All right, I would like to welcome everybody to this 2 p.m. meeting of the Sacramento Housing

Authority and City Council. I'm going to now call to order it to 3 p.m.

Madam City Clerk, will you please call the roll.

Thank you.

Councillor Kaplan.

Councillor Member Tell.

Councillor Member sorry, Mayor Pro Temtelomatis.

Councillor Member of Ellen Swellen.

Here, Vice Mayor Maple.

Here.

Councillor Member Gareth.

Is absent.

Councillor Member Jennings.

Here.

Councillor Member Fing.

Here.

And Mayor Steinberg is absent.

Okay.

We believe that Councillor Gareth will be joining us momentarily.

With that, Councillor Kaplan, would you mind leading us in the land acknowledgment and

the pledge allegiance?

Absolutely.

We stand for evil.

We open acknowledgments in honor of Sacramento's indigenous people in tribal lands.

To the original people of this land.

The Nisanan people, the southern may do, the Vali and plain me walk, the Putwin-Wintoon

peoples, and the people of Wilton Rancheria, Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe.

May we acknowledge and honor the native people who came before us and still walk beside

us today on these ancestral lands by choosing to gather today in the act of practice of

acknowledgment and appreciation for Sacramento's indigenous peoples' histories, contributions,

and lives.

Thank you.

Pledge.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for

which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

All right.

Thank you, Councillor Member Kaplan.

And we will start out this very exciting hearing with item number one.

Authorization to dispose of property at 1224 North B Street.

Welcome.

Good afternoon, Vice Mayor and members of the Council.

My name is Vicki Smith.

I'm a management analyst with SHRA.

And this report requests your authority to sell a housing authority owned property at

1400 North B Street to the Salvation Army.

The housing authorities own this property since June of 1989.

It was originally purchased as part of a proposed social services campus that was envisioned

in the area at that time.

Properties been leased to the Salvation Army for the operation of their women's shelter

since that time.

They also own the adjacent property which is located at 1200 North B Street which is utilized

as a men's shelter and both buildings are operated together as Salvation Army's center

of hope and they provide 140 shelter beds, mightly.

There's no foreseeable use that the housing authority can think of for this property.

So staff is recommending selling it to selling 1224 North B Street at Fair Market Value

to Salvation Army and offering them a 30-year seller carry-back loan for the purchase which

will be a zero interest loan.

The current Fair Market Value is $310,000 and loan payments will be made annually for

the term of the loan.

The agreement will require that Salvation Army continue operations of the property as

a shelter and staff in their due diligence confirm that Salvation Army has adequate funds

to continue these operations.

Once approved by the board staff will complete the process with the goal of having the property

transferred by the end of the year.

And that concludes my presentation.

We're here for any questions and also real rate from Salvation Army as well.

I appreciate that.

Madam City Clerk, do we have any public comment on this item?

We have no public comment.

All right.

Here you can see not.

Councillor Vance will.

Thank you and thank you so much for bringing this item forward.

Thank you to Salvation Army for operating important services.

I'm happy to open and close the public hearing and move this item.

Thank you.

Motion in a second.

Okay.

I will all those in favor.

Please say hi.

Anyone opposed?

We've seen.

All right.

That passes unanimously.

Thank you very much.

All right.

Moving on to the very exciting discussion calendar item.

Welcome.

Good afternoon, council members.

My name is Stephanie Green.

I'm the program manager for federal programs at SHRA.

SHRA administers had formula program grants on behalf of the city.

And today we're asking you to approve the five year consolidated plan as well as the

2025 annual action plan for those funds.

The consolidated plan we're asking you to approve identifies the goals which will guide

the one year action plan priorities for federal programs over the next five years.

And the 2025 action plan identifies specific activities that will be undertaken over the

next year with our federal entitlement grants to meet the objectives identified in the

consolidated plan.

Heidi Agler from root policy who is our consultant for the consolidated planning process is

here to discuss the consolidated plan, the process and the outcomes after which I will

go over the 2025 action plan.

Heidi?

