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          [Call to Order]
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SAID WE ARE, WE'RE ALL, UM, EXPRESSING GRATITUDE FOR EACH OTHER AS WE FIGURE IT OUT. 
          SO YOU AND THE STRUGGLE HERE FIGURING IT OUT. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL IT'S 10, 13:00 AM AND I'M GOING TO CALL THE MEETING OF TODAY'S HOUSING AND PLANNING COMMITTEE MEETING TO ORDER. 
          IT IS MAY 12TH AND WE ARE DOING THIS BY A VIDEO CONFERENCE. 
          UM, ALL OF THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE ARE PRESENT. 
          UH, AND SO I'LL CALL THE MEETING TO ORDER. 
          OUR FIRST 
          [Item 1 Approve the minutes of the January 28, 2020 and April 13, 2020 meetings of the Housing and Planning Committee]
ITEM OF BUSINESS IS TO APPROVE THE MINUTES FROM THE LAST MEETING. 
          IS THERE A MOTION TO DO THAT MOVE BY VICE-CHAIR ELLIS. 
          UM, SECONDLY, THE ADVISORY COUNCIL MEMBER DIDIA AND WITHOUT OBJECTION WE'LL APPROVE THOSE BY ACCLAMATION. 
          AND SO THEN WE WILL MOVE ON TO OUR NEXT ITEM CAUSE WE DON'T HAVE ANY, NOBODY SIGNED UP TO SPEAK. 
          SO OUR NEXT ITEM IS 
          [Item 2 Briefing and discussion on emergency housing resources and policies for residents impacted by the COVID-19 local disaster and the City's housing strategy related to the COVID-19 disaster. Sponsors: Council Member Gregorio Casar. and Council Member Paige Ellis]
A BRIEFING AND DISCUSSION BRIEFING AND DISCUSSION ON EMERGENCY HOUSING RESOURCES, UM, RELATED TO THE COVEN 19 DISASTER DIRECTOR. 
          TRUE LOVE. 
          TAKE IT AWAY. 
          YES. 
          UM, SO IS THE POWERPOINT UP AND LOADED? CAN FOLKS SEE IT? WE GET THE POWERPOINT UP AND COUNCIL MEMBER TOPO IS JOINED US TOO. 
          HI. 
          NO POWER POINT YET. 
          YEAH, I'M NOT SEEING IT EITHER. 
          I COULD ALWAYS TRY SHARING MY SCREEN IF THAT HELPS. 
          KEEP US MOVING. 
          UH, ADAM, I APOLOGIZE FOR LEAVING Y'ALL HANGING. 
          I'VE BEEN ON THE PHONE WITH OUR LEAD AB TECH TUG. 
          SO, UH, COUNCIL NUMBER HER MADISON. 
          MY BEST SUGGESTION AT THIS POINT IS JUST TO CALL IN FOR THE MEETING AND AS FAR AS THE LINES GETTING CROSSED AND THAT MUST HAVE BEEN LIKE, I'M REALLY NOT SURE, BUT PERHAPS A STAFF, UH, SITUATION WHERE THEY, THE EMAILS GOT, I REALLY DON'T KNOW, BUT I'M, I'M GOING TO TRY TO FIND A CITY CLERK REAL QUICK AND THEN, UNLESS DON'T WANT TO GET THE BOTTLING AND JUST GO FROM HERE. 
          WELL I THINK WE'LL GET THE BALL ROLLING. 
          REMEMBER HARPER MADISON JUST SAID THAT IT'S OKAY. 
          YOU'RE FINE. 
          LEAVE IT AS IS AND MOVE FORWARD. 
          YEAH, LEAVE IT AS IS. 
          HELP US. 
          YEAH. 
          RATHER THAN RUN THIS POWERPOINT. 
          OKAY, THANK YOU. 
          I'LL GET THE UPLOAD THE POWERPOINT. 
          THAT WOULD BE GREAT. 
          YES MA'AM. 
          AND JUST TO BE CLEAR, YOU GUYS CAN ALL HEAR ME RIGHT? YES, WE CAN HEAR YOU PERFECTLY. 
          OKAY. 
          SO WE'RE IN THE SAME MEETING. 
          IT'S FINE. 
          THANK YOU, ADAM. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, CAN YOU ADVANCE THE SLIDE PLEASE? IS THIS SOMETHING THAT I'M GOING TO REQUEST CONTROL OVER THE POWERPOINT? CAN WE PROGRESS THE SLIDE PLEASE? HEY GUYS, THE PRESENTATION, IT'D BE ON YOUR SCREEN RIGHT NOW. 
          IT'S SHARING OR MIGHT BE A DELAY. 
          WE'LL JUST MAYBE GIVE IT A MINUTE. 
          SORRY ABOUT THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          WE SHOULD BE, IF WE CAN GET TO, UH, LIKE THREE, THAT WOULD BE FANTASTIC ON YOUR SCREEN. 
          AND SO I WILL JUST GO AHEAD, COUNSEL, UM, MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE, I WILL JUST GO AHEAD AND START TALKING AND HOPE THAT THE POWER OF BOTH THE POWERPOINT CAUGHT UP WITH ME. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, UM, AS THE COMMITTEE PROBABLY KNOWS, WE LAUNCHED THE RENT PROGRAM, UH, UH, A LITTLE MORE THAN A WEEK AGO. 
          UH, AND IT'S RENT STANDING FOR RELIEF OF EMERGENCY NEEDS FOR TENANTS PROGRAM. 
          UH, THIS IS A 1.45 $9 MILLION CONTRACT WITH 1.259 GOING TO BE ALLOCATED FOR EMERGENCY RENTAL ASSISTANCE, UH, FOR, UH, PEOPLE THAT ARE EXPERIENCING, UM, PRESSURES RELATED TO COBIT. 
          UH, THE HOUSING AUTHORITY FOR THE CITY OF AUSTIN OR HAKA IS THE VENDOR AND THE PROGRAM ADMINISTRATOR FOR THIS CONTRACT. 
          UH, WE'RE USING CURRENTLY LOCAL FUNDS, NAMELY THE HOUSING TRUST FUND TO PROVIDE THIS ASSISTANCE. 
          UH, AND THIS IS ONE TIME EMERGENCY RENTAL ASSISTANCE. 
          IF YOU COULD ADVANCE THE SLIDE PLEASE. 
          SO ELIGIBILITY FOR THE RENT PROGRAM, UH, YOU MUST BE ABLE TO, YOU MUST HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE THAT YOUR HOUSEHOLD HAS BEEN IMPACTED BY COBIT 19 AND, UH, THAT YOU'RE, YOU WERE AT A HELPFUL THAT 80% MEDIAN FAMILY INCOME AND BELOW, UH, FOR PROCESS APPLICATIONS WERE RECEIVED FROM MAY FOUR THROUGH MAY SIX. 
          AND WE ARE 
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IN THE MIDDLE OF THE LOTTERY PROCESS OF THAT RIGHT NOW. 
          SO WE ACCEPTED, UH, OPEN APPLICATIONS, UM, MAY 4TH THROUGH MAY 6TH. 
          UH, THEN WE WILL CONDUCT A LOTTERY TO BE ABLE TO DEPLOY THE FUNDS. 
          RENT PAYMENTS WILL BE PAID DIRECTLY TO LANDLORD BY MAY 15TH. 
          WE EXPECT SERVING A THOUSAND PLUS HOUSEHOLDS, UM, WITH THIS INITIAL ROUND OF RENTAL ASSISTANCE. 
          AND, UH, PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANTLY IS THAT WE'LL BE GETTING FURTHER. 
          WE'RE GONNA BE GETTING A LOT OF DATA THAT WILL HELP US TO UNDERSTAND AND DETERMINE THE SCOPE OF THE UNMET NEED THAT WE HAVE FOR, UM, FOR RENTAL ASSISTANCE IN AUSTIN. 
          AND SO WHAT I WANT TO DO NOW IS TO SHARE MY SCREEN SO THAT I CAN SHARE WITH YOU THE DATE, THE DASHBOARD DATA WE HAVE CURRENTLY FOR, UH, THE PEOPLE THAT APPLIED FOR THE RENT PROGRAM. 
          AND SO I'M GOING TO DO THAT AND I'M GOING TO, I HOPE THAT I DO THIS RIGHT. 
          SO IS THE DASHBOARD COMING UP? WE CAN SEE THAT SUMMARY REPORT. 
          YEAH, THAT'S IT. 
          THAT'S WHAT I WANTED TO MAKE SURE. 
          UM, I SAID THIS WAS GOING TO BE MY FIRST TIME OF SHARING MY SCREEN, SO I'M PRETTY EXCITED THAT I DIDN'T, UH, SCREW IT UP ENTIRELY. 
          UH, SO THIS IS THE INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE CURRENTLY FROM THE HOUSING AUTHORITY AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO, THIS IS JUST ON THE APPLICATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN RECEIVED AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO PERFORM AND TO ANALYZE THE DATA AND SEE WHAT ELSE WE CAN, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM IT. 
          BUT I WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW. 
          SO THE LOTTERY WITH OPEN FROM MAY 4TH AT 9:00 AM UNTIL MAY 6TH AT 1159, UH, REQUIREMENTS, APPLICANTS MUST HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO PAY THEIR MAY 26 20 RENT. 
          THEY HAD TO LIVE IN THE CITY OF AUSTIN. 
          THEY HAD TO HAVE AN INCOME OF LESS THAN 80% MEDIAN FAMILY INCOME AND THEY HAD TO HAVE FACED A JOB LOSS OR LOSS OF INCOME DUE TO CODE AT 19. 
          AND THEY WERE NOT RECEIVING ANY OTHER GOVERNMENTS ASSISTANCE. 
          AND AGAIN, THE GOAL IS TO HAVE RENT PAYMENTS GO OUT NO LATER THAN FRIDAY, MAY 5TH, MAY 15TH TO LANDLORDS THAT ARE WILLING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRAM. 
          SO, UM, WE HAD IN TOTAL, UM, WE HAD 10,738 APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED IN TOTAL OVER THE THREE-DAY LOTTERY. 
          UM, THE 11 1,142 OF THOSE CAME IN BY PHONE 300 3,360. 
          SO THESE ARE QUESTIONS WE HAD A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF QUESTIONS THAT CAME IN BY, BY PHONE. 
          UM, 465 QUESTIONS BY TEXT. 
          AND 300, 366 BY EMAIL. 
          RICHARD SCHULER LIVE MAY INTERRUPT YOU FOR A SECOND IF WE COULD HAVE EVERYONE PUT THEIR PHONES, BUT DIRECTOR SHOE LOVES, THAT'D BE VERY HELPFUL. 
          AND EVERYBODY ON THE LINE HERE TOO. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU COUNCIL MEMBER. 
          SO YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO SEE RIGHT NOW THE UM, THE SUMMARY OF THE, OF THE, THE NEEDS THAT WERE PRESENTED. 
          IT'S BROKEN DOWN BY DAY SO YOU CAN SEE THE NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS WE RECEIVED ON EACH DAY. 
          UM, WITH 10,738 TOTAL APPLICATIONS OVER THE THREE DAYS WITH A TOTAL RENTAL NEED OR REQUESTS COMING IN AT A LITTLE LESS THAN SIX POINT $9 MILLION. 
          UH, THE AVERAGE WITH AN AVERAGE, UH, RENTAL REQUEST OF $1,185 PER HOUSEHOLD. 
          UM, WE HAD, UH, YOU CAN SEE THE, THE AVERAGE RENT REQUESTED BY BEDROOM SIZE FOR THOSE THAT ARE INTERESTED IN THAT. 
          UH, WE HAD 25 MENTIONS IN MEDIA AND NEWS MEDIA AND WE HAD, UM, MORE THAN 26,000 VIEWS OF THE ATX RENT HELP, INFO.ORG WEBPAGE. 
          UH, WE WILL BE USING THE CONDUCTING THE LOTTERY HAKA IS IN THE PROCESS OF DOING THAT RIGHT NOW, QUALIFYING PEOPLE, WORKING WITH LANDLORDS AND GETTING THE, THE RENT CHECKS OUT BY THIS FRIDAY, UH, TO THE FOLKS THAT ARE GOING TO BE ELIGIBLE THROUGH THE LOTTERY. 
          UH, WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS. 
          UH, WE RECOGNIZE THAT, UH, ABOUT THE SUCCESS OF THIS PROGRAM IN THAT WE, UH, ARE HOPING TO HELP A THOUSAND PEOPLE AT LEAST OR A THOUSAND HOUSEHOLDS. 
          UH, THE DEMONSTRATED NEED IS, IS AS EXPECTED FAR OUTWEIGHS THE AMOUNT OF SUPPORT THAT WE HAVE TO OFFER RIGHT NOW. 
          BUT WE HOPE TO USE THIS DATA AND THE DATA FOR, UM, FOR WHO RECEIVES A LOTTERY AWARD TO HELP THEM FORM UP, UH, HOW WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO FURTHER SUPPLEMENT THIS, THIS PROGRAM WITH CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FUNDS OR OTHER FUNDS, 
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UM, IN TO HELP WITH FUTURE MONTHS. 
          UH, RENTAL ASSISTANCE. 
          ARE THERE QUESTIONS? WHAT? OPEN QUESTIONS? COUNCILMEMBER KITCHEN. 
          AND I'LL LEAVE THIS AND I'M GOING TO LEAVE THIS UP ON THE SCREEN FOR NOW IN CASE WE NEED TO REFER TO IT AGAIN. 
          UM, OKAY. 
          SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          UM, THE, THE, UM, THE DATA THAT YOU JUST WENT OVER IS NOT IN BACKUP. 
          SO IF Y'ALL COULD BE SURE AND EMAIL THAT, UM, SO JUST YOU'RE GOING TO THE FULL MAYOR AND COUNCIL VIA MEMO LATER TODAY. 
          OKAY. 
          WE'LL GET IT TODAY. 
          OKAY. 
          THAT'S GREAT. 
          SO A COUPLE OF QUICK QUESTIONS. 
          SO CAN YOU SPEAK TO, UM, TWO THINGS, YOUR, YOUR TIMELINE FOR, UM, THE FURTHER ASSIST THAT HAVE UNMET NEEDS AND THE DATA POINTS THAT ARE INCLUDED. 
          WILL YOU BE INCLUDING IN THE UNMET NEEDS, THE, UM, UH, MFI LEVELS OF THE FOLKS THAT WERE NOT ELIGIBLE, UH, AS WELL AS THOSE WE WEREN'T ABLE TO COVER. 
          AND WILL YOU BE INCLUDING DATA ABOUT THE SIZE OF THE, UM, PLACES THAT PEOPLE ARE, ARE LIVING? IN OTHER WORDS, ARE WE TALKING ABOUT, UM, I'D LIKE TO UNDERSTAND THE RANGE. 
          ARE WE TALKING ABOUT SMALL LANDLORDS OR ARE WE TALKING ABOUT BIG APARTMENT COMPLEX? THERE'S TWO QUESTIONS. 
          YOUR TIMELINE FOR GETTING US MORE DATA AND, UH, THE DATA ELEMENTS THAT YOU'RE GOING TO INCLUDE SPECIFICALLY ABOUT HIGH LEVELS FOR THE PEOPLE THAT WERE NOT ELIGIBLE AND THE SIZE OF THE LAND. 
          SO I KNOW THAT. 
          SO TO ANSWER YOUR FIRST QUESTION, WE HOPE TO GET THAT OUT. 
          YEAH. 
          THE END OF THE WEEK. 
          UM, WE ARE, WE WILL HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT MEDIAN FAMILY INCOME LEVELS. 
          I'M NOT SURE IF WE HAVE DATA ON THE SIZE OF THE COMPLEX WHERE, UH, WHERE THE APPLICANT ARE ARE LIVING. 
          I CAN, I CAN CHECK ON THAT AND GET BACK TO YOU. 
          IF WE HAVE THAT DATA, WE'LL INCLUDE IT. 
          UM, BUT THAT IS A GOOD DATA POINT TO SEE IF FOR FUTURE ITERATIONS WE CAN FIND OUT ANY INFORMATION ON THAT TO BE ABLE TO REPORT BACK. 
          IT JUST MAY NOT HAVE BEEN IN THE APPLICATION AS IT WAS REQUESTED. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL I WOULD JUST SUGGEST THAT THAT WOULD BE USEFUL FOR THE FUTURE BECAUSE WE'RE LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT OUR SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAM OR LOOKING AT THIS FROM BOTH PERSPECTIVE OF PEOPLE WHO NEED RENTAL ASSISTANCE AND THE PERSPECTIVE OF FOLKS WHO ARE, YOU KNOW, WHO ARE, UM, PROVIDING HOUSING. 
          SO THANK YOU. 
          THAT'S MY QUESTION. 
          YEP. 
          THANK YOU. 
          BYE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          DIRECTOR AT YOUR LAB. 
          COULD YOU GO INTO A LITTLE MORE DETAIL ABOUT, UM, THE QUALIFICATION OF NOT RECEIVING OTHER GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE? IS THIS SPECIFIC TO CORONA VIRUS RELIEF EFFORTS OR WOULD THIS BE OTHER, UH, GOVERNMENTAL SUPPORT ISSUES? UM, LIKE SNAP OR WIC OR THINGS LIKE THAT? UH, PREDOMINANTLY WE WERE LOOKING TO MAKE SURE THAT, THAT, THAT THERE WAS NOT OTHER, UH, GOVERNMENT PROVIDED CARD OF IRISH RELEASED. 
          UM, IF YOU WERE ENROLLED IN ANOTHER, UM, RECEIVING RENTAL ASSISTANCE FROM ANOTHER, ANOTHER ENTITY AND THAT YOU ALSO ARE, WE'RE NOT, UM, A RESIDENT OF LIKE A PUBLIC HOUSING PROPERTY, UH, WHERE YOUR, WHERE YOUR RENT THAT YOU WOULD NORMALLY BE BE CHARGED IS, IS SOMETHING THAT SCALES WITH YOUR INCOME. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          YOU REALLY CLEAR WITH THAT DIRECTOR WHO LOVED, THEY MIGHT BE USEFUL TO, TO MAKE IT CLEAR, IT'S, I MIGHT SAY NOT RECEIVING OTHER GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE TO PAY THIS MONTH'S RENT. 
          YEAH, THAT'S A GOOD STEP. 
          A GOOD POINT OF CLARITY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          BECAUSE IF SOMEBODY WHO WENT TO THE FOOD BANK, UM, UH, FUNDED BY THE CITY, THAT THAT WOULDN'T DISQUALIFY YOU FROM THIS PROGRAM. 
          PERFECT. 
          TELL US NUMBER TWO THOUGH, AND THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO ASK A QUESTION. 
          UM, UH, I MISS, UH, I PRAY IT, EXCUSE ME. 
          I'LL LOOK FORWARD TO GETTING THE POWERPOINT. 
          I, THERE WAS A SLIDE THAT TALKED ABOUT THE NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS AND I THINK ROSIE, YOU SAID IT WAS 10,738 I WONDERED IF YOU ALSO ON THAT SLIDE, THANK YOU. 
          HAD HAD QUANTIFIED FOR US THE AMOUNT OF RENTAL ASSISTANCE REPRESENTED BY THOSE 10,000 MORE THAN 10,000 APPLICATIONS. 
          SO IF WE WERE ABLE TO IDENTIFY, THANK YOU. 
          I THOUGHT I'D SEEN IT. 
          SO IF WE WERE ABLE TO IDENTIFY MORE FUNDING, THAT ADDITIONAL FUNDING WOULD BE MMM. 
