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MISSION: To increase the supply of decent affordable housing provided by nonprofit organizations to low and very low income families through coordination among nonprofits to enhance capabilities, expand funding opportunities, maximize training, and develop new partnerships.
Time (Min) Agenda Item 8:00-8:30 Networking between members and guests 8:30-8:35 Introduction of members/guests (Katie Porta) 8:35-8:40 Approval of minutes 8:40-8:50 Sponsor — 8:50-9:15 Speaker — Florida Power (Malcolm Barnes) 9:15-9:30 Other Items: County HAC Report City of Orlando HAC Report Counseling Collaborative New Business: Review correspondence Next membership meeting -- Wednesday, March 28, 2001 @ 8:30 am Adjourn (TOTAL MEETING TIME -- 1 HOUR AND 45 MINUTES)
Future Meeting Schedule: March 28, April 25, May 30, June 27, July 25, August 29, September 26, October 26, and November 28. No meeting in December.
Goal 1. To educate the entire community on the role of the nonprofit sector as an important partner in the housing delivery process. a. Communicate housing and nonprofit needs to local area government b. Develop quantifiable goals for the Roundtable to allow for evaluation of this organization's effectiveness. c. Invite guest speakers to speak monthly. Pick out topic relevant to nonprofit housing providers (i.e. management, development, underwriting) and have speaker make 30 minute presentation. Goal 2. To pool skills and resources of nonprofit housing producers and housing support agencies a. To use the nonprofit Roundtable to gain organizational and functional strength to achieve our mission by convening regular meetings to share information, and to plan and coordinate activities of the participating nonprofits b. To evaluate and prepare an annual plan that quantifies projects and funding needs of the participating nonprofits and prepare joint funding support request to the various funding entities c. To promote and support emerging nonprofit housing organizations. Goal 3. To pursue various partnership opportunities and linkages with for-profit developers and builders. a. Strengthen relationships between nonprofits and private sector b. To become active participants in the Homebuilder's association to cultivate support of for-profit developers and builders and to seek out opportunities for joint-ventures, other business relationships and mentoring. Goal 4. To pursue activities that would increase the availability of low cost funds to nonprofits. a. Subscribe to legislative, funding resource. Monitor and report on upcoming funding programs. b. Develop calendar of funding source with contact, deadline and summary information. Goal 5. To pursue activities that would encourage governments to provide grants and loans to nonprofits for technical assistance and housing production.
Present: Kevin O'Rawe, Mike Mikkola, Shirley Simmons, Rafael
Polanco, Jerrie G. Magruder, Silvia Ibeinez, Mike
Daly, Stacy Starke, Bob Mielin, Victor M. Alvardo, Kathy Bryant,
Diana Cook, Patricia Andrews, Fran James, Steve
Chitwood, Joanne Lowery, Gloria Oliver, John Halebuth, Joe Sandley,
and John Hazelroth
Agenda Item 1 – Jerrie Magruder, HUD
Jerrie Magruder, from HUD, was on-hand to talk about the new lead-based
paint regulations. The following are
excerpts from her presentation.
• Several years ago, Jerrie did a research paper on lead-based
paint poisoning. The research showed that lead-based
poisoning had a dramatic impact on children. Often times, people
think that children eat the paint off the walls, but
this is not a common occurrence. What happens more often is that
paint chips get ground up by people walking on
them and get mixed into the dirt and are inhaled by the children.
Children six years old and younger are dramatically
impacted. Particularly, as it relates to their nervous system
and their learning abilities. Under the new regulations, if a
child is exposed to levels at 15 or greater, the apartment manager
is required to relocated these people to a non-lead
unit.
• A good source for information on lead-base paint is www.hud.gov/lea.
• The new regulations cover projects that have federal money,
public housing authority units, apartments that receive
Section 8 tenants, HUD insured properties, and other federal monies
used for special needs projects. Not covered are
projects built after 1978, single-room occupancy projects, efficiencies,
or those designed for the elderly and disabled.
• It is no longer okay to encapsulate the paint. In the past,
this was allowed but the monitoring cost over a long period
of time exceeded the actual removal cost. Now, HUD is requiring
that the lead-based paint be removed.
