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[CALL TO ORDER ]
TO THE JANUARY 13TH MEETING OF THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION.UM, I CALL THIS MEETING TO ORDER.
REMEMBER THAT THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMISSION IS TO ADVISE THE CITY COUNCIL IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF PROGRAMS DESIGNED TO SERVE THE POOR AND THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE WITH AN EMPHASIS ON FEDERALLY FUNDED PROGRAMS. IN ADDITION, THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION SERVES TO, UM, OH, LET ME NOT READ THAT.
AND, UH, WE HAVE, UM, EIGHT COMMISSIONERS.
[PUBLIC COMMUNICATION: GENERAL ]
IS ALWAYS PUBLIC COMMUNICATION.UM, SO THE FIRST 10 SPEAKERS SIGNED UP PRIOR TO THE MEETING BEING CALLED TO ORDER.
WE'LL EACH BE ALLOWED, UH, THREE MINUTES TO ADDRESS THEIR CONCERNS.
REMEMBER, IT'S, UH, REGARDING ITEMS THAT ARE NOT POSTED ON THE AGENDA.
UH, MIGUEL, DO WE HAVE ANY SPEAKERS SIGNED UP? YES, SIR.
UM, WE HAVE MS. JOSEPH, UH, FOR PUBLIC COMMENT RIGHT NOW.
UNFORTUNATELY, NOT AT THIS MOMENT.
JOSEPH, I'LL JUST SHOW YOU THE SLIDES IN THE NEXT PRESENTATION.
UH, THE NEXT ITEM, UH, I JUST WANTED TO REMIND YOU THAT CAPITOL METRO ACTUALLY HAS A MEETING TOMORROW.
THEY HAVE THEIR FINANCE MEETING AS WELL AS THEIR OPERATIONS COMMITTEE MEETINGS, 10 O'CLOCK AND, UH, 10 AND 1230.
UH, IF YOU WANNA ATTEND THOSE MEETINGS, MY COMMENTS, AS THEY ALWAYS ARE IN THE CONTEXT OF TITLE VI OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964, WHICH PROHIBITS DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RACE, COLOR, AND NATIONAL ORIGIN.
I JUST WANTED TO ASK YOU TO RECALL THE SEPTEMBER 9TH, 2025 MEETING THAT YOU HAD WITH CAPITAL METRO AND TO ASK, ACTUALLY ASK YOU TO REPOST THAT ITEM.
AND SO I WOULD ASK YOU TO RECOGNIZE THAT WAS A VIOLATION OF THE TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT AND WOULD ASK YOU TO ACTUALLY REPOST IT AND HAVE THEM COME BACK.
I WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE THAT THAT TRANSIT PLAN 2035 THAT WAS DISCUSSED AT THAT MEETING WAS ACTUALLY APPROVED OCTOBER 20TH, 2025, BUT IT WAS NOVEMBER 5TH, 2025 WHEN DOTTIE WATKINS, THE CEO, ACTUALLY TOLD THE FINANCE COMMITTEE THAT THEY WOULD NOT BE MAKING ANY, ANY CHANGES IN THE FIRST FIVE YEARS BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO STAY IN THE BLACK AND THEY WERE ONLY GETTING ABOUT 3% IN THE SALES TAX REVENUE.
I DO WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE THAT THAT'S FRAUD.
FRAUD IS TRYING TO GET SOMETHING OF VALUE THROUGH WILLFUL MISREPRESENTATION AS THE GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 2017 DEFINITION.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S PROBLEMATIC ABOUT THAT IS BECAUSE THEY ACTUALLY CAME BEFORE YOU AS WELL AS THE BOARD, AND MADE YOU BELIEVE THAT THEY WOULD BE MAKING SOME CHANGES WITHIN AT LEAST FIVE YEARS.
SO YOU'D HAVE TO GO TO THE ARCHIVED FOOTAGE TO SEE FOR YOURSELF WHERE SHE ACTUALLY MADE THOSE COMMENTS.
AND SO THE OTHER REASON THAT I WOULD ASK YOU TO HAVE THEM COME BACK IS BECAUSE LAWRENCE DIETER IS ACTUALLY THE PERSON WHO BRIEFED YOU.
BUT IT WAS NOVEMBER 3RD, 2017 AND THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE WHEN MR. DIETER ACTUALLY ACKNOWLEDGED THE 60 MINUTE BLACK ROUTES.
AND HE ACTUALLY MENTIONED THAT EVERY SYSTEM HAS SOME SACRIFICE THAT WILL BE MADE.
UM, AND I'M PARAPHRASING, BUT IT'S ACTUALLY THE ONE TIME THAT THERE IS AN ARTICLE, IT'S BY JACK CRAVER THAT ACTUALLY TALKS ABOUT THE FOCUS ON COMMUTERS AND GETTING THEM WHERE THEY NEED TO GO FASTER.
UH, I WILL SAY, UH, ONE POSITIVE THING.
I DID ACTUALLY WRITE TO THE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DIVISION.
I ACTUALLY ASKED THE STATE TO SUSPEND CAPITAL METRO'S SALES TAX.
AND, AND GIVEN THAT INFORMATION TO THE PROJECT CONNECT COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON THURSDAY, BY SATURDAY, THERE WAS ACTUALLY A BUS STOP SHELTER, UH, CONSTRUCTED OVER AT GUS GARCIA WHERE PEOPLE WERE ACTUALLY SITTING THERE ON THE GROUND, UH, WITH THE BASKET.
SO I ALWAYS SAY, FOLLOW THE FUNDS, YOU'LL FIND THE FOCUS.
AND SO THEY ARE TRYING TO GET THE $4 BILLION FOR THE LIGHT RAIL.
AND I JUST WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE THAT CALIFORNIA ACTUALLY GOT THEIR FUNDING CUT FOR THEIR HIGH SPEED RAILS.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'M GLADLY ANSWER THEM BACK.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, MS. JOSEPH.
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MIGUEL, DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER SPEAKERS? NOT AT THIS TIME.[APPROVAL OF MINUTES ]
NEXT ITEM, ITEM NUMBER ONE, WHICH IS APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF THE CDC D'S REGULAR MEETING FROM DECEMBER 9TH, 2025.AND THOSE MINUTES ARE IN YOUR PACKET.
UH, SO PLEASE, UH, REVIEW THOSE, UH, TAKE SOME TIME TO REVIEW THOSE, AND THEN I'LL BE LOOKING FOR A MOTION TO APPROVE THOSE.
UM, I JUST HAD A QUESTION, UM, AND I'M SURE IT'S GONNA REFLECT WELL ON ME, BUT ANYWAY, I'LL ASK IT.
UM, UH, NOTICING, UM, ON PUBLIC COMMUNICATION, THERE'S NOTHING, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE WAS NO CITIZENS COMMUNICATION OR PUBLIC COMMUNICATION OR COMMENT AT THAT MEETING, BUT BECAUSE WE HAD, UM, CITIZEN COMMUNICATION TODAY, JUST WANNA MAKE SURE, DOES THAT NORMALLY INCLUDE IT IN THE NOTE IN THE MINUTES? UM, YES.
COMMISSIONER, UM, IT'LL HAVE A BRIEF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION OR, UM, PUBLIC COMMUNICATION.
SOMETIMES IT WAS JUST FOR HOW MANY PEOPLE SPOKE, BUT THE NEW TEMPLATE HAS A LITTLE MORE SPECIFICATION, WHICH IS THIS, AND THAT'S WHAT IT'LL BE IN THE FUTURE.
SO IT'LL INCLUDE THE ASKS AND A LITTLE BIT MORE OF THE INFORMATION THAT WAS PRESENTED, A LITTLE BIT MORE OF, UH, THAT PRESENTED.
MOVE TO ACCEPT VICE CHAIR, UH, MOVES TO ACCEPT THE MINUTES FROM DECEMBER 9TH, 2025.
UH, DO I HAVE A SECOND? COMMISSIONER MENARDS SECONDS.
UH, IF YOU'RE ONLINE, PLEASE TURN ON YOUR CAMERAS AND SHOW US YOUR HAND OR SAY AYE.
I'M HAVING TROUBLE WITH MY CAMERA MISSING.
UH, UNANIMOUS APPROVAL OF THOSE MINUTES FROM DECEMBER 9TH, 2025.
UH, SO WE GO ON TO OUR SECOND ITEM,
[2. Staff briefing regarding Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) activities and outcomes. Presentation by Angel Zambrano, Program Manager III, Austin Public Health.]
ITEM NUMBER TWO, UH, WHICH IS OUR MONTHLY STAFF BRIEFING REGARDING THE COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT, THE CSVG, UH, THE ACTIVITIES AND OUTCOMES, OUR PRESENTATION BY AN ANGEL ANO PROGRAM MANAGER FROM AUSTIN PUBLIC HEALTH.GOOD TO SEE Y'ALL BACK IN 2026.
THE COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT PRESENTATION.
AS YOU ALL KNOW, THE COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT FUNDS DELIVERY OF SERVICES, UH, TO LOW INCOME TEXANS HERE IN AUSTIN.
WE RECEIVE FUNDING TO PROVIDE, UH, THE DELIVERY OF BASIC NEEDS, CASE MANAGEMENT, PREVENTIVE HEALTH AND EMPLOYMENT SUPPORT SERVICES AT THE CITY'S SEVEN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS.
OUR MISSION, THE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES UNIT, IMPROVES THE LIVES AND HEALTH OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCING POVERTY BY PROVIDING PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES AND CONNECTING RESIDENTS OF AUSTIN AND TRAVIS COUNTY TO COMMUNITY RESOURCES.
WE DO THAT AGAIN THROUGH BASIC NEEDS.
A LOT OF, UH, FOOD DISTRIBUTIONS, ADDRESSING FOOD INSECURITY, PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK AND OTHERS.
WE HAVE A PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING PROGRAM WHERE WE PROVIDE FREE SCREENINGS AND HEALTH EDUCATION AND REFERRALS, UM, TO UNINSURED OR LOW INSURED UNDERINSURED POPULATIONS.
WE HAVE A REALLY, UH, GOOD CASE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM THAT HELPS PEOPLE
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GET BACK INTO THE WORLD OF WORK.AND, UH, THEY ALSO PROVIDE EMPLOYMENT SUPPORTS.
AS YOU SEE AT THE BOTTOM OF PAGE ONE, WE HAVE A UPDATE ON THE BUDGET.
THE 2025 CONTRACT IS ALMOST FULLY EXPENDED.
I THINK IT'LL BE EXPENDED BY THE MIDDLE OF JANUARY.
UH, WE HAD SOME GOOD NEWS, UM, RECENTLY THAT WE RECEIVED OUR FIRST ALLOTMENT OF 2026 CSPG FUNDING.
SO WE'RE KIND OF WAITING, UH, FOR THAT TO HAPPEN.
SO IT DID SO THAT IT'S REALLY GREAT NEWS.
UH, THAT'LL BE COMING TO US IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
TO GO TO PAGE NUMBER TWO, I'LL JUST FOCUS ON A COUPLE OF DATA POINTS HERE AND LET YOU READ THE REST ON YOUR OWN.
UH, OUR TRANSITION SIDE OF POVERTY GOAL, THAT'S SET BY THE STATE.
UH, WE REACHED IT THROUGH NOVEMBER, BUT I BELIEVE WE'RE GONNA GET CLOSE TO 50 TRANSITIONS, UH, WHEN I REPORT NEXT MONTH ON DECEMBER'S DATA.
SO THAT'S REALLY GOOD NEWS FOR THE SOCIAL WORKERS AND THE CLIENTS WHO CAME TO US WITH A NEED AND WE WERE ABLE TO HELP THEM, UH, REENTER THE WORLD OF WORK AND BE SUCCESSFUL AND MAINTAIN EMPLOYMENT.
IF YOU GO DOWN HERE TO THE OTHER, UH, OUTCOMES WE HAVE, UM, WE'VE ASSISTED 567 FOLKS WITH, UH, RENT ASSISTANCE IN 2025, UM, IMMUNIZATIONS AND FLU.
WE PROVIDED THE MOST VACCINES WE'VE EVER PROVIDED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES UNIT.
I THINK WE DID A TOTAL OF 517 AT 4 91 HERE, 'CAUSE THIS ONLY GOES THROUGH NOVEMBER.
ALRIGHT, IF YOU GO TO THE BOTTOM, A COUPLE OF UPDATES ON THE, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS.
I KNOW THAT, UH, YOU, YOU ALL KNOW THAT SOUTH AUSTIN HAS BEEN CLOSED EXTENS, UH, FOR RENO, EXTENSIVE RENOVATIONS FOR HVAC AND OTHER THINGS.
THEY GOT RAN INTO A COUPLE OF EXTRA COUPLE OF ISSUES THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED.
SO I THINK, UH, WE'RE PUSHING THAT BACK TO MAY OF THIS YEAR.
UM, WE CONTINUE TO ADDRESS THAT BY, UH, HAVING CLIENTS GO TO OTHER NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS.
AND SOUTH AUSTIN STILL DOES A COUPLE OF FOOD DISTRIBUTIONS IN THE PARKING LOT MONTHLY.
AND ROSEWOOD HAVE TO RE-CLOSE FOR A ABOUT A MONTH.
UH, THEY NEEDED TO DO SOME UPDATES ON THE HVAC AS WELL.
SO THEY'RE SET TO REOPEN IN FEBRUARY.
UM, I'LL GO TO NUMBER THREE HERE.
FROM JANUARY THROUGH DECEMBER, WE ASSISTED ALMOST 600 PEOPLE AND 262 HOUSEHOLDS WITH ALMOST $800,000 IN RENT ASSISTANCE.
AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, OUR RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM IS PRETTY SMALL.
UM, WE HAVE VERY LIMITED FUNDING, BUT WE ARE STILL ABLE TO HELP THESE MANY PEOPLE, UH, AVOID EVICTION.
AGAIN, A SHOUT OUT ON NUMBER FIVE FOR THE PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING PROGRAM.
UH, THEY'RE STARTING THE YEAR STRONG.
THEY'RE DOING A LOT OF HUBS, A LOT OF COMMUNITY EVENTS.
AND, UH, JUST GETTING THE WORD OUT THAT WE ARE THERE FOR, UH, BASIC SCREENINGS LIKE BLOOD PRESSURE, BLOOD SUGAR, CHOLESTEROL, AND REFERRALS TO, UH, MEDICAL HOMES.
AND THEN I'LL JUST UH, GO DOWN TO NUMBER SEVEN AS SUCCESS STORY.
I KNOW YOU GUYS LIKE TO SEE THOSE 'CAUSE IT SHOWS ACTUALLY THE WORK THAT WE DO BESIDES THE NUMBERS, IT'S REAL PEOPLE BEHIND THOSE NUMBERS.
UH, WE HAD A-K-X-C-N PRESS RELEASE ON UH, 1225.
I RECOMMEND YOU KIND OF GO CLICK ON THAT LINK AND LOOK AT IT.
AND I JUST WANNA SAY THAT AS THE THREATS TO DEFUND SOCIAL SERVICE PROGRAMS ACROSS THIS NATION CONTINUE, WE, THE NSU TURNS TOWARDS THOSE WHO FIND THEMSELVES IN CRISIS, MARGINALIZED AND SCAPEGOATED.
AND WE WILL DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO HELP THEM AND WE'LL GO INTO 2026 DOING THE SAME.
ANY QUESTIONS? THANK YOU SO MUCH HIL.
UM, DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FROM COMMISSIONERS? COMMISSIONERS IN PERSON, COMMISSIONERS ONLINE? QUICK QUESTION, COMMISSIONER.
I WANTED TO QUICKLY ASK, UM, TWO THINGS.
VOLUNTEERING, I KNOW YOU HAD MENTIONED THIS IN THE PAST ABOUT VOLUNTEERING, BUT I DID HAVE SOME INTEREST, UH, EXPLICITLY FROM A FAMILY THAT WANTED TO GIVE BACK AND IF THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES FOR FAMILIES TO GIVE BACK, UH, AT ANY OF THESE RECREATION CENTERS.
AND THEN, UH, ARE YOU ABLE TO TALK ABOUT OPEN HOUSES? 'CAUSE THERE'S BEEN SOME OPEN HOUSES AT THE REC CENTERS RECENTLY.
UNFORTUNATELY, TIME IS CONFLICTED.
I HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO TO VISIT, BUT IF YOU CAN ADDRESS THOSE TWO, THAT WOULD BE WONDERFUL.
UH, GREAT QUESTIONS AND I REALLY APPRECIATE UH, THE COMMISSIONER 'CAUSE SHE'S REALLY INVOLVED.
I MEAN YEAH, I CAN TELL 'CAUSE NOT ALL OF YOU HERE KNOW ABOUT THE OPEN HOUSES 'CAUSE I HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO REPORT ON THEM.
UM, I WILL PUT IT ON THE AGENDA FOR NEXT MONTH, BUT WE DID HAVE ONE AT BLACKLAND, UH, RECENTLY AND WE HAD I THINK 28 VENDORS, UH, AND OTHER AGENCIES THERE TO KIND OF SEE WHAT WE DO AND, YOU KNOW, BRAINSTORM COLLABORATION OPPORTUNITIES.
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DON'T QUOTE ME, BUT I THINK 11 OF THEM WERE INTERESTED IN REFERRALS FOR OUR, UH, SELF-SUFFICIENCY CASE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, WHICH IS REALLY GOOD.UM, AND WE'LL BE TRYING TO HAVE THEM AT EACH NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
THE NEXT ONE, I BELIEVE IS AT MONTOPOLIS.
AND WE'LL, I'LL BRING THAT TO YOU ALL 'CAUSE YOU'RE FREE TO ATTEND TO.
IF YOU HAVE TIME DURING YOUR BUSY WEEKS, WE'D LOVE TO HAVE YOU.
UH, AND THE VOLUNTEERING, UH, THIS FAMILY, DEPENDING ON WHERE THEY LIVE, THEY COULD CALL THE NEIGHBOR CENTER NEAREST THEM AND ASK ANY STAFF WHO ANSWERS THE PHONE AND THEY'LL BE ABLE TO WALK 'EM THROUGH ANY VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES AND HOW TO, UH, BE ONBOARDED FOR THAT.
UH, COMMISSIONER TISHA, DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER, OTHER QUESTIONS FROM COMMISSIONERS? COMMISSIONER MENARD, GO AHEAD.
JUST HOW WILL WE BEEN NOTIFIED ABOUT THESE OPEN HOUSES SINCE UM, IT WAS BROUGHT UP HERE? I CAN NOTIFY YOU ALL THROUGH THE, UH, VC EMAIL.
RIGHT NOW WE ONLY HAVE ONE MORE SCHEDULED, BUT WE'LL GET A CALENDAR GOING.
BUT I WILL SEND THE ONE FROM ONTOP US OUT TO EVERYBODY.
'CAUSE I KNOW ONTOP USS WILL BE OF INTEREST.
THEY DO AMAZING WORK THERE TOO.
AND COMMISSIONERS PLEASE, UH, SHARE THAT WITH YOUR COMMUNITY AS WELL.
UM, DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? UH, MIGUEL? NO.
WE HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THIS, UH, ITEM WHENEVER YOU'RE READY FOR THIS ITEM.
UM, CAN YOU ANNOUNCE THE SPEAKER PLEASE? UH, YES, IT'LL BE MS. BROWN.
JUST WANTED TO CALL TO YOUR ATTENTION ON THE FIRST SLIDE IN BACKUP, IT HAS, UH, 7 8 7 5 3 AND 7 8 7 5 8.
THAT'S THE GEORGIAN ACRES AREA.
NORTH LAMAR RUNDBERG, I WOULD JUST ASK ONE ON HELL BRIEFS YOU THAT HE ACTUALLY GIVES YOU THE HEAT MAP AS WELL SO THAT YOU CAN SEE IT.
THE REASON THAT TRANSIT IS RELEVANT IS BECAUSE THAT THE PEOPLE THAT ARE BEING SERVED BY THE RENTAL ASSISTANCE ARE THE ONES THAT HAVE THE WORST TRANSPORTATION.
I JUST WANT YOU TO SEE FOR YOURSELF, YOU'VE SEEN THIS SLIDE BEFORE WITH THE GRAY.
UM, THIS IS ACTUALLY NOT GOING TO IMPROVE.
SO THIS TRANSIT PLAN 2035 IS NOT GONNA CONNECT US TO ST.
I WOULD ASK YOU TO DO A RESOLUTION WHERE YOU ACTUALLY REQUEST THE RESTORATION OF THE ROUTES BEFORE CAP REMAP.
DAVID'S AND IT ALSO WENT TO THE HEB ON PALMER.
AND THIS IS A SLIDE THAT I TOLD YOU ABOUT WHERE DOTIE WATKINS ACTUALLY ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THERE WILL BE NO CHANGES IN THE FIVE YEARS TO COME.
NEXT SLIDE, ONCE AGAIN, SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL IS WHERE THE NETWORK IS THE CLOSEST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER TO THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE NORTH OF US.
AND HERE WE ARE ONCE AGAIN, HAVING TO WAIT FOR THE 2026 BOND.
THAT IS REALLY, AGAIN, IT'S DEFRAUDING THE TAXPAYERS BECAUSE THERE'S NO GUARANTEE THAT THE PROJECTS WILL ACTUALLY BE IN THERE.
I'VE TOLD YOU BEFORE, THE SENIORS HAVE ADVOCATED FOR A SENIOR CENTER FOR 30 YEARS.
THIS HAS BEEN IN THE PLAN SINCE 2017 FOR A NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER NORTH OF US, 180 3.
SO WE HAVE NO REASON TO BELIEVE THAT IT'S ACTUALLY GOING TO COME.
NOW, ONCE AGAIN, THE SYSTEM WAS CREATED IN 2016 ON THE LEFT, THE GRAY WAS 2017.
I JUST WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE THAT EVEN THOUGH THE GROWTH IS IN THE NORTH CORRIDOR, IT'S NOT GONNA STOP.
58% OF THE JOBS WILL BE IN THE NORTH CORRIDOR BY 2035.
BUT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE MOST DESTITUTE, LIKE THE BLACK MAN ON THE BENCH THERE ARE NOT RECEIVING THE SERVICES THAT THEY NEED.
UNHOUSED AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE OVER SIX TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE UNHOUSED THAN ARE WHITE COUNTERPARTS.
AND I JUST WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE THE REDUCTION IN SERVICE AND THE AMENITIES THAT CAPITAL METRO IS DOING.
SO THERE USED TO BE FOUR BENCHES HERE, TWO WITH BACKS AND TWO FLAT.
NOW THERE'S JUST ONE BLUE ONE.
THIS IS WHERE I TOLD YOU I ACTUALLY WROTE TO THE COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE.
AND I WILL CONTINUE TO PURSUE, UM, MY ADVOCACY AS IT RELATES TO HAVING THEIR FUNDS SUSPENDED.
AND IT IS BECAUSE THE SYSTEM IS INADEQUATE, IT'S INEQUITABLE, AND YOU CAN SEE IT IN THE INFRASTRUCTURE.
YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE NOW ON PARKER, WHERE THEY'RE PUTTING THE TERRACOTTA SIDEWALKS.
BUT I WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE THAT CHARMEL AND MUKERJEE ACTUALLY TOLD THE BOARD THAT 50% OF THE OPTIMIZED BUS STOP SHELTERS, UH, ENHANCE ON BERG.
SO WHEN THEY PUT THESE FALSEHOODS IN THE BOARD PACKET SO THAT IT LOOKS GOOD, THEY SAY ONE THING, DO ANOTHER DOCUMENT WHAT IS SAID TO FOOL THE FEDS TO GET THE FEDERAL FUNDING.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'LL GLADLY ANSWER THEM AT THIS TIME.
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WE, WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FROM COMMISSIONERS? THANK YOU SO MUCH.ALRIGHT, SO THAT LEADS IT TO OUR NEXT ITEM, UH, ITEM NUMBER THREE,
[3. Staff briefing regarding Austin Housing activities and programs. Presentation by Dr. Marla Torrado, Housing Division Manager, Austin Housing.]
WHICH IS, UH, STAFF BRIEFING REGARDING THE AUSTIN HOUSING ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMS. AND THIS PRESENTATION IS BY DR.MARLA TODO, HOUSING DIVISION MANAGER WITH AUSTIN HOUSING.
UM, AND THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME AND COME TODAY AND TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UM, SOME OF THE, UH, PROJECTS AND, AND PROGRAMS THAT MY TEAM IS WORKING ON.
AS Y'ALL KNOW, WE'RE STARTING TO DO THIS, UM, EVERY MONTH WHERE, UM, THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT COMES AND TALKS A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UH, SOME OF THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING.
AND SO TODAY, UM, YOU'LL HEAR ABOUT MY TEAM.
UM, AND SO WHAT I, WHAT I WANNA DO, THE GOAL OF, OF MY PRESENTATION TODAY IS TO PROVIDE WITH AN OVERVIEW OF SOME OF THE WORK THAT MY TEAM IS INVOLVED IN, UM, I'LL GO OVER EACH OF OF OUR AREAS WHERE WE HAVE PROJECTS AND RESEARCH, UM, AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE, IN THE CONTENT, IN THE AGENDA, UM, AND THE MAIN OBJECTIVE, UH, AND THE THING I WANT YOU ALL TO, TO THINK THROUGH AS I'M GOING THROUGH THIS INFORMATION, THAT AGAIN, IT'S GONNA BE AN OVERVIEW, IS TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY, UH, TO COME BACK WITH ANY SPECIFIC, UH, PROJECT OR TOPIC THAT YOU GUYS WANT TO HAVE A DEEPER DIVE.
UM, AND WE CAN SPEND A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME ON THAT.
BUT, BUT AGAIN, THIS, THIS IS THE IDEA IS TO HAVE LIKE A BASIC BASELINE OF INFORMATION ON SOME OF THE WORK THAT, UH, MY TEAM IS INVOLVED IN.
AND SO TO START OFF, UH, AS A VERY GENERAL OVERVIEW OF HOW THE, THE STRUCTURE OF OUR DEPARTMENT AND WHERE MY TEAM FALLS WITHIN IT, UM, WE HAVE AUSTIN HOUSING, UM, WHICH IS, UH, ROUGHLY DIVIDED INTO FOUR MAIN AREAS OR, OR DIVISIONS.
UM, AND AS YOU CAN SEE, DISPLACEMENT PREVENTION IS ONE OF THOSE DIVISIONS, WHICH IS WHERE MY TEAM IS A PART OF AND WHERE WE'RE GONNA FOCUS RIGHT NOW.
UM, SO WITHIN OUR DISPLACEMENT PREVENTION DIVISION, YOU ALSO HAVE THREE MAIN TEAMS THAT FALL UNDER OUR DIVISION.
UM, AND SO YOU HAVE, UH, OUR HOME REPAIR AND CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, UH, TEAM.
UM, YOU HAVE ANOTHER TEAM THAT FOCUSES ON RENTERS, UH, STABILIZATION AND ALSO SOME HOME OWNERSHIP, UM, SERVICES AS WELL.
UM, AND I, I BELIEVE THEY'VE COME BEFORE HERE, ACTUALLY.
ALL OF OUR TEAMS HAVE COME, UH, BEFORE, UM, TO TALK TO YOU ALL.
UM, AND SO MY TEAM IS THE ONE ON THE RIGHT, THE ONE THAT FOCUSES ON RESEARCH CAPACITY BUILDING, UM, AND PLANNING.
SO IT'S CALLED STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT TEAM.
AND SO THAT IS WHAT I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT TODAY.
UM, AND TO START OUT, UM, OUR, OUR WORK, UH, IS REALLY RESPONSIVE AND COMES OUT OF, UH, TWO MAIN, UM, IT COMES OUT FROM DIRECTION FROM THE CITY, FROM TWO MAIN, MAIN AREAS.
SO FIRST OF ALL, WE RESPOND TO THE DISPLACEMENT MITIGATION STRATEGY, WHICH I'M SURE ALL OF YOU MIGHT BE FAMILIAR WITH, WITH, AND, UM, I'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND ALSO A LINK, UM, IF YOU WANT TO HAVE THAT WITH YOU.