          REQUESTS, YES. 
          WITH 6 MILLION, $893,030. 
          SO LET'S CALL IT 7 MILLION. 
          UM, AND WE ALLOCATED 1.5 MILLION, IS THAT CORRECT? I'M SORRY, WHAT WAS IT THAT GOT ALLOCATED? UH, IT WAS A LITTLE MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION. 
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LIKE 1.25. 
          OKAY. 
          I, I, I HOPE THAT WE CAN ALLOCATE MORE FUNDING TO THIS. 
          THERE'S CLEARLY A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF NEED. 
          UM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS. 
          YEAH, THIS IS, THIS IS A PROGRAM THAT WE ARE REVIEWING AND THAT THERE SHOULD BE RECOMMENDATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH WHEN WE COME FOR THE LARGER CORONAVIRUS RELIEF, UH, SPENDING PLAN, FOR LACK OF A BETTER WORD, UH, AT THE MAY 21ST COUNCIL MEETING AS COUNSEL HAS ALREADY REQUESTED. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND DID I HEAR YOU SAY, I'M SORRY I HAD ANOTHER, UM, SIDE NARRATIVE GOING ON, BUT I THINK I HEARD YOU SAY THAT YOU WERE HOPING TO GET THAT ADDITIONAL DATA BY THIS WEEK AND THAT THERE WAS SOME CHALLENGES PROVIDING ADDRESSES, UM, OR UM, INFORMATION ABOUT LOCATION, BUT THAT TO THE EXTENT THAT YOU COULD, YOU WOULD BE PROVIDING US WITH SOME SENSE OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL, UH, WHERE ARE THEY GEOGRAPHICALLY? WE'LL BE ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE WHERE THEY ARE, UM, BY ZIP CODE, UH, TO GET TO THE COUNCIL DISTRICT LEVEL. 
          MY UNDERSTANDING OF THE DATA ANALYSIS BASED ON HOW THE DATA WAS COLLECTED, WE WOULD HAVE TO GEOCODE EACH INDIVIDUAL APPLICATION, WHICH MIGHT BE TIME PROHIBITIVE BETWEEN NOW AND FRIDAY. 
          UM, AND THAT THE OTHER PIECE THAT WE, WE DON'T, I DON'T KNOW THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE IS THE, THE SIZE OR YOU KNOW, RELATIVE SIZE OF THE, OF THE COMPLEX OR THE FACILITY THAT FOLKS ARE LIVING IN TO BE ABLE TO GAUGE IF THESE ARE GOING, IF THE PAYMENTS ARE GOING TO SMALL LANDLORDS OR TO, TO WHAT WE CONSIDER LARGER LANDLORDS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          WELL I THINK THE ZIP CODE INFORMATION IS REALLY VALUABLE. 
          I MEAN WE GET ZIP CODE INFORMATION FOR UNEMPLOYMENT, UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS AND OTHER THINGS AND IT, IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY, IT DOESN'T MATCH OUR DISTRICTS ALWAYS, BUT I THINK WE, THAT GIVES US SOME SENSE OF WHERE WE'RE UM, THE REQUESTS ARE COMING FROM. 
          THANK YOU. 
          YEAH. 
          YEAH. 
          THE MAYOR HAS JOINED US. 
          HI MAYOR. 
          UM, LET ME SEE IF THERE ARE OTHER QUESTIONS BEFORE I GET BACK TO YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER KITCHEN. 
          UM, I UH, COUNCIL MEMBER HARPER MADISON BECAUSE I CAN'T, CAN'T SEE YOU. 
          I WANTED TO SEE IF YOU HAD ANY QUESTIONS. 
          AND THEN I ALSO WOULD LOVE IF YOU TEST OUT THE RAISE HAND BUTTON TO SEE IF THAT WORKS AS A WAY FOR ME TO CALL ON YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT BECAUSE I HAVE NOT FOUND THE HAMPTON, A RAISE HAND BUTTON WHERE EXACTLY. 
          SO I LOOKED AT THE, THERE'S A BUTTON THAT HAS THREE LITTLE DOTS AND IT SAYS COPY MEETING, AUDIO CONNECTIONS, SPEAKER, MICROPHONE AND CAMERA CONNECTED DEVICE. 
          BUT I DON'T SEE THIS RAISE HAND BUTTON YOU'D MAKE REFERENCE TO YEAH, IN THE, IF YOU HAVE THE PARTICIPANTS SIDEBAR UP AND I KNOW THAT YOU COULD POTENTIALLY CLOSE THAT. 
          AND THAT COULD BE, THERE'S A PARTICIPANTS SIDEBAR WHERE YOU CAN SEE EVERYBODY IN THE MEETING, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN SEE OUR NAMES. 
          UM, AND IF YOU HIGHLIGHT YOUR OWN NAME, YOU'LL SEE A MUTE UNMUTE BUTTON, A VIDEO BUTTON, AND THEN A HAND. 
          AND SO THEN IF YOU CLICK THAT HAND, UM, AND I THINK THAT I SHOULD BE ABLE TO SEE THAT. 
          BUT IF YOU CAN'T FIND THAT, IT'S OKAY. 
          I'VE GOT MY PHONE HERE AND YOU CAN JUST TEXT ME TALKING TO ME ABOUT LIKE GETTING ME OVER MY TECHNOLOGICAL, UH, LACK OF ADVANCEMENT. 
          UH, WE, WE DON'T NEED TO DO THAT TODAY. 
          I WILL JUST SAY TO YOU, WHY DON'T YOU JUST TEXT ME A LITTLE HAND EMOJI AND I'LL CALL HIM. 
          UM, BUT DID YOU HAVE A QUESTION COUNCIL MEMBER? NO, NO, NO. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I APPRECIATE YOU ASKING COUNSELOR NUMBER KITCHEN. 
          YES. 
          I JUST WANT TO CIRCLE BACK AROUND AND BE INTERESTING AS SOON AS WE MOVE FORWARD TO THINK ABOUT THE EXTENT TO WHICH WE CAN COORDINATE OUR ASSISTANCE PROGRAM WITH OUR, WITH OUR SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAM SO THAT WE'RE BEST LEVERAGING DOLLARS. 
          UM, UH, YOU KNOW, UM, UH, WE NEED TO PUT, WE, UH, I BELIEVE THAT WE NEED TO PUT ENOUGH MONEY INTO RENTAL ASSISTANCE FOR EVERYBODY THAT NEEDS IT. 
          BUT I ALSO THINK IT'D BE INTERESTING TO THINK ABOUT THE EXTENT TO WHICH WE CAN COORDINATE THIS. 
          I WOULD HATE FOR US TO NOT BE PROVIDING RENTAL ASSISTANCE THAT PEOPLE TO PEOPLE THAT NEED IT AND ALSO NOT HELPING SMALLER BUSINESSES THAT MAY HAVE MAYBE SMALLER LANDLORDS AND THEN HAVING PEOPLE JUST LEFT OUT IN THE COAL WHEREAS WE COULD HAVE IN ONE PROGRAM OR THE OTHER BEEN HELPFUL TO PARTICULAR SITUATION. 
          SO I KNOW THAT ADDS A LEVEL OF COMPLEXITY, BUT I WOULD JUST ASK YOU GUYS TO THINK ABOUT IT AND MAYBE HAVE SOME CONVERSATIONS WITH, WITH UM, VERONICA BERCENIO TO SEE IF THERE IS AN APPROACH THAT MAKES SENSE TO AT LEAST UNDERSTAND THE DATA IN A CONTEXT THAT, THAT GIVES US A BROADER PICTURE ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON. 
          DOES THAT MAKE SENSE, ROSIE, ABOUT WHAT I'M ASKING? IT DOES. 
          IT DOES. 
          UH, AND, AND WE'RE, AND YEAH, IT DOES COMPLETELY. 
          AND VERONICA AND I 
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HAVE BEEN IN CLOSE CONVERSATION AND WE'RE ALL, I'M GOING TO BE LOOKING TOWARDS THE DATA THAT WE GET TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE MEETING THE OBJECTIVES THAT WE, UM, THAT WE WANT TO MEET. 
          I HAVE A FOLLOW UP POINT TO THAT. 
          YOU KNOW, A LOT OF OUR SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAM IS ABOUT RETAINING SALARIES AND EMPLOYEES. 
          UM, BUT THE, YOU KNOW, FOR SMALL LANDLORDS THAT MAY HAVE TO DO WITH, YOU KNOW, KEEPING YOUR TENANTS IN PLACE, UM, AND KEEPING THAT PROPERTY FROM GETTING FORECLOSED ON AND UM, AND, AND NOT CHARGING EXORBITANT RENT. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE FAIR MARKET RENT REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS PROGRAM. 
          AND SO POTENTIALLY INSTEAD OF JUST GIVING A LANDLORD THE $12,000 GRANTS TO, FOR THE MA TO MAINTAIN MAYBE A MAINTENANCE PERSON THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE ACROSS A FEW PROPERTIES, PUTTING THOSE $12,000 TO RENTAL ASSISTANCE THAT KEEPS THAT TENANTS IN PLACE AND KEEPS THAT LANDLORD AFLOAT MAY MAKE SENSE. 
          AT WHICH POINT THAT SMALL BUSINESS STUFF, THOSE 12,000 SMALL BUSINESS LOAN DOLLARS MIGHT BEST JUST BE DELIVERED DIRECTLY TO THE TENANT THROUGH THE RENT PROGRAM. 
          NOT SAYING THAT THAT'S WHAT WE SHOULD DO, BUT THAT'S, I'D BE THE IDEA BECAUSE ON THE, ON THE LANDLORD SIDE, WE'RE REALLY, IF WE HELP THE TENANTS THEN WE'RE SUPPORTING THE LANDLORDS AND ANY MAINTENANCE EMPLOYEES THROUGH THAT RENT PAIN. 
          YEAH. 
          WE JUST NEED TO MAKE SURE IT'S COORDINATED AND YOU KNOW, AND SO, UH, SO WE'RE STRETCHING OUR DOLLARS APPROPRIATELY AND WE'RE SOLVING THE PROBLEM. 
          ARE THERE OTHER QUESTIONS, CHAIR? I DO HAVE A QUESTION. 
          I DON'T KNOW THAT THIS IS THE PARTICULAR MOMENT TO ASK THE QUESTION. 
          UM, OR IF THERE MIGHT BE MORE THAT GETS PRESENTED TO US THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF THE PRESENTATION, BUT I'LL JUST GO AHEAD AND PUT IT OUT HERE. 
          I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS AROUND FOLKS WHO ARE, UM, LIVING IN EXTENDED STAY HOTEL SITUATIONS. 
          UM, AND WHAT OUR OPTIONS ARE THERE. 
          SO WHEN THAT'S APPROPRIATE, UM, UH, DIRECTOR TRUE LOVE FOR US TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S NOW OR LATER, BUT I, I DO HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS AROUND WHAT OUR OPTIONS THERE. 
          I'M NOT SURE THAT, UM, AND I KNOW THERE'S SOME STAFF ON THE COLUMN LINE THAT MIGHT HAVE MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS. 
          I'M NOT SURE THAT, UH, WE HAD ANY APPLICATIONS OR THAT EXTENDED STAY HOTEL, UM, SCENARIOS WERE CONTEMPLATED OR AVAILABLE UNDERNEATH THIS PARTICULAR CONTRACT. 
          UM, OR THIS PARTICULAR PROGRAM. 
          IS THERE ANYONE ON THE STAFF LINE THAT CAN HELP ANSWER THAT QUESTION OR IS THAT SOMETHING WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO GET BACK TO THE COUNCIL MEMBER ON? YEAH, ROSIE, THIS IS MANDY. 
          UM, WE DID HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS, UM, FROM THE PUBLIC ABOUT EXTENDED STAY HOTELS AS WELL AS SUB LEASE ARRANGEMENTS AND INFORMAL LEASE ARRANGEMENTS. 
          AND, UM, UNFORTUNATELY THIS PROGRAM IS NOT ACCOMMODATING THOSE FOLKS. 
          ONE OF THE REQUIREMENTS IS THAT THERE IS A LEASE, A STANDARD LEASE BETWEEN THE TENANT AND THE LANDLORD. 
          UM, IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROGRAM. 
          BUT IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE WILL WANT TO LOOK AT MOVING FORWARD. 
          UM, AND AGAIN, AS ROSIE MENTIONED, WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO A DEEP DATA DIVE BOTH FROM THE QUESTIONS THAT WE RECEIVED, THE APPLICATIONS THAT WE RECEIVED, UM, AND, AND WHO THE, THE ULTIMATE RECIPIENTS WILL BE TO DETERMINE WHO WE WERE ABLE TO SERVE, NOT ABLE TO SERVE AND HOW WE CAN ADJUST THE PROGRAM MOVING FORWARD. 
          THANKS VERY MUCH. 
          I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT. 
          THAT'S ALREADY ON YOUR RADAR CAUSE IT'S USUALLY THE MATTER IS I'M GETTING A LOT OF CALLS ABOUT FOLKS FOR WHOM THAT'S THEIR REALITY AND MOVING FORWARD. 
          THEY JUST HAVE SO MUCH IN THE WAY OF UNCERTAINTY. 
          SO ANYTHING THAT WE COULD BE OFFERING OR CONSTITUENTS FOR MORE CERTAINTY, MORE CLARITY ABOUT WHAT THINGS LOOK LIKE FOR THEM MOVING FORWARD WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL. 
          UH, IT TURNS OUT IT'S, IT'S REALLY, REALLY EXPENSIVE TO BE POOR. 
          UM, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE EXISTING IN THE MARGINS AND IN POVERTY ARE PAYING A LOT IN THE WAY OF RENT JUST BECAUSE IT'S WHAT THEY'RE ELIGIBLE AND, AND ABLE TO SECURE. 
          SO IN ANY ADVICE AND OR UM, YEAH, SUGGESTIONS THAT YOU COULD BE OFFERING MOVING FORWARD WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL BECAUSE WE ARE CERTAINLY GETTING THE QUESTIONS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND I APPRECIATE COUNCIL MEMBER HARBOR MADISON RAISING THAT BECAUSE I THINK IT'S, I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF FOLKS THAT ARE SUFFERING MORE ARE MORE LIKELY THAN NOT, LIKE ARE MORE LIKELY THAN THE AVERAGE PERSON TO BE IN THOSE INFORMAL ARRANGEMENTS. 
          AND SO I WOULD HATE TO LEAVE OUT SOME OF THE FOLKS WHO MAY NEED IT THE MOST AND BE IMPACTED THE MOST RIGHT NOW. 
          AND SO IF EVEN IF IT MEANS THAT WE CREATE SOME PRIORITY POT OF MONEY THAT HELPS PROVIDE GIFT CARDS OR OTHER FINANCIAL SUPPORTS ARRANGEMENTS FOR LOTTERY WINNERS THAT UM, WHOSE LEASE WE CAN EASILY PAY FOR, YOU KNOW, JUST, LET'S JUST BE THINKING CREATIVELY ABOUT HOW THOSE PEOPLE DON'T GET KICKED OFF 
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THE LIST BEFORE THEY EVEN GET A CHANCE. 
          UM, BYE. 
          MY ONLY OTHER QUESTION I THINK LEFT HERE IS IT WOULD BE USEFUL OR INTERESTING TO KNOW WHAT THE MOST COMMON THINGS WERE THAT MADE SOMEONE BE DETERMINED TO BE INELIGIBLE. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW THOSE OFF THE BACK OF YOUR HEAD. 
          I DON'T HAVE THAT INFORMATION OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, BUT I CAN SEE IF WE CAN INCLUDE THAT IN OUR DATA ANALYSIS TO PULL FROM THE DATA SET THAT WE'RE GETTING. 
          THAT'D BE GREAT. 
          AND WHILE WHILE YOU'RE GOING TO HELP OVER A THOUSAND HOUSEHOLDS, AND WHILE WE'RE SAYING THAT THERE ARE, YOU KNOW, ABOUT 5,500 ELIGIBLE, UM, FOLKS, HOUSEHOLDS HERE, IT LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, YOU ALSO HAVE THE FAMILY MEMBERS LISTED. 
          AND SO IS IT RIGHT THAT I WOULD ADD THE ELIGIBLE FAMILY MEMBERS AND THE ELIGIBLE COLUMN IF I WANTED TO KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE WE WOULD BE SERVING, IT'D BE THAT FOR ABOUT $7 MILLION, WE COULD SERVE ABOUT 18,000 PEOPLE. 
          THAT IS MY UNDERSTANDING OF THE DATA. 
          I MEAN THAT THAT'S A REALLY, THERE'S A REALLY STRONG CASE THERE THAT THAT WOULD BE A PROGRAM AT MAJOR SCALE THAT COULD BE DEPLOYED REALLY QUICKLY. 
          AND THE FACT THAT YOU ALL STARTED TALKING ABOUT THIS AT THE END OF APRIL, ANNOUNCED IT AT THE END OF APRIL, WE AND THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE HELPING PEOPLE HERE IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS. 
          UM, THE ABILITY TO SCALE THAT AND HELP YOU KNOW, OVER, YOU KNOW, NEARLY WHAT WOULD THAT BE, 18,000 PEOPLE IF WE PUT SOME MORE MONEY IN THIS I THINK SPEAKS REALLY WELL TO IT, TO, TO THE PROGRAM. 
          SO I THINK FINDING THOSE GAPS TO COVER WOULD MAKE A LOT OF SENSE. 
          AND, AND I JUST WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO EXPRESS OUR APPRECIATION TO, UM, OUR, OUR PARTNERS IN THIS, UM, NAMELY HAKA WHO HAS HELPED US. 
          UH, YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. 
          WE, WE HAD PRELIMINARY CONVERSATIONS WITH HAKA ABOUT, HEY, COULD WE DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS? AND TWO WEEKS LATER WE WERE LAUNCHING THE PROGRAM. 
          UH, AND THAT'S JUST A HUGE, IT WAS A HUGE LIFT AND, AND SPEAKS TO THE TESTAMENT OF THE QUALITY OF FOLKS THAT WE HAVE, UH, IN OUR HOUSING AUTHORITY AND IN OUR HOUSE AND DEPARTMENT. 
          AND I ALSO WANT TO THANK, UM, THE AUSTIN APARTMENT ASSOCIATION THAT HAS HELPED US IN PROVIDING OUTREACH TO LANDLORDS AND GETTING THIS INFORMATION IN FRONT OF FOLKS SO THAT THEY'RE AWARE THAT IT'S, UH, A BENEFIT FOR THEIR TENANTS. 
          THAT WAS, REMEMBER KITCHEN ONE LAST QUESTION HERE BEFORE WE MOVE ON. 
          IF YOU NEED TO MOVE ON AND I CAN ASK IT OFFLINE. 
          OKAY. 
          AS COUNCIL NUMBER, TOGO AS WELL. 
          OKAY. 
          SO QUICKLY, ROSIE, YOU CAN ANSWER THIS OFFLINE IF IT'S A LONG QUESTION. 
          I'M CURIOUS ABOUT THE, UH, THE WAY IN WHICH COORDINATING WITH THE APARTMENT, UH, ASSOCIATION IN, UM, LANDLORDS. 
          ARE THEY ALLOWED, HOW, HOW CAN THEY PARTICIPATE TO HELP THEIR, UM, THEIR RESIDENTS SUPPLY? I THINK THEY'RE PRIMARILY PROVIDING INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROGRAM TO THEIR RESIDENTS. 
