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AHAC Minutes 11/19/2024   1 MINUTES OF THE COLLIER COUNTY AFFORDABLE HOUSING ADVISORY COMMITTEE Naples, Florida, November 19, 2024 LET IT BE REMEMBERED, the Collier County Affordable Housing Advisory Committee, in and for the County of Collier, having conducted business herein, met on this date at 9 a.m. in REGULAR SESSION at the Collier County Growth Management Department Building, Conference Room #609/610, 2800 Horseshoe Drive North, Naples, Florida, with the following members present: Chairman: Stephen Hruby Vice Chairman: Jennifer Faron Gary Hains Commissioner Chris Hall (Resigned) Catherine Myers Andrew Terhune Mary Waller Hannah Roberts (excused) Todd Lyon Paul Shea, Planning Commissioner Arol Buntzman Robert Mulhere (excused) County Staff Members Present: Cormac Giblin, Director, Housing Policy & Economic Development, GMCD James Cook, Director, Development Review, GMCD Michael Bosi, Director, Planning & Zoning, GMCD Kristi Sonntag, Director, Community & Human Services, PSD Donald Luciano, Assistant Director, Community & Human Services, PSD Derek Perry, Assistant County Attorney, County Attorney’s Office Sarah Harrington, Manager, Planning, Housing Policy & Economic Development, GMCD Priscilla Doria, Ops Support Specialist II, Housing Policy & Economic Development, GMCD Any person who decides to appeal a decision of the Tourist Development Council will need a record of the proceedings pertaining thereto, and therefore may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made, which record includes the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be based, Neither Collier County nor the Tourist Development Council shall be responsible for providing this record.    2 1. CALL TO ORDER & PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Chairman Hruby called the meeting to order at 9 a.m. [The pledge of allegiance was recited.] 2. ROLL CALL OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND STAFF Chairman Hruby called the roll call and a quorum of ten was present in the boardroom. Hannah Roberts, and Robert Mulhere were excused and not present. Chairman Hruby recognized new member, Catherine Myers, and advised of resignation of Commissioner Chris Hall, who then made remarks. Decision on his replacement will be made December 10. 3. APPROVAL OF AGENDA AND MINUTES a. Approval of today’s agenda Chairman Hruby made a motion to approve the agenda. The motion was seconded. The motion passed unanimously, 10-0. b. Approval of July 16, 2024, AHAC meeting minutes Chairman Hruby made a motion to approve the July 16, 2024, meeting minutes The motion was seconded. The motion passed unanimously, 10-0. c. Approval of September 17, 2024, AHAC meeting minutes Chairman Hruby made a motion to approve the September 17, 2024, meeting minutes. The motion was seconded. The motion passed unanimously, 10-0. d. Approval of October 15, 2024, AHAC Sub-Committee minutes Chairman Hruby made a motion to approve the October 15, 2024, AHAX Sub-Committee minutes. Discussion regarding needing correction to the minutes. Mary asked for correction of minutes to reflect that there was a unanimous decision that Mary Waller share the co-chair position. A member (name not identified) pointed out that there was a disconnect in the minutes versus the policy on the agenda to be discussed further. She does not propose an amendment to the minutes, but that the disconnect be addressed further in the meeting today when reviewing policy. Chairman Hruby made a motion to approve the October 15, 2024, AHAC Sub-Committee minutes as amended. The amended motion was seconded. The motion passed unanimously, 10-0. 4. INFORMATIONAL ITEMS AND PRESENTATION    3 a) Update on Nuestra Senora de la Vivienda Community Foundation and Pulte Family Charitable Foundation (Andrew VanValin) Mr. VanValin via Zoom  Good morning and thank you for giving me the opportunity to share. I spoke to you in February of 2023, just as we were starting our PUD rezone process. I would like to take this opportunity to talk about our project and give you a few updates on where we are at. The Pulte Family Charitable Foundation is partnering with a nonprofit that was created to build and manage this project called Monarka. It will be affordable housing, but we are planning to build single family home and townhomes. I will show you the plans a little bit later. The partnership looks like the Pulte Family Charitable Foundation championing the project through design and approval, and the initial funding.  The Nuestra Senora de la Vivienda Community Foundation will be the owner and operator of the community. We are helping to build out the staff and management office and wrap around services through that nonprofit that will be born and go out on its own, and grow up and mature all on its own, with the support of the Pulte Family Foundation. The Pulte Family Foundation is setting it up and trying to let it flourish. We will support it financially and logistically from afar.  The community itself is planned for 179 single family home and townhomes. It will be built in phases. The project will be in two parts: the physical aspect – the homes, neighborhood, streets and community center. It also includes a wraparound service piece, helping the residents beyond just the four walls. We are talking about housing literacy – how to take care of a home, using appliances that they may have not had before. We want them to be successful in adapting to a new living arrangement. The educational partnerships with existing Immokalee organizations – literacy, maybe even financial literacy, budgeting. We are talking with local banks about doing things like that. We anticipating addressing problems as we go. The program will have a separate staff aside from the standard property management and maintenance.  