BUT THAT IS THE WASTE MITIGATION STRATEGY IS AN IMPORTANT DOCUMENT THAT COMES OUT OF THE AUSTIN STRATEGIC HOUSING BLUEPRINT, WHICH IS KIND OF THE CITY'S, UH, BLUEPRINT AND, AND KIND OF THE, THE PLAN FOR OUR, OUR HOUSING STRATEGY.
UM, AND WITHIN IT, WHICH WAS ADOPTED BACK IN 2017, UH, WITHIN IT, THERE'S A DISPLACEMENT MITIGATION STRATEGY, UM, WHICH HAS SEVERAL DIFFERENT ACTIONS THAT, UH, THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT, UM, KIND OF, UH, RESPONSE TO TO, UM, AND SO SPECIFICALLY TO THAT.
AND IT'S DISTRIBUTED THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE DEPARTMENT.
UM, BUT OUT OF ALL THOSE, UM, 15 PRIORITIES OR ACTIONS, THERE ARE TWO SPECIFIC ACTIONS THAT YOU HAVE HERE ON THE SCREEN THAT, UH, MY TEAM REALLY, THE WORK THAT WE DO KIND OF RESPONDS TO THAT.
AND SO I WANTED TO BRING IT OUT IN A KIND OF A BIGGER CONTEXT, UM, TO THIS DOCUMENT.
AND ALSO THE OTHER, THE OTHER DIRECTION THAT, UH, OUR WORK KIND OF RESPONDS TO IS TO PROVIDE RESEARCH AND RELEVANT DATA, UH, AROUND DISPLACEMENT PRESSURES AND
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NEIGHBORHOOD CHANGE.SO THAT, UH, WHEN WE PROVIDE THIS INFORMATION TO OUR, UH, DEPARTMENT, OUR EXECUTIVES, AND ALSO OTHER DEPARTMENTS, UH, WE CAN MAKE THE BEST DECISIONS AROUND HOW TO SUPPORT, BETTER SUPPORT OUR VULNERABLE, UH, COMMUNITIES AND HOUSEHOLDS.
UM, SO, UH, SO BASED ON THESE TWO KIND OF, UH, DIRECTIVES AND KIND OF HOW THE WORK, UH, KIND OF FALLS WITHIN, UM, THERE'S THREE AREAS AND I WILL KIND OF BRIEFLY TALK ABOUT THEM.
AND IN THE NEXT FEW SLIDES, I'M GOING TO KIND OF TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE WORK THAT FALLS UNDER EACH OF THESE THREE AREAS AND THEN PROVIDE A LITTLE EXAMPLE OF EACH ONE, BUT KNOW THAT THERE IS MORE PROJECTS, LIKE I SAID, WITHIN EACH OF THOSE AREAS THAT WE CAN KIND OF COME BACK AND, AND DO A DEEPER DIVE.
UM, SO OUR FIRST AREA IS POLICY AND RESEARCH WHERE, YOU KNOW, IT'S PRETTY SELF-EXPLANATORY.
UH, WE DO A LOT OF ANALYSIS HERE TO UNDERSTAND CHANGE AND DISPLACEMENT RISK AND WHAT ARE THE, UM, EFFORTS, UH, THE MOST APPROPRIATE EFFORTS THAT WE SHOULD, UM, TRY TO PURSUE, AND WHAT ARE THE SPECIFIC AREAS THAT WE SHOULD BE FOCUSING ON.
UM, WE ALSO HAVE, UH, AREAS AROUND CAPACITY BUILDING.
SO DEVELOPING INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL OPPORTUNITIES TO BE ABLE TO, UH, WORK WITH DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES, STAKEHOLDERS, UM, TO BE ABLE TO STRENGTHEN JUST, UH, THE, THE KNOWLEDGE OR CAPACITY OF, OF OUR COMMUNITY TO BE ABLE TO STAY IN PLACE.
UM, AND LASTLY, WE HAVE, UH, A KIND OF A PLANNING, UM, MORE SPECIFIC, UH, BODY OF WORK WHERE IT'S MORE SPECIFICALLY DIRECTED AROUND, UH, DISPLACEMENT PREVENTION OR, OR ANTI DISPLACEMENT PLANNING, UH, IN THAT SENSE.
SO CREATING, UM, MITIGATION, DISPLACEMENT MITIGATION PLANS OR COMMUNITY VISIONINGS, KIND OF THAT TYPE OF OF WORK.
UM, SO LIKE I SAID, I'M GOING TO BRIEFLY TALK ABOUT EACH OF THESE AREAS AND KIND OF HIGHLIGHT ONE OF THESE PROJECTS.
UM, SO WITHIN THE FIRST AREA, THE POLICY AND RESEARCH, UH, AS YOU CAN SEE, THERE'S, THERE'S A FEW DIFFERENT PROJECTS THAT FALL HERE, UH, UNDER THIS TOPIC.
UM, YOU MIGHT REMEMBER A FEW MONTHS AGO, UH, I CAME, UH, AND PRESENTED, UH, WITH, UH, ONE OF MY TEAMMATES ON THE DISPLACEMENT RISK ANALYSIS, UH, MAPS, UM, WHICH IS A, AN ANALYSIS THAT WE CONDUCT, UH, AN UPDATE, I I SHOULD SAY EVERY, EVERY COUPLE OF YEARS, UM, THAT COMES OUT OF THE RESEARCH THAT WAS CONDUCTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS CALLED UPROOTED.
UM, AND AGAIN, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE ARE GONNA BE UPDATING WITH NEW DATA THIS YEAR.
UM, AND SO WE CAN ABSOLUTELY COME BACK TO TALK MORE ABOUT THAT SPECIFIC METHODOLOGY.
UM, ANOTHER WORK THAT WE DO UNDER THIS, UH, AREA IS, AND IT'S A NEW PROJECT, IT STARTED A FEW MONTHS AGO, IT'S CALLED THE EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS RESEARCH.
AND THAT WORK IS ALSO BEING, UM, UH, CONDUCTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, UH, THE COMMUNITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING, UH, PROGRAM, UH, AND PROFESSORS.
AND IT'S VERY COMPLIMENTARY TO THE DISPLACEMENT RISK ANALYSIS, UH, WORK IN THAT.
UM, WHEREAS THE DISPLACEMENT RISK ANALYSIS PROJECT, IT'S A LITTLE BIT MORE, UM, KIND OF A LOOK BACK OF THE CHANGE OF OUR COMMUNITIES.
WHAT WE ARE TRY INTENDING FOR THIS EARLY WARNING SYSTEM PROJECT TO BE IS A LITTLE BIT MORE PROACTIVE.
SO IT'S A WORK THAT WE'RE GONNA BE HOPEFULLY USING DATA THAT WE CAN UPDATE ANNUALLY SO THAT WE CAN BE AHEAD OF THE CURVE RATHER THAN DOING A LITTLE BIT OF A LOOK BACK.
AND, BUT BOTH OF THEM WILL REALLY BE COMPLIMENTARY TO EACH OTHER 'CAUSE THEY WILL HAVE DIFFERENT INFORMATION.
UM, SO AGAIN, IT'S LIKE AN ONGOING RESEARCH AND WE CAN ABSOLUTELY COME BACK WITH MORE DETAILS, UH, ABOUT THAT.
UM, WE ALSO HAVE A, A WORK, UH, ON A STORY MAP AROUND SPECIFICALLY, UH, COMMUNITY CHANGE AND DISPLACEMENT AND, UH, SOME OF THE CITY SUPPORT.
AND I, I WON'T TALK TOO MUCH ABOUT IT NOW 'CAUSE THAT'S KIND OF THE EXAMPLE THAT I'LL GO IN THE NEXT SLIDE.
UM, BUT, UH, THE NEXT WORK, UM, THAT WE DO UNDER THIS AREA IS TO PROVIDE A LOT OF INTERNAL, UM, AND, UH, SUPPORT FOR OUR DEPARTMENT IN TERMS OF DATA AND ANALYSIS SPECIFICALLY TO DISPLACEMENT PREVENTION.
UM, SO FOR EXAMPLE, WE WORK VERY CLOSELY, UH, WITH OTH OUR OTHER TEAMS WITHIN DISPLACEMENT PREVENTION, UM, TO PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT HOMEOWNERS OR RENTERS THAT CAN BE IN
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INFLUE THAT CAN BE IMPORTANT FOR, FOR WHEN THEY CREATE NEW PROGRAMS. UM, BUT WE ALSO WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH OUR REAL ESTATE TEAM WHENEVER THEY'RE THINKING ABOUT AN ACQUISITION OF A NEW LAND OR ACQUISITION OF A PROPERTY TO REALLY UNDERSTAND THE COMMUNITY AROUND IT IN TERMS OF ANY DISPLACEMENT PRESSURES.UM, AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE A LOT OF WORK AROUND PROJECT CONNECT WITH THE ANTI DISPLACEMENT FUNDS, UM, AND JUST PROVIDING A LOT OF RESEARCH SUPPORT ON THAT.
AND SO, UH, VERY QUICKLY I WANTED TO KIND OF, UH, PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT MORE EXPLANATION ON THE STORY MAP.
UM, AND SO THIS IS AN, A NEW PROJECT, BUT WE HOPE TO BE ABLE TO, WE ARE ACTUALLY WANTING TO COME, UM, AT SOME POINT TO KIND OF DO A LITTLE BIT OF A, OF A PREVIEW OF A DRAFT OF THIS.
UM, AND IT'S REALLY TO, THE PURPOSE IS TO BE ABLE TO USE MAPS, UH, TO END QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE DATA TO SHOW THE CHANGE IN AUSTIN.
UM, BUT NOT ONLY WITH DATA THAT WE ARE USUALLY KIND OF USED TO SEE, BUT MAYBE OTHER DATA THAT CAN TELL US ALSO THE STORY.
AND I'LL SHOW ANOTHER MAP AFTERWARDS TO, TO EXPLAIN WHAT I'M SAYING, UH, UH, BETTER.
UM, BUT THE IDEA IS TO SHOW HOW AUSTIN HAS CHANGED THROUGH TIME, BUT ALSO SHOW WHAT ARE SOME OF THE PROGRAMS AND SOME OF THE INITIATIVES THAT THE CITY IS IMPLEMENTING AND HAS IMPLEMENTED AND WHAT THE IMPACT OF THOSE HAVE BEEN.
UM, SO WE'RE ALSO INTERESTED IN THIS MAP, IN THIS, UH, STORY MAP, UM, TO NOT ONLY HAVE, YOU KNOW, KIND OF THIS QUANTITATIVE DATA, BUT ALSO INCLUDE SOME OF THE STORIES THAT WE COLLECT THROUGH SOME OF OUR OTHER PROGRAMMING.
UM, SO, UH, LIKE IT'S MENTIONED HERE, WE HOPE TO MAKE, UH, THIS PUBLIC IN LATE SPRING, AND WE'LL DEFINITELY LOVE TO COME BACK, UH, WITH THAT.
UM, AND SO THIS IS A VERY BRIEF EXAMPLE, AND I GUESS YOU, YOU HAVE THIS IN YOUR BACKUP, UM, OF SOME OF THE, AN EXAMPLE OF LIKE THE DATA AND MAPS THAT THIS STORY MAP WILL SHOW.
UM, WE'RE USED TO SEEING MAPS WITH, UM, UH, KIND OF, UH, RA RACE AND ETHNICITY CHANGES IN AUSTIN.
UM, BUT ALSO UNDERSTANDING HOW LIKE EMPLOYMENT HAS CHANGED, FOR EXAMPLE, CAN TELL US A LOT ABOUT HOW THIS CITY HAS CHANGED.
AND SO, AGAIN, THIS IS AN EXAMPLE ON THE, ON THE, UH, LEFT MAP IS, UH, FROM 2000, UM, SHOWING PREDOMINANT INDUSTRY OF EMPLOYMENT BY CENSUS TRACKS.
UM, AND YOU CAN SEE HOW, UH, YOU KNOW, THERE WERE, UH, WAY MORE MANUFACTURING IN THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE CITY.
THERE WAS A LOT OF CONSTRUCTION, THERE WAS A LOT OF, UH, EVEN EDUCATION THROUGHOUT.
I MEAN, THERE'S JUST A LOT OF, UM, DIFFERENT COLORS, UH, IN THE 2000 MAP.
AND THEN WHEN YOU SEE THE 2023, YOU CAN SEE HOW MOST OF THE, OF THE MAP KIND OF TURNS INTO PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, WHICH RIGHT TELLS YOU A, A STORY OF HOW OF CHANGE.
SO AGAIN, THIS IS JUST ONE EXAMPLE OF HOW THIS WE'RE THINKING THROUGH ABOUT THIS, THIS PROJECT AND THIS STORY MAP.
SO MOVING ON TO THE NEXT, UH, UM, AREA OF CAPACITY BUILDING.
WE HAVE A FEW PROJECTS THAT, UM, SOME OF THEM HAD BEEN COMPLETED IN FISCAL YEAR 25, UM, AND SOME ARE JUST BEGINNING.
UM, SO FOR, UH, SOME OF THE PROJECTS THAT CLOSED WAS PROVIDING, UH, CAPACITY BUILDING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE SUPPORT TO SOME OF OUR COMMUNITY INITIATED SOLUTIONS AWARDED ORGANIZATIONS, UM, WHICH WAS A, A REALLY, UH, GREAT SUPPORT FOR THOSE ORGANIZATIONS.
UM, AND 12 OF THE ORGANIZATIONS WERE ABLE TO RECEIVE THAT, UH, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.
UM, WE ALSO WERE ABLE TO, TO HAVE WORK VERY CLOSELY AND COLLABORATIVELY WITH THE EQUITY OFFICE IN THE EQUITY MINI GRANTS THAT THEY PROVIDE.
UH, THIS PAST FISCAL YEAR, WE WERE ABLE TO HAVE A SPECIFIC, UH, FUNDS THAT WERE SPECIFIC FOR DISPLACEMENT PREVENTION WORK.
UM, AND SO WE HAD SEVERAL ORGANIZATIONS THAT WERE AWARDED THOSE MINI GRANTS.
UM, AND LASTLY WE HAVE THE DISPLACEMENT PREVENTION NAVIGATOR PROGRAM, WHICH, UH, WE HAD OUR PILOT THAT WAS CONDUCTED FISCAL YEAR, UH, 23 AND 24.
AND THEN WE ARE EXPECT, WE ARE DOING AN EXPANSION OF THAT PROGRAM IN THIS FISCAL YEAR.
AND THIS IS WHAT I WANNA TALK, UH, VERY BRIEFLY ABOUT.
UM, SO LIKE I SAID, THE PILOT WAS FISCAL YEAR 23, AND THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROGRAM IS TO CONNECT, UH, VULNERABLE HOUSEHOLDS WITH RESOURCES.
WE'VE HEARD MANY, MANY TIMES FROM COMMUNITIES THAT, UH, THEY'RE NOT AWARE OF MANY OF THE PROGRAMS THAT THE CITY HAS TO OFFER.
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UM, AND SO THIS, UH, PROGRAM IS DEALS IS LIKE SPECIFICALLY WITH THIS ISSUE IN TRYING TO HAVE, UH, THOSE FOLKS THAT ARE IN MOST NEED HOUSEHOLDS, RENTERS OR HOMEOWNERS, BE CONNECTED TO RESOURCES.UM, SO WE HAD, UH, TRAINED NAVIGATORS THAT WERE PEOPLE FROM THE COMMUNITY, UM, WHO WERE KIND OF THOSE CONNECTORS AND THOSE BRIDGES BECAUSE AGAIN, WE'RE ALSO AWARE THAT AS A CITY, UH, WE DON'T HAVE NECESSARILY THE BEST RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE COMMUNITY OR TRUST.
AND SO, UH, BEING ABLE TO HAVE FOLKS THAT ARE NAVIGATORS, PAID COMMUNITY MEMBERS, UM, UH, THROUGH THIS PROGRAM TO BE KIND OF THAT BRIDGE, IT WAS GONNA BE JUST, UH, UH, BETTER, UM, FOR THE PROGRAM.
AND SO, UH, THAT PROGRAM WAS REALLY GREAT.
WE HAD, UH, UH, THREE MONTHS OF, OF, UH, TRAINING FOR THE NAVIGATORS.
UM, AND THEN THEY WENT OUT TO THE COMMUNITY TO WORK, UH, IN THEIR COMMUNITIES.
AND SO WE INITIALLY, IN THE PILOT WERE WORKING IN TWO NEIGHBORHOODS, COLONY PARK AND DOVE SPRINGS.
UM, AND UP THERE IN, IN THE GRAPH YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE IMPACT OF THE WORK.
SO HOW MANY HOUSEHOLDS WERE AT LEAST, WE WERE ABLE TO TALK TO, UH, THE, THE HOURS THE NAVIGATORS SPENT.
I'LL SAY THAT WE DEFINITELY LEARNED A LOT IN THAT PILOT.
WE ALSO HAD A, AN EVALUATION THAT WAS CONDUCTED BY HOUSTON TILLSON.
SO THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE REALLY WANTED TO DO AT THE BEGINNING OF THAT PROGRAM TO HAVE AN EXTERNAL EVALUATION.
UM, AND SO WE WERE ABLE TO HAVE THAT, AND I'LL BE HAPPY ALSO TO SHARE THE LINK OF THAT.
'CAUSE THAT'S A PUBLIC DOCUMENT, SO I'LL MAKE SURE TO SHARE THAT.
UM, BUT I WANTED TO VERY, UH, QUICKLY SHARE ALSO SOME, THE, ALL THESE QUOTES ARE FROM THE NAVIGATORS THAT PARTICIPATED, UH, DURING THE PILOT.
UM, AND IT WAS A REALLY, UH, LIKE I SAID, REALLY GREAT EXPERIENCE AND EVERYONE LEARNED.
UM, AND WE WERE ABLE TO USE A LOT OF THIS FEEDBACK THAT WE GOT FROM THE NAVIGATORS TO REALLY SET UP THIS SECOND OR 2.0, UM, OR NOT PILOT ANYMORE PROGRAM, UM, WHICH, UH, IT'S GONNA BE LAUNCHING THIS, UH, THIS FISCAL YEAR.
UM, SO WE RECENTLY WENT THROUGH THIS SOLICITATION, UM, AND SOME OF THE ADJUSTMENTS AND CHANGES THAT WE MADE BASED ON THOSE ON, ON THOSE, UH, UH, FEEDBACK THAT WE GOT FROM THE COMMUNITY AND THE NAVIGATORS THEMSELVES WAS TO SEPARATE THE COMPONENT OF CASE MANAGEMENT.
SO REALLY MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE CONNECTING FOLKS WITH RESOURCES, BUT ALSO CLOSING THE LOOP ON MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE WERE ACTUALLY, UH, YOU KNOW, WERE ABLE TO FIND THE RESOURCES THAT THEY NEEDED.
SO SEPARATE THAT WITH THE, UM, NAVIGATOR, IT'S THEMSELVES OF GOING OUT AND DOING MORE OF THE OUTREACH.
SO BEFORE THOSE WERE TOGETHER, AND IT WAS A LOT, IT WAS VERY INTENSE, WE REALIZED LIKE, HMM, IT'S BETTER TO HAVE THESE SEPARATE.
UM, ANOTHER THING THAT WE CHANGED FOR THIS ITERATION IS THAT IT EXPANDED.
SO WE ARE GONNA CONTINUE IN THE TUNA INITIAL NEIGHBORHOODS.
SO MON UH, SORRY, DOVE SPRINGS COLONY PARK.
AND WE'RE EXPANDING TO MONTOPOLIS, UH, THIS TIME.
AND ALSO REALIZE THERE'S A, A TYPO IN MY SLIDE.
WE'RE ALSO ADDING THE ONE MILE BUFFER OF THE PROJECT CONNECT, UM, A KIND OF ANTI DISPLACEMENT GEOGRAPHY TO IT.
SO, UH, SO THAT'S GONNA BE ADDED AS WELL.
SO IT'S GONNA BE TECHNICALLY, I GUESS, FOUR FOCUS AREAS.
AND SO, LASTLY, UH, OUR LAST, UH, KIND OF BODY AREA OF, OF WORK IN ANTI DISPLACEMENT PLANNING.
UM, WE HAVE ONE PROJECT THAT IT IS, UH, JUST RECENTLY STARTED.
IT ACTUALLY KICKED OFF IN DECEMBER.
UM, AND IT IS THE COLONY PARK DISPLACEMENT MITIGATION PLAN.
UM, AND SO, UH, AS WE ARE AWARE, THIS, UH, DEVELOPMENT THAT THE CITY IS LEADING, THAT IS GONNA HAPPEN AT COLONY PARK, UH, WHERE 208 ACRES OF CITY ON LAND IS GONNA BE PLANNED TO BE DEVELOPED.
UM, AND THERE'S BEEN, THIS HAS BEEN HAPPENING, UH, FOR A NUMBER FOR YEARS.
THERE'S BEEN A PLANNING PROCESS, UH, AROUND THIS.
UM, AND SO THE PURPOSE OF THIS WORK IS TO BE PROACTIVE IN PLANNING TO ADDRESS ANY POTENTIAL PRESSURES OF DISPLACEMENT THAT THIS PROJECT COULD BRING IN THE COMMUNITY, UH, SURROUNDING COMMUNITY.
UM, SO WE HAVE, UH, VENDORS THAT ARE WORKING ON THIS, AND AGAIN, WE, IT'S JUST, UH, THEY STARTED IN DECEMBER.
SO WE ARE VERY, VERY, UM, EXCITED ABOUT THIS WORK AND MAKING SURE THAT THESE STRATEGIES AND PLANS THAT COME OUT, UH, OR PROGRAMS, UH, WOULD REALLY RESONATE WITH THE COMMUNITY.
SO THERE'S A, THERE'S A BIG, UH, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT COMPONENT TO THIS PLAN.
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LASTLY, UH, THERE'S A LOT OF, OF THINGS OR, AND, AND RESEARCH AND PROGRAMS THAT WILL BE CLOSING OR CLOSED TO BEING DONE BY THE END OF THIS FISCAL YEAR.SO, LIKE I MENTIONED, OUR DISPLACEMENT RISK ANALYSIS, UM, AREA ANALYSIS WILL BE DONE THIS YEAR.
UH, THE EARLY WARNING SYSTEM RESEARCH, UH, WILL BE CLOSED TO BEING DONE BY THE END OF THIS FISCAL YEAR, BUT IT WILL BE CONTINUING A FEW MORE MONTHS.
UM, THE STORY MAP WE HOPE TO HAVE, UH, IN A FEW MONTHS, UH, THE NAVIGATOR PROGRAM, IT'S GONNA BE, UH, ALSO CLOSE TO BEING DONE BY THE END OF THIS FISCAL YEAR.
AND THEN THE COLONY PARK DISPLACEMENT MITIGATION PLAN WILL BE CL UH, UH, AND BY THE CALENDAR YEAR.
AND SO I GUESS I, I'LL JUST CLOSE BY SAYING THAT, UM, OUR TEAM IS ALSO HOPING TO CONTINUE TO HAVE MORE, UH, CONTACT WITH COMMUNITY TO REALLY UNDERSTAND CHANGES AND, AND ANY PRESSURES THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE.
UM, STARTING TO HAVE SOME SORT OF NETWORK, UM, AROUND DISPLACEMENT PREVENTION OR DISPLACEMENT MITIGATION.
AND BY THAT, YOU KNOW, THE FOCUS WOULD BE INTERNALLY WITHIN THE CITY.
WE KNOW THAT THERE'S OTHER DEPARTMENTS AND OTHER TEAMS THAT INEVITABLY, I MEAN, DISPLACEMENT IS SO COMPLEX AND SO BIG, RIGHT? THAT HAVING STARTING TO DO KIND OF THAT NETWORK, UM, EVEN INTERNALLY, IT'S GONNA BE BENEFICIAL, UH, IN ADDITION TO ALSO CONNECTING THAT, UH, EXTERNALLY TO THE COMMUNITY.
UM, SO THAT'S IT FOR, FOR THIS OVERVIEW.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, UH, I'M HERE.
AND ALSO, LIKE I SAID, UH, TO COME AGAIN, DEFINITELY, UH, UH, AN OPTION.
UM, DO WE HAVE QUESTIONS FROM COMMISSIONERS? LET'S START WITH THOSE, UH, COMMISSIONERS ONLINE.
YOU JUST CAN'T SEE MY FACE HERE.
YES, COMMISSIONER TISHA, GO AHEAD.
TODO, I APPRECIATE YOUR PRESENTATION, AND I HOPE I PRONOUNCED YOUR NAME RIGHT.
I'M SO SORRY IF I MISPRONOUNCED IT.
UH, BUT I, I WANTED TO JUST QUICKLY ASK ABOUT THESE STORY MAPS, AND I LIKE THE CATEGORIES THAT YOU HAVE LISTED ON THERE.
UM, ONE OF THE THINGS I'M, I'M WONDERING IS THERE ISN'T AN EXPLICIT CATEGORY OF TRANSPORTATION.
SO IT'S ON SLIDE NINE IF YOU WANTED TO RETURN TO IT.
BUT TO ECHO A BIT OF WHAT MS. JOSEPH WAS DESCRIBING EARLIER, UM, TRANSPORTATION IS A SIGNIFICANT PART OF THE COMMUNITY THAT IS MOST OFTEN AND HIGHEST RISK OF DISPLACEMENT.
AND WE CONTINUE TO NOT HAVE THE OVERLAP OF TRANSPORTATION AMONGST THESE OTHER CATEGORIES.
NOW, AS THE WORKING, THE, THE STRATEGY WORKING GROUP, WE HAD, WE HAD COME UP WITH CATEGORIES THAT WE FEEL, UM, GREATLY IMPACT THESE COMMUNITIES THAT ARE AT RISK FOR DISPLACEMENT.
AND THERE IS OVERLAP HERE, BUT AGAIN, I'M NOT SEEING TRANSPORTATION EXPLICITLY DISPLAYED.
CAN YOU ADDRESS THAT? YES, THANK YOU.
UM, THAT IS A GREAT COMMENT, AND I'LL SAY THAT WE HOPE THAT THIS STORY MAP IS ALMOST LIKE A LIVING THING, THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO ADD MORE LAYERS OF DATA.
UM, AND THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH THAT WE THOUGHT ABOUT, LIKE TO INCLUDE INITIALLY.
SO I'M, I'M WRITING A NOTE OF ADDING HOW TO INCORPORATE TRANSPORTATION INTO THESE STORIES.
SO I THINK IT, YEAH, NO, THIS IS, THIS IS GREAT.
IT WAS NOT, IT IS NOT INTENTIONAL.
WE'RE JUST KIND OF STARTING OFF WITH LIKE A FEW MAPS AND SOME INFORMATION AND LIKE, OKAY, HOW CAN WE LOOK AT THIS DATA IN A DIFFERENT WAY? LIKE, THAT TELLS THIS STORY OF CHANGE.
UM, AND SO THIS IS A GREAT, AND SO THIS IS WHY I WOULD LOVE FOR US TO COME AGAIN WHEN WE HAVE A MORE SOLID DRAFT, OR EVEN, BECAUSE LIKE I SAID, WE WANT THIS TO BE A DOCUMENT THAT CONTINUES TO ADD, RIGHT? AND IT'S, IT'S INFORMATION THAT IS THERE THAT PEOPLE CAN REFERENCE, UH, AND HAVE, SO, SO YEAH, I, I THINK THAT TRANSPORTATION IS A, IS A GREAT DATA POINT.
TISHA, DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM OTHER COMMISSIONERS? COMMISSIONER MENARD, GO AHEAD.
UM, I SEE A COUPLE COLORS HERE TOO ON THE STORY MAPS THAT ARE NOT, UM, DEFINED.
SO I SEE AS PINK KIND OF COLOR AND KIND OF A PURPLE, LIKE MAUVE COLOR.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT THOSE REFER TO? ONE SECOND.
COMMISSIONER, I, I GAVE HER THE GRAY SCALE ONE, ONE SECOND.
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ALL BE THERE.UM, AND IF NOT, I'LL, I'LL CHECK BACK WITH, WITH MY, UH, WITH MY TEAM TO MAKE SURE.
BUT THAT'S A GREAT OBSERVATION.
WE'LL MAKE SURE TO REVISE THE, THE MAP AND THE LIGHTEN.
