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HCHA meeting April 6, 2021 <br />Kierkiewicz: Thank you. Motion by Mr. Kanealii-Kleinfelder, second by Ms. <br />Kimball. Any discussion? Seeing none. All those in favor please say aye. Any <br />opposed? Motion carries with five aye votes, sorry, I neglected to introduce <br />members of the agency that are here today. With us we have Mr. Inaba, Mr. <br />Kanealii-Kleinfelder, Ms. Villegas, Ms. Kimball, Ms. Lee Loy is excused, Mr. <br />Richards, Ms. David and Mr. Chung will be joining us later in the morning. My <br />name is Ashley Kierkiewicz and I am Chair of the Housing Agency. Thank you. <br />Moving on to business, New Business, if I could call up Administrator Kunz. First <br />item before us is Approval of the Public Housing Agency Plan for Housing Choice <br />Voucher (Section 8) Program for the Hawaii County. Can I have a motion to <br />approve please? <br />Inaba: So moved. <br />Kimball: Second. <br />Kierkiewicz: Thank you. Motion by Mr. Inaba, second by Ms. Kimball. <br />Administrator Kunz if you could please provide us an overview of this item. <br />Thank you. <br />Kunz: Good Morning everyone, good morning Chair and good morning <br />members of the Hawaii County Housing Agency. My name is Susan Kunz, I'm <br />the Housing Administrator for the Office of Housing and Community <br />Development. So, in order to meet the requirements of HUD federal mandates, <br />as the public housing agency for Hawaii County, the Office of Housing puts <br />together a five-year public housing agency plan. Our current five-year plan <br />covers the period of 2020 to 2024. What we're presenting to you today is the <br />Annual Plan which is against that five-year plan which explains our activities for <br />this current period which is 2020 - 21. 1 would like to introduce my staff and <br />they'll come up to provide you with some information about the plan. <br />Kierkiewicz: Thank you and just noting for the record that Mr. Richards has <br />joined us. Thank you. <br />Kunz: So I want to introduce Desiree Moore, she is the Manager for our Existing <br />Housing Division which manages our Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher <br />Program. <br />Moore: Good morning. So the PHA Plan described, like Susan says, the activities <br />that we have planned for this year and kind of a progress report. So since the <br />plan happened we did a renewal funding just last week which is 22 million <br />dollars to do, to provide rental subsidy to low income families for our regular <br />Housing Choice Voucher Program, our Foster Youth Program, Mainstream which <br />is the non -elderly, disabled category and for HUD Vash which is our veterans. <br />Page 2 of 15 <br />