Excellent.

Thank you.

Welcome.

Thank you, everyone.

It's my pleasure to be here to talk about the consolidated plan.

A couple.

For those of the members of the public who are attending, give you a little bit of a brief

background on the consolidated plan.

The purpose of the consolidated plan, as Stephanie mentioned, is to identify community

needs.

The first phase which was in process over the last five or six months and then develop

a strategy and guidelines for allocating funds to be able to meet the identified needs.

We conducted extensive consultation with stakeholders and by stakeholders I mean people who are

in the practice of housing and community development and supportive services as well as residents

and I'll talk about that engagement throughout my presentation.

So I'm going to touch on the community engagement initially.

I'll move into something called the needs assessment.

That's where we look at the needs of different types of populations in finding housing and

supportive services.

Talk a little bit about the housing market and how that's changed and then I'll move

to the strategic plan goals.

Stop to get comment and then turn it over to Stephanie for the action plan presentation.

So in terms of the community engagement, we undertook a number of activities and this

started in the spring of 2024 and continued throughout the summer.

My colleague Sherry Colter and I conducted interviews with stakeholders those were virtually

one on one as well in a small group setting both in person as well as a V Zoom or Teams.

And this included city and county staff, affordable housing providers and non-profit service

providers.

So people who are in the business of providing services to low and moderate income people.

We conducted outreach to 11 low to moderate neighborhood associations, helped them understand

how to promote the survey, the resident survey that we were fielding for the study.

We also offered to come to their meetings both in person or virtually to talk about the

plan, educate their residents about the plan and encourage them to become involved.

We also did what we called pop up tableings.

So we set up tables, we had activities, we came to a number of events that you see here.

We also did these activities in citrus heights, they were a partner in completing the consolidated

plan.

And overall we had about a little over 400 city residents complete the survey.

You can see here on the slide those sort of sub bullets there show you the types of representation

that we got demographic, demographically.

This survey is not meant to be statistically significant.

What we're trying to do is reach underrepresented populations and low to moderate income populations

to really understand their needs.

We did a pretty good job with that.

About 50% of the household had children, 11% were single parents, 14% were currently or

previously unhoused.

That's a really hard population to capture.

So we're really happy to see that share of folks who contributed to the survey.

29% and publicly assisted or income based housing.

About half had reported incomes under $75,000 a year.

And we had a pretty good distribution of residents racially and ethnically.

I will note if you're looking at that last bullet and trying to add that up to 100%,

you'll see it doesn't quite get there.

And that's because we had a large number of people decline to report their race or ethnicity

or report it as other.

In terms of the needs assessment, and I'm following the framework of the consolidated plan in my

presentation, what HUD looks for when they do a needs assessment is they're really looking

for a deep dive for populations that have significant needs.

The first bullet here, cost burden and severe cost burden, that's where households pay

more than 30%, or 50% of their income in housing costs.

There's the most common housing problems, and it's become more common as housing prices

have gone up.

When we asked people, both stakeholders as well as residents participating in the survey,

what their top needs were, we found a particularly here in the city that home improvement rehabilitation

needs were prevalent for low income residents.

They told us they needed grab bars, they needed modifications to their showers and their

bathrooms to be able to stay in their homes and age in their homes.

This certainly presents an opportunity for affordable housing preservation.

Mental health services and services for the unhoused were top community priorities.

So we asked folks responding to the survey what they would prioritize, and many in the

city, so many of the city's respondents prioritize mental health services, a little bit different

for the county.

They tended to prioritize services for people who are elderly.

We heard a lot about difficulty in navigating supportive services, so really trying to

find where do I go, where can I get help, and there was a lot of obstacles expressed to

accessing services.

Then in terms of housing emergency and permanent supportive housing was a top need coupled

with homeless prevention, and then services direct rental assistance to be able to prevent

eviction.

Terms of the market analysis, so we take, we do something called a gaps analysis where

we compare the distribution of rental units to the distribution of renters who need affordable

units, where there is a difference we call that a gap.