AND WILL WE ALSO GET, UM, NUMBERS ATTACHED TO THESE COLORS? 'CAUSE LIKE I'M LOOKING AT THE ARTS, LOOKS LIKE THERE'S BEEN A DROP, BUT I DON'T KNOW,
YEAH, THOSE LOOK, WE'VE SEEN A DECLINE MM-HMM
IN THAT, SO WE'LL, WE'LL PROBABLY HAVE NUMBERS ATTACHED TO THESE.
ONCE WE HAVE A MORE FINAL DRAFT.
UM, I WANTED TO YES, GO AHEAD.
COMMISSIONER LEARY, THEN I'LL GO.
UM, I WAS JUST CURIOUS ABOUT THE, UM, WELL, WITH THE STORY MAP, IF Y'ALL HAVE EVER THOUGHT ABOUT, LIKE, THE CHANGE IN BUSINESSES THEMSELVES.
AND I KNOW THAT THAT'S KIND OF LIKE A PROBABLY DIFFICULT ONE TO TRACK, BUT LIKE, I MEAN, IF YOU'VE LIVED HERE LONG ENOUGH, YOU'VE SEEN HOW BUSINESSES HAVE CHANGED AND WHO THEY, YOU KNOW, UM, THEIR CUSTOMERS.
YEAH, THAT'S DEFINITELY, UH, AN IMPORTANT DATA POINT.
UH, AND WE HAVE BEEN IN CONVER WE HAVE HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH THE, UH, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT ON THAT.
UM, I THINK THE MAIN ISSUE WITH THAT HAS BEEN THE, THE DATA AND, AND HOW GOOD OF DATA YOU CAN GET FOR LIKE, SPECIFICALLY LIKE SMALL BUSINESSES.
UM, BUT YES, IT IS A, IT IS A GOOD DATA POINT AND I'LL, I'LL ADD IT TO OUR LIST TO, TO MAKE SURE TO SEE HOW WE CAN, WE COULD INCORPORATE.
AND THEN FOR THE HOUSING NAVIGATORS, ARE Y'ALL WITH THE CONTINUATION, LIKE THE 2.0 OF THE PROGRAM, ARE Y'ALL PLANNING TO USE THE SAME NAVIGATORS OR ARE YOU JUST LIKE, KIND OF OPENING IT UP BACK TO THE PUBLIC? THERE'LL BE, IT WILL BE OPENED UP TO THE PUBLIC AGAIN.
UM, WE HAVE, UH, STRONGLY ENCOURAGED THE NAVIGATORS WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE, FOR, IN THE PILOT TO, TO CONSIDER APPLYING AGAIN.
UM, AND, AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT, THAT OUR VENDOR UNDERSTANDS AND KNOWS.
UM, BUT, UH, BUT IT WILL BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
AND ONCE THAT IS OUT, WE'LL MAKE SURE TO SHARE IT WITH YOU ALL, UM, TO KIND OF HELP US SPREAD THE WORD.
ARE ARE THEY FULL-TIME ROLES? NO, THEY'RE GONNA BE PART-TIME, YEAH, THEY'RE GONNA BE WORKING 40 HOURS, UH, A MONTH.
AND ARE THERE ANY REQUIREMENTS LIKE, YOU KNOW, MASTERS OR WHAT ARE THE NO, UM, THERE'S I AND, AND I, MAYBE I SHOULD JUST WAIT TO MAYBE COME WITH MORE DETAILS, UH, WITH THE VENDOR.
UM, YEAH, I'LL JUST, I'LL, BUT, UH, THERE'S NO LIKE SPECIFIC EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENT.
THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER LYRIC.
UM, SO WHAT I WANTED TO ADD TO COMMISSIONER TISHA'S QUESTION AND COMMISSIONER LYRIC'S, UH, QUESTION AND ACTUALLY, UH, THINK ABOUT A PRESENTATION WE HAD FROM, UH, LAND JUSTICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL ABOUT A STORY MAP THAT THEY, UH, PUT TOGETHER WAS, UM, JUST THINKING ABOUT THAT DATA.
I THINK THEY HAD TWO POINTS ON, ON THE SALTILLO, UH, DEVELOPMENT AND THE MLK DEVELOPMENT.
UM, AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT, AGAIN, I ALSO WANNA ACKNOWLEDGE MS. JOSEPH, WHO ALSO HAS THOSE COMMENTS WHEN SHE COMES TO OUR COMMISSION, WHICH IS, UM, THESE KIND OF DEVELOPMENTS THAT ARE MEANT TO BE, TO CONNECT PEOPLE TO TRANSIT, UM, OFTENTIMES END UP DISPLACING THE PEOPLE THAT ARE, UH, MOST, THAT MOST NEED, UH, PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION.
SO, UH, IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY FROM THAT DATA, UH, THE RIDERSHIP ACTUALLY DECREASED, UH, PUBLIC TRANSIT RIDERSHIP ACTUALLY DECREASED IN THE, UH, TODD, UM, THE MLK TODD AND THE SALTILLO TODD.
SO, UM, AND THEN ALSO THINKING ABOUT WHO IS WRITING, UM, UH, PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FROM THOSE PLACES ALSO CHANGES A LOT.
AND I KNOW, LIKE COMMISSIONER LYRIC WAS ASKING ABOUT THE BUSINESSES, ALSO THE PEOPLE THAT, UM, THAT LIVE THERE WHO'S, UH, WHO'S WRITING AND WHO'S NOT WRITING.
SO THOSE KIND OF DATA POINTS ARE THINGS THAT I, I BELIEVE YOU SHOULD REALLY, UH, FOCUS ON, UM, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES THERE MAY BE A SHIFT IN RIDERSHIP THAT WE REALLY NEED TO NOTE.
UH, DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR COMMISSIONERS? OKAY.
MY, OH, COMMISSIONER TISHA, GO AHEAD.
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SORRY TO LOAD.IT'S JUST A QUICK QUESTION ABOUT THE CONSULTANT.
UM, I WAS RECALLING, YOU HAD MENTIONED SOMETHING THAT THE CONSULTANTS WILL PROVIDE SOME INSIGHT OF SOME SORT.
UM, IS THIS THE SAME CONSULTANT GROUP THAT ALREADY EXISTS? UH, THE ONES FROM ATLANTA? I FORGET THEIR, THEIR GROUP NAME, BUT WONDERING IF THAT'S THE SAME ONE? UM, I'M TRYING TO GO THROUGH MY SLIDES HERE TO SEE WHAT PAGE, OH, IT'S PAGE 16 WHERE YOU SAY WORK WITH, UH, FOR THE NAVIGATORS STRATEGIES? MM-HMM
THE, THE, THE VENDOR FOR THE NAVIGATOR PROGRAM IS ELBO AND ANO.
SO THEY'RE PROVIDING FEEDBACK LOOP OF THAT PARTICULAR NAVIGATION SYSTEM.
SO THEY'RE GONNA BE, THEY'RE GONNA BE, UH, DELIVERING THE PROGRAM IS WITH THE NAVIGATORS, RIGHT? YES, YES.
THEY'RE GONNA BE HANDLING, THEY'RE GONNA BE LEADING THE, THE NAVIGATOR PROGRAM? YES.
UH, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR, THANK YOU SO MUCH DR.
WE CAN MOVE ON TO OUR NEXT ITEM.
[4. Discussion on “Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER)”. Discussion led by Chase Clement, Financial Manager from Austin Housing.]
NUMBER FOUR IS A DISCUSSION ITEM AND IT IS A DISCUSSION ON THE CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL PERFORMANCE AND EVALUATION REPORT, THE CAPER.AND IT'S, UH, GOING TO BE LED BY CHASE CLEMENT FINANCIAL MANAGER FROM AUSTIN HOUSING.
CHASE CLEMENS, FINANCIAL MANAGER AT THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT.
WANTED TO TALK TO YOU GUYS ABOUT THE FISCAL YEAR 24 25 CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL PERFORMANCE EVALUATION REPORT, COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS THE CAPER.
UM, I'LL GET INTO A COUPLE DETAILS HERE IN A SECOND ABOUT WHAT EXACTLY THAT MEANS.
UM, FIRST WE'LL WALK THROUGH A REVIEW OF THE FEDERAL REPORT, UM, AND THE RESULTS OF THAT REPORT, FOLLOWED BY JUST A QUICK CONVERSATION ABOUT THE UPCOMING ACTION PLAN.
AND THEN OPEN IT UP TO YOU GUYS WITH ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.
SO FORGIVE ME IF THIS IS REDUNDANT INFORMATION TO ANYBODY'S EVER HEARD IT BEFORE, BUT I SEE A COUPLE NEW FACES.
SO THE WAY THAT OUR FEDERAL FUNDING WORKS FROM HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT IS EVERY FIVE YEARS WE PUT FORWARD WHAT IS CALLED THE CONSOLIDATED PLAN.
IT'S OUR APPLICATION FOR FUNDING AND IT OUTLINES OUR PLAN OVER A FIVE YEAR PERIOD.
UM, THAT PLAN WAS PUT IN PLACE ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO.
UM, WE ARE BEGINNING THE WORK FOR THE SECOND YEAR OF THAT FIVE YEAR PLAN.
WITHIN THAT FIVE YEAR PERIOD, WE HAVE TO PUT FORWARD WHAT IS CALLED AN ACTION PLAN.
THAT'S A ONE YEAR PLAN, WHICH IS ESSENTIALLY A BUDGET, UM, THAT TELLS US WHAT OUR APPLICATION IS GOING TO INCLUDE AND IT'S GONNA TELL US OR TELL THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE COMMUNITY HOW WE PLAN ON SPENDING THOSE FUNDS.
WE ARE REPORTING NOW ON THE RESULTS OF THE FIRST YEAR OF THAT FIVE-YEAR PLAN.
UM, AND YOU'LL SEE THAT'S THAT LAST BUBBLE ON THE RIGHT SIDE.
UM, THE, THE ACTUAL RESULTS OF YEAR ONE OF THAT FIVE-YEAR PLAN.
AND THEN I'LL BUILD A LITTLE TIMELINE AT THE END OF THIS PRESENTATION THAT EXPLAINS WHERE WE'RE MOVING GOING FORWARD.
UM, THIS INFORMATION WAS SHARED PREVIOUSLY.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR IF YOU WANT ME TO DIG IN ON ANY OF THE SPECIFIC INFORMATION.
THE NEXT THREE SLIDES HIGHLIGHTS THE, THE COLUMNS IN BLUE IN THE MIDDLE EXPLAIN WHAT WE SAID WE WERE GONNA DO IN OUR ACTION PLAN.
SO THOSE WERE THE DOLLARS DEDICATED IN THE NEW FUNDING COLUMN, THE NEXT COLUMN OVER AS THE ESTIMATED SERVICES.
SO THAT'S THE NUMBER OF SERVICES OR, YOU KNOW, UNITS CREATED OR PEOPLE SERVED THAT WE PLANNED ON SERVING WITH THOSE ALLOCATED DOLLARS.
AND THEN THE TWO COLUMNS ON THE RIGHT FOR ACTUAL EXPENDITURES AND SERVICES PROVIDED ARE, ARE RESULTS THAT WE'RE REPORTING OUT NOW, UM, IN, IN THE CAPER, I'LL GIVE YOU GUYS A SECOND.
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KNOW IF YOU, IF THERE'S ANY SPECIFIC PROGRAM OR SERVICE NUMBERS PROVIDED OR EXPENDITURES.SO WHEN IT SAYS ESTIMATED SERVICES 1 92, IS THAT 1 92 ACTUAL KIDS THAT RECEIVE CHILDCARE OR FAMILIES.
'CAUSE THEN THE SERVICES PROVIDED IS 1 44.
SO THAT PARTICULAR NUMBER THAT IS FOR OUR CDBG PUBLIC SERVICES AND OUR CDBG FUNDING, THAT PORTION OF FUNDING IS ADMINISTERED BY AUSTIN PUBLIC HEALTH.
THAT REPRESENTS THE NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS THAT WERE SERVED.
AND THEY NEED TO MEET THE LOW TO MODERATE INCOME, UM, REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL OF OUR FEDERAL PROGRAMS. SO WE ESTIMATED THAT WE WOULD SERVE THROUGH THIS PROGRAM 192 HOUSEHOLDS.
AND IN FACT, WE SERVED, UH, LESS THAN THAT 144, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN.
SO THAT SHOWS THE DIFFERENTIAL.
AND WE'RE HAPPY TO GO OVER ANY OF THE PARTICULAR LINE ITEMS. THESE, THE CHARTS, WHICH, WHICH WHAT WE SUBMITTED TO HUD AS PART OF THE CAPER, UH, REPRESENTS ALL FOUR OF OUR BLOCK GRANT FUNDS.
SO THAT INCLUDES CDBG, WHICH IS OUR LARGEST BLOCK GRANT, ABOUT $7 MILLION A YEAR, HOPWA, WHICH IS HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONS WITH AIDS HOME, UM, WHICH IS ADMINISTERED BY OUR DEPARTMENT.
AND THEN ESG, WHICH IS THE EMERGENCY SOLUTIONS GRANT PROGRAM, WHICH JUST RECENTLY STARTED BEING ADMINISTERED BY OUR HOMELESS STRATEGY OFFICE.
SO FOUR DIFFERENT BLOCK GRANTS, AND THEN EACH OF THE PROGRAMS IS LISTED OUT.
AND THEN THIS IS OUR, AS CHASE MENTIONED, OUR REPORTING REQUIREMENT.
UM, I'LL GO, UM, WELL I'M, I'M LOOKING AT
I MEAN, THE FIRST ONE THAT I DRAWS MY ATTENTION IS, UM, HOUSING SUPPORT OR OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONS WITH AIDS.
AND I SEE HERE LIKE, UM, THE FUNDING WAS $3.8 MILLION AND THE ESTIMATED SERVICE WAS 930, BUT THE ACTUAL EXPENDITURES EXCEEDED IT BY OVER A MILLION DOLLARS, ALMOST OVER A MILLION DOLLARS.
BUT THE SERVICES PROVIDED WERE A LOT LOWER, LIKE 700, YOU KNOW, SO JUST WHY WAS THAT PROGRAM SO EXPENSIVE? LIKE, YOU KNOW, LIKE WHAT, WHY IS THERE LIKE THOSE GAPS? MULTIFOLD ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION.
SO FIRST OF ALL, WHEN YOU POINTED TO THE 3.8, THAT INCLUDES ALL OF OUR SPECIAL NEEDS ASSISTANCE.
SO THAT'S A KIND OF A BROAD CATEGORY IN UNDER HUD TERMS. SO THAT INCLUDES CHILDCARE, SENIOR SERVICES, MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, AND THE HOPWA GRANT IN GENERAL, WHICH IS WHAT YOU JUST REFERRED TO.
SO THE 3.8 MILLION, I JUST WANTED TO ADD SOME CONTEXT.
THE 3.8 MILLION IS A TOTAL OF ALL OF THOSE PROGRAMS TOGETHER.
BUT TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION ON HOW COULD YOUR EXPENDITURES EXCEED THE, THE FUNDING FOR THAT SPECIFIC YEAR, THE WAY THAT OUR GRANTS WORK IS WE RECEIVE, UM, AN ALLOCATION OF ENTITLEMENT GRANTS.
THOSE ENTITLEMENT GRANTS ARE GIVEN TO US, AND THEN THEY'RE PREDOMINANTLY SPENT OVER, UM, A MULTI-YEAR PERIOD.
NOT ALL GRANTS ARE THE EXACT SAME.
SO HOPWA FOR INSTANCE, IS TYPICALLY ON LIKE A TWO YEAR ROLLING BASIS.
THEY RECEIVE FUNDS, THEY NEED TO SPEND THOSE DOLLARS OVER A TWO YEAR PERIOD.
UM, CDBG IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT.
SO THINK OF IT LIKE IF YOU'RE PUTTING DOLLARS INTO A CAPITAL ASSET, SO HOME DOLLARS OR CDBG DOLLARS SOMETIMES GO INTO CAPITAL ASSETS, THOSE TAKE A REALLY LONG PERIOD, UM, TO COME TO FRUITION.
SO YOU CAN IDENTIFY A PROJECT, IT GETS UNDERWAY, YOU BUILD SOMETHING, AND IT, IT COULD TAKE FOUR, FOUR OR FIVE YEARS TO BUILD A PROJECT.
SO THEY GIVE YOU KIND OF A RUNWAY TO LEAD UP TO SPEND ALL OF THOSE DOLLARS.
SO THERE'S COMPARING WHAT YOU SAID YOU WERE GONNA SPEND IN YOUR PLAN TO WHEN EXPENDITURES ACTUALLY HIT YOUR, YOUR INCOME STATEMENT THERE, THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF A DISPARITY THERE.
SO WHAT YOU'RE SEEING IN ACTUAL EXPENDITURES THAT'S CASH OUT THE DOOR THAT HAPPENED IN ANY SPECIFIC YEAR, BUT WHAT YOU'RE SEEING IN THE NEW FUNDING COLUMN IS THAT WAS YOUR ALLOCATION OF FUNDING THAT COULD POTENTIALLY HAPPEN OVER A 2, 3, 4, 5 YEAR PERIOD DEPENDING ON, UM, THE NATURE OF THE PROGRAM THAT YOU'RE FUNDING.
SO ON THE THE HOP EXAMPLE, IT'S KIND OF A, YOU, YOU KIND OF SEE A RETURN PRETTY QUICKLY AS A TWO YEAR GRANT ON THE, THE GRANTS WHERE YOU'RE, YOU KIND OF HAVE A LONG-TERM INVESTMENT, YOU'RE GONNA SEE A MUCH SLOWER RETURN ON WHEN THOSE EXPENDITURES HAPPEN.
SO IN ANY GIVEN YEAR, YOU'RE GONNA KIND OF SEE SWINGS LIKE IN ONE YEAR YOU MAY SAY THAT YOUR SPENDING IS GONNA BE $5 MILLION AND YOU REALLY ONLY SPEND TWO AND A HALF, BUT THEN YOU'RE GONNA SEE THE RAMP UP PERIOD OF WHENEVER THOSE
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EXPENDITURES ARE REALLY HAPPENING.UM, AND YOU'RE SEEING THOSE DOLLARS BE PUT INTO LIKE A CAPITAL ASSET OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THAT HAPPENS OVER A LONGER PERIOD OF TIME.
SO THERE'S COMPARING THE NEW FUNDING TO THE ACTUAL EXPENDITURES, IT, IT TELLS A STORY, BUT IT DOESN'T ALWAYS TELL THE EXACT STORY THAT THE WHOLE STORY, UM, YOU KNOW, SO IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND IT, BUT YOU KIND OF DRILL DOWN TO THE SPECIFIC PROGRAM LEVEL TO, TO REALLY UNDERSTAND, UM, THE NUANCES OF, UH, OF HOW THE, THE FUNDING CAME TO FRUITION.
I HOPE THAT ANSWERED YOUR QUESTION.
YEAH, I MEAN, UM, I THINK THIS, UM, REPORT IS VERY REVEALING.
UM, I SEE LIKE GOALS AND THEN ACTUAL SERVICES PROVIDED, AND I MEAN, FOR EXAMPLE, SENIOR SERVICES, THE GOAL WAS 1 25 OR ESTIMATED SERVICES AND THEN 1 0 3, I THINK ANNUALLY 125 IS A PRETTY FAIR GOAL.
AND JUST, I WOULD LOVE TO LIKE BRIDGE THAT AND PLUS, YOU KNOW, WE CAN WORK ON THAT OR ANY, OR ANYTHING MAKING THE MOST USE OF THAT MONEY OR SERVICES PROVIDED OR INDIVIDUALS.
AND, UM, WELL ANOTHER NUMBER THAT DREW MY ATTENTION WAS ON THE SECOND PAGE, THE 13,000 FOR TOTAL OTHER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE.
WHAT IS THAT NUMBER? THE INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT 13? IS THAT, IS THAT A TYPO? YEAH, NO, IT IS NOT.
SO THIS WAS A UNIQUE CON CON CONSOLIDATED PLAN AND THE FACT THAT BEGINNING, OKAY, I'M GONNA REITERATE WE FIVE YEAR CONSOLIDATED PLAN, RIGHT? AND THESE ARE THE RESULTS OF YEAR ONE.
WE ARE CURRENTLY OPERATING IN YEAR TWO, BUT WE'RE TALK, TALKING ABOUT YEAR ONE.
SO WHENEVER WE PUT FORWARD THE CONSOLIDATED PLAN LAST YEAR AND WE BEGAN WORK, WE KIND OF WENT ON A UNIQUE PATH THAT WE HAD NOT GONE DOWN BEFORE FOR THIS ONE CATEGORY.
AND IF YOU'LL SEE THE OUTLIER THAT IS, THAT IS DRIVING THAT 13,000 IS THIS LINE FOR INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT.
MANDY'S GOING TO STEP IN IN A SECOND AND TELL US A LITTLE MORE DETAIL ABOUT THAT SPECIFIC PROJECT.
BUT INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT IS SOMETHING THAT WE HADN'T REALLY, UM, DONE IN THE PAST.
AND THIS SPECIFIC LINE ITEM IS FOR INFRASTRUCTURE DE DEVELOPMENT RELATED TO COLONY PARK.
AND JUST LIKE THE CAPITAL ASSET CONVERSATION THAT I HAD A SECOND AGO, UM, IT TAKES A WHILE FOR THE, FOR THOSE EXPENDITURES TO KIND OF RAMP UP BECAUSE OF THE NATURE OF PROJECTS.
WHENEVER YOU'RE WORKING IN THE CAPITAL ARENA, THAT EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE IN YEAR ONE, YOU RECEIVED THE FUNDING, YOU CAME UP WITH A PLAN, BUT IT TAKES A LONG TIME TO GET CAPITAL ASSETS UP AND RUNNING AND BUILDING SOMETHING.
SO THAT 13,000 THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT IS SITTING IN THAT INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT LINE ITEM AND IS DEDICATED FOR INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE COLONY TO PARK AREA.
CURRENTLY THERE IS A CONTRACT, UH, THAT IS GOING FORWARD AND THERE'S CONSTRUCTION THAT WILL BE TAKING PLACE IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
AND THAT 13,000 IS BASED ON AN AREA BENEFIT CALCULATION.
SO ONCE THAT CAPITAL ASSET IS BUILT, I BELIEVE IN THIS, THE FIRST CASE THAT'S GOING TO BE A ROAD THAT IS GONNA BE SERVICING THAT AREA.
EVERYBODY WHO'S SITTING IN THAT GEOGRAPHIC AREA THAT IS BEING SERVICED BY THAT ROAD IS INCLUDED IN THAT CALCULATION FOR THAT 13,000.
SO UNTIL THAT ROAD IS BUILT, WE CAN'T COUNT ANYBODY BEING SERVED BECAUSE NOTHING HAS TRULY BEEN BUILT YET.
UM, BUT I I HOPE THAT ANSWERED YOUR, ANSWERED YOUR QUESTION AND I THINK MANNY CAN ADD MAYBE A LITTLE MORE A A A LITTLE BIT OF CONTEXT.
SO THE PREVIOUS PRESENTATION, DR.
TODO, UH, MENTIONED THE COLONY PARK DISPLACEMENT MITIGATION PLAN, AND YOU ALL ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE COLONY PARK DEVELOPMENT, THE 208 ACRES THAT HAS BEEN A CITY PRIORITY, UH, FOR FRANKLY DECADES AND IS FINALLY, UM, COMING TO FRUITION.
UM, AND THE FIRST PART OF CONSTRUCTION IS INFRASTRUCTURE.
SO WE, UH, UH, AS PART OF THE CONSOLIDATED PLAN DEDICATED NOT SPECIFICALLY TO COLONY PARK, BUT TO INFRASTRUCTURE, UM, THAT PROVIDES, UM, BENEFIT TO LOW MODERATE INCOME NEIGHBORHOODS.
UM, AND COLONY PARK IS THE FIRST INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT THAT HAS COME FORWARD.
AND SO THE COLONY PARK DEVELOPMENT CHASE MENTIONED, UM, WE HAD IDENTIFIED 2.5 MILLION LAST YEAR, THIS CURRENT FISCAL YEAR, AN ADDITIONAL 2.5 MILLION.
AND THE TIMING OF THE PROJECT HAS BEEN A LITTLE SLOWER THAN WE WOULD'VE LIKED TO HAVE SEEN.
UH, ON MONDAY, THE, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, MONDAY, THE, UH, SOLICITATION FOR THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT WAS RELEASED.
THEY ANTICIPATE A 30 DAY, UM, RFP FOR THE REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR THIS WORK.
AND THEN THEY ANTICIPATE MOVING FORWARD VERY QUICKLY, GOING TO BRINGING THE PROJECT FORWARD WITH THE SUCCESSFUL, UH, BIDDER TO CITY COUNCIL LATER IN THE SPRING.
AND THEY EXPECT THE WORK TO START THIS FISCAL YEAR.
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DOESN'T ALIGN PERFECTLY WITH OUR CDBG ALLOCATION, BUT WE ANTICIPATE THAT WE WILL BE PLAYING CATCH UP WITH THAT 2.5 MILLION OVER THE COMING YEAR OR SO.SO WE'VE BEEN WORKING CLOSELY WITH THE FOLKS IN OUR FINANCIAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT THAT DID THE FINANCING PLAN FOR COLONY PARK, BUT ALSO THE FOLKS WHO OVERSEE THE COLONY PARK DEVELOPMENT FROM THE CITY SIDE.
AND JUST ADD A LITTLE MORE CONTEXT WHENEVER, BECAUSE YOU HAD POINTED OUT THE 13,000 THINKING IT WAS A TYPO.
AND I DON'T BLAME YOU BECAUSE IT STICKS OUT.
TYPICALLY, A LOT OF OUR PROGRAMS ARE, YOU'RE, YOU'RE COUNTING EITHER A UNIT BEING CREATED OR A PERSON BEING SERVED FOR A SPECIFIC PROGRAM.
YOU POINTED OUT CHILDCARE EARLIER.
SO YOU'RE, YOU'RE COUNTING A, A FAMILY BEING SERVED, A HOUSEHOLD BEING SERVED.
THE INFRASTRUCTURE ONE IS A LITTLE UNIQUE IN THAT IT IS THE, THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE BEING SERVED IS BASED ON, UM, KIND OF A MAPPING TOOL.
SO YOU, ONCE THAT ASSET IS, IS PUT INTO PLACE, THEN YOU'RE, YOU'LL BE COUNTING ALL OF THE INDIVIDUALS SITTING IN AN, IN A CERTAIN GEOGRAPHIC AREA, WHICH IS WHY IT'S SUCH AN OUT AN OUTLIER.
IT'S AN INDIRECT BENEFIT VERSUS A DIRECT BENEFIT.
UM, AND IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, BUT I'D HAVE TO PULL OUR CONSOLIDATED PLAN.
THIS IS A, A CALCULATION, LIKE A MATHEMATICAL EQUATION THAT WAS, WE HAD TO JUST KIND OF FILL IN.
BUT I THINK IT WAS PART OF THE CONSOLIDATED PLAN.
I DON'T KNOW THAT THE NUMBER HAS CHANGED.
IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT 13,000.
THAT'S OUR ESTIMATED FOR WHO WE WILL SERVE.
DO WE HAVE ANY OR WE MOVING FORWARD? DO WE HAVE A QUESTION? UH, COMMISSIONER ARNOLD? YES.
APPRECIATE Y'ALL FOR PRESENTING 24 YOU.
SO I HAD A QUESTION ABOUT, UM, THE RENTAL ASSISTANCE AND TENANTS ASSISTED.
WHO'S Y'ALL VENDOR? WHO'S THE VENDOR FOR THAT? UM, HOW DO Y'ALL PROVIDE THE RENTAL ASSISTANCE AND IS THERE ANY WAY WE CAN GET A MAP AS WELL SO WE'RE ABLE TO FOLLOW ALONG WITH THESE DUMPS THAT HAVE BUNCHED UP? COOL.
SO REGARDING, I, I BELIEVE YOU'RE REFERRING TO TENANT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE.
SO THAT'S ON THE FIRST, UH, PAGE OF THE CHART AND IT'S UNDER HOMELESS ASSISTANCE.
