2019-11-15 HCHA Approved Minutes

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Special HCHA meeting November 15, 2019 Kanealii-Kleinfelder: But...so it's up to the County to develop that plan and how we can help our small businesses recover... O'Neil: Right, yeah, yeah. HUD gives you perimeters of what you can do but the details of how you guys do it, what you actually do are up to you. Kanealii-Kleinfelder: Okay. And then. Has the State come to you and asked for funds for some of their state highways that were affected? Not at all? O'Neil: Not that I know of. Chandler: No they...they have not come to HUD for...besides that we allocate the monies based on the way congress tells us to allocate and the State is not in that pot. For our regular monies for CDBG and, absent of whatever the federal register notice says, I don't know that there in the pot right now its...that's what HUD headquarters will decide whose in the pot. Kanealii-Kleinfelder: Doesn't the funding usually go HUD to State to County? Chandler: If you're talking regular monies, regular monies in Hawai`i goes from Congress to HUD to the County's...Hawai`i, Kauai and Maui for CDBG money and Honolulu. For our other resources it does go to the State and then the State allocates out to the neighbor islands. (In audible) Eoff: oh, can you turn your mic on? O'Neil: It turned off again...sorry disaster funds go to designated grantees which is often a discussion between the State and Counties. Potential eligible grantees. More often than not HUD does fund to States but we do fund to Counties as well. Kanealii-Kleinfelder: Thank you. Thank you. Eoff: Thank you. Mrs. Kierkiewicz. Kierkiewicz: Thank you Chair. I guess it's a good thing that the federal register notice hasn't been published cause our consultants TetraTech is still working pretty actively to develop the action plan. Do you guys have any indication around when it could be published? I think we always get hints of its coming, its coming and then here we are...almost end of 2019. Page 26 of 31