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[1.Call to Order]
THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH FOR COMING.UM, IT'S GOOD TO SEE SOME D DIFFERENT FACES, SOME INTERESTED FACES.
UM, WELL, TERRY AND TOM HAVE MADE A PUT A GREAT JOB TOGETHER IN PUTTING THIS, UH, WORKSHOP TOGETHER TODAY FOR US TODAY.
I, I APPRECIATED DAVID AND TOM, AND THIS IS A LONG TIME COMING.
AND THIS SETS, LIKE WE DID WITH THE STRATEGIC PLAN FOR WHAT THE COUNCIL'S GONNA DO FOR A WHILE.
THIS SHOULD SET WHAT THE TOWN'S GONNA DO ON HOUSING FOR A WHILE AS A PLAN.
AND WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR TODAY OUT OF THIS IS AN OUTLYING FOR THE COUNCIL TO ENDORSE, UH, ROSS TO GO FORWARD WITH A PLAN FOR THIS TOWN.
WITH THAT, DAVID, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO YOU AND YOUR TEAM, FOR WHICH YOU GO.
I'VE BEEN REMINDED I'M THREE MINUTES LATE IN STARTING AND IT'S A BAD THING ALEX TOLD ME TO BE ON TIME, SO, I'M SORRY, ALEX, UM, CALL THE MEETING TO ORDER.
CHRIS, YOU ARE WE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE FREEDOM INFORMATION ACT? WE, YES SIR, WE ARE.
TODAY WE'RE HERE TO DISCUSS THE, UH, ROLL CALL.
I CALL MR, CAN WE DO THE ROLL CALL? YES, SIR.
[3.Discussion of a Workforce Housing Framework]
DISCUSS THE WORKFORCE HOUSING FRAMEWORK, UH, AND ANSWER QUESTIONS BY CITIZENS AND COME TO SOME KIND OF A CONCLUSION.I HOPE TO BRING THIS TO COUNSEL ON NOVEMBER 1ST, NEXT MEETING.
WITH THAT, DAVID, THANK YOU AGAIN.
AND TO JUS THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MAYOR.
AND, UM, I'M SPEAKING WITH AND FOR, UH, TOM LENNOX.
UH, THE MAYOR IDENTIFIED US AS TWO MEMBERS OF COUNCIL TO SPEARHEAD THE FRAMEWORK INITIATIVE.
I THINK MY MOST IMPORTANT WORDS, UH, AT THIS MOMENT, UH, ARE TO ACKNOWLEDGE, IN MY OPINION, THE HERCULEAN EFFORTS ON THE PART OF STAFF, UM, AND THE TWO CONSULTANTS.
I'M NOT SURE THAT THEY'VE GOTTEN ANY SLEEP IN THE LAST THREE WEEKS.
UH, WE STARTED THIS PROCESS AS YOU KNOW, IN MANY WAYS IN RESPONSE TO THE CHIMNEY COVE CRISIS.
IT WAS A WEEK OR TWO AFTER THAT, THAT AT THE MIDYEAR, UH, UPDATE FOR THE STRATEGIC PLAN THAT THE MAYOR ASKED THE STAFF TO CREATE A FRAMEWORK FOR HOUSING, WORKFORCE HOUSING ON THIS, UM, UH, FOR A NOVEMBER 1ST UNVEILING.
WE'RE HERE TODAY FOR A UNVEILING IS OF A DRAFT FORM.
UH, I CAN SAY I THINK THE, THE BULK OF COUNCIL HAS NOT SEEN THIS, NOR HAS THE PUBLIC.
SO WE'RE GOING TO RELY ON THE CAPABLE, UH, PRESENTATION OF BOTH KYLE MAY AND TAMMY HAWKINS, WHO ARE OUR CRITICAL, UM, UH, CRITICALLY IMPORTANT FACILITATORS AT OUR WORKSHOP, UH, TWO WEEKS AGO.
I'M GONNA ADD JUST A, JUST A WORD ABOUT THAT WORKSHOP.
UH, I THINK WE'VE HAD A NUMBER OF WORKSHOPS ON THIS ISLAND, BUT I HAVEN'T ATTENDED ONE THAT HAD THE CALIBER, THE BREADTH AND THE EXPERIENCE OF THE PEOPLE WHO ATTENDED A DAY AND A HALF DELIBERATING ON WHAT WOULD MAKE THIS FRAMEWORK PRACTICAL, EFFICIENT, AND SUCCESSFUL.
AND TODAY, WE'RE GONNA GET OUR FIRST GLIMPSE OF WHAT THEY PRODUCED.
MISSY, DID YOU WANNA DO ANY BEFORE WE GET STARTED? OH, UM, I THINK, UH, COUNCILMAN AMES DID, DID THE WELCOME JUST FINE.
WELL, UH, UH, IF YOU'RE NOT GONNA SAY ANYTHING MESSY, MISSY WAS THE STAFF MEMBER WHO SPEARHEADED THIS ENTIRE EFFORT, AND SHE DESERVES THE CREDIT.
MARK ORLANDO TOWN MANAGER MADE HER TIME AVAILABLE TO THIS EFFORT.
AND AGAIN, IT HAS BEEN A, IT'S BEEN A MARATHON AT A SPRINT PACE.
WELL, THANK YOU, UH, EVERYONE.
THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY, UH, TO BE BACK WITH YOU HERE ON THE ISLAND, UH, TO TALK ABOUT SOMETHING THAT IS, UH, YEAH, PRETTY IMPORTANT.
UM, UH, AND, YOU KNOW, OVER THE LAST, YOU BE POINTED OUT, TWO WEEKS, IT, IT'S BEEN A WHIRLWIND.
UH, WE'VE WORKED REALLY HARD WITH STAFF, WITH LEADERSHIP, UH, AND WITH,
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UH, UH, YOU KNOW, OUR INVITED GUEST IS PART OF THE CHARETTE TO DEVELOP OUT THIS, UH, THIS FRAMEWORK, UM, DOCUMENT.WE'RE GONNA TALK A LITTLE BIT LATER ABOUT IN DETAIL.
I'M A SENIOR ASSOCIATE WITH M K S K.
UH, WE'VE HAD THE, THE GREAT FORTUNE TO WORK WITH THE, UH, THE COMMUNITY ON A WIDE RANGE OF DIFFERENT INITIATIVES, UH, OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS.
UM, UH, I SERVE AS FACILITATOR THROUGH OUR CHARETTE AND IN PRODUCING OUR FRAMEWORK, BUT I HAVE A PARTNER IN THIS WORK WHO'S BEEN INCREDIBLY EFFECTIVE AND HELPFUL AND INFLUENTIAL IN THE, IN THE CONTENT.
TAMMY WILL INTRODUCE YOURSELF.
UM, CAN YOU HEAR ME? SO, I'M TAMMY HOY HAWKINS, AND I'M HONORED TO BE ABLE TO WORK WITH THE TOWN AND WITH KYLE ON THIS PROJECT AS, UH, HAVING ABOUT 25 YEARS OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING EXPERIENCE, UM, IN SOUTH CAROLINA IN PARTICULAR.
UM, ALSO, UH, HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THE REGIONAL HOUSING TRUST FUND, WHICH MANY OF YOU ARE INVOLVED IN OR HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS.