The community is on the northwest side of Immokalee – on Carson Road and West Clocks, just west of State Road 29 and just East of Lake Trafford Elementary School. We really set out to build a neighborhood. We recognize that there are affordable apartments being built in other places of the community. I know an Immokalee Fair Housing Alliance; Doctor Bunce is on this call also. And I know that Catholic Charities and Dioceses of Venice are all looking at other apartments. We thought we would try something different, a larger unit size to accommodate larger families, that sometimes an apartment may not be suitable for.  We also have three acres set aside in the SW corner that we have been in talks with a local early education provider in the community. That is the initial plan for that parcel. However, we are open to ideas to get something more suitable for that corner. The central amenity area, right here in the center, would be the clubhouse, the community center and where we will host events. There are courses, things for the Build a Better Life Program – that wrap around services piece – that would be hosted there. The small playground and we are hoping to use this open space where the retention lake is as a recreational, passive open space.  We have heard from a lot of people over concern about their trucks and trailers for landscaping jobs or construction jobs, which is the livelihoods of many of these individuals. Sadly, we have had to pull some homes out of the plan to put in a parking lot which will be secured, with spaces available to residents for work trucks and oversized vehicles that we don’t want parked throughout the community. This is the extent of Phase One.    4  Currently, we are in the SDP application process right now, responding to comments, working with the county to try to get through just the engineering and storm water and issues that they brought up. This is going to be the main house, most of these units built, a one story, three- bedroom home. It will be a contemporary and modern of small home that there is with laundry, appliances, two full baths, three bedrooms, living spaces. There is an outdoor shower that came about in conversations with the community over concerns of working with chemicals and materials that are not great to be bringing into the house and ideas seriously from the community and providing things that are needed and specific to a families’ needs.  The four bedroom is similar except for an extra bedroom and bathroom. It is two stories, about 1800 square feet. The fourth bedroom is on the ground floor with three bedrooms and two bathrooms on the second floor. This unit is not part of phase one but would be future phases. The two-bedroom, townhome unit, two story unit – we wanted to have a mix of slightly smaller units that could be available for smaller families – something a little more accessible for even lower incomes and smaller family sizes.  Here are a couple of renderings – the main corner, with the clubhouse the center of the area. The clubhouse is the center at Central Community Center. There are streets along the lake with homes lined up around. We really wanted to set out to make that central area a very public space. The house front porches are facing it, using the lake as our open space and gathering space to enjoy. Another rendering shows the northeast from the corner towards the intersection of West Clocks and Carson, then a rendering of the southwest on the opposite side.  My table on the right is our estimated region of where we would like to see the rents be. The project is intended to be funded fully through fundraising. So, there would be no debt service and if we were able to do that, then our operation expenses and maintenance budget is what is driving the cost of rent. We just need to be able to pay the bills and make this a sustainable community for the long term. The three-bedroom homes at the low end would be in the $813 range, and then the 50% AMI would be $1,356 for the unit. We are hoping that the bulk of our units to be somewhere around the $1,000 average a month rent for the three-bedroom homes. Our restriction with Collier County is 150 units at 60% and 20 units at 80%. So that’s where these numbers come in – 150 units at 60%, 20 units at 80%. Right now, there is a plan of 179 that would be a market rate. We would love to have teachers, firefighters, police officers or other professionals that want to live in Immokalee that are not ready to buy a home, but could rent a nice new home, and we would have a nice small mix of those levels of incomes as well.  As mentioned, we are working on our site permits right now, our SDP. I am hoping to have that permit by the second quarter of next year, then starting land development after that, then vertical construction towards the end of 2025. So, a year from now, I am hoping that we are getting close to building and going up.  