Hey, everyone. Welcome to the CUBE's special program series, Women of the Cloud, brought to you by AWS. I'm your host, Lisa Martin. I'm very pleased to welcome back one of our alumni. Adriana Bustamante joins me, the VP of Global Alliances at Rackspace Technology. Adriana, it's great to see you. Thank you so much for joining me today. Lisa, thank you so much for having me again. I love this. Yeah, me too. Tell me a little bit about you, a little bit about Rackspace Technology, as well as the role that you currently have. Sure. So I, again, I'm Adriana Bustamante. I look after our Global Alliances within Rackspace, specifically looking after some of our strategic partners. I've been with Rackspace for a little over 16 years now, working with partners in some form or fashion. Rackspace Technology, we are the multi-cloud solution experts. We really work with our clients to drive business outcomes and transformations in this multi-cloud world. And our mission is to embrace technology, empower our customers and deliver the future. And I get to have the fun pleasure of building and curating and cultivating partnership relationships. So very much our partnerships are important to our success. We are privileged to be able to work with AWS, along with other partners across the industry, to help do more and bring more value to clients. So you've been with Rackspace Technology for a while. Tell me a little bit about recommendations, any tactical recommendations that you have for other women, maybe even men, who are looking to grow their careers in tech, maybe they're wanting to get into tech. What are some of the things that you've learned along the way that you highly recommend? Yeah, no, great, great question. I've had the fortune of being at Rackspace now for a number of years, and it's always because I've been able to create my own opportunities and work. And so that really falls in line to some of the recommendations that I hold dear to my heart. And number one is really to stay curious and learn from reading articles to staying close and asking questions from your colleagues. I know just like at AWS and at Rackspace, there are some very talented people across all areas of the business, and they are the best to learn from. I also am a firm believer in developing and expanding that network because that helps you bring and build out your reach and helps you continue to learn in different areas outside the company. I think from raising your hand, leaning in, don't be afraid to speak up, especially as we think about women of the cloud, which is part of what this theme of this session is. And I think about how much I love to see women elevated within roles inside of Rackspace and out. It is about raising your hand, getting uncomfortable in speaking up if you are a bit shy or timid, if there's an area that you are interested in and passionate about, go learn and drive because there's opportunities to create new roles for yourself, new ways to bring value into the organization, and then you become memorable for that. This person was known for helping solve this problem. It's been a good fortune, and within our company culture of any Racker, the front lines know how to solve most problems just as much as the top executives. Yeah, I love your saying stay curious. I think curiosity is probably one of the best things that people can have. It's to your point of, I like to call it getting comfortably uncomfortable, raise your hand, ask a question. I always think if you're in a meeting and maybe you tune out or there's something that you don't understand, ask a question because I guarantee there's five other people in that room that have the same question, but they're not curious enough or hungry enough to ask the question to learn more. So I think those are such great recommendations that you have provided that I think you probably would tell your younger self, stay curious, ask questions. Yes, for sure. I also am so big, at least for me personally, context is so important for me. If I understand context, then I'm really able to figure out where can I drive the most value for me personally, and then that goes into leading my teams. And so to me, the only way you get the context is if you're learning or asking the questions if you don't understand, because it really helps you understand the holistic business. 100%, that context is everything. But a lot of people are just a little bit timid sometimes and don't want to be the one to raise their hand in a room or online these days. And I think it's such a great skill that anybody can benefit from. I'd love to know some of your other skills, some examples of specific success stories where in your current role where you've really helped organizations solve problems related to the cloud. Yes. So I think about ultimately we're looking to see and always looking to see how we can help transform our clients' businesses. And often the underlying root of that is through technology solutions. And so we've helped clients who are mostly legacy data center based clients that have built large infrastructure components and environments and they want to learn and lean into the cloud. And they're not really sure how to do that. They probably may have a leader that's told them that they need to do this. Everybody's at a different level of journey. And so specifically and especially in partnership with some of our hyperscaler partners just at like AWS is, we can help customers understand what that journey needs to look like, how to successfully move. Let's say if they're a large VMware shop today, they already have a little bit of cloud native. Together through our ecosystem of relationships, we've helped customers not only be able to build and maintain part of their data center footprint that's not ready yet to transform but move some of this into a facility that is within our data centers to get out of that huge kind of cap X heavy workload type in environment. And then especially with AWS and the partnership that they have along with Rackspace with VMware, we leverage BMC on AWS solutions. And then we can help them fully embrace that cloud native. And from a Rackspace perspective, we are providing those services and expertise across all levels in a single pane of glass. So you can manage from your more traditional workloads to embracing more of a cloud native approach. And it's all about helping clients drive business outcomes, as you said. Every organization these days, I always like to think it, whether it's my grocery store or retailer or bank, has to be a data-driven company but it has to leverage obviously the cloud. But there's so many options. It's quite nebulous, no pun intended, maybe pun intended. So, but it's all about helping clients drive those business outcomes. I imagine it's quite fulfilling for you to be able to help different types of organizations really maximize their use of technology their understanding of technology to really build bridges, deliver the products and services that everybody's expecting these days. Yes, no. And I think, again, it's what I love about being in partnerships because those relationships become fundamental in helping remove those complexities for the clients. And so the more that we as Rackspace are able to connect and deepen these relationships, it just becomes less decision-making, less things that the client ultimately has to think about. So, nothing gives me more joy than being able to help solve the customer's problems. And then in turn, we're doing that through our partnership relationships. So we're bringing everybody together to ultimately provide a better outcome for the client. Yeah, and as you said, those relationships are foundational to everything and ultimately the outcomes that the end customer is able to deliver to these demanding, whether it's consumer or business or whatnot. A lot of challenges that organizations have today, but it sounds like the relationship cultivating that you're helping lead is really critical in those organizations. Being able to embrace technology, utilize it in ways that allow them to get products and services to market as fast as the consumer demands. I'd love to get your perspective as a female in technology. We talk a lot about diversity, inclusion, equity. We can talk about it all day long, but there's still some challenges there. What are some of the challenges that you see that are still persistent with respect to diversity and tech today and maybe some of your recommendations to eradicate some of those? No, sure. So it starts really early. It starts almost in education and making sure that women and a diverse set of applicants are taking certain and studying certain disciplines. And then I think about it from a recruiting and hiring perspective. Are organizations doing enough to expand their reach? You know, we were actually talking. I have the good fortune of being the executive sponsor of our resource group within Rackspace. It's called Power, which is the professional organization of women's empowerment at Rackspace. And we were talking just, I think last week, on we need to make sure we're going where the women are to make sure we're letting them know about Rackspace, the benefits about Rackspace. And ultimately in turn, that helps build more recruiting into the talent pool.  