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AHAC Minutes 04/13/2015 ,zOi5 t Byt MINUTES OF THE COLLIER COUNTY AFFORDABLE HOUSING ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING April 13, 2015 Naples, Florida LET IT BE REMEMBERED that the Collier County Affordable Housing Advisory Committee met on this date at 3:30 PM in WORKING SESSION at Community and Human Services Conference Room 216, 3339 Tamiami Trail East, Naples, Florida, with the following Members present: Present: Steve Hruby, Chair Christian Davis, Vice Chair Michael Bohaychyk Mark Strain John Cowan Absent: Irma Miller Excused: Clyde Quinby Shaun McManus ALSO PRESENT: Kim Grant, Director—Housing and Human Services Elly Soto McKuen, Senior Grant and Housing Coordinator Jason Rummer—Operations Analyst—Public Services Public PRESENT: David Weeks, Growth Management Department Michele Mosca, Growth Management Department Angela Fisher, Collier County Hunger and Homeless Coalition 1. CALL TO ORDER The chair called the meeting to order at 3:30pm. With five members in attendance,there was not a quorum. Mr. Hruby read the procedures to be observed during the meeting. April 13,2015 2. ROLL CALL—COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND STAFF A quorum was not established. Clyde Quinby and Shaun McManus were asked to be excused.One member was absent: Irma Miller. 3. APPROVAL OF AGENDA AND MINUTES A. Approval of today's agenda Since there were only five members present,the Chair asked for a general consensus to approve the agenda. Mr. Davis agreed with the Chair to approve the agenda. 4. INFORMATION ITEMS There were no information items. 5. PUBLIC COMMENT Mark Hahn, a local social worker, spoke about the Board workshop. He asked the committee to consider all forms of senior housing while reviewing recommendations to develop more affordable housing in the community. He suggested nursing homes,assisted living facilities,rental apartments for seniors, etc. He also suggested when working on incentives perhaps there could be an incentive for developers to construct elderly and special needs housing and/or fund local non-profit organizations to assist with the needs of the elderly. 6. DISCUSSION ITEMS AND PRESENTATIONS A. SHIP Incentive Review and Recommendation Report Ms. Grant provided an overview of the SHIP Report. Every three years,the State requires Community and Human Services(CHS)to review the County Incentives to ensure affordable housing incentives are in place. Ms. Grant explained the timeline for this project. Between April and October,the committee will work with CHS staff to identify and finalize affordable housing incentives. No later than December, CHS will take the recommendations to the Board of County Commissioners and will submit the final adopted report to Florida Housing Finance Corporation. Vice Chair Davis expressed a desire to have the full committee review the recommendations instead of forming a subcommittee and to dedicate the next 3 to 4 meetings specifically to the development of incentives. Chairman Hruby discussed that during the new few meetings other issues may arise, such as suggesting changes to the Land Development Code,Best Practices and more clarification of processes. Vice Chair Davis asked those in attendance if they would entertain a different time for the AHAC to meet. After a brief discussion of calendars,it was agreed to re- schedule the following meetings instead of the regular Monday meetings: Friday,May 15,2015; 8am to loam Friday,June 12,2015; 8am to loam Friday,July 17,2015; 8am to 10am Friday,August 14,2015; Sam to loam 2 April 13,2015 CHS staff will identify a centrally located meeting space and advise the committee and interested persons. It was further discussed to set up a Drop Box so CHS staff and committee members could send information to all regarding the research that will be entailed for the incentive report. Some examples of information that will be included in the Drop Box would be Best Practices, affordable housing information from other jurisdictions,housing tax credit information, impact fee waiver information, density bonus, applicable Land Development Code for affordable housing. It was suggested to reach out to others in the community that could assist in/or have an interest in the development of affordable housing incentives. Some suggestions were: Housing,Education, Lending Programs(formally Housing Development Corporation of SW Florida) United Way Collier County Public Schools Growth Management Department Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce Vice Chair Davis asked that during the development of the incentives the committee identify more defined descriptions of the incentives to provide performance measures with each of the incentives. Those committee members in attendance agreed. B. Affordable Housing Model and Future Action Ms. Grant gave an overview of the March 3 workshop. Chair Hruby and Vice Chair Davis, along with Ms. Grant,presented to the BCC all the information that had previously been reviewed by the AHAC. The Board was in general support of the issue and recommended that CHS staff bring an item to a formal Board meeting for ratification. They were in general support of the recommendation identified in the presentation, i.e. adopt the methodology identified as the housing model,retain density bonus program, and impact fee deferrals. Ms. Grant indicated CHS will follow the Board's request to bring the issue back to them before they break for summer. After a general discussion among the committee members, Ms. Grant explained there has been a lot of interest from the community to get copies of the presentation. CHS staff has distributed the presentation to all that have inquired. In addition, Ms. Grant advised the committee that the Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce would be discussing affordable housing at their April 17 Public Policy Meeting. Ms. Grant was invited to give a brief presentation to the Chamber. She urged all that could attend would be welcome at the Chamber meeting. C. AHAC member,Mike Bohaychyk,Presentation 3 Mr. Bohaychyk began his presentation by explaining that the Cocohatchee PUD will be on the Board's April 14 agenda for reconsideration. He continued by reviewing Resolution 2007-203 with the committee. The resolution established a voluntary donation for affordable-workforce housing. There was a general discussion regarding the collection of funds and the eventual decision to stop collecting and return the funds to the developer by the Board. 7. COMMENTS--STAFF/COMMITTEE MEMBER Mr.Davis brought up the issue of not having a quorum at the meetings. He, along with the other members in attendance asked staff to review the quorum section in the AHAC ordinance to see if there would be a possibility to amend the language to make it easier to establish a quorum at the meetings. Ms. Grant said staff would look into the issue and provide feedback and recommendations to change the ordinance at the next meeting. NEXT MEETING: Regular Meeting: Friday,May 15,2015; 8:00am to 10:00am There being no further business for the good of the County,the meeting was adjourned at 5:08 PM. OLLIER COUNTY AFFORDABLE ■ 0 USING Al) /20 'Y COMMITTEE Ilk ep 1 •n ruby/ hairman The foregoing M' utes were approved by Committee Chair on 04- 30( , 2015, "as submitted" OR"as amended" ( 1. 4