Good afternoon. I'd like to call a January 22nd, 2024 housing authority regular meeting to order Members of the public may view and listen to the meeting as noted on the city's website and as noted on the agenda As a matter of housekeeping and like to remind commissioners to keep their microphones muted unless they are speaking City of Santa Rosa is committed to creating a safe and inclusive environment free from disruption We will not tolerate any hateful speech or actions and their well staff to monitor. Everyone is participating respectfully Where they will be removed if necessary. We're also immediately in the meeting Kirk, please explain how the public comments will be heard at today's meeting at each Pardon me at each agenda item after the item is presented The chair will ask for housing authority commissioner comments after the commissioner comments the chair will open the item for public comment For members of the public attending in person when the chair calls for public comments after an item is presented Please go to the closest public speaking podium in the upper tier of chambers Once situated at the podium the clerk will unmute your microphone and permit your comment to be heard Public comments will be limited to three minutes per speaker per item Public comments are limited to one comment per speaker per item Additionally, there is one public comment period on today's agenda to speak on non agenda matters That'll be item five This is a time when any person may address the housing authority on matters not listed on this agenda But which are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the housing authority Thank you before I call Before I ask the court could do a real call for attendance to assist with streaming and meeting and capturing commissioners Those who are speaking want to continue remind commissioners to please ask the chair Be recognized before asking a question or making a comment this will allow for time For the cameras to shift in new speaker like and now I ask for a roll call Okay, we'll do a roll call for attendance. We'll start with commissioner smith here commissioner newton here commissioner downy commissioner kante here commissioner freeman appears to be absent And vice chair lapina here and chair oan here I will move on to one moment one moment I'm sorry. Let the record reflect that all commissioners are present with the exception of commissioner freeman Thank you.  That's quite all right statement of item three is statements of abstention I'd like to see if there's any commissioners or if there are any statements of abstention on any item today's meeting Seeing none. We'll move on to item number four We have three study sessions today And the first one is for fiscal year 24 25 budget process on public input Good afternoon chair oan and members of the housing authority I'm mega bassinger executive director and with me is kate gold fine administrative services officer Our first study session is going to be the 24 25 budget process and public input opportunity Kate is pulling up the presentation And then we will get started All right, so as we begin the process to shape the 24 25 budget and this is the first opportunity For the housing authority to kind of take a look at where we're headed for the upcoming fiscal year. There'll be At least two more opportunities one will do a more in-depth study session and kate will get to that schedule Later in the presentation and then in june you will act on the budget as you do each year So the considerations that we are operating under as we move forward are that housing and homelessness remain a high priority city goal Um, we are looking at the community development block grant disaster recovery funding And this is approximately 38 and a half million that we've been administering over the past few years for affordable housing purposes As a result of the 2017 fires those funds are winding down and as you may recall we just Expended our last project. We signed the loan documents and began construction on those So we are looking at those projects beginning lease up and completing construction We also are moving forward with our housing choice voucher program Um looking at balancing the allocation of funding versus the number of vouchers that we receive So those two things need to be taken into consideration as we continue to issue vouchers And monitor our commitments for project based vouchers And then the other item that we take into consideration is our ongoing and increasing compliance monitoring So with all of the new units that we have Um put into service and are still in our pipeline That will be additional compliance monitoring that our staff will be conducting on an annual basis Now i'm going to turn it over to kates Good afternoon chair vice chair and commissioners. I'm kate gold fine the administrative services officer for the housing and community services department and responsible for the housing authority budget and um as megan said this Presentation details everything we know so far about the fiscal year 24 25 budget process So this slide in particular Is about funding coming to the housing authority our first source is real property transfer tax Housing and homeless services receive a percent of real property transfer tax from the city each year This year the total real property transfer tax is estimated to be four million 55 percent goes to housing and homeless services, which is 2.2 million and this year The one time american rescue plan act funding had been funding the entirety of homeless services So that meant all real property transfer tax could go to housing and so that amount has been High for the past two years this coming budget cycle fiscal year 24 25 The arpa the one time funding is expended and so the rptt will be um allocated between homeless and housing Right now we don't have that allocation yet. That's something that we need to discuss with the city's finance department Moving on we're projecting impact fees of 1.3 million That's slightly less than what we were projecting last year and that's based on what we're seeing so far We're also expecting loan repayments of a hundred thousand dollars give or take That is also lower than we've seen in prior years You may remember we had several large one time loan repayments in the past years that have kind of Um not artificially inflated but Increased that amount on a one time basis now. We're going back to a more normal amount We're also looking at compliance monitoring fees of around 186 thousand dollars This is slightly up as megan mentioned. We are monitoring more units and more units will continue to come online In federal funding, which is our by far our largest source of funding HUD has not released anything yet So you may remember that by this time last year HUD had notified us we're giving you additional admin fee We're making your per ration hire or we're giving you housing assistance payments Nothing so far this year and they're struggling the feds are struggling to agree upon a budget So we don't have any news on federal funding yet The money that the funding that we got for the housing choice voucher program last year Was the highest allocation and highest pro ration that i've seen in the 11 years that i've been doing this budget So i have a hard time Thinking that it is going to stay that amount So i'm At this point anticipating a decrease and as i learn more from HUD That'll change how basically we budget the admin funding The housing assistance payments right now We're balancing that allocation versus that amount of budget we're getting and i anticipate we will be fine there It's the administrative fee funding that i'm keeping a close eye on So before i move on is there any questions about funding? Hey, kate. Thank you so far The rptt So expected to decrease your housing because it'll be split now If i remember correctly Isn't the city council increasing the amount that we get every year and is there a chance that'll sort of offset That or do you know how much more we're going to get in so we're actually they're actually projecting less So last year they projected that so the the total amount of rptt decreased a little bit and our percentage increased So last year we received 50 percent Of i think 4.125 or 4.2 million This year we're receiving collectively housing and homeless 55 of 4 million so It's kind of negligible. Okay um I just one more on the federal funds you talked about the housing choice vouchers You have any idea of for just overall federal funds When the budget comes out it's going to be more or less the same any any estimate from anybody No, nothing unless No, just curious if there was any grumblings Yeah, any other questions dr. Downey What they're going to be I'm adjusting when they come out with this new budget. How how is this going to impact us going forward? So what we're anticipating Is that we return to kind of the budget? um Numbers that we first saw back in like 2018-19 So the 38 and a half million was one time financial assistance Provided to the city through the state as a result of the disaster of 2017 So those are the funds that are winding down We have committed and are working on expending that 38 and a half million Which has assisted over 300 new housing units. We are looking to return to more of a normal affordable housing funding Amount of probably five to six million a year Whereas in the past few years we've had NOFA budgets of up to 10 million and then we had that one time NOFA for the 38 and a half million So we're looking to return back to some of our normal funding amounts. Hopefully of five to six million To assist affordable housing projects returning back to where we were that the outcome will be fairly painless We are hopeful that we'll be able to return back to what we consider our kind of normal pre-pandemic pre-fire budget So I can continue with the expenditure assumptions if there are no more questions