          UM, I CAN, WE CAN PROVIDE MORE INFORMATION OFFLINE ABOUT HOW THAT, HOW THAT COMMUNICATION HAS GONE OUT, BUT WE'VE SEEN THEM AS A WAY TO GET INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROGRAM TO LANDLORDS AND TO MAKE SURE THAT LANDLORDS ARE ABLE TO SHARE THAT INFORMATION WITH THEIR TENANTS. 
          THANKS. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN SEE MY HAND RAISED, UM, WITH THE HAND RAISE THING. 
          IT'S A LITTLE UNCLEAR WHEN IT'S LIKE ACTUALLY RAISING THE HAND OR WHEN THAT ISN'T. 
          UM, SO VERY QUICKLY JUST TO GET BACK TO THE EXTENDED EXTENDED STAY PROGRAM, UM, HOUSING OPTIONS AND WHY THEY'RE NOT ELIGIBLE. 
          IS IT BECAUSE OF THE, THE WAY THE FUNDING, DID IT HAVE TO DO WITH THE FUNDING THAT YOU WERE UTILIZING OR WAS IT ABOUT THE DOCUMENTATION? CAUSE IT SEEMS TO ME THAT SOMEBODY WHO IS DOING THAT COULD SHOW YOU A RECEIPT FOR THE PREVIOUS WEEKS TO SHOW THAT, TO SHOW THAT THAT WAS WHERE THEY WERE LIVING. 
          SO I GUESS I JUST NEEDED TO UNDERSTAND WHETHER IT WAS A DOCUMENTATION ISSUE OR A FUNDING STREAM ISSUE. 
          SO IT'S NOT A FUNDING STREAM. 
          I THINK IT'S MORE OF A DOCUMENTATION ISSUE. 
          WE CAN CERTAINLY GET YOU A MORE CONCRETE ANSWER ON THAT. 
          I'M OFFLINE AND LET'S, MANDY IS ABLE TO JUMP IN AND ANSWER THAT. 
          I'LL FIND THAT'S FINE. 
          I THINK THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, I WOULD AGREE WITH MY COLLEAGUES WHO RAISED THAT AS, AS AN IMPORTANT, UM, GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS TO MAKE SURE, UH, ARE, ARE ELIGIBLE FOR THE ASSISTANCE DURING THIS PERIOD OF TIME. 
          I'M NOT SURE HOW TO DEAL WITH IN MORE INFORMAL ARRANGEMENTS UNLESS THEY HAVE RECEIPTS OR CHECKS OR SOMETHING IN THOSE INFORMAL RELATIONSHIPS. 
          BUT IT SEEMS TO ME IN BOTH OF THOSE CASES, WE COULD COME UP WITH A WAY OF DOCUMENTING THOSE PAYMENTS THAT JUST IS DIFFERENT FROM REESE, FROM SHOWING A LEASE. 
          AND IF THE FUNDING ISSUE, I MEAN IF IT'S NOT A FUNDING RESTRICTION THEN THAT THEN THAT ELIMINATES OUR, OUR NEED TO BE CREATIVE ON THAT. 
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WE JUST NEED TO FIGURE OUT THE DOCUMENTATION PIECE. 
          THAT'S, THAT'S TRUE. 
          I WOULD NOTE THAT MOVING FORWARD WE WILL LIKELY BE USING FEDERAL FUNDS POTENTIALLY WITH A CO, YOU KNOW, WITH A COMBINATION OF FEDERAL AND LOCAL FUNDS. 
          AND SO IT MIGHT BE AN ISSUE WITH FEDERAL FUNDS. 
          I CAN'T SPEAK TO THAT WITHOUT DOING SOME RESEARCH, BUT FOR THE LOCAL, THERE'S NOT A REQUIREMENT THERE. 
          I THINK IT'S, AGAIN, IT'S MORE ON THE DOCUMENTATION AND THE SUBSTANTIATION OF THE LEASE COMMITMENT. 
          WHERE DID THE FUNDING FOR THIS COME FROM? WAS IT FROM THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING TRUST FUND? IS IT, IS IT TOO LATE TO SWAP OUT FEDERAL MONEY? UM, SO THAT WE CAN PRESERVE THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING TRUST FUND DOLLARS. 
          THAT'S ALWAYS, THAT'S ALWAYS SOMETHING WE CAN DO. 
          WE ACTED QUICKLY USING HOUSING TRUST FUND, UH, AS, AS WE KNEW THAT THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS AVAILABLE TO US AND, AND IS AN ELIGIBLE USE FOR THE HOUSING TRUST FUND. 
          UH, WE CAN CERTAINLY LOOK TO REIMBURSE THE HOUSING TRUST FUND, UH, WITH THOSE FEDERAL DOLLARS. 
          AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT COULD, COULD BE POTENTIALLY CONSIDERED AS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE LARGER SPENDING PLAN FOR THE KIND OF IRISH RELIEF FUND. 
          YEAH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I REALLY APPLAUD THE, I APPLAUD NACD FOR WORKING QUICKLY TO GET THIS IMMEDIATE RELIEF, BUT IT WOULD BE A HIGH PRIORITY OF MINE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE USING OUR FEDERAL DOLLARS TO REPLENISH THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING TRUST FUND SINCE IT IS, YOU KNOW, OUR, UM, OUR MOST UNRESTRICTED, UM, SET OF HOUSING DOLLARS. 
          I WOULD ABSOLUTELY WANT TO WANT TO SEE THAT MONEY REPLACED AND THEN IT COULD BE USED, YOU KNOW, FOR, FOR JUST IN THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT WE'VE BEEN DESCRIBING. 
          SO THANKS SO MUCH. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU ALL. 
          IS THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OFFLINE IF IT'S HELPFUL? RIGHT. 
          THAT, I THINK IT WOULD BE, IT SOUNDS LIKE WE CAN WORK OUT CREATIVELY, SOMETHING ABOUT INFORMAL ARRANGEMENTS OR HOTELS OR TRY OUR BEST TO DO THAT. 
          UM, AND I APPRECIATE ALL OF THIS IS DATA BEING OUT THERE. 
          UM, AND IF WE HELP OVER A THOUSAND HOUSEHOLDS THAT MIGHT BE THAT WE ENDED UP HELPING OVER 2000 PEOPLE WITH JUST THIS FIRST ROUND OF MONEY. 
          SO, UH, AND WE'LL KEEP ON LOOKING AT THE NEXT ROUND DIRECTOR SHOE. 
          WILL YOU TAKE US TO YOUR NEXT PRESENTATION 
          [Item 3 Briefing and discussion regarding the status of projects funded with 2018 General Obligations Bonds for affordable housing. Sponsors: Council Member Gregorio Casar. and Council Member Paige Ellis]
AND PITCHES, UH, ITEM THREE, THE BRIEFING ON THE STATUS OF 2018 HOUSING BONDS PROJECTS. 
          SO IF I COULD ASK, UM, ADAM TO PULL UP THE PRESENTATION AGAIN, I DON'T THINK WE'LL BE DOING ANY MORE SCREEN SHARING FROM MY SIDE. 
          SO IF WE GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO BE TURNING IT OVER TO KEEP GOING, PLEASE. 
          UH, SO NOW I'M GONNA TURN IT OVER TO MANDY DOMAIN TO A COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT MANAGER AND OR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATOR IN THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT AND ASK HER TO GO THROUGH, UM, THE BRIEFING ON THE HOUSING BONDS. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          GOOD MORNING EVERYONE. 
          MANDY DEMAND NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. 
          WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT THE STATUS OF THE 2018 AFFORDABLE HOUSING BOND AND IF I CAN GET ADAM TO MOVE ON TO SLIDE EIGHT, ACTUALLY MMM. 
          WE'LL SEE A BREAKDOWN OF THE 2018 AFFORDABLE HOUSING BOND. 
          THIS IS JUST A REMINDER. 
          BACK IN 2018 CITY COUNCIL RECOMMENDED AND CITIZENS OVERWHELMINGLY APPROVED $250 MILLION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING. 
          THE 250 MILLION IS ROUGHLY DIVIDED INTO FOUR DIFFERENT PROGRAMS. THOSE INCLUDE RENTAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE OR RHODA OWNERSHIP, HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE OR ODA. 
          OUR HOME REPAIR PROGRAM AND LAND ACQUISITION. 
          RHODA FUNDS, UM, WERE UM, UH, IDENTIFIED AT $94 MILLION, ODA 28 MILLION HOME REPAIR, 28 MILLION AND THEN FINALLY LAND ACQUISITION AT 100 MILLION. 
          AND DO WANT TO POINT OUT THAT THE PROGRAMS ARE FLEXIBLE SO THAT THEY CAN BE RESPONSIBLE TO BOTH MARKET CONDITIONS AS WELL AS OPPORTUNITIES THAT PRESENT THEMSELVES. 
          IF WE GO ONTO THE NEXT SLIDE, WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THE ACTUAL STATUS OF THE FUNDING. 
          HOW THE SPEND DOWN IS GOING. 
          I WILL SAY WITH THE GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, WE'RE LOOKING AT A FIVE YEAR SPEND PLAN. 
          THE FUNDS WERE FIRST APPROPRIATED TO VOTERS APPROVED IN NOVEMBER OF 2018 AND THEN WE WENT AHEAD TO THE COUNCIL, APPROPRIATED THE  FUNDS IN SPRING OF 2018 2019. 
          UM, AND THEN SUBSEQUENTLY, UH, IN THE REGULAR BUDGET CYCLE IN FOUR, FYI, 2020, BETWEEN THOSE TWO YEARS OF FUNDING, UM, $101 MILLION HAS BEEN APPROPRIATED. 
          SO YOU'LL SEE THE FOUR DIFFERENT PROGRAMS, LAND ACQUISITION, PHOTO RHODA AND GO REPAIR. 
          THE TOP BAR IS SHOWING YOU THE FULL AMOUNT, 
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UM, OF THE 2018 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS. 
          UH, THE SECOND BAR IS SHOWING YOU WHAT HAS BEEN APPROPRIATED BETWEEN, UM, 2019, SO OUR FIRST YEAR OF THE SPEND PLAN AND THIS YEAR, OUR SECOND YEAR OF THE SPEND PLAN. 
          AND THEN THE BOTTOM BAR IN EACH OF THE PROGRAMS IS SHOWING YOU WHAT HAS BEEN OBLIGATED THUS FAR. 
          SO I WILL NOTE THAT THE GO REPAIR PROGRAM HAS BEEN FULLY OBLIGATED TO DATE AND OUR SEVEN NONPROFIT PARTNERS ARE WORKING ON HOME REPAIRS. 
          UH, THE CURRENT CONTRACT RUNS THROUGH THE CALENDAR YEAR, SO DECEMBER OF 2020. 
          UM, BUT I WILL NOTE THAT THAT HOME REPAIRS HAVE BEEN IMPACTED AND SLOWED DOWN BY COBIT 19. 
          UM, BUT WE WILL BE MONITORING AND WORKING WITH OUR, OUR HOME REPAIR PARTNERS, UM, AS THEY, THEY CATCH UP ON MUCH NEEDED HOME REPAIRS THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF AUSTIN. 
          IF YOU LOOK AT BOTH ODA AND RHODA, ESSENTIALLY THOSE FUNDS HAVE BEEN FULLY OBLIGATED, UM, OVER THAT. 
          THE, THE TWO YEAR SPEND PLAN THUS FAR. 
          WANT TO DIG DOWN A LITTLE BIT DEEPER AND TALK THROUGH OUR HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS AS WELL AS THE LAND ACQUISITION PROGRAMS AS THOSE ARE, UM, FULLY SUBSCRIBED AND OVERSUBSCRIBED. 
          SO IF WE GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE AND THAT SHOULD BE SLIDE NINE. 
          I'M SORRY, SLIDE 10. 
          UH, YOU'LL SEE A BREAKDOWN OF HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE. 
          WE, AS YOU ALL KNOW, WE RECENTLY OR THE LAST YEAR MOVED TO A QUARTERLY APPLICATION PROCESS TO INCREASE PREDICTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY OF OUR FUNDS. 
          HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE IS SERIOUSLY OVERSUBSCRIBED. 
          IN FACT, WE JUST LAST WEEK WE CLOSED OUR, OUR FINAL APPLICATION ROUND FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR. 
          SO OUR FOURTH QUARTER, WE RECEIVED NINE APPLICATIONS FOR BOTH RODEN OTIS, SIX FOR RENTAL HOUSING, THREE FOR OWNERSHIP HOUSING, AND THE TOTAL REQUEST WAS MORE THAN $22 MILLION. 
          UM, I WILL POINT OUT AS DEMONSTRATED ON THE PREVIOUS SLIDE THAT WE ARE ESSENTIALLY FULLY OBLIGATED FOR BOTH VODA AND RHODA FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR. 
          UM, A FEW REALLY IMPORTANT, UH, THINGS WERE INCLUDED IN THOSE FOURTH QUARTER APPLICATIONS. 
          UH, THE, UH, WE RECEIVED APPLICANTS FOR APPLICATIONS THAT WERE OUR 9% LYTEC, LOW INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT APPLICATIONS. 
          UH, WE WON'T KNOW THE FINAL DETERMINATION FROM OUR STATE HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY, WHICH OF THOSE, UM, FOR, UH, WILL BE, UH, FUNDED, THAT THAT DETERMINATION WILL HAPPEN IN JULY OF 2020. 
          THE LIGHT TECH GAP AMOUNTS, THE REQUESTS RANGE FROM 3.5 MILLION TO 6.5 MILLION PER APPLICATION. 
          UM, I WILL POINT OUT THAT THREE OF THE FOUR APPLICATIONS ARE SUPPORTIVE HOUSING APPLICATIONS AND REPRESENT A POTENTIAL FOR MORE THAN 200 CONTINUUM OF CARE UNITS. 
          UM, SO VERY CRUCIAL, UM, APPLICATIONS. 
          TYPICALLY WE, WE FUND OR FULLY FUND, UM, OUR 9% LYTEC AWARDS BECAUSE THEY REALLY PROVIDE THE MOST COMPELLING, UH, LEVERAGE OF OUR FUNDING. 
          UM, I WILL ALSO NOTE THAT WE CAN, WE'RE LOOKING AT THE POSSIBILITY OF SPREADING THE FUNDING INTO NEXT FISCAL YEAR, BUT OF COURSE THAT THEN IMPACTS NEXT FISCAL YEARS FUNDING AVAILABILITY. 
          ANOTHER FINAL THING I WANT TO MENTION ABOUT OUR ODA APPLICATIONS, UM, IS COMING THIS SUMMER. 
          WE WILL HAVE THE FIRST TRAUNCH OF FUNDING DO, UH, OR THE GROVE DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRICT 10, UM, THIS IS TO SECURE THE AFFORDABILITY FOR SOME OWNERSHIP HOUSING UNITS AND WE ANTICIPATE THAT THAT, UH, FUNDING AMOUNT WILL BE APPROXIMATELY 3.23 POINT $3 MILLION. 
          SO IF WE CAN GO TO THE NEXT APPLICANT AT THE NEXT SLIDE, WHICH WILL BE SLIDE 11. 
          WANT TO DIG DOWN A LITTLE BIT INTO OUR LAND ACQUISITION DOLLARS BECAUSE WE'VE HEARD A LOT OF QUESTIONS FROM THE PUBLIC AND FROM SOME COUNCIL MEMBERS ABOUT OUR PRIORITIES AROUND LAND ACQUISITION. 
          YOU'LL SEE THE PIE CHART, UH, THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT SHOWS THE 50 MILLION OUT OF A HUNDRED MILLION, UM, THAT HAS BEEN, UM, APPROPRIATED THUS FAR AGAIN IN FISCAL YEAR, LAST FISCAL YEAR IN THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR. 
          UM, OF THAT AMOUNT, ABOUT A THIRD OF IT HAS EITHER BEEN, UM, ENCUMBERED OR WILL BE PRESENTED TO THE AUSTIN HOUSING FINANCE CORPORATION BOARD ON MAY 21ST. 
          SO IT'S THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING. 
          THIS REPRESENTS THREE PROJECTS ALREADY APPROVED, UM, IS A PROJECT IN DISTRICT SIX WAS AN ACQUISITION AT 11 TWO TO FIVE PECAN PARK BOULEVARD, 
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UM, 4.26 5 MILLION. 
          UH, AND THAT IS NEAR LAKELINE MALL. 
          THE TWO ACQUISITIONS THAT YOU ALL WILL BE CONTEMPLATING AS AUSTIN HOUSING FINANCE CORPORATION BOARD ON MAY 20. 
          FIRST ONE IS AN ACQUISITION IN DISTRICT FIVE AT 1212 SLAUGHTER LANE, UM, THAT IS, UH, REPRESENTING ABOUT 10 POINT $7 MILLION. 
          AND WE HAVE A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH THE PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT. 
          THEY'RE GOING TO BE TAKING NEARLY HALF OF THAT SITE FOR A NEIGHBORHOOD PARK. 
          WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT LEVERAGING THEIR DOLLARS WITH OUR DOLLARS, UM, TO ENSURE BOTH AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND OPEN SPACE AND DISTRICT FIVE. 
          UH, AND THEN ALSO, UH, WE ARE COMING TO THE HFC BOARD WITH, UM, A CONTRACT TO PURCHASE 20 SCATTERED SITE HOMES, CONTRACT WITH THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN FOR A LITTLE OVER FOUR POINT $7 MILLION. 
          THIS REPRESENTS SINGLE FAMILY HOMES AND DISTRICTS ONE, TWO, SIX AND SEVEN. 
          UH, AND WE WILL BE PURCHASING, REHABBING THOSE HOMES AND PUTTING THEM INTO OUR COMMUNITY LAND TRUST OR AFFORDABLE OWNERSHIP. 
          SO IF WE GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, THIS SLIDE 12 JUST TO TALK A LITTLE BIT THROUGH WHAT OUR PRIORITIES ARE. 
          UM, AS NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT STAFF, WHEN WE LOOK AT LAND ACQUISITION, WE ARE OF COURSE GUIDED BY THE AUSTIN STRATEGIC BLUEPRINT AND ALL OF THE PRIORITIES LAID OUT IN THAT BLUEPRINT, WHICH WAS APPROVED BY COUNCIL IN 2017. 
          UM, THOSE PRIORITIES INCLUDE, UM, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, UH, LOOKING FOR HOUSING, AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES IN HIGH OPPORTUNITY AREAS. 
          UM, AND THEN LOOKING FOR HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES IN GENTRIFYING AREAS PER THE UPROOTED STUDY, THE UT UPROOTED STUDY. 
          AND THEN ALSO LOOKING AT LEVERAGING OUR DOLLARS, UM, TO ENSURE ACCESS, UH, FOR, UH, LOW AND MODERATE INCOME FOLKS. 
          UM, ACCESS TO, UH, PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION. 
          SO WE REALLY HAVE LOOKED AT LEVERAGING OUR AFFORDABLE HOUSING DOLLARS WITH THE FUNDING FROM THE 2016 MOBILITY BOND, UM, AS WELL AS, UH, THE PROJECT CONNECT VISION. 
          SO, UM, I WILL NOTE THAT, UM, REALLY AND THE REASON THAT GENTRIFYING AREAS IN THE 2016 MOBILITY BOND AND PROJECT CONNECT, THE REASON THAT CIRCLED THAT IS JUST TO HIGHLIGHT THAT, THAT THESE ARE UM, REALLY PART OF OUR DISPLACEMENT MITIGATION STRATEGY. 
