Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1. Consultation with other public and private agencies that provide assisted housing, health services, and social services (including those focusing on services to children, elderly persons, persons with disabilities, persons with HIV/AIDS and their families, homeless persons), community-based and regionally-based organizations that represent protected class members, organizations that enforce fair housing laws, broadband internet service providers, organizations engaged in narrowing the digital divide, agencies whose primary responsibilities include the management of flood prone areas, public land or water resources, and emergency management agencies. 2. Homeless strategy and the resources available to address the needs of homeless persons: Consultation with the Continuum of Care; public and private agencies that address housing, health, social service, victim services, employment, or education needs of low-income individuals and families; homeless individuals and families, including homeless veterans; youth; and/or other persons with special needs; publicly funded institutions and systems of care that may discharge persons into homelessness (such as health-care facilities, mental health facilities, foster care and other youth facilities, and corrections programs and institutions); and business and civic leaders. 3. Nonhousing Community Development: a. Notify adjacent units of general local government, to the extent practicable. b. The nonhousing community development plan must be submitted to the state. c. Consultation with adjacent units of general local government and local and regional government agencies, particularly for problems and solutions that go beyond a single jurisdiction. 4. Local PHAs: Consideration of public housing needs, planned programs and activities, strategies for affirmatively furthering fair housing, and proposed actions to affirmatively further fair housing in the consolidated plan. 5. Emergency Solutions Grants: Consultation with the Continuum of Care in determining how to allocate its ESG grant for eligible activities; in developing the performance standards for, and evaluating the outcomes of, projects and activities assisted by ESG funds; and in developing funding, policies, and procedures for the operation and administration of the HMIS.