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HomeMy WebLinkAbout11-21-2022 Lansing Housing Commission Lansing Housing COMMISSION 419 Cherry St., Lansing, MI 48933 Telephone:(517)487-6550 Fax: (517)487-6977 Minutes of November 21, 2022 Commissioner Henry called the meeting to order at 5:36 p.m. Mr. Fleming called the roll. PRESENT AT ROLL CALL: Commissioners Emma Henry, Don Sober, Ashlee Barker, Loria Hall, and Heather Taylor (absent). STAFF: Kim Shirey Marcus Hardy Jennifer Burnette Douglas Fleming Steven Raiche Guests: None Commissioner Hall motioned and Commissioner Barker seconded a motion to approve the minutes of the October 26, 2022, commission meeting. The Motion was approved by all members present. Public Comment: limit 3 minutes per person Action Items: Informational Items: Finance Report October 2022 Steven Raiche • Received final report for Plante Moran with no negative remarks. Commissioner Hall motioned and Commissioner Barker seconded a motion to accept the Plante Moran Audit. The Motion was approved by all members present. • Lansing Housing Commission is not where we were a year ago. We are not where our budgeted numbers were. We are putting a significant amount of money into our low- income housing, especially our scattered sites. • We are getting the scattered site houses up to scratch before we sell them. TDD/TTY#:1-800-545-1833 Ext.919 n "Equal Housing Opportunity"& Lansing Housing Commission Board Meeting January 31,2023 Lansing Housing Commission Minutes November 21,2022 Pa—1 of 5 0 �yGt •Y:: : Lansing Housing COMMISSION 419 Cherry St., Lansing, MI 48933 Telephone:(517)487-6550 Fax: (517)487-6977 Housing Choice Voucher October 2022 Jennifer Burnette provided a brief overview of the October 2022 HCV Reports • During the month of October, we have been ramping up the Family Self Sufficiency outreach. We have 11 voucher participants that will potentially be scheduled for future orientation and hopefully we will get them signed up for that program. We hope to get at least half of them signed up. • As of the end of October we were waiting for approval for our new admin plan from HUD. You will see in next month's report that we did get approval. • We issued 15 vouchers in the month of October for the regular HCV program. 3 VASH vouchers were issued during the month of October. We have 135 households that are currently out searching for units in the regular HCV program. We have 30 applicants that are pending documentation or final approval. We have 36 units that are approved and pending inspection and 29 that are pending lease-up. So we are starting to see a nice increase in those that are finding housing and getting leased up. we are looking forward to those numbers raise during the next few months. • Kim — Regarding the HUD stability vouchers, we have been awarded 16 of these vouchers. You have to work with your local continuum of care. Ask to bypass this function. It could take up to 30 to 45 days and just applied at the end of October. There is no local of continuum of care. Funding is a problem. We are going to use our waitlist system to issue these vouchers. Asset Management Report October 2022 Public Housing (PH) Scattered Sites — Marcus Hardy • Public Housing Scattered Sites had an occupancy rate of 98% at the end of October. There were seven (7) move-in, zero (0) move-outs, and three (3) transfers. There are 7 vacancies that we are currently working to get rehabbed. We do have 8 of those units pre-leased people have turned in their deposits. There are 189 open work orders that are open. TDD/TTY#: 1-800-545-1833 Ext.919 y "Equal Housing Opportunity"L�i L: s - - . I �n Board Meeting January 31,2023 Lansing Housing Commission Minutes November 21,2022 Page 2,`5 • • tOt Lansing Housing COMMISSION 419 Cherry St., Lansing, MI 48933 Telephone: (517)487-6550 Fax:(517)487-6977 Discussion Items: • Doug - Marcus is leaving us. He is going to the City of East Lansing code compliance. I just wanted to thank you for going through this whole process with us. We wish you well in your new position. Other Items: None Executive Directors Comments: Scattered Sites Improvements • We talked about the amount of money we are putting into the scattered site properties to get the up to scratch. RAD Activities • We are almost done with Capital City. The transformation has been tremendous. We will have a board meeting sometime in the first of the year so everyone can get a tour. One of the goals was to get rid of the institutional feel of the building which has been achieved. • Hildebrandt is coming along nicely. It will be done mid-year next year. • LaRoy Froh has been a little bit of a problem. Katrina is not enthusiastic about the contractor and the progress that has been done. We have had a few issues with the City with the permitting so we have had a couple of meetings to find out why and what was going on. They were not approving units. They were saying the whole building needed to be done before anyone could move in. It made no sense because we did Waverly Place that way we also did Hildebrandt that way. Development Activities • Stadium North and Stadium North Senior that we are in partnership with MVH which has changed its name to Prosper they must