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

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Cost of Government Commission January 24, 2019 meeting minutes Jones: I have a question on recommendation number 4 on page 1 under department of health and community development. Are you saying that this 3-5% would be built with seniors in mind so they are already (?) with things like Rams and Hopkins: Yeah Jones: so that 3-5% is going to be at a higher cost for the developer. That small amount that would really help. Hopkins: Yes it would be encouraged by the developer obviously but that is a kind of deal that you make with the developer who developers don’t go into the pacific to be a non-profit developer. So I am sure they are going to look at the cost but the facility the housing combination would have to have the graph bars and stuff like that and probably be on the first floor so they don’t have to travel by stairs or elevator so anyway right now 20% that is a nice figure for affordable housing so even if this 2-5% is part of the 20% or you tack it off so you now have 23%-25% for the population of this kind of access Allen: Question, do seniors do they tap into the section 8 system Hopkins: you know what section 8 is based on income and I think that some of them do because I think I didn’t include some of them there are vouchers as well so we probably should add that. I am going to check up with (?) on section 8 because when we talked to him it was like section 8 would be for the family but it could probably include seniors we need to verify that but that is a good question. (27:52): For one of the things to that we are thinking about it this report is really based on the needs of those who need housing as renters but we also know that there is older people with family members on feasible properties where there may be buildings structures added to that housing which is not certified by the county, so that is another problem, so that is another situation of housing that we did not get into because another thing when I read Wilbert Lee’s comments a few days ago using copy planner he is talking about people who updated old housing but the add-ons are not county approval and are renting so I thought oh yeah I been here a long time I know a lot of people who live like that on feasible properties yes and so our research did not get into that aspect (29:06): That is a lot of garages that has an elder (29:09): Yeah all for extra space for it. And that is kind of easy to do when your living you know? Were we live on the big island. Jones: any other questions for the senior welfare healthcare committee? (29:33): and we did not get through the education part because when we, ok very good. Because the news is telling me they say “hey!” that is a state. So we said ok. And I got to thank Barbara the is such a scarlet. Thank you 8