Okay, this slide talks about expenditure assumptions. So how we think we're going to utilize the sources in the prior slide So we are expecting increases to both divisions um The we are expecting Citywide salary and benefit increases Currently all of the city's contracts with their unions expire on june 30th All unions are starting negotiations with the city now And that would affect salary and some benefits and then in general things like health insurance and retirement increase annually um We are also anticipating rental assistant payment increases for all of our voucher programs It we may not hopefully We will not see the increases that we've seen over the past few years We would like for that line to kind of flatten But we will of course expend all of the budget that HUD gives us towards housing assistance payments that we can So also as we are getting back to a more normalized budget after years of one-time funding We are not anticipating what we are not able we're not anticipating to add new positions We need to see what a non pandemic non fire knock on wood budget looks like and so this is this is much more of a return to a normal budget Are there any questions about expense Yeah, kate um We've mentioned the federal government. We mentioned the city of santa rosa. Let's Talk about the state because they've got a huge budget issue problem Uh, do you have you heard anything coming out of the state hcd on where we stand? So the state has released some preliminary numbers and they are um the governor's projecting reducing the budgets But in terms of the funding that we receive directly for our programs There's just one primary allocation the permanent local housing assistance plha Award it's a five-year grant award and I believe that this year will be going into year four And we have not heard anything That would compromise that funding stream and it's about one So the million this year it is actually less so I haven't had a chance to tell you that so I apologize So this year it's closer. Uh, it's between five fifty and six hundred So we had been getting a million a million one now that's reduced this year Okay, so moving on this is the budget process timeline So today at the housing authority, we're receiving your input and input from the public on um anything Priorities that you would like to see for the budget this year The city council held their public input study session on the ninth and that's available to view On the city's website if you'd like to see the comments there We are starting to formulate the budget based on the Everything we know right now. We've gotten the salaries and benefits projection from the city. So we're starting to Enter that budget right now That'll continue for a couple more months We will be back in front of you at the april study session with the Best budget that we can give you I am hopeful that we'll have federal funding by that time So that should be a fairly finalized budget, but that is dependent on forces. We can't control We will be back in front of the city council With the rest of the city departments On may 7th and 8th that's currently scheduled Please check the city council calendar in case that changes And then as megan mentioned we'll be back in front of you for budget adoption in june And we'll be back in front of the city council for final adoption the next day So with that I am happy to take your input or comments or questions about the upcoming budget Thank you any questions from commissioners I do have a question. So you went over this a little bit kate But are we looking at any change in the number of vouchers housing choice vouchers? And project based vouchers for the next fiscal year No at this point hud has not allotted us any additional vouchers And as as we've seen especially during the pandemic even though we had a number of vouchers people weren't working So the dollar outlay for those vouchers went up during that time Has that come back down? We would need to analyze that I'm not sure of that but I can get you that information if you are interested Okay, thank you, please Yeah, commissioner noon real quick is uh plha the only source of state funding Or are there currently yes plha is our only source Any other questions from commissioners? Thank you for um for the presentation Uh, we wanted to open this up for a public comment Okay, one moment. Um You will have uh three minutes once I get the timer up on the screen to make a comment So just give me one moment to get it up on the screen. I won't use up all three minutes bro. We can just get started Okay, ready roll Hello, my name is duane dewitt. I'm from roseland. I'm also a member of the sonoma county housing advocacy group This study from 30 years ago was something that I began to really follow how the housing authority operated and the sonoma county housing Advocacy group has been in existence since the mid 90s I bring this up to you today because one of the things that's very important about The whole process is very few members of the public actually participate They say in the budget that a public participation is very important And yet you hold meetings at times when the public can't necessarily get here You do situations where the public is not as well informed as they could be On what the circumstances are going forward Today staff pointed out that the budgetary situations will be changing because the arpa money won't be coming back I have something here from just uh five years ago Lantana place Burbank housing going forward The reason why I bring this up in a budget is because these 48 affordable residential neighborhood units Were not for rent. These were actually put in and then sold The number one need we've had in the entire existence of the santa rosa housing authority has been for affordable Rental residential housing We've never ever produced more than needed So I hope that during these budget deliberations You will make a point of emphasizing that the money that comes into the housing authority should go for rental residential That's where the biggest need is That's where people are already writing letters to the editor pointing out that There is not enough housing to go around I'm all for the build build build approach But downtown downtown downtown Rental residential That's where we'll be able to overcome some of these difficulties Then I want to point out one last thing from this document. You can't see it so well because of the Ink that I put on there 30 years ago was orange But the section 8 annual budget 30 years ago was four million dollars So here we are now 30 years down the road with basically The same amount of money budgeted for a city that's grown almost four times as much During that time period So i'm hoping that you'll start to really make an emphasis on affordable rental residential In the downtown core area to where you focus your money instead of way out on the edges of the city limits Thank you for your time Thank you any other public comments Clerk are we accepting email comments or do we have any? We receive no email comments for any item on this agenda. Okay. Thank you very much. Thanks for covering all of that We will Move on to item 4.2 And it'll be just a moment. We'll switch presentations Good afternoon chair owen and commissioners. Nicole del ferentino housing and community services manager for the housing trust Item 4.2 today is the bay area housing finance authority baffa and 2024 regional affordable housing bond Coy steward our new program specialists will be presenting today and give me just a moment while i get the presentation out Good afternoon I'm going to be going over the bay area housing and finance authority the 20 24 regional housing bond This is for information purposes It's just to inform people about what's coming down the pipe could be coming down the pipeline if a bond is passed in 2024 So similar presentations were given to city council and the board of supervisors in early december So this is a bond that you may see on the 2024 november ballot This isn't for informational purposes only at this point. We're not asking for any actions made by the housing authority But should this bond pass It would be up to city council to decide if they wanted to delegate Approval authority and administration to the housing authority or not So this may be coming down the pike later this year and we'll have more updates as we know more We'll go over the agenda We'll do an overview of the bay areas bay area housing finance authority, which we'll be calling baffa The regional housing bond measure The expenditure planning and then next steps and then we'll have some time to answer any questions So a baffa is a regional organization. It was formed in 2019 And baffa's mission is the three p's which is production preservation and protection Regarding low-income housing How baffa works Baffa is part of that a bag mtc. It's a regional housing and finance agency in california Created by state legislator It offers new tools and innovation solutions to bear housing challenges. It's core powers to raise revenue for housing subject to voter approval And it collaborates with cities and counties and proof systems funds housing across the whole bay area And like I said before it's current It's currently conducting pilot programs that are emphasizing those three p's And for those of us looking at acronyms a bag would be association of bay area governments And mtc is the metropolitan transportation commission Baffa has been planning this measure for many years and has been convening representatives throughout the bay area including council member fleming Is providing education and support for staff in the upcoming baffa bond and its process It's going to be a proposed regional housing bond It's going to comprise of 10 to 20 billion to invest in affordable housing It will require voter approval the funds will be distributed over 10 years And eligibility uses are set forth in