2020-11-05 HCHA Approved Minutes

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HCHA meeting November 5, 2020 Hosaka: Yes my staff have ... has been looking at the list and where possible we are pursuing, trying to get extra monies to our office. Kierkiewicz: Have you encountered any challenges in some of the requirements for some of these grant funds? Hosaka: Mainly it's the income levels of the participants so as long as we can qualify on the income side, most times we can get the monies. Kierkiewicz: Okay, and then I just wanted to check in on some of this CDBG-DR that's come in to support COVID. You talked about purchasing additional tablets or laptops for kids and families that are in different low income housing units, has that project been completed? Hosaka: That unfortunately, I guess because of the tablet demand, the tablets that we were traying to get, cause were asking for 900 tablets to use by the clients with school age children, that particular model was discontinued so we're in the process of getting a different model but we had to start the process all over again so its another 900 units, different model, but we had to ... because of the procurement, we couldn't use the old ... you know that old model number. Kierkiewicz: Sure. I appreciate the honesty and clarification. I'm just curious. So the laptops are going to be for the kids, not for the family? Hosaka: First set is for the kids. Kierkiewicz: Okay, and DOE wasn't providing any of these students devices? Hosaka: They have, I believe some of them are but were going to provide... Kierkiewicz: This helps to fill in the gap? Hosaka: Yes and its one per family so if there was a family with two or three children there going to get only one per family. Kierkiewicz: Okay. and then, do we kbkua the internet connectivity at these housing sites? Hosaka: No. Not at this time. They would have to provide their own internet access. Page 12 of 36