See How San Ramon Spent its Affordable Housing Money Over the Past Two Years

State law requires redevelopment agencies to set aside a fifth of their property tax revenues to create and preserve affordable housing.

They're also required to create a list that details exactly what that money paid for.

Here's that list for the San Ramon Redevelopment Agency. It's up for review at the agency's meeting at 6 tonight.

Fiscal year 2009-10: Total expenditures were $1,331,635

• $313,553 paid for the salary and benefits of city employees who worked on affordable housing projects
• $43,008 paid for overhead costs for using the city's office space and equipment
• $37,243 paid for outside legal consultants
• $43,791 paid for consultants to help with the city's long-term redevelopment and housing plans
• $18,108 went to the county for property tax collection
• $1,352 funded annual audit fees
• $15,732 paid for incidental office management
• $253,416 for the
• $80,091 to subsidize Villa San Ramon, an assisted housing community for seniors at 9199 Fircrest Lane
• $523,149 for the city's housing rehab program
• $2,200 for site cleanup

Most of the money for salary and benefits (that $313,000-plus figure) funded the city's Housing Programs Manager, Brooke Harris.

Harris' responsibilities in 2009-10 included:

• Overseeing the city's housing rehab program, which gave out two loans and 24 grants for low and median income housing projects
• Making sure the city kept its end of all housing-related legal agreements
• Finding a developer for the site of the now-shuttered San Ramon Recycling Center site at 2231 Omega Blvd (The plan is to build affordable housing on the property, which lies in a warehouse/industrial corner of San Ramon.)
• Helping the city develop its long-term housing blueprint for the General Plan 2030
• Oversight of the city's appointed Housing Advisory Committee, which provides recommendations on housing policies, projects and programs
• Acting as liaison to the Tri-Valley Housing Advisory Committee, which offers recommendations on regional housing issues and projects
• Membership of the advisory board of the Tri-Valley Housing Opportunity Center, which offers first-time homebuyer education, foreclosure counseling and tax prep help to low-income San Ramon residents
• Keeping an eye on the Valley Vista Senior Housing project, a low-income development for poor, elderly residents funded by $5.1 million in redevelopment money
• Negotiating with developers to build up a mostly empty parking lot by the Alcosta Senior and Community Center (although the project fell through because the developer backed out, Harris said)

Fiscal year 2010-11: Total expenditures came to $1,580,776

• $346,268 paid for salary and benefits for city staff who worked on affordable housing-related projects
• $60,000 paid for legal counsel
• $76,000 for housing consulting and marketing
• $18,400 for the county to collect property taxes
• $1,300 for annual audit fees
• $43,008 to the city for overhead costs like office and equipment use
• $13,125 for incidental office management
• $392,412 funded the Crime Prevention Housing Program
• $89,500 subsidized Villa San Ramon
• $520,763 funded the housing rehab program
• $20,000 paid for pre-development planning for various projects

Most of the salary and benefit costs again went to Harris. Her responsibilities in the 2010-11 fiscal year included:

• Oversight of the city's housing rehab program, which gave out 20 grants for low and median income housing projects
• Making sure the city keeps up its end of all affordable housing agreements
• Continuing talks with developers about building affordable housing on the site of the now-defunct San Ramon Recycling Center on Omega Boulevard
• Keeping on top of the city's five-year plan for housing development
• Oversight of the city's Housing Advisory Committee
• Advising the Tri-Valley Affordable Housing Committee
• Continuing as advisory member of the Tri-Valley Housing Opportunity Center
• Getting the word out about leasing the 104 units in the just-finished Valley Vista Senior Housing development, an affordable housing complex for seniors that's next-door to the Glass House on San Ramon Valley Boulevard
• Continued negotiations with developers about the Medical Arts site, that undeveloped patch of land by the senior center
• Offering input in developing the to make sure it includes space for affordable housing
• Making sure , a mixed-use live-work complex that's in its planning stages, includes at least 13 affordable housing units