i'll call together the august seventh meeting of the santa barbara city council finance committee is there anyone in the audience who would like to speak to anything that is not on our agenda seeing no one we will go to the first item on our agenda which is a grant requests from transition house for rehabilitation of three hundred and twenty south salinas street mister al good afternoon chairman hired and finance committee members my name is david rowley i'm the housing project planner this is a grant request from the transition house for rehabilitation of three hundred and twenty south salinas street the project's known as casa mariana the recommendation to finance committee is to consider and recommend that city council allocate two hundred and nine thousand seven hundred fifty dollars in a federal home investment partnership program or home funds for a four year grant to transition house for rehabilitation of its low income rental housing property located at three hundred and twenty south salinas the city of santa barbara receives federal home funds annually that are used to promote affordable housing through activities such as acquisition rehabilitation new construction and tenant based rental assistance the city of santa barbara released a request for proposals or an rfp for nine hundred and forty three thousand a home funds in june of two thousand and eighteen the r selection criteria is as follows is the applicant a community housing development organization also known as a chotto and i'll talk about that in a minute what is the developers expertise with home funded projects what is the developers compliance with home regulations is the project in compliance with home funding guidelines what's the cost and financial feasibility of the project the timing of the project energy and efficiency and conservation considerations and finally what's the project's impact on affordable housing so casa mariana and the transition house first i'm sorry requires that a minimum of a hundred and eighty five thousand six hundred and forty six dollars or fifteen percent of the total amount of available home funds must be set aside for use by a community housing development organization or a chotto the transition house is a qualified chato meeting huds requirements pertaining to expertise capacity and board representation and they have been certified as a cello by the city of santa barbara so the transition house was selected for a two  hundred nine thousand seven hundred fifty dollar rehabilitation project the funding of this rehabilitation project satisfies in august two thousand and eighteen deadline for committing home funds to a cholo and meets the affordable housing priorities outlined in the city's consolidated plan and housing element so casa mariana the owner is transition house the managers the transition house the property is comprised of nineteen units eighteen of which are two low income formerly homeless families the other is the property manager it's a total of two buildings the funding itself is a grant rather than a loan because the property does not generate the necessary cash flow to repay additional debt and as a condition of this grant the affordability covenant will be an extended an additional thirty years to require that the property may nordo both to low income residences until the year tw long time this is a picture of casa mariana you're you're on the second floor looking down into the courtyard part of home funding requires that there's a property inspection every five years and i've personally inspected this property twice  it's very well maintained like i said there's two buildings and it's comprised of one studio nine one bedrooms eight two bedrooms and one three bedroom so here's the actual project budget the original building the bigger building is going to have a roof replacement both buildings will be painted and what's included in the painting is any kind of to repair extension any kind of  dry rot removal and replacement or staining there's also going to be some site work to improve the drainage we're gonna grade an area improve the drainage and put a small retaining wall in and then in nine units we're going to do some plumbing work in the bathroom which includes a shower and tub replacement so that's the two hundred and nine thousand seven hundred fifty dollar grant budget here's another p and interesting piece of information about the tenants is there's approximately sixty two tenants and more than half are under the age of eighteen so you have a real nice family mix in there they have a really nice play area on the side of the ninety seven has been a very successful project and is in full compliance with the city's affordable housing program we do an annual certification and like i mentioned we do a home inspection transition house as i mentioned before is a qualified  fifteen percent home funds set aside and usage requirement rehabilitation of casa mariana will extend its useful life and finally like i mentioned before a condition of the grant is to extend the affordability covenant another thirty years so this concludes my short presentation on this grant request i'm gonna leave the recommendation on the screen and if you have any questions we have kathleen bosque in the audience executive director from the transition house so we're open to any questions that you might have at this time thank you mister rahall phone for the good presentation are there any questions for staff mister basky miss pastor would you like to say anything in particular or we can ask you questions if you'd prefer okay can you hear me now that sounds better so thank you for hearing our request today and learning more about our custom ariana project it is a affordable housing complex with supportive services attached for homeless families with children who come to the facility via our homeless shelter and when people move into casa mariana there's an expectation if they are able that they will work with case management to continue to improve their situation and one day return to market rate housing and for many of them that is a not only possibility but a reality perhaps the most attractive piece i think for the city's consideration of this proposal i gaining the additional years on the affordability covenant for two hundred thousand dollars that's not a whole lot of money when you think about it to keep affordable housing in our community the city has invested in this project since its purchase cdbg funding in the past we've done partial rehabilitation of the project this grant would allow us to continue with that you may have noticed on a prior slide we're asking for money for i believe it's nine bathrooms to have work done we've had other bathrooms done two years ago when we received cdbg funding so thank you again for your consideration and if you have any questions i'm here to answer those thank you for your excellent work we're really proud to be a partner with  house any questions councilmember doing this just have a question but first again to echo mister hart thank you very much for the work you do personally a transition house and for the work transition house does it's a it's a gemin in the world of nonprofits in santa barbara which is already saying a lot so thank you for that history regarding this house you mentioned the supportive services would you mind taking a second and explaining maybe more specifically one of the social services that you're particularly proud of or maybe mentioning one of the successes just add a little more mean the numbers are great but just to take a minute and shine some light on certainly so our case management involves focusing on financial stability for the household and so we do a lot of financial literacy training through case management and there is a case manager that is dedicated to the families at that facility and we have an employment specialist that helps them with work and of course a lot of the families in santa barbara that become homeless are already working they're just not making enough money to afford housing or they might have had a one time situational event occur in their life like a medical event that kept them from working for several weeks and they didn't have the the savings that enabled them to keep paying rent so we're working on budgeting saving money those are requirements of participation in our shelter program and then once they get in housing improving their situation and and many of them you know they're they're happy with the opportunity that they had to go through the program so they're motivated to complete their goals and then be able to move out into market rate rent rental units we have had a family from that complex moved to another area and they had saved enough money during their time at transition house to purchase a house and that was in palmdale california they were able to transfer they work to add macy's here in town and were able to transfer to a macy's located there this was several years ago and you know have a very stable future for their family great thank you very much you bet any other questions for mister basky or for staff okay thank you very much for that information um is there a motion motion to approve the staff recommendation it motion has been made and seconded any discussion all those in favor say aye opposed and abstain none so the matter carries unanimously and that is the last item on our agenda we are adjourned thank you very much