AHAC Agenda 03/02/2020Collier County
Affordable Housing Advisory Committee (AHAC)
AGENDA
March 2, 2020 8:30A.M.
3303 Tamiami Trail East (Main Government Complex)
5th Floor Meeting Room – Building "F"
AHAC COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Steve Hruby, AHAC Chairman
John Cowan, AHAC Member
Mary Waller, AHAC Member
Litha Berger, AHAC Member
Christina Apostolidis, AHAC Member
Sheryl Soukup, AHAC Member
Justin Emens, AHAC Member
Jennifer Mitchell, AHAC Member
Planning Commission Member- Vacant
Denise Murphy, AHAC Member
Gary Hains, AHAC Member
COLLIER COUNTY STAFF
Kristi Sonntag, Director, Community and Human Services
Cormac Giblin, Housing, Grant Development, and Operations Manager
Susan Golden, Sr. Housing and Grants Coordinator, CHS
Hilary Halford, Sr. Housing and Grants Coordinator, CHS
Barbetta Hutchinson, Operations Coordinator, CHS
NOTICE: ALL PERSONS WISHING TO SPEAK ON ANY AGENDA ITEM MUST REGISTER PRIOR TO SPEAKING.
ALL REGISTERED SPEAKERS WILL RECEIVE UP TO THREE (3) MINUTES UNLESS THE TIME IS ADJUSTED BY
THE CHAIRMAN. DURING COMMITTEE DISCUSSION, COMMITTEE MEMBERS MAY ASK DIRECT QUESTIONS
TO INDIVIDUALS. PLEASE WAIT TO BE RECOGNIZED BY THE CHAIRMAN AND STATE YOUR NAME AND
AFFILIATION FOR THE RECORD BEFORE COMMENTING.
IF YOU ARE A PERSON WITH A DISABILITY WHO NEEDS ACCOMMODATION IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN
THIS MEETING, YOU ARE ENTITLED, AT NO COST TO YOU, THE PROVISION OF CERTAIN ASSISTANCE.
PLEASE CONTACT THE COLLIER COUNTY FACILITIES MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT. ASSISTED LISTENING
DEVICES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED ARE AVAILABLE IN THE COUNTY COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE.
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1. CALL TO ORDER & PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
2. ROLL CALL OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND STAFF
3. APPROVAL OF AGENDA AND MINUTES
a. Approval of today’s agenda
b. Approval of Feb 3, 2020 AHAC Regular meeting minutes
4. INFORMATIONAL ITEMS
a. Grant Application Cycle- Review and Ranking Committee Meeting March 5, 2020
d. Marketing and Education Update- Quest Communications
5. PUBLIC COMMENT
a. Persons wishing to speak must register prior to speaking. All registered speakers will
receive up to three (3) minutes unless the time is adjusted by the Chairman.
6. DISCUSSION ITEMS AND PRESENTATION
a. Local Housing Trust Fund Funding Sources Subcommittee Discussion
1. Issues identified
2. Work completed to date
3. Upcoming Schedule
b. Recommended Draft of Board Policy for Public Benefit Regarding Future Comprehensive
Growth Management Plan Amendments
7. STAFF AND COMMITTEE GENERAL COMMUNICATIONS
a. Upcoming Meetings or Actions
1. FY2020-21 Grant Application Review and Ranking Committee March 5, 2020
8. ADJOURN
NEXT AHAC MEETING DATE: April 6, 2020, 8:30A.M.
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Packet Pg. 9 Attachment: AHAC Meeting Agenda - March 2, 2020 (12054 : Affordable Housing Advisory Committee - March 2, 2020)
MINUTES OF THE COLLIER COUNTY
AFFORDABLE HOUSING ADVISORY COMMITTEE
February 3, 2020
8:30 A.M.
