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HCHA meeting <br />Eoff: Okay. <br />November 5, 2020 <br />Le: So as we wait for the presentation to come up I just want to acknowledge <br />the close partnership with the Office of Housing and Community Development <br />Administrator Hosaka, Deputy Administrator Hanselman and also Amy and the <br />whole staff who really work closely with us and you all to make today possible. <br />Eoff: Thank you. <br />Kanealii-Kleinfelder: Chair can we take a brief recess while we get the <br />documents up on the screen? <br />Eoff: Okay let's be in recess. Thank you. Let me know when you're ready. <br />Lee Loy: Chair? <br />Eoff: yes. <br />Lee Loy: I'm going to be excusing myself I have another matter to attend to <br />from 10 - 11. <br />Eoff: Okay. thank you. We received your note. <br />Lee Loy: Thank you. <br />**recess** <br />Aiello: Madam Chair were ready over here in Hilo. <br />Eoff: Okay. I'd like to take the meeting out of recess then and we'll go to the <br />presentation. <br />Le: So again good morning. Thank you for inviting us to be a part of this Hawaii <br />County Housing Agency to consider approval of the community development <br />block grant disaster recovery funding between the County and the Department <br />of Housing and Urban Development to support our recover from the 2018 <br />Klauea eruption. I want to be able to provide some of the key facts and the <br />considerations of what has been built into this process and also the action plan <br />itself and I'm happy to engage in questions and discussion afterwards. So <br />specific to the community development block grant for disaster recovery you <br />know the acronym goes by CDBG-DR it's a mouth full but I'll try to be clear as I <br />refer to it. Congress allocated funding to jurisdictions with federally declared <br />disasters in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Our allocation currently is at $83,841,000. As <br />Page 17 of 36 <br />