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
8:40-9:20		Speaker -- 
9:20-9:30		Other Items:  
				County HAC Report 
				City of Orlando HAC Report
				Counseling Collaborative
		New Business:
				Review correspondence
		Next membership meeting -- Wednesday, January 31, 2000 @ 8:30 am 
		Adjourn	(TOTAL MEETING TIME -- 1 HOUR AND 45 MINUTES)

Future Meeting Schedule:
January 31, February 28, March 28, April 25, May 30, June 27, July 25, August 29, September 26, October 26, and November 28. No meeting in December.

THE NONPROFIT HOUSING ROUNDTABLE OF CENTRAL FLORIDA - ACTION PLAN

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: Barbara Morton, Louis Laubscher, Stacy Starke, Jerrie G. Magruder, Victor M. Alvardo, Fran James, Verl Emrich, Rafael Polanco, Cynthia H. Smith, Weldon Ledbetter, Jean Mowat, Gloria Oliver, Mike Daly, Lelia Allen, Phyllis Lester, Linda Larkin, John D. Huguenard, Gaile Moody Plowden, Celreta Lewis, Kevin O'Rawe, Shelly Booth, Bob Ansley, Marty Crean, Robert H Brown, Lisa Pokrywa, David Levine, Jody Hill, Michele Levy, John Hazelroth

Agenda Item 1 - Approval of Minutes

Minutes unanimously approved.

Agenda Item 2 - Jody Hill, FIND

FIND stands for Florida Interfaith Networking in Disaster.

• FIND coordinates funding and services in the aftermath of a disaster.
• They are not a response organization, but a coordination organization.
• One of the big areas that Jody is concerned about involves mitigation. This is the elimination of issues prior to a disaster occurring. This could be as simple as education, or as complicated as changing structures and buying out buildings or renovating buildings that are not structurally sound.
• There are substantial grants available to help in the mitigation. For instance, under new construction or renovation, oftentimes money is available to construct the facilities to meet the disaster guidelines. In the past, much of this money went to emergency organizations and more law enforcement agencies. Now there appears to be a push in the future to deal more with structures and particular housing.
• Jody indicated that they are attempting to get this money freed up so that it can be combined with CDBG and SHIP dollars so as to be used to retro-fit homes or construct new homes that meet these mitigation guidelines.
• She suggested that we invite the Mitigation Strategy Task Force from the local county to our meeting. They may be able to articulate plans for mitigation.
• Next month there will be a more in-depth discussion on this topic and present will be Brad Moore who handles FEMA monies for the southeastern United States.

Agenda Item 3 - Bob Ansley (ONIC)

Bob was on-hand to talk about the W Church Street Apartments.

• The property was originally purchased by Carolina Properties. Bob had an apartment in the middle of the Carolina site and determined it was feasible to swap out the property. In order for them to develop the property, they needed to develop a high powered partnership. For this they turned to Bank of America Community Development Corporation.
• The initial design calls for 250 units, of which 40 percent of these will be for very low to low income residents. They used a multiple variety of funding to accomplish this task.
• What complicated the project considerably was the fact that Hughes Supply was constructing a 150,000 square foot office building and the City asked that this building be a part of the entire development. This in turn shrunk the site and required that the parking be placed on the first two floors and housing units be placed on the floors above these. This added three million dollars to the total construction cost. On November 2nd, they were awarded bond funds from the County.
• There will be a total of 81 one-bedroom units at 525 to 725 square feet. There will be 150 two-bedroom/two-bath units and 13 three bedroom/two-bath units. There will be a 1,000 foot parking garage and 150,000 square feet of office space. There will also be 25,000 square foot of commercial space on the first floor. In addition to a business center/fitness center, there will be a pool and terrace on the sixth floor and all the units will be wired for the internet.
• The rents will range from $370 to $1,150 and the income to qualify for these apartments will be $18,000 to $51,000. The goal in this case was to develop a mixed-income community and to also create jobs and employment opportunities in the Parramore area.

Agenda Item 3 - Gloria Oliver (Counseling Collaborative)

• Gloria Oliver reviewed some of the accomplishments from last year. One of the biggest was the adoption of a core curriculum. Gloria indicated that anyone interested in this core curriculum can contact her at 407-872-7762.
• With respect to the upcoming year, several items are on the agenda to be accomplished. They will do another home buyer fair, sometime in the fall. They will also help organizations who are doing their own home buyer fair. Golden Rule is the first agency who will be doing an independent home buyer fair and that will be held on March 21st of next year. In addition, they will also be bringing in national trainers either from AHECA or NRC to train home buyer counselors. Another item which the Counseling Collaborative is excited about is the development of home buyer clubs. They are working in conjunction with Fannie Mae to develop home buyer clubs for industry and for interfaith groups. The first home buyer club is scheduled to be setup for the nonprofit agency Quest.
• The agency will be relocating their offices to 500 Altamonte Springs Drive, Suite 210, Altamonte Springs. The new phone number will be 407-872-7762 and the fax is 407-834-7707. The grand opening will be sometime in January.
• The Counseling Collaborative has drafted the 501(c)(3) application and has filed the new Articles of Incorporation. By the first of the year, they should be totally autonomous from the Roundtable.
• At the meeting, HUD presented a Memorandum of Understanding which complimented the Collaborative on their efforts and which agreed to work with the Collaborative in facilitating home buyer counseling programs and to identify best practices which can be duplicated in the area of home buyer counseling.

Item Agenda 4 - Miscellaneous Business

• Lisa from the County was on-hand and indicated that within 2-3 weeks there will be a Notice of Funding utilizing $800,000 worth of HOME funds for special needs populations for multi-family projects. For more information, contact Lisa at 407-836-4240, ext. 131. She also indicated that the revised Consolidated Plan is now being reviewed and the final plan will be available within two months.
• Jody Hill mentioned that the Unified Building Code is now being discussed at length. There is tremendous discussion between insurance companies and builders. The proposed legislation is projected to add between $5,000-$8,000 per home. She encouraged the Nonprofit Housing Roundtable to weigh in on this and to see if some of these new guidelines could be eliminated for areas in the central portion of the State.

This concludes the end of the minutes. The next meeting will be held Wednesday, January 31st, 2001, at 8:30 am, at Orlando City Hall.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew and the No Name Storm, faith affiliated disaster responders across Florida came together. Recognizing that communication and cooperation among responding disaster relief organizations would enhance the faith community's ability to meet long term unmet needs of disaster victims, these leaders sought to strengthen the way Florida faith communities would embrace disaster in the future. Florida Interfaith Networking in Disaster, FIND, was formed.

A mission to bring faith organizations together with allied agencies to network and to prepare and respond in the event of disaster was adopted. Faith communities throughout Florida would never again have to face disaster alone. FIND would be there to help faith leaders as they identified and sought to address disaster related unmet needs. Access to resources would be provided, needs would be met, homes would be rebuilt, lives would be renewed.

Jody Hill, from Florida Interfaith Networking in Disaster, FIND, will be on-hand to talk about potential FEMA funding and how nonprofit groups may access these funds.