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121 <br />Big island Housing Foundation EQUAt. <br />E Komo Mai, Kamana, Keaau, Papa'atba Riverside & Waimea. <br />.6,88 Kinoote, #102, Hilo, HI 96720 Ph: 969.3327 Fax; %9.7608 TDD!71.1 email: bihf@bJqislandh0L1sing,..coi-n <br />IFebruary 2017 NEWS -OF THE CORPORATIONS 1st. Quarter 201 <br />BIG ISLAND .HO USING FOUNDATION. <br />B.IH:F- EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR <br />Bi <br />.g Island Housing Fbu.ndaton welcomes new <br />Executive Director Susan Akiyama. Ms:., Akiyarna <br />started on February 1", 1017. Ms. Akiyama -served as <br />Director of the County Office of Housing. and <br />Community bevetopment in Hilo, overseeing several <br />departments including the Section 8progtarn. <br />Delene K. Osori.o,. who has. served as Executive <br />Ditector/Property'Manager since, Y2001,., will remain as <br />the Principal Broker and will provide oversight. White <br />Ms. Akiyama assumes the -da 'y to day operations of -the <br />company. BIHF is pleased to have both such. 'highly <br />qualified personnel! <br />BI:H:Fl BOARD MEETINGS <br />.. <br />On Februory,23F2017 quarterly Board Meetings. were <br />held for Big Island Houting Foundation; Kinoo(O" <br />Kea'au Ho' using Fo'undation: <br />I Inc.; Papa'alba. Housing, <br />Inc, -, RIHF Riverside Community Based Nonprofit <br />Corp. Waimea Housing Foundation'. <br />Inc. and <br />wa,ikolo.a Housing Foundation. All were regular Board <br />Meetings. Pres'ent at the meeting(s) were Richard <br />Tote. <br />do Jr., President; Am 0 <br />Amy Honda, Vice President; <br />Pearl Karg, e Mary <br />..g, Secretary; Donn Mende, Treasurer; <br />Be Jer, Director*,., and Mary Finley, Director, Also in <br />attendance were Principal Broker Delene K Osorio, <br />Executive tive Director Susan Akiyama and Admin. <br />,Assistant Mari Kubo. <br />�K - A-MANA'S BOARD MEETING <br />On February 21' 2017 Kamana, Kaana, Inc:, held its Board <br />Meet . ing. Present at the meeting were:, Richard. <br />Toledo., Jr.., President, Steven. Gray., Treasurer and <br />Gale Takeya, Secretary. <br />Biff"s TO SITES <br />HOLIDAY FUNDS <br />Big island stand: Housing Foundation donated hotiday funds to <br />its managed complexes as. it does every year. The <br />projects used the funds toward. Holiday gatherings or <br />goody bags. <br />.E KOMO MAI <br />Of It ANNUAL lKicDcr-rin QIUC kn]A A "ni <br />well as new Residents attended; the weather was <br />beautifdt;everyone had a good. time:. <br />"a Holiday Lukh...,. <br />Photos by AnnetteRivera <br />,KAMANA ELDERLY <br />CONTRACT* FUNDING - EFF, 2/1.:`/2-017.: CMS <br />contracted by. the U.S'approved Dept of HUb—. a- V <br />ed an <br />Automatic OCAF increase for rents`. Effoctive 211/17, <br />rents increasedfrom $840. to $856 per unitThe Utility <br />Allowance: remains .$81 permonth. <br />20 -YEAR HAP CONTRACT: U00660 :Hilo.7. LP the <br />Owners of Kamana E(derty,:ar6 suibiWtting'.a request to <br />HUD for a 107Year renewal of the ,,Se ct tion 8 'Contract, <br />Approval by HUD would extend of: affordable <br />rents at the complex. <br />HOLIDAY CHEER:! <br />Interim Resident Manager Lance <br />used the: HolidayFunds; unds. :from B . ig: island Housing <br />Foundation to gifteac.h.:Res.14nt. with "a holiday card <br />and cookies:. . Big I island Giving T . ree gifted i, each <br />am.2 <br />Resident With fruits and a jar of strawberry- i"* <br />nn <br />Inspections :of all. units at E Komo Mai on February 6th KEAW ELDERLY <br />and 1.3t', 2017. An Inspection of the exterior was done HOLIDAY DINNER. Residents at Kea'au Elderly *held a <br />on February 17th. potluck- dinner on January- 7th, 2017. All Residents <br />HOLIDAY LUNCH. Residents at E Komo Mai held a <br />potluck tunch on January 17t', 2017 at the gazebo See Article on Big Island Giving Tree on pg. 3 <br />located. between the buildings. Long-time Residents as <br />Blgjstdnd Housinq Foundation does not discriminate on the basis of disability status inthe admission or access to, <br />or treatment or employment in, its federally assisted programs and. activities. 81HF is an Equal 0ppor ut pity Provider 4ridEmployer, <br />;.:. <br />Page 1 of 3 <br />