          WHEN WE LOOK AT FOCUSING OUR DOLLARS IN GENTRIFYING AREAS AND WE LOOK AT FOCUSING OUR DOLLARS IN AREAS THAT ARE GOING TO RECEIVE, UH, SOME ADDITIONAL FUNDING THROUGH, UM, MOBILITY, INVESTMENT, TRANSPORTATION, INVESTMENT. 
          WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ENSURE OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOW AND MODERATE INCOME FOLKS TO STAY OR LIVE IN PROXIMITY TO, UM, HIGH-CAPACITY TRANSIT. 
          SO JUST SO YOU ALL KNOW, WE CURRENTLY HAVE SEVERAL PROPERTIES, UH, UNDER, UH, NEGOTIATION. 
          UM, ONE IS IN DISTRICT TWO. 
          IT'S A, UM, AN OPPORTUNITY NEAR STASSNEY AND PLEASANT VALLEY. 
          SO IT ALIGNS NICELY WITH PROJECT CONNECT. 
          UM, AND ANOTHER IS IN DISTRICT FOUR, WHICH IS IN A HIGH OPPORTUNITY AREA OF DISTRICT FOUR, UM, BUT ALSO ADJACENT TO RAPIDLY GENTRIFYING AREAS AND THAT'S ON KRAMER LANE. 
          IN ADDITION, UH, WE ARE LOOKING AT, UM, LEVERAGING OUR DOLLARS WITH OTHER, UH, TAXING JURISDICTIONS LIKE AISD, CAP, METRO AND THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS. 
          WE HAVE BEEN AN ONGOING CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM OVER THE PAST YEAR IDENTIFYING, UM, PARCELS WHERE IT WOULD MAKE SENSE FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR LOW AND MODERATE INCOME FOLKS. 
          UM, AND WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT, UM, ASSETS EITHER UNDER UTILIZED FOR CURRENTLY VACANT, UM, CITY, UH, OWNED ASSETS SO THAT WE CAN ENSURE WE'RE WORKING CLOSELY WITH THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT SO WE CAN ENSURE THAT WE'RE MAXIMIZING COMMUNITY BENEFITS INCLUDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING, UH, ON OUR, UH, CITY OWNED CITY OWNED LAND. 
          SO I'M HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS OR IF WE GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, I, IT SHOULD BE OUR QUESTION SLIDE. 
          UM, AND I, IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT ANY OF THE PRIORITIES OR THE INDIVIDUAL PROPERTIES THAT WE ARE PURSUING OR HAVE PURSUED, I'M HAPPY TO DISCUSS FURTHER. 
          UH,  UH, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GOT MY TEXT YET. 
          I AM HAND UP. 
          I WILL OBVIOUSLY DEFER TO WHOEVER HAD THEIR HAND UP BEFORE ME, BUT MY HAND IS UP JUST SIENNA, GO AHEAD. 
          OKAY. 
          I'M 
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ON NEEDED. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I APPRECIATE IT. 
          OH, THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          UH, UH, UH, MANDY AND I HAVE A THOUSAND QUESTIONS. 
          UM, SOME OF THOSE QUESTIONS HAVE TO DO WITH, UM, I REALLY JUST AM FINDING MYSELF STRUGGLING TO UNDERSTAND WHY WE'RE PUTTING SO MUCH EMPHASIS ON SINGLE FAMILY HOUSING AS OPPOSED TO MULTIFAMILY. 
          IF MAYBE YOU COULD EXPAND ON THE THOUGHT PROCESS THERE AND THEN SOME OF MY OTHER QUESTIONS I WILL BE ABLE TO ASK AS SUBSEQUENT TO YOUR RESPONSE. 
          SURE. 
          IN THAT QUESTION. 
          HOLD. 
          HOLD ON. 
          MANDY. 
          JUST TO BE CLEAR, CONSUMER HARPER, MEXICAN, ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THE, UM, THE HOUSING AUTHORITY SCATTERED SITES, SINGLE FAMILY HOUSES THAT WERE DESCRIBED OR IS THERE ANOTHER COMPONENT OF THAT? IS THAT, IS THAT SPEAKING SPECIFICALLY TO WHAT WAS PRESENTED JUST NOW? YEAH. 
          AND SPECIFICALLY I THINK JUST FOR MY CLARITY, IT WOULD BE USEFUL TO KNOW IF YOU DESCRIBED SINGLE FAMILY HOUSING, DETACHED SINGLE FAMILY HOUSING SEPARATE FROM THE HOUSING AUTHORITY SITES THAT YOU WERE THINKING ABOUT PURCHASING. 
          IF THERE'S SOMETHING IN ADDITION TO THAT, THAT SINGLE FAMILY DETACHED, I WOULD WANT TO HEAR ABOUT THAT TOO. 
          IN ADDITION TO COUNCIL MEMBER HUPPERT MADISON'S QUESTION. 
          SO WHAT I WOULD SAY IS IF THERE'S ANYTHING IN ADDITION TO WHAT MY ORIGINAL QUESTION WAS, WHICH WAS LIKE WHAT I HEARD WAS SINGLE FAMILY HOUSING SPECIFICALLY AS IT PERTAINED TO LIKE WHAT WAS SPECIFICALLY PRESENTED. 
          BUT IF THERE'S ANY OTHER CONSIDERATION THAT OFFERS ANYTHING BY WAY OF PRIORITY TO SINGLE FAMILY HOUSING AS OPPOSED TO MULTIFAMILY, ESPECIALLY MULTIFAMILY INCOME RESTRICTED HOUSING, I WOULD REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHY WE WOULD OFFER ANY PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT TO ONE OR THE OTHER. 
          SO MAYBE I'M ASKING BOTH, IN WHICH CASE I WOULD LOVE TO GET JUST MORE INFORMATION AND MORE, UM, INSIGHT INTO HOW WE'RE, UM, HOW WE'RE MAKING THE DECISION. 
          DOES THAT HELP YOU? I THINK THAT'S GREAT. 
          ANDY. 
          TAKE IT AWAY. 
          YEAH. 
          AT TWO, I HOPE THIS ANSWERS YOUR QUESTION. 
          THE ONLY SINGLE FAMILY HOUSING WE ARE CONTEMPLATING, UH, AS A DEPARTMENT ARE THE HAKA SCATTERED SITE HOMES. 
          UM, THOSE WILL BE ACQUIRED, REHABBED AND PUT INTO OUR COMMUNITY LAND TRUST FOR FIRST TIME HOME OWNERSHIP. 
          ALL OF THE OTHER PROPERTIES THAT WE'VE LOOKED AT ARE BEING CONTEMPLATED FOR MULTIFAMILY, UH, DEVELOPMENT. 
          IN FACT, WHEN WE DO A PRELIMINARY, UM, ANALYSIS OF ANY SITE, WE'RE LOOKING AT MAXIMIZING THE NUMBER OF UNITS. 
          SO WHAT WE HAVE PURCHASED THUS FAR AND WHAT WE ARE, UH, CONTEMPLATING, UH, AND WILL COME BEFORE YOU AT THE MAY 21ST AUSTIN HOUSING FINANCE CORPORATION MEETING AND WHAT IS CURRENTLY UNDER NEGOTIATION ARE ALL MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPMENTS. 
          AND THEN I WILL ALSO, THANK YOU, I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT YOU, YOU, YOU DEFINITELY ANSWERED THE QUESTION THAT I WAS TRYING TO ASK. 
          SO THANK YOU. 
          EVEN IF I WASN'T ABLE TO EFFECTIVELY ARTICULATE MY QUESTION, YOU ANSWERED IT. 
          SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          AND THEN IF YOU, IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND EXPANDING ON THAT BY WAY OF JUST REALLY RECOGNIZING WHAT THE DIFFERENCES ARE, I THINK TO SOME DEGREE, IF I COULD JUST GET A LITTLE MORE CLARITY ON WHAT THE DIFFERENCES ARE AND HOW YOU MADE THE SPECIFIC DECISIONS ON POINTS OF PRIORITY. 
          UH, WE'RE BALANCING. 
          SO TO BE PERFECTLY HONEST, WE'RE BALANCING ALL OF THESE PRIORITIES THAT I LAID OUT, WHETHER IT'S HIGH OPPORTUNITY OR GENTRIFYING, THOSE ARE TYPICALLY, UM, MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE AREAS. 
          UM, BUT THEN WE'RE ALSO IN BOTH HIGH OPPORTUNITY AND GENTRIFYING AREAS. 
          WE ARE LOOKING FOR ACCESS TO HIGH FREIGHT. 
          SO WE'RE REALLY LAYERING ON WHETHER IT'S THE 2016 MOBILITY BOND QUARTER, WHICH I WILL SAY WITH THE, UM, SLAUGHTER LANE 1212 SLAUGHTER LANE THAT'S COMING BEFORE YOU ON MAY 21ST, UH, THAT IS IMMEDIATELY ON A 2016 MOBILITY BOND INVESTMENT CORRIDOR. 
          UM, OR WHETHER IT'S THE KRAMER LANE, UH, PROPERTIES THAT WE ARE CURRENTLY IN NEGOTIATION WITH THAT IS, UM, ON PROJECT CONNECTED AS ON THE ORANGE LINE. 
          UM, WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING AT LEVERAGING THOSE DOLLARS AND UTILIZING, LOCKING IN THAT INCOME RESTRICTED HOUSING IN ORDER TO MITIGATE DISPLACEMENT. 
          AND FOR THE LONGTERM, UM, ENSURE AFFORDABILITY ALONG, UM, UH, PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ROUTES. 
          I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT, BUT I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE TAKING THE OPPORTUNITY TO RECOGNIZE THAT WE'RE NOT JUST TALKING TO ORANGE, WE'RE TALKING TO ORANGE, WE'RE TALKING TO BLUE, WE'RE TALKING RED, AND WE'RE SUBSEQUENTLY EVENTUALLY GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT THE GREEN LINE, RIGHT? SO WHEN I'M IN MY MIND'S EYE, WHEN I'M THINKING THROUGH HOW WE ADDRESS SOME OF THESE NEEDS, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT I WOULD REALLY 
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LOVE TO HAVE BE FRONT AND CENTER, UM, HAVE TO DO WITH LIKE REALLY RECOGNIZING THAT SOME OF THESE LOCATIONS YOU JUST MENTIONED AREN'T IN THE URBAN CORE, IN WHICH CASE IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT COMPLETE COMPACT COMMUNITIES, THEY, THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO BE LIKE RECOGNIZING THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE URBAN CORE AND AFFORDABILITY UNLOCKED. 
          LIKE HOW DO WE ADDRESS AND APPLY AFFORDABILITY A LOT TO SOME OF THESE, UM, SITUATIONS. 
          IN WHICH CASE LIKE, UM, PROJECT CONNECT ON THE PLEASANT VALLEY AND SATURDAY VOCATION. 
          DOES THAT ROUTE ACTUALLY COME ON MIND SOON ENOUGH TO WHERE WE COULD RECONNECT PLEASANT VALLEY TO BEN WHITE IN WHICH CASE I HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS AND, AND I KNOW A LOT OF THIS WE CAN DO OFFLINE, BUT I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE IT'S PUBLIC FACING IN THAT I HAVE LOTS OF QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW WE'RE GOING TO MAKE THIS WORK FOR FOLKS. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          AND I WILL SAY LOOKING, I'M LOOKING AT MY PROJECT CONNECT MAP RIGHT NOW WITH ALL MY SCRIBBLES AND WHERE WE HAVE, UM, EITHER EXISTING AFFORDABILITY, PLANNED AFFORDABILITY OR PLANNED ACQUISITIONS. 
          UM, WE'RE, WE'RE IN THIS FOR THE LONG HAUL. 
          SO SOME OF OUR ACQUISITIONS MAY BEAR IMMEDIATE FRUIT. 
          UM, AND SOME MAY BE MORE OF A LAND BANKING AS DEVELOPMENT OCCURS, UH, IN THOSE AREAS. 
          AND YOU MENTIONED THE GREEN LINE. 
          I WILL SAY WE DO HAVE SOME, UM, PRIORITY PROJECTS ALONG THE GREEN LINE AS WELL AS THE PURPLE LINE. 
          WE'VE GOT BLUE, WE'VE GOT ORANGE, WE'VE GOT THE EXTENSIONS. 
          UM, WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS AGAIN, WE'RE, WE'RE IN IT FOR THE LONG HAUL. 
          RECOGNIZING THAT, UM, THE DEVELOPMENT CYCLE, UM, AND THE AFFORDABILITY CYCLE, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ALIGN ALL OF THOSE WITH OUR TRANSPORTATION CYCLE AND IT'S ALL IN ALIGNMENT WITH IMAGINE AUSTIN COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I'VE GOT, UM, A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. 
          ONE HOPEFULLY IS SIMPLE. 
          UM, I REALLY LIKED THE PIE CHART OF THE CURRENT ALLOTMENTS OF THAT LAND ACQUISITION BOND MONEY. 
          UM, COULD WE GET A BREAKDOWN EVEN FURTHER JUST AS WE HEAD INTO THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING TO KNOW, YOU KNOW, WHAT WAS DONE ON HOTEL MOTEL STRATEGY THAT'S BEEN ALLOTTED VERSUS WHAT MAY NOT BE ALLOTTED AND JUST KIND OF WHAT'S COMING UP ON THIS NEXT AGENDA. 
          I THINK THAT WOULD HELP ME KIND OF SEE THAT BROKEN DOWN A BIT FURTHER. 
          UM, AND THEN I ALSO WANTED TO ASK ABOUT THE ROLE OF DUPLEXES IN THE CONVERSATION AROUND PURCHASING SINGLE FAMILY. 
          THE ONES THAT I'M THINKING OF ARE TYPICALLY MORE MARKET RATE AFFORDABLE AND OFTENTIMES ALONG BUS ROUTES OR OTHER MOBILITY CORRIDORS. 
          AND SO I JUST WASN'T SURE IF THAT WAS, UM, PART OF THE CONSIDERATION OF WHAT IS APPROPRIATE OR, UM, I KNOW WE SAID DETACHED SINGLE FAMILY, BUT, UM, SEEING THOSE CONSIDERATIONS AROUND DUPLEXES, I WASN'T SURE IF THAT WAS PART OF THE CONVERSATION, UM, TO BE ABLE TO OBTAIN THOSE UNITS AS WELL. 
          SURE. 
          OKAY. 
          SO LET ME TAKE THESE IN TWO DIFFERENT PARTS AS THE FIRST QUESTION ABOUT THE PIE CHART. 
          WE CAN CERTAINLY GIVE YOU MUCH MORE DETAILED AND I WILL SAY I SKIPPED OVER A VERY IMPORTANT PIECE OF THE PIE. 
          UM, WHEN I, WHEN I LOOK AT THE PIE, UH, ABOUT A THIRD OF IT AS I MENTIONED, AND THIS IS WHAT I FOCUSED ON WITH EITHER ENCUMBERED OR IT WAS COMING BEFORE YOU ON THE MAY 21ST AGENDA. 
          UM, AND THEN THE BOTTOM PIECE OF THE PIE REALLY IS THE AMOUNT OF MONEY WE FEEL LIKE IN THE SHORT TERM IS NECESSARY IN ORDER TO, UM, EXECUTE THE COUNCIL'S VISION FOR THE HOTEL MOTEL, UM, STRATEGY, THE CONVERSION STRATEGY. 
          AS YOU ALL KNOW, THE FIRST PIECE OF THAT, UM, WAS THE RIGHT WAY IN WHICH HAS ALREADY BEEN PURCHASED AND WAS WE UTILIZED FEDERAL FUNDING FOR THAT ACQUISITION. 
          UM, THOSE FEDERAL FUNDS ARE ALL GONE. 
          UM, THEY'VE BEEN USED BY THE ACQUISITION AND WILL SUBSEQUENTLY USE BE USED, UM, WITH REHABILITATION. 
          WE'LL BE TAPPING INTO FEDERAL FUNDS FOR THAT. 
          WE HAVE IDENTIFIED OTHER HOTEL MOTEL. 
          UM, WE'RE WORKING WITH THE OFFICE OF REAL ESTATE SERVICES ON THOSE. 
          WE CAN GET YOU MORE DETAILS. 
          UM, BUT WE ARE VERY COGNIZANT THAT CITY COUNCIL HAS ARTICULATED DIVISION FOR, UH, AT MINIMUM THIS IS AN ONGOING PLAN THAT'S 300, UM, PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING UNITS THROUGH THE HOTEL MOTEL CONVERSION STRATEGY. 
          AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE SUFFICIENT FUNDING, UM, AND HAVE IDENTIFIED THIS AS AN APPROPRIATE FUNDING SOURCE, UM, IN ORDER TO EXECUTE THAT STRATEGY. 
          THE REMAINING FUNDS AND REMAINING THIRD OF THE PIE, UM, REALLY IS, AS I MENTIONED, WE ARE CURRENTLY JUGGLING MULTIPLE. 
          UM, WE HAVE MULTIPLE OFFERS AND 
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SEVERAL PROPERTIES, UM, IN NEGOTIATIONS. 
          UH, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE SUFFICIENT FUNDING IN ORDER TO COVER, UH, THOSE ACQUISITIONS, WHICH WILL OF COURSE COME BEFORE US IN HOUSING FINANCE CORPORATION. 
          UM, FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. 
          AS SOON AS WE HAVE SECURED THOSE DEALS, UH, WE WILL PROVIDE YOU ALL OF THAT TO SAY WE WILL PROVIDE YOU A MORE DETAILED BREAKDOWN AND MORE DETAILS, UM, BEFORE THAT COMES TO YOU ON THE 21ST AGENDA. 
          THEN THE SECOND QUESTION WAS ABOUT DUPLEXES AND I WILL SAY, UM, THE HOUSING AUTHORITY DEAL, WE ARE AT TYPICALLY NOT IN THE BUSINESS OF ACQUIRING, UM, SINGLE FAMILY HOMES, PARTIALLY BECAUSE IT'S NOT AS, UM, EFFICIENT. 
          UM, FROM, FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE IN TERMS OF AN INVESTMENT DOING KIND OF A ONESY TWOSY HERE AND THERE. 
          SO IT HASN'T BEEN A PRIORITY. 
          THE HOUSING AUTHORITY, THE HAKA SCATTERED SITE HOMES, UM, CAME TO US WHEN THE HOUSING AUTHORITY, UM, THEY CURRENTLY HAD A PORTFOLIO OF SINGLE FAMILY HOMES THAT THEY USED TO RENT TO HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER HOLDERS. 
          THEY RECOGNIZING THAT IT WAS VERY HARD TO MANAGE, UM, SCATTERED SITE HOMES FROM AFAR. 
          UH, THEY DECIDED TO REQUEST FROM HUD, UM, UH, UH, UH, APPROVAL TO ACTUALLY SELL THE HOMES. 
          THEY WERE GOING TO PACKAGE ALL OF THESE HOMES INTO A SINGLE PORTFOLIO AND PUT IT OUT ON THE OPEN MARKET. 
          UH, WHAT W THEY APPROACHED US FIRST BECAUSE WHAT WE KNEW IS THAT IF IT WAS PORTFOLIO AND PUT OUT ON THE MARKET, UM, AS A PRIVATE INVESTOR WOULD PURCHASE THEM. 
          AND OF COURSE WE HAD THEM AND PUT THEM OUT ONTO THE MARKET. 