UM, IN MY ROLE, MY LAST ROLE AT COMMUNITY WORK, SO ALREADY VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE TOWN AND WITH SOME OF THE PRIORITIES, SO JUST EXCITED TO BRING MY EXPERTISE TO ADD WITH KYLE TO THIS FRAMEWORK AS THE TOWN LOOKS TO PRIORITIZE AND IMPLEMENT SOME STRATEGIES.
AND, YOU KNOW, WE ARE PARTICULARLY EX I THINK, EXCITED TO, TO WORK WITH YOU ALL THROUGH THIS.
UM, YOU KNOW, THIS SET OF CHALLENGES AS, AS IT IS A, AS A TOPIC THAT WE CONFRONT ACROSS THE COUNTRY AT THIS PARTICULAR MOMENT, UH, YOU KNOW, HOUSING, UH, AND, AND THE ISSUES THAT SURROUND IT.
UM, SO AS, AS WE CAME INTO THIS WORK, OUR, OUR ROLE REALLY WAS TO LISTEN, TO GATHER, TO ORGANIZE
BUT I THINK FROM, FROM TODAY ON, IT'S ABOUT DEVELOPING SOMETHING THAT WE FEEL PROUD AND ARE READY TO, TO COMMIT TOWARD.
SO WE'LL TALK ABOUT WHAT THAT COMMITMENT LOOKS LIKE HERE IN JUST A MOMENT.
BUT IN TERMS OF OUR, OUR PURPOSE AND AGENDA, UH, FOR THIS, UM, THIS WORKSHOP HERE THIS AFTERNOON, YOU KNOW, I, I REALIZE AND TOTALLY CONCEDE AND APOLOGIZE THE FACT YOU'VE, YOU POINTED THIS OUT, UH, MISS STANFORD JUST RE RECEIVING THIS WORK.
UH, WHEN I SAY HOT OFF THE PRESS, I QUITE LITERALLY MEAN THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING QUITE HARD OVER THE LAST 10 DAYS TO SUMMARIZE THE WORK, UH, FROM OUR CHARETTE AND OUR 35 PARTICIPANTS THERE, AND WHAT THEY CONTRIBUTED, UH, TO DEVELOP OUT THIS DELIVERABLE THAT YOU SEE IN FRONT OF YOU TODAY.
AND I WILL NOTE THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A DRAFT DOCUMENT, SO OUR PURPOSE HERE IS TO DISCUSS THE CONTENT, UH, POTENTIALLY EVOLVE THAT CONTENT BASED ON THIS DISCUSSION.
BUT I DO WANT YOU ALL TO HAVE A SOLID BACKGROUND AS TO HOW THE WRITING GOT ONTO THE PAGE AND WHAT WE MEANT, I THINK, DAVID, AND FOR THE, THOSE THAT WE WERE PART OF THE CHARETTE, WHAT WE MEANT BY THE SENTIMENT, UH, IN SOME OF THE STATEMENTS THAT WERE GATHERED.
UM, I, I'D LIKE TO SET THE STAGE A LITTLE BIT, UH, BEFORE WE JUMP INTO THE CONTENT OF, OF THIS DOCUMENT.
UH, MISSY PUT TOGETHER A WONDERFUL SYNOPSIS DURING OUR, UH, CHARETTE SEVERAL WEEKS AGO ON ALL THE WORK, UH, THAT HAS GONE, UM, UH, INTO, UM, UNDERSTANDING, UH, THIS SET OF CHALLENGES WITH WORKFORCE HOUSING OVER THE LAST, UH, INDEED FIVE PLUS YEARS.
STAFF HAS PUT IN, UH, A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF WORK IN PLANS, STUDIES, DEVELOPING DATABASES, AND INDEED EVEN TESTING INITIATIVES AS WELL.
SO WE WANTED TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT AND SET THE STAGE.
AND ADDITIONALLY, UH, YOU KNOW, TAMMY, UH, IN JOINING THIS TEAM HAS A VERY DEEP AND, AND, AND, AND BROAD SET OF PERSPECTIVES AND EXPERIENCES WHEN IT COMES TO, UH, THIS ISSUE.
UH, NOT JUST REGIONALLY, BUT INDEED NATIONWIDE.
AND WE WANTED TO SHARE A BIT OF YOUR EXPERIENCE, TAMMY, I THINK, IN THIS, UH, AS WELL AS WE LAUNCH INTO, UH, WORKING THROUGH THIS HOUSING FRAMEWORK, WHAT IT REPRESENTS, UH, WHY IT'S NEEDED, WHY NOW, UH, AND THEN MOST IMPORTANTLY HERE, YOU KNOW, WHAT IT'S SAYING, I THINK, AND WHAT WE'RE ASKING YOU ALL TO COMMIT TO.
UH, AND, AND BEFORE WE, WE BREAK THIS AFTERNOON, I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO, UH, TO SHARE WHAT I THINK ARE THE NEXT STEPS.
AND WE MAY, I NEEDED SOME HELP, I THINK, FROM, UH, PARTICIPANTS IN THE ROOM ON WHAT THOSE LOOK LIKE.
BUT WHERE DO WE PROCEED FROM TODAY? AND NOT JUST IN THE IMMEDIATE, NOT JUST IN THE NEXT 10 DAYS, BUT INDEED THE NEXT YEAR, THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.
AND WE HOPE, I THINK IS PART OF THIS, WHAT THIS VISION, UH, YOU KNOW, UM, MAY ENTAIL FOR THE COMMUNITY IN THE NEXT, UH, UH, DECADE.
SO, MISSY, IN TERMS OF SETTING THE STAGE, WOULD, WOULD LOVE IT IF YOU COULD PROVIDE JUST A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND ON THE WORK THAT THE, THE TOWN HAS DONE TO DATE ON THIS CHALLENGE.
SO, THE, THE TOWN HAS DONE A NUMBER OF PLANS.
UM, SO WE'RE BUILDING FROM A REALLY STRONG FOUNDATION OF WORK THAT'S COME BEFORE TODAY'S DATE.
AND, AND SO THE WORKFORCE HOUSING FRAMEWORK REALLY BUILDS ON A NUMBER OF ADOPTED PLANS, BOTH THE WORKFORCE HOUSING STRATEGIC PLAN IN 2019.
OUR PLAN, THE TOWN STRATEGIC PLAN.
UM, WE HAVE ADOPTED SEVERAL INITIATIVES THAT ARE OUTPUTS FROM SOME OF THOSE PLANS.
UM, AND THEN I'M ALSO GONNA GO THROUGH SOME COMMUNITY STATISTICS, UM, AND SOME HOUSING OPTIONS THAT ARE HERE ON THE ISLAND.
SO HERE'S SOME OF THE TIMELINE, UH, OF SOME OF THE HOUSING INITIATIVES THAT THE TOWN HAS TAKEN.
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IS ALSO INCLUDED ON PAGE 12 OF THE DOCUMENT.UM, YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, AND WE'RE GONNA TALK FIRST ABOUT THE WORKFORCE HOUSING STRATEGIC PLAN.
UM, THAT WAS THE PRECURSOR TO A LOT OF THE WORK, UM, THAT'S BEFORE US TODAY.
