Pima County Housing Commission
Pima County Recreation Center
2805 E. Ajo Way Room 104
Members
Present: Members
Absent: Staff & Guests:
Tim
Escobedo Frank Thomson Hank Atha
Ed
Taczanowsky Ken Anderson
Margaret Kish
David
Greenberg Frank Moreno Betty Villegas
Jon Miles Kathleen Buske
Gary Bachman
Steve
Craddock Henry Boice Marcos Ysmael
Scott Place Daniel Tylutki
Samantha Romero
Terry Galligan
Jon Miles stated that Brian Flagg who, although was at the meeting, was
not listed as a guest.
Motion by Jon Miles to approve with the one correction.
Motion seconded by Tim Escobedo.
Motion carried unanimously.
Guest Speaker Elezebeth Cameron, who was to give a
presentation on Accessibility Housing and Enable 2000, was unable to attend
meeting. The Commission agreed to let her present if she showed up later
or reschedule her for a future meeting.
IV.
Staff Report
A) Discussion
on differences between Enable 2000 and Inclusive Design Ordinance
Betty Villegas explained that staff had
planned this agenda item based on what Elezebeth Cameron was going to present.
Ed Taczanowsky suggested continuing this agenda item until Elezebeth Cameron
gave her presentation.
B) Update
on Bond Application
Staff handed out the final application and
scoring sheet. Gary Bachman stated that
the application had been released to the public and available through the Pima
County website. He also stated that a
public meeting had taken place at which time the applications had been passed
out, to the eight agencies in attendance that were likely to submit applications
in the future. The application will also be presented to the CHDO (Community Housing
Development Organizations) agencies at a meeting on March 30, 2006. Betty
Villegas added that the application was also publicized in the legal notices
section of the newspaper so that the public was notified about the availability
of the application.
Steven Craddock asked for clarification on the
additions to the scoring sheet since he had been absent for a couple meetings.
Gary Bachman and Ed Taczanowsky explained changes made based on the
recommendations from the Commission. Betty Villegas also stated that the
Commission had voted to use of RSMeans to measure the cost of construction for
any projects.
Scott Place asked for an update on what had
happened with RSMeans and the cost breakdown. Ed Taczanowsky informed him that
the numbers were very close.
Hank asked for clarification on the scoring
sheet under “Energy Efficiency.” He wanted to make sure that it was a possible
total of 10 points, not 10 points for each item. He also asked that the last
sentenced be reworded as it wasn’t very clear.
C) Update
on Housing Trust Fund
Betty Villegas stated that she would be
giving an update on what’s been going on
with the Housing Trust Fund since the Board of Supervisors approved the
Commission-recommended contribution fee schedule. She stated that the major
item that was addressed immediately was how the fee would transfer to escrow
from the point of the rezoning, and how to make sure that it got to the closing
at escrow. She explained that after meeting with Pima County Development
Services they found that it was at the rezoning condition where everything
could happen, so they are working on a housing agreement that would flow from
the developer to the builder to the buyer. She stated that there would be a
staff person designated for monitoring the housing agreements.
Ed Taczanowsky
asked if the housing agreement would require both the builder and the developer
to do something extra as a result of the zoning condition placed upon the
property. Betty stated that it was a deed restriction that was going to be
recorded in the actual deed and follow through to the first sale.
Betty Villegas stated that the wording in the
agreement was crucial and that she had made contact with a title company that
would be willing to help with the wording.
Request by Ed Taczanowsy that prior to any
implementation of the housing agreement that the commission gets to see the
proof and have time to comment on it.
Seconded by Steve Craddock.
Betty Villegas added that staff has been
looking at other options on how to capitalize the Housing Trust Fund. Ed Taczanowsky asked whether staff had looked
into the possibility of selling bonds on Wall Street using the income revenue
stream. Betty stated that it had been
looked into but since there was no history of it, it would be hard to convince
an investor to buy into it. Ed Taczanowsky gave an example of a school district
in California that used the Mello-Roos law to sell bonds using their revenue
stream and got $5-10 million up front. Betty suggested that Steve Russo, the
IDA bond counsel, come and talk to the commission.
Betty Villegas also stated that the Pima
County IDA has a loan program where they could offer a $250,000 five-year,
low-interest loan if the Commission could match it.
V.
Discussion on possible action on
joint meeting with Tucson Metropolitan Housing Commission.
A letter, requesting a joint meeting with the Commissioners,
from the Tucson Metropolitan was handed out. Betty Villegas stated that they
just wanted to get an update as to where the Commission was at with their Housing
Trust Fund and to see what other revenue streams the commission was looking at.
Scott Place suggested having a pre-meeting to prepare for
the joint meeting and Ed Taczanowsky requested that the Commissioners be able
to see the agenda more than 24 hours before the meeting.
Motion made by Ed Taczanowsky that in lieu of the regularly scheduled meeting on April 17th, the Commission combine that meeting with the April 24th date and include the City Metropolitan Housing Commission, and that the agenda include only this item as it is of great significance.
Motion seconded by Jon Miles.
Motion carried unanimously.
VI. Call
to the Audience
There were no comments from the audience.
VI.
Adjournment