2021-04-06 HCHA Approved Minutes

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HCHA meeting April 6, 2021 be doing the repairs for us, I believe there's a couple of staff members who are on Zoom today if you have any specific questions about that project. We are also going to be doing a project for again Ulu Wini Low Income Housing, it's a Certified Kitchen conversion project for a total of $495,500. Hale Ohana Domestic Abuse Shelter - Interior and Exterior Renovations for $225,760 and that's being awarded to the Child and Family Services and the last one is for the West Hawaii Domestic Abuse Shelter- Interior and Exterior Renovations, again, I'm sorry, for $157,225 to the Child and Family Services programs. There is also an allocation for administration, HUD allows us to take up to twenty percent of the allocation for administration, we are going to be utilizing five hundred thousand dollars of the total award which is about eighteen percent to cover the costs of staffing and running the programs. Any questions on that? Kierkiewicz: Administrator, could you just confirm, I mean, I thought a couple of years ago the allocation for this program was about 2.2 million... Kunz: This year it's going to be 2.6. Kierkiewicz: Oh, 2.6, ok. Any explanation for why the increase? Grateful for it, just curious. Kunz: Yeah, I don't have a calculation, so, every year they do a calculation for us but it usually runs somewhere, on the average, about 2.5 million dollars. Kierkiewicz: Great. Thank you. Kunz: The next list of projects is for our HOME Investment Partnership Program, so we are going to be running a Tenant Based Rental Assistance Program, we've been doing this for quite a few years, it's very similar to the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program but there is a limit of two years and we use it as kind of a gap funding for individuals to get subsidy on their rents. We are also going to be funding the Habitat for Humanity for some self-help housing, affordable home for Puna families, $450,000 and the last project is for the University Heights Home Reconstruction which we're kind of doing an in-house project on that one. So, we were, through an Executive Order, given a property located in the University Heights area, it's a single family home, kind of nestled in one of neighborhoods near the University, so, we're going to be working with some non -profits to see what we can do with that particular project. There is a home on it right now that's in very much in disrepair so we're going to see, we're going to be utilizing the funds to tear down the unit and then see what we can do to put something back and get a family in there. Housing Trust Fund, so we are funding two programs there, the West Hawai `i, West Kdwili Street Senior/Veteran Housing program for $2.3 million dollars and we will be doing a another University Heights reconstruction project for $400,000 and that's the same project that I Page 10 of 15