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HCHA meeting <br />Moore: You're welcome. <br />September 7, 2021 <br />Kunz: The last adjustment to the Plan is to add the Emergency Housing Voucher <br />Program, outline for that program and if you remember I came before this body, <br />I think we went to Finance Committee and the Council, we received 110 <br />emergency housing vouchers and about $1.1 million from HUD to run this <br />program, so we're adding this program to our Plan. Are there any questions? <br />Kierkiewicz: Ms. Lee Loy. <br />Lee Loy: Susan, thank you for being just so comprehensive. I wanted to walk <br />back to the purge to the wait list, cause there's conversations around the wait <br />list, if it's not used that there is a 15 day, right, there's a notice, you're on the <br />purge list, 15 days for an applicant to respond, it the letter is returned then there <br />is an additional 15 days, I just want to understand where that's coming from, it <br />that coming out of the HUD guidelines? <br />Kunz: It is coming out of the HUD guidelines, and I am going to call on Des <br />because we've been meeting pretty regularly with HUD and we're actually <br />been advised to lessen that period, that response period. So Des you want to <br />talk about that a little bit. <br />Moore: Okay, so an applicant, once they're selected off of the wait list, has 10 <br />days to respond and historically, in the past, if they did not respond we would <br />send out an automatic appointment for 10 days later, it was recommended by <br />HUD that we shorten the time and do not allow the second appointment. If <br />they applied, especially recently right, we opened the waiting list in March, and <br />they are not responding to the selection, then we should move on so that we <br />can help others. And we will, with an exception, if they call us after the period, <br />and there's good cause or they are disabled, we will review the denial, so there <br />is a grievance process. <br />Lee Loy: There's a process. Great. Thank you, Chair, I yield. <br />Kierkiewicz: Thank you. Mr. Kanealii-Kleinfelder. <br />Kanealii-Kleinfelder: Thank you, Chair. Thanks Susan and your department. <br />Couple of questions, for the residency, can you touch on that a little bit more, <br />I'm getting that people from out of state can apply and if you're granted funds <br />you can also take those, the voucher and apply it anywhere even outside of the <br />state? <br />Page 6 of 34 <br />