OUR CONTRACTOR, WELL, LET ME TELL YOU WHO WE'RE SERVING.
WE'RE SERVING FAMILIES WHO ARE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS.
THEY COME THROUGH THE COORDINATED ENTRY SYSTEM, WHICH IS MANAGED BY ECHO.
OUR CONTRACTOR OR OUR VENDOR IS THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN.
UM, THEY WERE UNIQUELY QUALIFIED.
THEY'VE BEEN OUR TBRA, THAT'S THE ACRONYM WE USE VENDOR FOR, I THINK AT LEAST A DECADE.
UM, THE NUMBERS THAT YOU SEE, OUR PROJECTED BUDGET IN THE ACTION PLAN WAS ABOUT 1.2 MILLION.
AND WE SAID WE WOULD SERVE 65 HOUSEHOLDS.
UM, THE NUMBER, THE ACTUAL EXPENDITURES IS LOWER, BUT THERE'S A REASON FOR THAT.
AND THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE SERVED IS HIGHER.
THERE'S ALSO A REASON FOR THAT.
UM, THE TENANT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM DOESN'T ALIGN PERFECTLY WITH OUR FISCAL YEAR.
SO FOLKS WE ARE SERVING, WE PROVIDE THEM WITH ASSISTANCE FOR 18 MONTHS AND SOMETIMES UP TO 24 MONTHS.
SO RATHER THAN STARTING SOMEBODY ON OCTOBER 1ST AND KICKING THEM OFF ON SEPTEMBER 30TH, WE HAVE FOLKS WHO CONTINUE ON AND MAY CONTINUE ON THROUGH THAT ENTIRE FISCAL YEAR.
UH, THE REASON THE NUMBER, THE DOLLAR AMOUNT IS LOWER, WE DID NOT LOWER THE AMOUNT OF FUNDING THAT WE'RE PROVIDING.
WE ACTUALLY SUPPLEMENTED IT WITH ADDITIONAL LOCAL FUNDS.
WE DID NOT WANNA LOSE ANY OF THOSE HOUSEHOLDS WHO WE WERE SERVING.
AND SO WE COMMITTED TO MAKE UP THE DIFFERENCE WITH LOCAL FUNDS.
THAT'S NOT REPRESENTED HERE BECAUSE THIS IS IN FACT WHAT WE SUBMITTED TO HUD AND WHAT HUD IS INTERESTED IN IS EXCLUSIVELY OUR USE OF FEDERAL FUNDS.
SO AGAIN, AS CHASE SAID, EVERY NUMBER KIND OF HAS A STORY.
WE WANNA PROVIDE YOU WITH SOME ADDITIONAL CONTEXT.
UM, BUT WE DID SERVE, UH, THOSE 80 HOUSEHOLDS AND WE ANTICIPATE SERVING PROBABLY THE SAME AMOUNT THIS FISCAL YEAR.
UM, IS THERE ANY WAY THAT WE CAN GET THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF THOSE 80 HOUSEHOLDS AND, UM, WHY IS THE NUMBERS SO LOW? BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND THAT THEY'RE RECEIVING ASSISTANCE FOR A YEAR.
UM, I'M FAMILIAR WITH A LOT OF, UH, OTHER ORGANIZATIONS THAT PROVIDE THESE THE SAME.
UM, WE'RE CLOSE TO THE SAME PROGRAM SERVICES, BUT UM, IT'S, THIS IS A LOW NUMBER FOR THAT AMOUNT.
UM, WHEN WE LOOK AT, YOU KNOW,
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PREVIOUS ENTITIES LIKE ELK, WIND, AND THEY GET, YOU KNOW, LITTLE TO SOME LOW FUNDING, BUT THEY DO A LOT OF THE GREATLY IMPACT, YOU KNOW, AND A LOT OF OTHER ORGANIZATIONS.SO I'M JUST CONFUSED WHY THE NUMBERS ARE, ARE SO LOW, EVEN THOUGH YES, Y'ALL DID, UM, EXCEED THE ESTIMATE THE THE PROJECTED ESTIMATED AMOUNT Y'ALL WANTED TO SERVE.
UM, BUT I'M, AND I'M NOT UNDERSTANDING.
AND WHAT IS THAT LINE ITEM WITH THE 15,426 AS WELL? OKAY, SO LET ME START WITH THE TBRA WITH THE, THE ACTUAL NUMBER, THE 1.2 MILLION THAT WAS ALLOCATED FOR TENANT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE.
IT ACTUALLY, IF YOU AVERAGE IT OUT, UH, AVERAGES TO $15,000 PER HOUSEHOLD PER YEAR, WHICH IS THE AMOUNT OF RENTAL ASSISTANCE THAT WOULD BE PROVIDED.
THE FAIR MARKET RENT, WHICH IS CALCULATED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THAT IS PROVIDED TO EACH HOUSEHOLD, UM, EACH MONTH OF THE YEAR.
SO THAT $15,000, THE L BUEN PROGRAM THAT YOU MENTIONED, WHICH IS OUR, I BELONG IN AUSTIN PROGRAM, REALLY IS AN EMERGENCY RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.
SO THEY'RE NOT PROVIDING ONGOING FUNDING FOR A YEAR.
THE AVERAGE AMOUNT OF ASSISTANCE FOR THE EL BUEN PROGRAM IS SOMEWHERE AROUND $5,000 PER PARTICIPANT.
SO THOSE ARE FOLKS WHO ARE PARTICIPATING IN EL BUEN.
THEY HAVE LEASES, THEY HAVE BEEN PAYING THEIR RENT.
THEY MAY BE ON THE VERGE OF EVICTION.
UM, THEY MAY BE CURRENTLY IN EVICTION COURT BECAUSE THEY'RE BEHIND IN THEIR RENT.
SO THE EL BUEN RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM REALLY IS THAT STOP GAP MEASURE TO TRY TO ENABLE PEOPLE TO STABILIZE TENANTS AND ENABLE THEM TO CATCH UP IN THEIR RENT.
SO THERE'S A, A KIND OF A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE ONE-TIME FUNDING PROVIDED, UM, BY EL BUEN, WHICH AGAIN AVERAGES, IT'S BETWEEN 5,000 AND $6,000 PER HOUSEHOLD.
AND THEN THE ONGOING FUNDING, UH, THE RENTAL ASSISTANCE THAT OCCURS EVERY MONTH THAT WE'RE PROVIDING THIS RENTAL ASSISTANCE IN ORDER TO, UM, GET HELP FOLKS, UH, GET OUT OF HOMELESSNESS AND GET STABILIZED.
SO HOW DO Y'ALL, WHAT PRO, WHAT IS THIS PROGRAM CALLED? HOW DO Y'ALL SELECT THE INDIVIDUALS AND WHY IS IT ONE YEAR LONG? SO THE PROGRAM ACTUALLY RUNS FOR ABOUT 18 MONTHS, UM, UH, UP TO 18 MONTHS.
BUT IN SOME CASES IT CAN BE EXTENDED FOR 24 MONTHS.
AND IT IS, FOLKS ARE SELECTED THROUGH THE COORDINATED ENTRY SYSTEM THAT'S ADMINISTERED BY ECHO, THE ENDING COMMUNITY HOMELESSNESS COALITION.
SO IT IS NOT AN OPEN APPLICATION PROCESS.
IT IS FOLKS WHO, UH, RISE UP THROUGH THE COORDINATED ENTRY SYSTEM AND THEN THEY ARE CONNECTED TO OUR VENDOR, THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN THAT ADMINISTERS THOSE PAYMENTS.
SO IT'S KIND OF LIKE A DIVERSION IN, IN ADDITION TO THAT RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AS WELL, BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO BE UNHOUSED CORRECT.
SO IT'S KIND OF, SO WHEN YOU SAY TENANT, WHEN IT'S NAMED TENANT BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE, WHAT I THINKING IS SOMEONE IS ALREADY HOUSED IN RECEIVING THESE RESOURCES, NOT DIVERTING OUT OF BEING UNHOUSED AND GETTING HOUSED.
'CAUSE UH, IT'S, IT'S NOT JUST RENTAL ASSISTANCE THAT FACTOR INTO THAT.
THERE'S APPLICATION FEES, THERE'S DEPOSITS, THERE'S MOVING FEES.
AND SO WHEN SOMEONE EXHAUSTS, LET'S JUST SAY SOMEONE EXHAUSTS THEIR $15,426, THEY HAVE TO PAY DOUBLE DEPOSIT, THE FIR FIRST MONTH'S RENT AND ALL THAT, AND SIX, SEVEN MONTHS LATER THEY, THEY'RE OUT OF THEIR 15,426 THAT THEY GET INDIVIDUALLY.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? SO THE GOAL FOR THE TENANT BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE, AND YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT, THIS IS PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS.
SO IT IS, UM, TAKING FOLKS WHO ARE UNHOUSED AND GETTING THEM INTO STABLE HOUSING, BUT THE GOAL IS TO TRANSITION FOLKS TO, UM, IDEALLY IT WOULD BE A HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER THROUGH HAKA.
SO A MORE STABLE, NOT TIME LIMITED SUBSIDY.
SO TBRA IS TIME LIMITED PER FEDERAL REGULATIONS.
IT IS BECAUSE IT'S HOME FUNDED.
IT, YOU HAVE 18 MONTHS OF SUBSIDY.
SOMETIMES YOU CAN GO UP TO 24 MONTHS, BUT UNFORTUNATELY THAT IS IT.
SO DURING THAT TIME, WE WORK TO MAKE SURE THAT FOLKS ARE TRANSITIONED, THEY DON'T BECOME UNHOUSED AGAIN, THAT THEY ARE IN FACT TRANSITIONED TO A MORE STABLE AND LONG-TERM SUBSIDY.
SO MY NEXT QUESTION IS, UM, SO THEY'RE HUP
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APPROVED PROPERTIES? NO.NO, THESE ARE NOT, UH, THESE ARE NOT HUP PROPERTIES.
UH, WE ARE, IT, IT, WE ARE CONNECTING FOLKS TO HOUSING AND IT CAN BE ANYWHERE IN THE CITY WILL THAT WILL ACCEPT THIS SUBSIDY.
SO IT DOESN'T HAVE TO JUST BE BASED ON INCOME HOUSING AUTHORITIES.
IT IS ANY PROPERTY THAT WILL ACCEPT THE, THE SUBSIDY, LIKE A HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER.
NOT ALL MARKET RATE PROPERTIES ACCEPT THAT.
BUT FOR PROPERTIES THAT ACCEPT THAT, THAT IS WHERE WE WOULD BE PLACING THESE INDIVIDUALS, IT, IT'S NOT LIMITED TO A HOUSING AUTHORITY PROPERTY.
SO MY NEXT QUESTION IS, WHY ARE THEY ONLY GOING THROUGH ECHO LOVE ECHO, BUT WHY ARE Y'ALL ONLY, IS THAT 'CAUSE IT WAS A RFP SOLICITATION OR WHY? UH, NO, THERE WAS, UH, THROUGH THE COORDINATED THE CONTINUUM OF CARE PROGRAM, UH, THE CONTINUUM OF CARE, A PRIORITY TO FOCUS ON PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS.
TENANT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE CAN BE USED FOR LOW INCOME FOLKS IN GENERAL.
AND OTHER COMMUNITIES MAY USE IT DIFFERENTLY, BUT OUR COMMUNITY CHOSE TO PRIORITIZE PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS.
UM, AND, AND THERE WAS NOT A SOLICITATION ECHO IS, IS SOLELY THE VEHICLE FOR, UM, IDENTIFYING THROUGH THE COORDINATED ENTRY SYSTEM WHO WILL BE SERVED, WHO RISES TO THE TOP.
UM, DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? UH, VICE CHAIR, GO AHEAD.
I JUST HAVE A COMMENT AND MY APOLOGIES IF I AM MISSING IT.
AND THE BACKUP OR AN EMAIL, UM, I TEND TO ASK THIS, SO I'M GONNA ASK IT AGAIN.
I THINK THAT IT WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL FOR THE COMMISSIONERS IF IN ADVANCE OF A MEETING WITH THESE EXTENSIVE DOCUMENTS, IF WE COULD GET AN EMAIL THAT'S A MEMO THAT LETS US KNOW WHAT WE'RE RECEIVING, A LITTLE BIT OF CONTEXT ABOUT IT AND WHAT IS INTENDED, LIKE WHAT YOU NEED FROM US TO DO.
LIKE WHY ARE WE GETTING THIS AND WHAT, WHAT IS, WHY IS IT AT THE MEETING? I KNOW IT'S VERY IMPORTANT, BUT JUST AS A REMINDER, RIGHT? ESPECIALLY 'CAUSE WE HAVE COMMISSIONERS WHO COME ON AND ROLL OFF.
AND SO JUST AS AN ORIENTING I KNOW THAT I AM STILL, I'M TWO YEARS IN AND I STILL FIND THAT WHEN THE VERY LARGE DOCUMENTS COME IN, TRYING TO REORIENT MYSELF TO EXACTLY WHERE IN THE TIMELINE ARE WE AND WHAT DO YOU NEED FROM THE COMMISSION TODAY WOULD BE VERY, VERY HELPFUL.
I'M NOT SURE THE BEST WAY TO COMMUNICATE THAT, BUT IT WOULD BE REALLY, REALLY HELPFUL TO ME PERSONALLY AND I ASSUME TO THE REST OF THE COMMISSION.
AND, AND SO YOU ALL KNOW WE, WE PROVIDED THE DRAFT, I THINK THIS IS RIGHT OF THE CAP CAPER IN NOVEMBER.
AND GOING FORWARD, WE WILL BE MORE CLEAR ABOUT WHAT THE ASK IS.
AND THERE WAS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR COMMUNITY INPUT, BUT THE CAPER REALLY IS A REPORT OUT.
IT IS DATA WHO WE SERVED, HOW MUCH WE SPENT IT IS PULLING, WHICH IS WHY IT'S UNDER CHASE'S FINANCE TEAM.
IT'S, IT, IT'S KIND OF A NUMBERS DOCUMENT.
UM, IN THE FUTURE, WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO DO IS GIVE YOU SUFFICIENT TIME AS SOON AS WE GET THAT DRAFT TOGETHER, WHICH WILL BE SOMETIME IN NOVEMBER.
IT'S DUE RIGHT BEFORE THE HOLIDAYS IN DECEMBER.
UM, AND WE ARE HAPPY TO PROVIDE SOME SORT OF MEMO CONTEXTUALIZING IT.
UM, AND THE ASK, AND, AND TYPICALLY WHAT WE WOULD SAY, 'CAUSE THE DOCUMENTS ARE BIG, IS IF YOU HAVE LIMITED TIME, PLEASE GO TO THE LAST FEW PAGES, WHICH ARE WHAT WE CALL THE FUNDING TABLE.
AND IT REALLY IS THE SUMMARY OF EVERY PROGRAM, WHAT WE SAID WE WERE GONNA SPEND, WHO WE SAID WE WERE GONNA SERVE, AND WHAT WE ENDED UP DOING.
AND THEN TO COME REALLY PREPARED WITH QUESTIONS ABOUT LIKE, THESE SPECIFIC PROGRAMMATIC, WHAT IS TBRA, WHY DID YOU, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS, WHO ARE THESE 13,000 PEOPLE YOU WANTED TO SERVE? SO WE ARE HAPPY TO DO THAT GOING FORWARD.
UH, DO YOU HAVE A QUICK QUESTION? YES, COMMISSIONER TISHA, GO AHEAD.
SO, SO THAT WAY YOU CAN WRAP, WRAP IT UP FOR US.
UM, HI MANDY, IT'S BEEN WHILE.
DON'T WORRY, YOU GET THE SAME WARM WELCOME
BUT I DID WANT TO ASK THE GEN THE GENERAL QUESTION AND, AND YOU'RE RIGHT THAT THIS WAS BROUGHT UP PREVIOUSLY AND I'M JUST BRINGING UP ANOTHER QUESTION OF UPSTREAM.
UM, AND LOOKING AT A LOT OF THIS FUNDING, IT SEEMS REACTIONARY, UM, MANDY.
AND SO I'M WONDERING WHAT ARE WE DOING IN TERMS OF THE PREVENTION SIDE OF IT? AND I'LL JUST USE
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A QUICK ANECDOTE, WALKING AROUND EAST AUSTIN AND RECOGNIZING SOME OF THE HOUSES THAT ARE NOW CONDEMNED, MANY SIGNS, CONDEMNED HOUSING, CONDEMNED HOUSING, CONDEMNED HOUSING, ALL THESE DIFFERENT THINGS.AND ALL I COULD THINK IN THE BACK OF MY MIND WAS, DID THEY HAVE ANY ACCESS TO CITY PROGRAMS, UM, TO BE ABLE TO HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PREVENT IT.
UH, NOW I KNOW THERE MIGHT BE SOME OTHER THINGS AT PLAY 'CAUSE I THINK THERE'S A NEW DEVELOPMENT GOING ON IN THAT SPACE, AND SO THEY'RE TRYING TO SNATCH UP SOME OF THOSE HOUSING SPACES.
BUT I SAY THAT IN TERMS OF PREVENTION, UM, THIS SEEMS VERY REACTIONARY.
SO, UH, IS, IS THERE ANYTHING, OR IS THERE ANY PARTICULAR PROGRAM THAT YOU FEEL IS MORE PREVENTATIVE THAN A REACTIONARY PROGRAM IN THIS FUNDING SPACE? UH, SURE.
WELL, IF YOU'RE LIMITING IT TO OUR FEDERAL FUNDING, THAT MAY, UH, I MAY NEED TO THINK A LITTLE BIT MORE.
BUT I WILL SAY WE UTILIZE OUR LOCAL FUNDING FOR OUR DISPLACEMENT PREVENTION PROGRAMS, UM, THAT FALL UNDER NEFERTITI'S GROUP.
AND YOU HAD A PRESENTATION TODAY, UH, DR.
MARLA TODO WHO TALKED ABOUT, UM, STRATEGIES TO, TO PREVENT, UM, DISPLACEMENT.
BUT NEFERTITI'S TEAM REALLY IS ORGANIZED AROUND HOMEOWNER, UM, DISPLACEMENT PREVENTION AND, AND TENANT STABILIZATION.
AND SO ON THE HOMEOWNER SIDE, UH, WE SPEND A A LOT OF TIME AND ENERGY AND RESOURCES ON OUR HOME REPAIR PROGRAMS WITH THE GOAL OF ENABLING OUR LOW AND MODERATE UP TO MODERATE INCOME HOMEOWNERS, UM, TO STAY IN PLACE.
AND IN OUR TENANT STABILIZATION PLACE SPACE, UH, WE FOCUS ON EVICTION PREVENTION, WHICH CAN INCLUDE THINGS LIKE, UM, THE, I BELONG IN AUSTIN PROGRAM PREVENTING, UM, AND DIVERTING FOLKS FROM, UM, EVICTIONS AND STABILIZING, ENABLING THEM TO STAY IN THEIR COMMUNITIES.
AND THOSE ARE PRIMARILY LOCALLY FUNDED.
A LOT OF OUR HOME REPAIR IS FEDERALLY FUNDED, BUT UM, WE ALSO HAVE LOCAL FUNDS IN THERE.
WELL, THE ONE OTHER THING, AND THIS IS THAT I PROMISE CHAIR, THE INFRASTRUCTURE CHASE, YOU STARTED TO TALK ABOUT ROADS AND THEN ALSO MANDY, YOU FOLLOWED UP TALKING ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT, UM, HAPPENING OVER IN, IN, IN, IN, UM, COLIN PARK.
I AM CONCERNED THAT THE FUNDS WILL ONLY GO TOWARDS AREAS THAT ARE BEING EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY IMPACTED BY FUNDING, BY THIS FEDERAL FUNDING WHEN THERE'S COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE ALREADY EXISTED AND THEY MIGHT HAVE INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS.
SO I I I'M GLAD THAT YOU EXPLAINED, GAVE BETTER CONTEXT TO THE NUMBERS, THE 13,000, I'M CONCERNED THAT IT MIGHT LEAVE OUT, IT, IT MIGHT OMIT COMMUNITIES THAT ARE ALREADY EXISTING IN THAT SPACE AND HAVE ALREADY SOLIDIFIED COMMUNITY THERE.
SO WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THIS INFRASTRUCTURE, SO CHASE, THIS IS MAYBE DIRECTLY TO YOU, THIS FEDERAL FUNDING, DOES IT INCLUDE THE PREEXISTING COMMUNITIES OR ARE WE ONLY LOOKING AT THIS FUNDING BEING ABLE TO AFFECT THE DIRECT BENEFIT OF THE NEW DEVELOPMENT? AND I JUST USE COL PARK AS AN EXAMPLE, BUT I MEAN ACROSS AUSTIN.
SO THE INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT, UM, LINE ITEM IS NOT LIMITED, UH, TO NEW DEVELOPMENT IN ANY WAY.
IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE FOR THIS PAST FISCAL YEAR.
AND THIS CURRENT FISCAL YEAR, COLONY PARK, UH, WAS PRIORITIZED, BUT IT IS NOT INFRASTRUCTURE.
AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY COMMUNITIES, I WOULD SAY, UM, IT'S MOST COMMON FOR COMMUNITIES TO USE CDBG FUNDING FOR INFRASTRUCTURE, EXISTING ROADS, SEWER, UM, FLOOD MITIGATION, THINGS LIKE THAT.
SIDEWALKS IN SIDEWALKS IN EXISTING COMMUNITIES.
UM, I DON'T WANNA SPEAK TO OUR, UH, YOU KNOW, OUR PARTNERS IN CAPITAL DELIVERY SERVICE, THEY HAVE FUNDING, PRIMARILY IT'S THROUGH GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, BUT SOMETIMES IT IS THROUGH FEDERAL FUNDING WHERE THEY INVEST, UM, AND PRIORITIZE THINGS LIKE IN EXISTING COMMUNITY SIDEWALKS, FLOOD MITIGATION, WATER, SEWER, ROADS.
SOMETHING THERE, JUST TO CLARIFY, AND I RARELY WILL COME BEHIND MY BOSS.
THIS IS NOT NORMAL, UH, NE FOR TD JACKMAN COMMUNITY DISPLACEMENT PREVENTION OFFICER, BUT I WANNA MAKE SURE I, UM, THAT WE REALLY OUTLINE TO.
UM, SO THIS IS THE INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT.
IF YOU RECALL, UH, YOU DID VOTE TO APPROVE COLONY PARK RESIDENTS CAME BEFORE YOU, MRS. BARBARA SCOTT, AND OTHERS.
AND SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT YOU APPROVED OF, BUT, AND I THINK MANDY OUTLINED THIS, I WANNA JUST EMPHASIZE IT.
THE, EVEN THOUGH WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE NEW DEVELOPMENT, THE 200 PLUS
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ACRES THAT WILL BE DEVELOPED, THE INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING IS GOING TO, AND MANDY DID SAY THIS, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE WE'RE CLEAR.IT'S GOING TO PROTECT AND, UH, THE EXISTING NEIGHBORHOOD, IT IS NOT FOR THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT.
RIGHT? YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT WE WOULD BE ON THE SAME PAGE.
SO I WANTED TO JUST MAKE THAT CLEAR.
UH, CAN YOU MAKE A QUICK COMMISSIONER LYRIC? UM, I, THIS IS A LOT FOR MY BRAIN TO BE HONEST.
I'M, I'M STILL REALLY TRYING TO LIKE GET MY HEAD AROUND IT.
BUT YOU HAD SAID MANDY, THAT LIKE, THIS IS MORE OF JUST LIKE A REPORT OUT, UM, LIKE A NUMBERS THING.
BUT I'M CURIOUS WHAT THE POINT OF LIKE THE, IF IT'S REQUIRED TO HAVE THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT, THE COMMUNITY, LIKE, UH, IT SAYS IT ON THIS OTHER PAGE, Y'ALL HAVE LIKE, DURING THE ANNUAL ACTION PLAN, LIKE A TIME WHERE YOU GET COMMUNITY NEEDS HEARD AND THAT KIND OF THING.
UM, AND LAST YEAR, I REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER, LIKE I GOT REALLY EXCITED 'CAUSE I KIND OF HEARD THERE WAS LIKE SOMETHING THAT KIND OF SOUNDED LIKE A GAP AND I WAS LIKE, OH, WELL MAYBE THERE COULD BE AN ALLOCATION.
SO I'M JUST CURIOUS, LIKE IF THERE ARE THINGS THAT CAN BE DONE DIFFERENTLY WITHIN THE CAPER, UM, BECAUSE LIKE I'M HOPING LESSONS LEARNED FROM LAST YEAR WON'T THEN BE DOING THE SAME THING THIS YEAR.
UM, YEAH, YOU'RE YOU'RE TEAMING ME UP FOR TWO SLIDES FROM NOW AND I'M KIND OF EXCITED.
TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, YEAH, AND WE, WE WILL GO OVER IN JUST A SECOND.
BUT, AND AGAIN, THIS IS JUST TO KINDA REITERATE LIKE THE BEGINNING OF THE, THE, THE, THE SLIDES.
BUT SO WE PUT TOGETHER THE FIVE YEAR PLAN, RIGHT? AND IT'S, IT'S BROAD.
WE TALK ABOUT, BECAUSE NOBODY KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE GONNA DO IN FIVE YEARS FROM NOW OR IN FOUR YEARS FROM NOW, BUT IT'S KIND OF LIKE, IT'S LAYING THE FRAMEWORK FOR WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO.
AND THEN WE COME BACK TO YOU GUYS, AND THAT'S REALLY WHERE WE WANT YOUR INPUT DURING THE ACTION PLAN PROCESS, WHICH WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT IN A COUPLE OF SLIDES.
BUT WE'LL BE COMING TO YOU GUYS IN A COUPLE OF MONTHS TO SOLICIT YOUR FEEDBACK.
THAT'S, THAT'S YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO KIND OF ADVOCATE FOR THE, THE, THE SHIFTING OF THE DECK OR TO, TO ADVOCATE FOR ANY SPECIFIC PROGRAM TO, TO, UM, VICE-CHAIR YOUR, TO YOUR POINT, HOPEFULLY THAT WILL ADDRESS SOME OF THE THINGS YOU WANNA HEAR ABOUT A TIMELINE AND LIKE WHEN YOU CAN EXPECT TO SEE THINGS AND SPECIFICALLY ABOUT INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT.
THAT WOULD BE THE OPPORTUNITY TO KIND OF, FOR, FOR YOU GUYS TO WEIGH IN ON, ON, ON THE DIRECTION THAT WE GO WITH INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT AND ALL THOSE THINGS.
UM, HOPEFULLY THAT ANSWERS YOUR QUESTION.
BUT JUST TO REITERATE THAT AFTER WE BUILD THAT FIVE YEAR PLAN, WE COME BACK TO YOU GUYS WITH THE ANNUAL ACTION PLAN, WHICH WILL COME IN A COUPLE OF MONTHS, AND THAT, THAT'S WHERE WE BUILD THE BUDGET AND THE PLAN FOR, FOR WHAT WE ARE GOING TO BE DOING, NOT NOW.
IT'S, IT'S SILLY TO THINK ABOUT THAT YOU'RE GONNA BE SITTING IN MARCH OR APRIL AND TALKING ABOUT FUTURE YEAR, FISCAL YEAR 26, 20 $7, BUT THAT'S HOW FAR IN ADVANCE WE HAVE TO START THAT PROCESS SO THAT WE CAN GET EVERYTHING IN LINE AND MEET ALL THE FEDERAL REQUIREMENTS.
THE PURPOSE OF THIS SPECIFIC PRESENTATION IS TO JUST REPORT OUT TO YOU GUYS ON SOMETHING THAT WE TALKED TO YOU GUYS ABOUT BACK LAST MAY AND LAST AP, UH, I'M SORRY, UM, LAST MARCH AND APRIL.
SO THE, AT THIS POINT IN THAT TIMELINE IS JUST TO LET YOU GUYS KNOW THAT, HEY, WE TALKED ABOUT SOMETHING EIGHT MONTHS AGO AND THIS IS WHAT, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED WITH WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT.
