Seattle City Council Finance & Housing Committee 6/15/22

We are recording.

Thank you very much again to everyone who has joined us today, this morning.

It is June 15th, 2022. The time is 9.33 a.m.

and I am Teresa Mosqueda, Chair of the Finance and Housing Committee.

Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll?

Council Member Herbold.

Here.

Council Member Peterson.

Present.

Council Member Nelson.

Present.

Council Member Lewis.

Present.

Madam Chair Mosqueda.

Madam Chair, there is five present, none excused or absent.

Thank you very much.

And Madam Clerk, I want to thank you as well as the team from the clerk's office, the IT support team, Seattle Channel, and our security folks who've continued to make this a safe place for gathering here today.

We do have many folks who are signed up for public testimony online and also I wanna make sure that we get through our full agenda.

We have a number of presenters.

So I want to make sure that we get a chance to hear from them and the opportunity to go through our entire agenda.

I'll just outline it for you so that you have a sense of what it is.

If there's any objection, we'll make sure to take those.

Today, we have the appointment of Cara Valliere as member of the Housing Levy Oversight Committee.

We'll have legislation from the Office of Housing that proposes modifications to the housing funding policies to create a new Jumpstart Acquisition and Preservation Fund, or what we're calling the Jumpstart Community Self-Directed Housing Fund.

Don't worry, we'll work on the title, folks.

It's gonna get even better.

In that piece of legislation, this is funding from Jumpstart, which will help to make sure that the city has different eligibility criteria for a specific pot of funds intended to be available for smaller organizations who are interested in developing affordable housing.

The intent is to make sure that the city's equitable development goals are being met by investing in organizations and projects that are working to address displacement and redress the longstanding harms of discriminatory housing policies.

And the last two items on our agenda include the Royal Brom property.

This is property given to the city by the State of Washington Department of Transportation near I-5 and the I-90 interchange.

We're excited to also lastly have on our agenda here today, the HSD executive agreement with a funding agency to make sure that we accept grants to enable HSD to move forward on specific programs that have already received the appropriate budget authority.

If there's no objection for those four items, today's agenda will be adopted.

Hearing no objection, today's agenda is adopted.

Madam Chair, excuse me, Madam Clerk, do we have a video today to explain public comment?

Okay, wonderful.

I wanna thank Council President Juarez, who has been working to create a video for us to share with the community as we move into this hybrid world of public comment and continue to ensure everyone's public safety.

So Madam Clerk, if you could go ahead and tee that up, that'd be great.

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Thank you, Seattle.

Excellent.

Well, thank you very much.

And I do want to just remind folks that we're gonna continue to have remote public comment today.

And until further notice, we are asking all presenters who are coming to the Finance and Housing Committee meeting to continue to present remotely.

So we appreciate the large group of folks who are with us here on the line remotely today.

Due to the Open Public Meetings Act, chamber doors are open to the public to view the committee meetings and provide public comment that we are strongly encouraging people to continue to dial in to provide that public comment.

Public comment virtually will make sure that folks are able to provide their remarks and also limit the amount of people who are in chambers to ensure everyone's public health.

With that, the first person that we have to provide remote public comment is Agnes Navarro.

Good morning, Agnes.

You are welcome to begin your public comment as soon as we get you off mute, and we will give you two minutes.

Go ahead, Ms. Navarro.

Yes, good morning, everyone.

My name is Agnes Navarro.

I'm the executive director for the Filipino community of Seattle.

Chair Teresa Mosqueda and members of the committee.

Thank you for the opportunity to provide testimony on TB 120343, the Jump Start Community Focus Acquisition Fund legislation.

The Filipino community of Seattle is a nonprofit community-based organization.

We know what our community needs when it comes to housing.

Our first housing project called the Filipino Community Village was an affordable housing for seniors, which we just celebrated our grand opening.

It took us 10 years to build it because of the roadblocks we had to harden.

It took some time to find a developer that would work with us and believe in our vision of building a multi-generational project.

We did not only build the housing, but also an innovation learning center that integrates all age groups.

With you, Council Member Mosqueda, initiating Jump Start and proposing this ordinance, it will make it easier for our organization to build our second affordable housing, this time for working families with Child Development Center.

With the rising cost of housing and rental in Seattle, our project will prevent displacement of our BIPOC community who work in Seattle and avail of our services.

Through Jump Start, we want to thank you, Council Member Mosqueda, because you found a way to fund the land acquisition for our next project.

This legislation will enable small community-based organizations to build affordable housing because it removes barriers to land acquisition.

Thank you so much.

and all that you have accomplished for the 94 units of affordable housing that you've created for elders and the childcare facilities and education facilities on the first floor.

That was wonderful to be with you last Thursday.

And thank you for dialing in again today.

10 years is how long it took to get the funding.

And we know that it was decades longer that you were working on the vision.

So thanks for dialing in today.

Just confirming that is the last person signed up for public comments.

Thank you.

That's the last person I see online for public comments.

So we will go ahead and move into the room.

And I will call one person at a time to make sure that there's no lineup today.

We don't have that concern because there's just one person here to provide public comment.

And I'm asking for folks to use that microphone.

This one again does not work.

We're gonna use that one over there.

Alex Zimmerman, you are the only person signed up in the room.

Please go ahead.

Oh, so where is my face?

Please begin your time started.

I cannot see my face.

I cannot see my sign, my yellow.

David, I'm here.

I'm confused.

The talk is ticking, Mr. Zimmerman.

Okay, no problem.

Thank you very much.

No problem.

Zee hi, my dirty damn Nazi fascist mob bandit and psychopath.

My name Alex Zimmerman and I want to speak about agenda number two, about housing.

Thank you very much.

My lovely consul, you did very good job with housing for poor people in exactly chair.

You did something, but it's probably nothing happened for last five or six years under your supervision, you know what I mean, together with Amazon mafia.

You raise prices for last year double, and in this year it's been another 10%, almost 200 bucks.

So you're doing very good job.

You're super, you know what I mean, you're best of the best.

And I told you before, you move everybody out, all poor, all...

I don't know.

Who's...

low income, color people, all from city.

A city will be controlled by Amazon mafia with salary $300,000, and your mafia, democratic mafia, with $150,000 salary.

So what this can do for poor people like me?

I'm senior citizen, low income.

I need move from Seattle after 35 year, what is I live?

And how about another 10 of 10,000 people?

What is you did for your very good job.

So right now, Seattle only people for aristocrat.

You know what this mean?

American aristocrat.

Where is this come this aristocrat?

From Mexico?

No?

From who?

From another city?

Thank you very much.

Stand up, America.

Stand up, people, for I close this door.

At this time, it doesn't look like there's anybody else signed up to provide public comment.

So that will conclude today's public comment.

Madam Clerk, I think you can go ahead and read item number one into the record.

Agenda item number one, appointment of Cara Kadoshima-Abellier as member of the Housing Levy Oversight Committee for a briefing discussion and possible vote.

Wonderful, thank you.

And for folks on the Seattle channel, just let us know if there's any concern with hearing the clerk.

I can hear you, Madam Clerk.

I just want to make sure other people can too.

Okay, we have agenda item number one in front of us.

This is the opportunity to appoint Let's see, Cara Valliere to the Office of Housing's Housing Levy Oversight Committee.

I wanna thank Cara and also Kelly Larson from the Office of Housing for being here today.

Congratulations, Cara, on the new role within the Mayor's Office.

We appreciate your service previously here in the Legislative Department with Council Member Peterson, who is to my left.

We are very excited to be working with you on housing policy.

There is really nothing more central to how we create a more equitable and safe and healthy community than making sure everyone has housing.

And with the housing living renewal on the horizon next year in November, 2023, this is a very important role.

Very excited to have you with us.

So I will turn it over to Kelly for an introduction, and then we are gonna be happy to consider any questions from the committee here today.

Good morning, Kelly.

Good morning.

Thank you, Chair Mosqueda.

Thank you, we're very excited about the appointment today of Cara Karishma Vallier.

The Seattle Housing Levy established an oversight committee to track levy progress and outcomes and to ensure proper stewardship of this critical resource in our community.

As the OH team works to produce and preserve affordable housing and home ownership opportunities in Seattle, this oversight committee is asked to provide feedback on the ongoing administration of levy programs.

We asked folks to review our OH and housing levy progress in meeting our goals.

And we're very excited to be introducing Cara Vallier today as our newest appointee.

So Cara is proposed as the mayoral appointee to the Housing Levy Oversight Committee.

She's working on issues around homelessness and housing and has been working with our office through this new administration so far this year.

We've had a great working relationship so far and we support this appointment.

Well, wonderful and welcome Cara.

Thank you.

I can tell you.

Yeah, please, please feel free to introduce yourself.

And then we of course, would love to ask you some questions afterwards.

But as you introduce yourself, if you can talk a little bit about your biggest priorities, any issues that you'd like to highlight that really drive you in this position, as you consider your role on the Housing Levy Oversight Committee.

Okay.

Hello, council members.

Thank you for having me here today.

A little about my background.

My name is Kara Karashima-Vallier.

I grew up in South Seattle, and I'm the parent of two fourth-generation Seattleites.

I attended the University of Washington and then UCLA for my master's in public policy.

Cumulatively now, I've reached seven years at the city, both in the city attorney's office and in the legislative department.

as you mentioned, and now at the mayor's office since March.

I've worked in and served on boards of organizations dealing with housing and land use permitting, zoning, regulation, and compliance in government, private, and nonprofit sectors, including handling matters before the California Coastal Commission, assisting in preservation and nonprofit housing efforts at the Little Tokyo Service Center, and supporting equity and access at the Los Angeles League of Conservation Voters.

My position now, since joining Mayor Harrell's team, I've served as mayoral assistant for special projects where I've managed policy development on issues relating to housing and homelessness.

And it's in that role that I'm representing his administration in this position as previous liaisons and previous levy oversight roles have done.

I'm really excited about having this opportunity to be on the Housing Levy Oversight Committee to do work that bolsters the faith in local government.