          WE HAVE SEVERAL POCKETS OF WHERE THESE HOMES ARE THAT ARE REALLY IN HIGH OPPORTUNITY AREAS. 
          AND WE THOUGHT IT WAS AN EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR COMMUNITY LAND TRUST, UM, TO HELP GROW OUR COMMUNITY LAND TRUST AND PROVIDE AFFORDABLE FIRST TIME OWNERSHIP TO LOW AND MODERATE INCOME FAMILIES. 
          SO THIS IS NOT A DEAL THAT WE NECESSARILY SOUGHT OUT. 
          AND AGAIN, WE'RE NOT SEEKING OUT, UM, UH, NECESSARILY SINGLE FAMILY OR, OR, OR DUPLEX. 
          NOT TO SAY THAT WE WOULDN'T CONTEMPLATE THEM, BUT THIS WAS A REALLY UNIQUE DEAL THAT, UH, CAME TO US AND WE APPRECIATE THE PARTNERSHIP WITH THE HOUSING AUTHORITY IN THEM, UH, GIVING US FIRST PRIORITY BECAUSE IT WILL SECURE THE AFFORDABILITY FOR THE LONGTERM. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          SO IS THE SCATTERED SITE, UM, METHODS SOMETHING THAT IS BEING PHASED OUT, OR IS THERE SOMETHING SPECIFIC ABOUT THESE PARTICULAR, UH, HOMES THAT, UM, HOUSING AUTHORITY WAS WILLING TO LET GO OF, BUT THEY'RE STILL CONTINUING THE SCATTERED SITE PROGRAM? RIGHT. 
          IT ASKED THAT QUESTION IN A CLEAR WAY. 
          YEAH. 
          SO THEY ARE, THESE ARE THE HOME, THIS IS THE PORTFOLIO OF HOMES THAT THEY, THE HOUSING AUTHORITY ACTUALLY OWN AS A PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY. 
          THEY ARE DISCONTINUING THAT APPROACH. 
          THEIR HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHERS. 
          THEY'RE RELYING ON PRIVATE, UH, LANDLORDS TO ACCEPT HOUSING CHOICE FACTORS, WHICH IS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT CONVERSATION, UM, RATHER THAN PROVIDING THE HOUSING THEMSELVES IN A SCATTERED TYPE FASHION. 
          DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? YES. 
          THAT'S VERY HELPFUL. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER KITCHEN. 
          UM, OKAY. 
          SO MANDY, I HAVE TWO SORT OF RELATED QUESTIONS. 
          ONE IS ABOUT THE TIMELINE FOR THE APPROPRIATION OF, OF DOLLARS. 
          UH, WE'VE SPREAD IT OUT OVER FIVE YEARS. 
          I'M WONDERING IF THERE'S ANY UTILITY IN ACCELERATING THAT. 
          AND I'M ALSO WONDERING WHETHER YOU ARE FACING ANY KIND OF CHALLENGES IN EXPANDING THE ACQUISITION DOLLARS THAT, UM, THAT YOU CAN SHARE WITH US. 
          SURE. 
          IN OTHER WORDS, IN OTHER WORDS, WHY DID READ IT OUT FIVE OVER FIVE YEARS? IS THERE A NEED TO ACCELERATE IT OR NOT? AND THEN WHAT KIND OF CHALLENGES ARE YOU ALL EXPERIENCING? YEAH. 
          AFTER THE 2018 BONDS WERE APPROVED, UH, ROSIE AND I SAT DOWN TO TALK THROUGH THE, THE SPEND PLAN AND HOW WE WOULD ALLOCATE THE DOLLARS. 
          ONE THING WE DECIDED, UH, WITH THE GO REPAIR DOLLARS IS THAT WE WOULD GRADUALLY INCREASE THE ANNUAL ALLOCATION, RECOGNIZING THAT OUR NONPROFIT PARTNERS NEEDED TO BUILD THEIR CAPACITY OVER TIME WITH BOTH RHODA AND ODA DOLLAR. 
          SO OUR HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE, UM, WE KNEW THAT THE DEMAND WAS GOING TO BE THERE. 
          WE ROUGHLY DIVIDED IT OVER FIVE YEARS WITH LAND ACQUISITION. 
          WE ACTUALLY FRONT LOADED IT. 
          UM, SO YOU'LL NOTE 
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RATHER THAN $20 MILLION A YEAR, WE HAVE, WE'RE ONLY TWO YEARS IN AND WE HAVE FRONT-LOADED $50 MILLION. 
          WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT WE WANTED TO BE REPAIRED SHOULD A LARGE SCALE OPPORTUNITY PRESENT ITSELF. 
          UM, AND YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE EXAMPLES IN OUR DISCUSSIONS WITH COUNCIL WAS THE TEXT THAT, UH, PARTIAL THAT SUBSEQUENTLY BECAME THE GROVE, UM, WHEN THAT BECAME AVAILABLE AND IT WAS A VERY QUICK TIMEFRAME, THE CITY WAS NOT POSITIONED TO, UH, CUT A CHECK AS IT WERE FOR I THINK IT WAS 29 MILLION SOMETHING. 
          AND THEY PRAISED VALUE AND WE WANTED TO POSITION OURSELVES IN ORDER TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ANY SUCH OPPORTUNITIES, LARGE SCALE OPPORTUNITIES LIKE THAT. 
          I SEE, UM, WITH OUR, OUR CURRENT, UH, SPEND PLAN AND WITH THE UH, LOOMING PROJECT CONNECT, UH, I SEE NO PROBLEM WITH IDENTIFYING AND WISELY INVESTING. 
          UM, THE A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS OVER THIS NEXT FIVE YEARS. 
          I DO SEE THE NEED POTENTIALLY TO BRING, UH, ADDITIONAL FUNDING FORWARD FOR PARTICULARLY RENTAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE. 
          UM, THAT IS WHERE WE ARE, AS I MENTIONED, SERIOUSLY OVERSUBSCRIBED. 
          UM, AND WE HAVE SOME OPPORTUNITIES THAT, UH, THAT WE CANNOT TURN DOWN. 
          UH, SO, UH, I'LL USE THE 9% LYTEC. 
          UM, DEALS AS AN EXAMPLE. 
          WE HAVE FOUR PROJECTS THAT ARE COMING BEFORE US. 
          THREE OF THOSE ARE SUPPORTIVE HOUSING PROJECTS, UM, WITH AN ENORMOUS NUMBER OF CONTINUUM OF CARE UNITS. 
          UM, AND THEY NEED, THEY NEED THE GAP FUNDING. 
          UM, AND, AND SO WE WOULD RECOMMEND TO CITY COUNCIL SHOULD IT COME DOWN TO WHETHER OR NOT, UM, THE FUNDING IS AVAILABLE THIS FISCAL YEAR. 
          WE WOULD CERTAINLY RECOMMEND TO COUNCIL THAT WE BRING FORWARD, WE APPROPRIATE ADDITIONAL DOLLARS THIS FISCAL YEAR, UM, IN ORDER TO MAKE THOSE PROJECTS HOLDINGS. 
          WE WON'T KNOW ANY OF THAT UNTIL, UM, JUNE, JULY TIMEFRAME WHEN WE GET A BETTER HANDLE ON, UH, WHAT THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING COMMUNITY AFFAIRS WILL BE RECOMMENDING FOR FUNDING. 
          UM, BUT THAT'S KIND OF THE SITUATION WHERE I CAN SEE, UM, MOVING MONEY FORWARD, UH, ACCELERATING SOME OF THE, UH, DOLLARS, UH, BUT RENTAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CERTAINLY AND LAND ACQUISITION, UM, BETWEEN THE HOTEL MOTEL STRATEGY, UM, AND LAND ACQUISITION, UH, RELATED TO PROJECT CONNECT. 
          UM, AND AGAIN, FOCUSING ON HIGH OPPORTUNITY AND GENTRIFYING AREAS. 
          THERE ARE A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES, UM, AND WE'RE, WE'RE PLANNING ON TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THOSE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND THAT WOULD NOT BE, UM, JUST TO, JUST TO GIVE SOME HISTORICAL CONTEXT, I'M ASKING FOR, TO, TO WHOLLY FUND THE 9% LYTEC AND ASKING FOR EARLY APPROPRIATION OF FUTURE BOND ALLOCATIONS IS NOT, UM, THAT WOULDN'T BE A NEW THING. 
          WE'VE DONE THAT, UM, THROUGH THE LAST BOND CYCLE TOO. 
          AND IT'S JUST OUR WAY TO, IF WE NEED TO TAKE THEM FROM A FUTURE YEAR TO BE ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF REALLY GREAT OPPORTUNITIES THIS YEAR THAT WE WILL. 
          UH, BUT THE GOAL WILL BE TO SPEND OUT UNDER EACH PROGRAM BEFORE WE START TAKING OR DIPPING FROM OTHER PROGRAMS. I'M TRYING TO WRAP UP THIS ITEM HERE IN THE NEXT FIVE MINUTES OR SO. 
          SO WE HAVE ENOUGH TIME FOR THE LAST TWO. 
          MMM. 
          UH, ARE THERE OTHER QUESTIONS AND HAVING TROUBLE SEEING HANDS? WHAT ELSE? SPEAK UP JUST CAUSE I'M HAVING A LITTLE TROUBLE SEEING. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, AND I'M HAPPY TO MEET ONE ON ONE WITH FOLKS AND ANSWER QUESTIONS OFFLINE. 
          GREAT. 
          MY ONLY REMAINING QUESTION IS IF WE, UH, IF WE GO WHEN WE BUY THOSE SCATTERED SITE HOMES AND THEN LIKELY DO SOME REHAB AND THEN SELL THEM, DOES THAT REPLENISH ODA? THERE ARE REPLENISHMENT OPPORTUNITY. 
          UH, YES. 
          UM, THOSE SALES NOW KEEP IN MIND THAT THE CITY WOULD BE MAKING AN INVESTMENT IN THESE HOMES, WILL BE TAKING THE LAND BECAUSE IT WILL BE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST. 
          WE'LL BE TAKING THAT OFF. 
          WE'LL BE, BUT WE WILL BE GETTING SOME FUNDS BACK AND YES, IT WILL PARTIALLY REPLENISH. 
          NOT IN WHOLE, BUT IT WILL PARTIALLY REPLENISH. 
          WELL, I, I, I, I APPRECIATE HOUSING AUTHORITY NOT GOING AND JUST TRYING TO GENERATE AS MUCH MONEY FOR ITS BUDGET AS IT COULD EVEN THOUGH I'D HAVE GOOD REASON TO DO THAT. 
          BUT UM, BUT ACTUALLY KEEPING THOSE PLACES AFFORDABLE. 
          MMM. 
          IT IS, IS, IS POWERFUL AND I APPRECIATE THAT. 
          MMM. 
          CHEER. 
          QATAR. 
          I ACTUALLY DO HAVE MY HAND UP. 
          I'M SORRY MAN. 
          I WISH YOU COULD SEE MY, AND I'M ESPECIALLY CUTE TODAY. 
          I PUT ON MY HEAD BAND 
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LIKE I'M OUT HERE ROCKING THESE LOOKS FOR Y'ALL TODAY. 
          YOU CAN'T EVEN SEE MY FACE. 
          THAT'S UNFORTUNATE. 
          I DO HAVE QUESTIONS, MAY I PLEASE TAKE THE FLOOR? OF COURSE. 
          PLEASE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, SO I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT LIKE JUST GENERALLY THINKING ABOUT HOW WHEN WE MOVE FORWARD AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT OUR LONGTERM VISION HERE. 
          UM, WE KNOW THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE DIFFERENT TOOLS IN THE FUTURE SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE GET THEM THE BEST BANG FOR OUR BOOK. 
          AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S REALLY JUST LIKE KIND OF GIVING ME A LITTLE BIT OF HEARTBURN IS HOW MANY DOLLARS DO WE USE TOWARDS THESE EFFORTS AND NOT THINK ABOUT LIKE REALLY WHOLEHEARTEDLY THINK ABOUT COMPLETE MIXED INCOME COMMUNITIES. 
          SO I HAD THIS BEAUTIFUL CONVERSATION YESTERDAY WITH A GROUP OF, OF OUR ALLIES WHO WERE HAVING THIS CONVERSATION ABOUT MIXED INCOME, MIXED USE COMMUNITIES. 
          AND THE CONVERSATION CAME DOWN TO RACE, WHICH, I MEAN, YOU KNOW ME, IT ALWAYS COMES DOWN TO RACE. 
          LIKE EVERYTHING IS ABOUT RACE. 
          AND SO WHEN WE WERE HAVING THIS CONVERSATION, IT WAS BEAUTIFUL IN THE SENSE THAT THIS GROUP OF FOLKS THAT WERE HAVING THIS CONVERSATION ABOUT HOUSING COMPLETE COMMUNITIES AND HOUSING, IT'S LIKE YOU CAN'T JUST THROW PEOPLE TOGETHER AND A COMMUNITY AND ASSUME THAT WE HAVE THE NECESSARY PROGRAMMING AND WE HAVE THE NECESSARY EFFORT TO HAVE IT SO THAT PEOPLE COMMUNICATE WITH ONE ANOTHER IN A WAY THAT WE BUILD THESE COMPLETE COMMUNITIES. 
          BUT THE BRILLIANCE AND THE BEAUTY OF THE PRODUCT THAT IS THESE COMPLETE COMMUNITIES, PEOPLE THAT GET THE OPPORTUNITY BY WAY OF WHAT WE PRODUCE AS A MUNICIPALITY, AS A BODY, LIKE WHAT WE GET TO PRODUCE BY WAY OF OUR POLICY THAT MAKES IT SO THAT PEOPLE GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONNECT WITH ONE ANOTHER AND TO REALLY BE A PART OF THIS BUILDING, THESE BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES. 
          SO ONE OF MY CONCERNS THERE IS LIKE ARE WE TAKING THE OPPORTUNITY TO THINK ABOUT TAKING THESE TOWERS AND MAKING SURE THAT THEY DO IN FACT BUILD COMPLETE MIXED INCOME, MIXED RACE COMMUNITIES. 
          AND THAT'S THE THING THAT I KEEP FINDING MYSELF CONCERNED ABOUT. 
          AND SO LIKE, THANK YOU MANDY. 
          BY THE WAY, MANDY, AND I'M DIRECTOR OF TRUE LOVE. 
          I APPRECIATE BOTH OF YOU ALL'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DIALOGUE AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT YES, I RECOGNIZE THAT WE CAN HAVE THIS CONVERSATION OFF THE RECORD IN ADDITION TO THIS, BUT I WANT TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT PEOPLE KNOW WE'RE THINKING ABOUT THIS. 
          LIKE HOW ARE WE BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER BY WAY OF THE OPPORTUNITIES PRESENTED TO US WITH THIS GENERAL INITIATIVE. 
          UH, THAT'S A, THAT IS A BIG QUESTION, BUT I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT WE STAFF ARE GUIDED BY THE PRINCIPLES OF COMPLETE COMMUNITIES, WHICH I THINK ARE ARTICULATED IN THE STRATEGIC HOUSING BLUEPRINT. 
          WE'RE LOOKING AT INCOME RESTRICTED HOUSING AND ESSENTIALLY ALL KINDS OF FOR ALL TYPES OF PEOPLE IN ALL PARTS OF TOWN. 
          UM, AND SO WE'RE CONSTANTLY BALANCING, UM, HOUSING IN WHAT WE WOULD CALL HIGH OPPORTUNITY AREAS, HOUSING IN GENTRIFYING AREAS. 
          IT'S, IT'S A BALANCING ACT. 
          AND THEN WHEN WE PUT PROPERTY OUT, SO ALL OF THE PARCELS THAT I'VE MENTIONED THAT, BECAUSE WE JUST ACQUIRED THEM, WE HAVEN'T PUT THEM OUT FOR SOLICITATION. 
          BUT AS YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TWO, UM, PARTIALS RIGHT NOW, AUSTIN HOUSING FINANCE CORPORATION THAT WE ARE, UH, GETTING READY HOPEFULLY IN JUNE, UH, TO PUT OUT FOR, UM, A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS AND ALL OF OUR COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN VIRTUAL. 
          IT'S BEEN A FASCINATING EXPERIENCE, BUT OUR COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS HAVE BEEN GUIDED BY UM, MAXIMIZING AFFORDABILITY BUT ALSO MAXIMIZING THE COMMUNITY BENEFITS, UM, AND CREATING THOSE COMMUNITIES FOR ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE, FOR FAMILIES, FOR SENIORS, FOR UH, FOLKS OF DIFFERENT RACES, ETHNICITIES. 
          UM, WE ARE TRYING TO CULTIVATE THAT, UM, THROUGH OUR SOLICITATION. 
          UM, SO I FEEL LIKE WE ARE AND MAYBE WE'RE JUST NIBBLING AROUND THE EDGES. 
          UM, BUT I DO FEEL LIKE THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S, THAT IS CERTAINLY GUIDED BY, UM, AND OUR COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS ARE, ARE GUIDED BY. 
          THANK YOU FOR RAISING THAT. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          I APPRECIATE BEING OBSERVED CHAIR. 
          EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE SAYING 
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AND I THINK WE'RE SEEING THE EXACT SAME THING. 
          I REALLY LOVE THAT. 
          EVEN WITH THESE VIRTUAL OPPORTUNITIES TO HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH ONE ANOTHER, WE REALLY GET TO BE, WE'RE SAYING THE SAME THING. 
          AND SO I REALLY LOOK FORWARD TO HAVING US HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPAND ON THINKING THROUGH LIKE THE REALLY ELABORATE NATURE OF BUILDING COMPLETE COMMUNITIES. 
          THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE HAVE TO DO. 
          AND I, I LOVE THAT THE PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND THE DIRECTOR, TRUE LOVE. 
          I LOVE THE FACT THAT THINKING ALONG THE SAME SCIENCE, THE SAME MINDS. 
          SO THANK YOU FOR THE RECOGNITION CHAIR AND THANK YOU BRANDY. 
          APPRECIATE YOU. 
          JUST A MINUTE AMOUNT. 
          JUST GOT A QUICK, UH, WHAT'S, WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE IN DISTRICT THREE ESPECIALLY IN A SENSE OF CHILDHOOD, A NEIGHBORHOOD IS THAT THAT'S WHAT WE'RE THINKING ABOUT IN THE COMMUNITY. 
          A COMPLETE COMMUNITY. 
          YOU KNOW, WE HAVE UH, THE HAKA DEVELOPMENT OF CHALMERS GOING ON. 
          WE HAVE HABITAT BUILDING A 56 CONDO FOR LOW INCOME PEOPLE AND WE HAVE SOUTH DEAL WHERE OVER 180 UNITS ARE FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING. 
          THE BIGGEST PLAN THAT WE ALL I ALWAYS VISION IS, IS TO TRY TO MAKE US A LIKE MIRROR DEALER IS ONE OF THE UH, GREAT EXAMPLE OF WHAT WE CAN DO TO AUSTIN. 
          AND AT THE SAME TIME THERE'S 25% OF THE PEOPLE THERE ARE LOW INCOME PEOPLE, WORKFORCE PEOPLE AND WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE THAT LIVE THERE DO NOT GET STEREOTYPES. 
          AND THESE ARE THE FOUR, FOUR, THEY LIVE ON THIS SIDE OF TOWN WHERE THEY LIVE IN THE PROJECT. 