AND I THINK THE BENEFIT OF THE CAPER IS TO LOOK AT KIND OF WHERE WE DIDN'T MEET OUR GOALS OR DIDN'T, AND YOU ALL HIGHLIGHTED ALREADY JUST WITH A QUICK SCAN, LIKE, WAIT, IT SAID 13,000 AND YET IT WAS ZERO, OR THE TBRA YOU SERVED MORE AND YET YOU SPENT LESS.
UM, NOW THERE ARE STORIES BEHIND THAT, BUT IF IN FACT WE SAID WE WERE GONNA, UM, SPEND A MILLION DOLLARS DOING THIS BRAND NEW PROGRAM AND WE WERE GONNA SERVE A HUNDRED PEOPLE AND WE CAME BACK AND WE DIDN'T DO ANY OF THAT, THEN THAT'S THE OPPORTUNITY AND THE ACTION PLAN TO SAY MAYBE IT WAS A GREAT IDEA.
UM, BUT THESE ARE THE REASONS WHY IT DIDN'T HAPPEN.
WE THINK THAT MONEY WOULD BE BETTER PRIORITIZED IN A DIFFERENT AREA.
SO, AND TO PIGGYBACK ON THAT, I WOULD, MY HOPE WOULD BE FOR YOU GUYS TO TAKE WHATEVER YOU'VE LEARNED IN THIS PRESENTATION OR ANY OF THIS CONVERSATION, STICK IT IN YOUR POCKET, AND THEN COME BACK TO US IN TWO OR THREE MONTHS AND, AND USE THAT TO INFORM PLUS YOUR HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE AND WHATEVER ELSE TO, TO KIND OF INFORM OUR DIRECTION GOING, GOING FORWARD IN A COUPLE MONTHS WHEN WE START LAYING OUT A FUTURE PLAN.
UM, WE HAVE A FEW MORE SLIDES, UH, LEFT.
OH, DO WE, DO WE OR NOT? UH, I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED, WHAT'D I DO? HE'S GONNA PULL IT UP THERE.
CAN WE, YEAH, MIGUEL, HOW ARE WE DOING ON TIME? PROBABLY WANTS US TO MOVE THROUGH PRETTY QUICK.
THIS IS, IF COULD PLEASE, THIS IS IN WRITING WHAT WE JUST TALKED
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ABOUT, REALLY.THE NEXT ONE'S PROBABLY IF IT WORKS.
THIS WAS THE TIMELINE I WAS KIND OF REFERRING TO.
SO IN JANUARY WE COME TO YOU GUYS, WE'RE REPORTING OUT ON EVERYTHING THAT'S HAPPENED IN THE, IN THE PRIOR YEAR.
WE'RE GONNA COME BACK TO YOU GUYS IN MARCH, KIND OF PRESENT TO YOU OUR FORMAL TIMELINE FOR WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN OVER THIS NEXT YEAR, APRIL, WE WILL COME BACK TO YOU GUYS AGAIN AND TALK TO YOU ABOUT THE COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT.
THAT'S WHERE YOU'LL WEIGH IN ON, UM, THE Y'ALL'S THOUGHTS AND AND WISHES FOR, FOR WHAT WE DO WITH OUR FEDERAL FUNDING.
MAY WE'LL COME BACK TO YOU WITH A DRAFT PLAN BASED ON, YOU KNOW, Y'ALL'S FEEDBACK AND, AND OTHER, UM, ORGANIZATION'S FEEDBACK.
THEN WE COME BACK TO YOU GUYS AGAIN WITH A FINAL DRAFT IN, IN JUNE, HOPEFULLY GET EVERYTHING INTO COUNCIL BY AUGUST.
AND THEN BY THAT POINT WE'LL BE REPORTING ON END OF YEAR RESULTS FOR THE YEAR THAT WE'RE CURRENTLY SITTING IN AND, AND OPERATING IT.
UH, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
THE ONLY THING I WILL ADD, I WANNA MAKE SURE, UH, LAST TIME I I WAS HERE OR A PRESENTATION, THERE WAS SOME CONCERN ABOUT FEDERAL FUNDING.
AND I DO WANNA MAKE SURE YOU ALL KNOW THAT WE HAVE OUR, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, SIGNED AND COUNTERSIGNED GRANT AGREEMENTS FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR.
THERE WAS CONCERN BECAUSE OF COURSE WE HAD A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN, UM, AND A VARIETY OF CONCERNS.
UM, BUT, UH, WE DO HAVE OUR FUNDING IN PLACE FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR FOR OUR FOUR GRANT PROGRAM.
[7. Discussion on “Update on the Santa Rita Courts”. Discussion led by Sylvia Calderón, Chief Operating Officer, and Ann Gass, Director of Strategic Housing Initiatives from the Housing Authority of the City of Austin.]
MOVE ON TO OUR NEXT ITEM.UH, WE'RE GOING TO JUMP A LITTLE BIT.
WE'RE GOING TO HAVE ITEM NUMBER SEVEN, UH, UPDATE ON THE SANTA RITA COURT'S, UM, DEVELOPMENT DISCUSSION LED BY SYLVIA CALON, CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER, AND THEN GAS DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC HOUSING INITIATIVES FROM THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN.
WELCOME, AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE.
MY NAME IS, UH, SYLVIA CALON, CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER FOR THE AUSTIN HOUSING AUTHORITY.
AND THANK YOU FOR, UM, HAVING US BACK AND, UM, JOINED BY ANNE GAS, OUR DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC HOUSING INITIATIVES.
SO, UH, YEAH, WE HAVE A FEW SLIDES THAT WE'D LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU THIS EVENING.
JUST TO GIVE YOU A QUICK UPDATE ON WHERE WE ARE WITH THE, UH, SANTA RITA COURTS REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT.
AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MAY NOT BE FAMILIAR WITH OUR ORGANIZATION, AGAIN, THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN WAS FORMED IN 1937 UNDER THE US HOUSING ACT.
AND, UH, WE PROVIDE DEEPLY AFFORDABLE AND SUBSIDIZED HOUSING FOR AUSTIN FAMILIES, UH, PLACES THAT THEY WOULD BE PROUD TO CALL HOME.
UM, AND SO THE THREE ORIGINAL PROPERTIES THAT WERE CREATED BY THE HOUSING AUTHORITY THAT THEY BACK TO 1939 AND 1940, UM, THAT INCLUDES SANTA RITA COURTS, WHICH WE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT, UH, FURTHER TONIGHT.
UH, ROSEWOOD COURTS AND CHALMERS COURTS.
UM, AT THAT TIME IT WAS DURING, UH, TIME OF SEGREGATION.
SO SANTA, THE COURTS WAS, UH, BUILT FOR MEXICAN AMERICAN FAMILIES AND, UH, CHALMERS COURTS WAS FOR WHITE FAMILIES, AND ROSEWOOD COURTS WAS FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN FAMILIES.
AND SO, UM, AGAIN, THIS WAS SO SOMETHING THAT WAS CHAMPIONED BY, UH, THEN CONGRESSMAN LYNDON JOHNSON.
AND HE HAD A, UH, VERY, VERY INTIMATE, UH, PARTICIPATION IN THE CREATION OF THE AUSTIN HOUSING AUTHORITY.
AND, AND WE HAVE THAT CLAIM TO FAME TO BE NAMED THE FIRST IN THE COUNTRY.
THAT WAS FORMED UNDER THE US HOUSING ACT OF 1937, SOMETHING THAT WE'RE OBVIOUSLY VERY, VERY PROUD OF.
AND, UM, SO SENATORED COURTS, OF COURSE, HAS ALSO NATIONAL HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE BECAUSE IT WAS THE FIRST PUBLIC HOUSING PROPERTY THAT WAS COMPLETED UNDER THE US HOUSING ACT.
AND SO, AGAIN, THAT RICH HISTORY, THAT LEGACY, WE ARE ALL VERY, VERY PROUD OF.
UM, NOW OF COURSE, THAT ALSO MEANS IT DATES BACK TO 1939.
AND SO, UM, THE, THE BUILDINGS ARE, ARE VERY ANTIQUATED, THE BUILDING SYSTEMS, THERE'S NO CENTRAL AIR, NO CENTRAL HEAT, UH, NO INSULATION, CINDER BLOCK CONSTRUCTION.
AND SO IT, IT WAS DEFINITELY TIME, UH, PAST TIME TO, TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT AND, UH, BRING THESE PROPERTIES, THIS PROPERTY IN PARTICULAR, UM, INTO THE MODERN TIMES.
AND, UH, SO WE, WE ENGAGED IN A VERY ROBUST, UH, ENGAGEMENT PROCESS WITH OUR, OUR RESIDENTS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
OUR, OUR, UH, THE GREATER NEIGHBORHOOD, THE HOLLY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION,
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UM, MANY, MANY STAKEHOLDERS, UH, JUST TO HELP US TO ENVISION HOW WE CAN, UH, IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR, FOR THE FAM FAMILIES THAT WE SERVE.ALSO, THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO, UM, INCREASE THE NUMBER OF, OF HOMES THAT WE HAVE THERE.
CURRENTLY, IT'S 97 UNITS, AND WE ARE, UH, ACTUALLY AIMING TO DOUBLE THAT.
SO WE'RE GOING TO ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO SERVE MORE FAMILIES IN NEED.
AND WE'RE, WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THAT.
UH, WE ALSO RECOGNIZE THAT THERE'S, UH, A NEED FOR AFFORDABLE QUALITY, UM, CHILDCARE.
AND SO THERE'S GOING TO BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BRING AN ONSITE PRE-K UH, PROGRAM TO, TO THIS REDEVELOPMENT, WHICH WE'RE REALLY EXCITED TO PARTNER WITH, WITH MAIN SPRING SCHOOLS ON.
AND, AND SO THERE'S A LOT OF GREAT OPPORTUNITIES HERE TO IMPROVE, GREAT, GREATLY IMPROVE, UH, QUALITY OF LIFE FOR THE FAMILIES THAT, UH, WE HAVE SERVED AND ALSO FOR THE FUTURE GENERATIONS.
AND WITH THAT, TO GET INTO MORE OF THE SPECIFICS, I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO ANNE GAS, WHO IS GOING TO PROVIDE, UH, MORE INFORMATION ON, ON THOSE SITE PLAN.
SO, ANN, GOOD, GOOD EVENING EVERYONE.
ANN GAS DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC HOUSING INITIATIVES.
UM, I JUST, I WANNA POINT OUT HERE, WE, WE WERE HERE IN MARCH, SO YOU GUYS HAVE SEEN SOME OF THIS BEFORE, BUT I KNOW WE HAVE SOME NEW FACE TO MAYBE SOME FOLKS WHO DON'T REMEMBER.
SO JUST WANNA POINT OUT THE, THE OLD BUNGALOWS.
THESE ARE THE 1939 BUNGALOWS THAT ARE ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER THAT SYLVIA, UH, REFERRED TO.
AND THEN WE HAVE 1950S, TWO STORIES, UM, STILL HISTORIC BUT NOT QUITE AS HISTORIC.
SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT HOW WE'RE GONNA REDEVELOP THE PROJECT, WE'RE DOING IT IN TWO PHASES.
SO THIS IS THE NEW SITE PLAN, UH, THE NEW PROPOSED SITE PLAN.
SO THE FIRST PHASE IS THE WEST SIDE, SO PHASE ONE.
SO PHASE ONE IS THE, THE HIGH QUALITY PRE-K AND PRESCHOOL THAT SYLVIA MENTIONED.
SO THAT'S IN THE FAR LEFT OF THIS SLIDE, THAT STANDALONE, IT'S ONE STORY BUILDING.
UM, WILL SERVE AROUND 75 KIDDOS, UH, THEIR OWN PLAYGROUND.
THEY HAVE KITCHEN FACILITIES, UM, EVERYTHING THEY NEED TO PROVIDE THAT REALLY GOOD QUALITY, QUALITY CHILDCARE.
AND THEN THE DWELLING UNITS, THAT'S ONE FOUR STORY BUILDING THAT CS SHAPED BUILDING THAT WILL BE 96 UNITS.
AND WHEN WE TALK ABOUT A NEW BUILDING, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ALL THE MONITOR AMENITIES.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CENTRALLY, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT DISHWASHER, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WASHER DRYER HOOKUPS.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BETWEEN THE TWO PHASES.
WE'LL HAVE A WORKOUT AREA, WE'LL HAVE A COMMUNITY LAUNDRY FACILITY FOR THOSE WHO DON'T HAVE WASHER DRYER HOOKUPS.
SO, UM, A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT SANTA RITA TODAY DOESN'T PROVIDE TO THEIR RESIDENTS, THE NEW PROPERTY WILL PROVIDE.
SO WE'RE JUST SO EXCITED ABOUT IT.
UM, HAVE A COUPLE OF RENDERINGS OF WHAT THIS GORGEOUS NEW PROPERTY IS GONNA LOOK LIKE.
WE'RE SO PROUD OF, OF THE PRODUCT THAT NELSON PARTNERS HAS DESIGNED FOR.
SO THIS IS THE FOUR STORY NEW CONSTRUCTION BUILDING.
THIS IS AS IF YOU WERE STANDING ON SECOND STREET, LOOKING NORTH PET ALICE TO THE RIGHT AND CHRISTO RAY AND ROBERT T. MARTINEZ TO THE LEFT.
UM, AND THEN THIS IS A, A LOOK AT THE, WHAT THE, THE PRE-K WILL LOOK LIKE.
UM, JUST A REALLY BEAUTIFUL BUILDING AND SO EXCITED TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THAT FOR THE KIDDOS.
UM, AND THEN WE HAVE THE PHASE TWO EAST.
SO AGAIN, ANOTHER FOUR STORY BUILDING, 77 UNITS IN THAT, UM, NEW CONSTRUCTION.
AND THEN ON THE FAR RIGHT WE ARE PRESERVING ALL OF THE BUNGALOWS.
ALL OF THE NATIONAL REGISTERED BUILDINGS WILL BE PRESERVED.
WE WILL BE RENOVATING THE EXTERIORS TO LOOK LIKE THEY LOOKED BACK IN 1937.
SO REMOVING PITCHED ROOFS, REMOVING PAINT, UM, REPLACING WINDOWS WITH MODERN WINDOWS, WITH A LOOK OF 1939, UM, DOORS THAT LOOK LIKE THE 1939.
BUT THE LOOK OF 1939, THE INSIDE WILL BE SCOOPED OUT AND MADE, UM, MADE MODERN.
THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE BRAND, THE NEW CONSTRUCTION AND THE 1939 IS AS PART OF THE HISTORIC TAX CREDITS THAT WE'RE GETTING, WE ARE RETAINING ONE INTERIOR WALL WITH THE ORIGINAL BRICK.
SO IF YOU THINK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, I THINK ABOUT A NEW YORK CITY LOFT, RIGHT WHERE YOU HAVE THAT ONE BIG WALL, IT'S NOT RED BRICK, IT'S YELLOW BRICK, IT'S TEXAS YELLOW BRICK.
BUT STILL IT WILL, IT WILL BRING A, A SENSE OF THE, THE HISTORY OF THE PROJECT INSIDE AS WELL AS WHAT IT'S GONNA LOOK LIKE OUTSIDE.
SO THIS IS, THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE RENDERINGS 'CAUSE IT SHOWS SO MUCH OF WHAT THE SANTA RITA COMMUNITY IS GONNA GONNA HAVE.
YOU CAN SEE THAT HUGE PLAYGROUND RIGHT THERE IN THE MIDDLE FOR THE KIDS TO PLAY AND ALL THE BALCONIES LOOKING IN ON IT UNDER THAT BIG AWNING, WHICH THAT'S, THAT'S COMMUNITY SPACE.
SO OUTDOOR COMMUNITY SPACE IN INDOOR COMMUNITY SPACE.
THE BUILDING TO THE LEFT IS, IS THE, THE WEST PHASE.
THE BUILDING TO THE RIGHT THERE WITH THE AWNING IS THE, IS THE, IS THE EAST PHASE.
THEY REALLY ARE JUST GONNA LOOK LIKE ONE BIG PROJECT, UM, TO SERVE THE RESIDENTS.
AND THEN THIS IS JUST ANOTHER SHOT OF THE BUILDINGS.
SOME OF 'EM ARE REALLY, REALLY GOOD SIZED BALCONIES.
ONE OF THE THINGS WE HEARD FROM THE RESIDENTS WAS THAT THEY WERE GONNA MISS THEIR OUTDOOR SPACE.
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PROVIDE EVERYONE WITH A BALCONY WAS, WAS IMPORTANT.UM, AND SO HERE I PROVIDED THIS BREAKDOWN IN THE HANDOUT, SO I'M SURE YOU ALL HAVE HAD A CHANCE TO LOOK AT IT.
THIS IS THE BREAKDOWN OF, SO WE HAD 97 UNITS TO BEGIN WITH.
THAT'S 97 SUBSIDIZED UNITS, PROJECT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE SUBSIDY.
SO THE RESIDENTS PAY 30% OF THEIR ADJUSTED INCOME IN RENT, AND WE HAVE FEDERAL SUBSIDIES FOR THE REST.
UM, AT WEST WE WILL BE COMING BACK WITH 96 UNITS AT EAST A HUNDRED AND FOURTH.
SO THOSE 97 SUBSIDIZED UNITS WILL BE SPLIT AMONG THOSE 200 UNITS.
AND THEN ON THE RIGHT YOU CAN SEE THE MEDIAN INCOME BREAKDOWN FOR THE RESIDENTS.
SO, UM, YOU CAN SEE WE'VE GOT 30, 50, 60 AND MARKET RATE UNITS, UM, ABOUT 20 MARKET RATE UNITS.
AND AGAIN, THE, THE 97 SUBSIDIZED UNITS ARE SPRINKLED IN AT THOSE DIFFERENT, THOSE DIFFERENT AREA MEDIAN INCOME A MI LEVELS.
AND THEN LAST WE HAVE OUR TIMELINE.
SO WE COMPLETED RESIDENT RELOCATION ON JANUARY 2ND.
ALL 97 FAMILIES HAVE BEEN RELOCATED TO OTHER, UM, MOSTLY SUBSIDIZED UNITS IN AUSTIN.
UM, WE, I'VE GOT A FEW PICTURES OF THE RELOCATION ON THE, ON THE LAST SLIDE, BUT WE'LL BEGIN.
WE'RE BEGINNING DEMOLITION NOW, DEMOLITION'S BEGINNING THIS WEEK.
IT STARTS WITH SOME, WITH SOME ABATEMENT.
WE'VE GOT SOME, SOME INTERESTING SUBSTANCES IN THOSE OLD BUILDINGS THAT HAVE BEEN ENCAPSULATED FOR A LONG TIME.
SO AS WE BEGIN TO DISTURB THEM, WE WILL BE ABATING ALL OF THAT.
AND THEN WE'LL BEGIN ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION ROPING FOR MAY.
AND THEN FIRST UNITS WILL BE AVAILABLE ON THE WEST PHASE, UM, IN LATE 2027.
AND THEN THESE ARE A FEW OF OUR SANTA RITA FAMILIES WHO MOVED FROM SANTA RITA.
AND THESE WERE AMONG THE 23 FAMILIES THAT GOT TO GO TO THE BRAND NEW ROSEWOOD COURTS.
WE TALKED ABOUT ROSEWOOD COURTS LAST TIME WE WERE HERE.
SURE, Y'ALL HAVE DRIVEN BY THE FIRST BUILDING'S UP AND RUNNING.
SO THESE FAMILIES GOT TO MOVE INTO BRAND NEW ROSEWOOD COURTS AND, UM, REALLY, REALLY EXCITED THE SMILES ON THEIR FACES WE'RE NOT JUST FOR THE CAMERA, THAT WE'RE SO EXCITED TO BE MOVING INTO THESE BEAUTIFUL NEW APARTMENTS.
SO WE'RE REALLY PROUD TO HAVE THEM THERE.
UM, THAT'S MY, MY BRIEFING, BUT I'D LOVE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU ALL HAVE ABOUT SANTA RITA.
UH, COMMISSIONERS, DO WE HAVE QUESTIONS? COMMISSIONER ARNOLD? GO AHEAD.
YES, I'M SORRY, THIS IS NOT A QUESTION.
I JUST WANT TO, UM, JUST SAY IT IS GREAT TO SEE YOU LADIES AGAIN.
Y'ALL DO AMAZING WORK FROM GOING AND, UH, TOURING, I BELIEVE CHARMERS.
WITH THE CHARMERS AND SEEING, UM, ROSEWOOD TO NOW SANTA RITA AND JUST THE BE SOMEONE THAT IS, THAT GREW UP AND THOSE KIND OF COMPLEXES AND SEEING THE RESOURCES AND SERVICES Y'ALL ARE ACTUALLY OFFERING TO US, IF I WOULD'VE RECEIVED THAT, THAT WOULD'VE CHANGED MY LIFE IF I WOULD'VE EVEN JUST LIVED THERE WITH ALL OF THESE RESOURCES AND WOMEN LIKE Y'ALL, THAT WOULD'VE CHANGED MY LIFE.
SO I JUST WANNA SAY, I APPRECIATE Y'ALL FOR BEING SO INTENTIONAL WITH DOING THE WORK.
UM, A LOT OF PEOPLE GET OVERLOOKED, BUT IMPLEMENTING CLINICS AND CHILDCARE AND FOOD PANTRIES, WE SEE IT.
WE SEE YOU AND WE APPRECIATE YOU ALL.
YOU'VE ALWAYS BEEN SUCH A GREAT SUPPORT AND WE REALLY LOVE TO SHOW CHALMERS OFF.
SO THANK YOU FOR COMING TO VISIT.
COMMISSIONER ARNOLD, DO WE HAVE OTHER QUESTIONS? UH, COMMISSIONER TISHA.
I APPRECIATED THAT PRESENTATION.
UM, WHAT'S TO COME IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS? I DO WANT TO ASK ABOUT THE BREAKDOWN IN TERMS OF THE NUMBER OF UNITS AND IT, THE CORRELATION TO THE MEDIAN INCOME, THE MFI.
SO LOOKING AT THE NUMBERS, UM, I'M WONDERING THE TYPE OF UNIT THAT FALLS INTO, IF YOU HAVE THIS BREAKDOWN, THE 30, 50, 60 MARKET RATE.
SO HOW MANY OF THE 10 ON THE WEST, HOW MANY OF THE 20 TO THE EAST ARE ONE BEDROOM, TWO BEDROOM, THREE BEDROOM? UH, BECAUSE WE'RE THINKING ABOUT FAMILIES AND SINGLE INDIVIDUALS THAT WOULD QUALIFY AS TENANTS FOR THESE.
SO I JUST DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE THOSE PARTICULAR BREAKDOWNS IN LOOKING AT, UM, THE AVAILABILITY THAT IS THERE.
I DON'T HAVE IT ON ME, BUT I HAVE IT.
IT'S A, IT IS A REALLY BIG SPREADSHEET, BUT I'D BE HAPPY TO SHARE IT WITH YOU.
I COULD, I COULD, UH, HAND IT, GET IT OFF TO, TO MIGUEL AND HE COULD GET IT TO YOU.
AND AGAIN, I I I'M ABOUT TO MAKE A COMMENT.
I DON'T WANT TO UNDERSCORE THE EXCITEMENT OF THIS, OF THE BUILDING OF NEW, BECAUSE I WANT THE, I WANT THE FAMILIES TO BE ABLE TO EXPERIENCE NEW, BUT SOMETHING THAT DOES SIT IN THE BACK OF MY MIND, IF YOU'RE NOT FAMILIAR WITH
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LIBERTY SQUARE IN MIAMI, I'M CONCERNED OF A SIMILAR SITUATION WHERE WE HAVE RAISED PROJECTS, PUBLIC HOUSING THAT'S BEEN AROUND FOR DECADES AND EONS.AND I LOVE, THERE'S THE HISTORICAL COMPONENT WITH THE BRICK WALL, UM, AND THE REBUILDING AND THE, AND THE BARN DEINS AS I LIKE TO CALL THAT STYLE.
AND GRGE, I COME FROM DALLAS WHERE LOTS OF THINGS ARE BUILT THAT ARE GRGE, SORT OF THE GRAY BEIGE COLOR LOOK.
UM, AND I'M CONCERNED ABOUT THE MAINTENANCE AND UPKEEP OF THESE NEW BUILDINGS BECAUSE THERE'S SIMILAR STORIES OF WHAT HAPPENS ACROSS THE NATION AND THEY USE LIBERTY SQUARE.
UM, IN MIAMI AS AN EXAMPLE, THERE WAS A WHOLE DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THIS.
SO, UH, I JUST SAY THAT AS A COMMENT AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT I'M AT LEAST GONNA BE OBSERVANT ABOUT IN TERMS OF, UH, MAINTENANCE OR IF THERE'S, THERE'S AN ACCELERATION OF BREAKDOWN OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE PLACE.
'CAUSE UNFORTUNATELY THAT HAPPENS MORE OFTEN THAN NONE.
AND, UM, SO JUST, YEAH, CONGRATULATIONS.
BUT ALSO A CAUTIONARY CONGRATULATIONS
AND I WOULDN'T WANT IT TO BE WHERE THEY WERE MOVED OUT OF IT, UH, TO NOW ONLY COME BACK INTO HAVE SOME, SOME, UH, YOU KNOW, CHALLENGES.
AND WE, WE APPRECIATE, WE APPRECIATE THOSE, THOSE COMMENTS AND, AND, AND WORDS OF CAUTION AND, AND WE, WE SHARE IN, IN THAT CONCERN, WHICH IS WHY WE WERE VERY, VERY SELECTIVE IN THE DEVELOPER PARTNER AND, AND THE ARCHITECTS THAT WE WORKED WITH TO ENSURE THAT WHAT IS GOING TO REPLACE SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN, YOU KNOW, PART OF THE COMMUNITY FOR, FOR MANY DECADES.
IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO STAND THE TEST OF TIME, JUST, JUST AS WELL, IF NOT BETTER.
SO WE, WE DEFINITELY WE'RE, WE'RE ON THE SAME PAGE ABOUT THAT.
UH, COMMISSIONER MENARD HAS A QUESTION.
SO YOU MENTIONED HAVING, UH, ENERGY, UM, I GUESS EFFICIENT, UM, BUILDING.
SO JUST WANTED TO QUESTION ON THE WINDOWS, ARE THEY DOUBLE PANED BY ANY CHANCE? AND WILL THERE BE ANY KIND OF SOLAR OR, UM, RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES? THEY ARE DOUBLE PANED.
UM, AND WE ARE GOING FOR AN AUSTIN ENERGY GREEN BUILD CERTIFICATION.
SO ALL THAT THAT ENTAILS, UM, I DON'T KNOW WHETHER WE'LL BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE TWO STARS.
WE HAVE, WE HAVE IN, IN SOME, IN SOME CASES ACHIEVE TWO STARS.
I'M NOT SURE IF WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO GET THERE WITH THIS ONE, BUT WE ARE GONNA DO SOLAR.
WE'VE DONE SOLAR AT CHALMERS AND ROSEWOOD AND GOODRICH, ALL OF OUR NEW CONSTRUCTION THROUGH AN, UH, FANTASTIC AUSTIN ENERGY PROGRAM.
I CANNOT THANK THEM ENOUGH FOR DEVELOPING THE SHARED SOLAR PROGRAM THAT ALLOWS US TO TAKE THE SOLAR GENERATION FROM THE ROOFS OF THESE AFFORDABLE HOUSING COM COMPLEXES AND, UH, PASS THE SAVINGS ONTO THE RESIDENTS DIRECTLY.
SO WE, WE COULDN'T DO THAT WITHOUT THIS PROGRAM THAT THEY SPECIFICALLY DEVELOPED.
SO, UH, BIG KUDOS TO THEM FOR ALLOWING US TO DO THAT.
AND YES, WE'LL BE DOING IT AT SANTA RITA.
AND, UH, MIGUEL, OH, GO AHEAD.
UH, YEAH, THANK YOU COMMISSIONER LAGUARDIA, QUICK COMMENT.
UM, I THINK IT LOOKS GREAT ALSO, BUT, UM, I CAN'T HELP BUT ADVOCATE FOR LIKE FAMILIES AND BY THAT I MEAN LIKE THREE AND FOUR BEDROOMS. UM, WELL, FROM, FROM, FROM THE LOOKS OF IT, IT SEEMS LIKE THEY'RE STAYING AT, AT AROUND THE SAME AMOUNT OR INCREASING JUST SLIGHTLY.
