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STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS Description of Firm: MDG Associates Inc. (MDG) was established in 1991 and has undergone a steady growth since its inception. MDG is a corporation registered in the State of California and is a registered Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE). MDG Associates, Inc. is comprised of individuals with a wide variety of expertise including the CDBG services requested by the City. Currently, MDG has 32 staff member. Eleven (11) of our staff members are knowledgeable and experienced in the administration and implementation of the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program. As CDBG Program consultants, MDG provides assistance with the day -to -day administration of the program, including the preparation of Five -Year Consolidated Plans, One -Year Action Plans and CAPERS; oversight of capital improvement projects for compliance with Davis -Bacon Act and Section 3 requirements; administering sub- recipient contracts conducting monitoring for compliance, processing payment request and file management; and coordination with the City's assigned HUD representative. MDG staff maintains an excellent relationship with the local HUD office as well as at the headquarters level (Washington D.C.). Staff is currently providing Technical Assistance (TA) to grantees throughout the country on behalf of HUD Headquarters through the OneCPD Program. This technical assistance is provided to states, counties, cities and other HUD funded grantees in conjunction with the CDBG, HOME, and NSP programs as well as the respective reporting programs such as integrated Disbursement Information System (IDIS) and Disaster Recovery Grant Reporting (DRGR) programs. NIDG staff members are part of the Presidential Task Force team that is responsible for the OneCPD Technical Assistance effort to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and it's Municipalities on their CDBG, HOME and NSP programs. Technical assistance for Puerto Rico has included the preparation of a Needs Assessment to determine strengths and weaknesses of their programs; preparation of Policy and Procedure Guidelines; providing on -site training on the implementation of the program gidelines and their respective programs, providing on -site training to the staff that is responsible for the monitoring of the programs; and training on the use of the HUD required reporting program Disaster Recovery Grant Reporting (DRGR). The Policy and Procedure Guidelines and training materials have been developed in both English and in Spanish with the actual training being conducted in Spanish. In addition, MDG staff members have been working with HUD Headquarters on providing training to grantees throughout the country in `Basically CDBG," IDIS and DRGR reporting systems, and most recently on the new eCon Planning Suite system that was released during the 2012 Program Year. We have assisted HUD as beta testers and trainers on recent updates of the IDIS and DRGR reporting systems. Currently, LDM along with its affiliate (MDG Associates, Inc.) provides CDBG, HOME, ESG and CaIHOME administration assistance to 17 Cities and one (1) County with funds totaling