THAT PLAN RECOMMENDED EIGHT KEY RECOMMENDATIONS, UM, OF WHICH, UM, ITEMS ONE THROUGH FOUR WE'VE BEEN IMPLEMENTING.
UM, SO THERE, THERE'S WORK THAT'S BEEN DONE FROM THIS PLAN, SO IT'S NICE TO SEE THAT THAT PLAN HAS BEEN PUT INTO SOME ACTION.
UM, AND, UH, BUT WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR TODAY WITH THE FRAMEWORK IS A LITTLE BIT MORE DEFINITION, UM, TO DO MORE.
SOME OF THE PRINCIPLES, THE MAIN PRINCIPLES FROM THE HOUSING STRATEGIC PLAN INCLUDED THAT WE SHOULD BE RESPECTFUL OF ISLAND CHARACTER AND THAT WE SHOULD PROVIDE HOUSING FOR WORKERS, BUT ALSO PROMOTE COMMUNITY.
UM, THERE SHOULD BE A RANGE OF HOUSING OPTIONS AS WELL AS THAT INCENTIVES FOR HOUSING SHOULD BE APPLIED EQUALLY.
SO THOSE WERE SOME OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES.
OUR PLAN, AGAIN, IS A REALLY FOUNDATIONAL DOCUMENT THAT HAS THAT REALLY SET THE STAGE.
IT HAS WORKFORCE HOUSING THREADED THROUGHOUT THE PLAN IN A NUMBER OF, UM, THE, THE ELEMENTS WITHIN THE PLAN DOCUMENT, SEE, JUST MAKE, I WANNA JUST MAKE SURE THAT OUR PLAN IS THE TOWN'S COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
THEN WE HAVE THE TOWN'S, UH, STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN.
UM, AND IN THAT PLAN, THERE WERE A NUMBER OF HOUSING INITIATIVES, UM, THAT WE ARE WORKING TO IMPLEMENT.
THERE WAS FUNDING ALLOCATED THROUGH ARPA DOLLARS THAT FUNDED, UM, HOUSING INITIATIVES.
WE WERE LOOKING TO EXPLORE THE REGIONAL HOUSING TRUST FUND, UM, WHICH NOW WE'RE PARTICIPATING IN, AND ALSO TO IMPLEMENT ADDITIONAL WORKFORCE AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING STRATEGIES.
SO SOME OF THE WORK THAT'S BEEN DONE TO DATE, UM, THESE WERE RECOMMENDATIONS WITHIN THE WORKFORCE HOUSING STRATEGIC PLAN IS THE COMMERCIAL CONVERSION POLICY THAT WAS ENACTED AS WELL AS THE, THE DENSITY BONUS.
AND WHILE WE HAVEN'T HAD ANY PROJECTS COME IN, UM, UNDER THESE PROGRAMS, WE CERTAINLY GET A LOT OF INQUIRIES.
IN FACT, I'M MEETING WITH SOMEONE TOMORROW TO TALK ABOUT A COMMERCIAL CONVERSION PROJECT.
UM, SO THOSE, THOSE PROGRAMS ARE GAINING INTEREST IN THE COMMUNITY.
WE ALSO, UM, WORK TO PROGRAM THOSE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT FUNDS.
UM, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, I THINK, UM, AND MOST EXCITINGLY WE HAVE THE MILLION DOLLARS THAT WAS ALLOCATED FOR THE NORTHPOINT PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP, AS WELL AS, UM, THE SEED MONEY THAT THAT FUNDED THE HOME SAFETY AND REPAIR PROGRAM, AND THE LATERAL SEWER CONNECTION PROGRAM, WHICH, SO THE REGIONAL HOUSING TRUST FUND, UM, THE TOWN AND JUST SEPTEMBER OF LAST MONTH, UM, AUTHORIZED, UM, AN INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT, UH, REGIONAL HOUSING TRUST FUND, WHICH IS WITH BEAUFORT, JASPER, AND, UM, ADDITIONAL MUNICIPALITIES, UM, WITHIN THOSE COUNTIES.
THESE ARE OUR TWO PUBLIC ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS, SEWER CONNECTION AND, UM, THE HOME SAFETY AND REPAIR.
THESE PROGRAMS, UM, ASSIST PEOPLE WITH, UM, YOU KNOW, IMPROVEMENTS TO THEIR HOME AS WELL AS, UM, CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE SUCH AS SEWER TO THEIR HOME.
SO WE'VE HAD, UM, NINE APPLICANTS FOR THE SEWER CONNECTION PROGRAM.
AND WE'VE HAD 82 APPLICANTS FOR HOME SAFETY AND REPAIR, AND WE'LL BE MAKING CRITICAL REPAIRS IN THOSE HOMES IN, IN THE NEAR TERM.
SO NOW I'M GONNA GO THROUGH SOME OF, UM, OUR COMMUNITY PROFILE OR DEMOGRAPHICS AND STATISTICS.
THIS SLIDE SHOWS THAT OUR POPULATION IS KIND OF PLATEAUED, UM, OVER TIME.
SO WE, THE ESTIMATE FOR 2030 IS THAT WE'RE GONNA BE AT AROUND 38,000 POPULATION.
IT SHOWS 2017 LABOR SHED ANALYSIS.
AND THE SLIDE FOLLOWING SHOWS A LITTLE BIT UPDATED DATA FROM 2019.
UM, AND IF YOU GO BACK TO THE 2017 SLIDE, UM, YOU'LL SEE THE, THE CHANGE IN THE LABOR SHED NUMBERS.
SO, UM, THIS, THIS SLIDE SHOWS WHERE PEOPLE WORK, IF THEY WORK OFF ISLAND, AND WHERE THEY, WHERE THEY, UH, LIVE IF THEY WORK ON HILL AND HEAD ISLAND.
AND YOU CAN SEE THERE'S A LOT OF COMMUNITIES, UM, FROM A, A LONG RANGE.
UM, PEOPLE TRAVEL A GREAT DISTANCE TO WORK HERE ON HILTON HEAD, AND IF YOU COMPARED THE NUMBERS BACK AND FORTH.
SO THIS SLIDE SHOWS, UM, THAT WE HAVE, YOU CAN GO BACK TO 2019.
UM, WE HAVE 23,000 JOBS THAT WERE REPORTED, UM, WITHIN THE CENSUS.
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TRAVEL FROM OFF ISLAND TO THE ISLAND FOR WORK EVERY DAY.AND IN 2017, THAT NUMBER WAS 14,500.
SO 320 MORE PEOPLE ARE COMMUTING IN.
UM, AND THEN THERE'S 6,400 PEOPLE WHO LIVE ON THE ISLAND, BUT HAVE JOBS ELSEWHERE.
AND THAT NUMBER INCREASED BY 415.
AND THEN THERE ARE ABOUT 8,400 PEOPLE WHO LIVE ON THE ISLAND AND ALSO WORK ON THE ISLAND.
AND THAT NUMBER, UM, WAS, UH, 8,900 IN 2017.
SO ALL OF THOSE TRENDS ARE MOVING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION.
ALSO IN OUR WORKFORCE HOUSING STRATEGIC PLAN.
