2021-09-07 HCHA Approved Minutes

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HCHA meeting Kunz: Thank you. September 7, 2021 Kierkiewicz: Thank you. Seeing as there are no other comments or questions, we have a motion on the floor to approve the PHA Annual Plan Amendments, all in favor please say aye, any opposed? Motion carries with eight aye votes. Thank you. On to the next item of business, Coronavirus Relief for Families Program Update, may I have a motion to close file on this presentation? Thank you, motion by Ms. Lee Loy, second by Mr. Kanealii-Kleinfelder, Administrator Kunz you have the floor. Kunz: Thank you so much for this opportunity to provide you some updates on the programs, you know, we've come before you with appropriation after appropriation for a lot of different programs in the last few months and I'm sure that a lot of this list of programs is somewhat familiar so I have two of my staff who are on Zoom who will be doing this presentation, Sharon Hirota who leads these programs, oversees all of these programs and all of her staff, Kelci Wandell out of Kona. So I'm going to allow them to present to you an update and maybe give you a little more information about how these programs are doing and what they're for. Sharon? Hirota: Hi. I'm sharing my screen, can you guys all see my Power Point presentation? Kierkiewicz: Yes, we can see it and we hear you perfectly. Hi Sharon. Hirota: Hi, good morning, Council Chair and members of the Housing Agency thank you very much for giving the Office Housing the opportunity to share the work that we're doing in the community in response to the Coronavirus pandemic. As Director said, thank you very much, we've been in and out of Council, Finance and appreciate our request to waive out of Finance and into Council to ensure that we meet deadlines given to us and I know it seems like it's always last minute but there are, it's more of a state government saying you need to do within an x amount of period of time and we try to be ahead of them so that the all resolutions and ordinances are in place when we receive the funding so again, I just want to say thank you, appreciate it. So today we're going to cover four different programs that we are currently administering, the Emergency Rent and I put in parenthesis and Utility Assistance Program, the Landlord/Tenant Mediation Program, our Financial Empowerment Center and then our proposed Homeowner Assistance Fund Program and this morning I'm very fortunate to have our partners on board with us by Zoom that would be sharing more in detail about the programs so first we, first off I have Jeff Gilbreth, Executive Director, Hawai `i Community Lending, who's with us this morning to share more details about our emergency rent and I always put in parenthesis utilities, people sometimes, we're learning, think that we're only helping them Page 19 of 34