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Twelve (12) of these Cities are entitlement cities with HUD. Additionally, in recent years we have been under contract in the Cities of Hawthorne and Riverside to assist City staff on specific tasks such as IDIS input, project monitoring, Davis-Bacon Monitoring, preparation of Consolidated Plan/Action Plan, and preparation of Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER). Additionally, our firm was recently contracted by the City of Compton and County of Santa Barbara to assist in their CDBG and HOME Programs in an effort to correct major findings recently issued by HUD. MDG has prepared approximately 35 Consolidated Plans and 25 Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice (Als), of which 12 Consolidated Plans and 8 Als were prepared during the last cycle. In addition, MDG has prepared more than 200 Action Plans and CAPERS throughout multiple Consolidated Plan cycles. M121am The members of our consulting group proposed to provide consulting services in the preparation of the City of Santa Ana's 2013-2014 CAPER include Rudy Muiloz, President; Diane Corto, Manager; and Daniel Perez, Associate. Ms. Cotto will be the lead consultant and Project Manager assigned to the City and will be primarily responsible for the development of the CAPER. In addition, Mr. Perez will assist with the preparation of the document. The following is a statement on each of the aforementioned key staff members proposed under this contract. Rudy Mufloz, President - Rudy Xfunoz has been providing community development consulting services to municipal agencies since 1986. With more than 28 years of experience in the community development field, including grants management of federal, county, and local grants including those offered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, IN-U. Mudoz assists municipalities with all aspects of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnership (HONME), Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) and Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) management Mr. Munoz focuses on strategic planning and technical assistance and training along with the development of implementation tools to facilitate the management of programs, developing toots and conducting training for HUD grantees and in the development of policies and procedures for programs (HOME, CDBG, NSP) and activities funded under these programs (Housing Rehabilitation, Commercial Rehabilitation and Homebuyer Programs). His work in grants planning includes 36 Consolidated Plans, over 200 Action Plans and CAPER!s, and 12 Analysis of Impedimenrs to Fait Housing Choice, Mr, Munoz is a Certified HOME Specialist and is a national technical assistance provider through HUD's OncCPD initiative, Through this initiative, Mr. Muftoz provides Technical Assistance and training to grantees throughout the country in CDBG, HOME, NSP and cross cutting elements of the CPD programs. 2Nfr. Munoz is currently provides training on behalf of HUD on the use of the e-Con Planning Suite, CPD Maps, the DRGR system and the Basically CDBG training at the national level. In addition, he is currently a part of the CmcCPD Policy and Procedure Workgroup established by HUD to gather information and establish, a system to assist grantees in the development of policies and procedures, Mr. Mufioz was recently selected as part of a special assignment through the Presidential Task Force to provide training and technical assistance to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in Spanish.