UM, THERE WAS A STATISTIC THAT SHOWED, AND AGAIN, THESE ARE 2016 CENSUS NUMBERS, BUT THAT 40% OF ISLAND HOUSEHOLDS ARE COST BURDENED, AND THAT MEANS THAT THEY SPEND 30% OR MORE OF THEIR INCOME EACH MONTH ON HOUSING.
AND I'M SURE THAT THAT NUMBER, IF WE HAD UPDATED CENSUS DATA WOULD BE HIGHER.
HERE'S A MAP THAT IS, UM, A LITTLE BIT OF A, UM, A STARTER TO FIND OUR NATURALLY OCCURRING WORKFORCE HOUSING ON THE ISLAND.
UM, THIS MAP DEPICTS, UH, SOME OF THE, UM, AFFORDABLE HOUSING PRODUCT THAT WE HAVE ON THE ISLAND AND THE TWO COLORS, UM, RESTRICTED AND UNRESTRICTED.
SO RED, THERE'S A PRIVATE COVENANT, OR THERE IS SOMETHING THAT THAT HOUSING STOCK SHOULD BE, UM, SHOULD REMAIN IN AFFORDABLE WORKFORCE HOUSING.
UM, HOWEVER, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF OTHER AFFORDABLE HOUSING PRODUCTS ON THE ISLAND THAT AREN'T PROTECTED.
UM, AND YOU CAN SEE CHIMNEY COVE IS ONE OF THOSE THAT'S ON, ON THE MAP.
WE HAVE SOME, UM, HOUSING, UM, HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, UH, PROJECTS ON THE ISLAND.
YOU MIGHT BE FAMILIAR WITH THIS DEVELOPMENT OFF OF ALEX PATTERSON.
UM, THE TOWN WORKED, UH, WITH, UH, HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, UM, ON THIS PROJECT.
ALSO, WE HAVE, UM, HILTON HAD GARDENS HERE ON THE COMMUNITY, AND IT'S A BEAUFORT HOUSING AUTHORITY, UM, PRODUCT.
SO, YOU KNOW, AS MISSY PRESENTS HERE, AS YOU CAN, YOU CAN PROBABLY TELL THERE'S SORT OF THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG IN TERMS OF THE DATA THAT'S AVAILABLE HERE, THAT, THAT BACKS UP AND INFORMS THE CONVERSATION THAT WE'VE, UH, WE'VE BEEN HAVING THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS, AND INDEED HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR, FOR YEARS, UH, IN, IN THE COMMUNITY AS PART OF MULTIPLE WORK PRODUCTS.
UM, AND I THINK AS YOU LOOK ON PAGE 10 OF, OF THE FRAMEWORK, AND, AND I'M GONNA KEEP PUSHING BACK TO THE PRINT DOCUMENT CAUSE IT'S A LOT EASIER TO, TO REFERENCE AND TO READ AND, AND TO REVIEW.
UH, ALTHOUGH WE WILL HAVE, UM, THINGS ON THE SLIDES, UH, WHAT WE'VE TRIED TO DO WITHIN THAT, I, I THINK MISSY IS, IS CHERRY PICK REALLY SOME OF THOSE MOST, UH, POIGNANT, MOST CRITICAL INDICATORS, UH, THAT ARE CONTRIBUTING TO SOME OF THIS CHALLENGE.
AND LESS IMPORTANT TO US, I THINK IS THE SNAPSHOT TO WHAT IT IS, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, THE TREND.
HOW IS IT CHANGING OVER TIME? SO, AS MISSY RIGHTLY POINTS OUT THAT THAT COMMUTE ONTO THE ISLAND NUMBER GROWS EVERY YEAR CONTINUES TO GROW WITH THE MOST RECENT NUMBERS, UH, THE PLATEAUING POPULATION.
WHAT, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? HOW DOES THAT AFFECT THIS REAL ESTATE AND THIS MARKET? BUT AS PART OF OUR WORK, WE ALSO WANTED TO UNDERSTAND, UH, WHAT'S GOING ON AROUND THE REGION WITH THIS PARTICULAR ISSUE AND INDEED MIGHT MAYBE WHAT'S GOING ON AROUND THE COUNTRY AND NOT JUST GENERALLY WITH THE ISSUE.
I THINK WITH COMMUNITIES THAT LOOK, FEEL, BEHAVE, HAVE ECONOMIES LIKE DEMOGRAPHICS, LIKE OUR UNIQUE COMMUNITY HERE ON THE ISLAND.
TIMMY, YOU PUT TOGETHER SOME EXAMPLES OF THOSE.
I WAS HOPING YOU COULD GO THROUGH THOSE WITH US REAL QUICK.
AND, AND AGAIN, I THINK THAT THE WORKFORCE HOUSING 2019 PLAN LAID OUT SOME VERY SPECIFIC OPPORTUNITIES.
OBVIOUSLY THE REGIONAL HOUSING FUND JUST WAS AT THE MEETING THIS MORNING, EXCITED ABOUT THAT LAUNCH.
AND, BUT WE NEED TO THINK IN TERMS OF THE TOWN OF HILTON HEAD, HOW THAT REGIONAL FUND PLAYS INTO THE PRIORITIES OF THE TOWN, BUT ALSO WHAT OTHER STRATEGIES ARE OUT THERE THAT WE MAY WANNA LOOK AT THAT ARE SIMILAR, LIKE COMMUNITIES AS WELL, AND, AND WHAT OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE MAY TAP INTO.
SO, UM, IN SEVERAL OF THE, THE RESEARCH AND PLANNING EFFORTS, UH, BOTH THE TOWN AND A VARIETY OF CONSULTANTS LOOKED AT SOME VARIOUS TOWNS.
BUT WHAT WE WANTED TO DO WAS LOOK AT, UM, REALLY FOR CATEGORIES.
AND, AND AGAIN, YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
UM, YOU KNOW, YOUR COMMUNITY IS EXTREMELY UNIQUE BECAUSE IT HAS, IT'S NOT ONLY A BEACH COMMUNITY, IT'S AN ISLAND, IT'S SMALL, IT'S IN THE SOUTH, IT'S IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
UM, AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, SORT OF POST COVID, YOU KNOW, SOUTH CAROLINA IS THE THIRD, UM, THE FASTEST GROWING IN TERMS OF PEOPLE MOVING IN IN THE NATION.
UM, AND SO YOU'RE FEELING THOSE PRESSURES OF JUST THE REGIONAL ASPECTS AS WELL AS THE, THE BEAUTY AND THE DESIRE DESIRABLE PLACE TO LIVE.
UM, BUT WE REALLY LOOKED AT, AND PART OF THIS DOCUMENT, AND PART OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT, THAT
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ARE BEING AVAILED IS LOOKING AT THESE PARTICULAR AREAS.ONE IS SORT OF LOOKING AT SMALL RESORT COMMUNITIES AND WHAT DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES HAVE DONE AND BEEN ABLE TO DO.
UM, WHETHER THAT'S LOOKING AT INCENTIVES AND SOME OF THE THINGS THAT ARE ALREADY BEING SHARED AND RECOMMENDED THROUGH THE WORKFORCE HOUSING PLAN, BUT ALSO HAVE THE SAME CHALLENGES WITH SHORT TERM RENTALS.
