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Exhibit A — Scope of Services Purpose The purpose of the Program is to centralize homeownership and rental compliance program services through the Boulder County Regional Housing Partnership (BCRHP). The Program will achieve several goals: • Create policy alignment • Use resources efficiently • Encourage regional collaboration • Apply consistent best practices and processes • Support newly adopted affordable housing programs • Provide streamlined access to multiple programs for residents • Ensure racial equity is centered as a primary objective of the collaborative work through encouraging prioritization of first meeting the affordable housing needs of the most underserved in our community. The Program is a transformational idea in that it has been a longstanding goal of the BCRHP to create regional services in alignment with the 2017 Regional Housing Strategy and can support the program infrastructure needed for more municipalities within the BCRHP to implement affordable housing programs. Throughout the Program, equity and accessibility will be addressed through the adopted policies and procedures that dictate the practices. Current local affordable housing programs have shown to dramatically increase access to housing to households with racial diversity. The Need & Lead Roles Currently, there are several municipalities within the BCRHP that do not have dedicated resources or program infrastructure for homeownership and/or rental compliance programs. Boulder County Housing Authority (BCHA), the City of Longmont, and the City of Boulder manage most of the compliance for homes which they have developed or funded. However, as other municipalities continue to grow their affordable housing programs, there will be a growing need to maintain high -quality, specialized expertise in compliance. The BCRHP believes that is possible with a regionalized approach, administered by City of Boulder staff. Similarly for homeownership programs, some municipalities in the BCRHP manage for -sale units on a case -by -case basis without a formalized team, which has been appropriate in the past given the small number of affordable for -sale units in the region. As the BCRHP continues to grow for -sale housing stock, there will be a similar need to administer a homeownership program at the regional level to create efficiencies in marketing units, qualifying buyers, facilitating sales / re -sales, preventing foreclosure, and implement industry best practices. The City of Longmont and City of Boulder manage their own homeownership programs.