Naples, Florida
LET IT BE REMEMBERED that the Collier County Affordable Housing Advisory Committee met on this
date at 8:30 A.M. in a WORKING SESSION in the Health Building 2nd Floor Conference Room in Naples,
Florida, with the following Members present:
Present: Mary Waller
Litha Berger
Justin Emens
Denise Murphy
Jennifer Mitchell
Christina Apostolidis
Gary Hains
Unexcused:
Excused: Joseph Schmitt
Sheryl Soukup
John Cowan
Steve Hruby
ALSO PRESENT: Cormac Giblin, Manager, Housing & Grant Development – CHS
Kristi Sonntag, Director CHS
Susan Golden, Sr. Grants Coordinator - CHS
Hilary Halford, Sr. Grants Coordinator - CHS
Barbetta Hutchinson, Operations Coordinator - CHS
OTHERS PRESENT: Donald Pickworth and Mike Prioletti, CC Housing Finance; John Harney, Habitat;
Katrina Lin, Clerk’s Office; John Lerdahl, Gorman & Company.
1. CALL TO ORDER
In the absence of Steve Hruby, Denise Murphy motioned that Mary Waller act as Chair and run the
meeting. Justin Emens seconded, and the group voted 7-0 in favor. Mary called the meeting to
order at 8:32 a.m. Litha Berger led in in the Pledge of Allegiance, and Mary read the procedures to
be followed.
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2. ROLL CALL – COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND STAFF
There were 7 active members present, therefore a quorum was established.
3. APPROVAL OF AGENDA AND MINUTE
a. A motion was made to approve the agenda by Litha Berger and seconded by Justine Emens.
The motion passed by a vote of 7-0.
b. A motion was made by Jennifer Mitchell to approve the minutes from the meeting of
January 6, 2020 and seconded by Justin Emens. The motion was passed with a vote of 7-0.
4. INFORMATIONAL ITEMS
a. Sean Callahan and Geoff Willig attended the meeting in the place of Nick Casalanguida to
discuss the new Naples Sports Park and give the group an update of the AUIR. They showed
a video of the AUIR process and explained that we need to be prepared for the growth that is
expected in the next few years. They showed maps of the new sports complex and explained
that growth is moving away from coastal areas and we need to prepare. The sports complex
has 19 fields, a championship stadium and a large amphitheater that will include bars, food
trucks, music and various types of shows. This sports park that will be professionally operated
and not be manned by county staff. Also of note was that the Golden gate Golf Course is
being considered of a golf and entertainment component as well to include affordable
housing and a veteran’s nursing home. This probably will go to the BCC next month. One of
the members asked for the slides that were presented. Geoff said he will send them to
Cormac to distribute to the group.
b. Recent BCC actions:
1. The RLSA Workshop was held. The meeting lasted all morning and the group discussed
all of the changes over the past 20 years.
2. Rivergrass was approved with a vote of 3 to 2 after many speakers were heard. The
transportation staff and the developer have worked out the right-of-way issues. The
developer will provide $500,000 to the Community Foundation to ensure essential
personnel housing is available for 12 years. The group thought the $500,000 should have
gone to the Housing Trust Fund.
3. Comprehensive Growth Management Plan Amendments – the group discussed if there
was any interest in looking at a public benefit policy for future Comp Plan Amendments.
Litha Berger motioned to work on this as a project, Denise Murphy seconded and a vote
of 7-0 was taken in favor of working on the project. Cormac will do some work on it and
bring it to a future meeting.
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c. Grant Application Cycle – Applications are due into our office on February 10, 2020 by noon.
There has been technical assistance given to about 30 organizations, ending up with about 38
individual applications. There is a total of $11.5 million in requests with a $80 million benefit.
We only have less than $3 million in available funding.
d. The Quarterly Apartment Rental Listing was reviewed. As expected, availability has gone
down in all categories since last quarter.
5. PUBLIC COMMENT
There were no registered speakers.
6. DISCUSSION ITEMS
a. AHAC membership size and composition – Cormac has been working with the CAO who
has determined that it would be less complicated to create an independent auxiliary
group of 5-7 large employers who could meet quarterly to come up with ideas to address
affordable housing. The Chamber does a survey every year regarding the number of
employees, wage rates, where do they live, etc. Denise Murphy will talk to the Chamber
and Jenifer Mitchell will speak to the League of Women Voters to see if they can work
together to form a new group.
b. Local Housing Trust Fund Discussion:
a. Susan Golden told the group that the Subcommittee met in January for their
initial discussion. The members from the AHAC on the subcommittee are Mary
Waller, Sheryl Soukup, Litha Berger and Mike Prioletti from CCFA.
b. Don Pickworth and Mike Prioletti from the Collier County Finance Authority told
the group that their organization can help issue tax exempt bonds for multi-family
housing. They currently don’t see many applications.
c. The sub-committee will meet on February 18, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. and March 10,
2020 at 2:00 p.m. Susan will send out a memo with the dates to the
subcommittee members. In May they will bring recommendations to the AHAC
of possible funding sources. The recommendations will go to the BCC in June.