I think talent in general, as we're seeing right now, is so hard to come by and so even more important to retain. And the more diverse pools that we have of Rackers, it's just bringing different perspectives and Rackers are what we call Rackspace employees. It's bringing those Rackers together to help solve the bigger problems because you're able to do more with a diverse set of outlook. And I think, you know, as a woman, I want to have that equitable seat at the table. And so ultimately, when I think about myself from a leadership perspective, am I making sure that all of those opportunities are available for the women that come along behind me? And how am I elevating other women within our organization from a day to day? So they have that spotlight. So, you know, fundamentally, organizations need to focus on how to expand that reach to bring that diverse set of applicants and voices. And then you need strong leaders at every level to be advocates and sponsors to make sure that this is an important topic and top of mind in all organizations. So you can ultimately provide an equitable approach. Yeah, I love that. I agree 100 percent. You know, it's it's so important to start at the education front, but also to be able to have just the thought diversity alone in organizations. I've seen many studies that show having females in executive positions are companies that do that are more profitable. There's a lot of data out there that demonstrates that there are huge advantages to any type of organization to really invest in diversity. But to your point, it's not just about attracting. It's about retaining the talent as well. I mean, that that is critical for every business. Yes, no, absolutely. You know, more and more and more, we're starting to see that soft benefits are becoming more important as we think about a younger workforce coming in. And when I think about soft benefits, it's more around our employee resource groups. What are our benefits look like for our females within our in our health care within the insurance plans? What type of time off and maternity benefits are we are we extending? What does that work life balance look like in a hybrid world or a virtual world? Those those questions become. I mean, when I I remember years ago, no one would even think about asking those questions. And now we see not only those questions coming up more regularly, but we're trying to be more intentional within our organization to be proactive about that messaging. So we can help show and demonstrate that we are an inclusive community and and that their support for women to be successful within Rackspace. You know, we have mentoring programs that we do that are, you know, that we really try to highlight and promote for our female community and then also for our broader community. We look at building different circles that women can come together in a space that they feel comfortable to ask questions to figure out how do they excel in advance in their career? Those become very attractive for for getting that that talent that we want. Absolutely. And you just brought up such a great point, Adriana. That's intention programs like what you're describing that the Rackers have opportunity to access as there's intention in all of this, which is so critical for diversity programs to be successful to attract the right talent, to retain the right talent. It's like a flywheel. I think it's all it's all linked together. But I'd love to know what you see that's next in cloud. How do you see your role evolving in the industry? We talked about the great relationship building that you're doing. What do you see as next in cloud? No, sure. Again, because I helplessly can't be biased. It is all about to me that that partner ecosystem. It is how we can build strong relationships that help minimize the complexities for the clients. Now the pace for innovation and competitive edge is faster than it was that we saw 24 months ago. We saw COVID advance lots of different areas of the business but really it forced a lot of companies to transform. And this is where I think there's a unique opportunity to really look at what a partner ecosystem looks like. Who are the right partners that organizations like AWS like Rackspace should be working with? Because oftentimes the partners that were our partners and key partners maybe three to five years ago maybe aren't going to be as relevant in that same ecosystem in the next five years. So constantly making sure that we have the right ecosystem in place and the right relationships to help ultimately drive better outcomes for the clients. And that's like we said several times already during this interview. It's all about the outcomes for clients.  Yeah so I think we all had to learn to be virtual by default and so I think we're just coming out of people are excited to be in person again. You know when we have different events whether they be with internal records or with partners or clients like everyone's excited to see each other again but you're still seeing this mix of we need to be hybrid by by default which I know wasn't in everybody's DNA from a technology perspective and I think that's enabling more virtual teams more matrix type of teams where you're bringing together different expertise across the organization to move at a faster pace. You know we talk about you know talk about COVID which led to that great resignation where you saw many people changing their their jobs. You know we saw women not only within rack space but even outside like really you know take a pause and and really start thinking about what's important to them in that returning that returning to work and so I just think all of this has really as as you mentioned Lisa a forcing function on being intentional to create the right environments that are that are building a place that we can retain that level of skill and expertise and I think that's just going to become something that's more increasingly important with with every year and profession choice. I agree it's it's going to be building upon like it's that flywheel that I'm talking about that of successes of promoting women of making sure that there's plenty of opportunity encourage you women to your point to be curious raise your hand ask the question there's so much value it's invaluable for organizations to really have diversity throughout their organization you did a great job of explaining even in the benefits frame framework so I so appreciate you being on the cube Adrian it's great to see you again thank you for sharing your story the successes that you've had as a rocker in cloud and some of the things that you recommend to the next generation we really appreciate your time no thank you if I can walk into more rooms where there is more women at the table and on the calls I am a happier I'm a happier individual so I love any opportunity to really see how we can continue to to make more space in the rooms for women that are just overly talented and deserve to be there I am with you on that again thank you so much great to see you and we'll see you again soon thank you Lisa take care have a good afternoon thank you we want to thank you for watching the cubes special program series women of the cloud brought to you by AWS I'm Lisa Martin thanks for watching


Welcome to The Commentaries, a podcast series from Tan in which you'll learn how to read and understand history's greatest Catholic works from today's greatest Catholic scholars. In every series of The Commentaries, your expert host will be your personal guide to not just read the book, but to live the book, shining the light of its eternal truths into our modern darkness. Visit tancommentaries.com to get your copy of the book and to subscribe for access to all the great reading plans, new episodes, bonus content, and exclusive deals for listeners of The Commentaries. Greetings and welcome back. I'm Father Timothy Reid and today is day 10 of our podcast series on St. Teresa of Avalus' magnificent spiritual treatise, The Interior Castle. Next time we cover the third chapter of the fourth mansions and today we begin our study of the fifth mansions of The Interior Castle and we'll be looking at the first two chapters of this section. So let's get started. In this first chapter, St. Teresa begins by making the point that the Lord gives favors to us according to the degree that we give ourselves to him if we have reached union with him. She believes that most of her nuns will reach this fifth mansion where union with God really takes root. Indeed, she makes the point that all Carmelites are called to prayer and contemplation, which is enjoying heaven on earth and which is a gift that lies within ourselves. But for contemplation to happen, we must dispose ourselves for it through practicing the virtues and giving ourselves to God, begging him to strengthen our souls. St. Teresa then begins comparing the prayer of union in the fifth mansions with the prayer in the fourth mansions. Whereas the prayer in the fourth mansions is like a drowsiness because she says the soul seems to slumber, being neither quite asleep nor wholly awake. In the fifth, the soul is asleep, both to the world and to itself. In fact, St. Teresa writes that during the short time this state lasts, the soul is deprived of all feeling whatever, being unable to think on any subject even if it wished. No effort is needed here to suspend the thoughts. The soul can love it knows not how, nor whom it loves, nor what it desires. In fact, it has died entirely to this world to live more truly than ever in God. She says this is a delicious death, for the soul is deprived of the faculties it exercised while in the body, delicious because although not really the case, it seems to