• On March 26th and 27th, HUD is offering free lead-based
paint training. There will be other training, but this is the
first one and it will occur in Orlando. To get more information
on the training classes, one can go to the web site at
www.leadlisting.org/leadlisting/transitionassistance.nsf/docs/home.
Agenda Item 2 – Florida Partners (Diane Cook)
Diane was on-hand to talk about the community housing development
process. The following are excerpts from the
meeting:
• Florida Community Capital is a community housing development
organization or CHDO. This organization lends
money out to nonprofit or for-profit organizations developing
affordable housing.
• A CHDO designation is favorable in that it allow nonprofit
organizations to apply for special asides of HOME
dollars. At the state level, 15 percent of these dollars is set
aside for only CHDO organization.
• When applying for a CHDO, one must apply at all levels,
which includes state, county, and local. Often times the
requirements are the same, but to be a CHDO and receive special
consideration from each governmental level, you
have to submit the applicable application.
• One of the key requirements of the CHDO is that you must
have low income individuals on the board from the
neighborhoods which you represent. For boards looking to become
a CHDO, they may have to change their board
structure. A third of the board must meet this criteria.
• For information regarding CHDOs in Orange County, interested
individuals may call Lisa Pokrywa, at 407-836-5173.
Diane Cook can be reached at 407-898-1661.
• Jerrie Magruder also indicated that HUD has a significant
amount of information on CHDOs. She suggested that
people go to the HUD web site at www.hud.gov and look up under
CHDO.
Agenda Item 3 – Miscellaneous Items
• Mike Daly indicated that the super-NOFA is out. For more
information go to the HUD web site at www.hud.gov.
• Gloria Oliver was on-hand and indicated that Golden Rule
will be sponsoring a home buyer fair. Cynthia
Smith from Golden Rule was also on-hand and she indicated that
the home buyer fair will take place on
March 24th between 8 am and 3 pm at the downtown Sanford Civic
Center. She is still looking for
sponsorships and she encourages all interested people to call
her at 407-324-9123. Cynthia indicated that
there will be free credit reports available and the even will
be similar to that sponsored last year by the
Counseling Collaborative.
• Gloria Oliver indicated that they are not going to offer
the home buyer counseling training certification at
this time. There were not enough interested individuals. They
will reevaluate this later in the year. Gloria
indicated that Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation and AHECI
will be offering classes outside the
State of Florida, in the interim. For more information, Gloria
can be reached at 407-830-7762.
• Lisa Pokrywa, from Orange County, checked into the hazardous
mitigation plan. This was follow-up as to
last month's meeting in which the Federal Emergency Management
Association presented information. Lisa
was proud to announce that the plan was adopted in August of 1999,
and it did mention that affordable
housing was mentioned in the plan. What this means is that interested
organizations may be able to access
dollars to improve their affordable housing projects. For instance,
in last month's prevention individuals
indicated that you could upgrade your community areas so that
they could be used for a shelter, or you could
do other improvements that could help meet hurricane codes. These
costs could be covered by FEMA
dollars. Lisa indicated that she will check with the staff at
Emergency Management to try to determine how
organizations can access this FEMA money. She will report back
to the Collaborative on this.
• Victor Alvardo was on-hand to talk about the Task Force
for Housing for the Disabled. This task force has
been meeting for several months and discussing the entire issue
of housing for individuals who are disabled.
Victor indicated that the task force is now trying to do a survey
of persons with disabilities in the community
to quantify the housing needs. They are finalizing the survey
and looking for funding to help offset the cost
of this at the present time. Once this survey is complete, they
will provide a summary report to local and
state governmental agencies. The hope here is to have these agencies
allocate resources to housing for
persons with disabilities. The report will be available in both
print form and on the Nonprofit Housing
Roundtable site at www.nphr.org. Victor indicated that they hope
to have the survey out sometime early this
summer.
• Silvia Ibeinez is a board member from the Orange County
Affordable Housing Advisory Committee. She
attended the Roundtable in hopes of getting information to bring
back to advisory committee. The advisory
committee is a key organization that meets and discusses affordable
housing issues within the County.
Should someone want to reach Silvia, they can contact her at 407-856-9449.
The Roundtable encourages
participants to contact Silvia with any comments, questions, or
issues that the County should be considering.
This concludes the end of the minutes. The next meeting will be
held Wednesday, March 28th, 2001, at 8:30 am, at
Orlando City Hall.
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