statute and state constitution Related to this bond measure is assembly constitutional amendment number one This constitutional amendment is going to amend the current 66.7 or two-thirds percent approval to a 55 percent approval And this is going to be along with our bay area regional housing bond. It's going to be on the same ballot So they're kind of presenting two things at the same time The next slide is the significant funding for every community As you notice on the left is a list of counties or communities And then the two right columns is if it goes to a 10 billion dollar go bond or 20 billion dollar go bond These bonds are going to be general application parcel taxes Uh, they will appeal they will appear on the parcel tax statement and will be repaid over the course of time If you notice there's two cities napa And uh, uh, santa rosa We exceed the three percent of very low-income rina which qualifies qualifies us both for direct allocation The next slide is the total bond allocation estimates for santa rosa Baffle legislation prescribes how the funds will be allocated and spent Uh, if funding received is a breakdown of how the money is to be spent so we can spend up to five percent for administration Uh, I just I know that affordable housing does require. There's a lot of administration, uh, which includes Solicitation a document preparation and it requires ongoing compliance and monitoring Which will require the duration for the duration of the projects Rental housing requires 55 years and then ownership minimum of 30 years And again, this is going to break down the percentages for their three p's so production is a 52 percent Preservation is 15 percent and then tenant protections is five percent. There's also a 28 percent flexible fund These items will be identified during the expenditure planning process, but they will need to be included into one of those three p's Uh, the next slide is just a graphic interpretation of those numbers Um on the right is baffa Baffa's allocation, so they're going to retain 20 percent to administer programs themselves And then the other 80 cent 80 percent will go to the cities and counties that we identified earlier Uh, regional coordination and accountability uh, cities and counties Counties must Conduct outreach and engage with their cities to inform county expenditure plans Plans are subject to baffa and a bag executive board review local elected officials responsible for project level funding decisions Consistent with the local expenditure plans that we'll be putting together And then there'll be an annual report on expenditures and outcome So each city that receives funds will submit an expenditure plan to baffa For approval and must conduct public outreach and engage with all the cities in each county to complete this plan Counties also must report annually on those things as well The next slide is just an overview of the basics of the 80 bond 80 of the funds is going to the counties of origin And the allocation is based on the assessed value tax roll for each jurisdiction Uh, big cities get their own allocations So san jose oakland san francisco will receive direct allocations because of their size And once again, santa rosa napple received direct allocations because of our r hna Percentages over 30 percent expenditure plans To review what the requirements would be for the board is to pass it would It would need to be prayer an expenditure plan that meets the minimum percentages for production preservation and protections But we went over earlier as well as identify how we would use these flexible funds Uh, and baffa is encouraging that we use these funds for extremely low very low and low households to help reach The r hna our r n h go r hna goals As long as the expenditure plan satisfies all that criteria, it will be approved by baffa And when we look at the flexible funding that 28 percent Those are funds that would be identified in the expenditure plan into one of the other p's one of the other buckets It's um, not just open for us to determine what we want. It needs to go in one of those categories Some of the general rules for cities and counties, uh, all housing must be deed restricted But the terms of restriction are not identified yet. So, um But this is something we already do with lots of our loans All the housing must be affordable with a cap of a hundred and twenty percent of a mi Uh rental ownership and interim housing is eligible and everything must conform to the expenditure plan This next slide is uh our local timeline Items will be on the ballot in november Outreach will begin in 2024 Uh followed by staff reporting Back to the city council and housing authority as a process evolves Uh, and then the expenditure plan is to be submitted no sooner than 90 days following voter approval So sometime in february of 2025 Any questions commissioner smith Oh, can you just explain the flexible part why we have it Why you have it in, you know, why can't you divide up everything? Why do you have this piece of the pie? Yeah, so the flexible funding is defined by baffa the organization putting the bond The ballot measure forward and they leave that flexible for each jurisdiction to do their own expenditure plan And if say one jurisdiction needs to focus more on preservation and then another jurisdiction wants to focus more on preservation It gives us that flexibility to tailor our plan to what santa rosa needs mr. Noon I appreciate that can you Can you talk about what protections are what sort of things are we talking about there in the third p? Sure. Um, and so with tenant protections is really what it's referring to And currently that's not an allowable use of general obligation bonds So baffa is also doing some work to revise that legislation To allow that to be ineligible use but that's things like tenant advocacy And tenant protections eviction moratoriums things of that nature So again, this is very early in the process We're just starting the conversations to make sure that this board of the public knows about something that may be coming along Those items will be Worked through as we go through the next year and before it's passed and we're doing our expenditure plans Okay, and then preservation I guess is just general upkeep of affordable housing that's already out there Yeah, so preservation can be um acquisition of an existing affordable development that's about to convert to market rate It could be a rehabilitation loan for a project that say needs a new roof or some other work It could be you know a couple different things And last thing the expenditure plans So we'll develop that as a city And then does it have to be approved by just our city council This body if it comes to us or does it have to go to this other? I forget what the acronym was but the one of the broader agencies that have been created here Sure, so once the bond passes in november There will be a timer that starts and we have I believe it's 90 days To submit our an approved plan to Bafa So the city council will need to approve that first Unless that role is delegated to the authority by city council So as it stands right now, it would be city council and then we would submit it to Bafa Okay, they'll have the final approval at that one. Okay. Thanks Dr. Downey Couple questions. I'm assuming that the staff side of the house will manage these funds if voted in november That was question number one And this second question is slightly existential Given that affordable housing has been such a critical issue in our jurisdiction How much for a dent? Would this bond put in our need for affordable housing? Sure, so I think I I'm having a little bit of a hard time hearing you but it if the bond passes It would be up to city council to delegate what staff is going to be overseeing it It would likely be housing and community services Whether the board that's going to oversee the funds is the housing authority or the city council that is still to be determined But it would be coming to our department most likely Um and related to your question about how much of a dent this would put in the need for production On this slide here. So if we were to receive The 121 million dollars from the 10 billion dollar bond That would put about 60 million dollars in production 17 million in preservation And then about 6 million dollars in the tenant protections if that's approved with that other $32 million that 28 to go in any one of those categories as our plan identifies. Um, and so we can compare that to What's on our pending development pipeline as far as projects that are in the works that are not yet fully funded But as this evolves the money will likely be coming in in tranches So I don't think we would see the whole amount of money all at once we would receive Funding over a 10-year period And so we would likely going be going out and doing nofas And then new projects would be coming along at at that same time Commissioner conning Yeah, hi, um, I don't know if you can speak to this but um, I have a a little concern about They're also being the um bay regional Housing bond on the same ticket may be diluting this, you know asking people Taxpayers to vote for both is there any concern there? Um, so there are a few other housing and homeless related Measures that are going to be on the ballot for november 2024 That definitely factors in When the polling but so far the polling is still looking favorable for this bond measure As long as that aca one passes as well that lowers the threshold down to 55 What we are still waiting to hear from baffa about is whether they are intending to move forward with the 10 billion or the 20 billion dollar bond and If it does pass When I know it runs for 10 years and then they expect to kind of keep it going When would we start seeing what year would we start seeing the money coming in? 25 26 So I don't believe that that has been shared with us yet Right now we're still focusing