have left its mortal covering to abide more entirely in God. Furthermore, Teresa tells us that the mind entirely concentrates itself on trying to understand what is happening which is beyond its power. It is so astounded that if consciousness is not completely lost, at least no movement is possible. The person may be compared to one who falls into a dead faint with dismay. Whereas the soul in the fourth mansions still experiences doubts. She says that when you come to the fifth mansions and you begin to experience what she calls this prayer of union, which is a deeper form of contemplative prayer, there are no doubts. She says none of the little lizards that can poke their heads into the fourth mansions can come into the fifth mansions. One's imagination, understanding, and memory, not even the devil, can impede the union in the fifth mansions. And so there are tremendous riches given to the soul because God works within the soul without any disturbance, not even from the person himself. Now can you imagine being so united to God to be absorbed in God in this way? This is the prayer of union. This is the prayer you experience in the fifth mansions. And this is just a foretaste of what we will experience in heaven. Now St. Teresa does recognize that there are many different types of unions. What she says are unions with earthly vanities, but the union with God of which she speaks is above all earthly joys, pleasure, and satisfaction. In short, this spiritual union is much different from any earthly delights we might experience. Now very humbly, St. Teresa is quick to submit her opinions and experiences to the expertise of theologians whom she knows receive light from God to understand the truth of things. So keep in mind though that Teresa has suffered from confessors who have known much less about the spiritual life than she, men who have tried to convince her that her experiences are from the devil. So she is convinced that both faith and humility are necessary to receive these gifts. She writes, I am convinced that those who refuse to believe that God can do far more than this, and that he is pleased now as in the past to communicate himself to his creatures, shut fast their hearts against receiving such favors themselves. Do not imitate them sisters, be convinced that it is possible for God to perform still greater wonders. Do not concern yourselves as to whether those who receive these graces are good or wicked. As I said, he knows best, and it is no business of yours. You should serve him with a single heart and with humility, and should praise him for his works and wonders. Now, moreover, she explains that there is a certitude, a conviction given to the soul after this union occurs that it was in God and that God was in it. This union in the 5th mansions is itself generally brief, maybe minutes, but it seems much briefer while experiencing it. And yet, although years may pass before this favor recurs, the soul can never forget it, nor doubt the fact. In fact, Teresa maintains that a soul which does not fill this assurance, this conviction, has not been united to God entirely. Now, Saint Teresa ends this first chapter by reminding us that the prayer of union is not something we can accomplish, but that God must bring the soul to this union, just like the bride in the Song of Songs was brought to the wine cellar, which is the soul center. We must, however, dispose ourselves through this grace, through our love and self-surrender. And so, once again, at the end of this chapter, we have to ask ourselves how committed we are to uniting our personal will to God's holy will. And at Teresa's prompting, we have to ask ourselves if we truly recognize our own baseness and frailty and recognize how unworthy we are to be the servants of so great a Lord. Now as we get into the second chapter, Saint Teresa continues explaining the fifth mansions by way of her famous analogy of the silkworm, which encloses itself in cocoons by spinning silk. Now, eventually the ugly silkworm is transformed into a lovely white butterfly who emerges from the cocoon. And she makes the point that the silkworm symbolizes a soul which begins to live by the help God gives it, just through the remedies of the church, confession, reading good books, hearing sermons, and so forth. So these things help a person to mature to the point in which he can spin the cocoon. And the cocoon is Christ. God himself is the mansion we build ourselves. Now it's not that we build God, but in preparing our souls properly, God unites himself to us. Thus, Teresa rouses her daughters to weave this cocoon quickly by getting rid of self-love and self-will, attachments to earthly things, and by performing deeds of penance, prayer, mortification, by being obedient and doing good works. And then, when the soul is truly dead to the things of the world, it is transformed into a beautiful white butterfly. And Teresa says a soul at this state desires to praise our Lord and longs to sacrifice itself and die a thousand deaths for him. It feels an unconquerable desire for great crosses and would like to perform the most severe penances its size for solitude and would have all men know God, while it is bitterly grieved at seeing them offend him. And so this transformation leads to a new type of restlessness, a distaste for earthly things. And there is a new greatness in the soul that comes from having rested in God. And the soul realizes that creatures will never give it true rest. Now Saint Teresa believes that the soul who experiences this prayer of union and undergoes this transformation process, that that soul experiences a particular suffering now that it is estranged from the world. Now it is true that these souls experience deep peace within their souls, and in fact this peace comes from the suffering which is the painful desire to leave the world. And yet there is the pain that it rises from the fear that God is so often offended and the regret that the soul is not yet fully surrendered to God and that many souls are lost. She writes in paragraphs 8 and 9, I do not mean that those who reach this stage possess no peace, they do so in a very high degree. For their sorrows, though extremely severe, are so beneficial and proceed from so good a source as to procure both peace and happiness. Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that if the heart finds comfort it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment. Even this is not enough to reconcile it to fate, for after all of the gifts received it is not yet so entirely surrendered to the will of God as it afterwards becomes. Here, although conformed to his will, the soul feels an unconquerable reluctance to submit, for our Lord has not given it higher grace. During prayer this grief breaks forth in floods of tears probably from the great pain felt at seeing God offended, and in thinking how many souls, both heretics and heathens, are lost eternally, and the keenest grief of all Christians also. The soul realizes the greatness of God's mercy and knows that however wicked men are, they may still repent and be saved, yet it fears that many precipitate themselves into hell. So this pain that she is talking about here, this is an unearthly pain much worse than any pain we can experience here, and Teresa goes on to compare the soul to wax impressed with the seal. At this point the soul, like impassive wax, only desires what God wants for it. It remains still and gives its consent to God to do his work upon it. In the prayer of union God impresses upon the soul like a seal upon wax, a likeness with Christ in his love and obedience to the Father, his love of neighbor, and his willingness to suffer in doing God's will. So think Teresa enters into her discussion of this new realm of the spiritual life with some amount of trepidation, worrying that she doesn't have the words to explain what occurs here, so sublime as it is. In reaching the fifth mansions, the soul truly experiences union with God, and this union with God is transformative, and it suspends one's faculties so that it is wholly absorbed in God. This union is not something the soul achieves on its own, although it must dispose itself for this great gift from God. This transformation in union with God are indicated by an increased desire for penance and solitude, and the hope that all might know God. It's also marked by great pain at the thought that God has ever offended. And lastly, the soul who experiences this union knows with absolute certitude that it has been in God and that God has been in it. This brings us to the end of Day 10. Next time we'll look at the third and fourth chapters of the fifth mansions. Thank you so much for listening and for joining me on this journey to grow deeper in your spiritual life. As always, let's conclude by praying the prayer of St. Teresa. Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. All things are passing away. God never changes. Patience obtains all things. Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices. Amen. May God bless you and may St. Teresa intercede for you. This has been an episode of The Commentaries, a podcast brought to you by Tan. To follow the show, study more of the greatest Catholic classics, and to support the commentaries and other great free content from Tan, visit tancommentaries.com to subscribe and use coupon code COM25 to get 25% off your next order, including the interior castle and countless more spiritual works to deepen your interior life and guide you to heaven.


