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HCHA meeting November 5, 2020 <br />Sako: There's many different audits throughout the course of this. We have to <br />actually we're mandated to hire an internal auditor specifically for this <br />prog... excuse me for this program. So there's a lot of different checks <br />throughout the way but we also know that Douglas and his team are going to <br />be monitoring it each month as applications come in. Because either there <br />gunna come in or there not. And so each step of the way they can be <br />monitoring to determine if this is the particular program to meet the unmet <br />housing needs or if we have to change it to meet them in another way. <br />Because you know right now the unmet housing needs are $239.5 million dollars <br />and you know we have 79.6 million going towards that so that still leaves a lot of <br />unmet housing needs. So its just in which way we can meet those need is really <br />the only decision we can make at this point in time. <br />Kierkiewicz: And I'm taking a look at that same matrix and it talks about <br />economic development and very, very little available to support that and I <br />really truly believe that if we build up our economy people will have housing. <br />Sako: And I don't think anyone disagrees but right now the way the Federal <br />Register Notice is written we have to apply it to housing first. This particular pot of <br />money has to be applied that way. <br />Kierkiewicz: How is this plan aligning with our general plan? And which version of <br />the general plan? The existing one or the one in draft? <br />Le: So in terms of how it addresses housing patterns, right? and where <br />development currently is and the shift that we anticipate with voluntary <br />participation in this buyout program, there is over all alignment, I mean I think <br />we you know we could have a phone conversation about the specific cross <br />checks on it. We have been looking at the current existing general plan in terms <br />of those points of alignment even as the update to the general plan worked its <br />way through. But it is I think a lot of the takeaways and this recovery process <br />right was started with even the CDP action committee as well in terms of <br />alignment around finding opportunities in town centers for economic growth, <br />access to services, thinking about farms and agriculture and other types of <br />economic activity that could grow in the district. As well as looking at housing <br />and settlement patterns. I think one thing I didn't bring up earlier but was a <br />consideration it is a choice that other grantees have made is to build a brand <br />new neighborhood and to have folks who may have been displaced to move <br />to that neighborhood. Like a county building a subdivision. I think one of ... and its <br />discussed in the action plan as an alternative, I think one of the key <br />considerations, or several considerations essentially was around individual <br />choice in this whole process, right, in terms of providing options for folks which <br />we feel access to the resources from this buyout program will enable. One other <br />piece was around just the costs for that scale development in whether the <br />Page 29 of 36 <br />