We also first start with people who have very, very low incomes, knowing that they're not

going to be able to find housing in the private sector, and we look at how many units

have publicly subsidized housing areas to help them.

That first bullet gives you the results from that analysis.

There are approximately 24,000 households who earn, and this is just in the city of Sacramento,

who earn $25,000 per year or less.

These renters need housing, they need rental units that cost less than $625 a month, and

you might imagine that's really hard to find.

Usually those units are publicly supported.

There is a gap of about 17,000 units when we compare the number of renters in that

income bracket with the number of units to serve them.

We look at home buying opportunities.

We found that more than 80% of homes are only affordable for folks with income of 100,000

or more, and 50% of those are 150 and more, so pretty hard to buy a home right now,

unless you're making 150,000 and more.

When we talked to stakeholders and asked them about community development needs, they said

infrastructure improvement, vacant lot, disposition, environmental remediation is really their

top needs to be able to support community development, particularly in low income neighborhoods.

And workforce development, digital literacy, financial counseling, and small business startup

assistance was also a top priority expressed by stakeholders.

We put all of this information together and I'm sure you've had a chance to peruse the

study that's been available for public comment.

We have in that study both the needs assessment and I just really scratched the service with

highlights, pretty in-depth market analysis, and then a very robust analysis of the community

engagement findings that I hope that you all can use for broader planning purposes.

We put all that together and we come up with recommended goals.

We worked really closely with SHRA and with city staff to be able to refine these goals

to make sure that they adequately represented the strategy that will guide funding over

the next five years.

And those goals are develop, preserve, and finance a continuum of decent and affordable

housing, and that would include rehabilitation and facilitating those connections to wrap

around services, so really bolstering housing plus supportive services.

Local 2 speaks to revitalizing low-income neighborhoods, eliminating blight, and promoting

economic development that would include vacant lot, and environmental remediation, as well

as improving streets, parks, and sidewalks, making all of those more accessible, making

them better, and low-income neighborhoods and improving safety.

Goal 3 providing community and support services, HUD calls these public services, but you

could think of those as a services that nonprofits provide to low-income people.

Goal 4 promote equal housing opportunities and coordinate with fair housing advocates

to bolster landlord education and outreach, so help not only residents, but housing providers

understand what their rights are under fair housing law.

Goal 5 contribute to continued improvement of the continuum of care system.

That's the system that people experiencing homelessness go through to be able to get

help.

Goal 6, and this really speaks to that community navigator services that we talked about, so

challenges that people have in finding the services that they need.

Working on implementing effective and efficient management practices to enhance customer service,

HUD calls this institutional structure, so taking a leadership role on ensuring that

people can get the services that they need.

Goal 7 speaks to workforce development, so investing in workforce development, digital

literacy, giving people the ability, particularly low- and moderate-income households, the ability

to be able to start businesses and be successful.

Goal 8 speaks to disaster response and recovery activities.

And Goal 9 is supporting the Mirisol Village and Twin Rivers transitory development and light

rail station, and that would be through a section 108 loan.

That's a loan that is active that borrows against future CDBG funding to be able to make

improvements.

So with that, I'll go ahead and I'm happy to take any comments before we move into accomplishments

in the action plan.

Okay.

Any Councillors of comments now or would you like to read?

Yeah, okay.

We'll get through the presentation and then we'll answer questions.

Okay.

Thank you, Heidi.

So before I turn your focus from the consolidated plan to the 2025 annual action plan, I wanted

to provide an update on some accomplishments that were achieved in 2024.

A few infrastructure and public facility projects that were completed this year include

the O'Neill Field ADA compliant restroom, which was designed in construction of a new

ADA compliant restroom.

Torley Park playground equipment, which was designed in construction to replace existing

playground equipment, Northwood School Access improvements, which was pedestrian improvements

in the Northwood Elementary School community, and the Thelma and Hawk Park master plan,

which was to draft design and construction documents for that master plan.

For public services, we provide a variety of safety net programs.

This slide provides an estimate of the number of people and households served by those

programs in 2024.

