19F - CONSOLIDATED PERFORMANCE AND EVALUATION REPORT

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The City of Santa Ana is the recipient of federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnership (HOME), Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG), and Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS ( HOPWA) funds.' The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awards these funds to the City on a formula basis. As a recipient of these funds the City is required to prepare a five -year strategic plan that identifies housing and community needs, prioritizes these needs, identifies resources to address needs, and establishes annual goals and objectives to meet these needs. This five -year strategic plan is known as the Consolidated Plan. In addition to updating the Consolidated Plan on an annual basis, via an annual Action Plan, the City of Santa Ana is required to provide the public and HUD with an assessment of its accomplishments utilizing grant funds at the end of each fiscal year. This annual assessment is known as the Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER). This document provides a review and evaluation of the City's performance for the 2013 -2014 Fiscal Year (or report period), the fourth year of the 2010 -2014 Consolidated Plan cycle. The 2013 -2014 report period began July 1, 2013 and ended June 30, 2014. This report summarizes the City's accomplishments for the CDBG, HOME, ESG and HOPWA programs and includes a summary of the progress the City has made to meet the Consolidated Plan's five -year goals. The CAPER also incorporates a summary of public comments received by the City during a 15 -day comment period held from August 18, 2014 through September 2, 2014. Also included in this document are reports generated by HUD's Integrated Disbursement and Information System (IDIS). These HUD reports provide information that has been entered into the national database and summarize the City's accomplishments for the 2013 -2014 report period. During the 2013 -2014 report period, the City continued its efforts to address the priority housing and community needs identified in the 2010 -2014 Consolidated Plan. For example, through the Fair Housing Council of Orange County, 907 residents were assisted with their fair housing and /or discrimination issue, 2,979 youth participated in the Library youth Tutoring program and 3,441 housing units were inspected by the City's Code Enforcement Program to ensure that state and 1 As Orange County's most populous city, Santa Ana is the recipient of HOPWA funds on behalf of the entire Orange County region. In the 2014 -15 report period, HOPWA funds will be transferred over to the City of Anaheim. 1 DRAFT 2013 -2014 CAPER Exhibit 2 19F -10