on the election and the expenditure planning The bonds will be issued in tranches that carry a 30 year term So it would be an extended period of time that we would be receiving portions of allocations from these bonds And then That's as a city. We would be putting together our own expenditure plans not connected with the the county Or will we be working with the county? We would be working with the county in a sense that we want to collaborate with our county partners since senors is within the county But it is it would be santa rosa's responsibility alone to Develop and get approval for our expenditure plan Okay, and I guess it's too early for us to even Go down that path as to where we're we're at with the Our local plan at all We've been starting the preliminary conversations with the county partners to make sure that we are all moving together at the same pace and at the same speed, but yes, we're still very early in the process Yeah, and I believe that there was supposed to be a An entity that A direct allocation county Oversight Who's that going to be here locally? I'm not sure. I understand your question. I'm sorry Haitian, um, oh Identify the appropriate entity within their county to distribute the money who's going to be our Gotcha, so that is for the counties that are receiving an allocation and then they need to Identify an entity to break that up within the cities that are within them for santa rosa We are receiving a direct allocation. So that doesn't apply to us Okay, so there won't be a local, um Group assigned to Right, I imagine that would be like for example For the county's portion of funds that they would be receiving if they were to choose the cdc To help administer the funds and break it out per all of the other cities that aren't Getting a direct allocation. That's what I imagine that language to be referring to Okay, and there'll be lots of community input for that. Okay, right. Thank you Mr. Smith On the constitutional amendment one, what is the Threshold to have it passed Is it 50? Is it 67 percent to get a constitutional amendment passed? You know, we don't have that information in readily in front of us, but we could follow up with that Mr. Newton along those same lines that I was thinking this bay area regional housing bond was what we were talking about but this is a Completely different bond. That's also going to be on the ballot so there's Two there's this bay area housing Finance authority, which is Bafa the 2024 regional housing bond There are other bonds That are on the ballot There's a statewide 10 billion dollar bond for hcd programs related to affordable housing And then there's a mental health bond for housing and psychiatric services for homeless individuals San Francisco is advancing a 300 million dollar affordable housing bond for their jurisdiction And snowman county has a sales sales tax for fire services Okay, any other commissioner questions So I have a few it's uh, you talk about this being a general obligation bond, but it's coming It's really a parcel tax Yes, it would be on the parcel taxes. Yes Do we is there an estimate as to what sense per dollar that would be allocated to? Yes, so we it's estimated to be about I think they were saying about $10 per $100,000 value assessed But since the bonds are going to be issued in tranches over time with the first tranche not encompassing all Of the funds the initial offering. I think it's going to be closer to like two to three dollars per hundred thousand dollars of assessed value In about year 15 or so it'll reach its peak and go up to about 20 dollars per $100,000 of assessed value and then it'll start going back down Okay, and then so because I was I hear general obligation I think state level coming out of revenue and the state's got a massive budget problem So that's not a general it's a parcel tax. Yes. So it's not really general obligations as I define it It's it's more it is a parcel tax Um, it is still being determined a general obligation bond, but it will be on property taxes And because it's a specific use for parts for that tax is why we have to have the other one So it goes from 67 percent to 55 percent. Is that correct? Uh, yeah, aca one is the Um, the constitutional amendment to lower the threshold to 55 percent. It'll be on the same ballot So if it passes on the november 24 ballot, um, it lowers the threshold effect of that same ballot for this bond And then you mentioned that there are pilot programs Going can you explain what those pilot programs are and where they are? Sure. A lot of them are still in concept. Um, There's a pilot program that baffa is of working on For example an online repository for affordable housing units They have a pilot program for rental assistance out in napa. I believe most of their pilot programs are focusing Down in san osa area right now. We have only seen a few start to come up here There's also the priority sites program Where jurisdictions can nominate sites that meet the criteria of baffa to potentially receive pre-development funding So they're all really in their infancy and just starting out And how are those funded right now as baffa is in existence today? Is that funded through abag? It is funded through abag and there was an initial amount of money that baffa was given in 2019 to start off And so those pilot programs are being rolled out now with that initial tranche of funding that they received through abag Okay, thank you. I don't have any other any other questions any other questions from commissioners Hearing none. We'll open it for public comment Hello, my name is one moment away for that one moment, sir. Let me get the timer up Okay, of course you have three minutes for your comment. Hello. My name is duane duwit. I'm from roseland and sonoma county housing advocacy group Whenever these types of things come forward You hear that community engagement is going to be important Yet you rarely see much of it except at these types of meetings This is a lot of money And I do believe that It's going to be something where people are going to be hesitant to put another Tax on their parcel It's the type of situation right now that People have been saying there's a housing crisis for decades and none of the Efforts that we have chosen to resolve it have worked So they're now saying well, we just need more money and let's go out here with this new Effort to get a lot of money and then that will make the problem solvable I'm from the old school in the sense that I supported proposition 13 in 1978 because Taxes were becoming a problem for the elderly who owned homes and then had to Deal with the extra property taxes ever since that past That's been the boogeyman We can't get things done because of what proposition 13 did But I do not believe that's the case I believe part of the problem is that we have not been able to get jurisdictional agencies to actually come up With concrete implementation plans that they don't fudge on later on At the first meeting Where this was presented on the 11th of this month I asked a basic question about Housing units that were being destroyed And if they were destroyed were they in the count About an affordable housing law us because Right now the way housing costs are Any house that costs less than six hundred thousand dollars Should be considered affordable And yet unless the city has specifically designated a unit as affordable It's not counted when it's destroyed The reason I bring this up is because the city Destroys a number of houses for their projects and then doesn't replace them so if you'll Run with this on on the forward look Every housing unit that gets destroyed should be replaced Is an affordability situation So please try to implement that If you go forward and this passes and you have an implementation plan you'll be working on That would be the best time ever to finally say Direct one for one replacement of every housing unit destroyed in the city of santa rosa rebuild another one Thank you. Do anybody any other house public comment? We have no email comments So we will go ahead and move on to Item 4.3. All right. Thank you item 4.3 the 2024 2027 consolidated plan overview This item is a second one in a row with us. So hold on just a moment while I get that presentation up All right, so the 2024 2027 consolidated plan this will be an overview And we are asking for the authorities helping ranking some priorities So the consolidated plan is a three to five year plan that hud mandates that the city Submit in order to make a plan for the use of federal funds. So the federal cdbg home and hopla funds This is done and approved by or done by staff and hcs and approved by city council Since the city is the entity that receives the allocation directly from hud So city staff will work to create this consolidated plan and have it approved By city council each cycle and around april or may before submitting it to hud Today we are bring it to bring it to this body for information purposes and also to seek your feedback On based on our draft goals based on the research and analysis We've been so far so that this body can help us prioritize those goals In the past I do not believe that this was brought to housing authority So we are seeking to increase our engagement and outreach Through several processes this being one of them and as we get towards the end of the presentation for this item We do have a little half sheet pieces of paper for the authority members and any members of the public or anybody who's here tonight to help Help us rank those priorities as well So koi will be giving the bulk of this presentation today Thank you We'll go over the agenda. We'll go over what the consolidated plan is The research process our findings on that research Next steps and then we're going to ask for some input on priorities and then we can answer any questions you guys might have Like nicole said the hud requires a three to five year plan