Past levy results have demonstrated wise use of resources, leveraging resources and acquiring property, and maximizing our opportunities to provide affordable housing and secure home ownership.

Thank you for your consideration and for having me here today.

Wonderful.

Thank you very much for your interest in this.

I'm looking already at Council Member Peterson because I'm guessing he might have some comments.

So Council Member Peterson, please go ahead.

Thank you, Chair Mosqueda.

Briefly, I just want to say I fully support the Herald Administration's nomination.

As you can see from the appointment packet on the agenda, the nominee has an impressive resume that should serve the Herald Administration well.

The oversight role of monitoring Seattle's longstanding property tax levy for low-income housing is vital to make sure we maximize taxpayer investments, especially as we're striving to provide as much low-income housing as possible, as quickly as possible.

The seven-year housing levy averages, I believe, about $40 million per year, and understanding the interface between those funds and the additional millions of dollars from the mandatory housing affordability program is vital for success.

on a related note very pleased mayor harrell expanded deputy mayor washington's role to include not just affordable housing but also homelessness because a priority should really be to get the most vulnerable people inside and so i believe the mayor's nominee here brings to the table that additional understanding of homelessness policy and this includes having been there for the creation of the tiny home village in district four.

This is extremely valuable, especially as the mayor remains committed to trying to make available at least 2000 units of low income housing this year.

It sounds like the executive may be interested in renewing and potentially increasing this property tax in a couple of years.

So it's even more important to have appointees who bring the holistic view of housing to provide the strongest oversight of this existing levy.

I appreciate the commitment of all the Housing Levy Oversight Committee members and look forward to voting yes today.

Thank you.

Excellent, thank you very much, Council Member Peterson.

Council Member Herbold, please go ahead.

Thank you, and I, too, am really excited about Sarah's willingness to serve in this role.

I really appreciate her.

One second, sorry, Madam Vice Chair.

I'm getting a little bit of background.

If the IT team can mute their line.

Eric, if the IT team can mute their line, Eric.

Or if we have a co-host that can mute.

Just want to give us one more second.

Ledge IT, if you could mute your line.

Ledge IT, if you could mute your line.

Okay, I see them muted.

Madam Vice Chair, please go ahead.

Thank you.

Just again, excited that Kara is willing to play this role on the Housing Levy Oversight Committee.

Really look forward to working with her in this new capacity.

And it was mentioned earlier, but I just wanna, again, emphasize for the viewing public, this is a 13 member oversight committee.

And by design, there are two individuals who represent the city, one that is appointed by the city council and one by the mayor.

So by design, we have two city employees on the oversight committee.

clarify that in case anybody's wondering.

No, that's perfect.

Thank you so much, Kara.

Thank you very much, Madam Vice Chair, and thanks for lifting that information up.

I don't think I said it at the beginning, so I appreciate that.

Any additional comments or questions?

Okay, Kara, I do have one additional question for you.

I'm excited that you brought up your experience with Los Angeles and the Association of Cities there.

Any lessons learned, obviously, from the experience in Los Angeles tied to housing that you might be bringing to this committee.

We do often look up and down the west coast for ways that we can replicate good policy and also we look for ways that we can maybe avoid pitfalls that other cities have had when it comes to zoning issues in the housing crisis that we're facing up and down the west coast.

Any thoughts that you'd like to bring today about how that past experience might help inform the work you have in front of us in the next year and a half here?

Sure, well that's a huge question and I think it raises many many important issues.

But one of my main takeaways would be that what I've been impressed with here are the results of the previous levies in all program areas, but especially in addressing the opportunity for equity and home ownership, something that's out of reach for too many folks, but that the levy has also been focused on preventing displacement.

And that is something that I think What we've seen in California and obviously happening here too needs diligence and attention.

And so I'm looking forward to being part of this effort and also seeing the technical advisory committee get their subject matter expertise to really refine the proposed programs.

Excellent.

Well, thank you very much again for that answer.

And it does dovetail nicely with the next item on our agenda, which also not only builds housing, but helps to prevent displacement by really centering building through the eyes of those who've been most affected by displacement.

So I love the tie in there.

I'm not seeing any additional comments or questions.

So colleagues, I'd like to move the committee recommend confirmation for the appointment of Cara Valliere as member of the Housing Levy Oversight Committee.

Is there a second?

Second.

Excellent.

It has been moved and seconded.

Are there any additional comments or questions?

Hearing none, Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll on the passage of the appointment?

Council Member Herbold.

Yes.

Council Member Peterson.

Yes.

Council Member Nelson.

Aye.

Council Member Lewis.

Yes.

Madam Chair Mosqueda.

Aye.

Madam Chair, that is five in favor, none opposed.

Thank you very much.

The motion carries.

Congratulations, Kara.

The committee recommendation that the appointment be confirmed will be sent to the June 21st Seattle City Council meeting for final confirmation.

Of course, you don't need to be present to win, but we will look forward to sending your praises there and we'll highlight the unanimous support.

Wonderful.

Thanks for being here today.

Thank you.

Excellent.

Let's move on to our second item of business.

Madam clerk, could you please call the, excuse me, can you please read into the record item number two.

Agenda item number two, council bill one, two, zero, three, four in ordinance relates relating to housing for low income households for briefing discussion and possible vote.

Excellent.

This is the drum roll that I did yesterday.

This is a really exciting moment that we collectively have been working on both within my office over the last year and in community and discussion through the community housing roundtable of which we have a few members here with us today.

And I would say even longer, as you heard from Agnes Nevado from the Filipino Community Center, 10 years it took them to get the funding compiled for the celebration that we had last Thursday for the Filipino Community Center, community village serving seniors.

It took our friends at El Centro, as you will hear from Miguel Maestas, at least seven years of compiling the funding to get the Roberto Maesta Plaza and the two beautiful buildings around the plaza.

to get the funding that was needed to begin construction.

So while it's been a year plus of work on this policy specifically, we know that there's been decades of advocacy and organizing and lived experience that has brought us to this moment to want to update our policies.

And we're going to do the following order.

We're going to first welcome Michael Winkler-Chin to perhaps say a few comments, and then Tracy Ratzcliffe, we would love to have you walk us through the policy proposal in front of us.

And then we're going to have a panel of folks to talk a little bit about what this policy means, and then we'll open it up for questions and consider legislation.

We have with us today Michael Winkler-Chin, Director of Office of Housing, Kelly Larson, Office of Housing, Tracy Radscliffe, Central Staff, Miguel Maeses from El Centro de la Raza, Jamie Lee from Skip the PDA, and a team from the Filipino Community Center, Agnes Navarro, who you heard from earlier, Rick Polatini, and Velma Valeria, former representative Velma Valeria.

Our folks, our friends from the Africa Town Community Center were going to be joining us today, but are currently on a delayed flight.

So we greatly appreciate their interest in this policy.

And if they are able to land before we finish this item, we'll make sure to include them.

But I wanted to note our appreciation for their interest in joining us this morning.

With that, why don't I turn it over to Director Winkler-Chin, and then we will turn it over to Tracy Ratcliffe.

Good morning, Council Members.

Kelly, are we starting the slide deck now?

Should we do that, Tracy?

Would you like, Tracy?

I was just going to ask, Tracy, do you want to say some opening comments?

You're welcome to.

Do you want us to start and you start?

Sorry, council members, this is the first time I've ever actually had to do this.

I feel like.

Oh, yes, well, we did confirm you yesterday, so we expect...

No, I'm just kidding.

No, no, no problem, Director Winkler-Chan.

You know, usually I think I do go to central staff first.

So Tracy, if you have anything you'd like to share with us before we take up the presentation, you're welcome to.

I will just briefly tee up this proposal it this legislation does come from again a lot of work that you have done with your community partners over the actually more than I think just a year.

It feels like just a year but it's been longer trying to address this need for accessing funding to do.

acquisitions of land and or buildings in areas at risk of displacement.

So we actually drafted a slide as part of the budget in 2022 that requested the Office of Housing to look at this issue and to come back with proposed legislation that would address this ongoing need for accessing funding for these types of acquisitions by the smaller and newer community-based organizations and so OH has provided the appropriate slide response and with it the proposed legislation that is in front of you and I think I will have them walk through and then if there are questions of me or of them we can entertain those after their presentation.

Thank you very much.

And as we tee this up, I just also want to thank Aaron House, who's been working with us on this policy for the last few years.

Tracy Rasmussen as well has joined all of those community housing round table discussions.

So thank you, Tracy, for being there from a technical assistance and central staff position.

Again, this is also thanks to you colleagues for your support for Jumpstart Progressive Revenue and the unanimous support for the implementation plan.

Jumpstart did put funding in for acquisition.

It put funding forward for housing funding policies.

As we all know, 62% of the funding does go to affordable housing.

However, and for the folks from IT, if you could tee it up so the presenter and the slides are showing at the same time.

However, we wanted to make sure that we really listened to the community who had designed with us the spend plan.

And part of the priorities from the community and from council members was to make sure that there was permanent acquisition funding along with capacity building and technical assistance so that organizations were able to both secure land quickly and develop the community driven housing more quickly.

and making sure that there was full ownership and self-determination became more and more of the emphasis as we heard from community partners.

The legislation is the result of many of those conversations with the Roundtable, community-based organizations, organizations who have begun to enter into building more affordable housing, and many of those organizations are with us here today.

So I just wanted to provide some context about where this really came from, and that this is, as I mentioned yesterday, much more than just the housing.

These investments create social cohesion and opportunity for community engagement.

They help with the social determinants of health by making sure people have community gathering spaces.

They help by creating economic opportunities, by creating small business and training opportunities.

And they help with opportunities for creating more, self-determination for community members such as youth and elders who might be facing social isolation, especially in the wake of COVID.

This is a really exciting opportunity for us to meld together, not just funding for housing units and not just building more affordable housing, but doing so through the vein and through the lens of communities most affected by displacement.

and who in this moment are still most disproportionately affected by the impacts of COVID, isolation, and as the vice chair says, the shadow pandemic.