As to the organizational structure, we have the community foundation that we have set up, Nuestra Senora de la Vivienda Community Foundation, that will be the overarching entity that is running the community itself and the property management side. Then the executive director of that nonprofit will also be overseeing the wrap around services side, which are now calling “Build a Better Life.” We will have a separate staff from property management leasing maintenance people and Nuestra Senora will continue to raise money through the build and through the management of the project, raising funds for the programmatic side operating as a nonprofit and then the rents from the residents to pay off the expenses of the property management. If there is any net proceed from rent, then that would go into the nonprofit to help    5 support the programmatic elements of the wrap around services for the residents. So that is the update; happy to answer any questions as best as I can. Commissioner Hall: Regarding the timeline to start construction in December of 2025, is that to give you more time to fundraise or is that the time that you think that it is going to take you to get through the County process? Andrew VanValin: Both, admittedly, we have gone a bit slow through the SDP process on our own, it is their choice to some extent, but also, I am just paying what I would call some dumb tax with going through the process. We have had some tortoises hang up some things on the SDP. We have had some of our own there. There is a geotechnical issue that is holding some things up. We are trying to figure out some discrepancies with the water table level and making sure that there are our control elevations for the flood and retention area is suitable. We have gone a bit slow admittedly, slower that we probably could have. But then the fundraising piece of it will also be crucial to our start. I should say that the Pulte Family Foundation and its contribution to this project has been the acquisition of the land, its payment for the design and consulting fees and the entitlement fees and permitting and all that. We are also paying for the horizontal land development construction of the project so that will not be held up by fundraising, the clearing of the land, the prepping for infrastructure in the digging out of the lake, landscaping and all that work is going to be paid by us. The fundraising is just for the vertical construction so we can have all the lots prepped and ready to go up to that point, as we are still fundraising and starting to build homes. The first phase will contain 64 houses, that parking lot and then the community center. Commissioner Hall: Great, thank you for that. I just wanted to make sure that we represent you as the people and that we are doing our best that we can for you. Andrew VanValin: I can say adamantly that working with Collier County has been really a good experience for me. Andrew VanValin: I experience a lot of understaffing issues, but your staff has been very responsive whenever I email or call. Someone is very quick to get back to me and get me answers and help. I appreciate it. Chairman Steve Hruby: Well, thank you very much for the update. That was very informative, and this is an exciting project. It’s a unique project in the fact that we are dealing with larger units, single family context, and that they are rental rather than home ownership, and they are serving larger families, which the normal multi-family apartment development doesn’t serve. Paul, you have a question? Paul Shea: In one of his slides, he shows the AMI for the County and then he shows for Immokalee. I am assuming these percentages are based on the Counties. Am I not on the Immokalee? Andrew VanValin: That’s correct. I am using the Florida Housing finance tables for this. Our heavy lean towards the 30 to 50 percent range is based on the knowledge of the Immokalee median income being quite a bit different. Chairman Steve Hruby: Thank you for your time.    6 Andrew VanValin: I appreciate it. Hopefully, we will have good news a year from now and we will be moving. Chairman Steve Hruby: Thank you. 5. PUBLIC COMMENT a. Persons wishing to speak who have registered prior to speak Chairman Steve Hruby: Moving on to the next item for a, do we have any comments or speakers? Mark Teeters  I represent the East of 951 Horizon Study Committee. Thank you for having me today. Commissioner Hall, members, staff and the public. I represent the Chairman of East of 951, what they call the ADHOC Committee. What we are doing is studying all of Eastern Collier County infrastructure, everything including airports. We are talking to the sheriff; the fire department and we are looking at bridges all over again. I was on the original Committee in 2006 and think I am the only one left that was on the original committee. I was the CIGM of the Collier County Interactive Growth Model, which you are all familiar with. I was the chairperson at sunset of that oversight committee. We were the ones that vetted that to the County. This is our method of helping to manage what we do as a Committee.  We are in the process of getting ready to make a presentation to the Board of County Commissioners. We have so many topics. We are even covering the life cycle of the landfill. I know more about the landfill now than I ever wanted to know. The one thing that is really interesting about all this is the one commonality to almost every one of our County groups and that is affordable housing. This topic has evolved over time, and it is an important part of what we are doing. The sheriff advises that he can't compete with other Counties or with other sheriffs. He can't get people to come in and file for a job because they can work in another County, and they pay less. It has been an experience for us.  We did a meeting on April 16. Cormac came in and visited with us, made a presentation, and there were lots of questions. For example, there is the annual rent of guest houses that everybody is talking about right now in Golden Gate Estates in the rural estates. Obviously, we don't want that, but we are looking at that in the urban estates right now.  