chair test commissioner LaPenna won't be attending today so if you would like to go ahead and call the meeting to order you're free to do so thank you so much good afternoon good afternoon today is June 10th national independence day and I'd like to call the June 20th 2022 housing authority regular meeting to order due to the provisions of the executive orders N 25 20 and N 29 20 which suspend certain requirements of the brown act and the order of the health officer of the county of Sonoma the shelter in place to minimize the spread of COVID-19 the housing authority commissioners will be conducting today's meeting in a virtual setting using zoom webinar commissioners and staff are participating from remote remote locations and or practicing appropriate social distancing members of the public may view and listen to the meeting as noted on the city's website and as noted on the agenda members of the public wishing to speak during item six public comment or during our public hearing items may be able to do so raising their hand and will be given the ability to address the commission as a matter of housekeeping i'd like to remind commissioners to keep their audio on mute unless they are speaking commissioners other than chair can mute themselves staff will remain muted until needing to speak as members of the public join the meeting you will be participating as an attendee your microphone and camera will be muted only today's panelists will be viewed during the meeting if you're recalling in from a telephone and choose to speak during the public comments portion of today's agenda for privacy concerns the host will be renaming your viewable phone number to resident and the last four digits of your phone number the city of Santa Rosa is committed to creating a safe and exclude inclusive environment free from disruption we will not tolerate any hateful speech or actions and our well staff to monitor that everyone is participating respectfully or they will be removed if necessary we will also immediately end the meeting zoom host can you please explain how public comics will be heard at today's meeting yes thank you at each agenda item the item is presented the chair will ask for housing authority member comments and then open it up for public comment the host in zoom will be lowering all hands until public comment is open for the agenda item once the chair has called for public comment the chair will announce for the public to raise their hand if they wish to speak on the specific agenda item if you are calling in to listen to the meeting audibly you can dial star nine to raise your hand the host will then call on the public who have raised their hands public comment will be limited to three minutes and a timer will appear on the screen for the commission and public to see once all live public comments have been heard the meeting host will read email public comments if you provide a live public comment on an agenda item but also submitted an email your email public comment will not be read during the meeting additionally there is one public comment comment period on today's agenda to speak on non-agenda matters item six this is the 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 um roll call please commissioner berke here thank you commissioner downy commissioner downy yeah thank you commissioner mcwarder here commissioner rawhouser here vice chair owen here chair test here let the record reflect that all commissioners are present with the exception of commissioner lapena thank you item three statements of abstention commissioner berke commissioner berke um you're muted sorry sorry sorry chair test i'll be abstaining and recusing myself on item 12.3 on today's agenda is consistent with legal advice from jeff berke i serve as a volunteer on both vigil light and assisted senior housing complex recently sold to pep housing and also of course the city housing authority and i have no personal financial interest however funding requests have been before both boards and my participation on agenda item 12.3 could be considered a conflict so i'll be abstaining and recusing myself on 12.3 in addition to that i wasn't at last month's meeting so i won't be involved at all in the questions or approval of the draft minutes from the may 23rd meeting thank you thank you item four staff briefing good afternoon chair test and members of the housing authority before we begin with the staff briefing i just want to acknowledge we have michelle montoya serving as our zoom host today and i lean theory as the reporting secretary and we're very appreciative of them stepping in all of our admin staff is out sick and so um they were gracious enough to help us late this morning so thank you very much and we appreciate everybody's patience and cooperation as we help them navigate through the housing authority so item 4.1 is a staff briefing this is a short video that we will be playing to acknowledge the 50th anniversary of the housing authority the city's communications team put together this video with a series of photographs and information on some of the affordable housing complexes that have been supported over the past 50 years so if your secretary can get the video up we will play that everybody one moment the video is also available on the city's youtube channel and there is a link in the agenda so we will distribute that information more widely but we wanted to take the time to share that with the housing authority as it's been underway for several months um question um on my end i couldn't hear the sound is that um playable again with sound or no there's no narration there is some audio there's the music that accompanies it but there is no narration okay thank you any questions of staff at this time seeing them i'm now opening taking public comments on item 4.1 if you wish to make a comment via zoom please raise your hand if you were dealing excuse me if you were tiling in via telephone please dial star 9 to raise your hand and you will have three minutes and chair test we do have an individual calling in it is caller number 5449 if you could hold for just one moment while we pull up the public comment screen sure thank you thank you caller 5549 if you would please confirm your ability to see the screen and um introduce yourself if you so choose that would be wonderful thank you hello can you hear me we can my name is dwayne d with i'm from roseland i wanted to talk about an issue that's confusing a number of veterans of the u.s. military in sonoma county it's been said that there are what are known as hud bash vouchers housing urban development veterans affairs support excuse me vouchers excuse me um dwayne um this particular item is for item 4.1 the video um item six is the regular public comments uh are you able to join us on that particular item item six it seems like that's where you were now i don't have computer access i'm talking on the phone so what do you know um we will there's no other public comments on item 4.1 so we will be next going into study session then after that it'll be public comments again wait a second i can't wait around i'm on a phone i'm away from there can i just finish my comment and be done if you're able to do it quickly sure thank you thank you so the confusion arises because it's said the vouchers are available but then when homeless veterans try to get the vouchers they're told they're not available because they've been um designated as project-based vouchers specifically a recent uh veteran interaction with kim valadez the woman from the veterans administration stated that the only vouchers available were for project and winzer and there's homeless veterans right here in santa rosa and there were vouchers available in the past but there hadn't been a spot that might be used now that there might be some openings for a veteran to get into something we're told this other situation it's confusing to veterans and there are veterans out on the street who thought that the hug dash voucher program was going to help them get off the street and instead it seems it's more about being utilized to help builders to get projects in a pipeline that you have down the road but last but not least those projects are frequently a bit of a bait and switch to the public when they're put forward at the various meetings of the city planning commission etc design review they're uh described as one thing and then down the road people find out that um affordable housing is a big component of these projects and that the housing authority is financing them years in advance through this project based voucher program an example would be burbank avenue apartments or stony point flats both of those projects came through being described as a single family detached type housing well there's a lot of confusion in the area about what's happening with these whole approaches to housing and last but not least affordable housing unit shouldn't cost more than the cost for a new home you can buy homes out there in the community for 400,000 500,000 and on some of the listings I saw today these new apartments are being built for 640,000 dollars a unit so a lot of things seem to be out of whack thank you for listening to my comments today good luck to you thank you okay we are there any other public comments for item 4.1 there are no additional hands raised at this time thank you um item five is study session there are no study session items on this particular agenda so we will now move to regular public comments item six on non-agenda items sure test I see no hands raised at this time thank you moving on to item seven approval of minutes we have draft minutes for may 23rd 2022 uh commissioner Burke mentioned uh that he was not at that meeting um other than that um I'm going to move that the minutes are approved as stand thank you item number eight chairperson commissioner reports do we have any reports from commissioners okay seeing none oh excuse me uh commissioner Downey commissioner Downey I think you're muted I didn't get a chance to ask the question pertaining to the slideshow and I'm wondering if I should just leave my question alone without uh interfering with the meeting um it's if it's something we can answer easily after the meeting I'll be happy to do that I haven't do it Megan passenger presentation oh okay Megan yes commissioner Downey can you go ahead with your question so in looking at 50 years of housing I was curious to know if you had calculated coming closer to our housing needs uh still staying at a good distance from meeting our housing needs and if you had any particular takeaways from 50 years of development in the city of Santa Rosa so the housing needs that are allocated to the city by the association of bay area governments are constantly evolving and those are given to us in cycles so we we as a city approve projects that contribute towards that goal we have limited control over whether or not those projects can be built but certainly with the assistance that the housing authority provides in the form of loans or through the allocation of project-based vouchers we are able to help move those projects forward but it's a constantly moving goal so um in the upcoming allocation we should be getting I want to say about 6 000 units additional units towards our allocation in the past cycles we have not met the goal we've certainly made efforts and in this current cycle that's wrapping up at the end of June I think we've uh come closest we have but there's still a shortfall and a lot of that has to do with the amount of funding that is necessary to assist the units at very low and low income levels and I think the housing authority is all familiar