So I will turn it over to the office of housing to walk us through the presentation, and I may have more comments for some of our guests who are here with us today, but wanna get into the meat of the policy.

Thank you very much, Council Member Vizcarra.

This presentation is in response to a city council statement of legislative intent, which is stated here, that we'll work with the city council to develop proposed modifications to the city's housing funding policies to address many of the things that you had just discussed, really, which is around policy barriers, including partnership requirements for small community-based lenders and developers that may have had difficulty accessing the traditional acquisition and preservation loan program.

For the Seattle Channel folks, can we tee up the presentation that is being shared by Office of Housing?

Okay, so- I'm sorry, can you repeat that please?

Can we have the screen that's showing the PowerPoint presentation on slide number three?

And this is sort of the big takeaway difference between what we're currently doing and what we're adding.

And I think it's a great presentation.

I wanna make sure that it's being projected on Seattle Channel.

Thank you, Director Winkler-Chin.

Okay, I think I see it now.

Yes, thanks.

Okay, great.

So the current program that we have, you have these four criteria here that are listed under current.

You have to have experience developing or operating at least three buildings or partnering with an organization that has that experience.

You have to have the ability to secure permanent financing and be on good standing on OH loans.

If you are somebody new to this development area, you're not going to have this, really.

For the most part, because you've never worked with oh and some of these things are just unattainable to you and that the current program is really driven by the need to have our funds come back to us because we are using levy funds.

we're using housing levy funds that are designated for the 20-year operations and maintenance support.

And we were using those funds to fund this acquisition program.

Those projects then would come back within that five-year period, and the money that was originally paid for this acquisition program would then go back into the OMS dollars.

And that's why this set of criteria were really, really important for that.

What the Jumpstart Program allows us to do is to be more flexible on that.

So these are some of the new criteria for the new program.

One is to be a community-based organization or a community development corporation.

Funds are prioritized for organizations who work directly with vulnerable communities.

Have a development plan in place within five years, right?

You don't need to secure permanent financing, but have a sense of the development plan.

annual organization housing revenue to exceed $8 million.

That is still something that we're exploring and documented, but what's really important is a documented board intent to own and operate monthly multifamily rental and are permanently affordable home ownership.

The proposal reflects our commitment to the race and social justice initiative for reducing barriers for community based organizations to enter the affordable housing sector, particularly for CBO is that have traditionally been excluded from the industry.

We have, we are lucky here in Seattle that we have so many community based organizations that have done a lot of things over time and really serve the community, but at a certain point they may want to enter that affordable housing space.

It's a very challenging market to enter into because people start looking at balance sheet or past experience.

And even though they may be longstanding organizations, decades old and have really strong commitments to community and the work that they've done and been really, really successful, when you enter this affordable housing sector, that experience isn't valued in the same way that perhaps I would.

The second bullet point here is that it supports more community-driven projects to be realized and within communities living with the past and present impacts of displacement and housing discrimination.

The community-driven projects, I think if you were to look at the partners that have been funded and that we hope to partner with, really are doing the housing and work.

I think Council Member Mosqueda that you talk about, and it's the bringing of childcare facilities, small businesses, all those things that we want to see in housing and are great elements of the community.

But also these organizations in these communities may have been restricted by the housing discrimination that organizations such as the City of Seattle has perpetuated over time.

Next slide, please.

So the jumpstart opportunity, as we've said, the current program really comes from a temporary fund source, as I've described earlier.

And this new payroll expense tax creates a new and permanent source for acquisition and preservation loans.

It also allows us to have technical assistance and capacity building funds to support the community-based organizations.

So they have some of the, the thought and the skills necessary to make the decisions that are best for themselves outside of the financial structure that they're forced to enter into.

It allows for different eligibility criteria for loan resources and improves equitable lending practices, because I would say some of the lending practices that exist out in the world are not necessarily all that equitable.

Phase one of the Capacity and Grant Program would allow us to work with a third-party intermediary, and we are planning on giving out $250,000 grants for training and pre-development expenses that are tied to projects.

And then phase two is the Acquisition and Development Program, where organizations that complete phase one will be eligible to apply for Jumpstart A&P loans.

which will be competitively awarded and reviewed through our standard OH underwriting procedures.

And the organizations that are doing that will be eligible for up to $500,000 additional developer fee to earn to support their organizational capacity and infrastructure during this time.

So the Jumpstart ANP program, if you look at the Jumpstart legislation, up to 16% of available Jumpstart revenue for housing and services, our Jumpstart revenue is available for housing and services to support anti-displacement work, including acquisition and permanent development financing.

Based on the current Jumpstart amount, we're estimating that to be $15 million.

And of that $15 million, $2 million would be annually set aside to administer the capacity and grant program.

The partner organizations, as we look back at who are potential partner organizations, it would be some of the organizations that are listed here.

And that is the end of the slide deck.

Excellent.

OK, wonderful.

We do have some community partners here with us today.

Kelly, I just want to make sure there was anything else you wanted to add from OH.

OK, wonderful.

So we're going to go ahead and hear directly from some of the folks who've been calling for this type of action for the last few years.

And I want to welcome Miguel Maestas from El Centro and then Miguel will be followed by Jamie Lee and then the team Velma, Agnes and Rick from Filipino Community Center.

Welcome, Miguel.

Feel free to If you don't mind, comment a little bit more.

I teed up a little bit of the work that you had done for the Roberto Maesta Plaza.

But if you could talk, team here, our panel, could you talk a little bit about your experience in creating affordable housing?

Maybe how your organization decided to get into this world and then the challenges you experienced securing funding.

at the beginning.

I would love to hear a little bit more about the time, the length of time it took you to get your projects funded for the few that we're looking at as some examples.

And if this Jumpstart Community Self-Determination Fund, how does that title sound?

Pretty good.

Jumpstart Self-Determination Fund.

If it would have been in place, how do you think that might have helped you in the past or for future projects?

Again, welcome Miguel.

Council Member Mosqueda and members of the Finance and Housing Committee, thank you so much for the opportunity to share this morning and talk about and support the Jumpstart Fund legislation.

On behalf of everyone at El Centro de la Raza, the Center for People of All Races, we appreciate the opportunity to share about our experience with the development of Plaza Roberto Maestas.

Back in 2003 when word was coming that the light rail would be coming to Beacon Hill, and actually it wasn't supposed to come to Beacon Hill initially, but when it was determined that a stop would be on Beacon Hill, Obviously, El Centro, we saw, we began to learn about the opportunity to do a mixed-use affordable housing development.

Many folks came to the organization wanting to purchase the land, develop the land, and we realized that we had to learn and develop our own capacity to develop property that already belonged to El Centro de la Raza as quickly as we could.

We knew that this was an opportunity to expand our ability to carry out our mission, to do our part as an organization, to respond to the affordable housing crisis that was already taking hold in our community.

And so we began to organize and participate in neighborhood meetings, in the planning meetings for Beacon Hill, and really make sure that community was engaged and talking about what kind of development we wanted to bring on Beacon Hill, obviously, including affordable housing.

So, so it took that was a long process that took many, many years, probably about six years of just participating and learning and finally in 2009 when we were pretty clear about what we wanted to do.

you know, and began to engage in partners and development consultants and Plaza Roberto Maestas obviously named in honor of Roberto Maestas was part of those initial discussions and visions before he passed away in 2010. And what came and then finally broke ground in 2016 so you know it was an incredible incredibly long journey and a tremendous amount of work for our organization to grow the capacity to have to put in place the good financial systems, the data tracking, improve our technology so that we would be able to be competitive for the funding to be able to do this mixed use development.

And I also want to, you know, so it was an incredible amount of work over a long period of time before really thinking about that vision to actually breaking ground in 2016. And I do want to share a little bit about our model because Obviously, our model of affordable housing is, as Councilmember Mosquera mentioned, it's a mixed use.

And it really is about building community and creating a sense of community and not doing affordable housing as a standalone, but in making sure that it's part of other elements that support community, like childcare, the small business and economic development part of the development, the community and cultural space that are part of that development, so that not only people who are going to live there and work there and have their small businesses there, but the entire neighborhood and city see it as an asset.

and that everyone sees that there's something there for them or that there's something there that really benefits the community, whether it's more businesses and walkable amenities like restaurants and coffee shops and the Seattle Credit Union that's there in our development.

The station coffee shop tacos Chucky's, but the cultural space the event space that the amenities to bring community together.

And so, building those aspects are also very challenging as well so.

You know, you asked what this fund or what this legislation would have meant.

It would have been incredibly valuable to us because obviously this was a process where we were learning and didn't have a lot of funds dedicated to this.

Fortunately, we were able to have some funds that we had set aside from the construction of leasing out the space to Sound Transit to develop the light rail, but you know, those funds were limited as well.

So this, this, we've often talked about what it means to build capacity, many, many organizations, churches, community based organizations have come to El Centro for to ask us about our lessons learned and what we could share because of their desire to to use land that they already have to build affordable housing and we we always share our knowledge and share anything that we can because we remember how hard.

and how long of a process it was for us.

So we share policies, we share contacts, as part of just supporting that.

Because as we know, and as part of this legislation, there's many groups out there, many organizations that have their own land and want to be part of the response to the affordable housing crisis.

But, but it is a capacity issue.

So, so many times.

And then the other part about raising, raising the, the, the funds for other elements are well as well is is. even more difficult at times than raising the funds for affordable housing.

When you look at the commercial space, the child development space, the entities that don't have that funding and a huge lift and a huge part of developing capacity.

El Centro, our example, we had to do the largest capital campaign in our history to be able to pay for those commercial entities and those community and cultural spaces as well.

So, you know, and we we know we will never do a development that just as is affordable housing, it has to have those other parts and those other elements to really build and support community.

So, um, and finally I'll mention that, you know, The need.

It was very fortuitous that we had the land, but acquiring new land to do affordable housing for small organizations that are just, you know, have limited capacity to do affordable housing is incredibly challenging.

for acquisition here is invaluable and will really help organizations develop their capacity.