have got bought out. We are looking to close that around December 1st. Usually, construction starts 30 days after closing. So sometime after the first of the year, we will start construction on those 132 units. There are 66 senior and 66 family units. They are on Cedar. They have agreed to take section 8 folks and we are providing a few vouchers as well. It is a 15 to 18-month process. TDDrrTY#:1-800-545-1833 Ext.919 n "Equal Housing Opportunity" L" Lansing Housing Commission E�ard Meeting January 31,2023 Lansing Housing Commission Minutes November 21,2022 PaEe3of5 • 1% 0 6 t Lansing Housing COMMISSION 419 Cherry St., Lansing, MI 48933 Telephone: (517)487-6550 Fax: (517)487-6977 Other Activities: • We are working on our second Habitat house. It will be turned over to the homeowner in December. • We are starting on our third Habitat house on Delta River Drive. Our tenants that live there are the ones that qualify for that house. They have been temporarily moved out so Habitat can do their work then they will get to move back into the house that they have lived in for 15 years. • Deminimus - HUD based on the number of RAD units allowed us to take 15 houses out of the public housing program. We are using them in a variety of ways. We are working with Community Mental Health. 3 were sold to Habitat for Humanity. 2 employees came to me and both meet the qualification of being under 80% AMI both will be first-time homeowners and asked me if they can buy two of the houses and we are working through that process. They are paying the same price that the tenants must pay. • Capital City Security — during the construction period the back door was not working with the key fob. We were waiting for technology to come in so they can get the key fob working again. The fob system should be in place by December 1st • A new security firm we have a contract with. They will be there to provide security from 6:30 pm to 2:30 am every night during the week and from 11:30 am to 2:30 am on the weekend. There will be a little gap in the early morning hours the building is usually a little quiet there at that time. If we find that we need additional security after that we will do that. The problem with security companies is they can't find staff to work for them. Other Items: • Section 18 was sent in for HUD approval. All the residents have been notified. Closing is anticipated to be at the end of January first of February. We had a good meeting with SK Investments. They have not asked us to reduce the price because of interest rates. • The residents that are buying their houses that are preapproved will be able to buy the house about the same time we sell the other houses to SK. We have around 10 or 12 firm that are going to be able to buy their houses. • SK has asked us to manage the properties. We are going to set up a third-party LLC management company to manage them. We are going to use current employees to manage the properties. Currently, we are not hiring any more employees. The employees will be leased to the management company just like what was done with the RAD employees. TDD/TTY#:1-800-545-1833 Ext.919 121 "Equal Housing Opportunity"� L3nsine HouSu,r Cnrr.mis<ion Board Meeting January 31,2023 Lansing Housing Commission Minutes November 21,2022 ^a •_4of5 • 0 0 • ,V :•: f Lansing Housing COMMISSION 419 Cherry St., Lansing, MI 48933 Telephone: (517)487-6550 Fax: (517)487-6977 Commissioner Barker motioned and Commissioner Hall seconded that we set up a third-party LLC management company. The Motion was approved by all members present. • We have a newsletter going out in December. • Had a meeting with the Ingham Health department to possibility of putting in a clinic in one of the developments. • 1 also meet with Allen Street they might want to do some cooperative stuff with us. They already have a social worker that works with people in the neighborhood. She has a good relationship with the college of social work at MSU they use all interns at no cost to them. We want to bring a social worker in here for when we want to identify issues among our residents to be a coordinator of services, not social work. we want to be able to identify what needs to be done and get them the services. They have a pretty good model down there. I think it is a model that we can adapt here at the housing commission. If you have not been down there it is a cool building. They have a year- round farmer's market. They are only one of three in the state of Michigan that has a year-round farmer's market. They move inside in the wintertime at the back side of the building. They have veggie boxes incubators it is just a cool place. President's Comments: • Congratulation on getting the section 18 application approved. I know it was a lot of work. It has been a loud conversation in getting it approved. • Marcus thank you for your time and all your work through this process. Other Business: Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 6:32 p.m. F"� / Date 3 Emma Henry Board Cha Date - 2 Z — ZOZ �j o ming, Ac Ing Secreta TDD/TTY#:1-800-545-1833 Ext.919 n "Equal Housing Opportunity"F& Lansing Housing Commission Board Meeting January 31,2023 Lansing Housing commission Minutes November 21,2022 Par-5-f 5