We are working with FLU to help with the new rules as they come forward for all this stuff. When we are done, we will be studying the Golden Gate Master Plan, and I will be the chairman of that group as well. We are going to move right into the master plan because it's time for re- study. I think the timing is moving up for all these committees. It used to be 10 years and now it is going to be 5 years because there are so many changes, I talked to Commissioner Hall and his administration sent me a document drop that was monumental. Now I have a whole bunch of new documents, and we are meeting tonight. We meet every month at the Heritage Bay Government Center, and we do zoom. with this, and I've got five regular members and two associates from Golden Gates Estates.  Again, I appreciate the opportunity and if you have anything for me, I am open and would certainly like to come back and participate. I personally was not aware of your committee and    7 what you are doing out there. It sounds like you are very active. Do I understand that you're now considering possibly that affordable housing is an issue of infrastructure? Absolutely fantastic. We have talked to the Fire Chief, the Sheriff, and every county employee. Everyone is in the same boat. The old guard on Golden Gate Estates does not want any changes but we have a lot of new the infrastructure coming into our east as you all know. We're keeping track and we're looking at all different types of opportunities to try to figure out what we need to do because we obviously need the employees. Chairman Steve Hruby: Please don't be a stranger to the Committee. If you are dealing with affordable housing, we want to partner with you and communicate as well. Mark Teeters: I do want to make sure we are on the same page with you because we will make the presentation at Board of County Commissioners, and I want to make sure that I'm right on target with all that. One thing I would like to discuss is camper trailers. We have an absolute mess in the Estates with people renting out camper trailers period. Commissioner McDaniel called me and advised that he was in a guy's backyard and that there were six camper trailers lined up in the backyard. They were renting them out and dumping the sewage out onto the ground in a neighborhood in Golden Gate Estates. So, we have our work cut out for us. Chairperson Steven Hruby: That is for the Development Committee, Code Enforcement. 6. DISCUSSION ITEMS Commissioner Chris Hall: Can I ask if we can move to the parking requirements and the subcommittee results? I would love to be in on that conversation. Chairperson Steve Hruby: Chris just asked if we could bump an agenda item, and I have no problem with that. I will take Chairman privilege here to take item 6C and hear that now so that we can have the Commissioner weigh in on this as well. C. Parking Requirements Cormac Giblin  Under item 6C, the parking requirements in your packet is a draft executive summary Mike Bose is prepared to go to the Board on their December 10 meeting. This subject came up in Commissioner correspondence about one or two meetings ago with a majority of the Commissioners directing staff to come back with an item to discuss multifamily parking in Collier County. I think at the time there was a concern from a few Commissioners that they had heard from constituents that parking was not adequate enough. We were not requiring enough parking for new developments in Collier County. Whether it's one person making a complaint or 1000 people making complaints, we don't know. Mike has prepared the attached draft executive summary that will be the item dropped to the Board.  In addition, his staff has done some research for parking requirements for other communities around the State and in our area period. There is a sampling of 12 other communities ranging from right next door two cities in Naples, to Venice, Broward County and Sarasota. Out of the 12 researched, Collier County had the third least restrictive parking requirements. Parking    8 comes up a lot. It is a main driver of expense. Not so much the expense of the parking lot but the opportunity cost of not putting houses where parking lots go. We have spoken with several affordable housing developers who do this in around Florida and around the Country. They have provided us some of their metrics from other developments. One of our partners, McDowell housing has a portfolio of multiple 1000 units around the Country. Their goal is to provide a parking ratio of 1.5 spaces, at least 1.5 spaces per unit. On average, they provide around 1.6 to 1.8 spaces per unit. Your County would require them, according to code, to provide more than that. We are seeing that from here.  We are hearing from developers, specifically of multi-family rental, affordable development, that it is not the same as an owner-occupied condominium. The characteristics of the household are different from a common condominium that may be built for a one bedroom as compared to a one bedroom with a den. Potentially a couple of years later, they have a child, and they turn the den into a nursery and then it becomes a second bedroom condominium.  The one bedroom with den was assigned to parking at the one-bedroom ratio and as the kids get older, they get cars or mom and dad each have a car. So that can occur in an owner occupied, multifamily condo. On the apartment side especially the low-income apartment side, we are hearing from our partner developers that the characteristics don't really work the same. When the children get old enough to get a car and that family is now moving out of the rental into a housing situation. They are looking to buy something.  In addition, the apartment side is much greater at site management and enforcement of parking and making sure that their parking lots are not overrun. Their goal as a multifamily apartment developer is to not create problems in their parking lot. They want everyone to be able to park including their visitors. They do not want to be known as that apartment complex that you cannot park at. Their goal is to lease units and have a desirable place to live.  