identifying how the city's Allocation of cdbg home and hoppa funds are used and that's the community development block grant home investments and hoppa which is housing opportunities for person with aids It's adopted by city council in april And it identifies jurisdiction housing and community development needs Priorities priorities goals and strategies And then it stipulates how the funds will be allocated over the plan period The federal funds are providing annually from allocations made by congress based on certain data points on the census And the consultate annual action plan must be submitted to hud for funding And identifies the jurisdiction's housing and community development needs And it really does stipulate how we're going to use it for that following year past priority needs Based on the needs assessment housing market analysis and city council priorities We have three housing priority needs affordable housing homelessness non housing community development if sufficient funds are available Affordable housing and homelessness usually come first and then if we have leftover money We use it for non housing community development And some examples of those would be health services child care employment services educational programs and substance abuse services Unfortunately, we really don't ever have leftover funds to put into that Our well, we don't know exactly next year's amount of funds our estimated annual allocations for 23 24 are going to be For cdbg 1.3 million For home 750 000 for hoppa 500 000 And the awards for cdbg and home have been trending downward slightly where the hoppa funds have been going up slightly So and we'll hope to know in Sometime between february and april from hud what those actual allocations are these are just our estimates looking on the last couple of years On what's been going on with our funding Uh, the consolidated plan research process we analyze demographic and economic housing data We analyze it and compared to the santa rosa population We consult with the public and private organizations We have citizen participation And then we develop a plan based on those above things. We had a stakeholder meeting on the 12th And that would be any organizations that have or could Put these funds to use and then we had a citizen participation plan on 11th Where we had open to the public where people can come in and we got them to Prioritize some of these goals like we'll have you guys do and then we'll be presenting to the cab meeting on wednesday And new this year. We are also doing an online survey for folks That's a combined homelessness and affordable housing survey We'll have a qr code at the end of this presentation for anybody if they would like to fill out that survey as well So we're really, um, increasing our different methods of trying to get feedback from the public through this process some of the data sources, um us census 2020 It's a five-year estimate data use the benchmark for comparison of our analysis The american community survey It's divided the data provided by the census to provide timely estimates between the 10-year Census and then the comprehensive housing affordability strategy the chas data and that's HUD commission data Which addresses housing and community development needs? The census is every 10 years. The acs is um closest newest data is from 2020 as along with the chad chas So that's why we picked 2020 as a year ago was that we were comparing apples to apples We realized that some of this data is older So we do check to see with some of those estimates that are newer to see if there's any outliers or things that are popping out to us And then we'll address those in the plan as well Another two data sources. We use a sonoma. Sonoma county is 2023 point in time count And a report on hf hiv and aids in sonoma county and again, uh, I need to note that these two Data sources are countywide as a whole data and we try to do our best to extract santa rosa data from them But a lot of these are just county data points that we're taking So from that, we'll do some preliminary findings Just for the population our race and ethnicity households the housing stock and some of the home homelessness Santa rosa population is around 178 000 that's an increase from two and a half percent from 2017 Santa rosa's median age is 39.6 years That's 2.8 years less than the countywide median and an increase of from 38.3 years in 2017 From 2020 census 2023 data is not available yet. Um primarily data shows a slight reduction in population It was one of those little changes that we're talking about. It wasn't significant But I wanted to look at it and see what it was like Of negative 0.14 percent from 2020 to 2023 which hud would consider a small change Actually below a small change Santa rosa's race ethnicity hasn't changed much in the since 2017 the numbers are there On the slide Can you back up a slide When you add up those numbers they go over 100 can you tell me there's a plus or minus Margin of error that the census uses some of those line up with Two pluses and not enough minuses. So that's where that kind of comes from I tried to go back and forth and move them so that they added up to 100 percent But it started skew because 2.5 percent is so small it started skew that more than the other ones So I kind of just left them where they were at Good catch. Good catch So Household stocks we have over 66 000 households That's increased by 25 000 or 2 500 since 2017 Income characteristics 20 percent are very low income 29 percent are low income and then 49 percent are above moderate income Housing characteristics 45 percent of those are renters 55 percent of those are homeowners an interesting stat is 25.7 of renters and 17.8 percent of owners of households pay more than 30 percent Of their income on housing, which is what we consider a cost burden HUD identifies four housing problems overcrowding substandard housing Cost burden and over 30 and a severe cost burden of over 50 And that 50 percent will include that 30 percent Santa rosa's most prevailing housing problems Include housing cost burden and overcrowding which is the same as 2017 the last plan Our housing stock we kind of went over owner rental occupied Medium rent for a two bedroom house is 2252 that's a 14 increase over 2017 and the median home price is 775 I just redid a looked at it again and for the year the average went up of just a little bit Which is a 16 increase over 2017. So santa rosa's, uh Sorry When you use the term medium What does that mean? I mean, there seems to be different ways of defining You know what the cost is average median. I was wondering how how that's defined So I'm most in real estate. They use the median average, which is the middle because we have some very Expensive houses and then we have some very inexpensive houses and properties So instead of taking those outliers that really don't chill with what's going on with the housing market Real estate uses a median price. So it's right in the middle Yeah Right in the middle the average is really really high and it really skews the data if you use the average for housing prices Yeah Yeah, that's a good question This is right in the middle. So if you take all the data, you put it right in the middle. You average it the bell curve It's a very top for the bell curve Um, oh next slide Uh, we have over 4,500 affordable units, uh, and that includes rental and ownership Single and multifamily housing for seniors and persons with special needs That 4,500 means that those units have some sort of deed restriction on them. We have 632 shelter beds and that's for family single adults women with children and youth There are currently 6,979 households on the section 8 waiting list With 5,332 housing choice vouchers And again, I just want to remind everybody that Affordable housing focuses on the federal funds target of 80 percent AMI are lower Homelessness, uh, one of the things we use, uh, I want to remind everybody is that To see if Santa Rosa is not the only fund for homelessness the Sonoma County Continuum of Care does some funding for homelessness And that's a countywide homeless need that they're Um addressing Uh, one of the other stat data points that we use is the point in time count And this year actually went down a little bit. We have 2,266 homeless individuals 57 of those percent of those are unsheltered 9 percent are family and then 13 percent are unaccompanied Accompanied minors or transitional age youth so With all that data we have a based on the needs assessment Housing market analysis the city council priorities and eligible uses for cdbg home and hoppa funds We would like to help your help prioritizing our plans and draft goals We realize that all these goals are important. That's why we need your guidance. It's help prioritizing them and when I say special needs I mean The HUD guidelines, which is elderly Mentally ill people with HIV or AIDS substance abusers youth victim of domestic violence or farm workers Our tentative next steps. Like I said on wednesday, we'll be at the Cab meeting presenting the same presentation February 15th. We'll be soliciting for applications from Sorry, we had an update to our schedule after this was published So we will actually be moving up the solicitation for applications to february 6 for that request for proposals process to open up But then yes, we are expecting the draft executive summary to be available to be available around march 1st and then The public hearing at city council on april 16th for the plan to be adopted and for the approval to submit to HUD So again, we realize that all these priorities are important, but we would really like feedback on how to prioritize these goals If we could pass out the flyer the Evaluation sheets So the recording secretary has those half sheets that she'll pass out to everybody on the ds We also have half sheets available up at the public comment lecterns that