HOWEVER, THE NUMBER OF ONE BEDROOMS INCREASES BY 50, AND THEN ALSO THE NUMBER OF TWO BEDROOMS INCREASES BY AGAIN, ALSO 50.
SO YOU'RE INVITING 50 SINGLE PEOPLE AND THEN ALSO 50 DUAL OCCUPANCY UNITS.
UM, BUT I DON'T KNOW, I WOULD LOVE TO LIKE, FOR US TO BE ABLE TO LIKE INVITE LIKE FAMILIES AND LIKE TO STAY, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE UM, A SINGLE PARENT AND A SINGLE CHILD COULD STAY IN A TWO BEDROOM, BUT NOT THREE PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, AT SOME POINT, LIKE YOU AGE OUT OF IT.
AND, UM, I DUNNO, I JUST CAN'T HELP BUT THINK OF THAT.
UM, I UNDERSTAND, AGAIN, LOOKING AT THE TOTAL CURRENT UNITS BACK IN THE 1930S, THEY REALLY PRIORITIZED THE THREE BEDROOMS, LIKE MADE FOR FAMILIES AND NOW SANTA RITA COURTS, I MEAN, THERE ARE GONNA BE SOME FAMILIES, BUT THEY'RE GONNA BE VERY OUTNUMBERED BY SINGLES AND DUAL OCCUPANCY.
AND I'M CURIOUS TO KNOW THE RATIONALE ON HOW THIS IS DONE.
I'M SURE THERE'S RATIONALE AND STUFF, AND THEN ALSO WHAT IT'S GONNA CHANGE, LIKE THE COMMUNITY, YOU KNOW, FAMILIAL TO LIKE SINGLE PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, OR LIKE, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? YEAH.
SO JUST A, JUST A THOUGHT GOING FORWARD FOR LIKE THE DIFFERENT HAKA, UM, YOU KNOW, PLACES.
SO I, WE, WE ABSOLUTELY UNDERSTAND THAT.
UM, INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, SANTA RITA HAS THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF NON ONE BEDROOMS OF ALL THE REDEVELOPMENTS WE'VE DONE, UM, GOODRICH, CHALMERS, ROSEWOOD,
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WERE ALL ALMOST 50% ONE BEDROOMS AND THE BALANCE, THE LARGER BEDROOM SIZE, THIS IS ACTUALLY INTERESTINGLY AN IMPROVEMENT.UM, YOU'RE RIGHT, IT LOOKS, IT LOOKS LIKE A SWING, BUT IT IS AN IMPROVEMENT.
UM, WE ARE, WE'RE, WE'RE ABLE TO SERVE, WE'RE ABLE TO SERVE MORE FAMILIES LARGER OR SMALL WITH, WITH SMALLER BEDROOM SIZES FOR SURE.
UM, AND I'LL ALSO SAY THAT THE, THE OFTENTIMES THE SINGLE OCCUPANTS THAT WE ARE SERVING ARE, UM, PERSONS OVER 62 AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES.
AND SO, UM, I THINK THAT THAT BRINGS, ALTHOUGH I, I AS A MOM OF TWO, I ABSOLUTELY UNDERSTAND THE, THE IMPORTANCE OF FAMILY AND THE SPACE FOR FAMILIES AND THE, THE IMPORTANCE OF FAMILIES AND COMMUNITY.
BUT I'VE ALSO FOUND THAT THE SINGLE INDIVIDUALS BRING ACTUALLY A REALLY GOOD NEW ASPECT TO A, UH, HOUSING COMMUNITY THAT YOU MIGHT NOT EXPECT BECAUSE, UM, WE'VE GOT VERY, VERY SPECIAL POPULATIONS.
I'LL ALSO INTERJECT THAT THE, THE BREAKDOWN IS REALLY BASED ON THE DEMAND THAT WE SEE.
SO OUR ONE BEDROOM AND TWO BEDROOM WAIT LISTS ARE BY FAR OUR LONGEST, AND THOSE ARE THE LONGEST WAITS FOR, FOR PEOPLE WHO, WHO NEED OUR SERVICES.
AND SO WE WANT IT TO BE RESPONSIVE TO THAT.
UM, THE, THE, THE THREE BEDROOMS AND FOUR BEDROOMS, WHILE WE DO HAVE A NEED, DEFINITELY IT'S NOT AS LONG OF A WAIT FOR FAMILIES TO BE SERVED IN, IN THE THREE BEDROOMS AND FOUR BEDROOMS AS IT IS FOR, FOR ONES AND TWOS.
THAT'S JUST BY FAR THE HIGHEST DEMAND THAT, THAT WE HAVE SEEN, UH, FROM THE COMMUNITY.
AND SO WE WANTED TO BE RESPONSIVE TO, TO THE, THE DEMAND THAT WE HAVE SEEN.
COMMISSIONER LYRIC, YOU HAVE A QUESTION? YEAH.
UM, I WAS CURIOUS ABOUT THE, UM, RENT FOR THE AREA MEDIAN INCOME THAT CAN THAT STILL BE INCREASED EVERY YEAR? LIKE CAN THAT, CAN THEY BE IN THERE FOR A YEAR AND THEN RENT GOES UP? SO THE, THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING COMMUNITY AFFAIRS SETS RENTS THAT, THAT, THAT, UM, CORRELATE WITH THE INCOME LIMITS.
AND THOSE DO TEND TO GO UP EVERY YEAR BASED ON THE, UM, BASED ON THE, THE, THE T-D-H-C-A INCOME LIMITS.
SO THERE'S NO CAP OR ANYTHING, UM, ONLY WHAT T-D-H-C-A IMPOSES, UM, THE 97 SUBSIDIZED UNITS WILL PAY 30% OF THEIR ADJUSTED INCOME NO MATTER WHAT.
SO IF THE RENT GOES UP, JUST THE SUBSIDY GOES UP, IT WILL JUST BE THE ONES THAT AREN'T ASSISTED THAT WOULD ACTUALLY SEE THAT INCREASE.
NOT BASED ON INCOME, BUT BASED ON THE AREA MEDIAN INCOME FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ARE THE MARKET RATE RENT, WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE FOR THOSE UNITS? LIKE IS THERE AN AVERAGE FOR, USUALLY WE END UP CHARGING ABOUT THE 80% A MI RENT.
WE USUALLY AREN'T CHARGING MORE THAN THAT.
SO WHAT IS THE, LIKE A AVERAGE ONE BEDROOM AT 80% LOOK LIKE? OH, I DON'T HAVE THAT OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.
THAT'LL BE ON THE SPREADSHEET.
YEAH, I HAVE THAT LEVEL OF DETAIL ON THE SPREADSHEET.
AND THEN JUST LIKE AS SOON AS Y'ALL SAID, UH, LIKE PERSON'S OVER 62 AND UH, PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, UM, Y'ALL SEE A LOT.
I'M JUST CURIOUS IF THIS APARTMENT COMPLEX HAS AN ELEVATOR AND THEN IF NOT, IF YOU HAVE SOMEONE THAT HAS A DISABILITY OR HAS A CHILD OR, YOU KNOW, IS OVER THE AGE OF 60, HOW Y'ALL PRIORITIZE THAT? OR IS IT JUST KIND OF FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE? SO WE, WE DO HAVE ELEVATORS.
UM, EACH BUILDING HAS AN ELEVATOR AND THE TAX DEPARTMENT, HOUSING COMMUNITY AFFAIRS REQUIRES ANY TAX CREDIT PROPERTY LIKE THIS TO HAVE 5% OF THE UNITS BE, UM, FULLY HANDICAPPED ACCESSIBLE.
UM, THE HOUSING AUTHORITY IN ALL OF OUR REDEVELOPMENTS, IT'S DOUBLED THAT TO MAKE IT 10%.
SO 10% OF THESE UNITS FULL, UH, 20 UNITS WILL BE FULLY ACCESSIBLE AND ALL UNITS, WHAT WE CALL ADAPTABLE, MEANING THAT WE CAN, WITH A FEW MODIFICATIONS ADD AND MAKE IT, UM, ACCESSIBLE.
BUT THOSE ARE FIRST FLOOR ONES, RIGHT? NO, NO, IT'S ANY OF, YEP.
IT'S, IT'S ALL FOUR FOURS BECAUSE WE HAVE THE ELEVATOR.
WE WOULD BE LIMITED BECAUSE WE HAD THE ELEVATOR.
WE ARE, UM, AND YOUR SECOND QUESTION, I'M SORRY, I WAS GONNA DEFER IT, SYLVIA, BUT I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS NOW.
UM, YEAH, I I WAS JUST ASKING ABOUT, UM, THE MARKET RATE.
SO I, I THINK WE'VE TRIED TO STREAMLINE THE, THE PREFERENCES AS AS WE GO JUST BECAUSE WHAT, WHAT WHAT ENDS UP HAPPENING IS IF WE APPLY SO MANY PREFERENCES FOR DIFFERENT, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, VARIETY OF NEEDS, IT KIND OF CANCELS OUT.
AND SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S ESSENTIALLY BY DATE AND TIME OF, OF APPLICATION,
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IT JUST MAKES IT EASIER AND GIVES EVERYONE AN OPPORTUNITY TO, UM, TO, TO, TO LIVE AT, AT THE PROPERTY VERSUS HAVING SEVEN OR EIGHT TYPES OF PRIORITIES THAT IT JUST KIND OF TENDS TO KIND OF, UH, CANCEL OUT, IF THAT MAKES SENSE.UM, BUT OF COURSE, WE DO WANNA MAKE SURE THAT IF THERE IS A FAMILY WITH, UM, YOU KNOW, DISABILITY NEEDS, THEY ARE, UM, PRIORITIZED TO GO INTO UNITS THAT HAVE THOSE FEATURES.
SO, UH, THAT, THAT IS DEFINITELY PART OF THE, UH, THE METHODOLOGY.
YEAH, AND I WAS GONNA JUST SAY TO THAT, I THINK, UM, IF Y'ALL EVER HAVE THE CHANCE TO KIND OF GO BY LIKE LENGTH OF TIME WAITING FOR HOUSING BASED ON NEED, UM, BECAUSE I DO, I, I KNOW OF FAMILIES THAT HAVE HAD, LIKE, KIDS THAT HAVE PERMANENT DISABILITIES THAT ARE NOT ABLE TO ACCESS CERTAIN UNITS, UM, AND THEN THEY'RE WAITING FOR HOUSING FOR LONGER BECAUSE THEY HAVE MORE PARTICULAR NEEDS.
UM, AND SO IF Y'ALL ARE EVER ABLE TO JUST KIND OF LIKE, WE HAVE A UNIT THAT IS LIKE ACCESSIBLE ON THE FIRST FLOOR, LIKE, AND THIS FAMILY HAS BEEN, YOU KNOW, IN THE SHELTER FOR HOWEVER LONG OR WHATEVER THE SITUATION IS, UM, JUST TO BE ABLE TO LOOK AT THAT A LITTLE BIT DEEPER BECAUSE THERE ARE FAMILIES THAT HAVE TO WAIT LONGER JUST BECAUSE MOST UNITS ARE NOT ACCESSIBLE OR DON'T HAVE, UM, WHAT THAT FAMILY NEEDS.
SO THEY'RE END UP, THEY, THEY JUST, YEAH, THEY'RE IN TRANSITION FOR A LONGER TIME, SO, YEAH.
UH, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
UM, AND YES, WE DO HAVE A SPEAKER, BUT I JUST WANT TO TELL COMMISSIONERS THAT WE'RE ARE, WE'RE AT 8:30 PM SO, UH, KEEP YOUR QUESTIONS, UH, SHORT AND YEAH, THANK YOU CHAIR.
YES, WE HAVE, UH, ONE COMMUNITY MEMBER, UH, SIGNED UP FOR THIS SUBJECT MATTER OR ITEM, AND THAT'S MARIAN SANCHEZ AND SHE HAS LISTED, UH, HER ORGANIZATION AS ETTE.
HI, GOOD EVENING COMMISSIONERS.
I'M THE SUSTAINABILITY AND SOLAR EQUITY CAMPAIGN COORDINATOR FOR BOLDED.
WE ARE AN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATION SEEKING TO EMPOWER EAST AUSTIN COMMUNITIES THROUGH EDUCATION, ADVOCACY, AND ACTION.
AS A STAFF MEET UP OF MOSTLY EAST AUSTIN RESIDENTS, WE ARE PROVIDED WITH THE CAPACITY TO CONNECT AND EMPATHIZE WITH THE LIVED EXPERIENCES THAT COMMUNITY MEMBERS SHARE WITH US AND THEREFORE DEFINE THE PROJECTS THAT WE COMMIT TO.
TODAY, WE WOULD LIKE TO FACILITATE A DIALOGUE PREDICATED ON THE POSSIBILITY OF SOLAR FOR THE SANITA COURTS REDEVELOPMENT, CENTERING ON CLEAN ENERGY EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY.
OUR SOLAR EQUITY CAMPAIGN IS FOUNDED ON THE ENERGY COST BURDEN, UNRELIABILITY AND CLEAN ENERGY INEQUITY THAT'S FACED BY EAST AUSTIN'S LOW INCOME COMMUNITIES OF COLOR.
STUDIES CONDUCTED ACROSS TEXAS HAVE REFLECTED THE DISPARATE BURDEN THAT THESE DEMOGRAPHICS FACE COMPOUNDED BY THE CLIMATE CHANGE AND AFFORDABILITY CRISIS THAT AUSTINITES ARE ENDURING IN TANDEM WITH THE EVER INCREASING COST OF LIVING IN AUSTIN JUST A FEW YEARS AGO, CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT THREE, WHERE SANITA COURTS HAS SITUATED EXPERIENCED THE HIGHEST INCREASE IN AUSTIN ENERGY RATES AT THIR.
23% LIVED IN SHARED EXPERIENCES DURING EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS.
WINTER STORMS, URI AND MARA, THE RECENT MICROBURST, RECORD BREAKING SUMMERS, ET CETERA, ALL HIGHLIGHT THE LACK OF RELIABILITY THAT OUR ENERGY GRID DESPERATELY NEEDS SOLAR INSTALLATIONS AND BATTERIES THAT PRODUCE RELIABLE, CLEAN, AND AFFORDABLE ENERGY AT ALL TIMES HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO REMEDIATE THESE ISSUES.
UNFORTUNATELY, MANY AUSTINITE LACK ACCESS TO SOLAR ENERGY BECAUSE THEY'RE RENTERS CANNOT AFFORD THE STEEP UPFRONT COSTS, LACK AWARENESS, SUFFICIENT PROPERTY STANDARDS, ET CETERA.
A SURVEY THAT PO CONDUCTED AT THE COURTS FOUND THAT A COMBINATION OF THESE FACTORS INHIBIT THE SANITA COURTS COMMUNITY FROM INCLUSIVE PARTICIPATION.
PO PARTNERS BELIEVE THAT WE MUST USE CREATIVE MECHANISMS TO FOSTER GREATER DEVELOPMENT OF SOLAR ENERGY PROJECTS, PROJECTS WITHIN OUR MOST DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES.
IN AUSTIN, THE SANITA COURT'S REDEVELOPMENT STANDS TO BENEFIT FROM REDUCED ENERGY COSTS, RESILIENCY AND A HEALTHIER ENVIRONMENT FOR THE RESIDENTS AND COMMUNITY AT LARGE.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH OUR CITY'S CLIMATE EQUITY GOALS, WE ENCOURAGE HAKA AND AUSTIN ENERGY TO EXPLORE THE AVENUES THAT COULD ALLOW SOLAR TO BE IMPLEMENTED IN THE SANITA COURTS REDESIGN.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND CONSIDERATION.
ALSO, WE'VE JUST DISCOVERED THAT THAT WILL IMPACT BE IMPLEMENTED, SO
THANK YOU SO MUCH, UH, FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
ANY OTHER SPEAKERS? NOT AT THIS TIME.
[5. Discussion on “River Park Development and possible impact on the current communities”. Discussion led by Robert Anderson, Project Coordinator from Austin Housing.]
ITEM.THIS IS A DISCUSSION ITEM ON THE RIVER PARK DEVELOPMENT AND POSSIBLE IMPACT ON THE CURRENT COMMUNITIES.
AND THIS IS A DISCUSSION LED BY ROBERT ANDERSON, PROJECT COORDINATOR FROM AUSTIN HOUSING.
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GOOD EVENING COMMISSIONERS.I'M A PROJECT COORDINATOR WITH THE AUSTIN HOUSING, UH, DEPARTMENT.
I WAS ASKED TO COME PRESENT ON INFORMATION RELATING TO THE RIVER PARK DEVELOPMENT.
I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE WAS A PRESENTATION RECENTLY ON THIS PROJECT AND THAT THERE WERE SOME FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS RELATING TO SPECIFICALLY THE DENSITY BONUS OBLIGATIONS AND HOW THAT IS BEING PROVIDED THROUGH THE VARIOUS PHASES OF THE PROJECT, AS WELL AS SOME CONCERNS REGARDING DISPLACEMENT.
THE EAST RIVERSIDE CORRIDOR REGULATING PLAN TO SET SOME CONTEXT IS A, UH, PLAN THAT WAS ADOPTED IN 2013.
IT WAS, UH, ADOPTED AS AN AMENDMENT TO THE IMAGINE AUSTIN COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND SETS IN PLACE VARIOUS DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS TO ACHIEVE THE, UH, INTENDED DEVELOPMENT FORM OF IMAGINE AUSTIN.
UH, AND THAT IS ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH SETTING VERY SPECIFIC AND DISPARATE DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS TO, UH, SPECIFIC SUB-DISTRICTS ASSIGNED, UH, TO HELP ACHIEVE THE, UH, UH, SEPARATE DEVELOPMENT FORMS, UH, UH, WITHIN THE REGULATING PLAN AREA AS SHOWN, UH, IN THESE BOUNDARIES, THE RIVER PARK SITE IS SHOWN BOUNDED IN RED THERE, GENERALLY LOCATED AT 4,700 EAST RIVERSIDE DRIVE.
IT IS A 15 PLUS ACRE SITE AND IS, UH, ASSIGNED THE CORRIDOR MIXED USE SUB-DISTRICT DESIGNATION.
AND, AND WE'LL GET INTO THE DETAILS OF WHAT THAT MEANS HERE MOMENTARILY.
THE, UH, ONE KEY, UH, ELEMENT OF THE EAST RIVERSIDE, UH, REGULATING PLAN IS THE PROVISION FOR DENSITY BONUSES.
THE EACH SUBDISTRICT ALLOWS AND SETS PARTICULAR DEVELOPMENT LIMITATIONS, AND DEVELOPERS ARE OFTEN ALLOWED TO EXCEED THOSE, UH, BY RIGHT ALLOWANCES AND LIMITATIONS WITH THE, UH, PROVISION THAT, THAT EXCESS DEVELOPMENT SPACE THEN IS OFFSET BY A PROVISION OF COMMUNITY BENEFITS.
AND THAT IS REALLY THE PREMISE OF ALL OF OUR INCENTIVE PROGRAMS WITH THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT.
WE HAVE 14 PLUS INCENTIVE PROGRAMS AND APPROXIMATELY 20 ADDITIONAL, UH, DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS, USUALLY IN THE FORM OF PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENTS.
AND WHAT THESE DO IS IT ENCOURAGES DEVELOPMENTS TO MAXIMIZE THEIR DEVELOPMENT ENTITLEMENTS ON THEIR PROPERTY.
UH, THEY GET, UH, EITHER FEE WAIVERS, THEY CAN GET, UH, ADDITIONAL HEIGHT OR FLOOR AREA CONCESSIONS OR MODIFICATIONS OR WAIVERS TO OTHER, UH, CODE REQUIREMENTS.
AND IN EXCHANGE FOR THOSE ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT, UH, THAT OCCURS, THEN AGAIN, WE GET, UH, SOME, UH, PROVISION OF COMMUNITY BENEFITS FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE THAT USUALLY TAKES THE FORM OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING WITHIN THE, UH, EAST RIVERSIDE CORRIDOR PLAN AREA.
UH, THE BONUS AREA THAT EXCESS DEVELOPMENT THAT IS PROVIDED IS, UH, DEFINED AND SET ACCORDING TO THE GREATER OF THE DEVELOPMENTS, UM, EXCESS, UH, OVER THE ALLOWED FLOOR AREA OR THAT WHICH IS GREATER BY THE SET HEIGHT LIMIT.
SO ANY FLOOR AREA ABOVE THE BY RIGHT.
AND YOU CAN SEE THAT ON THE, UH, SIMPLE GRAPHIC TO THE RIGHT, UH, THE CORRIDOR MIXED USE OF SUBDISTRICT THAT THIS PROPERTY IS DEFINED AS SETS A BY RIGHT HEIGHT LIMIT OF 60 FEET, TYPICALLY A FIVE STORY PROJECT.
AND IT SETS A FLORIDA AREA RATIO OF TWO TO ONE.
IN ALL CASES WHERE THE EAST RIVERS, WHERE THIS RIVER PARK PROJECT IS EXCEEDING THE BY RIGHT ALLOWANCE, THE DENSITY BONUS IS SET BY HEIGHT.
SO IN THIS CASE, THAT FIVE STORY TOWER, ANYTHING ABOVE THAT, THE FLOOR AREA CONTAINED IN THOSE ADDITIONAL FLOORS SETS THE BONUS AREA THAT THEY HAVE TO THEN COMPENSATE FOR WITH COMMUNITY BENEFITS WITHIN THE ERC PLAN.
THE COMMUNITY BENEFITS ARE, UM, VARIED AND THERE ARE SOME PRESCRIBED REQUIREMENTS.
THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING, UH, IS REQUIRED TO MAKE UP 50% OF THE COMMUNITY BENEFITS THAT THE DEVELOPER PROVIDES.
OPEN SPACES IS REQUIRED TO BE 25% AT A MINIMUM, AND THEN THE REMAINING 25% CAN BE ANY COMBINATION OF ALL OF THE BENEFITS CONTAINED AND AND DETAILED WITHIN THE PLAN, INCLUDING ADDITIONAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING, ADDITIONAL OPEN SPACE, OR ONE OF THE OTHER BENEFITS PROVIDED.
NOTABLE, UH, ALSO IS THAT THE PARTICULAR WAY IN WHICH THE, UH, COMMUNITY BENEFITS ARE CALCULATED AGAINST THE ALLOWED ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT IS SET WITHIN THE ERC.
AND SO TAKING AFFORDABLE HOUSING, FOR EXAMPLE, FOR EACH ADDITIONAL SQUARE FOOT THAT THEY WANT TO DEVELOP, THEY HAVE TO, UH, FOR EACH ADDITIONAL FOUR SQUARE FEET OF ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT THEY WANT TO PROVIDE AND DEVELOP ON THE SITE, THEY HAVE TO PROVIDE ONE SQUARE FOOT OF AFFORDABLE
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HOUSING.SO IT, THE WAY IT WORKS IN PRACTICE IS WHEN A, A PROPOSAL COMES TO US, WE ARE, ARE DOING SOME REVERSE ENGINEERING TO, UH, DETERMINE WHAT THEIR COMMUNITY BENEFIT OBLIGATIONS WILL BE ACCORDING TO WHAT THEY'RE PROPOSING TO DEVELOP.
THE RIVER PARK PROJECT AS CONCEIVED AND PROPOSED BY THE DEVELOPER IS A, UH, MIXED USE PROJECT CONSISTING OF 280 PLUS, UH, MULTI-FAMILY RENTAL UNITS.
A 14 STORY HOTEL, UH, OVER 70,000 SQUARE FEET OF COMMERCIAL SPACE, AND APPROXIMATELY FOUR AND A HALF, UH, ACRES OF OPEN SPACE AND PARKLAND.
AND THAT IS ACHIEVED THROUGH A NUMBER OF PHASES, WHICH MORE OR LESS ALIGN WITH THE LEGAL LOTS SHOWN IN THE, UH, APPROVED SITE PLAN SHEET HERE.
SO THERE ARE A NUMBER OF LEGAL LOTS AND, UH, THE DEVELOPMENT THEN IS, IS, UH, MOSTLY ALIGNING WITH THAT, AND WE CAN THEN EASILY REVIEW FOR THEIR DEVELOPMENT AND REQUIREMENTS FOR, UH, COMMUNITY BENEFITS AGAINST HOW THE DEVELOPMENT IS HAPPENING IN PHASES.
THE WAY PHASING WORKS IS, UM, THE PHASING WOULD ALLOW THE DEVELOPER TO ACHIEVE A CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY UPON THE COMPLETION OF A SPECIFIC SHARE OF THE PROJECT.
SO WHERE THEY'RE PROPOSING A NUMBER OF BUILDINGS AND OF PARTICULAR USES, THEY DON'T WANT TO WAIT TO, UH, LEASE UP THE UNITS OR TO OPEN THOSE COMMERCIAL SPACES UNTIL THE ENTIRE PROJECT IS DONE.
THEY WANNA GET THINGS GOING AT, AT AS THEY COMPLETE THINGS, SO THAT, THAT IS THE UTILITY OF PHASING WITHIN THE SITE PLAN PROCESS.
AND WE WOULD ENFORCE THE, UH, AFFORDABLE HOUSING OBLIGATIONS AS THOSE INDIVIDUAL, UH, SECTIONS OF THE DEVELOPMENT COME ONLINE.
YOU CAN SORT OF SEE THE INDIVIDUAL, UH, DEVELOPMENT, UH, THEN THE BREAKDOWN OF THAT DEVELOPMENT ACCORDING TO THE PHASES.
THE TOP SECTION OF THE PROJECT, UH, SHOWS THE, UH, GENERAL, UH, ADDRESSES ASSIGNED THE PROPOSED USES THE LEGAL LOTS, UH, AND THE PROPOSED PHASE NUMBER.
NOW, NOTABLY THAT, UH, ASSIGNED PHASE NUMBER DOES NOT DICTATE THE ORDER OF PHASING IN CONSTRUCTION.
IT'S JUST SIMPLY A WAY OF CROSS-REFERENCING THE, UM, THAT WHICH IS WITHIN THE SITE PLAN.
TWO SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS THEN, UH, UPON COMPLETION.
THE SECOND SECTION OF THIS TABLE THEN IS DEPICTING, UH, AND EVALUATING THE PROJECT DETAILS, UH, WITH RESPECT TO ITS, UH, REQUIREMENTS AND ANY NEED FOR A BONUS ACCORDING TO THE FLOOR AREA.
REMEMBER, THERE'S THE TWO WAYS OF CALCULATING THE BONUS.
IT'S THAT WHICH IS EXCESS OF THE FLOOR TO AREA RATIO.
THAT TWO TO ONE OR THE THIRD SECTION OF THE TABLE THEN IS EVALUATED THE PROJECT DETAILS ACCORDING TO THAT THE FLOOR AREA EXCEEDING THE BY RIGHT HEIGHT.
SO YOU CAN SEE HIGHLIGHTED IN BLUE, UH, IN ALL INSTANCES OF THE THREE PHASES, WHICH EXCEED THE BY RIGHT ALLOWANCES.
ALL THREE SECTIONS ARE EXCEEDING THE BY BUYRIGHT ALLOWANCES, MORE SO BY THE EXCESS HEIGHT.
SO THAT IS SETTING THE, UH, DEVELOPMENT BONUS REQUIREMENTS AND SETTING THEN HOW WE ARE DETERMINING THEIR COMMUNITY BENEFITS OBLIGATIONS, AS WE DISCUSSED EARLIER, THAT CAN TAKE THE FORM OF A NUMBER OF COMBINATION OF, UH, COMMUNITY BENEFITS.
THEY'RE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE 50% AFFORDABLE HOUSING, AND SO THEY ARE DOING THAT AND YOU, UH, CAN SEE WITHIN THE TABLE THE BREAKDOWN OF THAT 50% OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND THEN DIVIDE IT BY FOUR TO MEET THAT PARTICULAR PHASES.
AFFORDABLE HOUSING OBLIGATION.
YOU CAN SEE THEN THE NEXT ROW, THAT OPEN SPACE REQUIREMENT, THEY ARE FOR EACH PHASE PROVIDING 25% OF THEIR COMMUNITY BENEFITS THROUGH OPEN SPACE AND PARKLAND.