UM, AND HOW DO WE LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, ADDRESSING THAT, UM, IN THE COMMUNITY TO MAKE SURE WE'VE GOT LONG TERM AFFORDABLE HOUSING, AS WELL AS THAT IT MEETS THE WORKFORCE.
SO WE LOOKED AT BRECKENRIDGE, WE LOOKED AT MARTHA'S VINEYARD AS A COUPLE EXAMPLES OF, YOU KNOW, HOW THEY'RE DEALING WITH THE AFFORDABILITY ISSUE, NOT ONLY TODAY, BUT FOR THE FUTURE.
SO WE PUT AN AFFORDABLE PROPERTY ON THE MARKET TODAY, WE DERESTRICT IT FOR 10 YEARS.
NEXT THING YOU KNOW,
AND SO REALLY THINKING STRATEGICALLY ABOUT THE TOOLS THAT ARE AVAILABLE THAT OTHER COMMUNITIES HAVE SEEN SUCCESS IN, LIKE A COMMUNITY LAND TRUST, WHICH ALLOWS PROPERTIES TO STAY IN AFFORDABILITY AND PERPETUITY.
UM, LIKE LAND BANKS THAT DO SOMETHING SIMILAR IN HOLDING LAND FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT.
SO AGAIN, SOME OF THOSE SMALL RESORT COMMUNITIES HAVE PUT SOME OF THOSE TOOLS IN PLACE AND HAD SOME SUCCESS.
UH, SIMILARLY WE LOOKED AT, YOU KNOW, BEACH COMMUNITIES, OTHER TYPE BEACH COMMUNITIES AND, AND, AND WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN ABLE TO DO, OR ESPECIALLY AROUND WORKFORCE HOUSING BECAUSE THEY TOO STRUGGLE, UH, NOT ONLY WITH THE WORKFORCE, BUT ALSO EXISTING HOMEOWNERS.
AND HOW DO WE MAINTAIN AFFORDABILITY FOR EXISTING HOMEOWNERS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T SEE DISPLACEMENT, MAKE SURE WE'VE GOT NOT ONLY RENTAL, BUT ALSO HOME OWNERSHIP.
SO THERE'S BEEN SOME INITIATIVE IN SOME BEACH COMMUNITIES TO DO HOME BUYER ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS OR STRATEGICALLY FOCUS ON HOME OWNERSHIP, UH, LIKE IN THE COMMUNITIES THAT YOU SEE HERE.
SO REALLY THINKING ABOUT NOT ONLY THE NUMBER OF UNITS, BUT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FAMILIES, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HOMES, UM, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY OF THE ISLAND.
AND SO THAT'S NOT JUST RENTAL, BUT IT'S ALSO HOME OWNERSHIP.
UH, AND THEN OF COURSE, OUR SOUTHERN COMMUNITIES, WHICH WE FACE SIMILAR CHALLENGES, YOU KNOW, UM, IN THESE COMMUNITIES DEPENDING ON THE, IN MIGRATION OF A LOT OF PEOPLE COMING TO, TO THE SOUTH.
AND SO A A LOT OF THESE COMMUNITIES ARE LOOKING AT MIXED INCOME DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES, LIKE MISSY MENTIONED, WHETHER THAT BE, YOU KNOW, MIXED USE AND MIXED INCOME SO THAT WE'RE NOT ONLY, IF, IMAGINE IF EVERYTHING THAT WAS BUILT HAD AT LEAST 20% AFFORDABILITY IN IT, HOW MANY UNITS WE COULD ATTRACT AND PRESERVE OVER TIME.
AND SO A LOT OF COMMUNITIES ARE LOOKING AT EVERY TIME THAT THERE IS A DEVELOPMENT, THAT THERE'S ALSO SOME OPPORTUNITY FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING, UM, IN TERMS OF FINANCING STRUCTURES.
UM, YOU GUYS ARE INVESTING IN THE REGIONAL HOUSING TRUST FUND AND YOU'RE USING CERTAIN RESOURCES FOR THAT.
BUT HOW DO WE CREATE A LONG TERM DEDICATED FUNDING SOURCE FOR THE TOWN OF HILTON HEAD THAT CAN CONTINUALLY ADDRESS THIS CHALLENGE, UM, NOT ONLY TODAY, BUT IN THE FUTURE? AND BOND FINANCING IS, IS IS A TOOL THAT CHARLOTTE HAS USED AN INTERESTING PUBLIC-PRIVATE RELATIONSHIP IN CHARLOTTE, IS THEY CREATED AN INVESTMENT FUND WORKING WITH BANKS, FOUNDATIONS, AND THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE TO CREATE A 50 MILLION IMPACT FUND TO ACQUIRE EXISTING PROPERTIES LIKE MISSY WAS TALKING ABOUT.
SO THERE'S SOME REAL INNOVATIVE TOOLS, NOT ONLY IN DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING, BUT ALSO IN FINANCING THAT WE COULD PULL FROM, THAT WE COULD REPLICATE, UH, IN THE TOWN.
AND THEN EVEN GOING A LITTLE BIT DEEPER IS THE TWO COMMUNITIES THAT I'VE WORKED MOST IN IN SOUTH CAROLINA IS THE CHARLESTON AND GREENVILLE AREA.
AND AGAIN, PART OF THOSE HAVE DONE NOT ONLY REGIONAL EFFORTS AROUND AFFORDABLE HOUSING FINANCING, BUT CREATED LOCAL HOUSING FUNDS, UM, TO FOCUS SPECIFICALLY LOCALLY DOWN PAYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS THROUGH THE CITY AND THROUGH THE COUNTIES.
UM, SO THERE'S SOME STRATEGIES AROUND REALLY SUPPORTING EMPLOYER ASSISTED HOUSING WITHIN THE TOWN, UM, AS WELL AS THE OTHER STRATEGY THAT HAS REALLY BEEN SUCCESSFUL, UM, IS AROUND, AND ONE OF THE PILLARS THAT WE'LL TALK ABOUT IS MANAGEMENT, AND HOW DO WE CONTINUE TO HAVE THAT ONGOING ADVICE THAT WE NEED, LIKE THE CHARETTE LIKE THE DIFFERENT PLANNING SESSIONS.
UM, AND SO BOTH GREENVILLE AS WELL AS CHARLESTON HAD AFFORDABLE HOUSING COALITIONS.
SO IN CHARLESTON, WE HAD THE MAYOR'S COUNCIL ON HOMELESSNESS AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING, AND IT WAS DIVERSE STAKEHOLDERS FROM THE COMMUNITY THAT MET EIGHT TIMES A YEAR.
THEY WERE SORT OF THE ADVISORY GROUP FROM ALL DIFFERENT SECTORS THAT PROVIDED GUIDANCE AND POLICY SUGGESTIONS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING WITHIN THE CITY.
AND THEN WE WOULD WORK TO IMPLEMENT THOSE AND GET STAKEHOLDER BUY-IN ALONG THE WAY.
THE STATE HOUSING TRUST FUNDS, SOME OF YOU ALL MAY KNOW, ACTUALLY CAME OUT OF THAT GROUP IN THE 1990S.