So I will close by just saying that it also strengthens organizations.

And it has helped El Centro be in a place where we know, as an organization, we will be providing growing assets and providing support and housing for our community for generations to come because the organization is much stronger, much, much more financially stable and has now assets that can continue to serve the community for many, many years to come.

Thank you.

Excellent.

Thank you very much, Miguel.

And thank you for sharing the story on behalf of El Centro.

I'm so glad that you also invoked Roberto's name and the role that he had in helping to plan the plaza.

So it's exciting to see how this work continues and continues to evolve based on some of that early planning that you all did together.

And the experience of El Centro is not unique, right?

So I'm going to turn it over to Jamie Lee next from Skip to PDA to talk a little bit about their experience in the Chinatown International District.

Welcome, Jamie.

Good morning.

Thank you.

And thank you, council members for inviting me to be here today.

As Council Member Mosqueda said, I'm Jamie Lee and I'm with the Seattle Chinatown International District Preservation and Development Authority.

We're a community development organization in the Chinatown ID.

I feel like Miguel really did hit on a lot of the things that I'm going to talk about, so we're in agreement there.

So just for those of you that don't know who we are, as my former boss would say, we are a cousin to Affordable Housing Development.

We've been in existence for about 47 years, and we actually started out in Affordable Housing Development Management.

We currently own and or manage seven buildings in the Chinatown ID.

Similar to what Miguel has discussed, we not only consider the housing when we build our buildings, but we also consider how our residents and how our community are going to live with this project.

And I think that really underscores kind of the importance of the work that you're going to hear from me, from Miguel, and from the other folks that are on this call today.

You know, right now, SFICTA currently has two projects that are underway.

One is under construction, and the other one is set to close this summer.

But it's been about 15 years since we had developed a new project.

Over the years, SCIPTA has attempted to acquire land in the Chinatown ID and with little success.

You know, our two projects now, as well as the one that actually we did about 15 years ago now, were not acquired on the open market.

They were acquired through other methods, whether it be through us being in public development authority or through other forms of working with government to actually acquire this land.

And we've put multiple offers on properties over the years that have lost out for a variety of reasons, you know, from timing to funding to readiness.

We hope that this jumpstart funding will allow us to continue to develop in our neighborhood where parcels are quickly getting bought out and developed by speculative development.

It would not only be advantageous that this funding be for smaller CBOs and CDCs, but that it would be more flexible with its eligibility criteria.

As we all know, financing and affordable housing development is difficult and highly scrutinized.

And I kind of really echo what Miguel said about the importance of developing the ground floor commercial and really making that an important piece of the project and of what we're doing.

And, you know, when I think about what what a lot of this funding funds it's not that and that is really important piece of how we want to develop our projects is to make sure that we develop great housing but great commercial space and that we're able to bring in businesses that really do reflect our community and many of them need also those resources as well.

So we really hope that this funding helps break down those barriers and allow smaller, you know, less experienced organizations like us to be able to develop on our own and how we would like to be able to develop.

I think this phase one capacity building dollars, as well as the phase two additional developer fee will allow us to confidently build our capacity within our organization and not kind of building on a dream and hoping that funding will come through and that we will be able to pay our staff beyond 12 to 16 months, you know, it'll really help us to say, you know, we can do this project, we can really build our capacity and this is something that we can stick with, which is often a question that we have and something that we kind of did as we developed, you know, as we work towards staffing up to develop the projects that we're currently working on.

And I think that is something that is I really appreciated seeing that in this legislation.

I think that it is something that, you know, we think about internally, how can we build our capacity to not only have the staff that we need, but also build kind of the expertise and the professionalism within our community, within the staff that we have, and the ones that we want to build so that we can have folks within our staff that can do this work that look like us, that are, you know, that are capable and that we have more developers of color and folks that have that experience coming through.

I do want to impress upon the importance of the dedicated acquisition funding that is in here.

I think that we all know that land is getting snatched up quickly within the Chinatown ID. it takes a great deal of resources within our organization to get to the end of the acquisition funding and is often subject to funding timelines which doesn't always align when land is for sale.

So I think that this would really help within that and it feels like one of the most critical issues in regards to to community control of land and really getting that first step.

And I do appreciate the space after acquisition to develop a development plan, I think it was five years, and to really, you know, help us give us the space and time to even compete with the open market that is here in Seattle.

So just to close, I just want to say that, you know, we just get to look forward to working with Council and the Office of Housing on this program and to being a critical partner in this work and welcome us, welcome to have us at the table anytime we will be there.

So thank you very much.

We will continue to take you up on the opportunity to be at that table with you because so many great ideas have been generated from the community directly on how we can make improvements and you and Miguel mentioned the need to make sure that we move quickly for land that is available.

We know that that's the experience as well when it comes to the Filipino Community Center and I'm wondering if I could turn it over to the team that is here with us from the Filipino Community Center to talk a little bit about your past experience and some items that you have on the horizon and how this might be helpful, or any additional comments that you'd like to make.

And again, just wanna welcome board member, Rick Politin, executive director, Agnes Navarro, and former representative Velma Valeria and community organizer who came off mute that day and emphasized the importance of this policy.

more than a year ago.

So thank you and welcome to the Filipino Community Center team here.

Thank you, Council Member Mosqueda and members of the committee.

My name is Velma Valoria.

I'm a former state representative and I'm here representing the Filipino community of Seattle.

I just wanted to say thank you and wanted to testify on the council bill 12034. We call that the Affordable Jumpstart Housing Funding Program.

It's a new one.

It's still a little long.

But anyway, if Skibda is saying they're a small organization, we are a very mini, mini, mini organization.

So I wanted to let you know about the the experience that we have had.

As you know, Agnes said that we did have our opening of our Filipino community village.

We are now ready to work on affordable housing for families.

Let me tell you our experience.

We have a landowner that was ready to sell his piece of land.

that land owner offered us the opportunity for first refusal to buy the property.

As we applied for funding from the city for land acquisition, we found that the requirement was to have at least three previously built housing projects.

You know, the Filipino community does not have housing projects.

We only have one that has been recently built, and we did not have the $2.3 million to buy the land.

What was really, really helpful was Council Member Mosqueda's jumpstart acquisition for land funding.

And so we With this ordinance, I think we will be the first one to use it.

And within less than a year, we would have funding to buy that piece of property.

We have already put our proposal in front of the landowner, and we're working to make sure that it comes through.

So this piece of legislation will actually allow us to buy that piece of land, and now allow us to concentrate on making sure that we do build that capacity and that we do have that time to work with our developer to make our plans a reality.

So I wanted to say thank you for your innovation in creating that Jump Start program, as well as our our need to fulfill our need for this housing project.

So once again, thank you very much.

And we're really looking forward to have this piece of ordinance passed immediately.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Board Member Palutin or Director Agnes Navarro.

Go ahead, please go ahead.

Hi, I fully support what Agnes Navarro and Velma Veloria just said.

Well, good morning, Chairman Teresa Mosqueda and members of the committee.

My name is Rick Polintan.

I'm a board member of the Filipino community of Seattle and also president of the board for APACE, Asia Pacific American for Civic Empowerment.

The Filipino community is in dire need for an affordable low cost housing for working families.

We are not exempt from the increasing homelessness and demand for affordable housing in the area.

So we're in fully support of this ordinance that you are working on.

Thank you, members of this committee for making this happen.

This will make sure that BIPOC organizations such as the Filipino Community of Seattle will be able to participate in building an affordable low-cost housing for working families.

Recently, we were able to successfully build, as like the other panelists said, officially opened the affordable housing for seniors, the Filipino Village One, which is, by the way, now 100% occupied.

This showed that our organization could build efficiently and help provide senior housing in the city.

An adjacent lot, just like what Velma said, was offered to us to be for sale.

And with the city's help, we will be able to purchase this lot to build an affordable housing for working families.

at least reach our dream of building housing for working families.

So again, thank you for making this happen.

And we look forward to working with you in making sure that we do expand affordable housing in the city of Seattle and making sure that CBOs, like the Filipino Community of Seattle, can really participate in helping address these dire needs.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

And it was wonderful to see you last week, Board Member Paulatan, at the Filipino Community Center celebration as well.

Hadn't I missed anything else you'd like to add, Executive Director?

Oh, thank you, Council Member Theresa Mosqueda.

I just wanted to make sure that we want to thank you very much for all the help that you've given us, and that I will let you, I'm telling everyone that Our mission and vision actually includes affordable housing for our community or the people in the Rainier Valley, which is mostly affected by the rising cost of housing in Seattle.

The rents are also rising in Seattle, and this will definitely prevent displacements of our people.

Um, and this will be also a mixed use.

It's not only for housing, but it is also for, um, it's a multi-generational activities, you know, for, uh, our plan is to build another, uh, on the, on the common, on a common space or the community space, um, a child development, uh, center and some commercial spaces.

which we can offer culturally appropriate and activities and services.

That's about it.

Thank you very much and hopefully this will pass because this will really help us build our next project.

Excellent.

Thank you very much.

And colleagues, I'm going to turn it to you for any questions or comments, both for the panel and for central staff or Office of Housing.

Before I do, I want to again thank the Africatown Community Center, who could not be with us today because of a flight delay, but want to lift up the words from the folks.

at Africa Community Housing and Development, Bree Nicolero sent us a message that says, I also share your excitement around the Jumpstart Community Self-Determination Fund, which will provide critical opportunities to community-led organizations like Africa Community Housing and Development who are working to grow our development portfolio.

As we do not have access to major donors or other resources that mainstream organizations leverage to initiate their community development work, this program would provide a vital investment in our ability to provide high-quality, family-sized townhomes and row houses with affordable mortgages priced at 50% of the area median income that meet Islamic financing requirements.

Our goal is to invest in urban infill model design as a limited equity home ownership cooperative that we can use throughout King County.

So I wanna thank them for their support and their comments as well.

Before we turn it over to council members, and I see Council Member Nelson first up in the queue, Director Winkler-Chin, is there anything else you'd like to add to finalize the presentation here?