AND THEN THE REMAINING 25% IS BEING PROVIDED THROUGH ADDITIONAL WATER QUALITY BENEFITS.
AND IN THIS CASE, WHAT THEY'RE DOING IS AS THEY'RE REDEVELOPING THE SITE, THEY'RE TAKING EXISTING IMPERVIOUS COVER AND THEY'RE SIMPLY REDEVELOPING IT IN A WAY THAT REDUCES THE IMPERVIOUS COVER THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY EXISTING.
SO THEY GET A CREDIT FOR WHAT WILL BE IMPROVED WATER QUALITY ON THE SITE.
THE TIMELINE FOR THE PROJECT, THEY ARE CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION FOR PHASES ONE AND ONE AND SIX, I BELIEVE.
SO AGAIN, THESE PHASES DON'T HAVE TO GO IN ORDER.
PHASE ONE IS TYPICALLY, UH, HORIZONTAL INFRASTRUCTURE, MEANING NO BUILDINGS, BUT THINGS SUCH AS DRAINAGE, WATER QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS.
IT WILL SERVE THE OVERALL SITE.
UH, SO THERE'S NO AFFORDABLE HOUSING OBLIGATION THERE.
UH, AND SO THEY'RE, THEY'RE PUTTING THAT IN PLACE.
UH, THEY'RE ALSO WORKING ON, UH, PHASE, UH, FIVE AND OR SEVEN, UH,
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ON LEGAL LOT, UH, FOUR THAT IS THE MUSIC VENUE.AND THAT ALSO HAS NO AFFORDABLE HOUSING OBLIGATION OR ANY OTHER COMMUNITY BENEFIT OBLIGATIONS.
THE OTHER, UH, PHASES ARE UNDETERMINED.
AS FAR AS A START DATE, UH, THE DEVELOPER IS, UH, I THINK ASSESSING MARKET CONDITIONS RIGHT NOW, BUT WHEN THEY DO BEGIN CONSTRUCTION, UH, THEY'RE ANTICIPATING THAT TO BE A TWO TO TWO AND A HALF YEAR LONG CONSTRUCTION PROCESS.
SO GIVEN THAT THE SITE IS ALREADY UNDER CONSTRUCTION, WE CAN ANTICIPATE THIS SITE TO BE IN SOME STATE OF CONSTRUCTION FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS.
I WANT TO STEP BACK A LITTLE BIT TO EVALUATE AND DESCRIBE HOW WE IN GENERAL HANDLE THIS PROJECT AND THE WAY, UH, THE VARIOUS TOUCH POINTS WE HAVE, UH, FROM BEGINNING TO END.
UH, WHEN WE RECEIVE A PROJECT, UH, UH, WE RECEIVE AN APPLICATION TYPICALLY THAT IS EITHER BEFORE A SITE PLAN OR AT SOME POINT DURING A SITE PLAN REVIEW.
THE DEVELOPERS IDENTIFIED THE NEED TO, UH, COMPLY WITH CERTAIN PROVISION OF CODE, EITHER ON THEIR OWN OR A PROMPTED BY A STAFF MEMBER FROM A VARIOUS DEPARTMENT INDICATING THAT THE PROJECT AS PROPOSED IS NOT COMPLIANT WITH CODE, YET THEY COME TO US.
WE REVIEWED THE PROJECT PROPOSAL ACCORDING TO THE SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS OF THE SPECIFIC PROGRAMS THEY'RE APPLYING FOR, AND ULTIMATELY WE WILL ISSUE A CERTIFICATION LETTER.
THAT CERTIFICATION LETTER THEN WILL BE USED BY STAFF IN THE SITE PLAN PROCESS TO CLEAR ANY REMAINING COMMENTS TO BASICALLY VERIFY THAT THE PROJECT IS CODE COMPLIANT, ESPECIALLY IN AN INSTANCE WHERE THE PROJECT IS EXCEEDING THE BY RIGHT HEIGHT OR FLOOR AREA.
AND THEN WE WILL LOOK OUT FOR THE PROJECT SEEKING BUILDING PERMITS.
AT THAT POINT, WE WILL APPLY AN ADMINISTRATIVE HOLD THAT WILL PREVENT THE DEVELOPER FROM RECEIVING A CERTIFICATE OF OBLIGATION OR A CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY, RATHER UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THEY PROVIDE THOSE COMMUNITY BENEFITS.
THAT MAY TAKE A WHILE BECAUSE WE DON'T DO THAT UNTIL THE PROJECT IS WELL UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
SO ESPECIALLY IN THIS CASE WHERE A PROJECT IS ON HOLD EFFECTIVELY DUE TO MARKET CONDITIONS, WE MIGHT, WE MIGHT NOT SEE THIS PROJECT FOR ANOTHER YEAR OR TWO BEFORE WE'RE COMMENCING WITH THAT CLOSEOUT PROCESS.
AT SOME POINT, EITHER US OR THE DEVELOPER WILL BE BEGIN THAT CLOSEOUT PROCESS TO, UH, VERIFY THE FINAL DETAILS AND COMPLETE THE PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.
THAT WILL BEGIN WITH A, UH, RECEIPT OF AN ARCHITECT LETTER VERIFYING THOSE FINAL CONSTRUCTION DETAILS.
AND THAT WILL THEN SET THE FINAL OBLIGATION FROM THE DEVELOPER, THE CERTIFICATION LETTER WE WILL HAVE ISSUED AND HAVE ISSUED FOR THIS PROJECT.
UH, THINK OF IT AS AN ESTIMATE.
IT'S A, IT'S AN EDUCATED GUESS.
THIS IS WHAT THE DEVELOPER'S PROPOSING THE PROJECT.
I KNOW THIS PROJECT HAS, UH, SUBMITTED FOR SITE PLAN CORRECTIONS AND REVISIONS.
SO THE DETAILS AS WE SEE IT, UH, WHEN IT'S FINALLY CONSTRUCTED, MAY SHIFT.
AND AT THAT POINT, WE WILL CALCULATE WHAT THE DEVELOPER OBLIGATIONS ARE FOR COMMUNITY BENEFITS, AND WE WILL THEN COMPEL THAT REQUIREMENT THROUGH EITHER A RESTRICTIVE COVENANT FOR THE SPECIFIC AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS AT EACH PHASE AND OR THE FEE IN LIE, WHICH IS REQUIRED THEN AND PROPOSED FOR THE HOTEL PHASE OF THE PROJECT AT THE TIME WITH THEY HAVE THE RECORDED RESTRICTIVE COVENANT AND OR PAID THE FEE IN LIEU.
WE WILL RELEASE THE HOLDS ON THAT PHASE OF THE PROJECT, ALLOWING THE PROJECT TO GAIN ITS OCCUPANCY.
AND I KNOW THAT THERE WERE CONCERNS FOR DISPLACEMENT, SO I WANT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW THIS PROJECT, UH, WAS, UH, REVIEWED AND THE REQUIREMENTS IN PLACE AT THE TIME.
THIS PROJECT DID, UH, CONSIST OF ABOUT 15, UH, BUILDINGS AND OVER 250 RESIDENTIAL UNITS WE TYPICALLY SEE AS IT'S NAVIGATING, UH, PROJECTS, AS THEY'RE NAVIGATING THE SITE PLAN.
LEASES ARE, ARE GENERALLY PHASED OUT, UH, IN ANTICIPATION, UH, OF A SEEKING A DEMOLITION PERMIT.
THEY DID, UH, PROVIDE A TENANT NOTICE LETTER TO EXISTING RESIDENTS.
AND ACCORDING TO THE TENANT ROLES IN PLACE, GENERALLY AROUND THAT TIME, WE SAW THAT THE, THE TENANT OCCUPANCY HAD ALREADY REDUCED DOWN TO JUST SEVERAL DOZEN UNITS IN PLACE.
UH, WE DID NOT HAVE ANY OBLIGATION OF THE DEVELOPERS TO PAY FOR TENANT RELOCATION, THOUGH THE DEVELOPER, ACCORDING TO THEIR LETTER, DID OFFER, UH, UP TO $1,700 IN RELOCATION ASSISTANCE.
OTHER PROVISIONS FOR FLEXIBLE LEASE TERMS PREFERRED, UM, RETURN TO THE NEW DEVELOPMENT UPON COMPLETION.
SO THEY WENT ABOVE WHAT OUR CODE, UH, WOULD'VE REQUIRED FOR THIS PROJECT.
UM, AND I, I KNOW THAT, UH, THE DISPLACEMENT TEAM, UH, GENERALLY, UH, WERE DESCRIBING EARLIER THE CONTINUED, UH, IMPLEMENTATION OF, UH, SOME DI DISPLACEMENT, UH, PROGRAM OPERATIONS, SOME ADDITIONAL FUNDING NOW THAT IS IN PLACE.
THOSE PROVISIONS WEREN'T IN PLACE AT
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THE TIME.AND BECAUSE, UH, EAST RIVERSIDE CORRIDOR IS AN OLDER PROGRAM, SOME OF THOSE PROVISIONS THAT WE SEE IN NEWER PROGRAMS LIKE DVE TODD, UH, WOULD NOT HAVE APPLIED TO THIS PROJECT.
UM, SO WITH THAT, I WILL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE.
DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? COMMISSIONER TISHA, GO AHEAD.
AND THIS IS QUICK BECAUSE I'M GONNA BE MINDFUL OF TIME.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION ON RIVER PARK.
UM, FAMILIAR WITH THIS AREA, EVEN FAMILIAR WITH THE FORMER PROPERTY THAT WAS THERE.
FAMILY, UM, LIVED IN THAT SPACE WHEN, UH, THEY ATTENDED COLLEGE AT UT, BUT I WANTED TO INQUIRE ABOUT TWO THINGS, THE TIMELINE, BECAUSE AT ONE POINT THERE WAS A SIGN, AND YOU ALWAYS SEE IT WHEN YOU WERE RIDING THE BUS TO THE AIRPORT, IT SAID A EG COMING IN 2027.
SO I'M CURIOUS ABOUT, UM, TIMELINE IN REGARDS TO THE PROPERTY AND THEN IF THEIR DEVELOPER HAS ALREADY SPOKEN ABOUT HOPPING THE CREEK OVER TO THE OTHER SIDE OF WICKERSHAM, UM, BECAUSE I DON'T SEE THAT THERE'S ANY CHANGE, BUT, UM, JUST CURIOUS IF IT'S GOING TO HAVE EXPANSION INTO THAT SPACE.
AND THE LAST ONE IS HOTEL 14 STORIES.
I'M CURIOUS, UM, I'LL JUST STOP RIGHT THERE, BUT JUST TO CONFIRM, IT'S 14 STORY HOTEL IS WHAT WE'RE PLANNING FOR THAT SPACE.
THAT IS WHAT IS CURRENTLY PERMITTED.
AND, AND I I HE'S NOT IN THE RENDERING, SO THAT'S WHY I'M HAVING A HARD TIME VISUALIZING BECAUSE I AM FAMILIAR WITH THE SPACE AND I DO FREQUENT IT, OBVIOUSLY GOING BACK AND FORTH FROM THE AIRPORT.
AND I'M JUST CURIOUS ABOUT THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND IMPACT, UH, UNDERSTOOD.
UH, BUILDING ELEVATIONS ARE NOT REQUIRED IN A SITE PLAN PROCESS.
THE, YOU KNOW, THE BUILDING PLANS WOULD, AND I DON'T, I DON'T BELIEVE THEY'VE SUBMITTED BUILDING PLANS FOR, FOR THE HOTEL YET.
UH, I'VE ONLY SEEN, UH, BUILDING PERMITS, UH, ISSUED FOR THE, UH, MUSIC VENUE.
LIKE I SAID, THE OTHER PHASES OF THE PROJECT ARE ON HOLD YET.
AND SO WE'RE STILL MONITORING AND ANTICIPATION OF THOSE BUILDING PERMITS BEING, UH, ISSUED.
UM, IT IS, IT IS QUITE COMMON, I THINK FOR PROJECTS TO UNDERGO REVISION, CONSIDERING MARKET CONDITIONS.
SO WHETHER THE, THE FINAL PROJECT AS BUILT IS REFLECTING A 14 STORY HOTEL.
I, I JUST, I, I CAN'T SPEAK TO THAT.
UM, REGARDING THE, THE SIGNAGE YOU MAY HAVE SEEN, UH, I, I CAN'T SPEAK TO THAT EITHER.
I, I HAVE NOT PERSONALLY SEEN THAT SIGN.
AND, AND I, I THINK THAT SIGNAGE MAY HAVE, UM, REFLECTED INTENTIONS AT THE TIME MARKET, MARKET CONDITIONS CHANGE AND, AND THAT JUST THAT THAT MAY HAVE BEEN THEIR INTENTION.
UM, REGARDING THE, IN INTENTION TO EXPAND THE SCOPE OF THE PROJECT, WHAT, WHAT I PRESENTED IS, IS WHAT THEY'RE PERMITTED, UH, TO, TO DO CURRENTLY, IF THERE ARE INTENTIONS TO EXPAND THE SCOPE OF THE PROJECT THAT WOULD, UM, BE, UH, ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH EITHER A REVISION TO THIS PLAN OR A SEPARATE SITE PLAN.
AND, AND SO WE WOULD HAVE TO EVALUATE THAT AT THE TIME.
I, I HAVE NOT SPOKEN TO THE DEVELOPER ABOUT ANY ADDITIONAL PLANS THAT THEY HAVE IN THIS AREA.
UH, WHAT, HOW DO THEY DECIDE, OR IS THERE A NUMBER FOR THE SQUARE FOOTAGE FOR THE UNITS? BECAUSE SEEING ON THE AFFORDABILITY ONES FOUR UNITS IS 1,294 SQUARE FEET IS LIKE, I MEAN, THAT IS UNLIVABLE, BASICALLY.
THAT'S LIKE, THAT'S A MICRO UNIT FROM NEW YORK CITY, BASICALLY.
SO I'M JUST CURIOUS LIKE HOW THAT'S DECIDED.
IS IT SPREAD OUT EVENLY BETWEEN THE FOUR AND ALSO THE SAME THING WITH THE 1300? LIKE THAT IS, I MEAN, THAT THOSE ARE TINY APARTMENTS, PROBABLY ONE BEDROOMS, MAYBE EVEN STUDIOS.
I I THINK THE, SO THE REQUIREMENT WOULD BE FOR SQUARE FOOTAGE, NOT NUMBER OF BEDROOMS. THIS IS AN APPROXIMATION, UH, TRANSLATION, IF YOU WILL.
SO I, I THINK WE WOULD, WE WOULD LOOK AT THAT AT THE TIME THAT THERE WERE UNDERGOING THE RESTRICTIVE COVENANT.
UM, THERE, THE SECOND THING I WOULD ADD IS THAT THIS PARTICULAR PROGRAM, UNLIKE SOME OF OUR NEWER PROGRAMS, DOES NOT PROVIDE A STIPULATION THAT THE AFFORDABLE UNITS, UH, PROVIDE COMPARABLE BEDROOM TYPES TO THE MARKET RATE UNITS.
SO IT IS TECHNICALLY POSSIBLE THAT, UH, THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS ARE STRICTLY AND ENTIRELY, UH, EFFICIENCIES, UH, WITHIN THIS PROJECT.
AND THEN THE UNITS THEMSELVES, WHAT'S THE A MI FOR THEM? THIS IS, UH, THIS, THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE ERC PROGRAM IS 60% MFI 60% AND WILL, UH, CARRY WITH THE LAND FOR 40 YEARS.
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PAYING, ARE, ARE THEY FOR SURE DOING IN LIEU FEES OR ARE THEY MEETING THE, LIKE THE, THE WHATEVER THE 50% BONUS IS COMPLETELY? UM, I, I DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THIS KIND OF STUFF, SO I'M STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT IN MY HEAD.BUT THERE'S, IN THE IN LIE FEES PART, I JUST WASN'T SURE LIKE HOW MUCH THEY'RE PAYING FEE.
SO THEY ARE PROVIDING, UH, PROPOSING CURRENTLY FEES IN LIEU FOR ONE PHASE, THE HOTEL PORTION, BECAUSE THEY CANNOT PROVIDE OR, OR DON'T WISH TO PROVIDE THE ONSITE HOUSING WITHIN A HOTEL.
UNDERSTANDABLY, THE ONSITE AFFORDABLE HOUSING, UH, IS BEING PROVIDED WITHIN THE TWO PHASES THAT ARE PROVIDING, UH, PROPOSED TO BE MULTI-FAMILY BUILDINGS.
SO, SO WITHIN THE MULTI-FAMILY, UH, BUILDINGS, THEN THERE WILL BE ONSITE HOUSING.
UM, YEAH, SO ONE THING THAT I WANTED TO ADD TO THAT IS THAT, YEAH, UH, 60% MFI OR IF THERE WERE TO BUILD A THREE BEDROOM WOULD BE ABOUT $2,000 RENT.
UM, BUT WHICH, YEAH, THEY'RE PROBABLY NOT.
UM, AND SO YEAH, SO I JUST WANNA, I LIVE IN MONIS, GREW UP IN MONIS, SO I KNOW THE EAST RIVERSIDE AREA.
UM, JUST NOTING HOW DAMAGING THIS PROGRAM, EAST RIVERSIDE CORRIDOR DENSITY BONUS PROGRAM IS TO THAT COMMUNITY, UH, BEING THAT, YES, UH, IT HAS A LOT OF LOOPHOLES FOR DEVELOPERS, UH, BUILDING EFFICIENCIES, CALLING THEM, YOU KNOW, UM, UH, AS AFFORDABLE UNITS AND, UM, DISPLACING FAMILIES, DEMOLISHING TWO, THREE BEDROOMS APART, UH, BEDROOM APARTMENTS AS COMMISSIONER LONGORIA WAS ASKING EARLIER, YOU KNOW, WE NEED MORE OF THOSE, UH, FAMILY UNITS AND WE'RE LOSING THOSE.
UH, WE LOST A LOT OF THOSE AND STUDENT UNITS IN THIS, UH, IN THIS DEVELOPMENT.
AND THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GETTING AS WE JUST SAW.
I WOULD ADD, UM, IN RESPONSE TO THE, THE PARTICULAR DEFICIENCIES OF THE PROGRAM, THERE IS A, A PLAN TO UPDATE THE EAST RIVERSIDE CORRIDOR PLAN.
AND I, I THINK THAT IS A PLAN TO BE COMPLETED AND FALL OF THIS YEAR, UH, WITH THE POSSIBLE, UH, SUBSEQUENT, UM, UH, PROVISION THEN FOR, FOR SEPARATE REGULATING PLANS, UM, TO ACCOMPANY THAT.
SO I THINK THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE, THE DEFICIENCIES YOU, YOU'VE SPOKEN TO DEFINITELY.
AND ALSO THE DEFICIENCY OF THE FEE IN LIEU AS WELL, THE FACT THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO PROVIDE THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING ON SITE.
THAT'S ANOTHER, UM, THING THAT HAS BEEN, YEAH, HAS BEEN HAPPENING IN THE EAST RIVERSIDE AREA.
AND AS WE KNOW, IT'S CHANGED A LOT,
UM, YES, CHAIR, CAN I ALSO, YES, GO AHEAD, COMMISSIONER.
I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY TOO, UM, WE'RE HEARING ALSO THAT THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMPONENT IS NOT PERMANENT, BUT TEMPORARY.
DO YOU KNOW IF THAT'S BEEN, UM, DEALT, UH, ADDRESSED SO THAT THERE'LL BE MAYBE FOR 20 YEARS OR SO, BUT THEN AFTER THAT, ALL OF THE, THE APARTMENTS WILL BE GO TO MARKET RATE.
THE, THE REQUIREMENT FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING WILL BE ENFORCED THROUGH A RESTRICTIVE COVENANT THAT WILL CARRY, UH, FORWARD FOR 40 YEARS.
AT WHICH POINT YES, THE, THE UNITS WILL, WILL NO LONGER HAVE THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROVISION.
THAT IS CONSISTENT WITH, UM, THE VAST MAJORITY OF OUR, OUR PROGRAMS, UM, OWNERSHIP UNITS HAVE A, A LONGER TERM AFFORDABLE HOUSING REQUIREMENT, BUT RENTAL UNITS, UH, 40 YEARS IS, IS COMMON.
AND, UM, A QUESTION THAT I HAD, UM, IS ABOUT THE IMPERVIOUS COVER, LIKE THE DIFFERENCE FROM THE IMPERVIOUS COVER OF WHAT WAS THERE BEFORE TO WHAT IS THERE NOW, BECAUSE I WANTED TO TOUCH ON SOMETHING THAT, UM, COMMISSIONER TISHA TALKED ABOUT, THAT CREEK THAT RUNS BACK THERE.
I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, EROSION HAPPENING IN THOSE, IN THAT AREA.
SO, UH, DO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE IN, UH, IMPERVIOUS COVER FROM THE PREVIOUS DEVELOPMENT TO THIS NEW DEVELOPMENT? UM, I CAN, I CAN LOOK INTO THAT.
I, I WOULD SAY TO THE, THE SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS OF IMPERVIOUS COVER IS FAR OUTSIDE MY WHEELHOUSE WITHIN HOUSING.
UH, I MIGHT REFER YOU TO, TO STAFF IN DSD TO SPEAK TO THE, THE IMPERVIOUS COVER REQUIREMENTS.
WE DO SEE, AT LEAST THROUGH THE, THE PROPOSAL THAT THERE IS A REDUCTION OF, YOU KNOW, ANYWHERE FROM 518 SQUARE FEET IN THE CASE OF, UH, ONE PHASE TO UPWARDS OF ALMOST, YOU KNOW, UH, JUST OVER 10,000 SQUARE FEET, UH, DIFFERENCE IN IMPERVIOUS COVER.
IS THERE A CERTAIN PERCENTAGE OF, UH, LIKE ALLOWABLE, UH, IMPERVIOUS COVER? THERE, THERE ARE LIMITATIONS IN IMPERVIOUS COVER WITHIN THE ERC PLAN.
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COME PREPARED TO.I DON'T KNOW THAT OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.
UM, YEAH, I THINK I SAW THAT RECENTLY, BUT YEAH, I'LL LOOK FOR THAT.
SO, UM, I THINK THE, THE HOTEL KIND OF LIKE BLEW MY MIND.
UM, SO THE CITY, UH, INCENTIVIZED OR ALLOWED THIS BONUS TO GO FROM, OR, OR TO GO FROM 60 FEET TO 155 FEET, BUT THE HOTEL, LIKE IT DOESN'T HAVE TO OFFER AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
IT WAS ABLE TO QUALIFY FOR THE DENSITY BONUS THROUGH THE OPEN SPACE AND WATER QUALITY.
UH, THE, THE DENSITY BONUS IS AN IN MADE AN ADMINISTRATIVE THING.
IT DOESN'T, UH, REQUIRE STAFF APPROVAL PER SE.
UH, THE DEVELOPER, AS LONG AS THEY'RE MEETING THE COMMUNITY BENEFIT OBLIGATIONS, WE, WE APPROVE THE PROJECT, UH, THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING REQUIREMENT, THAT 50% REQUIREMENT OF, UH, COMMUNITY BENEFITS THAT IS REQUIRED, UH, IS BEING PROVI IS BEING PROVIDED IN THIS CASE THROUGH A FEE AND LIE.
SO THE, THE, THAT, UH, AMOUNTS TO ABOUT $101,000 IN FEE AND LIE.
UM, TO GO BACK TO WHAT YOU MENTIONED ABOUT THE PREVIOUS, BEFORE THEY STARTED TO BUILD, THERE WAS THE DISPLACEMENT INCENTIVE OR THE DISPLACEMENT PAYOUT, UM, FORGIVE ME IF I'M NOT USING THE RIGHT TERMINOLOGY.
IS THE 1700 THAT YOU MENTIONED A PART OF THAT, IT'S THERE A TIMELINE THAT THE DEVELOPERS HAVE TO GIVE RESIDENTS IN TERMS OF LETTING THEM KNOW THAT THAT PARTICULAR THEIR HOUSING NOW IS AT RISK OF, UM, BEING REDEVELOPED? SO, FOR INSTANCE, DO THEY NEED TO GIVE, UH, ONE YEAR, AND I'LL SPEAK FOR MY, MY, MY EXPERIENCE IN BOSTON WHERE THIS HAPPENED, UM, AND IT WAS AT LEAST A YEAR, THERE'S AN ORDINANCE THAT REQUIRES DEVELOPERS TO PROVIDE ONE YEAR ADVANCE NOTICE.
DO WE HAVE SOMETHING LIKE THAT HERE IN AUSTIN DEPARTMENT? YES.
IT'S NOT AS EXTENSIVE AS ONE YEAR.
UM, THE REQUIREMENTS WITHIN, UM, THE TENANT NOTIFICATION RELOCATION ASSISTANCE ORDINANCE, UH, REQUIRES 120 DAYS NOTICE OF INTENT PRIOR TO DEMOLITION PERMIT APPROVAL.
I BELIEVE IN THIS CASE, THEY, IT LOOKS LIKE THEY PROVIDED MORE IN THIS CASE, THE NOTICE WENT OUT TO RESIDENTS IN LATE JUNE OF 2021 AND THE, UH, CERTIFICATION LETTER ISSUED BY STAFF IN FEBRUARY OF 2022, UH, DID PRECEDE, UM, UH, THE, THE DEMOLITION PERMITS THEN.
BUT, UH, THAT IS THE EXTENT OF THE, THE NOTICE REQUIREMENTS.
ONE MORE QUICK ONE, ONE QUICK QUESTION AND THEN WE'LL MOVE ON.
DO WE KNOW WHAT THE POPULATION WAS PREVIOUSLY? UM, ON PAGE 13, IF YOU HAVE THE HANDOUT, UM, THE, THE TOTAL SITE, UM, AT FULL OCCUPANCY CONSISTED OF 252 UNITS AROUND THE TIME WHEN THE TENANT NOTICE, UH, WENT OUT, THEY WERE DOWN TO, UH, ABOUT 34 UNITS BEING ED.
I'M JUST WONDERING PEOPLE, HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE DISPLACED? WE, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW THAT.
AND JUST FOR INFORMATION, THE CORRIDOR MAKES USE, UH, ALLOWS UP TO 90% IMPERVIOUS COVER.
UH, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR, FOR YOUR PRESENTATION AND WE'LL MOVE ON TO OUR NEXT ITEM.
[6. Discussion on “Human induced sources of erosion on the Colorado River at Montopolis”. Discussion led by Liesel Papenhausen, University of Texas at Austin.]
THANK YOU.SO WE HAVE A DISCUSSION ON HUMAN INDUCED SOURCES OF EROSION ON THE COLORADO RIVER AT OPIS DISCUSSION LED BY LIES POPPING HOUSE, UH, FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS.
ALSO TAKE A PAUSE FOR WAITING.
AND THANK YOU FOR THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE,
UM, WELL THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME TONIGHT.
UM, AS PREVIOUSLY STATED, I WILL BE TALKING ABOUT HUMAN INDUCED SOURCES OF EROSION AND IT ALL COMES BACK TO IMPERVIOUS COVER.
UM, SO LIKE I JUST MENTIONED, IMPERVIOUS COVER IS VERY FOUNDATIONAL TO THIS PROJECT.
IT'S ANY SURFACE THAT PREVENTS RAINWATER FROM FLOWING THROUGH IT, BUT IT ALTERS HOW OUR RIVER BEHAVES IN OUR CITY.
AND WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS THAT IT INCREASES THE VOLUME AND SPEED OF WATER AS IT RUSHES
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TOWARDS THE RIVER IMMEDIATELY AFTER AND DURING A STORM EVENT.BUT IN BETWEEN STORM EVENTS, WE SEE A REALLY LOW AND SLOW BASE FLOW.
THIS EXACERBATES EROSION BECAUSE THAT HIGH ENERGY FLOOD CAN CARRY LOTS OF SEDIMENT WITH IT AND HARM THE BANK VEGETATION OVERALL DESTABILIZING THE BANK.
BUT THAT, UH, CYCLE OF WETTING AND DRYING WITH THE LOW BASE FLOW ALSO CONTRIBUTES TO THAT DESTABILIZATION.
