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AHAC Minutes 07/11/2022MINUTES OF THE COLLIER COUNTY AFFORDABLE HOUSING ADVISORY COMMITTEE July 11, 2022 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 Human Resources Conference Room in Naples, Florida, with the following Members present: Present: Mary Waller John Harney Via ZOOM Steve Hruby—Vice Chair Joe Trachtenberg - Chair Litha Berger Via ZOOM Jennifer Mitchell Rick LoCastro Via ZOOM Paul Shea Jessica Brinkert Janet Miller Via ZOOM Gary Hains Excused: Unexcused: ALSO PRESENT: Kristi Sonntag, Director-CHS Jacob LaRow, Manger -Housing Grant Development &Operations-CHS Julie Chardon, Operations Coordinator - CHS OTHERS PRESENT: Amy Patterson, County Manager; Ruben Ramos; Senior Investigator- CIGI; Michael Puchalla, HELP; Megan Phillips, Collier Clerk; Betty Schwartz, LWV; Debrah Forester, CRA; Michele McLeod, Candidate for Commissioner; Susan Golden; Samantha Roesler, Gulf Shore Business; David S; By ZOOM: Lisa Loren, Salvation Army; Ashley Jones, Salvation Army; Ted Blankenship, City of Naples; Andrew Cribbs; Matthew Holliday; Eddy Alfaro; John 0' Connor. Rick LoCastro, Collier County Commissioner. 1. CALLTO ORDER Joe Trachtenberg called the meeting to order at 8:32 a.m. He read the procedures to be followed and Joe Trachtenberg led in the pledge to the flag. 2. ROLL CALL —COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND STAFF There were 7 active members present when the meeting started, therefore a quorum was established. Ted Blankenship from the City of Naples will be attending AHACmeetings as anon -voting member. He will apply for a full-time seat in October when vacancies arise. 3. APPROVAL OF AGENDA AND MINUTES a. Joe Trachtenberg made a motion to approve the agenda. The motion was seconded by Steve Hruby. The motion passed by a vote of 7-0. b. A motion was made by Joe Trachtenberg to approve the minutes from the meeting of June 6, 2022 and was seconded by Steve Hruby. The motion was passed with a vote of 7-0. 4. INFORMATIONAL ITEMS AND PRESENTATION a. County Manager, Amy Patterson , gave an informational speech to the AHAC about Linkage Fees and/ Impact Fees. She explained every dollar must be backed up and is enabled by the statue. There must be a full offset from the developer. The county has 12 existing impact fees in Collier County and Affordable Housing is not one of them. Mary Waller asked Amy Patterson were did Impact Fees comes from which she replied saying the board did. Mary Waller brought up those other counties in Florida do have Linkage Fees which Mary Waller can provide data on this if needed. Amy Patterson explained how Linkage Fees are not going to achieve what we think it's going to achieve and could be a burden to the taxpayers. Amy Patterson mentioned they're piloting a revolving fund with longer deferral time to hopefully entice Affordable housing Developers to Collier County. Joe Trachtenberg mentioned we need to look at units and apartments since 1" time homebuyers are becoming a myth in Collier County, Amy Patterson said there's many more things that need to happen than just restructuring Impact Fees. She wants to work with the piolet program. Gary Hains brought up how Impact fees for a 3-million- dollar house vs and 250k is the same. He feels that the AHAC members need to look in a new direction to find a cause that could sway the BCC. Changing Impact fees is not going to be the way. Joe Trachtenberg brought up the $ 20 million dollars sitting in the Work Force Land Trust that was funded by the Taxpayers that currently is not being touched. Could this be a way to bring developers into Collier County? Michael Puchalla from HELP spoke on this topic saying no developers want to use this money. Steve Hruby mentioned if this money can be used for RFP'S and then the AHAC Committee can score the projects. Jacob LaRow mentioned this land trust money is part of a committee that will meet September 7th. Jennifer Mitchell thinks the problem with developers not wanting to use this money is that there's a marketing issue, no clear Parameters stated on how to use this money. Joe Trachtenberg will address this issue at the next board meeting commencing on 07/12/2022 and ask the BCC that the $20 million is with the Infrastructure Surtax Committee and they can't even set up a quorum. 5. PUBLIC COMMENT $USAN GOLDEN- $POKE TO THE AHAC MEMBERS REGARDING THE SH I P INCENTIVES STRATEGIES. $HE RECOMMENDED FOLLOWING UPON THE THREE CRITERIA'S THAT Joe Trachtenberg Is bringing to the next board meeting. She stressed the importance of establishing criteria for the Public Use fund. She mentioned there were two resolutions created back in 2018 that could provide a starting point for these new criteria's the AHAC members are looking to establish. Jacob LaRow can provide the criteria that Susan Golden brought up to any new AHAC members that were not here during the time the previous criteria standards were established. 6. DISCUSSION ITEM$ b. FY23 General Fund use recommendation —The budget was originally requested for $10 million and was awarded $500,000,00, Kristi Sonntag addressed the AHAC committee on how the budget has not been adopted yet, happens in September. c. Discussion and Consideration of Urban Land Institute -Joe Trachtenberg asked the AHAC committee if they still support funding an updated ULI study. The current study is over five years old. He mentioned the updated study was requested by the board. Commissioner Rick LoCastro mentioned he doesn't oppose a study buts wants to make sure that something gets done with the study that shows progress. He wants the scope of work to be very detailed since a lot has changed since the last ULI study, He asked Ted Blankenship opinion on the study since the City of Naples just conducted one. Ted believes the study provided them with the same knowledge they already knew. He thinks the 41.10 Master Plan was a better tool instead of the ULI study. He recommended coming up with a process on how to spend the 20 million that was previously discussed. Jacob LaRow reached out to Thomas Eitler about the ULI study and costs and was told it will not go over $135,000,00, Joe Trachtenberg brought up three important studies that are important to AHAC and what he will present on at the next board meeting. 