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Attachment E — Civil Rights Compliance Fair Housing As a condition for the receipt of Small Cities Community Development Block Grant funds, each Recipient must certify that it will "affirmatively further fair housing"in its community. A Recipient shall demonstrate its commitment to affirmatively further fair housing by implementing the actions listed below. Each Recipient shall do the following: 1) Have in place a fair housing resolution or ordinance that covers all Federally protected classes (race, color, familial status,handicap,national origin,religion,and sex); 2) Publish quarterly a phone number that people can call to ask fair housing questions or register a complaint; 3) Designate an employee who is available Monday through Friday during regular business hours to receive fair housing calls; 4) Establish a system to record the following: a) The nature of the calls, b) The actions taken in response to the calls,and c) The results of the actions taken,and d) The end results of referrals to other agencies,when applicable; 5) Conduct at least one fair housing activity each quarter. Identical activities (See examples below.) shall not be conducted in consecutive quarters;and 6) Display a fair housing poster in the CDBG Office. (This does not count as a fair housing activity.) The fair housing contact person is expected to have received training so that he/she can handle fair housing phone inquiries or refer the inquiries to the appropriate people/agencies. Records maintained by the contact will help the community do the following: • Define where discriminatory practices are occurring, • Help the community measure the effectiveness of its outreach efforts,and • Provide the community with a means to gain information that can be used to design and implement strategies that will eliminate fair housing impediments. Examples of fair housing activities include the following: • Making fair housing presentations at schools,civic clubs,and neighborhood association meetings; • Manning a booth and distributing fair housing materials at libraries, health fairs, community events, yard sales,and church festivals;and • Conducting fair housing workshops for city/county employees,realtors,bank and mortgage company employees,insurance agents,and apartment complex owners. Printing a fair housing notice on a utility bill is no longer accepted as a fair housing activity. Mailing a Department-approved fair housing brochure as an insert with utility bills will be accepted as an activity. Placing posters in public buildings does not meet the requirement for a fair housing activity. Recipients shall document their fair housing activities by keeping photographs,newspaper articles,sign-in sheets and copies of handouts in their CDBG project file and include information about the activities in the comment section of each quarterly report. Rev. 09/03/2015 25