          AND IT'S SO INTERESTING CAUSE I'VE BEEN GETTING A LOT OF EMAILS AND FACEBOOK COMMENTS THAT WERE SELLING OFF CHALMERS FOR THE DEVELOPER. 
          AND I SAID, OH MY GOD, IS THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT DONE BY THE AUSTIN HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN? YOU THINK WE'RE AT DEVELOPERS, WE'RE NOT. 
          WE'RE WORKING VERY HARD TO PROVIDE TO THE COMMUNITY AFFORDABLE UNIT IN MY DESK. 
          MY BIG GOAL IS TO PROVIDE AS MANY AFFORDABLE UNITS THAT I CAN AND BE A MIXED INCOME, MIXED RACE TYPE, UH, COMMUNITY. 
          SO THAT'S WHAT I'M WORKING ON. 
          I LIKE RESPONDING TO THOSE EMAILS TOO. 
          WHEN SOMEBODY ASKS WHAT THE EXPENSIVE CONDOS ARE THAT ARE GOING UP AT CHALMERS AND GETTING TO EXPLAIN THAT THOSE ARE GOOD EMAILS WE GET TO WRITE. 
          I'M GOING TO MOVE US ONTO THE NEXT ITEM. 
          BUT TO THIS POINT I APPRECIATE THE UH, THE PRESENTATION ON LAND ACQUISITION FUND. 
          I WOULD SAY THAT I THINK CONTINUED EMPHASIS ON THOSE PROJECT CONNECT LINES AND ON THE GENTRIFYING AREAS IS REALLY IMPORTANT. 
          I APPRECIATE THAT WE'VE GONE AND GOTTEN LAND OUT AT LAKE LINE AND FOUND SOME OPPORTUNITY AND I THINK THAT'S AN IMPORTANT STEP FOR US. 
          BUT UH, I THINK REALLY, YOU KNOW, WE'RE HEARING MORE AND MORE APART FROM THE KOBE IMPORTANT WORK, UH, THE GENTRIFYING AREAS AND THE PROJECT CONNECT LINES AND ESPECIALLY WHERE THOSE INTERSECT. 
          NO COUNCIL MEMBER KITCHEN'S RESOLUTION ON THAT I THINK IS IMPORTANT FOR US TO KEEP OUR EYE ON. 
          MAYOR, I JUST SAW YOU CLICKED YOUR VIDEO BACK ON. 
          DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING YOU'RE ON MUTE AS I HAVE BEEN LISTENING AND I JUST WANTED TO ADD MY APPRECIATION AS WELL AS WE GO THROUGH THE VIRUS. 
          THIS WORK IS THE WORK THAT THAT EXTENDS THAT HELPS US EXIT THIS VIRUS. 
          IN A BETTER PLACE THAN WE ENTERED AND I, AND I JUST REALLY APPRECIATE WHAT YOU ALL ARE DOING TO STAY FOCUSED ON AND ON THAT FUTURE BOSTON. 
          UH, AND I THINK HOW THAT RELATES TO THEIR PROJECT NEC WORLD, WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT I HOPE ALSO IS PART OF OUR FUTURE, UH, IS GOING TO BE A BIG PART OF WHETHER WE'RE AN EQUITABLE PLACE AS WE LOOKED AT THE NEXT DECADE. 
          BUT THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU MA'AM. 
          AS ON TO 
          [Item 4 Briefing and discussion regarding progress on Continuum of Care units accomplished through the Housing Development Assistance Program. Sponsors: Council Member Gregorio Casar. and Council Member Paige Ellis]
THE NEXT ITEM, WHICH IS A BRIEFING ON OUR CONTINUUM OF CARE UNITS. 
          YES. 
          AND UM, JAMIE MAE IS A COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT MANAGER IN OUR DEPARTMENT AND HE IS ON THE WEBEX AND HE'S GOING TO RUN THROUGH THE NEXT TWO ITEMS AND EVERYONE, I REALLY WOULD LIKE FOR US TO TRY TO SEE IF WE CAN GET THROUGH THIS PART AND YOU KNOW, 15 MINUTES OR SO. 
          SO THERE'S ENOUGH TIME FOR THE LAST ITEM ON THE AGENDA. 
          OKAY. 
          JIMMY, IT IS UP TO YOU. 
          IF WE COULD GET THE POWERPOINT PULLED UP TO THE NEXT SLIDE, THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL. 
          JAMIE, YOU'RE MUTED IN CASE YOU'RE TRYING TO TALK. 
          OKAY. 
          COULDN'T TELL. 
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OKAY. 
          JAMIE IS STILL NEEDED AND POTENTIALLY FROZEN. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, MANDY, DO YOU WANT TO RUN THROUGH THESE SLIDES AND JAMIE IS HAVING TECHNICAL ISSUES. 
          SURE. 
          THING. 
          UM, ALTHOUGH JAMIE, AS SOON AS YOU, UH, AS SOON AS YOU CAN TALK, UH, JUMP IN AND CUT ME OFF. 
          UH, SO WE WANTED TO TALK THROUGH PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING CONTINUUM OF CARE AND THE RENTAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM EARLY SELVES. 
          GREAT. 
          FOR ME. 
          WE HAD TALKED EARLIER ABOUT THE STRATEGIC HOUSE AND BLUEPRINT AND OF COURSE ONE OF THE GOALS EMBEDDED IN THE STRATEGIC HOUSING BLUEPRINT IS TENURE TARGETS FOR PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING. 
          BUT THE GOAL AT THE TIME, AGAIN, THIS WAS 2017, WAS TO SUPPORT THE PRODUCTION OF 50 PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING UNITS EACH YEAR WITH HALF OF THOSE BEING HOUSING FIRST, WHICH ESSENTIALLY TRANSLATES TO LOW BARRIER. 
          OUR GOAL HAS SINCE THAT TIME BECAUSE WE'VE SEEN CHANGING NEEDS AGAIN, THAT WAS NEARLY THREE YEARS AGO. 
          UM, OUR GOALS HAVE BEEN UPDATED. 
          UM, IN TERMS OF WHERE WE GET THESE UNITS, WHERE DO WE GET PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING UNITS? WELL, OUR PRIMARY SOURCE REALLY IS THE LOW INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT PROGRAM OR LIGHT TECH PROGRAM. 
          UM, I HAD MENTIONED EARLIER THAT, UM, WE HAVE FOUR POTENTIAL LYTEC DEALS, 9% LYTEC DEALS. 
          UM, AND THREE OF THOSE ARE ACTUALLY, THEY INCLUDE PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING AND TWO OF THEM ARE CONTINUUM OF CARE. 
          SO WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THIS A LITTLE BIT. 
          UM, IN ADDITION, ANOTHER IMPORTANT SOURCE AND EMBEDDED IN THE RHODA RENTAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM THAT WE ADMINISTER, UM, WE REQUIRE IF FOLKS, UM, IF APPLICANTS OFFER UP OR, UH, WANT TO GET ADDITIONAL POINTS FOR PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING, WE REQUIRE THAT THEY HAVE A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH ECHO, WITH CONTINUUM OF CARE ORGANIZATION. 
          UM, AND SO YOU CAN NEGOTIATE THAT ONE-ON-ONE. 
          UM, AND WE HAVE SEVERAL PROJECTS THAT HAVE IN FACT, UM, UH, MOU, ECHO, YEAH. 
          MANDY, JAMIE'S APP, IF YOU WANT TO LIVE AND TAKE OVER. 
          THIS COMPUTER CRASHED AND THEY HAD TO LOG BACK IN, HAVE ADDED JAMIE, SORRY ABOUT THAT. 
          COMPUTER BUILDING. 
          UM, I OBVIOUSLY DID NOT HEAR ANYTHING THAT MANDY SAID. 
          UH, UM, I WILL PICK UP WITH, WHERE ARE WE GOING TO KNOW? SO OUR STRATEGIC HOUSING BLUEPRINT IDENTIFIED, UH, THE 50 PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING UNITS EACH YEAR AND HALF OF THOSE BEING HOUSING. 
          FIRST AS A GOAL, UH, FOR OUR UNIT UNIT DEVELOPMENT. 
          UM, AND THAT'S SO THAT WE CAN, UH, MEET THE NEED, UH, THAT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED. 
          UM, FIRST I WANTED TO START WITH THE, THOSE ARE SOME TERMS THAT NEED A LITTLE BIT OF DEFINITION. 
          PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING REALLY NEEDS PERMANENT, LIKE THE RESIDENT LIVES IN THE UNIT. 
          IS THEIR UNIT SUPPORTIVE, MEANING THAT IT COMES WITH SERVICES SO THAT THE RESIDENT IS SUCCESSFUL. 
          UH, AND UH, WHATEVER THOSE SERVICES MAY BE, WHETHER IT'S MMM, OKAY. 
          IT'S ADDICTION COUNSELING OR FINANCIAL ASSERT, UH, FINANCIAL MENTORING, THINGS LIKE THAT TO MAKE THE, UH, RESIDENT, UH, SUCCESSFUL IN THEIR STAY. 
          UH, NOW HOUSING FIRST IS, UH, PUT THEM IN A UNIT FIRST. 
          DON'T WE? DON'T WE, WE WANT TO BRING THE SERVICES ALONG WITH THEM, BUT WE WANT, THE PRIORITY IS TO PUT SOMEONE IN A UNIT. 
          UM, AND THE REASON WHY THAT IS A SEPARATION OF TERMS IS BECAUSE THOSE HOUSING FIRST UNITS CAN ALSO BE RAPID. 
          REHOUSING. 
          UM, SO, UH, SOMEONE COMING, SOMEONE, UH, LEAVING A SITUATION WHERE, UH, LET'S SAY THEIR CAR BREAKS DOWN, WHICH MEANS THEY CAN'T GET WORK, WHICH MEANS THEY LOST THEIR JOB, WHICH MEANS THEY CAN'T PAY THEIR RENT, WHICH MEANS THEY LOST THEIR HOUSE. 
          RATHER THAN LETTING THAT PERSON RISE TO THE TOP ON A COORDINATED ASSESSMENT, JUST GET THEM IN A UNIT AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE SO THAT YOU CAN FORESTALL THOSE, THOSE, THAT DOWNWARD SPIRAL, UH, GIVE THEM A PLACE TO LAND SO THAT THAT SPIRAL ENDS. 
          UM, AND THAT'S WHY WE SHIFTED AWAY FROM CALLING IT HOUSING FIRST TO CONTINUUM OF CARE BECAUSE THESE UNITS ARE, UH, ON THE CONTINUUM, WHETHER IT'S, UH, RAPID REHOUSING OR ALL THE WAY OUT TO THE MOST DIFFICULT TO SERVE, UH, INDIVIDUAL WITH THE MOST COMORBIDITIES. 
          UM, 
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SO THOSE ARE THE TWO KIND OF THE DEFINITIONS THAT I WANTED TO GO OVER FIRST. 
          UH, JUST TO MAKE IT VERY CLEAR, HOUSING FIRST IS EXTREMELY LOW BARRIER AND IT IS NOT HOUSING READY, UH, UNITS. 
          IT IS, PUT THEM IN A UNIT AND WE CAN ADVANCE TO THE NEXT LINE. 
          SO HOW THESE UNITS ARE DEVELOPED, UH, COMES FROM, UH, FOUR DIFFERENT SOURCES ESSENTIALLY. 
          UH, THE FIRST IS DDH CA, UH, WITH THEIR UAP FOR THEIR LOW LOW INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDITS. 
          THEY PROVIDE ADDITIONAL POINTS FOR, UH, PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING. 
          NOW THEY HAVE A THREE PAGE DEFINITION FOR WHAT ESH ACTUALLY MEANS AND THEY BRING A LOT OF REGULATION ALONG WITH THAT. 
          UM, WE ARE LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE IN OUR COMMUNITY MULTIPLE DEVELOPERS THAT PROVIDE DEEPLY AFFORDABLE ESH UNITS, UH, FOUNDATION COMMUNITY BEING ONE, UH, THAT ARE VERY, VERY ESSENTIAL TO ACHIEVING THESE GOALS. 
          HOWEVER, THOSE PSH UNITS DON'T NECESSARILY, UH, QUALIFY AS COC. 
          YOU'LL SEE THAT IN JUST A MOMENT. 
          THE, UH, RHD AND MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING THAT ECHO IS HOW WE, HOW DID THOSE COC AND AGAIN, THOSE COC UNITS ARE BY DEFINITION HOUSING FIRST. 
          UH, IN ORDER TO, AS MANDY MENTIONED, I DID HEAR MENTION THAT THE POINTS ON THE RFPA SYSTEM, UH, THE MORE COC UNITS, THE MORE POINTS YOU GET AND THE BETTER YOUR APPLICATION IS IN THE COMPETITION. 
          THIRD PLACE THAT WE'VE, UH, THAT WE ARE BUILDING THESE UNITS IS UH, THROUGH THE HOTEL CONVERTED DESCRIBED AND THE ROADWAY IN ECHO SAID THAT THIS WILL BE THE FIRST ZERO BARRIER PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING IN AUSTIN. 
          SO NOT ONLY IS IT LOW BARRIER IS YEAR OVER YEAR, UM, AND THIS IS GONNA THIS IS GOING TO BE A GAME CHANGER BECAUSE IT'S NOT JUST BEGGING SOMEONE FROM THE TOP OF THE LIST, IT'S TAKING THE TOP OF THOSE. 
          UM, AND THEN FINALLY, ECHO WORKS WITH PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL, PRIVATE LANDLORDS AND PROPERTY MANAGERS TO COORDINATE WITH PRIVATE AGREEMENTS SO THAT UH, THEY GO TO A 20 UNIT APARTMENT COMPLEX ON AIRPORT BOULEVARD AND SAY, YOU KNOW, WE'D LIKE TO HAVE TWO OF YOUR UNITS, WE'LL PAY YOU THE VOUCHER, WE'LL BRING SUPPORT SERVICES. 
          AND THE PROPERTY MANAGER SAYS, YES, OF COURSE, LET'S DO THAT. 
          UM, SO THESE UNITS ARE BEING PULLED FROM THE COC. 
          YOU MOVE TO THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT RHD PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING, THESE ARE ALL OF THE DEVELOPMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN FUNDED THROUGH OUR HBA. 
          UM, AND NOT, THIS IS NOT AN INCLUSIVE LIST. 
          THIS IS JUST THE HIGHLIGHTS FROM LAST YEAR. 
          FOR EXAMPLE, TERRORISTS AT OAK SPRINGS, UH, WAS FULLY OCCUPIED IN DECEMBER. 
          UH, THAT'S 50 UNITS OF HOUSING FIRST. 
          THAT'S ALSO PSH. 
          THERE'S PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE UNITS COME TO A SERVICES. 
          UM, AND THE RESIDENTS HAVE THOSE, UH, HAVE THOSE OCCUPANCY. 
          THAT IS THEIR RESIDENCE. 
          UM, WHAT ARE THE TERRORISTS ALSO HAS 27 UNITS, UH, THAT THEY SIGNED AN MOU WITH ECHO TO IDENTIFY THOSE UNITS AS LOW BARRIER. 
          NOW THEY DON'T ACTUALLY, THEY DIDN'T ACTUALLY QUALIFY AS HOUSING FIRST BECAUSE THERE ARE ADDITIONAL RESTRICTIONS THAT A WATERLOO, THAT FOUNDATION COMMUNITY IS ASSIGNED TO THEM THAT ECHO AGREED TO. 
          SO IT'S KIND OF LIKE A HOUSING FIRST AND A HALF. 
          ROOSEVELT GARDENS IS A DEVELOPMENT THROUGH PROJECT TRANSITIONS. 
          THEY EVERY 40 PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING AND IT'S FOR THE POPULATION THAT BASE ARE INDIVIDUALS LIVING WITH HIV AND AIDS. 
          UM, THEY NEGOTIATED WHERE THEY ATTEMPTED TO NEGOTIATE A CON, A MOU WITH ECHO, UH, BUT BECAUSE THE POPULATION THAT THEY'RE SERVING IS SO SPECIFIC, THOSE UNITS WON'T ACTUALLY QUALIFY AND COC UNITS. 
          NOW THAT'S JUST A, THAT'S JUST A, A, AN EXPLANATION OF WHERE THINGS ARE, ARE KIND OF STASIS. 
          UM, THE ISSUE IS THAT, UH, ECHO HAS A VERY CLEAR DEFINITION OF WHAT COC AND WHAT HOUSING PERSONS AND THE DEVELOPERS HAVE A VERY CLEAR DEFINITION OF POPULATION THAT THEY WANT TO SERVE. 
          NOT ALWAYS DO THESE POPULATIONS ON SITE. 
          UM, JUST MOVING DOWN TO THE, TO THE BOTTOM THREE, BUT YOU CAN SEE THAT A SPARROW AT RETLANDS, A SPARROW AT WEST 24TH AND ARMADILLO STUDIOS, THOSE ARE THE THREE, 9% APPLICATIONS, UH, THAT WILL BE COMING, UH, TO TD, HDA IN JULY. 
          AND IF THEY ARE APPROVED, THEN THEY WOULD COME TO HFC BOARD IN, UH, AUGUST. 
          UH, IF WE CAN ADVANCE ONE MORE SLIDE. 
          NOW THIS IS THE CONTINUUM OF CARE UNITS. 
          THOSE UNITS THAT ARE SECURED WITH THAT, I KNOW YOU THAT WOULD QUALIFY AS CONTINUING CARE THAT ARE CERTIFIED AS HOW THEY WORK. 
          THERE. 
          YOU CAN SEE TERRORISTIC OAK SPRINGS 
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ALL 50 AND GOES PSH, UNITS QUALIFY AS CNC WATERLOO TERRORISTS. 
          AGAIN, AS I MENTIONED, THAT'S MORE OF A HOUSING VERSION OF HALF. 
          UM, SO I NOT ACTUALLY COUNTING THOSE FOR THIS PRESENTATION. 
          THESE NUMBERS ARE NOT IN SCRIPTURE. 
          NOTHING ABOUT THIS AS IN STONE. 
          UM, THIS IS JUST A, UH, TO KIND OF EXPLAIN THE SITUATION. 
          UM, WE, IN THE LAST YEAR, WE HAVE SECURED A MULTIPLE ANIMAL USE OR OUR DEVELOPMENTS. 
          UM, BURNETT PLACE WAS FUNDED, UH, THIS YEAR. 
          VEHICLE LENA AND CITY HEIGHTS WERE OFF UNDER THIS YEAR. 
          SO WE HAVE, UH, GOTTEN 24 COC UNITS, UH, COMMITTED THROUGH THE ORANGE DAY PROCESS. 
          UH, IF A SPARROW RUTLAND SPARROW AT 24TH AND ON VILLA SYLVIA IS ALL OUR ROUTE BY DDH CA, AND THAT WOULD BE AN ADDITIONAL 166, UH, COC UNITS, UM, OR THE PSH DEFINITION THAT WOULD BE, UH, ALL WERE 300. 
          SO THE DEFINITION IS IMPORTANT, HOW WE CALL THESE UNITS, WHAT WE CALL THESE UNITS AS IMPORTANT AND HOW WE CAPTURE THEM. 
          THE REASON WHY WE HAVE REMOVED ESH FROM OUR SCORING RUBRIC AND PUT COC AS THE IMPORTANT METRIC IS BECAUSE WE KNOW WHAT COC MEANS. 
          WHEN ECHO BRINGS AN MOU TO US, WE CAN SAY THIS IS CLEARLY A COC UNIT. 
