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- Affordable housing study and all commissioners present
Mariano Good afternoon, Commissioners. Thank you all. Um I when Kathy and I met, you know, as Chairman of the Housing Authority for the last fourteen years, We have seen a significant issue um with people being able to afford housing. So we started a program called Family Self Sufficiency, so where the Housing Authority would put a portion of Someone who was at the housing authorities rent in an escrow account and help them put a down payment on a house. This was after they went through all these financial courses and everything else and got very self sustaining, and then we went to the market to try to find Housing. There was none available. That they could even afford uh in Pasco County. And I don't call it affordable housing. For me, it's workforce housing because these people, although they lived in a Pasco County housing authority community, Worked every day. They were working in our county. They had a um We even worked
- C-54 Vincent House affordable housing project
Mariano Okay. And the basic motion for this pull and revise is you're taking the term from what would have been a twenty-year contract to keep it affordable housing, has now been agreed uh to go to a hundred-year contract uh to keep it affordable housing. And I'm gonna put a special thank out uh uh the Vincent House is such an awesome organization. Uh David Lembert from Withlacucci Electric Company, the best electric company on the planet, uh wants to see this. go as well. So when this came up in conversation yesterday, you guys had your conversation. He agreed to go the hundred years. That just shows you the commitment to the affordable housing, which this program is all designed about. So again, I want to thank Mr. David Lambert for doing just a phenomenal job in keeping to the mission. This is a phenomenal, phenomenal project.
- Appoint commissioner Affordable Housing Advisory Committee
Mariano not done. We will meet um Those uh our fire rescue team out front of the building at noon unless they can get here earlier. So I need to make an appointment today. So there's been a statute change for the year and we need to appoint a commissioner to serve on the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee. The change was effective October 1st, so that is why we're doing it now instead of our during the reorganization session next month. Um Staff is expecting to have a meeting soon, so we need to do that. What I would love to do is take volunteers for this opportunity. I know some um affordable housing is very dear to some of our friends on the commission.
- Affordable housing study and all commissioners present
Mariano we wanted to see a plan that that that really worked for our citizens and uh That's how we got here today. And welcome. Uh uh thank you all for your time today and I look forward to Listen to Dr. Strom's presentation for the third time.
- C-54 Vincent House affordable housing project
Mariano Yeah, we just did forty six. Yeah. I know it's it's on here twice but we did it already. Okay. All right, so C fifty four, um this is just a feel good thing, et cetera, with a with great improvement for uh pull the pull and revise.
- P77Resolution Identifying an Inventory List of Properties Appropriate for Affordable Housing – Senate Bill 102, Live Local Act - No Funding Required
Mariano Okay. Anyone else from the public in the audience would like to speak? Seeing no close public comment to the board. Move approval. Have a second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Opposed. Okay. Motion carries three one. And Item P seventy eight.
- Quarterly Better Future and individual housing update
Mariano Uh Chuck, I wanna just th throw one idea with with your um products affordable Uh items that could be used There's a new um Instead of a drywall board out there, there's a new magnesium board. Uh gentleman by the name of Chet Petanato, he's got a plant out in Zephyrhills. He's using that and it looks like it's a really good thing to take a look at. He's got So it's very affordable as well, so maybe something to take a look at.
- miscellaneous business appointments built-to-rent discussion
Mariano yeah, th th th those I'm I'm perfectly willing to work with those to get in There but again back to forty and fifty foot lots to what it's gonna be for down the road. And like you say it with affordability. We we approved a bunch of apartments we thought were gonna be affordable too. How'd that work out? People are paying through the roof.