2019-01-24 (draft) Cost of Government Commission minutes

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Cost of Government Commission January 24, 2019 meeting minutes particular arrangement and on page 2 the recommendation number 2. And as the collaboration between a recommendation collaboration between Hawaii community college shield and service program and um the office of again in other works keimo followed up on this one and he was thinking that that might be a possibility I think if I remember it correctly he was looking at Hawaii community college taking the initiative to establish the program. What (?) human services to see if they can program they will see if they can provide a practical or a student. That a college student would be pared with a parent or senior and either for day interaction or maybe even for live in situation. But anyway the possibility of not occurring common cost for senior housing, we believe can be accomplished by this kind of collaboration so the cost to the county at the same time is going to provide service and assistance for the seniors, the growing number of seniors. I want to point out something that is really really important I was jumping all over the place. It says here. Jones: What page are you 1 or 2? Hopkins: go back to the first page I should have started there. Just know that the senior foster rating is growing. And so the percentages of growth is there. However if we say that nearly 40 up to 90% of undergraduates over 65 wish to remain in their homes as long as possible I think the county can facilitate that the preference. Not necessarily by providing the housing but means of collaborating with um (?) the house of seniors to stay in their homes. And so if you look at the department of housing and community development the recommendation number 3 and 4 yeah okay number 3 there is currently this county program called residential routare program. What it is and I didn’t put it down but what it is is for families by income qualify for a low interest rate so they can do repairs to their home. So in that recommendation is that um maybe the department of housing could recommend to the and I don’t know how these are done but to establish something similar for seniors that there will be a low interest rate program for seniors who want to do not necessarily repairs but changes to their homes to facilitate their physical ability and needs. So if the county does that then it is a good way of minimizing the cost of living for seniors that want to do this but also it relieves the panic of actually having to provide a physical facility the other one for the housing department is recommendation for, what we learned about mia who is the (?) when a developer submits their application to develop housing areas 20% of that has to be set aside for affordable housing and that mean affordable to families basically so what we are thinking is maybe the county could set aside 3-5% of that 20% for senior rental housing and for (?) so we don’t have the figures established because we only have 1 for the seniors but I think that a recommendation like this would be very very helpful not only to our growing senior population but to reduce the cost of any kind of financial break that the county might need to think about as the population continues to grow. (?) you want to add anything? (25:37): No good job! 7