with the amount of financial assistance that is needed in order to advance those projects not just from the housing authority but also from the state in the form of tax credits bonds and then financing programs that are available through the california department of housing and community development thank you thank you for the question um so on item eight um I have no reports to make so I'm going to be now taking public comments on item 8.1 if you wish to make a comment via zoom please raise your hand if you're dialing in via telephone please dial star nine to raise your hand you will have three minutes chair test I see no hands raised at this time thank you item nine committee reports and we have any committee reports you see no hands raised so we will move on to item number 10 executive director reports and communication items so before you today are two communication items the first item 10.1 is the monthly update of the pending development report and so as you may recall we will be providing this to you at each housing authority meeting so that we can easily track the efforts that are being made towards advancing our affordable housing goals and you can have a quick reference for where projects are in terms of either pre-development construction or completion status so this is the june 2020 update that is attached for reference and I'd be happy to answer any questions okay do we have any questions commissioner Burke thank you um Megan uh is there was there any city involvement in the 252 unit Yolanda apartments noted in today's press democrat article uh that that development has a density bonus agreement but there is no financial contribution uh they did receive ugly tax credits from the state so a density bonus agreement or a small number of units in that complex so obviously that that probably falls out of the involvement of the housing authority so it's not shown on this report but uh but there what but it sounds like maybe there's an opportunity for some of the units to be made available it's a lower income families is that correct that is correct projects that receive density bonus and enter into a contract with us are required to have a 55-year reported agreement those units are restricted to income eligible households and have restricted rents and they will go through a lease up process similar to our traditional affordable housing units that have a regulatory agreement so income eligible households will apply those units and we will verify that they are they meet the requirements and that their rents is at or below the maximum rent level for that particular unit so so those would go towards meeting the regional housing needs that is correct thank you just wanted to clarify any other comments by commissioners okay seeing none we are now taking public comments on item 10.1 if you wish to make a comment via zoom please raise your hand if you are dialing in via telephone please dial star nine to raise your hand you will have three minutes there are no raised hands at this time thank you moving on to item 10.2 affordable housing proclamation month on may 24 the city council had a proclamation acknowledging may as a affordable housing month chair test had been scheduled to accept the proclamation via zoom but due to a very robust council agenda the proclamation was not read until well after 7 p.m when the frequency had been identified for four o'clock so it was a rather quick reading of the proclamation but i wanted to share it with all of the commissioners today so it is attached to your agenda for your reference we have done these in past years and i think it's important to acknowledge all the efforts that the commissioners and staff put into developing and maintaining affordable housing throughout santa rosa any questions from commissioners seeing none we are now taking public comments on item 10.2 if you wish to make a comment via zoom please raise your hand if you are dialing in via telephone please dial star nine to raise your hand you will have three minutes chair test there are no hands raised at this time thank you we'll move on to item 11.1 consent items this is for a resolution of a change to legal name of entity on prior award of project based vouchers for burbank avenue apartments when consent items are brought before the housing authority it is not required that staff provide a presentation to the commissioners if there's no objection or request for presentation i will open public comments do we have any comments by staff by commissioners at this time since there is no objection we are now taking public comments on item 11.1 if you wish to make a comment via zoom please raise your hand if you were dialing in via telephone please dial star nine to raise your hand you will have three minutes we have no raised hands at this time thank you if there are no objections i would like to ask if there is a motion to approve the consent items today to approve the consent items for today thank you for vice chair on we have a second do we have a second to the motion commissioner raha sir you're muted commissioner raha sir not only i second the motion i don't know the proper language to officially second i think you're okay thank you very much we will now move on oh i'm sorry we need a real call vote chair test yes vice chair owen yes commissioner berk yes commissioner downy yes commissioner mcmorder yes thank you commissioner raha sir yes let the record reflect that the item um passes unanimously with uh commissioner lopena being absent thank you we will move forward now with item 12 report items report for fiscal year 22 23 housing authority budget adoption eight gold fine can you hear me yes great thank you good afternoon chair test vice chair owen and commissioners and kate gold fine administrative services officer for housing and community services and i'll present the final fiscal year 2022 23 budget for your approval this afternoon secretary clary can we get the presentation up on the screen please sorry just give me one moment i'm trying to pull it up now okay no problem thank you thank you so much next slide please all right so we like to remind um the authority at the beginning of these presentations the authority's mission that governs its actions is to ensure adequate decent safe and sanitary housing for qualified people within sanarosa consistent with federal state and local law so by reviewing and approving this budget in advance of the city council tomorrow you're directing staff to receive revenue and expend funds to further this mission and uh next slide please um this slide shows total funding sources and expenditures of the authority's administration and two programs rental housing assistance in the housing trust it's a summary at the very highest level of the budget we we discussed this at length at the april 25th study session so i'm just going to focus on what has changed since then next slide please all right there were no changes to the rental assistance or administrative budgets in the housing trust hud announced the final 2022 federal funding allocations on may 17th that's um hapla housing opportunities for persons with hiv and aides community development block grants cdbg and home investment partnerships so hapla allocation did not change it remained at 481 000 and that is the estimate that hud gave us in december of 21 so the changes to revenue and expense that are noted on the slide and in the attachments are the net result of a decrease in cdbg funding and an increase in home so the authority's cdbg allocation decreased a little under $115 000 compared to our estimate at the april study session this is important because administration of cdbg is capped at 20% and public services is capped at 15% of that allocation plus current year loan repayments the decrease to public services would have been over $17 000 which is significant to the non-profit providers who received those funds that's the living room and catholic charities for family support center and homeless service center and the decrease to admin would be about $23 000 so megan and i consulted and reviewed our options and rather than reduce these program areas we utilized an offsetting amount about 115 000 of loan repayments that we received through april of 2022 to fill that gap so this allowed us to keep cdbg public services to non-profits and the administrative funding flat so that resulted in very very minor changes of less than a less than $100 to any funding category on the flip side of that home funding increased by $29,705 compared to our april estimate so 10% of home funding can be used towards administration so we added that funding to services and supplies and the remainder was added to loan activity so the increase that you see on the slide of loan activity of plus almost 27 000 is holy home funding next slide please all right so with that it is recommended by housing and community services that the housing authority by resolution adopt the proposed budget for fiscal year 22 23 and i'm happy to answer any questions you may have thank you commissioners do we have any questions for kate at this time i see no questions i do have a comment on item uh attachment excuse me attachment to which is something i haven't seen before that included performance measures and also the accomplishments that we have made up to meeting city council goals those were two fantastic charts you put together thank you very informative good any other comments from commissioners at this time okay seeing none we are now taking public comments on item 12.1 if you wish to make a comment via zoom please raise your hand if you were dialing in via telephone please dial star nine to raise your hand you will have three minutes chair test we have no hands raised at this time no one's out there okay um i'd like to see if we can have a motion to approve um item 12.1 commissioner berke i think you're muted okay i think that should work chair test thank you i'm pleased to make a motion to adopt the resolution of the housing authority of the city of santa rosa approving the housing authority budget for fiscal year 2022 and 2023 and wave the reading of the text thank you can we have a second vice chair owen thank you can we do road call please yes um apologies commissioner berke hi commissioner downy commissioner mcwarder commissioner rawhauser hi vice chair owen commissioner i'm sorry chair test hi thank you the motion passes um unanimously with the exception of commissioner lapanna who is absent thank you item 12.2 report housing choice voucher program the administrative plan revision utility allowances in the project-based voucher program rebecca lane good afternoon chair test and commissioners my name is rebecca lane and i am the manager of the housing choice voucher program here for the city of santa rosa and i'm here to present to you an item related to the revision of our administrative plan for the housing choice voucher program next slide please so the administrative plan is the major policy document that guides the housing choice voucher program the project-based voucher program as a component of the housing choice voucher program is also addressed in the administrative plan and all revisions to the policies in the administrative plan are reviewed and adopted through the public meeting process including being adopted by the housing authority commissioners next slide please the revisions before you today the proposed revisions are specifically to address the utility allowances used in the project based voucher program so a utility allowance is a public housing agency calculated calculation that is used in determining the estimated out-of-pocket utility costs for