          THIS IS A UNIT THAT WILL COUNT AGAINST THE COORDINATED ASSESSMENT. 
          UM, AND WE KNOW HOW TO VERIFY THAT WITH A PSH UNIT. 
          UH, IT'S, WE DON'T HAVE A THREE PAGE DEFINITION LIKE TBH CA WE CAN RELY ON THEIR DEFINITION, BUT THEN, UH, IF A PROPERTY IS NOT A 9% TAX CREDIT OR, OR NOT A, UM, A BATCH CREDIT PROPERTY, THEN UH, WE WOULD HAVE TO SOMEHOW CERTIFY WHAT IS PSH AND WE DON'T HAVE THE EXPERTISE, WHICH IS WHY WE RELY ON ECHO TO MAKE THAT CALL. 
          SOME OF THE CONFLICTS THAT ARE GOING ON INTERNALLY IS A LACK OF COMMUNICATION, A LACK OF TRUST. 
          UM, I'M ON A PHONE CALL EARLIER, ROSIE MENTIONED THAT MAYBE WE JUST NEED TO HAVE SOME TRANSPORT OR SOLVE A SITUATION, BUT IT'S A GOOD, IT'S AN APPROACH THAT, UH, WE SHOULD, WE NEED TO TRY SOMETHING. 
          UH, ECHO IS WORKING ON IMPROVING OUR COMMUNICATION. 
          UH, I'VE BEEN TO DEVELOPERS ABOUT HOW THEY GO THROUGH THEIR, UH, UM, THEIR ASSESSMENT AND THEIR STRATEGIC, UH, PLACEMENT. 
          UH, THEY KNOW THAT THEY DON'T WANT TO QUIT. 
          THEY KNOW THAT THEY WANT TO PUT THE RIGHT PERSON IN THE RIGHT UNIT AT THE RIGHT TIME. 
          SO YOU'RE NOT GOING TO PUT SOMEONE WITH MULTIPLE MORBIDITIES INTO A FAMILY DEVELOPMENT WHERE THEY WON'T BE SUCCESSFUL. 
          IT'S SUCCESSFUL RESIDENT IS WHAT EVERYBODY IN THIS ENTIRE CONVERSATION FROM ECHO FROM THE PROPERTY MANAGERS TO THE CITY. 
          UM, AND SO IT'S JUST GOING TO TAKE A LITTLE BIT OF TRUST AND WHAT COMMUNICATION, UH, IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE THE GOAL. 
          I THINK THAT WE ARE ON THE RIGHT PATH AND I THINK THAT, UH, OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS WE CAN HAVE MORE CONVERSATIONS WITH ECHO AND WITH OUR PROPERTY MANAGERS AND DEVELOPERS TO BUILD THAT TRUST AND BUILD THAT COLLABORATION. 
          WHEN YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE AND I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. 
          THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION AND TO THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE. 
          WE CAN ASK SOME QUESTIONS BUT WE DO HAVE A FEW OF THEM LEFT AND SO QUESTIONS WE ASK, UH, WE JUST PROBABLY MIGHT HAVE TO RUN A LITTLE BIT OVER NOON AND I DON'T WANT TO TAKE US TOO LONG. 
          PAST NOON, RIGHT. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER KITCHEN. 
          UM, I'M JUST FLAGGING THIS CAUSE IT'S A LONGER CONVERSATION FOR LATER. 
          I WOULD LIKE TO UNDERSTAND BETTER WHAT YOU JUST HIGHLIGHTED IN TERMS OF THE, UM, THE TRUST BUILDING AND THE CURRENT CONFLICTS AROUND CONTINUUM OF CARE. 
          BUT THAT'S NOT FOR TODAY. 
          I'LL REACH OUT TO YOU OFFLINE. 
          ALL RIGHT, COUNCIL MEMBER HARPER MADISON. 
          UM, I'M A GUN AND JUST THIS MOMENT OF PRIVILEGE AND JUST SAY COUNCIL MEMBER KITCHEN'S EARRINGS ARE AMAZING RIGHT NOW. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S CITRINE OR WHAT GIRL, BUT THOSE ARE BEAUTIFUL. 
          UM, AND UM, I REALLY APPRECIATE THIS DIALOGUE AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS SAID THAT REALLY MAKES ME WANT TO EXTEND THIS CONVERSATION OUTSIDE OF THIS WAS UM, SOMETHING ALONG THE LINES. 
          I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT. 
          UH, JAMIE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT WE ARE FINDING OURSELVES IN A POSITION WHERE WE'RE HAVING TO MAKE DECISIONS ABOUT LIKE WHO'S ELIGIBLE FOR WHAT KIND OF A THING. 
          AND I REALLY THINK IF WE CAN'T, LIKE IF WE REALLY CAN'T PUT THAT ON PAPER, I MEAN, WHAT DO WE MEAN WHO WE SAY WHO'S ELIGIBLE AND UNDER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES? THERE'S A LOT OF IMPLICATIONS THERE IN MY MIND'S EYE THAT PUT US AT RISK ONE, YOU KNOW, JUST FROM A LIKE RECOGNIZING THAT THE CITY IS JUST GENERALLY RISK 
          [01:30:01]
AVERSE. 
          I THINK THERE'S A LOT THAT PUT US AT RISK THERE. 
          BUT THEN I ALSO HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT LIKE WHO ARE WE DETERMINING IS ELIGIBLE AND BASED ON WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES. 
          AND SO, UM, JAMIE, NICE TO MEET YOU. 
          IF YOU AND I CAN HAVE A CONVERSATION MOVING FORWARD ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANS WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WHO'S ELIGIBLE. 
          THAT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL FOR ME IN MY OFFICE. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          OTHER QUESTIONS? I WOULD UM, WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE, UH, THE HARD WORK GOING TOWARDS PUSHING TOWARDS THE COC DEFINITION. 
          ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT EVEN THOUGH A LOT OF THIS IS REALLY HARD, WE ARE PRODUCING SO MANY MORE UNITS FOR FOLKS THAT OTHERWISE WOULD BE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS THAN EVER BEFORE WITH THIS HOUSING BOND. 
          SO SOMEWHERE SEEMS THAT ABOUT 500 UNITS, IF ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT DEVELOPMENTS GET APPROVED, WE'D HAVE 500 MORE HOMES FOR PEOPLE THAT WOULD MOST LIKELY OTHERWISE BE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS. 
          AND SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 250 TO 500 OF THOSE ARE AT THE LEVEL OF LOW BARRIER. 
          THAT IS THE GOLD STANDARD THAT WE WANT PEOPLE TO REACH. 
          SO, BUT, BUT THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS, YOU KNOW, AND, AND WITH, UH, IN A SHORT TIME PERIOD HERE, THANKS TO THE, UH, COUNCIL PUTTING THIS BOND ON THE BALLOT AND VOTERS APPROVING IT AND THEN EVERYBODY IN THE COMMUNITY STEPPING UP, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT AROUND 500 HOMES FOR PEOPLE OTHERWISE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS, BUT, AND SEVERAL HUNDRED OF THOSE BEING AT THE LEVEL OF LOW BARRIER THAT WE REALLY WANT JUST, I THINK A REALLY POWERFUL STEP AND WE JUST WANT TO GET, WE NEED TO DO HUNDREDS MORE AND WE WANT TO KEEP THEM LOW BARRIER. 
          AND SO I APPRECIATE THE CONVERSATION Y'ALL ARE WORKING ON AND WHAT COUNCIL MEMBER HARPER MADISON SAID, BECAUSE WE WANT EVERYBODY TO BE ABLE TO QUALIFY BECAUSE EVERYBODY NEEDS HOUSING. 
          ANYONE ELSE?  I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU FOR, FOR MAKING SURE TO BRING THAT FRONT AND CENTER. 
          UM, WE JUST APPRECIATE YOUR EFFORT AND BEING SUCH A, UM, A STRONG FORCE ON THIS, UH, UH, FOR THIS COMMISSION AND, AND, AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT YOU BROUGHT THAT FORWARD. 
          AND I LOOK FORWARD TO, I WONDER IF THERE'S A WAY FOR US TO BUILD IN A SYSTEM WHERE WE CAN COMMUNICATE WITH ONE ANOTHER MOVING FORWARD. 
          LIKE HAVE SOME SENSE OF EXPECTATION AROUND LIKE WHEN'S THE NEXT CHECK IN? DO WE HAVE A TIMELINE ON, ON THE COC UNITS OR ON THE HOUSING BONDS GENERALLY? WHICH OF THE TWO DO YOU THINK IS MOST USEFUL? COUNSELING? I'D SAY BOTH IF YOU DON'T MIND. 
          MAYBE, MAYBE NOT AT THE NEXT MEETING, WHICH I THINK IS IN JULY, BUT MAYBE THE ONE AFTER THAT JUST TO GIVE EVERYBODY A LITTLE BIT OF BUFFER TIME AND IF PEOPLE WANT TO DISCUSS THAT IN JULY MEETING, HAPPY TO DO THAT. 
          OR WE COULD JUST BRING HER, BRING BACK THIS EXACT CONVERSATION AT THE MEETING AFTER THE JULY ONE, WHICH I THINK WILL BE RIGHT AFTER WE PASSED THE BUDGET. 
          I JUST THINK IT WOULD BE PRETTY WELL LET THIS FALL OFF. 
          LIKE LET'S FOLLOW UP. 
          LET'S OFFER AN OURSELVES AN OPPORTUNITY BY WAY OF LIKE A RE A REALLY CLEARLY DEFINED TIMELINE FOR WHEN WE FOLLOW UP ON BOTH ITEMS. AND I THINK, UM, JUST TO, IF WE CAME BACK IN JULY, WE WON'T HAVE ANY SUBSTANTIVELY DIFFERENT NUMBERS IN THAT WE WON'T HAVE, UM, YOU KNOW, KIND OF A QUARTERLY CYCLE. 
          AND SO COMING BACK QUARTERLY MIGHT MAKE SENSE TO JUST PROVIDE, UM, AN, UH, YOU KNOW, AN UPDATE ON HOW THINGS HAVE MOVED THROUGH THE PAST QUARTER OR WHAT THINGS HAVE, YOU KNOW, WHAT APPLICATIONS THAT WE RECEIVED, WHAT'S BEING FUNDED, UM, THAT CERTAINLY AT LEAST FOR THE BOND PURPOSES, UH, AND FOR HAVING ANY CHANGE IN THE NUMBER OF POC UNITS. 
          UM, THAT WOULD BE THE SOONEST THAT WE WOULD SEE ANY DIFFERENCE. 
          UM, HAVING LARGER CONVERSATIONS ABOUT HOW WE'RE DEVELOPING THE UNITS AND HOW WE'RE CONTINUING TO IMPROVE RELATIONSHIPS ACROSS THE SPECTRUM. 
          CERTAINLY WE CAN HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS ANYTIME. 
          THAT MAKES SENSE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          DIRECTLY TO TRUE LOVE. 
          UM, THANK YOU. 
          I APPRECIATE THAT. 
          LET'S SEE HOW THAT WORKS. 
          LET, WE'LL, WE'LL CIRCLE BACK HERE AT THE NEXT QUARTER. 
          SO WE'RE ON THE, ON THE 
          [Item 5 Briefing on tenant selection policies and procedures regarding criminal backgrounds required by the City’s Rental Housing Development Assistance (RHDA) Program and recommended by the Austin/Travis County Reentry Roundtable. Sponsors: Council Member Gregorio Casar, and Council Member Natasha Harper-Madison]
LAST ITEM, UM, IS A BRIEFING AND SOME DISCUSSION HERE ON TENANT SELECTION POLICIES REGARDING CRIMINAL BACKGROUNDS REQUIRED BY THE RHD PROGRAM AND AS RECOMMENDED BY THE REENTRY ROUND TABLE. 
          UM, AND SO I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S A STEP, IF STAFF WANTS TO TALK ABOUT THIS FIRST AT ALL OR IF COUNCIL MEMBER HARPER MADISON, IF YOU WANT TO SUGGEST A WAY OF STRUCTURING THIS AS YOU SUGGESTED THIS ITEM FOR THE AGENDA. 
          SO WE DO HAVE A COUPLE OF SLIDES JUST TO KIND OF SET THE STAGE FOR EVERYONE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS CURRENTLY IN OUR, OUR GUIDELINES. 
          AND JAMIE COULD PROBABLY RUN THROUGH THOSE REALLY QUICKLY JUST SO WE'RE ALL KIND OF COMING FROM THE SAME PLACE AND THEN WE'RE STUFF'S AVAILABLE TO LISTEN TO AN ANSWER. 
          ANY QUESTIONS THAT MIGHT BE THERE. 
          SOUNDS GOOD. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          SO, UH, 
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JUST LIKE THE COC CONVERSATION WITH THE TENANT SELECTION IN JANUARY OF 2019, WE REVISED THE RHD GUIDELINES. 
          UM, ONE OF THE MAJOR SHIFTS THAT WE MADE WAS, UH, TAKING ALL THE PENDANT PROTECTIONS THAT WERE EMBEDDED IN THE GUIDELINES AND MAKING SURE THAT THEY WERE LISTED IN THE LEASE ADDENDUM THAT LEAVES A DENIM IS OPEN FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. 
          UH, RIGHT NOW WE'VE ALREADY RECEIVED SOME COMMENTS, WE EXPECT MORE. 
          UM, BUT THAT'S, UH, HALF OF THE CONVERSATION. 
          THE OTHER HALF OF THE CONVERSATION IS THIS AND IT'S SELECTION, UH, POLICY. 
          IF YOU CAN ADVANCE TO THE NEXT SLIDE VIA, UM, WHAT WE STARTED WITH, UH, THE, UH, LOCK OUT, UH, REPORT THAT THE REENTRY GROUND TABLE, UH, DISTRIBUTED IN 2016 THAT INFORMED THE TEXAS CRIMINAL BACKGROUND SCREENING GUIDE, WHICH WAS RELEASED IN APRIL, 2018 AND THEN IN JANUARY OF 2019 WE DROPPED THAT CRIMINAL BACKGROUND SCREENING GUIDE AND EMBEDDED IT WITHIN THE RHD GUIDELINES, UH, SAYING THAT ANY APPLICANT IN ANY AWARDEE OF OUR HTA FUND MUST COMPLY WITH THE TEXAS CRIMINAL BACKGROUND SCREENING GUY ADVANCING THE NEXT LIFE IN THE BACKGROUND SCREENING GUIDE. 
          THEY SAY, UH, AND I WON'T READ THIS, UH, BUT, UH, THE TWO THINGS THAT I WANT TO PULL OUT IS THAT, UH, THEY SAID, UM, LOOK BACK PERIOD SHOULD NOT BE GREATER THAN SEVEN YEARS FOR FELONS. 
          THEY ALSO SAY IT SHOULD NOT BE GREATER THAN THREE YEARS FOR MISDEMEANORS. 
          UM, AND THEN THEY PROVIDE A CHART THAT OFFERS, SUGGESTED LOOK BACK PERIODS FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF CRIMES, UH, TO THE NEXT LIVELY. 
          SO WE TOOK THE INFORMATION FROM THAT SCREENING GUIDE AND PROVIDED FIVE MORE THAN FIVE, THE FIVE PERTINENT ONES FOR TODAY'S CONVERSATION. 
          UH, BERT ONLY CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS ARE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION, NOT, NOT ACCUSATIONS OR ANYTHING THAT WAS DISMISSED, A NEW SCREEN FROM THE DATE OF CONVICTION AND NOT FROM THE DATE OF, UH, NOT FROM THE DATE OF INCARCERATION OR THE DATE OF RELEASE. 
          UH, WE SCREEN FROM, UH, OR THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A CATCH ALL CATEGORIES SUCH AS UNCLASSIFIED OFFENSIVE THAT WAS USED IN THE PAST BY SOME PROPERTY MANAGERS TO SCREEN OUT ON UH, UNWANTED TENANTS, UM, ON A, UH, FAIRLY, UH, DUBIOUS BASIS. 
          UM, AND THEN WE SAY NO, LOOK BACK PERIOD SHOULD EXCEED SEVEN YEARS FOR CON FOR FELONIES AND THE LOOK BACK PERIOD SHOULD EXCEED THREE YEARS FOR A MISDEMEANOR. 
          THEN FINALLY, UH, ALL APPLICANTS SHALL BE PROVIDED AN OPPORTUNITY FOR INDIVIDUALIZED REVIEW. 
          THIS IS AN APPEAL PROCESS. 
          IF YOU ARE DENIED BASED ON A PREVIOUS CONVICTION, THEN YOU GET TO APPEAL THAT DENIAL. 
          AND THEN TO THE NEXT SLIDE AND ONE OF THE CONFUSIONS, UM, AROUND THE CONVERSATION HAS BEEN THIS TABLE THAT WAS EMBEDDED IN THE SCREENING GUIDE IN THE UH, UH, CRIMINAL BACKGROUND SCREENING GUARD. 
          UH, IF YOU'LL SEE THAT IT'S SUGGESTED LOOK BACK PERIODS BASED ON TYPE OF CRIME AND CONVICTION, UH, WE REQUIRE APPLICANTS AND AWARDEES TO PROVIDE A TABLE. 
          THIS IS ONE VERSION OF THAT TABLE. 
          UH, AND AS YOU CAN SEE THAT SELECTED SUGGESTED LOOK BACK PERIOD ON THE FAR RIGHT COLUMN, THREE YEARS FOR ASSAULT AND BATTERY, THREE YEARS WITH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. 
          THOSE ARE SUGGESTIVE OF THAT PERIOD BASED ON THE CRIMINAL, UH, THE TEXAS CRIMINAL BACKGROUND SCREENING. 
          GOT IT. 
          WE DON'T REQUIRE THOSE, UH, STRINGENT LOOK BACK PERIODS. 
          WE DON'T ONLY REQUIRE THAT SEVEN AND THREE. 
          UM, WE WILL DO REQUIRE YOU TO HAVE A TABLE SO THAT I'LL, APPLICANTS CAN SEE CLEARLY WHAT, UH, UM, WHAT THAT LOOK BACK PERIOD IS FOR EACH OF THOSE DEFENSES. 
          AND IF YOU'RE IN SO INCLINED, THEN THIS IS AN EASY WAY TO BUILD THAT TABLE OUT. 
          UM, BUT, UH, OUR PROCESS WOULD NOT REQUIRE THESE, SUGGESTS THESE LOOK BACK PERIODS AS DETERMINING THE NEXT LINE. 
          AND THAT'S, THAT'S REALLY WHERE THE CONVERSATION HAS MEANT. 
          UM, AND I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT LOOK BACK PERIOD ABOUT OR ABOUT HOW WE OPERATED THE BACKGROUND SCREENING GUIDE INTO THE RFPA GUIDE. 
          HOW'S HARPER HARPER MADISON. 
          I WANT TO HAND IT OVER TO YOU TO LET US KNOW WHICH PARTS OF THIS YOU WANT TO DISCUSS. 
          MY ONLY QUICK QUESTION THAT I THINK IS USEFUL CONTEXT HERE IS MR. MAY, CAN YOU TELL US WHEN ALL OF THAT WENT INTO EFFECT? THAT WAS JANUARY OF 2019 SO, SO THERE ARE SOME BUILDINGS THAT HAVE BEEN BUILT NOW THAT ARE RECENTLY OPENED THAT, THAT ARE USING THESE CRITERIA. 
          UM, I'D HAVE TO LOOK, BUT THAT WOULD BE ANYTHING THAT WAS AWARDED POST JANUARY, 2019. 