Thank you.

I have a little bit of challenge with this whole topic, because I'm feeling a little emotionally tied to it just a little bit too close to it.

I think what you heard from all the organizations here is that.

It has been a struggle for them to access funding from the Office of Housing.

But from that, you hear strong resilience and determination.

There is an intentionality into which they've made these decisions to enter this space, which the affordable housing and the other elements, right?

And what does this mean for them as an organization?

It's not that they all wanna be affordable housing developers and do all this.

That's just a part of their mission and that's how they live out their mission.

And so I think the intentionality around that is great.

It's what I appreciate about your the Council's work on this is that it's a path.

It leads to a path and a conversation and some strategic decisions made within organizations and that's sometimes a real challenge to actually resource and what does that look like?

And what this does is help set organizations on a path so then they can access our traditional funds of dollars, which honestly, some of the other funding sources make it really challenging to do that.

I'll just leave it at that.

I will be quiet now and be happy to take questions.

Excellent.

Well, we really appreciate it.

And honestly, the office of housing under your stewardship and also the previous director and team there really had been great partners with us in developing the policy here and wanna thank the office of housing team for your partnership.

And again, Tracy Ratzcliff for your creative thoughts as well, as we sought to change the policy that really was highlighted for us in those community round table discussions.

So thank you so much.

We're gonna first turn it over to Council Member Nelson and then Council Member Peterson is next.

Council Member Nelson, please go ahead.

Thank you.

I am fully in support of this and I really do appreciate you bringing this forward and for the community advocating for this over the course of years.

And panelists, your presence here really did really bring home why this is so important.

For Representative Valoria's example of not having enough, not having the required number of developments already completed to access money.

I mean, getting cash in the hands of people that need it to support community is a goal of mine when it comes to small businesses and this is what this is doing.

effectuating a policy, and this is where I have a question, that I've been interested in advancing, which is that it allows for these funds to be used on the ground floor, which will prevent the displacement of neighborhood small businesses, because often, my understanding has been that the current policy is that the Office of Housing Funding can only be used for the residential units above, unless there is a, a community benefit space such as in Pride Place, you know, for the nonprofit that was operating on the ground floor, GenPride.

My point is that this is going to help small businesses in the community who are often displaced when storefronts are consolidated, when they're acquired for affordable housing, and it'll also help businesses move in.

because my understanding is that some of the repairs and the preparation for the space will be possible.

So I really appreciate what this is doing.

So thank you very much.

Thank you very much, Council Member Nelson.

And I just wanted to offer the chance if Tracy Ratcliffe from central staff had anything else that she'd like to add to that.

We, I think in 2018, 2019 also did some work with the office of housing at the time to try to pair more of the office of housing funds with the equitable development initiative funds.

to try to do some of that work as well to make it possible for there to be a better melding of those dollars, which is, as you've mentioned, a real experience for folks who are either trying to build housing or create community or small business space on the first and second floor.

So that issue also came up at that community housing round table.

Tracy, did you have anything to add in response to Council Member Nelson's comment or question and maybe some of that past work?

I did.

I just wanted to be clear about this.

The housing dollars can only be used for the housing and for spaces related to the provision of housing.

Council Member Nelson is correct.

If there is community space in the bottom of a housing project that's directly tied to providing services to the housing residents, that can be used and funded with housing dollars.

But if you have a separate space that is a for-profit subway sandwich shop or some other unrelated business or business that's unrelated to directly related to the housing provision, then housing dollars can't be used for that activity.

That is in fact where things like the EDI and private financing most frequently have to come in to help to fund that space for those small businesses.

I want to just be really clear that housing dollars have to be used for housing and for service spaces related to the provision of services for the housing residents, but cannot be used for business space, for example.

And just to add to that, I see Director Winkler-Chin's hand up as well.

Is there any additional elaboration that you can provide to the vision that I share as well, that we want to make sure that there is a pairing of policies or a pairing of funding, braiding those funding sources so that the small businesses like the ones that we see at Roberto Maestra Plaza, the women and minority owned businesses along with childcare on the first and second floors, that have housing above it is more possible.

I know that we did make some policy changes in the past and in fact, Jump Start's economic resilience section of the spend plan does also support the creation of additional small businesses for places like that.

And plus the work that we did with MHA to create smaller business fronts as well with some of the housing housing funding that we're receiving there, we wanted to encourage smaller store frontage.

So I'm thinking of a series of programs and policies and funding that braided together can help fill out that vision.

But Director McClurch, anything else to add to that?

What I was going to say, Council Member, in response to Council Member Nelson's question is that The program that we're talking about today is really about strengthening community-based organizations to be able to make those decisions that are best for them and their communities, which often involves small business spaces.

The funding part of the small businesses, actually, I feel like there is a statement of legislative intent that's being worked on right now that talks about better coordinating how we as an office work with other departments like OPCD, who has the Equitable Development Initiative, and the Office of Economic Development.

How do we think about doing that?

Because even when the community-based organization has the capacity to be able to undertake this project, I think I can say this, we as a city don't necessarily make it easy for them in that We may want childcare well you need to go speak to this other department that does this, so how do we allow the community based organization to be.

In the best situation, and how can we the city be the best partner with them in doing this work, so the funding piece gets figured out on the small business side better, but I would say.

the Filipino community of Seattle is probably more looking to the small businesses in their community and how do we find spaces for them than maybe some other developers because of the fact that they're all in community together.

Not to put words and expectations on the community, on the Filipino community of Seattle, but just using them as an example.

Excellent, and I will also say though, Council Member Nelson, you raised an important point about the ultimate vision and when we use these funds for land acquisition, and then the community organization gets the chance to actually grab that land, Then they, as Director McGurchen said, through their vision, if their vision includes small businesses, right, then it is making it possible.

So while the funding, you know, braiding still needs to happen, you're absolutely right.

Acquiring that property makes it possible for those smaller businesses to also move in then.

Right, the funding is freed up for ground floor.

Yes, exactly.

Thank you.

And thanks for highlighting the slide.

I think that was our slide out of our office in 2019. We know it was delayed by COVID, but we're excited about that.

Tracy, anything else to add before I go to Council Member Peterson?

Just briefly that you are correct.

There is a slide that actually we should be getting at the end of June that tries to address the question, actually soon, actually end of October.

that gets at this question about coordination of the various parties and their fund sources.

Okay, great.

Thanks for the question.

Council Member Peterson, please go ahead.

Thank you, Chair Mosqueda.

I definitely support more funding to acquire and preserve low-income housing, especially to help prevent displacement.

And this is the best way to do it by empowering our local organizations.

I want to acknowledge all the excellent work these community-based organizations here with us today have already done for Seattle and continue to do.

I do have a couple questions about the numbers.

I think this question might be for Tracy Bradslip on central staff.

So the, how much money are we talking about big picture?

It says 13% of available funds for certain housing activities, but so could we, I don't know if there's a dollar amount there, or could we look at the 2022 jumpstart spend plan and estimate what that is?

Yes, it's about $15.7 million in 2022 that would be available for this program.

And then I think it's actually about 16% of the housing dollars that are available going forward.

And obviously, that amount, the $15 million, could change depending on the amount of proceeds that come in.

But this year, we know it's about $15.7 million.

Thank you.

And in terms of preventing displacement, is that something that will be defined?

For example, is it with, is it acquiring a housing with regulatory agreements that are expiring or project-based Section 8 HAP contracts that are expiring, or is it just, if it's in a certain zip code, it's just assumed to help prevent displacement?

So I think looking at the policies, and Director Chin might be able to answer this better, but I think there is a priority given to the acquisition of occupied buildings.

That's one thing that might give a nod to or prioritize the acquisition of existing buildings.

I don't know if, Kelly, you have further criteria that might support the idea of trying to preserve those existing affordable.

And if I might as well add to the council members question, I think it's also a question of belly buttons served, belly buttons housed.

So if you think of individuals, that's how we talk about in healthcare, right?

How many, how many people are we talking about?

And so if if it's, if you have a response to the question that Tracy framed it in terms of preservation of units, but also the folks who are experiencing displacement, I think is something that we've worked on a lot for the community preference and affirmative marketing policies.

And if you look at the folks who, for example, are in the Filipino community center, Filipino community village, the elders there, the eligible folks who came in are the community that's a high risk of displacement from that neighborhood.

So I just wanted to sort of broaden the question out a little bit to think about individuals, the belly buttons that are going to be housed there and think about displacement of those individuals versus maybe the existing building.

Does that make sense?

If I could add to your question in that way.

Yeah, thank you, Chair Mosqueda.

I just was trying to figure out if there were, if Office of Housing was gonna use criteria.

I know a major concern is for these housing projects where all of them are extremely low income, all the residents there, but there's the regulatory agreement is expiring or the Section 8 HAP contract, the owner's choosing not to renew that contract.

and then you've got 100% of the residents at risk.

I just didn't know if OH was considering that as criteria.

Any comments in response to that from the team at the office of housing?

I will try Kelly Larson with the Office of Housing.

I think we do look broadly at the definition of displacement.

We often are referring to the OPCD work where they've looked at areas at high risk of displacement we overlay our investments with the work that OPCD is doing we're constantly staying in touch with them on that and we're continuing our work at the Office of Housing to decide and analyze investments and what they mean in terms of preventing displacement.

But I would say for sure that we would be categorizing programs and housing such as Council Member Peterson just described as an anti-displacement investment.

I'm assuming office of housing has a list of projects throughout the city that have contracts low-income housing tax rate regulatory agreements and know when those are expiring so that you can even point these organizations to those acquisition opportunities so that they don't convert to market rate housing and the rents shoot up quickly and displace people.

Does Office of Housing have a list of projects that are at risk of converting from low-income housing to market rate?

Ellie, I'll answer that.

Traditionally, we have kept a list of both the LIHTC projects that are coming up and the Section 8 contracts.

Sometimes the LIHTC projects coming up are worth a lot of money, but they also have continued regulatory agreements, continued use agreements for, I think, 40 years on that.