tenants who are participating in the housing choice voucher program and that includes tenants who are residing in project-based voucher units the proposed change will allow an alternate utility allowance calculation when approved by HUD in specific project-based voucher properties next slide please the reasoning behind this change is because affordable housing projects often use multiple funding sources to achieve financial viability for their project and each of those funding sources might have different requirements about how the utility allowance is calculated and when a project is using project-based vouchers the federal requirement is that the PHA or the public housing agency utility allowance is the utility allowance that is used for the project however the public housing agency utility allowance is based on federal guidelines and does not well account for energy efficiency requirements that are specific to California new building this can result in an overestimate of the utility allowance which can negatively affect the cash flow projections and financial stability of affordable housing projects next slide please so this issue and the discrepancy between the utility allowances used in projects has been recognized by the IRS and the IRS issued a ruling that will allow properties that are using tax credits to help fund the affordable housing development that the IRS ruled that the project may use utility allowance estimates that are based on a state housing finance agency's determination of the estimated utilities so in turn California created the California utility allowance calculator which is widely used by tax credit properties in California and this utility allowance is a better estimate particularly based on energy efficiency requirements of what the actual out-of-pocket utility costs will be for tenants residing in that project and what this proposal will do is support affordable housing projects feature ones that are currently in the pipeline ones that are already in operation and in the future project-based voucher properties this change will allow or give the property rather the option to request that the housing authority request of HUD the ability to use the CUAC in their cost estimates so this change the steps of the change first the housing authority board of commissioners would approve the proposed change in the policy which will allow us as the housing authority staff to then go to HUD if we do receive a request from a project to use this alternate allowance next slide please so with that the recommendation by the housing community services department is that the housing authority by resolution adopt the revisions to the housing voucher program administrative plan in chapter 17 for project which covers project-based vouchers to allow eligible units where the owner is participating in the low-income housing tax credit program and utilizing a utility allowance that has been created by the California utility allowance calculator to use the California utility allowance calculator in the PVV assisted units if so approved by the department of housing and urban development and I am finished with my presentation and happy to take any questions I share on yeah thank you Rebecca so just for example example basis normally I'll see an allowance rent and then there's a deduct for utility allowance and then there's what the tenant will actually pay and as said at the Fed level and this would allow the project to go based upon exchange numbers but a state utility allowance is greater or less than the federal um I didn't catch the entirety of your question because it was a little um there's some feedback I think but I think what you asked was is which is higher at the state or the federal so um in terms of actual dollar amounts the state tends to be lower because actual out-of-pocket utility costs to tenants in California especially in new construction are in fact lower than what the PHA utility allowance allows for so there the out-of-pocket costs when you use the PHA utility allowance is an over estimate and that's how it can negatively impact the project so the tenants are receiving utility allowance that's too large is that primarily due to the energy efficiency requirements in California versus the rest of the nation yes and so from an other standpoint the property owner they would be receiving more in rent with the lower utility losses that correct correct well look at all thoughts that the actual cost of increasing energy efficiency in the projects thank you thank you commissioner Downey hi Rebecca I was going to ask um how uh the tenants portion was adjusted between high season and low season as far as energy usage or are tenants just um paying an average between the high and low season it's the ladder that the utility allowance is an estimate that's used annually and and so that accounts for seasonal adjustments within the allowance do we have any further questions of Rebecca commissioner Rawhouser yes I was curious as to how the consumer is relating with the with the voucher as far as when they get their bill um does I would assume that this would make more sense in an apartment situation I'm in a mobile home on a section eight and I just got a notice from the care program that I have to reapply so this gave me a huge question mark going what and so um so my question is the relationship with the like who's getting paid this like section eight housing um the the project voucher program is this like how does that like as I'm just a consumer trying to sure stand sure absolutely it's a good question um so this policy change is just specific to project based vouchers um and in addition to that project based vouchers where the project also has tax credits as part of the funding source and so the IRS is allowing the um the project to use california specific utility allowance which we're now proposing that we are also going to approve the project to do the way that that translates as a resident of the property is um that you it really doesn't um your if you're required to pay out of pocket your PG&E bill for example your actual bills that you receive from PG&E should be right on target with the allowance that is being provided to you um through the utility allowance so what that means is um let's say to make the numbers easy if a tenant's portion of rent in the in the property is five hundred dollars um per month but there is a utility allowance or I'm sorry the tenant 30% of the tenant's income is uh five hundred dollars a month but there's a utility allowance of fifty dollars um the tenant's going to pay four hundred and fifty dollars towards the rent directly to the property to the project and that other fifty dollars it's been accounted for by the utility allowance so that will be the same for every tenant whether residing in a project based voucher unit or in a regular um unit out in the marketplace under the housing choice voucher program okay thank you very much any other questions I think Commissioner Burke does Commissioner Burke yes thank you so Rebecca I guess I understand I was I was good I wanted to understand better the financial impact on the residents and the developments and I'm kind of hearing that it's going to be neutral as a result of this is that correct okay that's that's that's important thing to understand and then how did this how does come how did this get initiated was it something that staff picked up or did it come from a request from developers or how did it come about um kind of both uh we have in California this is um this is a not uncommon um and so uh it was a conflict that we were hearing about just through the industry you know conferences and things like that um as on the staff side and then in speaking with other housing authorities about how they um had gone about resolving it we did consult with a few other housing authorities um in California both in northern southern California on on their resolution and that's how we came up with our proposed plan and at the same time we have been approached by developers both who intend to apply you know for future projects or have ideas and pipeline as well as existing projects that have made the request that's very helpful thank you so as I understood you just say it's a case by case kind of process so development a would submit a request to have this change uh it would come it would come to um you or you know to to the department and then it would have to be analyzed and submitted to HUD right is that correct and then HUD would have to approve it so all that individual case by case process um is that a huge amount of work oh well hopefully not we'll see yeah we haven't done it yet yeah well okay as we'll learn and then um and then even though there isn't maybe an impact on the on the tenants is there a process for notifying the tenants and the developments about is it going to look different at all from their standpoint no no no it won't yeah no impact uh you've answered my questions I thank you okay thank you so you know more questions thank you Rebekah welcome we're now taking public comments on item 12.2 if you wish to make a comment via zoom please raise your hand if you're dialing in via telephone please dial star nine to raise your hand you will have three minutes chair tess there are no hands raised at this time thank you I'd like to see if there is going to be in a motion to approve item 12.2 any commissioner resolution the housing authority of the city san rosa approving the revisions of the house and choice vote should pass your program and restricted planning project based on your program policies in a way to reading the text thank you vice chair elin was there a second to that motion all second thank you commissioner Burke a road call commissioner ralhazer hi commissioner mcmorter commissioner downy hi commissioner berg hi vice chair elin chair test hi the motion passes with six eyes and with commissioner lapena absent thank you before we move on to item 12.3 at this time commissioner Burke will recuse himself and leave the meeting thank you commissioner Burke thank you and I will leave right now thank you we'll move forward with item 12.3 report on fiscal year 22 23 notice of funding availability funding recommendations Megan Bassinger good afternoon chair test and members of the housing authority before you at the fiscal year 22 23 notice of funding opportunity recommendations next slide please so to give you a brief overview of the process we have undertaken this year in February at the February 28 housing authority meeting we conducted a study session where the commissioners provided input on including rehabilitation of existing housing units as part of the NOVA in previous years we have been focused solely on new construction so rehabilitation was added as an eligible category the ad hoc committee was appointed initially included commissioner Burke that because of the potential conflict he was swapped out with commissioner Owen and so the commissioners that's more identified were commissioners lapena Owen and rawhouser the NOVA was published on April 4th and was open through April 29th we had an ad hoc review committee which meeting which met last Monday June 13th unfortunately commissioner rawhouser was not able to join us but we did have commissioners lapena and Owen who reviewed the applications and we are recording today on g20th with our recommendations next slide please so the NOVA included approximately 10.6 million dollars this is a fiscal year 22-23 funding which you just approved in item 12.1 approximately 7.7 million of this is from local funds 1.1 million is from permanent local housing funds and this is a five-year award