All right, let's begin today's hearing.

Thank you, Mayor Councilmember Kaplan, here.

Councilmember Dickinson.

Here.

Vice Mayor Telemontes.

Here.

Thank you, Bob.

Here.

Councilmember Maple.

Here.

Mayor Pro Temgetta.

Here.

Councilmember Jennings.

Here.

Councilmember Vang.

I am here.

And Mayor McCarty.

Here.

Mayor Yavagorum.

Thank you.

Today's Sacramento City Council hearing today is the Housing Authority Agenda, a quarterly meeting

for the Sacramento Housing Authority.

We have SHRA here with us today.

Who would like to lead us in the land acknowledgement and the pledge of allegiance?

How about you, my Vang?

I just leave the land acknowledgement and with the further pledge of allegiance.

I'll take the pledge of allegiance.

Okay.

Thank you so much.

Please rise for the opening acknowledgement and honor Sacramento Indigenous people in tribal

lands if you are able to.

To the original people of this land, the Nisanan people, the Sallard Maidu, Valley and Plains

Mewok, Put Win and Win Two 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 active practice of

acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento Indigenous peoples, history, contributions,

and lives.

Thank you.

Please remain standing for the pledge of allegiance, salute.

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

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

Thank you.

Okay.

Item number one.

Item number one is City Council approval of additional funding for Donner Field Apartments.

Good afternoon, Mayor and City Council members.

My name is Wheatney Hinton, Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency.

Staff is requesting approval to commit an additional $2.8 million of home funds to the

Donner Field Senior Project.

In 1987, SHRA took ownership of the one acre property located 4501 9th Avenue.

In August of 2020, SHRA issued a request for proposal seeking a developer to construct

and manage new affordable housing.

Housing was selected to build senior apartments.

In June 2023, SHRA executed a conditional loan commitment of $7 million and SHRA federal

home and hoppled dollars, $2.6 million in mental health services act or MHSA, $1.25 million

in city general funds and a seller carried back loan, totaling over $10 million.

Over the last year and a half, the developer has applied for 9% tax credits and 4% tax

credits and bonds, but has been unsuccessful.

The project is now applying for bonds again later this month.

With additional funding from SHRA, the project should be more competitive to receive tax

exempt mortgage revenue bonds.

The Donner Field Project is a new construction project serving senior individuals age 55

and older at or below 50% of the area median income.

The property primarily comprised of one bedroom units, totaling 67 units to get all together.

Seventeen of those units will be reserved for project-based voucher and the MHSA clients.

The project will feature various amenities such as a computer room, a multipurpose room,

woodshare kitchen, a barbecue area, a bachibal court, and a community garden.

Eden Housing is both a developer and property management.

It is important to note that for Vellan Wages will be applied to the construction of this project.

15 hours of onsite resident services will be offered by Eden Housing Resident Services

Incorporated.

Classes will include but not limited to nutrition, ESL, Bingo, gardening, and counseling.

Sacramento County Department of Health Services or DHS will provide one full-time case manager

who will be responsible for the support of services for the 17 MHSA clients.

Having closing staffers request an additional $2.8 million of home funding for the Donnerfield

Senior Project and staff is available to answer any questions you may have.

Thank you.

Councillor Mabell.

And then there's no public comment on this.

That's correct.

There's no public comment on this too.

Thank you.

Thank you for the presentation.

Of course, this is a project hopefully that will happen in District 5 and a really important

moment.

We need a lot more senior housing in particular in that area and in the whole city.

My question is, so this additional funding, our goal or hope is that this will make the

project more attractive for the tax credits and other funding that it needs at the state

level.

That's correct.

Great.

And I just really want to thank you and thank the Stosure and your whole team for doing

this.

I know it's been a really long road, literally, since 1985 or 1987, to getting this to

here and it's been a challenge.

For those who are unfamiliar with the process at the state level, it's very complicated.

It takes a long time and it's very challenging to be competitive.

So in order to do that, we need to make sure that we're kind of putting our own skin in

the game.

And so thank you for doing it.

And I'll be—

Is this opening and closing the public hearing?

Is this public hearing?

Just a discussion.

I'll be making a motion to move the item.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Council Member Gare.

Thank you very much, Mayor.

First, I'd like to—I'll go ahead and second.

The motion with some direction if it's okay with the maker of the motion.

One, this was part of a sale of a number of vacant lots that we had had on SHRA owned.

So one, clearly I support the fact that we're getting going on the project and—I know

it's been challenging, even with the interest rates.

So it's important to make it competitors to novo.

It's also part of our stock and boulevard plan.

So it's getting that density up along the boulevard is going to help us be more competitive.

But the direction that I want is I'd like to make sure that we get a list of the updated

number of vacant lots and where we are on the sale of on all those lots.

At one point, I think it was something like 32 lots, but I now—very few, but yeah,

I'd like to see what we're at on those lots and locations.

And with that, we're excited.

Thank you for the work.

And hopefully we can be more competitive this time.

Thanks.

Council Member Kaplan.

Thank you, Mayor.

I just want to echo the request from Mayor Pro Temgara on that.

It would be interesting because this was before my time, so just an update on that.

And then just a couple of questions just for—while we're getting an additional 2.8 from home,

which is the Home Investment Partnership Program, what I want to understand is what is

home.

Do we have an extra pot of money?

And are we taking away from another potential project?