UM, SO INTERESTING ENOUGH, NOT ONLY ARE, UH, WAS THIS COALITION FOCUSED ON LOCAL INITIATIVES, BUT ALSO SUPPORTED REGIONAL AND STATEWIDE.
AS YOU KNOW, SOME OF OUR BIGGEST BARRIERS TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING ARE NOT EVEN THINGS THAT WE CAN CONTROL HERE AT THE LOCAL LEVEL.
IT COULD BE STATE LEGISLATURE, TAX CREDITS, FEDERAL THINGS.
SO THAT COALITION IS AN ADVOCATE FOR YOUR TOWN, FOR YOUR STRATEGIES FOR WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO YOU.
UM, SIMILARLY, GREENVILLE, UH, CREATED A GREENVILLE AFFORDABLE HOUSING COALITION.
UM, AND THEN THEY HAVE, UH, THE TOWN
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AND THE COUNTY INVOLVED IN IT TO TRY TO MAKE SURE, OKAY, IF WE NEED A BOND, THE COUNTY'S AT THE TABLE.IF WE'RE LOOKING AT, UM, DIFFERENT TAX ABATEMENT OR DIFFERENT STRATEGIES FOR DIFFERENT PRODUCTS THAT EVERYBODY'S AT THE TABLE, UH, UH, GOING ALONG THIS JOURNEY TOGETHER.
UM, AND SO AGAIN, AS YOU ALL KNOW THAT FUNDING IS KEY TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT, BUT PERMISSION, I ALWAYS SAY PERMISSION IS ONE OF THE NUMBER, WAY ONE WAYS WE GET AFFORDABLE HOUSING DONE.
AND THAT'S THROUGH THE VARIETY OF TOOLS AND STRATEGIES THAT SOME OF THESE COMMUNITIES HAVE HAVE LAID OUT AND BEEN SUCCESSFUL.
BUT THIS IS JUST A SNAPSHOT AND IT'S REALLY JUST TO SAY, HERE'S SOME, UH, IDEAS, HERE'S SOME RECOMMENDATIONS, HERE'S SOME OTHER COMMUNITIES WE COULD FURTHER STUDY, UH, AS WE THINK ABOUT THE VARIETY OF TACTICS AND TOOLS THAT WE MIGHT WANNA CONSIDER AS PART OF THIS FRAMEWORK.
AND, AND, AND TAMMY, I THINK BOTTOM LINE, TRYING TO UNDERLINE AT THE END OF THIS, THAT WHATEVER STRATEGY YOU LAND ON, WHERE THESE AREAS OF WHERE THESE COMMUNITIES HAVE GOTTEN SUCCESS, IT SEEMS THAT, YOU KNOW, TAILORING YOUR STRATEGY TO THE PLACE, RIGHT, THE GEOGRAPHY, THE DEMOGRAPHICS, THE CULTURE, THE PECULIARITIES OF YOUR REAL ESTATE MARKET, OR YOUR ENABLING, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, STATE STRUCTURE IS JUST SO KEY, YOU KNOW, TO THEIR, UH, SUCCESS AND WHAT TIMID PROVIDES.
WHAT MISSY PROVIDES IS A BIT OF A CRESCENDO INTO WHERE WE ARE AT THIS PARTICULAR MOMENT.
UH, YOU KNOW, IN THE WORK THAT WE'VE, WE'VE PUT TOGETHER FOR YOU ALL AND THE WORK THAT WE DISCUSSED TWO WEEKS AGO DURING OUR CHARETTE, THIS WAS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, REALLY DEVELOPING A, A COMMITMENT, UM, TO ADDRESS THIS CHALLENGE, I BELIEVE, UM, IN THIS CASE AT, AT A HIGH ORDER, UH, EVENTUALLY TO BE TRANSLATED INTO, UM, TACTICS AND ACTIONS THAT THE COMMUNITY CAN UNDERTAKE.
BUT THAT WAS THE, THE ESSENTIAL CHARGE.
UH, AND ONE QUESTION YOU MAY, YOU KNOW, ASK RIGHT OFF THE JUMP IS RIGHT ON THE COVER, IS THIS IDEA OF FINDING HOME DAVID, TOM AND THOSE OF YOU THAT WERE INVOLVED IN THE SHRED.
I THINK ONE OF THE MOST PROFOUND COMMENTS WE HEARD, UH, DURING THAT SESSION, UH, CAME FROM A GENTLEMAN WHO PARTICIPATED BOTH DAYS WHEN WE STARTED TALKING ABOUT HOUSING UNITS.
AND HE SAID, YOU GOTTA STOP TALKING ABOUT UNITS.
THIS IS ABOUT HOMES, IT'S ABOUT FAMILIES, IT'S ABOUT LIVELIHOODS AND A HAND ON THE LADDER, RIGHT? UH, AND BACKING UP FROM THAT STATEMENT, IT, IT WAS SO POIGNANT, IT WAS SO PERFECTLY PLACED THAT THAT WORD HOME STARTED TO RESONATE A LOT AS WE STARTED TO PUT THIS TOGETHER.
WHAT ARE WE REALLY ESSENTIALLY TRYING TO, TO CREATE WITH THIS WORK, UH, HOMES FOR PEOPLE THAT CARE ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY? UM, THE WORKFORCE HOUSING FRAMEWORK IS, IS BUILT OUT OF THAT CONVERSATION.
IT'S BUILT OUT OF ALL THE WORK THAT, THAT MISSY AND HER TEAM AND STAFF HAVE PUT IN, UH, TO EVENTUALLY BE TRANSLATED AS, AS TAMMY STARTS TO PREVIEW INTO SOME SPECIFIC ACTION THAT CAN BE TAKEN LATER ON.
BUT I WANTED TO GIVE BEFORE WE JUMP INTO SOME CONVERSATION HERE, THIS, THIS AFTERNOON, GIVE YOU A QUICK WHIRLWIND TOUR OF, OF THE DOCUMENT, HOW IT CAME TO BE, HOW THE ORGANIZATION'S STRUCTURE WORKS, UM, WHAT WE THINK IT LEADS TO, UH, AND, AND REALLY THE, THE MEAT OF WHAT WE WANT TO, UH, BE DISCUSSING WITH YOU TODAY.
UM, THIS WORD CAME UP A LOT IN OUR DISCUSSION, UH, DURING OUR, OUR CHARETTE AND IN IN FOLLOW UP WITH LEADERSHIP.
THIS IDEA OF, OF COMMITMENT, COMMITMENT TO ADDRESSING THE HOUSING AFFORDABILITY AND, AND WORKFORCE HOUSING SHORTAGE IN THE TOWN OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND.
UM, THIS IDEA OF, OF STARTING FROM A POINT OF CONSENSUS.
NOW WHEN YOU'VE GOT A CHALLENGE THAT IS AS COMPLICATED
UH, AND AS WE WORK THROUGH THIS, AND, YOU KNOW, AS WE TALK ABOUT THESE STATEMENTS, I WANT YOU TO ALWAYS REM REMEMBER THAT THESE WORDS ARE NOT MINE.
THEY'RE NOT JUST TAMMY'S OR MISSY, UH, OR STAFF OR DAVID OR TOM.
THEY REALLY REPRESENT THE, THE CUMULATIVE WORK OF ALL OUR PARTICIPANTS IN A CHARETTE THE WORK THAT HAS GONE INTO PREVIOUS PLANNING EFFORTS.
