The Broward County Housing Council convened on August 23, 2024, at 11:07 AM after establishing a quorum. The meeting covered updates from the recent Broward Next conference, a condominium safety and affordability memorandum, a proposed meeting date change, planning for the upcoming workshop, and a detailed discussion on the November ballot amendment regarding the Housing Council's charter provisions. Public comments included presentations from a local nonprofit and a pro-amendment advocate. The council voted to approve the June 20, 2024 meeting minutes and to move the October 25 regular meeting to November 15, 2024. Future agenda items were also discussed.
That are not requiring action by this board, and then when the member comes at that point the chair can call the meeting officially to order and take action on the minutes and any other items that require voting. Thank you so much, Joe. Good morning, everyone. I don't know how many of you were able to um attend the Broward next meeting that was held uh last week. It was brilliantly brilliantly produced. Um, Joe Cesodia and um Ms. Oi Blake Barbara Blake Boy. Barbara Blake boy. I tend to get those bigs turned around. Um we're to the point, uh we learnt a lot, and then of course we had Mr. Stone who um presented the news, which uh has not changed drastically. But I must say that we have seen some strides. We have seen some progress, and based on a plan that's in place, and we're going to be seeking support um from members of the council to work with this organization. Um Sandra Vizier and asked me especially to mention today that um we will should they'll be looking for support for the for the in installation and and to move on. But um kudos to the county for their presentation. Um did you want us to discuss the memorandum from Centre Pasadoma? Um, sure, I can I can talk about that. Thank you. Um just just to follow on from what you were saying, though. If anyone wants to look at the brown next presentation, it is now online. And we can send you a link, so could you send that out after this meeting if anybody wants to watch it? Um you can see that there was a lot of focus and a lot of discussion on affordable housing in the second portion of the of the meeting. But uh you might want to see the land use part too. It was interesting. Um just to let you know that the commission accepted the council's twenty twenty-three annual report at yesterday's meeting with uh no discussion, which was good. It was on consent, so thank you very much for putting that on, Commissioner. Thanks, Commissioner. And in the packet on the table today, I uh included a copy of the memorandum that was put out by uh Senator Kathleen Pasademo, referring to condominium safety and affordability. There's been a lot of discussion about whether or not the legislature would call back a special session to address condominium issues. I think there is some misinformation out there about the condominium laws that were passed, and many of these links will clarify that. So I think it's it's a very uh helpful piece of information, even if we don't necessarily agree with uh the legislative decision. Thanks, Joe. Um just to update you also, we had staff have the opportunity to talk with staff at Miami Dade County about their condominium program. Uh I think we had reported last time to this group that the county in Miami Dade has used their document stamp funding to create a condominium special assessment program, uh, which is aimed at helping people who have low income and who have large special assessments for structural repairs. And we were advised by the staff there that they received 950 applications, of which only 82 were denied. Those denials were basically associated with things that didn't qualify for the structural component, or they were investment properties which are not eligible. Um they've put in 18 million dollars into their program so far, of which 16 million has closed. Um homeowners cannot make more than 140% of AMI, and most of the buildings that they're dealing with are 20 plus years old. Most of the applicants are seniors, um, many on fixed incomes. The maximum loan amount is $50,000, but most of them are coming in between the $10,000 and $35,000 range. And payments are made directly to the homeowners association from the county. Um most of the projects have been high-rise, and the county has had a fairly aggressive program to market its pro its uh program to different homeowners' associations by going out to them. But again, of course, here in Brown, we do not have that kind of funding source. We don't have that local um document stamp funding that Miami Date has. And so this is not a state program, this is just something that is being done uh in our neighboring county. Uh we wanted to talk about um the meeting dates. So do you want to hello everyone? Um I wanted you've attached to your packet with the agenda is uh shows our approved meeting dates for 2024. And primarily I'm here to discuss um our October meeting showing where the workshop is on the 30th, and our regular meeting date would be October 25th. And we kind of ran into we ran into this last year as well.