7. STAFF AND GENERAL COMMUNICATIONS
a. The grant application cycle closes on February 10, 2020. The review and rank committee
will be hearing from us regarding upcoming meetings.
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8. ADJOURN
a. There being no further business for the good of the County, Litha Berger motioned to adjourn the
meeting; Denise Murphy seconded, and the group agreed with a vote of 7-0. The meeting adjourned
at 9:40 a.m.
NEXT MEETING: THE NEXT MEETING WILL BE HELD MARCH 2, 2020 AT 8:30 A.M.
Location: 5th Floor Training Room, Administration (Building F) located at 3299 Tamiami Trail East.
COLLIER COUNTY AFFORDABLE HOUSING ADVISORY
COMMITTEE
_________________________________
Stephen Hruby, Chairman
The foregoing Minutes were approved by Committee Chair on ______________________, 2020, “as
submitted” [__] OR “as amended” [__].
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Packet Pg. 13 Attachment: AHAC Meeting Agenda - March 2, 2020 (12054 : Affordable Housing Advisory Committee - March 2, 2020)
FY 2020 - 2021 HUD, SHIP & Housing Trust Fund Application and Action Plan Timeline
January 3, 2020 Release Application Online
January 8, 2020 Public mtg & TA 3:30-4:30 Golden Gate Comm Center - Room C
January 22 - 24, 2020 1:1 Required T/A mtgs (3 days)
February 10, 2020 Application Deadline @ 12/noon
February 21, 2020 Applications provided to Review & Ranking Committee (Neighborly)
March 5, 2020 Review Ranking Committee Interviews & Scoring of Applications
March 17, 2020 Final projects/activities list approved
March 24-25, 2020 Conditional Approval letters sent to applicants/subrecipients
March 30-April 15, 2020 Grant Coordinators & subrecipients finalize scope of services, beneficiaries, etc
April 20, 2020 Subrecipient Agreements finalized and submitted CAO
May 19, 2020 Upload Subrecipient Agreements in Minute Traq for 6/25 BCC meeting
June 23, 2020 BCC Approval of FY 2020-21 Action Plan & Projects/Activities
Draft 11/26/2019
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Grant Application Summary 2020-2021
#Case ID#Name Accomplishment Type Source Total Funding
Request
1 13686 Boys & Girls Club of Collier County- Immokalee Campus Fence Public Facilities CDBG $100,000
2 13680 Boys & Girls Club of Collier County- Transportation People CDBG-PS $100,000
3 13695 CCHA- Collier County Duplex Upgrade HVAC Impact Windows installation Households CDBG $100,000
4 13684 CCHA- HVAC Installations Section AB Households CDBG $500,000
5 13692 CCHA- Rental Housing Acquisition Households CDBG $650,000
6 13676 Children's Advocacy Center of Collier County- Family Safety Program People CDBG-PS $95,005
7 13693 City of Naples- Goodlette Rd Crosswalk Safety Public Facilities ESG $55,000
8 13685 Collier County Hunger & Homeless Coalition- ESG People ESG $50,000
9 13636 Collier County Hunger & Homeless Coalition- HMIS People ESG $50,000
10 13699 Collier County Hunger & Homeless Coalition- Transitional Housing People ESG $200,000
11 13697 Collier County Hunger & Homeless Coalition- Youth Scholarships People CDBG-PS $450,000
12 13651 Collier County MPO- Peters Ave Sidewalk People CDBG $389,085
13 13671 CRA Bayshore- Fire Suppression Ph4 Households CDBG $300,000
14 13669 CRA Immokalee- Sidewalk Improvements - Eustis Avenue Public Facilities CDBG $300,000
15 13638 FL Star- New Construction Assistance Home Units SHIP $400,000
16 13660 Guadalupe Social Services Center- Building Expansion People CDBG $500,000
17 13688 Habitat for Humanity of Collier County, Inc.- Whitaker Woods Development Households CDBG $1,000,000
18 13696 HELP- Caretaker Residences for the Collier County Sports Complex People LHTF $160,000
19 13647 HELP- Comprehensive Housing Counseling People CDBG-PS $94,000
20 13662 HELP- Purchase Assistance Households SHIP $300,000
21 13682 Immokalee Fire Control District- Stations #30 Construction Public Facilities CDBG $1,000,000
22 13635 LeeCorp Homes- Demo/ Replace Home Units SHIP $500,000
23 13639 Legal Aid Service of Collier County- Services to Victims People CDBG-PS $187,489
24 13641 NAMI Collier County- ESG Rapid Re-housing People ESG $30,000
25 13666 NAMI Collier County- Supportive Housing Specialist People ESG $40,000