I would say oftentimes, Wearing if I'm using my old hat as somebody who was working in this space before.

I would always try to keep my section eight but I'm always looking at those other new development opportunities that would allow me to more fully embrace the.

The Community development lens that I would wear right, so I never would want to lose section eight.

In my neighborhood because it's really, really hard to get back and at the office of housing, we do have in our asset management team tracking for that.

but we haven't really had that many opportunities to go after and go to Skipton and say, would you be interested in buying this property?

That's a conversation that we need to enter into with our other organizations.

And to look for these acquisition opportunities out, you know, I can't resist putting a plug in for the legislation that the council passed to identify naturally occurring affordable housing that would be, those would be good opportunities to acquire.

Had a question about the developer fee.

want to make sure we're acquiring as many units as possible with the resources that we have.

And I understood that I thought the housing levy program, there's a developer fee schedule.

on the office of housing website.

For example, it limits developer fees to 2.5% of total development costs for projects costing over 12 million.

So is this the proposal to provide an additional 500,000 for those developer fees?

Is, is that, um, Do we need to change that policy for the developer fee schedule or is this coming from a different authorization?

This would come from a different authorization.

I guess that's for central staff or OH.

Yes, this is unique to the specific program for Jumpstart AMP.

It's a very narrow scope at this stage, and we are testing, and we'll see how it can change over time.

But as of now, it's organizations that participate in the Jumpstart Capacity and Grant Program that would be eligible for up to $500,000 of additional developer fee, which would be negotiated during project definition and negotiation phase.

One last follow-up.

So that won't apply to every single investment.

at the Office of Housing, only these specific projects will be eligible.

And also, the housing funding policies, Council Member, don't include that developer fee cap.

That might be how OH implements their loan program, but it's not actually something in the housing funding policies that would require a change, just FYI.

So in this case for this program, would there be, it's labeled as an acquisition and preservation program, and then there's the developer fee.

So is there actual development occurring?

Are the units acquired, are they required to be renovated so that there's development, real estate development activity occurring for the fee?

Or is the fee just a payment that, goes to the organization while they're just acquiring a building.

I guess I'm just thinking of developer fee as a term of art in the real estate finance world.

It's for building or renovating typically.

Kelly, do you want me to, I'll go for it.

I see Kelly nodding.

So if we think about this in a linear path, an organization will then work on the capacity building.

They've received the capacity building grant and use that money to help them build their capacity.

And that could be education.

It could be training.

It could be really doing some board development, all of that.

When you acquire, you might be acquiring land.

and you might be acquiring a project, but you have five years to use this time, we want a development plan for whatever it is that is being bought in five years.

So if you are acquiring land, you're going to have to incur your own internal expenses during that five-year plan because you're going to have to hire the right set of development team members to do the work, whether it's the architect, engineer, but you as an organization need those funds in order to do the work during that five-year plan.

If you are buying a building and preserving it, I would say very rarely do you actually have a building that is pristine and great and lovely that you're going to have to go not do anything with.

You are also going to have to have a five-year plan and you have that five years to do the work necessary in order to acquire and purchase that as well.

Kelly, if I'm incorrect in that, please correct me, cause I know you.

So Kelly's nodding for folks who cannot see the full screen.

Okay.

Okay, excellent council member Peterson.

And I think actually, you know, your questions underscore some of the issues that we're trying to address here.

We want to make it possible for these organizations to really acquire the land to initiate the projects through their vision and not be held up and trying to figure out how to blade all of the funding sources with the various developers at the, you know, the front end and how quickly those properties disappear off the market is very problematic for making sure that we can either do preservation, building new buildings, or as Council Member Nelson mentioned, building housing on top of the small businesses.

So I'm excited about the quickness in which hopefully this will bring opportunities into the hands of folks who are looking to develop new housing, and help prevent displacement.

Council Member Herbold, thanks for your patience to wrap us up.

Sure, really appreciate that conversation.

Was hoping it would answer my question, because it was in the ballpark there, but not quite.

I do have a, I wanna be specific about the kind of displacement that I'm asking about, rather than defaulting to sort of the broader definition of, you know, displacement that is designed to ensure that people in an area can either stay or return.

I want to really focus on those buildings that Council Member Peterson was talking about.

community groups in my district who are really interested in acquiring buildings that are at risk of being purchased in the speculative market and are interested in resources to help them do so.

They're not established non-profit housing developers, but they've been working for several years to realize this vision for South Park.

And so what is still not clear to me is whether or not this program is expected to help organizations like this purchase existing affordable housing buildings, or if it's instead focused on acquisition of land as well as, of course, the capacity building piece.

Or is it both?

Or do we just happen to be talking mostly about land today in the projects that we talked about in the panel?

Or is this fund flexible enough to allow for these community-based organizations to purchase specific buildings in a geographic area that is identified as being at high risk of displacement.

And if so, just wanting to understand is the program designed to help these organizations to move quickly to seize the opportunities they see in so far as like, is this gonna be like a rolling application process?

How will these organizations be best poised to take advantage of this new opportunity?

Thank you.

Anybody like to take that from Central Staff Office of Housing?

Please go ahead, Director Blanford.

I would say Council Member Herbold, I think you asked the question of how flexible.

It's pretty flexible at this point, right?

Because we are just kind of here laying out a framework from what we've heard.

And I think you should expect changes in the program over time as it gets implemented and developed.

So this is just setting the framework for it.

So is it flexible?

Yes.

And in the case of community organizations, I think that are looking at seizing opportunities to buy buildings.

They need some capacity building in some sense to help develop what it is that they want to do.

So as I said earlier, I think I mentioned the term intentionality and it's a path to having a conversation with themselves as to what is the best shape and form by which to do that, which I think is really, really important because when you end up working with the office of housing, We expect you to work with us for 85 years and being around for that long.

I hate to say it.

So Council Member Mosqueda had these very, very nice words of the Community Self-Preservation Fund.

I made the internal joke.

It's like the bad marriage fund because you are forming this working relationship and it has to be with some intentionality.

The acquiring of projects quickly.

So this may, you have to go slow before you can go fast.

As which a mentor told me, because you have to really understand what you're doing now if there's opportunities that pop up.

We are happy talking with organizations about acquiring those in some way.

And that is okay, we are fine doing that, because in this point where we haven't gotten the program set up yet quite and we're not quite there, we need to seize those opportunities.

I think you asked a question of whether it's rolling funds the loan program we envision being a rolling fund much as our current acquisition and preservation fund is, but I think that the capacity building will probably be through a notification of funding availability that's issued later on about okay.

who wants to access these funds and be willing to do it with this pot of money at this time.

But real estate doesn't fall on this nice schedule of waiting around for the city to issue our NOFAs.

So the acquisition funds will have to be rolling.

That's our current envisioning of it.

And so just to restate what I thought I heard you say, what I thought you meant when I heard you say that, yes, the fund is flexible, you are saying it is flexible to accommodate both acquisition of property as well as acquisition of buildings.

We are acquiring, period, just acquiring, yeah.

Yes.

Yes, I think yes.

Yes, yes, because it's acquisition and preservation yeah.

Yeah.

I appreciate your question Council Member Herbold and to also do a trailer to Council Member Peterson's question as well.

I think we too are interested in the building concept as well because there are belly buttons and families in those units.

One of the community partners that was part of the community round table was the Duwamish Valley Affordable Housing Coalition.

I know you've spent a lot of time working with them.

They also came off of mute, and Velma and anybody else on the line that day, feel free.

I know, Miguel, you came off of mute that day.

Folks from Africatown came off of mute to say, we need this fund.

We need to make sure that we have greater flexibility.

And we need to remove these requirements, these requirements for you to either have X number of years or X number of experience or buildings.

And so I think that they very much are interested in this concept as well, but I will again underscore what I think we've all been lifting up here, that this is one avenue of funding.

And so we need to make sure to keep lifting this up when we think about the levy renewal policies, when we think about the notice of intent to sell changes that we're planning to make so that there is a pot of funding for, multi-family structures that come on the market.

So I think we'll continue to infuse this concept that you all have brought up today in all of these other funding sources so that we continue to have more funding overall, because it can't just be done through this fund alone.

And community colleagues, is there anything else that you'd like to add to any of the questions that you've heard today or the issues that have been raised before we close this out?

Or just the questions that Council Member Herbold?

Yeah, please go ahead.

This is Velma from the Filipino community.

I just wanted to add the whole issue of capacity building is really going to help us because it's going to determine, as the discussion was, it's going to determine whether, like you said, whether we will have the capacity to build the childcare center or end the small business units that will be on the first floor.

So those are the things that we are also looking at.

And I wanted to just let you know that this capacity building fund and the whole package, you know, will really be helpful to all of us.

Excellent.

Thank you for that.

Any additional comments?

Okay, colleagues, I really appreciate all of the participation in this topic here today.

And again, thanks to the Office of Housing for your work in thinking through the policy changes with us, along with community, Erin House and Tracy staff, just to highlight the four, I think really essential things that this legislation would do.

It provides specific eligibility criteria tailored to these smaller community-based organizations that are fighting displacement, have historically been excluded from public policy and funding sources and providing them an avenue.

It provides a permanent funding source as opposed to a revolving fund that has to be paid back fairly quickly and allows the city to grant longer-term funding to organizations.

As you heard, work over five years to make sure that there is truly a partnership with OH.

The permanent nature of this funding allows for a more flexible timeline so that organizations can secure the land and work on developing it through that community vision without having to partner necessarily with an outside organization that's not part of their vision.

And we have some good partners.

I know that there's been great partners with El Centro and the Filipino Community Center and Skipta and Africatown.

And there's many developments that we've jointly been at the ribbon cutting to celebrate lately, but having more self-determination is always something that is good and something that we should work to ensure that our public policies promote.

And the capacity building that this fund could lead to building technical assistance, acquiring skills, helping the affordable housing element of the nonprofit organization become more core to what they do to create that skill set among community organizations is a really good thing, especially as more community organizations are seeking to provide housing to their community that they either provide meals to right now, child care, educational programs, etc.

