All right, I will call to order the Wednesday, September 23rd meeting of the community development authority.

Anna, you want to start with roll call?

Michael Cass?

Here.

Chain C-Man?

Yep.

Jennifer Anderson?

Lisa Higgins?

Here.

Max Ryan.

Here.

Danielle Williams?

Here.

All right.

First two items, the minutes from last meeting and the budget performance for July will pass by consent unless anyone wants anything pulled out for discussion.

All right.

That passes via consent.

Next item.

Requests and comments from the public regarding items on the agenda not requiring a public hearing and on matters which can be affected by CDA action.

So no public comments.

Closed.

All right.

Next agenda item.

We have uh public hearing in action on the 2027 streamlined annual PHA plan.

And Kelly, are you going to present on that?

Yeah, I will present that on Jennifer's behalf.

So every five years we do a full five-year plan for our rental assistance or section commonly referred to as Section 8 program.

In between those, we do what's a streamlined plan, or very similar to what you'll see in CDBG and home as our annual plan.

This one's a lot easier and a lot shorter.

So that's really nice for us.

Just a couple of things to highlight for what our accomplishments were for last year was we were able to preserve the 11 units of affordable housing by way of the Jeffries Flats location by utilizing our home ARP funds.

That building is now fully occupied.

It continues to flood every time that it rains, even when it's not significant.

So they're working on

it.

But the rest of the units are occupied, and those are occupied by project-based vouchers, so it's in in line with our Section 8 program.

Once they graduate from their program, then they will receive a housing choice voucher.

For a period of time, we were able to utilize a payment standard of 115% of fair market value.

HUD requires us to be between 90 and 110, but you can use a special exception to go 115.

That allows us to have folks live in units that may not be affordable when it's 110% market value.

We all know that that the cost of housing is is gone up exponentially, and the formula that HUD uses doesn't keep

up.

We did have to reduce that back down to the 110 based on budget concerns.

But we will continue to keep an eye on

that.

We have promoted our home ownership opportunities through a place of my own.

Anna will have a uh a little announcement on that um during the director's report.

And um we do an enhanced property quality inspection program.

HUD only requires us to inspect properties every two years.

However, um we inspect if a property fails, we do it on an annual until such time that it passes on our first inspection, and then we'll go every two years on those.

We think that's important because if the property owners are not keeping up with the property when they know we're coming, if they know we're gonna be gone for two years, that that certainly doesn't give them any incentive to continue to maintain the property.

So you will need to open a public hearing on this and um and then take a vote to approve the plan as attached.

You'll see it, it's very HUD-like.

Um there's nothing in here that should alarm you, or if you've got questions, I'd be happy to answer

them.

Uh yeah, I will go ahead and open the public hearing uh regarding the streamlined 2027 annual PHA plan.

It doesn't seem like there's any

public comments, um any questions, comments from CDA members.

Or

really