Those programs include meals to seniors through the meals on wheels program, homeless and

housing assistance through our rapid rehousing activities, home repair programs through SHA's

home repair program and the rebuilding together program, as well as providing operational

funding for shelters.

I did also want to note here that today the open-armed shelter in the city of Sacramento

opened and that's providing 20 beds at an emergency shelter for people who are homeless

and have HIV or AIDS so that was another big accomplishment this year.

Now looking forward to 2025.

This slide shows what we anticipate receiving from HUD for each funding source in the city.

And this is an estimate based on previous years' allocations.

Overall we anticipate having approximately 10.2 million in funding in the city.

And this as you can see is for CDBG, which is community development block grant, home

which is home investment partnership program, ESG, which is emergency shelter's grant,

and then Hopplo, which is housing opportunities for persons with AIDS.

This table shows an overview of the proposed 2025 CDBG allocations by category.

The categories include infrastructure and public facilities improvements, housing development

and home ownership, which is allocated to multi-family rehabilitation and home repairs

for low-to-moderate income homeowners, public services, which is used for meals on wheels

and homeless activities, grant planning and admins.

So this is for staffing and also for our fair housing programs.

HUD loan repayment and this is that section 108 loan for the infrastructure at Marisol

Village.

And then we always include a line item for capital reserve in case any projects go over

budget.

This slide shows the proposed infrastructure and public facility projects for 2025.

I do want to note that the HUD eligible areas did change as of August this year.

About every five years, HUD comes out with new underlying low-moderate income data for

the eligible areas map.

So those maps to determine project eligibility have slightly changed to this year.

Based on those new eligible areas and other factors, the proposed projects include the Roblo

Community Park Project.

This project includes design, engineering and construction drawings for a future prefabricated

restroom building, Nino's Park, which is to replace the existing Totlott and adventure

play structures and accessibility improvements.

Dose Rio site remediation.

So this is to support environmental remediation for the triangle site near the Marisol Village

for future housing development.

For not park, this is new accessible walkway improvements.

Earl Warren Park, which is design, engineering and construction drawings for a replacement

of an existing restroom.

And 24th Street bypass park, which is installation of fitness equipment.

In addition to the infrastructure projects, the other two main categories we fund in the

action plan are housing and public services.

And for those programs, we propose to continue funding our ongoing programs, which also continue

to meet the goals of the new consolidated plan.

For CDBG, those programs include meals on wheels, homeless shelter activities, the home repair

programs, affordable housing rehab and our fair housing activities.

For ESG, we fund rapid rehousing and shelters.

For home, we fund new construction and rehab of multifamily housing.

And for Hoppa, we fund housing assistance and operations, case management and multifamily

acquisition and construction.

So that concludes my presentation.

We're asking you to approve the 2025 to 2029 Consolidate plan, the 2025 one-year action plan

for the city in the county.

And I'm available to answer any questions.

Thank you so much.

We really appreciate the wonderful presentation from you both.

And then one move on and see if there's any public comment.

Thank you.

We have no speakers on the site.

Okay.

First to Council Member Gare.

Thank you, Madam Vice Mayor.

First thank you very much.

Appreciate your staff's work on this and also the focus on some of our older parks that

have had, you know, restrooms and bathrooms and facilities that are not accessible to

families.

Appreciate the focus on rural, war and elementary.

And a lot of the focus that's being done around that area on both walking pedestrian

safety because it's adjacent to a school and it's the local open space for that area on

foot red road.

First question here that I have though is in the goals, you know, why is it, why do we identify

in the section 109 loan as its own standalone goal when the goals are generally broad?

I find that, I find that uncommon.

Yeah, that one is a little bit odd.

The reason we had to include that is because had requested that in order to continue using

the robust environmental document that we were prepared for the Twin Rivers project that

we had to continue it into the new consolidated plan so that we didn't have to redo the environmental

document and it had to be identified as a specific goal so that is the primary reason

that that's there.

So had specifically said that in order for us to continue to fund that we need to identify

it.