They want to also be in the place where they can offer housing.

So this is really exciting that so much advocacy has gone into elevating this issue and now we have leaders within the Office of Housing that can help us realize this vision and electeds who I am hopeful, are supportive of this.

So thanks again for all of your work today and for highlighting that.

We've spent quite a bit of time on this, but wanted to make sure that we got into these details and look forward to, if there's no objection, I look forward to having a potential vote on this today.

Colleagues, I move the committee recommend passage of council bill 120343. Thank you.

Is there any comments or questions?

Please go ahead.

Thank you, Council Member Mosqueda.

I appreciate your work on this and I support the organizations that are here today and the need to do this.

Your comments at the end were really important to me in terms of restating the values and the visions of this.

I think this was a lot for us to digest so quickly.

I know you've been with it for almost a year, but this is the first time that I have been seeing this.

Fortunately, we were able to, my staff and I were able to jump on this and ask questions and thank you for the answers we received today.

I think there's still some stuff that sounds like it needs to be worked out, but with it being 15 million is a doable amount and appreciate you stating the vision.

And so I wanna be supportive, I just...

It does, it does feel rushed, but I think I'm ready.

Okay.

Well, thank you.

And I know that our staff have had a chance to connect directly to, but appreciate that, um, that this is, you know, very much in line with the vision of the jumpstart spend plan ordinance that we discussed.

And so that's already dedicated funding.

I know that the community has been working on this for a long time and office of housing and Tracy and, as well, so I appreciate that, that we are kind of bringing together multiple conversations to consolidate the proposal in front of us today to really fulfill the opportunity to create that flexibility.

But I'm thankful for your support and happy to, of course, spend additional time answering any questions, but really appreciate your support today.

Any additional comments?

Okay, hearing none, Madam Clerk, could you please call the roll on the passage of Council Bill 120343?

Council Member Herbold?

Yes.

Council Member Peterson?

Yes.

Council Member Nelson?

Aye.

Council Member Lewis?

Yes.

Madam Chair Mosqueda?

Aye.

Madam Chair, that is a five in favor, none opposed.

Excellent thank you.

Yay community you're on the line to see a unanimous passage.

So thanks for all of your work and we may have some additional questions or maybe examples that council members would like to see fleshed out a little bit.

So we may be calling you again to hear more about some of the projects that you've worked on or projects that are in the pipeline so we can flush this out.

But my excitement made me forget to note that the motion carried.

The motion carries and the committee recommendation that the bill pass will be sent to the June 21st Seattle City Council meeting for a final vote.

So thanks so much.

I think we have about 20, 30 minutes left here, and I'm gonna see if we can get through the next two agenda items.

I'm wondering if, I don't know, Madam Clerk, if you could read into the record, agenda item number three, and as we do so, I may ask our colleagues here on the Finance and Housing Committee just to confirm if they have any additional flexibility to go till noon today.

If not, that's okay, just let me know.

Madam Clerk, would you please read into the record item number three.

Agenda item number three, Council Bill 120340, an ordinance relating to the Department of Finance and Administrative Services for a briefing discussion and possible vote.

Excellent.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

We are excited to have with us Jared Green.

for joint interest in this, and I'll turn it over to Calvin for walking us through the presentation before we get to our guests.

Thank you, council members.

I just recently had my audio come back on, so I think some of the other attendees might have that as well, but I see heads nodding, so I think we're all ready to go.

I'm Calvin Chow with Council Central staff.

Before I turn it over to the executive staff, I'll just say briefly that this lease really is a pretty simple lease.

It makes use of space below the I-90 Airport Way interchange that supports S-DOT's field operations.

There are no specific transportation projects or right-of-way improvements occurring at the property.

So this is really in support of basic operations.

With that, I'll turn it over to the executive.

They have a very thorough presentation for you.

Great, thank you.

And before you do, just because of the audio issue, it sounds like Seattle Channel cut out for the viewing audience.

We are on agenda item number three, Council 1-2-0-3-4-0.

And I wanna thank my colleagues here on finance and housing who have indicated that they are able to stay until noon today.

So we will get through these next two items as planned.

Please go ahead.

Thanks for being here, director.

Who's going first, Gerald, are you up first?

Yes.

Gerard, excuse me, Mr. Green, please go ahead.

Okay, just a sec.

Gerard, if you like, I have the presentation open and can put it up as well.

Oh, you've got it.

Got it, yes, so.

Thank you.

So good morning, Chair Mosqueda and council members.

I just want to let you know, we can see your desktop, but the presentation was not up, which is very well organized, I must say.

I have the presentation available.

So if you would like to just speak to it, I can run the presentation for you.

Thank you.

Okay, can you guys see that?

Yes, we can.

Thank you.

Please go ahead.

Okay, so good morning, Chair Mesquita and committee members.

Really appreciate this opportunity to talk a little bit about a yard space that is becoming more and more valuable and kind of critical to, as Calvin said, our operations here at SDOT.

And so here's a little bit, this slide talks a little bit about the history.

We have been using this yard space roughly since 2017. At the time this property kind of became available, we were actively working with FAS to locate a yard space because we had been recently told by our Sound Transit partners and FAS that we would need to vacate a space.

that we had been leasing for several years.

And so we're already kind of looking for a space and desperately trying to find a space that was logistically located close to the downtown core and close to our largest operations facility, which is Charles Street.

So it really, it actually really worked out better than we thought at the time.

And so, you know, that's second bullet, you know, WSDOT and SDOT leadership at the time, we're talking about a way to activate this space.

And they basically said, does SDOT have any use for this space?

And the challenge is a large enough space to move and circulate long and large equipment.

So that was the challenge.

And this space actually had those dimensions that we needed, even though we needed to put up a fence and make the space somewhat more secure, realizing that we would have valuable equipment and some materials stored there.

And so, yeah, this slide just kind of reiterates the use of the yard space.

It also houses our snow and ice fighting equipment and a lot of signage and kind of overflow signage that our operations paving crews, asphalt and concrete also utilize.

This is just kind of like an aerial of the space.

The actual space is in blue, designated in blue, it's kind of like that triangle.

And it's fully fenced now.

And we did do some minor development.

Mainly, we added some aggregate, some crushed rock, and compacted it.

And that's mainly, we wanted to make sure that anything we added was pervious, so we didn't trigger any drainage needs.

And also, just makes the yard a lot more usable during the winter, rainy months.

We don't have equipment and people getting stuck, because it does get, pretty saturated in that area.

And then over to the right and designated in red, that's our current space that not only SDOT, but also FAS.

And yeah, mainly those NSPU actually share that yard space that we lease from FAS or WSDOT through FAS.

And now I'm going to turn it over to Karen Gruen with FAS Real Estate Services to finish out the PowerPoint.

And if there's time, we'll both be available for questions.

Thank you, Gerard.

And good morning, Chair Mosqueda.

Good morning, council members, committee members.

FAS's role here is to act as the leasing agent for SDOT.

And the lease agreement, just briefly, that's before the committee this morning, allows SDOT to use the space, as Gerard said, for operational purposes.

The square foot is considerable.

It's a large space, 63,544 square feet.

We've negotiated an initial term of the lease for six years that runs from April 1, 2017 when SDOT first started occupying the space to March 31, 2023. And we've also negotiated two five-year extensions.

Those would be at SDOT's option.

The agreement calls for the Washington State Department of Transportation to waive rent from that initial date of April 1, 2017, through December 31, 2020. And the rental amount on a monthly basis is $14,900.

That starts January 1, 2021. And there's an option for Washington State Department of Transportation to increase that amount annually by 2%.

On the next slide, you'll see the lease terms depicted in a grid form that also shows the annual expense to SDOT for the lease.

And then note that that waiver of rent from April 1st through the entire year of 2020, that's in recognition for the city's investment in cleaning up the property when SDOT first started using it.

Next slide.

We're here before the council because the director of FAS has the signing authority for a lease of this nature.

With this size of property, over 18,000 square feet for yard space, and with this duration of the initial term at six years, we require council authorization for the director to be able to sign this lease on behalf of SDOT.

And we're happy to partner with SDOT on this.

answer any questions that the committee has this morning for us.

Thank you.

Excellent.

Thank you very much.

And I'm going to turn it over to our colleagues to see if there's any comments or questions.

Okay, I'm seeing none from the Chair of Transportation.

Appreciate that you have been working on this for some time.

Any additional questions over here?

Seeing none.

Anything else you'd like to add, Cal?

Nope, nothing for me.

Okay, I appreciate you bringing this to us.

And I think without any additional questions, I move the committee recommends passage of Council Bill 120340. It's been moved and seconded.

Are there any additional comments or questions?

Hearing none, I'm gonna go ahead and call the roll.

Vice Chair Herbold.

Yes.

Council Member Peterson.

Yes.

Council Member Lewis.

Yes.

Council Member Nelson.

Aye.

Aye.

Council Member Rosqueda.

Aye.

Madam Clerk, that's five in support of the legislation.

The motion carries and the committee recommendation that the bill pass will be sent to the June 21st Seattle City Council meeting for a final vote.

Thanks so much, Cal and the team at SAP and FAS for your presentation here today.

Okay, let's move on to our last agenda item.

Madam Clerk, could you please read item number four into the record?

agenda item number four, council bill 120338, an ordinance relating to grant funds from the non-city sources for briefing discussion and possible vote.

Wonderful, thank you.

Agenda item number four is also an item that details with our vice chair's committee.

Vice chair Herbold does have oversight over human services.

So I want to thank you for your joint interest in this as well.

This legislation authorizes the human service department to accept six grants from the state and federal agencies totaling $3,226,147 and appropriates the budget authority that is tied to the grant agreements.

I want to thank Acting Director Tanya Kim and Joseph Kaspersky.

from the Human Services Department for joining us to walk through the grants, acceptance requests, and the programs that will be supported by these non-city funds.

And welcome, Director Kim and Joseph.

Thank you.

