The City of Columbia Pre-Council met on March 3, 2026, to discuss affordable housing initiatives and a risk management report. The meeting included a detailed presentation on housing statistics, a review of zoning changes, and an actuarial analysis of the city’s self-insurance fund. No public comments or testimony were heard, and no formal votes were taken.
All right, I'm gonna go ahead and call our um March 2nd, 2026 City of Columbia Pre Council to order. Uh we have a couple of things on our agenda today. Up first is our housing affordable housing discussion, which I think is gonna lead up to next week's joint meeting with the counties we'll overview that. And then we have our risk management report and then a closed session. So I'm gonna go ahead and click this over to Bill and Clint because you are sitting there. Take it away. Hi, thank you, Mayor. Um everybody. Okay, so just uh start off. Um we're gonna give some statistics, um, some illustrations, and we're gonna provide some crosswalk updates, which y'all are aware of that Boom County kind of prepared the crosswalk to kind of keep us on track with you know, tracking our progress towards the various recommendations that were in the housing study. Okay, so first of all, we thought it would be important to show that the city has provided significant support for affordable housing. And uh I went back and started with 2024 because that was the year when the uh housing study was done. So just to kind of show what the city has done and what the city has funded uh for these various projects. So you can see there uh there's a total of 14.3 million. Um that includes new construction projects, uh preservation of existing housing, and direct assistance to home buyers and renters. Okay, and as far as the funding, um we have two primary sources uh mainly federal, uh, but the from the American Rescue Plan Act to ARPA funds came from the US Department of Treasury, and uh HUD, the Department of Housing Urban Development uh provides community development block band funds and home investment partnership uh program funds, also known as home. So since uh the study was done, um we've been involved with 440 units total. Um now, not all these are complete. Uh some of them are underway, some of them haven't started yet. Um, but we just wanted to give the totality of the uh support the city is providing uh for all these projects. So you can see there um there's about a hundred, there's 194 new construction units, about 12.2 million was invested in those, and 264 units that are already in existence, and about 2.1 million was invested in those. All right, so as far as the new construction, um 19 of those were four sale units, um, and those were made available to households that are what HUD calls uh low moderate income, uh, meaning that they meet 80% of the area mediate income guidelines as defined by HUD. And then there were 165 rental units. Um the vast majority of those are also affordable. Um there are smattering of some market rate units in there with some of the um housing authority projects, and then uh 10 transitional housing units uh that were are being done by local Columbia. Okay, so this kind of breaks down the new construction units. Um you can see the housing authorities responsible for the lion share of those. Uh that includes Kinney Point, Park Avenue, Providence Walkway, Blind Boone, and then uh we have uh CMCA or Central Missouri Community Action. They have 16 units, um, Providence Landing and uh Hickman Homes. And then the Land Trust uh has two units, uh Colemore Cottages over on North East Street, and then Job Point has one over at 903 North Garden. All right, and then uh besides the new construction, uh we provide support and funding for uh already existing units. Um so our housing and neighborhood services department has provided funding for 174 of those units, uh primarily through our energy efficiency and home rehab program uh funded uh through ARPA, um although there's some CBG there. Um, and then service for independent living uh provided funding for 20 units and Woodhaven also provided funding for another 20 units. Um things uh I will want I want to point out to um because the question uh they received um was about other uh types of programs. So um one thing that we are going to be seeking is a grant from HUD to provide funding for lead remediation. Um we will need to wait until their uh NOFA comes out, the knows of funding availability, those typically come out in June. Um applications will be due probably in August or September. Um but if we get that that would allow us to not only assist uh owner occupied units but also rental as well. And then we'll be able to replace windows, doors, other things like that to have lead paint hazards in those. Um and then uh you know we're looking at some other. I'm sorry, yeah. Sorry, I'm gonna grab my microphone now. Thanks. All right, I wanted to ask if any of our existing energy efficiency um programs for home rehabilitation. Um are any rentals allowable for those participation in those programs? They're not currently. Um, but that is something we're exploring uh potentially with the use of the trust fund to have a rental um rehabilitation program uh to maybe bring units that are offline online or to um you know do those repairs and in exchange we want increased affordability so they would have to maintain those units to be affordable for our setup period of time. I think one clarification, I'm pretty sure in Heron, I'm sorry you just took a bite, but I think that our um energy efficiency programs through water and light rentals are eligible. The property owner obviously needs to be on it, but it's um so those for those programs like the HVAC insulation, all of those uh rental units are eligible. Yes, interesting.