there's anybody here that would like to fill out one of those surveys It basically mirrors what's on the screen right here So while we understand that all of these are important goals and we need all of these services in san rosa We are seeking feedback from The public to help us rank based on your experiences in san rosa where you live where you work What are the highest needs that you see? And one is the highest and then five would be the lowest With only using the number once and as nicole had said before we We did put together a survey that is available through february 15th. This is the qr code for it The tiny url is Santa rosa city dot org slash con plan Yeah, sr city dot org forward slash con plan will get you to the survey just like this qr code Well, and we would ask the housing authority commissioners to hear public comment Before submitting your your half sheets to us So we can collect them at the end of the meeting if that's easier And just to clarify the survey does go into a little bit more depth Some of the hopua funds can only be spent for people living with hiv or aids So that it kind of helps us prioritize those down a little one more level of how we'd use the hopua funds So with that that concludes our presentation today. I know it was a lot of information Just to reiterate This is a plot process that we go through every three to five years and developing the consolidated plan to submit to HUD City council approves it so we don't need an action from the housing authority But we are looking for your help in ranking the goals that we've identified And are we available to answer any other questions that you're you have? Thank you commissioner smith I was just curious um We focus on you know The number of units we're building and we have 4,500 units in the system right now I was just wondering what that translates into how many people we're helping, you know, sometimes it's We get we get we get focused on building this housing, but Who are we helping? I mean what is 4,500 units translated into I think Putting like a human face to what we're doing rather than this This numbers would be helpful for the public if that makes sense to anyone besides me Yeah, I know we can definitely look into that to see if that's something that we can provide with future data points Thank you Mr. Newton When was the last plan submitted Sure, the last plan covered 2020 through 2024 So it would have it will cover through june 30th of 2024 So this plan that we're developing will cover july 1st of 24 through june 30th of 27th So that'll be three years And that is actually going to be a condensed period the plan must cover at least a three to five year period And by Aligning this plan that's upcoming as a three year cycle We'll be able to align it with the homeless services A strategic plan that the other side of our department is doing and then future plans will be on the same timeline every five years Okay So 2020 2019 was the last time we sort of went through this process. Yeah um Some curious if we don't have a budget yet um from HUD So we're going to provide percentages or Estimates, I guess based on on what she gave it looks like two two and a half million that we think we'll get I'm just curious how you provide a plan if you if you're not Certain what the money's going to say. Hey, I'll get sorry. No, go ahead. Sorry. This process is going to so we start it in About august July or august because there's so many data points from the census that we need to gather for it and we go through April when it goes to city council So by April we should have those dollar amounts from HUD So we'll be able to incorporate that in and In the rare instance that HUD is later in developing those numbers We can go out for solicitation for those service providers with an estimated dollar amount And then firm that up later when we go to council to make the actual awards. Okay um and So that number because kate was here earlier and she said that they didn't have an estimate for what the federal funds were going to be but so this is uh you guys sort of Estimating uh separately, I guess this is a told separate process Because I was just curious if we expect higher we expect lower She said she didn't know and you said lower. So i'm just curious um for these For the cdbg home and hopua allocations there They've been fairly consistent over the last 15 years So the estimates that were shared during the budget study session, which was 1.3 million for cdbg Uh, believe 750 for home and then trending upwards a little bit with like 550 for hopua have been consistent over the last Four or five years. So we're fairly confident. We're going to see numbers in that ballpark So the consolidated plan that they're developing will use those numbers as a starting point and it's based on those estimates and then each year after Um, we develop an action plan where we take the the numbers that HUD presents to us for the upcoming year And then we lay that out further in how those funds are anticipated to be spent Okay, appreciate that um Just random question that the the income and household characteristics Our percentage of cost burden citizens Do we know how that compares to other? 200 000 person cities are we more we less or we sort of on par with Other other folks about our size Yeah, we don't have that in front of us right now, but we can definitely take a look at that and follow up Yeah, i'm just curious. It seems like a lot, but I don't I don't know if that's a lot or a little or if that's, uh, Right word where everybody else is but Yeah, just to confirm is it See That's the percentage of cost burden So the cost burden and the severe cost burden you're looking to see how our information kind of ranks against other similar size cities Yeah, yeah, 25 percent of the renters. I think 18 percent of home buyers cost burden per the definition, but Would you that seems like a lot, but I don't know if that's if that's a lot or not Would you like that narrowed down to uh, local municipalities or like statewide or northern california statewide, I guess Say whatever you think that's a great question And I think we'll we'll take a look at a couple different Jurisdictions in the state and can you sign information going forward appreciate it? That's all I got Thanks Any other questions for commissioners uh, commissioner conty Um, yeah on your questionnaire, um How what is the tenant-based rental assistance? How would that be? affected by the Yeah, so the home investment partnership program one of the eligible uses And I believe we have an item on that and consent later on in this agenda One of the eligible uses for that funding source is tenant-based rental assistance It can also be used for construction of new affordable units So with our demographic We are preliminarily hearing that there is a high need for rental assistance in the past several years We have been diverting or allocating our home funds towards tenant-based rental assistance And so should that continue to be a prevalent need that we're hearing from the community and from the data that we would potentially Continue to utilize that funding source for that tenant-based rental assistance rather than production of affordable housing Okay, and all this is separate from the section eight program Funding and stuff. Okay, correct. So this is an additional resource So individuals who are not able or who are on the waiting lists are not assisted Through the section eight program We had a separate waiting list that we ran initially during covet and used as an emergency opportunity and then we pivoted Um a couple years ago and created a waiting list for tenant-based rental assistance All right. Okay. Thank you Any questions Uh, just a point of clarification is because it came up with cost burden of of over 30 percent and severe cost burden over 50 percent So that's off as someone's gross salary not net salaries. Is that correct? Correct. Okay. Thank you. That's that's That's important and then um As we talk about this one the types of housing that's been coming into play Is um a term of permanent supportive housing So how would that type of housing fit into the choices that you're trying to get us to prioritize? So permanent supportive housing is really the the housing type and you can achieve that either through rehabilitation of an existing Site um and adding those supportive services to make it permanent supportive housing We usually hear that term when it relates to serving the formerly homeless population because the additional service needs that that population requires to stay housed um so new construction of affordable housing could also have a target or a An additional preference for permanent supportive housing But when we do our notices of funding availability We put out to the development community for building for example What the money that we have available to fund and then they apply with whatever projects that they have that are ready to receive funding Whether that be targeted for psh units or farm workers or seniors or just the general population And that factors in is they go in for tax credits too because they're different criteria for those for that scoring to have services on site and services could be anywhere from child care to providing um supportive services for mentally Challenged mentally ill people that just need help with medication. So um As we talk about providing housing and for people coming off of homelessness Does the city look at that in terms of splitting it? and for mentally ill We don't look at splitting that but in the upcoming so every year we do a study session ahead of our notice of funding availability So it would be at that study session meeting that we would Come to the housing authority and you know with our intended NOFA And we would seek that input from this board at that time If you would like to have a preference for any of the targeted demographics or new production