1)Evaluation of Impact Fees 2) Consideration of Ad Valorem Tax 3) Precise instructions and best practices regarding the $20 million in One Cent Surtax. Steve Hruby made a motion to approve directing staff to the ULI study and add these three items to the scope. Motion passed 7-0. AHAC incentive strategy report -Jacob LaRow followed up on the training provided at the June AHAC meeting by Ashon Nesbitt with the Florida Housing Coalition. Mr. LaRow provided a copy of the last Incentives Strategies Report that is submitted annually to the Florida Housing Finance Corporation (FHFC) by December 31 and that the Report is an ideal vehicle for the AHAC to make recommendations and advise the Board of County Commissioners on Affordable Housing issues since the Board has to accept the report prior to transmittal to the FHFC. Mr. LaRow further explained that the AHAC is not limited to the 11 strategies in the Report and therefore can suggest other areas for the Board to explore. The AHAC took no formal action on this item. 7. STAFF AND GENERAL COMMUNICATIONS a. Permitted Use Table —Due to a lengthy discussion involving Linkage Fees/Impact Fees this table was moved to the next AHAC meeting. b. AHAC Meeting location &date — During an email exchange a new location for the AHAC meetings was discussed by Commissioner Rick LoCastro and Joe Trachtenberg. A calendar was created which included Naples Council dates and the BCC room availability to determine what day would be best to move the AHAC into the BCC room. This new date was made to include the growing size of the AHAC meetings and to include Naples City council members that cannot attend currently. A new date of the 3'd Tuesday of every month was determined. Steve Hruby made a motion to approve new dates. It was approved 7-0. c. Collier County Public Schools —Jennifer Mitchell spoke and addressed how the Collier County Public School system has a 35-acre parcel of land next to Manatee Elementary School that could be zoned to address the issue of Affordable housing with essential workforce. Essential workforce being teachers, EMS, Government officials, and Law Enforcement. The plan is to have potential residents pick from a range of temporary homes that can be built on the land. The homeowner will lease the land but will buy the home. The land will be leased to all homeowners living on the property since this land will be on considerations fora school if the need shall arise. A school has not been slated for the land for the next 20 years. Jennifer Mitchel hopes for an easy zoning and leasing process to encourage first time homebuyers to the location. She mentioned CCPS is still fine tuning the details. Steve Hruby brought up if we can have conversations that could Include the land trust fund. d. AHAC Committee Member Vacancies-AHAC is limited to 11 members and currently have three members expiring in October. Steve Hruby, Litha Berger, and Jennifer Mitchell. AHAC will select the new members and then the board approves. Jacob LaRow brought up a timeline- Have the information ready by August 16`h, Interview in September, and select in October. Term limits were brought up which Jacob LaRow will double check on and provide to AHAC members. Janet Miller made a motion for the open positions be posted by August 161h and all selected members will be presenting in the September meeting. Jessica Brinkert seconded. Motion passed 7-0. e. Clerk of Courts— ERAP Review— Kristi Sontag updated AHAC on the status of ERA1. The month of June was the program's highest ever expenditure rate with well over 760k being expended. She wanted to highlight that Our Florida program is recouping funds since duplication of benefits and fraudulent activity was going on. She wanted to state that the US Treasury does an automatic relocation of funds. Clerk's Office of Inspector General Senior Investigator Ruben Ramos discussed 59 potentially fraudulent ERAP applications currently under review. Investigator Ramos discovered that the identities of three Collier County residents and one Miami -Dade County resident were stolen and utilized on two Collier ERAP applications packages. Based on criminal evidence found on these two ERAP application packages, Investigator Ramos referred two OIG investigative cases to the Sarasota County Sheriffs Office and the Collier County Sheriffs Office, respectively. As a result of these law enforcement referrals, two individuals were arrested for being part of a fraud scheme expanding from Sarasota County to Collier County, Investigator Ramos and the OIG team confirmed what appeared to be fraudulent documentation in 56 other applications. Investigator Ramos was able to clear payment on only one application that was initially flagged with potentially fraudulent information. Joe Trachtenberg wanted to express the AHAC's gratitude to the Clerk's office and to Investigator Ramos for the work he is doing. f. PUD Monitoring- The letter provided in the agenda was a sample of the letter that went out to Allura staff. The CHS monitoring team concluded that the development had no findings, but CHS did make two recommendations to improve compliance. Upon monitoring they reviewed application files and ensured their compliance. The CHS team followed all the BCC recommendations and requirements as required in the PUD. 8. ADJOURN There being no further business for the good of the County and no quorum remained, the meeting was adjourned at 11:16 a.m. NEM MEETING: THE NEXT REGULARLY SCHEDULED MEETING WILL BE HELD ON THE THIRDTUESDAY, AUGUST 16TH, 2022, AT 8:30 A.M. Location: Board Room in the Administration Building (F) located at 3299 Tamiami Trail East, Naples, FL 34112 HOUSING ADVISORY The foregoing Minutes were approved by Committee Chair on I XV 2022, "os submitted" [_] OR "as amended" [ .—].