Because how do we have an additional 2.8 million dollars just for an understanding?

And by the way, fully supportive, but I think it's also important for projects that are coming

down.

We know more are going to have financial gaps.

How much money do we have not have for some of these?

It's a home.

It's part of our federal dollars that we receive on an annual basis.

And we receive, look, Christine, say how much.

I can't recall that right now, but we receive a certain allocation from the federal government.

And then we advertise those funds twice per year.

And so this was part of the previous allocation that we advertised and the project was selected

to move for for the additional funding that was available at the time.

Okay, but they were originally approved first.

And this is a mending coming back for additional home funds.

Is it because when it was advertised, others didn't come forward.

So we had this or this was more a priority over the other ones.

This is an additional allotment of funds.

Rick, Whitney is Christine, why I call this S-H-R-A.

These are additional 2025 home funds.

The city receives about $2.5 million of home funds annually.

And Whitney is correct.

We advertise those in December and then we'll advertise them again in the middle of the

year.

What funds are available?

This is the new funding for home.

The previous allocation of funds were from older dollars.

But we will be coming forward in April, I believe.

April or May, in giving the council a complete accounting of all the funding sources we receive

for housing finance and what projects they were allocated to.

So, but just for understanding for other developers who may be looking.

So did I understand you correctly?

We get about 2.5 million from the federal government.

And then this is an allocation of 2.8 because there's probably leftover rollover funds.

So by approving this we actually won't have any other home funds available or am I missing

something?

And you know what I think I just misspoke.

I'm so sorry.

These funds were awarded in 2024.

December or sorry, the middle of 24.

The new funds for 25 have yet to be allocated.

That is my mistake.

I'm sorry.

But yes, once a pre-application comes in and the funds are allocated then they are not

available to other developers.

So we'll still have the opportunity if another development who needs help with gap financing.

Approximately 2.5 ish will be available for 2025.

In January, yes, we advertise those funds.

Yeah, perfect.

Thank you.

I just wanted some background information.

I think that's really helpful.

Thank you.

Councilmember Dickinson.

Thanks, Mayor.

I am very supportive of this project.

I just had a question or two.

I'm looking at the site plan.

It was a little hard to tell whether the parking is all uncovered or is the shaded areas

for parking covered.

Did you tell a question?

If this is senior housing, then it becomes perhaps a little bit more of a consideration.

This is a podium parking.

So much of the parking is underneath the first floor.

Oh, I see.

Okay.

The second question I had related to that.

There's some uncovered as well.

I'm sorry, Councilmember.

Sorry.

There's both.

There's underneath the building and then there's out against the property line is uncovered

and the other is covered.

Okay.

The other question I had related to this was whether or not and I looked at the amenities

and the description of the project looked at the site plan.

I just wondered whether there's any electric charging availability on this site.

I'd please leave there is.

Thank you very much.

Yes.

Okay.

And how many units are you anticipating for electric?

How many parking stalls however you want to describe it?

How much capacity will there be for electric charging?

We looked at all of this when the project was first funded so I'm a little rusty on that

but I want to say two or three spots.

Okay.

Okay.

Well I think that's good.

It's probably the minimum that we should be doing but if we want people to move to zero

mission vehicles we've got to lead the way and especially in multi-family of having the

opportunity to charge.

Absolutely.

You know the.

Okay.

The Energy Commission tells us that 80% of charging occurs at home and so we want to try

to at least from my point of view we want to try to set an example in the projects that

we're doing so that other multi-family developers in the private sector are aware of and hopefully

motivated to meet at least the same thresholds.

So again that's good news to hear.

In the future maybe put that in the description that's a good thing to put and I hope this

action today does make this project more competitive at the state level because certainly the

demand far exceeds the supply in the state process so let's keep our fingers crossed on

that point I guess.

Thanks.

Thank you.

No further questions.

I just want to note Roger that this is a project that you and I remember from nearly

20 years ago and I just talked to the Shell here.

We select another developer for this project for the former Donna school site and you know

it's still drive by every day you can't drive by and see it's behind the school there

but you drive through the neighborhood.

I was wondering what ever happened to that project never happened so here we are today

and hopefully this is the last action we'll take before we see construction starting out

there but this is an important area of Sacramento needed affordable housing and targeting

our senior population so excited to see it's finally come to fruition.

So with that we have a motion and a second already.

All in favor please say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed or abstentions?

Being none.

unanimous.

Action.

So Mayor we now move to Housing Authority Council comments ideas questions.

AB123 reports.

Are you here for this project?

No.

Seeing none is there an executive directors report?

No executive directors report.

I do have one speaker for public comments matters not on the agenda.

Kai on.

Good afternoon Mayor and Councilmember last week I was in the city council meeting and

submit a letter to request the council to discuss about why a low body in the city

investigate that Sacramento Police Department provide a fake investigation report and provide

fake driver that killed my father.

I also mentioned that I have been in the city council meeting since last February.

It's almost one year but still I have no answer from the city that who was the real driver

that killed my father and where is the real investigation report.

Mayor could you please provide comment on my request that I request the city council or

the law and legislation committee to discuss my complaint.

Thank you.

Mayor have no more speakers for public comments matters not on the agenda.

Okay thank you.

So you have no more business.

You have no more business before the city council housing authority.

You may adjourn.

Okay thank you.

We'll join back at three o'clock.