versus rehabilitation So that's when we could target towards a specific group if the board Should choose And and where i'm going on this is is some sort of collaboration with the county mental health program So that services are provided through that funding source as well as housing units. So you've got the combination of both um services I mean going back a long time ago for children. It was ab 36 32 which was unfortunately eliminated during Around 2010 where the state provided the the services and then school districts were providing They were they were providing the schooling for for children But you would have outside funding from the state level to be able to fund for housing and services So that type of collaboration is kind of what i'm i'm looking at because there's obviously not one source or one solution to deal With the the problems that we're having so is looking more toward a collaboration between county mental health And funding sources they have and units themselves that are being built through the tax credits CDBG or other other sources So any other questions from the commissioners dr. Downey? Yes, nicole with this Survey Do you anticipate the scoring system? Need to be changed going forward or amended at all? I'm sorry. Could you repeat that i'm having a really hard time hearing you I said with this survey that's going around Will the scoring system For nilfa is that we work on? Will that have to be changed or amended at all in accordance to the survey? Okay, so the the question was will the survey questions affect or require the nilfa point scoring system to be changed I'm not anticipating that at this time But should the housing authority board as a group want us to revisit the point scoring system We can take a look at that at a future meeting Mr. Smith One quick question. Does santa rosa ever buy existing housing like a large apartment complex or just a park of uh, you know, manufactured homes to maintain affordable housing for people there So the city of santa rosa and the housing authority do not own units We use our resources to either assist Other ownership entities in the acquisition through our lending process or we provide rental assistance But we are not a public housing agency that owns housing units You're not seeing any other questions. Uh, want to go ahead and open it up for public comment Hello, my name is duane d. Witt. I'm from roseland Slide 17 the strategic plan I'm hoping that you'll give uh equal weight To these two preserve existing affordable housing stock and increase supply of affordable rental housing for the city's lowest income households It's imperative that the housing authority take a stand and say what they feel Is the most important thing Staff might have a view that what it's important to them But it's you representatives of the elected officials Who could give the voice for the community as to what's most important I bring this up because the city of santa rosa has frequently bought Structurally sound inhabited houses and then destroyed them Has not replaced them after destroying them And it's just acted like well, that's part of doing business But it actually makes problems worse for people in the community because there's a dearth of available housing across all incomes Then the tenant-based rental assistance This is a very good program and I do hope that you'll keep it going I see later in the agenda that there's a discussion about it And it appears to be a helpful undertaking So last but not least the housing and services To the homeless and special needs populations I have firsthand knowledge Of homeless people And special needs people Basically not understanding how to Stay housed if you will It might seem odd to you because it would seem that Anyone who gets a place to live would want to stay there and keep it But there are a number of people out there who have various difficulties And they don't understand the need to actually participate in keeping the place to live And it really stuns me because they cycle in and out of the shelter system Now we have the county has stepped up and put some Portable units at the county and there's portable units in other spots We need to have more of that type of activity It's just not been coordinated well between the city and the county And the organizations as staff would call them There is a way that you could house these 2,600 people out there that are perennially unhoused The county bought hotels The city's participated in some of these things I want to advocate in the future the city should have Its own housing stock And that is something that could be done It's only because of one city manager decades ago saying no, we don't want public housing That should be revisited and I ask you to advocate for public housing Thank you any more public comment Knowing that we don't have any email comments. We will go ahead and move Away from 4.3. Thank you for your presentation and If we can get people to respond to those questionnaires that would be very helpful We'll now move to item 5 Which is public comments on non-agenda items Yes, sir, I'd like to use that. Okay, you're three minutes. We'll begin now Thank you, sir. My name is Duane DeWitt, Sonoma County Housing Advocacy Group This newspaper article is from 22 years ago I've saved it since that time because it was brought up that we needed to help our public service employees And teachers to be able to buy homes here in our community I don't know the exact Way this was handled and the way everything went forward But at the time 22 years ago We had already realized we had a housing crisis here in our county This man that was mentioned was a firefighter living in sabbatical but working in san francisco and commuting since then We've been having a citywide declared homeless emergency and housing crisis I didn't make these things up. I just been trying to advocate that we solve the problem One of the dilemmas is we have not been able to get The elected officials to understand the housing authority could be a way to solve the problem The housing authorities existed for 60 years It came in to existence because of the need for affordable residential rental housing One of the things I've hoped for is that A proactive member of this body the housing authority Would begin to push forward on to staff and say it's okay to have public housing When it's handled well, it actually helps to solve problems The dilemma has always been that in the past staff has been resistant to this And I can understand their approach. It might be some more work for them It might be something I don't want to take on But as I pointed out that city manager that didn't want public housing left decades ago We've been through four city managers since then and this new one who's been In the big city milieu if you will because she came from oakland I believe if you'll begin to work with this new city manager and the assistant city manager Darielle Duncan and others who've dealt with large city problems We could begin a Robust conversation. I like to use that word robust because that's a bureaucratic term you hear And so let's get robust about this idea of actually having public housing And have it be for public employees if need be and for teachers if need be There's a way that you could structure it and have it be Rental housing and ownership housing where these types of employees could buy it From the city once it's been built I haven't seen any type of initiative undertaken by staff in decades to look into any of this They'll always say well, we don't have time. We don't have staff capacity Well, now's the time to make it happen if a bond is going to get passed 35 million dollars of flexible funding give it a thought. Thank you We have any other public comment on non-agenda items Okay, hearing none, uh, we will move to item six, which is approval of the minutes Is there any comments on the minutes? Now this doesn't require a vote so we will consider them approved Um, we now have item seven which are chairperson or commissioner reports. I don't have any reports Any commissioners have reports? Um None do we need to do public comment on this? Thank you. I didn't think so nothing to comment on Number eight, which is our committee reports Now housing authority any questions of staff Again, nothing on this so no public comment to comment on and we will now move to item nine Which is executive director reports and communication items Thank you chair Owen attached to the agenda for your monthly review is the affordable housing pipeline I'd just like to note that in this month's update, which is for january 2024 You'll note that there's over 330 completed affordable housing units And this is a rolling summary of completions within the last 24 months And we have over 520 affordable units under construction So this has been remarkable progress in the last few years And definitely speaks to the one-time funding that we referenced earlier in the the presentation And the excellent work staff has done to Work through the NOFA processes and with developers to get these units under construction I'm happy to answer any questions Any questions from commissioners? Mr. Smith I had Got the wrong glasses today I came across an article about applications being accepted for the college creek affordable housing development unit I couldn't find it on there And I print it out a copy. I mean it's good news, but I was just curious that did I overlook at some place And if you'd like me to give this to you, I'd be more than happy to Know and college creek is one of those and it may need to be added It is one of those projects where we have a density bonus. We do not have a loan It was a site that was owned by the Sonoma county water agency that was surplused By the Sonoma county community development commission and in the city's only role in terms of affordability is a density bonus I believe But it is 100 affordable project So we will receive