And so Kevin is going to pull up our presentation.

Tanya Kim, Acting Director for Human Services Department.

and Joseph Caspersky for Chief Financial Officer for the Human Services Department.

You had it so close.

Okay, thank you, Chair Mosqueda, Vice Chair Herbold and committee members for the opportunity to present on the timely legislation that allows HSD, as you said, to accept grants.

from non-city sources, and I think this will be relatively brief, so thank you for sticking around for us.

Before we begin, I want to acknowledge that today, June is a very busy month, and today is Elder Abuse Awareness Day in Seattle as proclaimed by the mayor, as well as you, Seattle City Council, and so thank you.

Elder abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation are growing problems in our community, unfortunately.

And HSD's Aging and Disability Services Division provides specific supports for Seattle King County residents age 60 and older who are abused, neglected, and are exploited by someone they trust.

And you'll see a connection with some of our funding for this body of work.

We work closely with medics, firefighters, police, and the county prosecuting attorney's office to improve health outcomes for vulnerable adults.

I just wanted to, before we dive into the mechanics, ground us in the work that we do and the impacts that these types of funds provide for us.

Thank you, council members, for increasing awareness of elder abuse issues in our community and working toward ensuring that all people are treated with respect and dignity regardless of age or ability.

With that, Next slide, please.

We're going to provide an overview of the purpose of this ordinance for the viewing public, highlight the scope of grant funding this legislation will provide the city, and then share a list of the grants to the City of Seattle affected by the legislation.

And right now, Joe is going to walk us through in a little bit more detail.

Thank you, Director Kim.

Good morning, everyone.

HSD has been awarded $3.2 million in state and federal grants in addition to those already included in the fiscal year 22 budget.

This ordinance is being requested for HSD to expand and continue programs that will benefit older adults and individuals living with HIV AIDS.

The specific areas are illustrated on the following slide.

Next slide, please.

We have received six grants focusing on five areas which will allow the department to increase housing services for people living with HIV AIDS, expand access for COVID response programs for older adults, continue senior care management and elder abuse intervention programs, provide eligible senior veterans the opportunity to receive home and community-based services, and lastly, support crime victim assistance and victim service programs for senior adults, which aligns with today's observation of Elder Abuse Awareness Day, as mentioned earlier by Director Kim.

Next slide, please.

Shown here are the specific grants awarded to the city and are the basis for this request.

I would like to highlight the $2.2 million in funding we received for housing for opportunities for persons with HIV AIDS.

This grant is a three-year grant that will provide funding to three BIPOC-led agencies to focus on stable housing and positive health outcomes.

Additionally, as well as advancing equity, which may serve as a national model in this area.

The remaining grants are specific to older adults in the community and continues funding for programs such as senior nutrition, social isolation, and other support.

With that, I'd like to conclude our presentation.

We welcome any questions you may have.

Thank you very much.

Colleagues, are there any additional questions?

Any comments?

Yes, great.

Council Member Herbold, Vice Chair and Chair of Human Services, please go ahead.

Thank you.

I just wanna inquire about the staffing capacity at HSD to complete the work required for these grants.

Wondering if you could speak a little to that.

Also am interested in the Crime Victim Services Fund.

If you could say just a little bit more about how the Victim Services Fund will be used, how people will access it, what it will pay for.

And then lastly, interested in knowing a little bit more about the Nutrition and Support Services Funds, what specific services will it pay for and for what population.

Thank you.

I'll take my first review of the questions.

Thank you, Council Member, for those questions.

Currently, HSD does have the sufficient staffing for these programs.

Most of these programs, of course, have our ongoing funding programs and are contracted out.

So I am not anticipating any staffing challenges with the execution of these programs.

As far as the second question, I didn't quite fully hear.

Just wanting to know a little bit.

Yeah.

How you anticipate it will work, how people access it, what it will pay for.

It will be executed with our current staff on board.

It's creating a providing expanding Cognizant Capacity Assessment Services to the eligible recipients of the funding.

And it was going to be basically managed by our existing case managers as another avenue.

Who are eligible recipients, I think is what I'm trying to get at.

It's related to, I can see that it's related to our ADS elder abuse program.

And so we can get you some follow up information on the specifics.

It looks like it is in terms of the federal funding through commerce, which is adding to the ADS elder abuse team.

So as Joe mentioned, the cognitive capacity evaluations, financial management services, the victim services fund will be available to the ADS elder abuse case managers.

but we can provide additional information as well.

So folks at HSD who are working with victims of elder abuse will be able to access those funds.

And again, yeah, it would be helpful to know a little bit more about what the funds are intended to pay for.

Absolutely.

It looks like they're beyond what we just shared.

They're funds for providing the cognitive capacity assessment services to identify what the gaps are and build out the ability for a King County multidisciplinary team to collectively respond to the victim's situation and needs.

But if there's more specifics from the team, I can certainly circle back with the committee.

Thank you.

Yeah, I didn't understand that.

So I would definitely appreciate an opportunity to learn more.

Thank you.

And then lastly, just a little bit more detail about the funding for the nutrition support services.

This will be one year funding for the senior nutrition.

It's $1.3 million for the senior nutrition, 100,000 to expand information assistance.

35,000 developed senior farmers market nutrition program voucher application access.

If the kid 50,000 for transit fare subsidy program, 150,000 for elder abuse case management.

It's and 620,000 for it just the 80 us to manage these contracts and for the data analysis system.

This is also providing funding to address social isolation, which is broken down into 55,000 for caregiver counseling, $20,000 to replicate the pilot project, which aims at delaying memory loss or among through walking and reminiscing, excuse me, in Seattle's historically black neighborhoods.

$100,000 to continue digital skills coaching and $80,000 for interdisciplinary evidence-based capable program, which is really just a program designed to enhance older American or older adults ability to age in place.

And, and I know that food is kind of top line for a lot of folks and funding for food so just underscoring that it's the senior nutrition and the senior farmer market nutrition program vouchers.

Thank you, Director Kim.

And is that funding, this 516,000, is this accounted for in the recent PSY response regarding food funding and inquiring what other resources we're expected to get from other jurisdictions?

Oh, that's a good question.

I will need to.

We're getting together on Friday you can follow up.

Yeah I don't want to misspeak and so definitely can do that.

All right super thank you so much.

Thank you Council Member Herbold.

I too have some questions along the same lines.

I'm happy to follow up with the chair or with you later after a conversation on Friday.

I see Amy Gore is on the line as well.

You know part of My questions that I've been having over the last six to eight months since we passed our budget is when other jurisdictional funding comes in, either through the county from pastor dollars, the state from their state legislative budget that was very much an investment in human services as well, or from additional federal dollars.

If those dollars can help offset some of the funding that we provided in our 2022 budget, that would be great.

Not to say that there's going to be less dollars, but if they're able to supplant where existing general fund is being used, that would be helpful to know, especially given the budget situation that we're facing.

And I know we're all interested in utilizing every dollar available that might be non-general fund related.

So perhaps Council Member Herbert, I can follow up with you as well later this week and with the department about how that could help offset some of the existing revenue sources.

Amy, anything to add to that?

I see a nodding, just appreciate.

No, I'm just taking notes to make sure that we follow up on that.

But happy to be here this week.

Wonderful, thank you.

And Council Member Herbold, you know this area much better than I, but I understand that, for example, in housing, the city budget allocated $5.1 million for food assistance.

In our budget from last year, we allocated about $5.1 million for food assistance, largely because the state legislature hadn't yet had a chance to convene.

Earlier this year, they did.

They provided a historic amount of investments in food assistance services.

So as we think about where our city dollars are going, if there is the opportunity to redirect some of those, that'd be good, but just want to ensure that we underscore this isn't, that it has to be keeping the programs whole and helping to provide any lift of existing holds on any city dollars.

Okay.

Any additional comments or questions?

Thank you for the presentation, Director Kim and Joseph and Amy for as well.

Hearing no additional comments or questions, I move the committee recommends passage of Council Bill 120338. Is there a second?

Second.

Thank you.

It's been moved and seconded.

Are there any additional comments or questions?

Okay, wonderful.

We'll look forward to continuing to get the information from the subsequent conversations with central staff and the department.

Madam Clerk, could you please call the roll on the passage of the bill?

Council Member Herbold.

Yes.

Council Member Peterson.

Yes.

Council Member Nelson.

Aye.

Council Member Lewis.

Yes.

Madam Chair Mosqueda.

Madam Chair, that is five in favor, none opposed.

Thank you very much.

The motion carries and the committee recommendation that the bill pass will be sent to the full Seattle City Council meeting for a final vote.

But colleagues, I was remiss earlier in saying that all of the items that we have passed today would be on the June 21st meeting.

I actually am excused on June 21st for our full council meeting.

I'll be at the Association of Washington Cities meeting.

So my hope is that this can all go to the June 21st meeting.

again, June 28th will be when this item is taken up.

And before we conclude our meeting here today, Madam Clerk, I'm wondering if we have any guidance from the clerk's office about whether or not we need to correct for the record that items one and two will also, excuse me, items one, two, and three will also be heard on the June 28th meeting.

Okay, and Amelia or anybody from the clerk's office to feel free to come off mute and let us know.

Otherwise, I will just make a statement.

All of the items from today's finance and housing committee meeting for today, the date of June 15th, all of the items will be included on the June 28th meeting.

Hearing no objection, the legislation passed with a recommendation today will be sent to the June 28th Seattle City Council full meeting.

Hearing no objection, the legislation today is going to be heard on the June 28th full council meeting.

Thank you so much.

And then our next meeting, colleagues, will be in July.

I, however, am going to not be here because it is my birthday on the 4th of July.

So we're gonna cancel the July 6th meeting.

I don't think that we have anything pressing and folks might be on holiday still.

So we're gonna cancel the July 6th meeting and we're gonna have our next meeting on July 20th.

All right, we'll get in touch with you about the agenda items to come.

With that, have a great rest of June and we'll see you in about a month.

Take care, everyone.

The meeting is adjourned.

Thank you.