In addition, as affordable housing advocates, we are also guided by certain sections of state law—this statue that creates the AHAC. We are required to look at those housing incentives and one of the required incentives is parking requirements. The Statute doesn't say what it should be, it says that you as a group should be recommending to the Board of County Commissioners parking requirements to deal with affordable housing units.  In a separate State Statute, the Live Local Statute, there are quite lengthy requirements about parking. And it goes from shall recommend, shall consider, must reduce or must eliminate parking. So, depending on the situational and geographic criteria of a Live Local Development, if you are within one quarter mile of a transit stop, the County must consider reducing parking requirements. If you are within 1/2 mile of a major transportation hub or if you have a shared parking agreement with another partner within 600 feet of your development, the County must reduce parking requirements by 20%. If you are in a residential development that is a transit-oriented design, the County must eliminate parking requirements.  We have a couple of State Statutes that point us in a different direction than perhaps the Board of County Commissioners is looking to discuss on the 10th in terms of affordable housing. Speaker    9 Last week we held our 3rd public-private workshop on Live Local. The Board of County Commissioners only designates two major transit areas for reducing parking. The Statute says is if you're near a bus stop that qualifies. So, they said that should be reconsidered. The second thing that came out of that was shared parking. If you're in a commercial zone and you're building something maybe next to an office complex or a commercial property, that there could be a shared parking arrangement just because of the timing of when those parking lots are used, that that could be a way of reducing it. The third thing that came out of the discussion is if the developer provides a shuttle service to work. You've got hotels and major employers who are providing shuttle service to bring people from the east to the coast to for their jobs. So that developer who's developing 300 units of affordable housing could have a small shuttle bus to reduce the parking amount. After the discussion on parking, it was determined that one size doesn't fit all, and we should look at alternatives and incentives to offer the development community to reduce the parking requirement specific to the affordable component of a development. Speaker 12: So, there will be more study and some months before we have anything before the Board to vote on. Speaker 2: Cormack, what is the current parking rule. Cormac Giblin: In County it varies by the number of bedrooms. It is one spot per unit plus guest parking. An efficiency is 1.50 spots, 1 bedroom is 1.75 spots, and anything 2 or more bedrooms is 2 spots per unit. Commissioner Hall: Flexibility is the main thing we will be looking at. One size does not fit all and as long as we get flexibility with some ranges, I think we can come up with livable solutions. Michael Puala: I’m with the Housing Alliance and we helped host the workshop last week. There are some developers that mention the possibility of taking approval of parking requirements away from administrative approval. I think that's something that had a high level of concern for them because of the time it would add to their process. So, I just wanted to make sure if the Committee was aware that is something that also might be addressed by the Commissioners about moving away from an administrative process to approve parking for affordable developments and have it become, go into a public process, which obviously would extend the amount of time that was needed. Speaker ?: The flexibility that’s built into our land development code now is a process called the administration parking reduction. This is available to any type of development. There was a concern on the industries’ plate that that process may no longer be available to them should some of this move forward and the direction the Commission was looking to go to make those parking reductions a public process rather than an administrative process. Speaker ?: If the recommendation is that the BCC review the staff evaluation of these different requirements and provide direction. There's really not much to the recommendation other than continue to look at it. So, are we jumping ahead here? I think in terms of where staff is with respect to the BCCs request, I mean this is something we talk about every year because it's part of the incentive strategies    10 report. I'm not sure what we're recommending here other than they should look at it and then maybe we provide input later on in the year. Speaker ?: I think we should make a recommendation to the BCC. There should be some flexibility on a case-by-case basis. It should be remained administrative. And the most important is to consider the difference between the parking needs of a market rate versus an affordable workforce housing multifamily development. Speaker 7: I motion to adopt that recommendation. Speaker 3 seconded. Motion passed. Speaker 3: I will draft a letter from this Board to the BCC. A. Speaker ?: 2025 calendar year of work plan review item The last meeting of a calendar year, we present you with the dates of the following years meetings. This year we went a little further and tried to assign subjects or policy matters to each of those meetings. This is staff's effort of trying to keep a strategic guide on how your