UH, THEY'RE A, A, A CULMINATION OF THAT AND ORGANIZING AROUND THIS IN A SENSE FOR SORT OF INTERRELATED, UH, PILLARS.
AND I'LL DESCRIBE WHAT WE MEAN BY PILLARS HERE IN JUST A SECOND.
BUT AS WE DISCUSS THIS, AND, AND TAMMY SORELY POINTED OUT, THERE ARE COMMUNITIES THAT GET ONE OF THESE REALLY, REALLY RIGHT, BUT THEY FAIL BECAUSE THEY IGNORE THE OTHER THREE.
THERE ARE COMMUNITIES THAT DO TWO, THEY FAIL BECAUSE THEY IGNORE THE OTHER TWO.
AS WE WORKED THROUGH THIS CONVERSATION, WHAT WAS REALLY ILLUMINATING TO ME, UH, WAS JUST HOW INTERRELATED, BUT JUST HOW CRITICAL EACH OF THESE SECTIONS IS.
AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT WHAT THOSE ARE HERE IN JUST A MOMENT.
BUT I WANTED TO BACK UP A BIT AND, AND AGAIN, TALK ABOUT HOW WE GOT TO WHAT'S WRITTEN IN FRONT OF YOU RIGHT NOW.
UM, I HAVE HAD THE PLEASURE OF WORKING THROUGH A LOT OF MEETINGS LIKE THIS AND COMMUNITIES LIKE YOURS, UH, YOU KNOW, AROUND THE, THE COUNTRY.
UH, AND AND I DON'T SAY THIS TO FLATTER YOU, I BELIEVE, DAVID, I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT, MS. JAMES, I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT.
IT WAS A VERY SPECIAL GROUP OF FOLKS THAT CAME TOGETHER AS PART OF THIS CHARETTE.
UH, BUT WHAT WE WANTED TO DO, AND THE PURPOSE THAT WE SHARED WITH THEM BEFORE WE EMBARKED IN 10 HOURS OF CONVERSATION, UH, WAS TO CONVENE AROUND
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THIS IDEA, RIGHT? WHAT, WHAT DO WE DO? WHAT CAN WE DO? WHERE DO WE BEGIN TO COMMIT? HOW DO WE START TO DEFINE, AND I REALLY MEAN DEFINE THE WORDS THAT ARE OUR BROAD STRATEGY STATEMENT, RIGHT? WHERE WE'RE HEADED, WHAT WE'RE COMMITTED TO.HOW DO WE START TO SET GOALS THAT GET A LITTLE BIT MORE SPECIFIC WITHIN THAT CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT WE ARE COMMITTING TO, UH, AND WITHIN OUR, OUR PILLAR FRAMEWORK? HOW DO WE ASSIGN THOSE TO THESE DIFFERENT TOPICS? AND THEN BEGIN TO THINK ABOUT THAT NEXT LAYER OF ACTION, MEANING AFTER TODAY, AFTER THIS, THIS DOCUMENT IS ADOPTED, WHAT DOES IT MEAN THAT WE'RE DOING DAY ONE, RIGHT? WHAT DOES IT MEAN THAT WE'RE DOING DAY 30, DAY 60, 90? AND, AND THEN WELL, WELL, WELL BEYOND IT.
UH, THIS WAS A, I WOULD SAY, A PRETTY INTERESTING CONVERSATION ALONG THAT ROUTE.
AS I MENTIONED, WE HAD ABOUT 35 PARTICIPANTS.
I'M NOT SURE IF ANY OF THOSE PARTICIPANTS ARE IN THE ROOM OF 'EM ARE HERE TODAY.
YEAH, IF YOU COULD RAISE YOUR HAND, I APPRECIATE THAT.
TRULY A, UH, BROAD CROSS SECTION AS WE TALK ABOUT HOUSING, YOU'LL SEE THIS TODAY AS WE HAVE THIS DISCUSSION.
HOUSING IS ABOUT AS STICKY AS SUBJECT AS YOU CAN GET INTO, RIGHT? IT TOUCHES EVERYTHING.
TRANSPORTATION, LAND USE, DEMOGRAPHICS, ECONOMICS.
ALL THOSE THINGS ARE, UM, ARE, ARE, ARE INCLUDED IN THIS BROAD DISCUSSION.
SO IN DEVELOPING A GROUP TO TALK ABOUT IT,
UH, ALL THOSE FOLKS, UH, HAD VERY, UH, INTERESTING ANGLES INTO THIS DISCUSSION CUZ THEY REPRESENT A CONSTITUENCY.
THEY SEE THIS, THIS ISSUE FROM DIFFERENT ANGLES.
BUT WHAT WAS TRULY AMAZING, I THINK, WAS TO SEE THE, THE, THE KIND OF THE RESONANCE AROUND, UH, ONE, THE ASSESSMENT OF THE CONDITION.
THAT THIS IS A TREND AND IT IS WORSENING, AND TWO, THAT WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
AND AS I SUMMARIZE THIS, UM, IF I GET OUTTA SCHOOL THAT ANY OF THESE THAT WERE PARTICIPATING, FEEL FREE TO CORRECT ME, BUT THAT WE HAVE TO COMMIT TO SOMETHING TO START TO ADDRESS THIS CHALLENGE FOR THESE ISSUES.
AND WE TALK ABOUT THESE ISSUES, THEY TENDED TO FALL INTO THEIR PARTICULAR PERSPECTIVE.
SO AS WE THINK ABOUT THE WORKFORCE HOUSING CHALLENGES ON THE ISLAND, UH, HOW DO THEY RELATE TO, UM, UH, EMPLOYEES, WORKFORCE AVAILABILITY, UH, QUALITY OF LIFE ISSUES, HOW DO THEY EVOLVE, UH, RELATED TO LIFESTYLE DEVELOPMENT AND, UM, UH, EQUITY, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD GROWTH, ALL THOSE SENTIMENTS WERE SHARED.
BUT IN SERVICE OF THIS, THIS GREATER CONVERSATION.
SO AS WE WORK THROUGH ABOUT 10 HOURS, OVER TWO DAYS, TAKING A COUPLE BREAKS IN BETWEEN
SO WITH THAT, I, I, I WANTED TO TAKE YOU ON A QUICK TOUR OF, OF THE POINTED EDGE OF, OF THIS WORK, UM, THE WORKFORCE HOUSING FRAMEWORK, UH, IF YOU HAVE IT IN FRONT OF YOU.
UM, A LOT OF WHAT WE DID AS FAR AS PART ONE IS TRYING TO SET THE STAGE RIGHT? SO THERE'S A LOT OF, AGAIN, TIP OF THE ICEBERG WORK THAT WE'VE DONE JUST TO GET US TO WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW, TO BEGIN TO TALK ABOUT THE COMMITMENT MOVING FORWARD.
AND WHEN I SAY TIP OF THE ICEBERG, YOU KNOW, MISSY, I THINK ONE THING WE CAN DO WITHIN THIS DOCUMENT IS SHOW CONNECTION TO THE, THE HUGE LIBRARY OF WORK THAT'S ALREADY GONE INTO A, A, A LOT OF THESE CONCLUSIONS AND DATA POINTS, NOT LEAST OF WHICH IS THE WORKFORCE, UM, STUDY DONE IN 2019.
