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HCHA April 9, 2019 <br /> account. So the family although the income portion has increased, the subsidy <br /> stays the same and the balance goes back into account where they can use it <br /> later on to purchase a home hopefully. And it shows the number of graduates. <br /> It's a tough program but we star...we really starting to work on increase the <br /> numbers. Total we've paid about $462,742 I believe...I think over the last three <br /> years...five years?...the last five years this program has been in effect and the <br /> average escrow payment is $7,586. So it does try to help families purchase <br /> homes, more towards purchasing homes, while receiving rental assistance. <br /> Under the home ownership we provide payments for families which is between <br /> their mortgage payments and what the family can afford into an escrow <br /> account if their working. The balance, like I said, just like self-sufficiency goes into <br /> an escrow account which they can, after they graduate, can use to...towards <br /> their home...to purch...do whatever they need to do for their home. <br /> Under the grants management division which is headed by Alison Mukai and her <br /> staff we have different projects starting in 2015 and 2018. These are current and <br /> open where the projects are right now under...under way being, for example, <br /> like the West Hawaii Emergency Shelter certified kitchen, it near construction <br /> completion. We anticipate maybe in May getting it completed and the kitchen <br /> will be for, to help serve meals to the people at Hale Kikaha and the West <br /> Hawai`i Emergency Shelter in Kona. So the certified kitchen was part of our <br /> requirement because of health...Department of Health requirements that we <br /> cannot just cook, let anybody use the kitchens to cook, it has to be a certified <br /> kitchen, run by people qualified to be in the kitchen. <br /> And if you look down there, I believe Alison did a detailed explanation to you <br /> folks, we have all kind of...like two wild brush trucks...trucks, gym renovations <br /> and stuff like that. <br /> In 2019, this is sort like a wish list for 2019. We have these projects. Right now they <br /> total about $2,100,000 and administration another$500,000 so...but it can <br /> dep...it will also depend on what the President Trump approves and HUD <br /> issues...approves the budget for HUD, and they'll divvy up the monies to the <br /> different counties accordingly. <br /> Workforce Innovation like I say it provides training education for adult and <br /> dislocated workers who have been displaced or laid off. It also provides for <br /> youth, which is the ages of 16 to 25 educational and training opportunities for <br /> them. We also established American Job Center which is like supposed to be a <br /> one stop center, provide services for training. We having people like Wagner <br /> Peyser from the Department of...Workforce Development Division in Department <br /> of Labor also TNAF, Senior Employment, all those people supposed to be in this <br /> Page 7 of 22 <br />