Okay.

And then that brings me to my second question.

You know, these are pretty general goals.

I mean, when I go back there it's, you know, I could argue pretty much just about anything

we do in the city fits in those goals.

And so there's two sides to that coin.

One, how can we actually focus on our limited resources or we just kind of spread everything

in and making our goals so broad that we can just fund any brand of me at the same time?

Because they do seem pretty, I mean, from everything from workforce development to housing

to lighting the safety of the technology.

Things to me if we're trying to tackle a problem we should be pretty specific about the

goals we're trying to set.

And on the flip side of that, the second side of the coin, you know, is if we need to change

this is a five year, this is a five year, the goals are set for the five year plan.

We're actually taking action on the 2025 numbers but how do these goals lock us into a future

council looking at priorities as they arise?

And another issue that may come up where we need to focus.

One particular one that has come to that we're trying to address immediately right now is

the impact on youth gun violence.

And so if that issue were to change or another issue comes up, how do the, these five year

action plan allow us to shift for priorities?

So explain to me that process that the federal government requires us.

Yeah, I'll try to answer your first question first.

Yes, they are fairly broad.

We are also limited certain categories.

For example, we can only fund a certain percentage of activities for public services each year.

Most of the funding goes to infrastructure projects.

So we are limited by that and by the amount of funding that we receive.

But the goals themselves are fairly broad.

Excuse me.

And I believe they are meant to be because that gives us a little bit of flexibility as

what we do with those funds throughout those five years.

And then as to your second question, if there is a change in priorities or if we foresee

that there is, we can do a substantial amendment to the consolidated plan at any point if we

do find that there is a major change in need.

But for the most part, these goals should direct our actions over the next five years.

Does that answer your question?

Yes, I just might add Christine Weigert with SHRI.

For example, I believe the youth programs would already be covered in those general goals

that we listed up there.

So that is one reason we leave them purposely broad.

Well, Madam Vice-Mierer, I'll go ahead and move the item here in the action plan.

But I'll just say for caution and are at least for us to continue to look through this as

the years come by that if I believe in the work that our staff is doing, I believe we

had immense impacts on road safety and issues that we funded.

We're doing some of this.

Ninjas Park, the funding for Ninjas Park is a huge improvement to an area that's needed

that.

And so these are throughout our city where there's great need.

But I also worry that if the goals are so broad and this council or the county is an actively

engaged, then it just kind of dilutes the work that we're trying to make an impact and

not that the agency isn't trying to do the best that it can.

But I just feel that the lack of focus could be problematic.

So don't obviously want to not have a plan in place that doesn't allow us to tap in money,

but I worry about that item.

So with that, we'll go ahead and move the staff report, but I'd like to continue this conversation

as we move through the five-year plan.

Thanks.

I'll take in.

And we have a motion in a second.

Do we have any other members wishing to make comments?

All right.

Seeing none.

For me, I just want to really want to agree with a lot of what my colleague said.

I think that having the right goals in place, having specificities important, but also,

I believe, having the ability to be flexible is important too because we know a lot of these

projects, as I've learned about this process, some of these projects are a little bit complicated

or weird.

And so I appreciate the flexibility too, so finding that sweet spot will be really important.

And I just really want to give a shout out for the investment in the addition of Argonaut

Park and this project in District 5.

It's a community that really deserves to have something like this happen, so I'm really

excited to be voting on this.

And so with that, I will call on Councilor Jennings to make a comment.

Thank you very much.

I would have seconded that if it hadn't already been done, but I think the question that

comes to mind is in the process of a five-year plan, how often will it come back to the

Council so that we can give input to any potential changes that we can make within the plan,

how often will that happen, or is there a plan for that right now that we know of that

it will come back?

Or do we need to request that it come back as we start talking about?

I believe you would need to request it.

I'm going to defer on the technicality.

Thank you.

Thank you, Stephanie.

What typically happens is that you do have the opportunity to provide input on the annual

spending as part of the action plan.

If you were to modify the goals, you would need to reopen the Consolidated Plan for that

modification.

