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HCHA meeting <br />November 5, 2020 <br />Kierkiewicz: and the percentage of folks making comments? 100% impacted <br />area? or no? <br />Le: from the details that folks may have provided in their testimony or their <br />contact information, the vast majority of folks were in the impacted area. I can <br />think about 1 or 2 just from the comments we received that were not. <br />Kierkiewicz: Who or what exactly informed this program? I'm not saying I'm <br />against it, there's absolutely a need, I have been in conversations where in the <br />very same room, got people saying I want a buyout, others saying, you know <br />what ... I wanna move back ... that I can appreciate, were gunna agree to <br />disagree. But I'm just wondering whose informed this? because in the action <br />plan it also notes about the task force coming to a consensus around supporting <br />this. And in my interviews and follow up with task force members, I going be real <br />frank, they said we were caught off guard by this, we were given no heads up <br />that this was being published. So I just don't understand, are we just writing, oh <br />community's on board for the sake of writing it? to check the box for HUD? <br />Le: No, absolutely not. In terms of work with the task force specifically and the <br />question that was ... that you brought up around who informed? who was <br />engaged? In this decision right around the program so in terms of understanding <br />what types of housing solutions could be supported with the CDBG-DR funds we <br />looked at where folks had run buyout programs around the country, you know <br />with HUD support, success that they had but also challenges and things that <br />they learned from the process as well. That was a starting point. Another piece <br />was understanding, given the framework around policy and regulation, what <br />types of programs could be proposed with these specific funds. In the spring we <br />had a series of task force meetings where we took these building blocks and <br />brought them together because the building blocks really informed the choices <br />that we would then have to make. And where there was consensus on the task <br />force it was that around some of the key take aways, choosing to prioritizing low <br />and moderate income beneficiaries before we serve non low to moderate <br />income folks. Thinking about the opportunity around the future land ... use of and <br />management of these properties after people voluntarily get bought out. Really <br />what the program is trying to achieve and so consensus was more around, from <br />what we distilled from the taskforce and followed up and documented in our <br />meetings, was around the shape of the program that we ended up proposing <br />later in the summer. Taking all these pieces and bringing it together. I think that <br />whether the taskforce which is comprised of both community and county folks <br />all completely agree that this is the ... the solution for our recovery from this <br />event, I know that the profectors abroad just as they are in the community as <br />you have spoken to but is this one piece of the solution for families? Then, we <br />feel like it is and we did hear from community members about what this would <br />Page 27 of 36 <br />