OVERALL, THE RIVER WIDENS AND ERODES INTO THE FLOODPLAIN.
URBAN STREAM SYNDROME IS A UNIVER UNIVERSAL RESPONSE OF RIVERS TO IMPERVIOUS COVER THAT WE SEE ALL OVER THE WORLD.
CHARACTERISTICS OF IT INCLUDE THE DEGRADED RIVER HABITAT, DEGRADED WATER QUALITY, AND THESE VAST EROSION RATES.
UM, IT LOOKS LIKE THE SLIDE TRANSITIONS ARE GONE, SO I ACTUALLY CAN'T SHOW YOU WHAT I WAS GOING TO, BUT, UM, BASICALLY FROM 1985 TO 2024, WE SEE A RADIAL EXPLOSION OUT OF IMPERVIOUS COVER FROM ALL CITY CENTERS.
UM, AND, UM, MONTOPOLIS IS LOCATED WITHIN THE LOWER COLORADO RIVER FLOODPLAIN, WHICH YOU CAN SEE DELINEATED IN RED THERE.
AND UM, STARTING IN 1985, WE SEE AN 11.9 INCREASE, OR SORRY,
IN 1985 THE IMPERVIOUS COVER WAS 8%, BUT IN 2024 IT'S 11.9 A 49% INCREASE.
AND WHAT MAKES MONTOPOLIS SO UNIQUE, UH, IN TERMS OF THIS EROSION BESIDES THE HIGH DENSITY OF IMPERVIOUS COVER, IT'S ALREADY SURROUNDED BY IS THE LONGHORN DAM THAT'S JUST UPSTREAM.
UM, THE WATER, WATER SLOWS DOWN BEFORE IT'S ALLOWED TO PASS THROUGH THAT DAM, ALLOWING ALL OF THE SUSPENDED SEDIMENT TO SETTLE OUT.
THEREFORE, THE WATER THAT PASSES THROUGH IS VERY CLEAR AND HIGHLY LIKELY TO PICK UP SEDIMENT FROM THOSE BANKS AS IT PASSES THROUGH CREATING A VERY EROSIVE ENVIRONMENT.
UM, ONCE AGAIN, UM, THE SLIDE TRANSITIONS ARE GONE.
SO THIS KIND OF OBSCURES THE, UH, ENTIRE MAP AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF
UM, WELL ESSENTIALLY THERE ARE GOODNESS, UM, THERE'S A LOT OF EROSION, UM, AT SECRET BEACH AT ALL TIME INTERVALS IN THIS STUDY.
AS WELL AS THERE IS A FORMER TRIBUTARY TO THE LOWER COLORADO RIVER, UM, BEHIND THAT IMAGE OF THE EROSION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.
UM, AND SINCE THE, UH, TRIBUTARY HAS VOLS TO UH, BE THAT, UH, STRIP THAT YOU CAN SEE, THAT IS THAT URBAN GULLY THAT WAS, UH, PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED HERE NEXT TO ROY GUDO CREEK.
UM, IT IS BOTH YOUNGER AND MUCH LARGER THAN ITS COUNTERPART FORMER TRIBUTARY.
UM, AND THAT IS DUE TO SOMETHING THAT I WILL GET TO IN A SECOND.
THERE IS VERY, VERY LITTLE DEPOSITION GOING ON AT MONTOPOLIS IN GENERAL BECAUSE OF THAT EFFECT OF THE DAM.
SO AS YOU CAN SEE THERE IS A LOT OF EROSION AT SECRET BEACH AND THEN THERE ARE THE TWO GOALIES.
UM, WE SEE A PEAK, UM, IN EROSION OF THAT GULLY, UH, BETWEEN 2000, UH, 2012 TO 2017.
UM, INDEED, SORRY, I'M A BIT SCRAMBLED NOW.
UM, BUT WHAT'S ACTUALLY, I THINK I ALREADY DISCUSSED THAT.
UM, ESSENTIALLY THE REASON THAT THIS NEWER, UH, TRIBUTARY IS SO MUCH LARGER AND HAS ERODED SO MUCH FASTER, UM, DUE TO ITS COUNTERPART OR AS COMPARED TO ITS COUNTERPART IS UM, BECAUSE OF THE JUMP IN IMPERVIOUS COVER THAT WE SEE IN AUSTIN OVER THE PAST 20 YEARS.
SO NOW I'D LIKE TO COMPARE MONTOPOLIS TO A CONTROL SITE.
MCKINNEY RUFFS NATURE PRESERVE, IT'S OUT TOWARDS BASTROP AND THIS IS STILL IN THE LOWER COLORADO RIVER FLOODPLAIN.
IT ISN'T, THERE ISN'T ANY DEVELOPMENT IMMEDIATELY NEXT TO THE RIVER, WHICH IS VERY INFLUENTIAL.
SO AS WE CAN SEE HERE, MONTOPOLIS IS VERY, VERY EROSIVE.
UM, IN TERMS OF UNITS ON THE Y AXIS THERE, THAT IS A METERS CUBED PER YEAR.
UM, AT MCKINNEY ROUGHS WE SEE EROSION ON THE ORDER OF 60 TO A HUNDRED OF THOSE METERS CUBED PER YEAR.
AT MONTOPOLIS IT'S TENS OF THOUSANDS.
THIS ISN'T JUST WHAT THE RIVER DOES, THIS IS AN ABSURD PATTERN LINKED TO THAT IMPERVIOUS COVER.
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NOW I'D LIKE TO SHOW YOU A CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION CURVE, UM, FROM A-U-S-G-S MONITORING SITE, UM, JUST DOWNSTREAM OF MONTOPOLIS.SO THIS IS PEAK DAY, PEAK DAILY DISCHARGE, UM, AT THREE DIFFERENT TIME INTERVALS BETWEEN 2007 TO 20 12, 20 12 TO 2017 AND 2017 TO 2021.
ESSENTIALLY HOW TO READ THIS GRAPH IS IF YOU LOOK AT THE 35TH PERCENTILE FOR THE PINK LINE, UM, 35% OF DAYS BETWEEN 2007 AND 2012 HAD A P DAILY DISCHARGE OF 10,000 CUBIC FEET PER SECOND, UM, OR LOWER.
BUT THE MAIN POINT OF THIS GRAPH IS TO SHOW YOU THAT 2012 TO 2017 TO 20 2007 TO 2012 AND 2017 TO 2021 ARE VERY HYDROLOGICALLY.
THEY HAD A LOT MORE WATER FLOWING THROUGH THE RIVER.
AND THEN BETWEEN 2012 AND 2017 WE SEE A HISTORIC DROUGHT.
AND SO IF THE RIVER WAS THE PRIMARY CONTROL ON THIS EROSION WAS THE ACTUAL AMOUNT OF WATER FLOWING THROUGH THE RIVER, THEN WE WOULD SEE AN INCREASED DECREASE INCREASE PATTERN OF, UM, EROSION, HOWEVER, AND DEPOSITION.
WE SEE A CONTINUAL DECREASE AT AT MONTOPOLIS AS WELL AS THE OTHER SITES IN THIS STUDY.
AND THE CONTROL SITE, ESSENTIALLY THE POINT OF THIS, UH, GRAPH IS TO SHOW YOU THAT THE MAIN CONTROL ON RIVER EROSION AND DEPOSITION IS NOT THE ACTUAL AMOUNT OF WATER FLOWING THROUGH, BUT THE AMOUNT OF IMPERVIOUS COVER IN THE AREA.
SORRY THAT WAS A BIT, UH, GARBLED.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
DO WE HAVE QUESTIONS FROM COMMISSIONERS? YEAH, UH, COMMISSIONER MENARD.
SO, UM, I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS CLEAR THAT THAT LIESEL IS A STUDENT AT UNIVERSITY YES.
I DUNNO, I MISSED THAT PART OF THE INTRODUCTION.
UM, I JUST WANTED TO ASK, SO, SO BASICALLY FOR THE LAYMAN HERE WE'RE JUST, WHAT YOU'RE BASICALLY SAYING I GUESS IS BECAUSE IMPERVIOUS COVER INCREASES THE SPEED OF WATER FLOW.
AND SO BECAUSE THERE'S INCREASE IMPERVIOUS COVER, THE WATER IS CONTINUALLY TO FLOW FASTER AND FASTER AND THAT'S AFFECTING EROSION.
SO WHAT HAPPENS IS, UH, BY PREVENTING, UH, WATER FROM REACHING THE SOIL AND PERCOLATING THROUGH ALL OF THAT RUNOFF, BOTH CREASES IN VOLUME, 'CAUSE NONE OF IT'S GOING INTO THE SOIL, BUT IT ALL RUSHES TOWARDS THE RIVER AT ONCE.
TYPICALLY IN A NATURAL SYSTEM IT WOULD MOVE MUCH SLOWER THERE DURING THE ACTUAL EVENT AND THEN THROUGH THE SOIL IT WOULD SLOWLY GET THERE.
SO THERE'S A CONTINUOUS, CONTINUOUS HIGHER BASE FLOW IN THESE NATURAL SYSTEMS THAT WE DON'T SEE HERE.
SO THEN THAT'S THAT CYCLE OF WETTING AND DRYING.
BUT UM, IT INCREASES BOTH THE AMOUNT OF RUNOFF DOESN'T ALLOW GROUNDWATER PENETRATION AND IT ALL MOVES VERY FAST BECAUSE WHEN IT REACHES THOSE SURFACES, IT MOVES A LOT FASTER OVER CONCRETE THAN IT WOULD SOIL.
AND SO THAT IS ALSO AFFECTING BASICALLY THE RIVER'S GOING TO DO WHAT IT NEEDS TO DO.
UM, SO THE RIVER CAN, UM, BECAUSE OF THAT, BECAUSE OF EROSION PUT NEIGHBORHOODS THAT WERE NOT AT RISK OF FLOODING NOW WILL BECOME BECAUSE THE RIVER IS GONNA MOVE.
OR LIKE WE SHOWED THAT YOU SHOWED SOME AREAS WERE STARTING TO SWELL AND STARTING TO ENCROACH IN NEIGHBORHOODS THAT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED AT RISK.
THAT IS ESPECIALLY THE CASE IN AUSTIN'S COLONY.
I DIDN'T PRESENT THE, UM, DATA HERE 'CAUSE I WAS ASKED TO FOCUS ON MONTOPOLIS, BUT THAT IS ESPECIALLY THE CASE AT AUSTIN'S COLONY BECAUSE THERE'S A VERY, UH, IF THIS IS AUSTIN'S COLONY, THEN THIS IS LIKE THE RIVER, IT'S MOVING IN A BULBOUS, UH, FORM AND IT'S, IT'S VERY STRANGE.
YOU WOULDN'T REALLY EXPECT WHAT IT'S DOING FROM A NATURAL SYSTEM, BUT IT'S CONTINUOUSLY ENCROACHING ON THEIR PARK AND THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD.
SO THAT PUTS THEIR INFRASTRUCTURE AT RISK.
UM, AND BY MOVING THE RIVER CLOSER TO A NEIGHBORHOOD, YOU INCREASE THE RISKS, UH, THAT THE RIVER POSES.
UM, IF YOU DON'T MIND GOING BACK TO, OH SORRY.
AND THEN I I WILL ASK THE QUESTION.
UM, I HAVE A, MAYBE, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S A QUESTION, MAYBE IT'S AN ASK, BUT YOU HEARD US EARLIER TALKING ABOUT OVERLAYS AND THE BULBUS YOU'RE DESCRIBING, IF YOU ALL HAVE THAT AS A PART OF YOUR RESEARCH, HOW THE BULBUS HAS SORT OF COME TO PASS, IF YOU HAVE ANY KIND OF TIMELINE IMAGERY THAT WE CAN UTILIZE ON TOP OF LAYERS OF THESE OTHER TYPES OF
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OVERLAYS.I'M CURIOUS IF YOU HAVE THAT, UM, AS SORT OF DATA.
I COULD SEND IT TO YOU TONIGHT.
IT'S JUST NOT IN THIS PRESENTATION.
AND A QUICK SHOUT OUT TO, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S YOUR DEPARTMENT, BUT Y'ALL DID SOMETHING IN EAST AUSTIN.
I PARTICIPATED IN A RESEARCH SURVEY ABOUT THE OVERFLOW AND THE RUNOFF, UM, TAKING PHOTOS WAS PHOTO STORYTELLING AROUND, UM, EAST AUSTIN A WHILE AGO.
AND SO I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU FOR CONTINUING THIS CONVERSATION BECAUSE IT IS EXTREMELY NOTICEABLE ON THE GROUND AROUND THE CITY.
ACTUALLY, I WOULD LOVE TO SPEAK WITH YOU FURTHER ABOUT THAT IN THE FUTURE IF POSSIBLE.
UM, IF, UH, YOU WOULD SHOW US THIS SLIDE, UH, WHERE THIS IS, UH, UH, GULLY EROSION, UM, I WOULD LIKE FOR, UH, FOR YOU TO ORIENT US ON THAT.
UM, JUST AS IT PERTAINS TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND ALSO, UH, ONE THING THAT I WAS NOTICING IS THE DATES ON THE, ON THE CHART THAT YOU SHOWED US 2012 TO 2017 AND, UH, OUR PREVIOUS PRESENTATION THAT THE EAST RIVERSIDE CORRIDOR BEGAN IN 2013.
SO JUST TRYING TO MAKE THOSE CONNECTIONS.
UM, SO WHERE, UH, I GUESS MY QUESTION RIGHT HERE, UH, WHAT IS LIKE WHAT'S HAPPENING? YES.
WHAT, WHAT'S HAPPENED THERE AND THEN, UH, AND I GUESS I CAN ORIENT US, UH, EAST RIVERSIDE IS WOULD BE DOWN HERE, IS THAT CORRECT? MM-HMM
SO THERE IS LIKE A CREEK THAT UH, RUNS THROUGH THAT AREA.
UH, IT'S LIKE DRAINING THAT LIKE BIT OF SOUTH AUSTIN, UH, MY ADVISOR AND I WERE SPECULATING THAT THAT FORMER TRIBUTARY SLOWLY MOVED BACKWARDS OR TOWARDS THAT GULLY UNTIL IT VOLS AND CHANGED CHANNELS AND THEN BECAME THE ONE THAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT NOW.
AND THEN THAT INCREASE IN DEVELOPMENT, UM, AND OVERALL INCREASE IN IMPERVIOUS COVER HAS LED TO, TO THOSE HIGHER LIKE WATER VELOCITIES, UM, AND HIGHER AMOUNTS OF RUNOFF, WHICH OVERALL LEADS TO MORE OF THAT EROSION.
I DO KNOW THAT THERE'S ALSO BEEN A LOT, THERE'S LIKE BEEN A PREVIOUS BRIDGE THERE THAT COLLAPSED.
UM, THE DEVELOPMENT OF ROY GUERRERO PARK IS ALSO POSSIBLY SOME OF THAT.
THERE WERE SOME, UH, STRANGE DEPOSITION, UM, AREAS THAT HAVE BEEN REMOVED 'CAUSE WE BELIEVE THAT THEY WERE OF HUMAN INFLUENCE.
WE WERE TRYING TO MOSTLY GET LIKE WHAT THE RIVER IS DOING MM-HMM
BUT BY DEVELOPING RIGHT NEXT TO THE TRIBUTARY, IT COULD LIKELY, UM, EXACERBATE HOW FAST THE EROSION IS HAPPENING.
AND THEN IT LOOKS LIKE IT IS CONTINUING TO MOVE BACKWARDS.
THAT CHANNEL IS GETTING LARGER, UM, ESPECIALLY IN THE MOST RECENT TIME INTERVAL.
UM, AND SO IT COULD INDEED BE MOVING CLOSER TO EAST RIVERSIDE.
UM, AND JUST TO NOTE THAT 2015 HALLOWEEN FLOOD, UH, IS WHAT TOOK THAT BRIDGE FROM ROY GI GUERRERO PARK AND IT WAS RECENTLY REPLACED, UH, AT THE COST OF $40 MILLION ALONG WITH THAT.
RUSSIAN MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR SURE.
YEAH, I AM REALLY HOPING THAT ANOTHER LIDAR SURVEY BECOMES AVAILABLE BECAUSE IT WOULD ANSWER A LOT OF QUESTIONS AND ENLIGHTEN A LOT OF THINGS ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT THAT'S HAPPENING AROUND THERE.
I DID, I THINK ANOTHER ONE IS COMING OUT SOON, SO I WOULD LOVE TO EXPAND ON THAT FURTHER AND SEE WHAT'S CHANGED SINCE 2021.
AND I'D LIKE TO SECOND, UH, COMMISSIONER TICIA, UH, BEING SO GRATEFUL FOR THE WORK THAT Y'ALL DO BECAUSE YEAH, Y'ALL HAVE THIS, Y'ALL GET SO EXCITED ABOUT ALL THAT DATA AND YOU KNOW, PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER, SO, SO COOL.
UH, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR CLOSING COMMENTS OR COMMISSIONERS? NO, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION AND GREAT JOB.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HAVING ME.
ALRIGHT, COMMISSIONERS, THANK YOU SO MUCH, UH, FOR STICKING WITH US.
[8. Update from the CDC Strategy Working Group. Discussion led by Commissioner Tisha.]
ITEM NUMBER EIGHT.UM, COMMISSIONER ATISHA, DO YOU HAVE AN UPDATE ON OUR CDC STRATEGY WORKING GROUP? NO,
SO WE'LL SKIP ITEM NUMBER EIGHT, THEN WE'LL GO ON TO ITEM
[9. Update from the CDC Housing Committee regarding the Annual Housing Committee Report. Discussion led by Commissioner Longoria.]
NUMBER NINE, WHICH IS AN UPDATE FROM THE CDC HOUSING COMMITTEE.DO WE HAVE A QUICK, UH, UPDATE ON THAT? SURE.
UM, THE HOUSING COMMITTEE, UH, MET FOR THE FIRST TIME AFTER A LONG TIME ON NOVEMBER 18TH, 2025.
AND THE PREVIOUS HOUSING COMMITTEE MEETING HAPPENED ON MARCH 10TH, 2020.
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UM, SO BY REESTABLISHING THE HOUSING COMMITTEE, UM, IT JUST REFLECTS THE GROWING URGENCY OF HOUSING AFFORDABILITY, POPULATION GROWTH AND DISPLACEMENT PRESSURES FACING AUSTIN RESIDENTS.UM, AS OF NOVEMBER, THE HOUSING COMMITTEE IS COMPOSED OF MYSELF, OF VICE CHAIR JOSE, NO, UH, COMMISSIONER BREWSTER, COMMISSIONER TISHA, UH, COMMISSIONER, UH, EBONY TRICE AND COMMISSIONER LYRIC.
AND UM, YEAH, UH, AS FAR AS LIKE THE INITIAL MEETING, WE WERE INTERESTED IN REESTABLISHING WHAT OUR SCOPE AND PURPOSE WAS AND WE WANTED TO ORIENT MEMBERS TO THE CURRENT HOUSING CONDITIONS AND LIKE DIFFERENT POLICY TOOLS.
AND DURING THE NOVEMBER 18TH MEETING, THE COMMITTEE RECEIVED TWO BRIEFINGS.
ONE WAS FROM THE CITY DEMOGRAPHER DR. VALENCIA ON POPULATION CHANGE AND DEMOGRAPHIC SHIFTS IN AUSTIN.
AND THEN THE SECOND BRIEFING WAS ON THE DENSITY BONUS PROGRAMS. AND YEAH, WE KIND OF WANTED TO USE THOSE TWO BRIEFINGS TO, UH, ESTABLISH A BASELINE OF KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION TO LIKE INFORM FUTURE DISCUSSIONS.
AND, UM, YEAH, WE'RE JUST KIND OF COMMITTED TO LIKE DATA AND EVIDENCE AND THEN, UM, COMMUNITY INPUT AS FAR AS LEADING OUR DISCUSSIONS AND OUR RECOMMENDATIONS.
UM, SO AT OUR FIRST MEETING WE DID APPROVE A MEETING SCHEDULE AND FREQUENCY.
UH, THE APPROVED 2026 HOUSING COMMITTEE MEETING DATES ARE FEBRUARY 10TH, MAY 12TH, AUGUST 11TH AND NOVEMBER 10TH.
AND, UM, YEP, THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT PROVIDED A TIMELINE OF IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES AND WE KIND OF USE THAT TO SET THE MEETING.
UM, YEAH, SO AS FAR AS 2026, WE WANNA CONTINUE USING DATA, UM, COMMUNITY INPUT, UH, THAT WAY WE CAN CONTINUE WORKING WITH THIS COMMISSION, UH, RELATED TO HOUSING AFFORDABILITY, ACCESS AND, AND STABILITY.
SO THANK YOU SO MUCH, COMMISSIONER LONGORIA.
UM, YES AND IF YOU HAVE ANY, ANYTHING YOU WANT TO ADD TO, UH, OUR AGENDA AS THE HOUSING COMMITTEE OR ANY IDEAS, UH, IF YOU'RE NOT ON THE HOUSING COMMITTEE, YOU CAN ALWAYS EMAIL US.
I KNOW WE HAVE A LOT OF REALLY GOOD CONVERSATIONS HERE ABOUT HOUSING, HOUSING AFFORDABILITY, YOU KNOW, IMPACT, YOU KNOW, DISPLACEMENT, UH, TRANSPORTATION, ANYTHING THAT'S TIED TO THAT.
SO PLEASE REACH OUT TO COMMISSIONER LONGORIA ON THAT AND LET'S GO ON TO FUTURE
[FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS]
AGENDA ITEMS. UM, I JUST, I WANT TO REITERATE TWO THINGS THAT WE'VE BEEN ASKING FOR THE EQUITY OVERLAY.I BELIEVE THERE'S A REPORT THAT HAS BEEN, UH, RELEASED.
UM, AND IF WE CAN GET A PRESENTATION ON THAT.
UM, AND THEN WE HAD BEEN ASKING FOR THE CIS AND THE AD CAP, UM, STATUS, UM, WHERE THAT IS.
AND UM, YOU KNOW, WE, IT WAS MENTIONED A LOT OF TIMES IN, UM, THESE PRESENTATIONS TODAY AND JUST NOTING THE FACT THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE ON PAUSE.
SO ALL THAT MONEY THAT WE TALKED ABOUT, UH, BEING INVESTED IN ANTI DISPLACEMENT IS ACTUALLY RIGHT NOW IN PAUSE AND NOT BEING USED.
UH, SO I WOULD LIKE TO, UH, SEE A PRESENTATION ON THAT AND, YOU KNOW, GET SOME QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
UH, DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS? COMMISSIONER? TISHA, GO AHEAD.
YEAH, I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS THE RIGHT SPACE, BUT I'M GONNA ASK IT.
UH, I KNOW WE HAVE OUR RETREAT COMING UP, BUT I WANTED TO ONE, CLARIFY THAT THAT'S DEFINITELY STILL HAPPENING, BUT THEN TWO, UH, MAYBE A FUTURE DISCUSSION TOPIC IS IF WE DID A LIVED EXPERIENCES AUDIT.
WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS WHERE WE ARE LOOKING AT CERTAIN EXPERIENCES, UH, IN TERMS OF, UM, LITERALLY LIKE WALKING THE STREETS, LIKE, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU CAN DO AN AUDIT WALKING AROUND LOOKING AT THINGS TO LOOK FOR AND WONDERING IF THERE'S A LIVED EXPERIENCE.
IF WE'VE EVER CONSIDERED DOING THAT AS A GROUP.
I KNOW WE CAN'T MAKE QUORUM, SO, UH, BUT ANYWAYS, I WANTED TO THROW THAT OUT THERE AS A FUTURE DISCUSSION ITEM OF WHAT WE CAN DO BEYOND JUST THESE MEETINGS, UH, ON TUESDAY NIGHTS.
BUT IF WE CAN SOMEHOW COLLECTIVELY IN SMALLER GROUPS, MAYBE DO WALKING AUDITS.
SO THE CITY IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF TOWN, ESPECIALLY SOME OF US HAVE HAD PERSONAL EXPERIENCES TO SOME OF THE TOPICS AND SOME OF US HAVE NOT.
SO IT'D BE INTERESTING TO SEE THROUGH THE LENS FROM EACH OTHER IN THE DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES THAT WE FREQUENT, UM, HOW WE CAN MAYBE AUDIT AND HAVE SOME ADDITIONAL INSIGHT WE CAN BRING BACK TO THE MEETINGS.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT CAN EVEN BE A, UM, A RETREAT ITEM OR RETREAT TOPIC, BUT JUST WANTED TO PUT THAT OUT THERE.
AND I ACTUALLY DIDN'T HAVE ANY PLACE TO TALK ABOUT THIS, SO I'M SO GLAD THAT YOU BROUGHT IT UP.
UM, BUT THE RETREAT IS DEFINITELY HAPPENING.
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WE ARE FINALIZING ONE SINGLE ITEM TO MAKE SURE WE KNOW THAT OUR, UH, POSTING DATE BY TOMA IS THE 20TH.WE WERE HOPING TO HAVE IT TODAY.
UM, IT IS JUST ABOUT READY TO GO AND I WILL NOTIFY EVERYBODY AS SOON AS IT IS.
UH, AS A ASIDE TO THAT, THERE WILL BE FOOD AND I WILL BE SENDING OUT THE, UH, FOOD ORDER, UH, VEGAN AND, AND EVERY OTHER OPTION WILL BE AVAILABLE.
UM, BUT IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND BY THE RIGHT TIME, THEN YOU WILL PROBABLY GET A TURKEY SANDWICH.
SO JUST PLEASE BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THAT ONE.
UM, AND WE'LL, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND DO THAT.
UM, AND FOR THE LIVED EXPERIENCE AUDIT AND THE CIS AND AD CAP, I WILL MAKE SURE THAT THAT IS ON THE AGENDA SETTING MEETING.
UH, I HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED A, UH, CONFIRMATION FOR THE EQUITY OVERLAY, BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE, BUT IT IS ALREADY ON FOR FEBRUARY CHAIR.
UM, YES, AND COMMISSIONER TISHA, IF YOU HAVE MORE OF A, YOU KNOW, MORE ON, ON THAT LIVED EXPERIENCE AUDIT THAT YOU WANT TO EMAIL TO MIGUEL SO WE CAN DISCUSS IT IN OUR AGENDA ITEMS SO WE CAN KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WE WANT, UH, WE CAN, IF YOU COULD PLEASE EMAIL THAT TO HIM.
ANY OTHER FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS? UH, COMMISSIONER LONGORIA.
UM, I READ AN ARTICLE ON THE CHRONICLE ABOUT WALTER MURROW OF FOUNDATIONS COMMUNITIES.
I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM HIM AND THEIR ORGANIZATION AND THE WORK THEY DO IN OUR COMMUNITY AND I THINK WE COULD ALL LEARN FROM THEM.
UM, REMEMBER THAT IF YOU HAVE ANY OTHER FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS THAT YOU THINK OF, UH, YOU CAN ALWAYS EMAIL MIGUEL AND THERE IS A FORM, UH, WE WANT, UH, AS MUCH INFORMATION AS WE CAN GET SO THAT WE CAN KNOW EXACTLY WHO TO CONTACT AND, UM, ASK THEM SO THEY CAN KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT AS FAR AS WHAT WE WANT TO HEAR FROM THEM AND THE QUESTIONS THAT WE HAVE FOR THEM.
SO PLEASE REACH OUT TO MIGUEL IF YOU HAVE ANY OTHER, UH, IDEAS FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU SO MUCH, COMMISSIONER.
SO THANK YOU FOR STAYING TILL 9 25 TODAY.
UM, YES, UH, PLEASE CONFIRM THAT YOU ARE ATTENDING THE RETREAT SO THAT WE CAN KNOW, UH, WHO IS THERE.
AND AS SOON AS MIGUEL SENDS THAT EMAIL WITH THE FOOD ORDER, PLEASE UH, RESPOND TO IT.
ANYTHING ELSE? UH, PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAILS, UH, FOR ANYTHING ELSE THAT, UH, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS THAT WE MAY HAVE.
UM, THIS ADJOURNS THE MEETING OF THE C UH, AUSTIN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION FOR TUESDAY, JANUARY 13TH.