rena credit for it because it's in our jurisdiction and it will be restricted. It's just not Through us. No, it was a good a good story in there accepting applications The other question is there was a story at the end of the year about PG&E equipment shortage stalls housing for Like transformers the I guess they're putting them underground these days and they're in short supply as opposed to the Ones on on top which no one wants so any of our projects being affected by something like that And again, I have the the article here if you'd like me to drop it off All right. Thank you for the question To my knowledge, none of our projects are being specifically delayed by the PG&E Timelines to underground Our developers are aware that that is an issue and they are proactively booking and scheduling that with PG&E well In advance of when it's needed to allow for their timelines I have a couple questions. So if Are we looking at a base of 4 000 units of affordable in the city right now? And if we're adding the 300 already in another 500 which pushes That's about a 20 increase off the base of the base is 4 000. Is that correct Megan? I believe the number Nicole presented earlier was about 4500 And so the 300 and 36 would already be included in that 4500, but certainly that 5 22 Will be added to it. So we take it. We take the 300 out of the 4500 It's close to 20% increase in the end from last year To probably next year it has been a significant increase and this just um Going back in last year and a half or so is one of the reasons we added an additional compliance position To help with the ongoing affordability monitoring as a result of all these additional units in santa rosa Um, thank you very much. This is very I'm glad that you guys put this together This is very informative to make sure that we can see and the city council can see what's come What has come online what is coming online and how well it translates into increasing arena numbers for the city Any other questions from uh any questions and public comments? I just want to say you should publicize that That the staff should let the press democrat know about that nice increase under the arpa funds and let the public know thank you And just a simple correction doing that's that's off the cdbg funds The community development block grants the community development block grant disaster recovery was the was the big Funder of those sources. Uh, we will move on to item 10 Which are consent items and we'll move to item 10.1 So on the consent calendar today, there are two items. Um, I will read the title and then Hopefully we'll have a motion and a second and if there's any questions, uh, be the opportunity to do so So the first item is 10.1 a resolution home investment partnerships program tenant based rental assistance Item 10.2 is a resolution modification to prior funding commitments for vigil light senior apartments to extend the loan term and amend affordability requirements As well as the borrower name Any comments on any of these consent items and commissioners? I do have one on on the vigil lights one it they're in the presentation it discussed Um going from 30 percent to 50 percent But that's and how that would have affected the scoring I do believe that even going from the end. I think the second tranche of funding from the city So even going from 30 to 50 percent While it may have affected the scoring it would not have affected The approval of that second tranche So I just want to make sure that's clear because That is one of the scoring criteria for our NOFA Is that correct megan? I'll let nicole um respond to that question. Okay. Thank you so yes, the application was originally scored and funded and I believe they came in Um relatively high in the scoring with that half of the units allocated at 30 percent of area median income Um after speaking with the developer that Um representation of the fort of the affordability mix was representative of the actual population Living at the development right now since it's an existing development that they are seeking rehabilitation funds To give it a facelift if you will So that's the reflection of the actual residents there The project also participates in the HUD 202 program Which requires income levels to stay across the board at 50 percent of area median income so while the Rehabilitation will not require displacement or result in displacement of the residents and the actual people who are living there Will stay at about half of them at 30 percent and half at 50 percent It's important to so that the HUD 202 funding is not jeopardized that on the regulatory agreement and on the paperwork all of the units Stay at the 50 percent AMI levels Thank you There's a lot of hoops and to de go through on these projects Any other questions from commissioners? Can we have a motion to approve on 10.1? Chair Owen, we have to take Oh, I'm sorry. Can we go to public comment on on item 10.1? Can we go to public comment on item 10.2? And now we'll go to Oh item 10.2. Here we go Give me just one moment to get the timer up, please Good afternoon chairman uh, Owen and council members or excuse me commissioners Jim wallin vice president of pep housing and I want to thank you in regards to the million dollar uh fund that you gave last August That provided us to achieve and be awarded the tax credit So we wouldn't be here today if you didn't Agree to re out to move the allocation in the june 2023 to the september. Thank you very much and I want to introduce jennifer letwick president and ceo Good afternoon. I just wanted to take a brief moment to express my gratitude for the opportunity to relocate it to santa rosa in order to take on the position of president and ceo of pep housing In my career, I've developed around 1.3 billion in debt financing across 50 projects and 10 000 units The majority of which are concentrated here in california So I look forward to bringing my developer expertise to the region and continuing to accelerate housing production Affordable housing production in santa rosa. So thank you for the opportunity to meet all of you Thank you. Is there any other public comment? Seeing none, uh, we will move a request For approval for the resolution for item 10.1 Anybody want to move on the resolution? Uh, vice chair lupina. I make a motion. We approve resolution 10.1. We have a second second First and a second on the on the on the motions You can do them in one Well, we'll start that. Let's just finish on anybody for 10.2 Move on that Also move And second I'll second it. We we we have the same players. Thank you very much and uh, we will now go to a vote And clerk, do we want to do a vote for both at the same time? That's the way we do the These items. Give me just one moment, please Okay, now we'll do a roll call vote for the consent Resolutions on this agenda We will start with the mover. Uh, vice chair lupina. I And then commissioner smith. I Commissioner newton. I Commissioner downy And uh, commissioner, uh, konte I And then uh, chair oan. Hi Let the record show that the, uh, um, resolutions the consent resolutions Passed with a vote of six eyes With what with commissioner freedman absinthe Thank you. We'll now move on to uh, item 11, which is report items and note that there are no report items on today's agenda Item 12 is Election of officers and we will have uh, megan bassinger present this All right. Good afternoon. So on an annual basis according to your bylaws The housing authority should be selecting officers. This is the first meeting of 2024 So in order to select a new chair and a vice chair What I would like the housing authority to do is if we could have a nomination And then if there is an acceptance And then a second We'll have the clerk do a roll call vote. So we'll first go with any nominations for chair I'll nominate jeff again I'd like to nominate vice chair Um, lupina for chair So chair i want to be clear. Did you decline the nomination of yourself? Yeah, I will decline that nomination So the current nomination on the floor is for uh, vice chair lupina as chair I'll second Vice chair. Did you accept the nomination? Yes, I'll accept. All right, and then we have a second from Um, commissioner newton clerk. Can you call the roll? Is this just a nomination for the chair or was there a vice chair in there? Correct? This is a nomination for the chair. Okay Sorry, there's a number of steps before I get to call in the vote All right. We'll now take a roll call vote for the nomination of uh, uh Vice chair lupina as Chair and we will start with, um Current commissioner, uh, current chair owen. Hi And then commissioner smith. Hi And then commissioner newton. Hi And commissioner downey, uh, commissioner aconte Hi and then, um Uh, vice chair lupina Upstate Okay All right. Let the record show that, uh, um the the the motion to elect lupina, uh Vice chair lupina to chair Passed with five eyes With commissioner freeman absent and uh, vice chair lupina abstaining All right. Congratulations to new chair lupina now if we can nominate a vice chair We have any nominations for vice chair I'd like to nominate, uh Jeremy We have a nomination for Commissioner newton as vice chair Commissioner newton. Do you accept the nomination? Yes Is there a second All second Okay, we'll now take a vote for, uh, the nomination for the the motion to nominate, uh, commissioner newton as vice chair And, uh, we will start with new new chair, uh, uh new chair lupina I and then, uh Chair owen I And then Commissioner smith I Um Commissioner downey commissioner aconte Hi And commissioner newton Speaking with tradition, uh, abstain. Okay All right Let the record show that, um Uh, commissioner newton, uh, was elected, uh, the vice chair, uh, by vote of five Five eyes with, uh Commissioner freeman absent and commissioner newton abstaining All right, and with that Commissioner lupina, would you like your first act to be? Well, I guess we're adjourned