 80% income limit for a family of 4 is also $85,300. 08/23/2012 7 19C-15