from the state of california that comes to the city of santa rosa so this is year two five we had 1.4 million in community development block rates and approximately 360 in pulmon home shuttle funding i just like to note that the cdbg and the home funding are federal funding available to us from hud they do require specific elements of the project to be met for instance projects that are awarded these funds would need to conduct a environmental assessment the cdbg funds can only be used for rehabilitation or site acquisition the home funds are a little bit more flexible and can be used for construction work next slide please so the application scoring that has been previously reviewed and supported by the housing authority includes many categories you'll see in front of you readiness affordability, bedroom size, special needs, project leverage, we also look at the competitiveness of the project if it is pursuing funding from the tax credit allocation committee or through hcd's myriad of branch programs we look at the developer experience and management practices and then also evaluate the onsite services nearby amenities and other factors and other factors can include if there's fire housing authority supports in the form of financial assistance of project-based vouchers or if there are other factors and we'll get to that as we go through the individual recommendations but i would like to remind the housing authority that in a past funding cycle we did make adjustments to bedroom size and special needs so these do a good job offsetting each other concern that we have heard is that smaller size units which are often targeted to senior households won't score as well as multi-family or large family units so we did adjust the points down for bedroom size and we make 12 points available for special needs which would include senior populations next slide please so we are very pleased with the response to the solicitation there were 10 applications requesting a little over 21.2 million dollars so we're definitely oversubscribed as you can see the projects were categorized in two areas rehab and then new construction so for rehab we had two existing projects vigil lights and parkway and then in the new construction we had eight projects mahogany blend stony point flats vermic avenue and then you'll know we have three projects which are subsequent phases of developments that are currently under construction so caritas home space two three five seven five mendicino avenue base three occasionally in senior apartment space two the her and veterans village and ponderosa village next slide please so i'd like to start with the recommended rehab projects staff is recommending that both of these projects be approved by the housing authority and you can see that includes vigil lights and parkway for a total of 2.95 of the approximately 10.6 we have available so next slide so vigil lights apartments is an existing senior complex it is located on rogersway and long drive you'll notice the kind of round star-shaped building in the lower right hand corner that is the flamingo hotel so it's immediately adjacent to the flamingo hotel and the safe way on four street which is immediately below the yellow shape this is located in northeast santa rosa next slide please so this is a rehab of existing units if approved by the housing authority we would add a regulatory agreement to the property for 55 years this project has not been subject to housing authority and regulatory restrictions before the affordability next is 48 units to household that 50 percent of AMI and one unrestricted managers unit staff is recommending that this be funded with federal funding because it is eligible for rehab under ctbg and home they would need to go through an environmental assessment process and it would be exempt from sequela because it would require building plans for that work next slide please the second project that is being recommended for rehab funding is parkwood apartments this is an existing multi-family rental complex on monocled boulevard in raking valley as you can see it is adjacent to the raking valley community park which is located to the right of the rectangular shape and then to the right of the park is maria frio high school next slide please so the rehab of the units include a fair amount of energy efficiency work the affordability for this project is 27 units 50 12 units at 60 12 units at 80 and one unrestricted managers unit this is a project that was previously supported by the housing authority it was acquired in 2019 with financial assistance in excess of about two little under three million dollars from the housing authority so we already have a regulatory agreement in place it was always the intention that rehab work would be conducted on the projects this project also applied last year through the no fund was not successful the work would if it was funded with federal funds would require a need for compliance there is a need for that was approved for acquisition of the site and then it would be exempt from sequel because it was required for some work to be part of the next next um actually i'll pause right there and ask if there are any commissioner questions on the rehab projects before we proceed to the development minister downy the question i have is uh i recently worked on uh we've been having the scoring system and i wanted to ask you to make it what your experience was using the scoring system to rank these applications i think the scoring worked fairly well as we navigated through primarily the new development projects because it was able to create some stratification in terms of the points and we can certainly get into that with the the new construction projects um i think an area where we can continue to refine the points would definitely be in how we apply to rehab because there are areas where we just gave them all the points because it wasn't entirely applicable thank you you're welcome all right so out the new development projects uh excuse me uh commissioner ralhouser has a question yes i was wondering if the sites were slated for uh remodeling or are they going to be like a tear down in a rebuild so these are i'd say the scheme of rehab very minor rehab stairs not tear down rebuilds in the vigil lights example they will need to relocate tenants temporarily while they do more extensive work but um it's refreshing the units of creating energy efficiency through new appliances um heat sources items like that it is not a tear down lovely thank you just an added comment for myself um the scoring of the point system is the same as we used in the last few months so there was no change on uh the methodology on this one from used a few months ago so back to you Megan all right thank you okay so um we are now looking at the recommended new development projects so as i noted in the beginning of the presentation we received eight new development projects so this is where definitely the scoring and ranking of these um will come through much more apparently we are recommending that three of these advance for funding um it's supported by the housing employee and you can see that they are listed here Mahonia Glen which is both unit on the corner of Highway 12 and Calistoga Road in Northeast Santa Rosa in the Marine Valley stony point bots which is on stony point road in southwest Santa Rosa and then bourgeois avenue in southwest Santa Rosa um so we will go through these similarly uh project by project so next slide please so Mahonia Glen is a project that has been previously supported by the housing employee uh a federal loan or site acquisition was provided and this is the old crooked site on the corner of Calistoga and Highway 12 it's a 99 unit uh complex next slide please sorry it's a 99 units um object that is being uh conducted by midpen the farm was our original borrower and it will be transitioning to a limited partnership for construction the housing authority previously lent 2.9 million for site acquisition midpen is requesting two million to assist them with financing gaps that they have experienced as a result of rate increases and a rise in construction costs the project is with this uh challenge of funding will be fully funded and is anticipated to start construction this summer it was awarded state accelerator funds which was a very competitive funding source that was pushed out by hcd in the winter and it was intended is intended to advance projects that have been stuck in the the fine the funding cycles so tax credits have been incredibly competitive and difficult to obtain and the state identified this particular funding source to help advance those projects that have received um assistance from hcd or from cdbg du dar in order to get those units under construction so of the 99 units 98 of them will be affordable 43 percent will be targeted to farm workers through hcd's joe serna farm worker housing program and as i mentioned the project is anticipated to start construction in summer specifically in august we are currently working with the developer to um navigate through the construction loan close so if this was supported by the housing authority we will be looking to um execute our loan documents very quickly in order to meet the construction start deadline fine please the affordability mix which was previously as a regulatory agreement recorded against the site um targets all the units all 98 of them to households under 60 percent of am i you can see there's 26 units to 30 percent 22 units to 50 and then 50 units to 60 percent of am i and then there's also a mix of one two and three bedroom units next slide please um so now to touch on the scoring for this particular project um as you can see it scored all those points of readiness because they are anticipating starting construction in august the affordability there is a significant number of units targeted to households at or below 50 percent of am i and then the remainder to households under 60 percent of am i there are 25 percent of the units that are three bedrooms are larger they have farm worker set aside through the joe serna program they were able to leverage a significant amount of resources from other funding sources if this particular application is approved by the housing authority the total contribution to 4.9 million from the housing authority into the project um it's it's highly competitive in that it received the state accelerator funding and that's in excess of 55 million dollars um mid-hand has significant development and management experience in the bay area and then as you may have seen on the aerial spine it is across the street from the safe way on calisthenics road and near transit services and so the other factors that were factored into this application include the fire housing authority award and the readiness to begin construction next slide please the next project that is being recommended for approval is a new project to the housing ability it's just stony point flats it is located on stony point road in southwest san rosa and it is the blue rectangle that you can see in the center of the spoon next slide please uh so the developer of this project is in tapered housing they are requested 1.2 million dollars and similar to um honia glenn this funding request is to address a um increase in construction interest rates as well as construction costs the project was awarded nine percent tax credits previously so they had been in a position where they were able to proceed and have encountered some financial obstacles um similarly they are starting construction in summer of 2022 next slide please so the project is entirely um affordable to households at a below 