Calling to order the um Housing Health and Education Committee meeting for September eighteenth, twenty twenty-five.

Let's please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Councilmember Shacklet will not be here today at all.

Councilmember McShane is running late, and so we have three items on the agenda other than the minutes.

So we have um a presentation from Habitat on the um two hundred thousand dollar grant, and then one from the junction.

Oh, I don't see anyone here from the junction.

They're not presenting at all, so letters that I can speak to this, Madame.

Okay, sure.

Thank you very much.

So President Nash will speak to the Again, this is informational about funding that was provided to both um Habitat for Humanity and the junction for MPDUs.

So it's part of our work to consider the MPDU program.

Um an update as to the funding they received and what the funding has been used for if it has been used yet.

So just for the public's sake, I wanted to sort of provide that context.

We have invited those recipients to present, and that those presentations are forthcoming in October.

So there will be additional information, but we but we put this on the agenda because a couple of reasons.

We've had a lot of conversations about the MPDU in lieu of program in its entirety.

We've had a lot of conversations about the use of the funds and the uh acceptable uses of the funds, and we covered that in our last meeting two weeks ago.

We did we began that discussion.

And then we've also had discussion about the expenditure of the funds, so and the timeliness and what those funds are being used for.

So sort of three different uh tracks.

Uh and so this is that third track, and it's informational today because we wanted to make sure that we put it on the agenda to provide the information that has been thus received.

Uh we will follow up with the Lucas Village recipients.

We have not been able to receive an update from them yet, so we're gonna follow up on that and where that project is.

Uh but I did want to just make sure that everyone knew they had been included and they have been invited uh to to present as well.

So uh it's informational only today, madam chair, because we wanted to just provide the information in your backup so that everyone had a chance to read what was submitted uh so far.

Um but other than that, I think that's probably unless there are additional questions or uh direction for that specific topic area, we can probably move on.

But that was really the the genesis of having it on the agenda for today.

Thank you very much.

I actually do have just uh a relatively quick question.

So the um the the funding comes from the um MPDU fund itself, right?

And one of them is this 200,000 um grant to habitat for humanity, and my understanding is that that project on West All Saint Street um is actually a condominium project, so the people will actually own those homes, correct?

And then the two million dollar um for the junction, and maybe I'm misunderstanding this, but are those are rentals, correct?

Those are rentals.

So I'm just gonna be very clear that um uh when when we have this conversation more in depth, um I would consider possibly providing more funding for um the purchase condos.

Um again, I understand that the costs on those were much higher because of the supply chain demands and the you know COVID and and just kind of everything.

The the amounts on those were were pretty significant, significantly higher than expected.

So as we have that conversation, I'm just gonna note to Habitat maybe don't hesitate to make a request that I might support.

We'll do it next.

Um it will be on the agenda.

I'm sorry if you can't hear don't don't don't hesitate to make a request that um you know could change things.

So um excuse me.

Yes.

I just want to remind these letters or as the EGT committee, but the presentations from recipients will be at the government ops committee because it relates to um an update on MOUs contracts.

Um those will be on October 2nd for the junction project and October 16th, off the top of my head.

Um thank you for Habitat for Humanity, and that will be at the government operations committee at 2 p.m.

And that will be for both of them.

Yes, correct.

Okay.

So my comments stand.

Okay.

Um Madam Chair, before you move on, I think you I think you've hit on something that when you were talking, I realized I don't know the I don't know the answer to.

We haven't really explored.

When Habitat came forward with this project, it was unique in its nature, and it was also, and they're here, and I I'm talking to them like they're not here, but there were factors, I believe, that contributed to the success of that project.

It might be helpful when they give their presentation or even just a separate presentation before this committee to talk about what needs to happen to make what you're talking about happen.

I don't know the answer to that sitting here.

Uh you know, was it the dedication of the property that made it all the financing work in a favorable?

I don't rem I remember when we had the discussion before, and but I don't remember as I'm sitting here, and so maybe that might be helpful also to just understand how that project was successful and what we can do to make that happen.

And and and if it cost um, you know, if if there is funding that they have to pay down.

You know, so again, we are gonna have this conversation at the government ops meeting on the 16th.

Um this is today simply for information, so we are not expecting anybody to speak on it.