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AHAC Minutes 06/20/2016MINUTES OF THE COLLIER COUNTY AFFORDABLE HOUSING ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING June 20,2016 Naples, Florida LET IT BE REMEMIIERED thal the Clollier County Allbrdablc flousing Advisory Committee met on this date at 8:00 AM in a IYORKING SESSION at 3299 Tuniami Trail East, Building F,3'd Floor, County Manager's Front Conference Room, Naples, Florida, with the following Members present: Present:Steve Hruby, Chair Taylor McLaughlin, Vice-Chair John Cowan Absent: Excused Mark Strain Kristi Bartlett Christina Apostolidis (in at 8:30) Carlos Portu Joseph Schmitt Litha Berger Denise Murphy ALSO PRESENI': Public PRESENT Barbara Melvin, First Florida Integrity Bank Mary Waller, NABOR Michael Puchalla, HDC of SWFL Jim Wamken, David Lawrence Center Anthony Dwyer, Real Estate Agent Maxine Kilburg Edward Morton Kim Grant, Director - Community and Human Services Barbetta Hutchinson, Operations Coordinator - CHS Jason Rummer - Operations Analyst - Public Services Amy Patterson - Director - Impact Fees Paula Fleishman Operations Analyst - Impact Fees I Cnll ro Onorn Chairman LIruby called the meeting to order at 8:08 am. Mr. Hruby read the procedures to be observed during the meeting. 2. Rot l Car,r. - Col,rnrrrrrp MEMBERS AND SrAFF With five members in attendance a quorum was not established at the beginning of the meeting, but when the 6th member arrived, a quorum was established. 3. Appnov,Ll oF AGENDA A. Approval of agenda. The group agreed upon the agenda with one addition to infbrmational items which was brief comment on the Sunshine laws. B. Approval of Minutes from April 25,2016. Although a quorum was not established at the beginning of the meeting, Christina Apostolidas arrived at 8:30 a.m. so John Cowan motioned to approve the minutes and Taylor Mclaughlin seconded. The vote was 6-0 to approve. 4. INFoRMA' oNAL ITEMS A. Kim told the group about the articles that were attached to the packet. There is some good information and some ideas for funding affordable housing including the generation of additional sales tax dollars. B. Kim reported that the charter document was approved by the BCC on June 14 and the Board agreed to select the members ola community-wide stakeholders group for the purpose of providing guidance and input from a broader community perspective. Kim plans on holding the first organizational meeting in July. Kristi Bartlett was asked to send Kim a list ofpeople in the young professionals and thejunior chamber that could be included in the group. In addition, two members of the AHAC will be asked to join the committee. Once a Chair is elected from the group, the Chair will attend the regularly scheduled AHAC meetings to report their progress. Besides the regular meetings, there will be a significant number of public meetings. We feel very strongly that the entire community should be involved in the discussions. c. Kim briefly mentioned the Sunshine Law. She told the group that they are prohibited to discuss anything that is or that may be a topic ofdiscussion for the AHAC outside a publicly advertised meeting. If staff sends out an email notification and asks for input, you should respond "only" to staffand should not send to anyone else on the committee You should not be in communication with another member of the committee outside publicly adve(ised meetings. ') C. Approval of Minutes from May 16,2016. Although a quorum was not established at the beginning of the meeting, Christina Apostolidas arrived at 8:30 a.m. so Taylor Mclaughlin motioned to approve the minutes and John Cowan seconded. Mark Strain abstained because he was not at this meeting, so the minutes will be moved to the next meeting on July 18. A. Denise Murphy was to present on Habitat, but was not present so the group moved the presentation to thc next meeting. B. Amy Patterson came to the meeting to explain whyimpact fees are the same for all single family dwellings up to 4,000SF when it had previously tiered below that level. Impact lees are rcviewed every three years and always use the most recent and localized data. After the latest review, the two lowest tiers were merged into one. This was done based on the objective data and study. A small percentage ofhomes were actually in the lowest level, and this solved another problem that was identified. That problem was that people who came in for permits to do work on their homes were discovering that they owed impact fees because the home was larger now than when the initial impact fee was assessed. Also, it was noted that just because the house is bigger, does not mean that more demand is generated. The BCC cannot pick certain categories for impact fee reduction at will. Instead, the committee and the BCC can look at other revenue sources to cover the impact fees such as using funding fiom an affordable housing trust fund. C. The Draft scope of services that will be sent out to the consultants was discussed by the group. Kim told the group that this is a general overview. Steve thinks that it is too statistics oriented. There needs to be a final end product identified such as strategies, develop solutions, and create procedures and best practices. They need to determine what we need to do to get to where we need to be. Suggestions should include dollar amounts oiwhat it would cost over time to implement that suggestion. The benefits should be both financial and social. We not only need to look at affordable housing, but at housing in general - both rental and individually owned properties. Make the suggestion that Naples could be the test case for the rest ofthe country - give the consultants reason to think outside the box and come up with innovative ideas and notjust the same plan that was used for other cities. Naples is unique and should be treated as such. Kim will revise the document and bring it to the next meeting and begin to prepare a presentation to the consultants to show what we need. Then, we would expect the consultants to give us a presentation on their findings and plan. Also, think about how we would evaluate the RFPs once they have been retumed. We need to ask for references and someone will be designated to investigate the references about ifthey were timely and on budget. We will also ask for a complete client list from all consultants to make sure there is no conflict of interest. 7. CouuE\r s - Sr..rrr/(lourr ITTEE NIT.uBER 5. PUBLIC CoNrmrxt: Mary Waller spoke about her vision for the outcome of the plan to be action oriented. 6. Drs( r ssro\ lr Elrs AND PRESE\TA] ro\s 1 Location: 5th Floor Training Room, Administration @uitding F) located et 3299 Tamiami Trail East. Coluon Couxry AFFoRDABLE HousrNc CoMMrrrf,E Chairman The foregoing Minutes were approved by Committee Chair on "as submitted' I I OR"as amended' l). 20r6, 4