26 13667 NAMI Collier County- TBRA People HOME $20,000
27 13670 New Horizons- Super Kids Club: Tutoring and Mentoring for At-Risk Children People CDBG-PS $100,000
28 13698 Residential Options of Florida (ROOF)- CHDO Operating Home Units HOME $50,000
29 13658 Residential Options of Florida (ROOF)- Freedom Landings Land Aquis Home Units CDBG $849,000
30 13674 Residential Options of Florida (ROOF)- HOME TBRA Households HOME $50,000
31 13672 Rural Neighborhoods- Casa Amigos Rental New Construction Home Units HOME $325,000
32 13694 Rural Neighborhoods- Eden Park/Esperanza Place Community Center Public Facilities CDBG $400,000
33 13677 Shaping Masterpieces- Special Needs Summer Camp & After School Program People CDBG-PS $50,000
34 13668 Sunrise Community of Southwest Florida, Inc.- "Shelter to Thrive" - Renovations Public Facilities CDBG $91,209
35 13649 Sunrise Community of Southwest Florida, Inc.- Free to be Me People CDBG-PS $98,183
36 13652 The Shelter for Abused Women & Children - Emergency Shelter Operations People ESG $115,000
37 13632 Vanderbilt Way Apts- Rental New Construction Households SHIP $250,000
38 13659 Wounded Warriors of Collier County- Rental Acquisition Home Units CDBG $350,000
39 13640 Youth Haven- Therapeutic Recreational Area for At-Risk Children Public Facilities CDBG $423,247
TOTALS $10,722,218
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Memorandum
To: Leo Ochs, County Manager
From: Cormac Giblin, Housing & Grant Development Manager
Through: Steve Carnell, Public Services Department Head
Date: March 2, 2020
Subject: Affordable Housing Advisory Committee Request- Future GMP Amendments
CC: Nick Casalanguida, Deputy County Manager
Kristi Sonntag, Director Community and Human Services
______________________________________________________________________________
At their regular March 2, 2020 meeting, the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee (AHAC) passed the
following motion and requested that it be shared with the Board of County Commissioners.
On the subject of BCC Approval of Future Site-Specific Amendments to the Collier County Growth
Management Plan (GMP) -
The AHAC is concerned with the number and frequency of Growth Management Plan amendments that
are being sought by developers and approved by the Board of County Commissioners. Oftentimes these
requested amendments are designed to solely entitle one particular development with development
rights that exceed those that are otherwise available under the current GMP. The AHAC feels that the
GMP should be the controlling document governing the future of development in Collier County, and that
any changes requested to be made to it should also result in a corresponding tangible public benefit for
the citizens of Collier County.
A public benefit of may come in a variety of forms. Examples may include future road right-of-way
dedication, additional preserve or open space commitments, reservation of land for needed
infrastructure, or the provision of housing that is affordable.
The AHAC recommends that the Board of County Commissioners adopt the following policy to guide
decision making and seek public benefit in future GMP amendments:
In order to achieve the goals of the Growth Management Plan of Collier County, and
specifically the Goals and Objectives of the Housing and Future Land Use Elements, the
Board of County Commissioners should endeavor to seek public benefit from future GMP
amendment requests that seek to entitle residential projects by requiring a set aside of
10% of the total requested units as Affordable Housing (less than 80%AMI) and 10% of
the total requested units as Workforce Housing (less than 120%AMI). Should the provision
of Affordable or Workforce Housing within the new development not be possible, the
goals of this policy may be met by addressing housing affordability through a donation of
land or funding to the Board’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund, or by other means
acceptable to the BCC.
Motion Passed x/x
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me directly at 252-2399.
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