          UM, SO WITH THEIR LEASE OR WITH THEIR, UM, LOAN AGREEMENT, THAT WOULD BE AN ATTACHMENT TO THAT LOAN AGREEMENT. 
          SO THEY'D HAVE TO COMPLY WITH THAT. 
          ANYTHING THAT WAS REWARDED PRIOR TO JANUARY, 2019 WOULD NOT HAVE TO COMPLY. 
          GOT IT. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER HARPER MADISON. 
          YEAH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I APPRECIATE YOU RECOGNIZING ME. 
          AND 
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ONE OF THE QUESTIONS I HAD WAS WHAT YOU JUST BROUGHT UP, ESPECIALLY FROM A TIMELINE PERSPECTIVE, UM, JANUARY 20, 19, RIGHT. 
          IF WE'RE THINKING THROUGH WHAT IS TRANSPIRED TO DATE, WHAT TRANSPIRED PRIOR TO, UM, I JUST HAVE SOME GENERAL QUESTIONS ABOUT WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE LOOK BACK PERIOD. 
          CAN, CAN WE SEEK TO JAMIE, I WONDER IF YOU CAN HELP ME SPEAK TO, UM, HOW WE FIND OURSELVES IN A POSITION TO WHERE WE MAKE THIS ULTIMATE DETERMINATION ABOUT THE LOOK BACK PERIOD. 
          CAUSE THERE'S MULTIPLE, YOU KNOW, OPPORTUNITIES FOR US TO LOOK AT WHAT THE LOOK BACK PERIOD PERIODS OF PERIOD LOOKS LIKE DEPENDING ON WHAT CITY YOU'RE IN. 
          SO I'M JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT LIKE HOW, HOW ARE WE FINDING OURSELVES SALIENT IN THE WAY WE FIGURE IT OUT? LIKE WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO ADDRESS TO LOOK BACK PERIOD. 
          CAUSE I'VE GOTTEN A LOT OF PUSHBACK BY WAY THE PUSHBACK PERIOD TIMELINE AND I'M JUST TRYING TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT WE'RE TAKING THE NECESSARY STEPS TO BE AS THOUGHTFUL AS POSSIBLE. 
          AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHY WE RELIED ON THE TEXAS BACKGROUND CRIMINAL SCREENING. 
          GOT IT. 
          MMM. 
          WE WANT IT TO LOOK AT, WE WANTED TO USE A REPUTABLE, REPUTABLE SOURCE. 
          WE KNOW THAT THEY WENT THROUGH YEARS OF CONVERSATION AND RESEARCH IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH THOSE, UH, WHEN IT'S IN THOSE BACKGROUND CHECKS. 
          UM, SO WE DIDN'T WANNA CREATE ANYTHING NEW OUT OF WHOLE CLOTH. 
          I WOULD MUCH RATHER GO ON SOMEBODY ELSE'S WORK, UH, INFORM OUR OWN MUSIC, MY BAD. 
          OH, LADY OUT HERE MUTED MY BAD. 
          UM, SO THEN I GUESS THE EXTENSION OF THAT QUESTION WOULD BE LIKE, WHAT COMPONENT OF THE LOOK BACK PERIOD IS A REQUIREMENT AS OPPOSED TO A SUGGESTION CAUSE I DON'T FEEL LIKE THAT PART IS CLEAR. 
          SO THE REQUIREMENT IS NO MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS FOR FELONIES, NO MORE THAN THREE YEARS FOR MISDEMEANORS. 
          AND YOU HAVE TO HAVE A TABLE THAT LISTS OUT THOSE, UH, THOSE OFFENSES. 
          UM, AND IN YOUR TABLE, THEORETICALLY YOU COULD SAY ALL FELONIES ARE SEVEN YEAR LOOK BACK AND ALL MISDEMEANORS WITH THREE YEARS. 
          MMM. 
          THAT IS THE, THAT IS THE GUIDANCE THAT WE RECEIVED FROM THE CRIMINAL BACKGROUND SCREENING GUIDE, UH, THEIR SUGGESTED TABLE. 
          WE ALSO INCLUDE THAT AT OR WE POINTED TO THAT IN THE, IN THE, UM, RGA GUIDELINES AS A BIBLE OPTION. 
          UM, BUT BECAUSE THEY DID NOT SAY THAT THAT IS A REQUIREMENT, THEY SAID THAT THAT IS A SUGGESTION. 
          UH, WE RELY ON THAT SUGGESTION AS WELL. 
          UH, ALRIGHT, SO I WILL JUST SAY THIS AND I'LL LEAVE THIS FOR THE BODY AS A WHOLE. 
          UM, THERE ARE SOME CONCERNS ON MY END ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SUGGESTIONS AND REQUIREMENTS AND I DON'T THINK I HAVE TO REALLY LIKE ELABORATE ON WHY THAT FEELS FUNNY THAT WE DON'T HAVE SOMETHING CLEARLY DEFINED. 
          UM, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SUGGESTION AND REQUIREMENT. 
          UM, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES, I JUST WANT TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT WE DON'T PUT PEOPLE IN A SITUATION WHERE THEY CAN INADVERTENTLY FIND THEMSELVES. 
          UM, YEAH, A PROBLEMATIC SITUATION AND WE CAN CERTAINLY TAKE IT OFFLINE, BUT I JUST ASKED THEM CONCERNS ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE CLEAR ABOUT THE DELINEATION, IF YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I MEAN. 
          YES. 
          UM, I, I SHARE THAT CONCERN EARN, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER HARPER MADISON JUST RAISED. 
          UM, I'M WONDERING WHAT OUR THINKING BEHIND, UH, SUGGESTIONS VERSUS A REQUIREMENT BECAUSE WE'VE GOT A STANDARD, IT LOOKS LIKE THAT WE'RE LOOKING TO FROM OTHER, YOU KNOW, FROM AN ANOTHER BODY. 
          WHY WOULDN'T WE JUST SET THAT AS A REQUIREMENT AS OPPOSED TO REQUIREMENT AND BEING, WELL IN SOME CASES, QUITE A FEW YEARS DIFFERENT THAN THE SUGGESTED. 
          WELL, IN THE BACKGROUND SCREENING GUIDE, THEY DO REQUIRE A NO MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS, NO MORE THAN THREE YEARS COMMUNITY. 
          UH, SO WE POINTED THAT AS OUR REQUIREMENT. 
          UM, AND THEN THEY, WE SUGGESTED TABLE IS, UH, 
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BASICALLY AN OPTION, UH, FOR DEVELOPERS. 
          SO WE ARE USING THE SUGGESTIONS BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE OUR SOURCE DOES IS USES SUGGESTIONS. 
          YES. 
          UH, SINCE THEY DID THE RESEARCH AND THEY DID THE, THEY HAD THE CONVERSATION IS WE'RE GOING TO POINT TO THEM AS THE EXPERTS, UM, AND SAY THEY SAY NO MORE THAN SEVEN FOR FELONIES. 
          UM, BUT THEN PROVIDING THAT LIST SO THE PROPERTY MANAGERS CAN DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN, UM, WHETHER, WELL THIS ONE REQUIRES SEVEN YEARS AND THIS ONE REQUIRES FIVE YEARS. 
          UH, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THEY NEED TO PROVIDE, BUT WE HAVE NOT GIVEN THEM A DIRECTION AS TO WHICH FELONY REQUIRES A LESSER LOOK BACK. 
          ANOTHER. 
          DO WE HAVE ANY DATA, PEOPLE WHO ARE FOLLOWING THE SUGGESTIONS AS OPPOSED TO THE SEVEN YEAR OLD? UM, I DO NOT HAVE ANY DATA ON THAT RIGHT NOW. 
          UH, THIS WAS DRIVING, THIS DID GO INTO EFFECT IN JANUARY OF 2019. 
          UH, SO I'D HAVE TO SEE WHICH DEVELOPMENTS HAVE COME ONLINE AND SARAH, UM, THERE LISA'S ESSENTIALLY. 
          OKAY, WELL I WOULD JUST SECOND FINDING THAT NOW IF THIS MANDATE, THIS IS MANDY DEMEANOR, I JUST WANTED TO JUMP IN BECAUSE I WAS INVOLVED IN THOSE EARLY CONVERSATIONS WITH THE AUSTIN TRAVIS COUNTY RE-ENTRY ROUND TABLE. 
          AND I WILL SAY WE WENT THROUGH PROBABLY AT LEAST A COUPLE OF YEARS OF STAKEHOLDER CONVERSATIONS THAT INCLUDED, UM, UH, FOLKS, UH, WITH, UH, THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AS WELL AS, UM, LEGAL LEGAL AID, UM, AS WELL AS THOSE ARE NONPROFIT AND FOR PROFIT HOUSING PROVIDERS, AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROVIDERS, AS WELL AS THE AUSTIN APARTMENT ASSOCIATION. 
          SO IT WAS A VERY BROAD STAKEHOLDER GROUP. 
          UM, SO WHERE WE LANDED, UM, WAS KIND OF SQUARELY IN A MIDDLE GROUND WHERE EVERYBODY GAVE A LITTLE BIT. 
          I WILL SAY, UM, WE RECOGNIZE THAT THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT IS COMING TO THE SURFACE. 
          AGAIN, THERE ARE SOME CONCERNS WE WOULD WANT TO REENGAGE THE STAKEHOLDERS WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THOSE ORIGINAL CONVERSATIONS. 
          UM, AND BASED ON SOME CONVERSATIONS WITH COUNCIL OFFICES, TYPICALLY WHAT WE DO IS, UH, LATE FALL, WINTER SOMETIME NOVEMBER, DECEMBER TIMEFRAME, WE GATHER OUR STAKEHOLDERS TO TALK ABOUT CHANGES THAT WE ARE CONTEMPLATING FOR OUR HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS. UM, AND I THINK THIS IS ONE OF THOSE CONVERSATIONS THAT IS GOING TO RISE TO THE TOP ALONG WITH THE CONTINUUM OF CARE CONVERSATION. 
          SO WE RECOGNIZE, WE HEAR THE CONCERNS. 
          UM, WE, WE, WE RECOGNIZE, UM, YOU KNOW, WE RECOGNIZE THAT WE NEED TO BRING SOME FOLKS AROUND THE TABLE AGAIN TO ADDRESS THOSE CONCERNS. 
          OTHER QUESTIONS? YEAH, IF I MAY. 
          AND ESPECIALLY LIKE IF I CAN PREFACE IT WITH RECOGNIZING THAT IT FEELS TO ME LIKE THERE IS SOME DEGREE OF CONSIDERATION BEING TAKEN AROUND THE CONSIDERATIONS AROUND STAKEHOLDER INVOLVEMENT, BUT THIS JUST DOES NOT FEEL TO ME LIKE A COMPLETE PROCESS, IN WHICH CASE, WHEN I HAVE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS, WHEN PEOPLE ARE ASKING ME QUESTIONS AND I HAVE TO ANSWER THEM, THIS DOES NOT FEEL LIKE A SCENARIO WHERE I GET TO EFFECTIVELY ANSWER QUESTIONS TO PEOPLE BY WAY OF LIKE A LEGITIMATE FULLY FLUSHED OUT COMPREHENSIVE PROCESS. 
          SO I JUST WOULD LIKE TO BE ASKING, I RESPECT EVERYBODY ON THE CALL. 
          UM, I WOULD LIKE VERY MUCH FOR YOU TO OFFER ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO RESPOND TO THE QUESTIONS THAT PEOPLE ARE ASKING ME. 
          AND SO FROM A STAKEHOLDER, YOU KNOW, INVOLVEMENT PERSPECTIVE, I JUST DON'T QUITE FEEL LIKE I HAVE THE ANSWERS APPROPRIATELY. 
          SO I REALLY LOOKED FORWARD TO MOVING FORWARD WITH A MORE, UM, COMPREHENSIVE CONVERSATION. 
          SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT. 
          THANK YOU EVERYBODY. 
          WELL, THANK YOU. 
          UH, COUNCIL MEMBER HARPER MADISON. 
          I THINK WHAT I'M, WHAT I UNDERSTAND HERE IS THAT, YOU KNOW, AFTER SOME YEARS OF WORK, UM, AND A, AND A GROUP OF STAKEHOLDERS COMING TOGETHER, ALL WORKING IN GOOD FAITH, THERE WAS SORT OF A BAR SET HIGHER, WHICH IS GOOD HERE. 
          AND THEN SUGGESTIONS AND THEN A SUGGESTION TO SAY, HEY, AND IT'S ALSO SAY HEY, AND IT'S ALSO SUGGESTED THAT YOU GO EVEN BETTER TO HEAR. 
          UM, BUT THAT THIS IS AN ITEM OF SUCH INTEREST OUT THERE THAT, UM, THAT, THAT, THAT INITIAL STAKEHOLDER GROUP, UM, 
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MAY NOT BE ENOUGH PEOPLE AND MAY NOT HAVE BEEN PUBLIC ENOUGH OR UNDERSTOOD WELL ENOUGH ABOUT WHY IT WAS DECIDED, REQUIREMENT'S HERE IN SUGGESTION HERE. 
          AND WE HAVE TO BE RESPONSIVE TO THAT. 
          AND SO, UM, IF WE NEED TO REOPEN THAT CONVERSATION WITH MORE PEOPLE IN A MORE PUBLIC WAY, UM, UH, TO DECIDE WHERE THE, WHERE THE REQUIREMENTS SHOULD BE SET AND WHERE THE SUGGESTION SHOULD BE SAID, AND IF THAT NEEDS TO BE SET HIGHER THAN WE NEED TO TAKE THAT HEAD ON. 
          AND SO I APPRECIATE YOU RAISING THAT. 
          I THINK, UH, TWO OTHER THINGS THAT WE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT HERE THAT I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE A PART OF A CONVERSATION IS ONE, AS THESE DEVELOPMENTS OPEN UP, UH, I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT THEY HAVE, THAT THE AFFIRMATIVE RIGHTS THEY DO HAVE. 
          AND IN ANOTHER PARTS OF THE CITY, UH, THERE'S A CONVERSATION ABOUT HAVING A CIVIL RIGHTS OFFICER, UM, WHO CAN MORE PROACTIVELY MAKE SURE PEOPLE KNOW THEIR RIGHTS TO THINGS LIKE FAIR HOUSING AND WATER BREAKS, UM, AND ANTIDISCRIMINATION LAWS. 
          AND I THINK THIS WOULD, AND FAIR CHANCE HIRING. 
          I THINK THAT THIS SHOULD BE A PART OF IT SO THAT PEOPLE KNOW WHEN THEY'RE APPLYING TO HOUSING WHAT THE REQUIREMENTS HAVE BEEN THAT HAVE BEEN SET BY THE CITY FOR SOME OF THESE TYPES OF HOUSES. 
          SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S, THAT I'M APART OF THAT AND THAT THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT IS SORT OF PLUGGED IN WITH THE DEPUTY CITY MANAGER ON THAT CONVERSATION. 
          AND, UM, AND THEN A SECOND PART OF THIS THAT I THINK IS REALLY IMPORTANT THAT I THINK IS THAT ACHIEVEMENTS I DO WANT, THERE'LL BE SOME KUDOS AROUND IS, YOU KNOW, A LOOK BACK PERIOD IS NOT A BAN, RIGHT? IF YOU'RE WITHIN THE LOOK BACK PERIOD, THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOUR BANDS ARE LIVING IN THAT HOUSING AND THE REQUIREMENTS THAT HAS BEEN SET. 
          IF I DO UNDERSTAND IT'S A REQUIREMENT THAT EACH PERSON RECEIVE AN INDIVIDUALIZED ASSESSMENT. 
          UM, AND BECAUSE I, AGAIN, I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW, HOPEFULLY AS WE OPEN UP THESE THOUSANDS OF NEW HOMES UNDER THE NEW BOND, UH, LOW, LOW COST HOMES THAT EVEN IF YOU HAVE A MISDEMEANOR THAT FALLS WITHIN IT LOOKED AT CURATOR FELONY THAT FALLS WITHIN A LOOK BACK PERIOD THAT WE HAVE NOW SAID YOU CAN'T BAN THAT PERSON EVEN IF THEY FALL WITHIN THE LOOK BACK PERIOD THAT THEY DESERVE AND, AND, AND ARE ENTITLED TO AN INDIVIDUALIZED LOOK AT THEIR CASE. 
          UM, AND I WOULD WANT EVERYBODY TO KNOW THAT JUST BECAUSE JUST CAUSE YOU HAD THAT MISDEMEANOR, THAT FALL FALLS WITHIN TWO YEARS, SAY YOU STILL SHOULD AND CAN APPLY FOR THAT HOUSING AND SHOULDN'T BE ABLE TO MAKE YOUR CASE. 
          AND SO I, I WANT PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO KNOW THAT AND IF, IF THE RIGHT CONVERSATION HAS COUNSELOR UNDER HARPER MADISON SAID IS TO RAISE THE BAR MORE, I THINK THAT THAT'S A GOOD CONVERSATION TO HAVE. 
          AND I WOULD SUPPORT FINDING WAYS TO RAISE THE BAR AND MORE. 
          BUT I ALSO WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHAT THEIR RIGHTS ARE NOW BECAUSE I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF, THERE'S A LOT OF GOOD THINGS THAT WE TRY TO DO THAT IF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THAT THEY HAVE THAT RIGHT. 
          IT DOESN'T DO ANYBODY ANY, ANY, ANYTHING ELSE BEFORE WE, UM, JUST TALK ABOUT FEATURE ITEMS AND CLOSE THE MEETING. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL THEN WE'LL 
          [Item 6 Identify items to discuss at future meetings. Adjourn]
TAKE UP THE, AN ITEM HERE ON FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. IT SOUNDS LIKE IT DOES MAKE SENSE. 
          IT MAKES SENSE FOR US TO CHECK BACK IN ON THE HOUSING BOND CONVERSATION WE WERE HAVING AT THE NEXT QUARTER. 
          ANYTHING ELSE THAT WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT HERE? OF COURSE YOU CAN EMAIL ME OFFLINE AS WELL. 
          UM, CHAIR COSAR CAN WE HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT YOUR HAIR? CAUSE FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH, I DON'T THINK THAT WAS GOING ON AS COUNCIL MEMBER KITCHENS, EARRINGS. 
          I'M HERE FOR YOU LETTING IT GROW OUT. 
          I LIKE IT. 
          OTHERWISE, THANK YOU. 
          I APPRECIATE ALL THE ATTENTION THAT YOU'VE PUT TO THESE VERY IMPORTANT ITEMS THAT WE HAD TO DELIBERATE THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF THE MEETING. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH, CHAIR. 
          UM, MY COLLEAGUES ARE READY FOR SOME LUNCH THOUGH, SO I GOTTA GO. 
          SO I'M GOING TO RUN, BUT MY, MY VOTE IS IF WE'RE TAKING A VOTE, MY VOTE IS LET IT GROW, LET IT GROW. 
          I'LL, I'LL, I'LL TAKE AS MANY PRIVATE OR PUBLIC SUGGESTIONS AS PEOPLE AS PEOPLE WANT. 
          UH, SOMEONE ON THIS CALLS. 
          FAMILY MEMBER IS THE PERSON THAT CUTS MY HAIR. 
          AND SO, YOU KNOW, SHE MIGHT BE IMPACTED TOO. 
          UM, OKAY. 
          OTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE ITEMS? ALL RIGHT, WELL WITH THAT WE'LL ADJOURN HERE AT 12:07 PM. 
          THANK YOU EVERYONE. 
                
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