And for those of you who were involved in these kinds of processes during the pandemic,

you saw a lot of those amendments.

So a lot of reopening of the goals of anybody's plan is the new federal dollars were coming

in to make sure that those were aligned.

I will say that I do think, and I have a lot of clients, I've done this for 25 years

for clients, some of our clients' goals are so broad that they are home rehabilitation

period or affordable housing.

And that's not really a strategy or a plan per se, just sort of a statement of what

could be.

I feel like the SHI did a really nice job of striking that balance between flexibility

but also really calling in and embedding priorities in these goals.

To the extent that you would have something, an activity that's not captured in these

goals, that would probably be something like a major natural disaster or sort of an exogenous

shock, that then you would be getting additional funds for, like a pandemic which would enable

you to add goals or to modify the plan.

That's probably the most likely scenario.

But I think the question was answered that it would be happy to be initiated from the

council to you.

And since we meet with the executive director, at least some of us do on a frequent basis,

I think it would be pretty easy for us to be able to communicate the need to change.

And so I'm confident in what's in front of us today, and as I say, I would have seconded

it, but it's already been done.

So I will third it.

You want to be an honorary third on this motion?

Yes, thank you.

Excellent, great comments.

And with that, please call the roll.

I guess we could have done all those in favor.

Say, I will do this instead because I think I know where this is out.

All those in favor.

Any opposed or abstained?

That passes unanimously.

Thank you.

Do we have any public comments on the agenda?

Thank you.

We have one.

Ron Esley?

Welcome.

Folks, it seemed like there's an elevated murder rate or assault rate on shrub property,

or stuff that shrub pays for.

And that's degradating neighborhoods like Oak Park.

There was one time two murders.

Now, what's right on shrub property?

It was across the alley on a vacant lot.

But it's within, say, 50 feet of shrub property.

And the reason why they got killed was because shrub property was there.

It was a private landlord or owner of the property.

Somebody would care.

But no one cares.

So you could preserve life if you distilled in shrub to, I don't know what you could do

to distill in shrub, but it's sad.

And then also shrub property.

We had Art Ballard who had KJ took it over.

But things were not the best, but they were under wraps.

Then when shrub foreclosed on Art Ballard, they turned it over to the John Stewart company

to manage.

This was before KJ bought it.

And you know, high noon, I saw two crack hose.

They were in the stairwell going up to the second floor, waving customers down.

They were too lazy to get up and do anything.

They were just sitting there.

Now how disgusting.

Would you like crack hose in your neighborhood, waving at customers?

It's sickening.

Shroud doesn't care.

Is that my time?

Yes.

Yes, thank you for your comment.

I really appreciate it.

Your comment is now complete.

Pressing one of those kills, which is like.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Yes, welcome.

I will propose that we perhaps save our council comments, questions, ideas for the 5 p.m.

meeting.

And then with that, I believe we are to adjourn into closed session.

Yes, thank you.

We are going to go ahead, sir.

Councillor Jennings.

I would love to save this for our session at 5.

But I have two interns that are in the audience and they are from UC Davis and UC Santa Barbara.

And they won't be here for the 5 o'clock meeting and I want to acknowledge them and they

work in City Hall.

Samantha Torres and Jade Morales.

Please stand.

Round of applause.

Thank you so much for your service on the 5th floor and with Councillor Jennings' office.

We are really thrilled to have you.

Do we have anything else?

I want to go on to quickly.

Okay.

So now we will adjourn into closed session.

Do you want to help us do that?

Madam City Clerk.

Thank you.

We will close in a adjournment to a special meeting for closed session at 3 o'clock.

We have two items.

First is pursuant to government code section 54957.6 for a matter pertaining to negotiations

with unrepresented employees, the city auditor.

The purpose is to confer with the city's chief negotiator, Mayor Steinberg.

The second item is pursuant to government code section 54957B for a matter pertaining

to personnel, performance evaluation of the city manager.

We have no public comment.

All right.

And with that, we are adjourned.

No problem.