discussions are formatted and adjust for priorities. _________________motioned to accept staff’s schedule for next year’s meetings. _______________ Seconded. Motion passed unanimously. B. Collier County Housing Website Analytics Speaker 4: The website analytics from Collier County housing.com provides the number of visitors each month, number of page views, how they got there. This is part of our marketing contract. They provide us this with these website analytics. Speaker 3: The thing that I found, I'm not sure it's disturbing or positive. A lot preponderance of your hits are new visitors, and your return visitors are very, very few. You know, somebody comes in once and looks at it and, and they're not coming back. Speaker 4: I would think that most people who use the website are people looking for housing or looking for assistance. They get that information. Speaker 17: McDowell’s scope of work includes the website, primarily doing press releases and any kind of public social media things that go through the County's website, our Twitter account, our Instagram, that's what they're responsible for. To attend events, make videos, that's not in their contract for $80,000 for four years. To buy media spots is extremely expensive. They will do targeted mailings, and we look for any free way to market our programs. That contract is currently under solicitation again, so I'm not sure you know, when the new bidder will be selected and awarded by the Board. D. Sub-Committee recommendation on Affordable Housing Rental Unit Tennant Grace Period Policy    11 Speaker 4: The policy is that each tenant be given a 12-month grace period once they're found to be out of compliance during a yearly monitoring tenant household income will be calculated in accordance with LDC section 2.0605 B four, which uses their most recent filed tax return. And then the caveat is that this policy does not apply in the event of the tenant's changing income as a result of a change in employment, a change in marital status or additional income from sources other than the tenant's current employer. After considerable discussion, I will schedule a subcommittee meeting to talk about this. The one that would typically fall in December falls right around the holidays. So, we may look at putting it out. E. Final 2024 SHIP Incentive Strategies Report Mary Waller made a motion to submit our incentive for land to the State of Florida. Jennifer Faron seconded the motion. Motion passed unanimously. 7. STAFF AND COMMITTEE GENERAL CONMMUNICATIONS Speaker ?: Fidler’s Creek is looking to add 750 rental apartments in, which would include 225 affordable units with half of them at 80% of median, half of them at a hundred percent of median. This pattern of approving a growth management plan along with a PUD amendment in exchange for additional densities, developers have been providing 30% of their units as affordable, but it's resulted in 10, 10 units here, 12 units there, 30 units there. This one being given the scale of 750 units, 30% of that is 225 units. The Board of County Commissioners will vote on it Dec. 10th. Arol Buntzman: First I want to apologize to staff and the committee for being late, but the announcement I wanted to make is that the construction of the second building of 16 apartments is underway. And on Friday the slab for the first floor was poured and we got a grant from the Schoen Foundation for a million dollars, which caps off the money we need to fully fund the third building and we'll be going out to contract on that within the next week. And we got a, a commitment for another million dollars from the Schoen Foundation for the community center. And as soon as we get, as soon as the permit is approved for that, they'll give us the check. And I think we've already filed for the, for the permit. So, another month ago or so, that should be underway. The first children's playground has been completed and fenced. It wasn't planned to be done until phase two, but it's finished. We can't unlock the gate though until it's proved. Kristi Sonntag: I would just like to remind the committee that in March we, at your March meeting, you'll have your local housing assistance plan to review. It's due to this date by May 2nd. So, it, the first hurdle will be you all to review that document and provide your recommendation. And then it will go to the City of Naples, then it will go to the board of County Commissioners and ultimately to the state by February. So, I just wanted to remind everyone, so if you could come to that meeting because I need a quorum. We'll try to have the document to you the last week of February would be our goal. I'll also remind you all that the review in ranking committee comes up in March. At your January meeting we will be asking for you to select one member to sit on the annual county review and ranking committee. That's where we award your community development block grant, your emergency solutions, your home and your ship    12 funding as part of that. It’s an all-day event. if you're interested in participating, we will ask you for your recommendation and vote on a member to participate at your January meeting. 8. NEW BUSINESS None 9. ADJOURN 10. NEXT MEETING DATE January 21, 2025, 9:00 a.m. Conference Room 609/610 Growth Management Community Development    13 There being no further business for the good of The County, the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee meeting was adjourned at 11:15 a.m. COLLIER COUNTY AFFORDABLE HOUSING ADVISORY COMMITTEE _________________________________________ Chairman Stephen Hruby The Minutes were approved by____________________________________ Chairman Stephen Hruby as presented___________________ or amended____________________