60 percent of AMI as you can see 10 units took 30 percent 20 units to 50 and then 19 units to 60 percent or less and there's one unrestricted manager student this project is already received um sequel review and is approved by the planning next slide please so as we look at the points for this particular project again it's scored all 10 out of 10 in readiness because it is approved and it is anticipated to start construction this summer they have 61 percent of their units to households at 50 percent for less of AMI uh a fair number of three bedroom units which gave them all points in that category um five percent of their units are suitable for house uh homeless individuals or families in leveraging um their costs are approximately five percent of their development costs over the low end this particular category and competitiveness they were awarded nine percent tax credits and if i'm remembering correctly they were awarded the tax credits through the disaster recovery uh tax credit competition that was conducted in 2020 and that gave projects time to navigate through the entitlement process um they received all 15 points in their development and management experience this is the same group that recently completed duck and flats which is on west third street here in santa rosa and also received housing authority assistance and then they have nine out of 10 points in the services and amenities for other factors they were awarded three points because they have a nine percent tax credit award which is a highly competitive process and it is a non-offending source that we would want to see the project lose because a red gap in financing next slide please the final new construction project that is being recommended for assistance today in bourbon avenue apartments as you can see is um the blue rectangle in the center of your screen this is looking on bourbon avenue in southwest santa rosa next slide please the developer is wsa bourbon housing partners and this is a partnership between waterstone development and bourbon housing we is um they are requesting they initially requested six million and as we've navigated through the funding process we asked them to reduce their amount to four point four million based on the projects that had scored higher than them and the funds that were were remaining it's a new construction project that was previously awarded cdbg dr funding and we are working with them on that process and they are actively pursuing accelerator funds and mhp to finalize their funding for their project and i also like to know um that there are there are several typos on this slide i apologize there are 64 units they're not all studios it's a multi-family housing development and it will be targeted to families and set aside for at-risk homelessness next slide please so as you can see the affordability next is all the affordable units at or below 60 of am i with one unrestricted managers unit there is um a sequel review that has been completed and as was noted in the full of comments this project is a component of a larger development um the bourbon equity site is a mix of single family duets and then multi-family and this is the multi-family piece of that development and that's how it was originally identified as it went through planning the nipa environmental assessment is currently underway and we are working with the developer and hcg to um conclude that review next slide please so for the points for this particular project are um readiness it's entitled it is not uh they don't have their building commits ready yet though affordability 38 percent of the units are two households at 30 percent or less they have a fair number of units of three bedroom 25 percent of the units are going to target two does at risk of homelessness and to families for leveraging their they got two out of 10 because they are still trying to secure the remaining developer costs for the project they're very competitive in civic and htg and will also be pursuing accelerator funds and the eligibility for that is because they have cdb gdr identified for the project and that was provided by the housing authority in january of 1221 um the developer is partnering with bourbon housing which has significant experience in development and management um in santa rosa they will be near and apart um and there's other amenities and services that will be nearby including for bank management um on site and then the other factors they received five out of five because the housing authority has previously supported them with the cdb gdr commitment as well as project-based vouchers next slide please so this concludes the recommendation um status recommending the housing authority approved five separate revolutions for each project so the first would be to kept housing for 2.2 million for vigilance apartments the second is to bourbon housing for parkwood apartments the third is to mahogany and glenn for two million dollars for construction related costs and the fourth is to stony point flats for 1.2 million in construction related costs and the fifth is to wc bourbon for 4.4 million for construction related costs and i'd be happy to answer any questions okay do we have any questions by commissioners i'm making could you go through what the what you did with the outsourcing with revealing uh review these packages and this morning yes um so as a result of limited staffing we have a staff member out on the and we have uh vacancies uh the department retain rsg consultants to assist us in the note of preparation and review so rsg reviewed the applications and assisted in the scoring and ranking of those they also made the presentation to the ad hoc committee on june 13 um when they did the same consultation with with myself and staff just just some feedback i was on the subcommittee to review these with with the rst myself and the commission were kind of very impressed with their ability to go through all of these little vast amount of information for each application and score them they asked them what they thought of our scoring system because they do a lot of housing jurisdictions throughout the state and they they were pretty pleased with their um the scoring system and thought it was a little bit out so um it was they were a good choice to go through all this the notebook process and to provide the recommendations thank you any other questions of staff seeing none we are now taking public comments on item 12.3 if you wish to make a comment via zoom please raise your hand if you are dialing in via telephone please dial star nine to raise your hand you will have three minutes chair test there are no hands raised at this time okay thank you oh i apologize we do have um someone who would like to provide comments it'll just be one moment while we pull up the comment screen thank you and mr carillo you should be able to speak if you would confirm your ability to see the screen and introduce yourself if you so choose yes confirmed uh if it ain't going to vice president of housing development with bourbon housing chair test commissioners and staff just want to take a moment to thank the authority and thank the staff for the tremendous amount of work and getting the NOFA prepared as well as in going through the various applications that came forth i'm here this afternoon just to simply support the items before you particular bourbon avenue apartments and the parkwood apartments which are both both bourbon housing projects and i just wanted to reiterate really the the the focus by housing staff authority to work with housing developers particularly affordable housing developers and acknowledge the complexities and the challenges that we all see and confront and it's not worthy to see that you continue to do great work and continue to do so in a way that's meaningful to those future residents that will live in these communities thank you for the time to provide comment this afternoon thank you a friend public comments i see no additional hands raised at this time thank you with excuse me with multiple res resolutions connected to this item we will address each of them in orders as they appear on the agenda i would like to ask first if there is a motion to approve the first resolution for item 12.3 which would be edulina ecumenical properties for vigil light do we have a motion to approve that resolution so the 2.2 million allocation to pet housing for wise properties thank you chair ohan we'll have a second i'd like to second thank you chair downy can we take a vote please yes commissioner rawhouser hi commissioner mcwarder commissioner downy hi vice chair ohan vice chair ohan thank you chair test hi the motion passes with five eyes commissioner Burke has recused commissioner lopana is absent thank you i would like to ask if there is a motion to approve the second resolution on item 12.3 this is for parkwood apartments uh bhdc is there a motion to approve resolution for a similar to 2000 allocation to the parkwood apartment project thank you chair ohan last chair ohan i'll second that motion can we have a road call vote please yes commissioner rawhouser hi commissioner mcwarder hi commissioner downy hi vice chair ohan vice chair ohan chair test hi the motion passes with five eyes commissioner Burke recused commissioner lopana absent thank you we will move on to item for motion on mahogany and glenn associates motion for a resolution approval i'd like to make a motion for a resolution for approval for the mahogany and glenn associates lp in the amount of two million dollars for construction uh related costs for mahogany glenn proposal at um uh two million and the way that the rest of the reading do we have a second to that motion second thank you commissioner roll call please commissioner rawhouser hi commissioner mcwarder hi commissioner downy hi vice chair ohan vice chair ohan i'm just going to acknowledge that i can see uh that vice chair ohan has said hi chair test he's got his hand up hi thank you the motion passes with five eyes commissioner Burke recused and commissioner lopana absent okay the next motion is for stony point flats is there a motion to approve the motion the resolution is for one point two million dollars the stony plant stony point flats project and what do we do to test thank you do we have a second commissioner rawhouser i'll second the motion for the stony point flats thank you roll call please commissioner rawhouser hi commissioner mcwarder hi commissioner downy hi vice chair ohan let the record reflect that vice chair ohan has voted i chair test hi the motion has passed with five eyes commissioner Burke recused and commissioner lopana absent thank you we're now moving on for a motion for the burbank housing partners of four million four hundred thousand dollars prove what do you think bob i'll make i'll make a motion here but i'm i'm sorry who i'm going to approve the resolution for four point four million dollar allocations to the burbank housing partners project on burbank avenue and laid the reason we're out of the tax thank you is there a second i'll second thank you commissioner downy thank you roll call please commissioner rawhouser hi commissioner mcwarder hi commissioner downy hi vice chair ohan let the record reflect that vice chair ohan has voted i chair test hi the motion has passed with five eyes commissioner Burke recused and commissioner lopana absent thank you this will conclude today's meeting the meeting is adjourned i want to thank staff and staff who have come to the rescue for those who are ill and to all the commissioners and and the review process thanks again and have a wonderful day


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