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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 04052005 - C.118 C0000 ........... TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ContrrC r ` Costa FROM: Dennis M. Barry, AICP Court� Director of Community Development DATE: April 5, 2005 SUBJECT: FY 2006/07 HOME Program Mini Action Plan SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATIONS(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION RECOMMENDATIONS (1)RESERVE an estimated$2.7 million in FY 2006/07 HOME Investment Partnerships Act(HOME)finds for the Giant Road/San Pablo and Villa Amador/Brentwood projects;(2)DIRECT staff to consider pending applications for HOME funds from the FY 2005/06 application round should there be any remaining FY 2006/07 funds; and (3) SUBMIT a FY 2006/07 Mini Action Plan to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development(HUD). FISCAL IMPACT No General Fund are involved. Funds for the recommended actions project will come from FY 2006/07 HOME funds. HOME funds are provided to the County on a formula allocation basis, through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development(HUD). BACKGROUND/REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATIONS On March 16, 2005,the Affordable Housing Finance Committee recommended that the Board of Supervisors submit a Mini Action Plan to for FY 2006/07 HOME funds. Through the Mini Action Plan,the County can pre- allocate FY 2006/07 HOME finds to the Giant Road/San Pablo and Villa Amador/Brentwood projects if these funds are needed. The County has allocated HOME to five projects that were also selected for participation in the Project-Based Section 8 vouchers (PBV)program by the Contra Costa County Housing Authority. This selection allowed the project developers to leverage additional private debt based on the difference between HOME rents and the PBV rent. CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: X YES SIGNATURE: Luo* yevl'oe� e7zo L000�COMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR OM ENION OF BO COMMITTEE , APPROVE OTHER 77 SIGNATURE(S): oe ACTION OF BOARD ON APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED V"01HEIR IV VOTE OF SUPERVISORS I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A V/UNANIMOUS (ABSENT' TRUE AND CORRECT COPY OF AN AYES: NOES: ACTION TAKEN AND ENTERED ON THE ABSENT: ABSTAIN: MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN. Contact: Kara Douglas, 335-1253 ATTESTED I O Orig: Community Development/CDBG J HN SWEEtEN, CLERK cc: County Administrator OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS County Counsel AND C U TV AD#AINISTRATOR Auditor-Controller BY DEPUTY Due to recent unforeseen and significant federal budget cuts,the Housing Authority has implemented numerous actions to decrease the overall Section 8 voucher budget, including the termination of commitments to enter into PBV contracts. The financing of five HOME funded projects has been jeopardized by the rescission of PBVs. Three projects (Hercules Sr./Hercules, Lakeside Apartments/Concord, and Trinity Avenue Apartments/Walnut Creek)required immediate attention because they were already in construction or had to start construction immediately. On February 15, 2005,the Board of Supervisors acted on the AHFC recommendation to suspend review of new projects for FY 2005/06 funds, and re-direct those funds to two of the three projects (Hercules Senior and Lakeside Apartments). Trinity received funds that were transferred from another Satellite Housing, Inc. project in Walnut Creek, Casa Montego 11. The remaining two projects,Giant Road and Villa Amador,may still require additional HOME funds to be viable. There are not enough FY 2005/06 HOME funds to provide to these projects. Therefore, staff is recommending pre-awarding FY 2006/07 HOME funds for these projects. A. PROJECTS REQUIRING FY 2006/07 HOME FUNDS 1. Giant Road/San Pablo: East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC) is the developer of the Giant Road project,which involves the new construction of 86 units of family housing on a 3.14 acre site in San Pablo.The project was awarded$600,000 in HOME funds and $600,000 in Community Development Block Grant(CDBG)funds.EBALDC has drawn down the CDBG funds to acquire the site.The County,on behalf of EBALDC,intends to apply to the State Treasurer's Office for the necessary authority to issue multi-family bonds for the project. Assuming the plan of finance can be modified to address the lack of PBVs the project could start construction in July 2005. However,EBALDC will have to identify an interim form of finance until the HOME funds are available in August of 2006.EBALDC has requested$1.6 million in additional funds from the San Pablo Redevelopment Agency. 2. Villa Amador/Brentwood: Mercy Housing California is the developer of the Villa Amador project, which involves the new construction of 98 units of family housing on an 8-acre site in Brentwood. This project has secured a complex layering of funding including commitments for r0i tax-exempt bonds, LIHTC, farm worker housing grant funds, State Multifamily Housing Program (MHP) funds, local funds, and $2 million in County HOME program funds. Project- based Section 8 vouchers have leveraged $1.8 million in tax-exempt debt, the loss of which would make the project infeasible. Several of the financing commitments for this development will expire this spring. Mercy Housing intends to seek additional MHP funds to fill the gap created by the loss of PBV. Should those funds not be awarded, Mercy will request up to $900,000 in additional funds from both the City of Brentwood and the HOME program. I. B. RECOMMENDED FINANCING STRATEGY Every effort will be made to minimize the amount of additional HOME funds required. To receive an additional allocation of HOME funds,the County required all project sponsors to pursue additional funding from other sources, including the host city for the project. Developers will also be required to contribute additional developer fee as a permanent source of financing for the project. The developers and staff will continue discussions with the County Housing Authority to determine if PBVs may be available to their projects sometime in the future,which may allow some of the additional HOME funds to be returned. The project sponsors have also begun discussions with Congressional members local staff to seek a legislative solution to this crisis. Should there be FY 2006/07 HOME funds not required for the above projects, staff will consider applications which have all ready been submitted for FY 2005/06 funds. C. FY 2006/07 MINI ACTION PLAN Pursuant to HOME regulations (24 CFR 92.212) staff has prepared a Mini Action Plan for FY 2006/07 HOME funds (attached). Any award of FY 2006/07 HOME funds will be subject to a future allocation of HOME funds to the Contra Costa Consortium. The Plan was prepared in accordance with 91.220(c)and is consistent with the Citizen Participation Plan(91.105).The County published a notice in the Contra Costa Times(in a non-legal section)providing 15 days notice of the first public meeting and an additional 15 days notice of a second public meeting.The Mini Action Plan will have been available for a minimum of 30 days for public review prior to Board of Supervisor action to adopt the Plan. No public comments have been received on the Mini Action Plan. 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