SO PULLING THIS TOGETHER, PART TWO OF THE DOCUMENT, THE, THE WORKFORCE HOUSING FRAMEWORK, UH, IS TRULY THE, THE COMMITMENT THAT WE DESCRIBE.
SO IN ALL THIS WORK Y'ALL HAVE DONE PLANNING BEFORE, YOU WANNA WORK FROM THE BROAD TO THE SPECIFIC, RIGHT? WE DON'T START WITH THE VERY POINTED IDEA ON THE, ON THE SPECIFIC PARCEL.
WE START WITH THE GENERAL CONSENSUS ABOUT WHAT WE WANT TO DO, WHAT'S THE VISION, WHERE DO WE WANNA MOVE, UH, AND THEN BASED ON THAT CONSENSUS AND THAT VISION WORK TOWARD THE SPECIFICS OF OUR PLAN.
UH, I TALKED ABOUT THE FOUR PILLARS, WE'LL, WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT HERE IN JUST A SECOND.
AGAIN, THOSE ARE INTERRELATED, I THINK, AS YOU'LL SEE.
BUT ANOTHER PART OF THIS, OF, OF THIS FRAMEWORK THAT, AGAIN, I THINK SOME COMMUNITIES IGNORE WHEN THEY WANNA STAY HIGH LEVEL, IS WHAT WE'VE INCLUDED IN THIS WORK ABOUT, WELL, WHAT ARE THE CRITICAL FIRST STEPS? WHEN I SAY ABOUT THAT, WHEN WE GET INTO THIS PART OF THE PLAN OR THE FRAMEWORK, WHAT YOU'LL SEE, THESE ARE, THESE ARE ACTIONS, RIGHT? THINGS THAT WE CAN DO AND BEGIN TO WORK ON DAY ONE AND MAKE PROGRESS ON AND KNOW THAT WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE MOVING THE BALL IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
THESE CAN BE PROJECTS, POLICIES, PROGRAMS. IN A LOT OF SENSE, THESE ARE REALLY POLICY BASED, BUT THEY'RE HOW DO WE, UH, CREATE ACTION, YOU KNOW, OUT OF OUR WORK.
SO AS YOU SEE, AND IT'S ALSO REFLECTED IN THE PLAN, UH, THE STRUCTURE FOR OUR WORK, FROM THE TOP DOWN, WE THINK ABOUT THAT GOAL, THE ENCOMPASSING VISION, WHERE WE WANT AHEAD, OUR PILLARS.
THEN BREAK DOWN BEYOND THAT, WE THINK ABOUT THIS IDEA OF COMMUNITY PLANNING, MANAGEMENT, REVENUE, EACH OF WHICH I'LL, I'LL QUICKLY UNPACK BELOW THOSE THOUGH,
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WE HAVE SOME STRATEGIES.SO HOW DO WE GET MOVING IN THIS WORK? WHAT ARE THE CRITICAL INDEED, BELOW THAT CRITICAL FIRST STEPS THAT WE NEED TO TAKE? AND AS WE GET DEEPER DOWN, CLOSER TO THE GROUND IN THIS WORK, FROM THE VISION DOWN TO THE ACTUAL ACTION, REMEMBER AT THE BOTTOM YOU SAW FROM TAMMY'S, UH, OVERVIEW OF THE COMMUNITIES LIKE YOU AROUND THE COUNTRY? WHAT ARE THEY DOING? THEY'RE EXPERIMENTING IN THEIR OWN SYSTEM, RIGHT? THEY HAVE A VISION, THEY HAVE A COMMITMENT THAT THEY'VE MADE, BUT THEY'RE REALLY EXPERIMENTING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT ARE GONNA BE THE MOST EFFECTIVE TOOLS FOR THEM IN INTERVENING IN THIS, IN THIS BROAD CHALLENGE.
ARE THEY THEY REGIONAL IN NATURE? ARE THEY LOCAL? HOW, UM, HOW DO WE AFFECT THIS? KEY TO ALL THIS THOUGH, IS EVALUATION.
AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANS HERE IN JUST A MOMENT ON PAGE 19, AS WE GET INTO THE, THE REAL MEAT OF WHAT WE'RE DOING.
AND REMEMBER, I'M GONNA, I'M GONNA WALK THROUGH THIS QUICKLY AND THEN WE'RE GONNA BACK UP AND, AND START THIS DISCUSSION WHEREVER YOU WOULD LIKE TO JUMP IN.
BUT OUR GOAL FOR WORKFORCE HOUSING, UH, READS AS THE FOLLOW IS A TOWN OF HILTON N.
SHELL ENSURE GROWING OPPORTUNITIES TO PROVIDE MORE WORKFORCE HOUSING OPTIONS ON THE ISLAND AND PARTICIPATE THROUGH REAL INVESTMENTS IN THE LOCAL AND REGIONAL SOLUTION.
TO MEET OUR GOAL, WE COMMIT TO A HOUSING FRAMEWORK SUPPORTED BY THE FOUNDATIONAL PILLARS OF COMMUNITY PLANNING, MANAGEMENT AND REVENUE.
AND AS YOU CAN SEE, THIS IS ALL WRITTEN IN FRONT OF YOU.
ALSO ON, ON PAGE 19, AS YOU REMEMBER THIS, THIS BROAD ENCOMPASSING STATEMENT HEAVILY VETTED AND DISCUSSED THROUGH OUR CHARETTE WITH, UH, UH, WITH OUR 35 PARTICIPANTS.
AND ALSO REFLECTIVE OF THE WORK THAT HAD BEEN DONE BEFORE NOW SUPPORTING THAT GOAL AT THE HIGHEST ORDER.
UH, I MENTIONED THESE PILLARS, I'M GONNA MENTION THEM A LOT.
THERE ARE FOUR AREAS THAT, AS WE HAVE THIS DISCUSSION, REALLY STARTED TO SELF-ORGANIZE IN, YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE GOING TO DO THIS, WHERE DO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE COMMITTING ACTION? THE FIRST OF WHICH, AND I, I MEAN FIRST WHEN I SAY FIRST IN THIS, IT'S THE COMMUNITY.
THE FACT THAT THERE IS, IS, IS TRUE BUY-IN AND, AND, AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FROM THE BROADER COMMUNITY, WHATEVER THAT MAY, UH, MEAN OR REFLECT THAT, UH, THAT THIS IS A CHALLENGE WORTH, WORTH, WORTH TRYING TO SOLVE.
IT'S ABOUT ACTUALLY DOING A LOT OF THE GREAT THINGS THAT YOU'RE ALREADY DOING AS, AS COMMUNITY LEADERS, WHICH IS WORKING WITH THE BROADER PUBLIC.
UH, IT'S ABOUT WORKING AND BUILDING, YOU KNOW, ADVOCATES WITHIN THIS PROCESS AS YOU MOVE FORWARD.
SO WHETHER THAT'S THROUGH COMMUNICATION, IT'S THROUGH ORGANIZATION, UH, THAT PIECE WAS, WAS HEAVILY DISCUSSED DURING OUR WORK.
THAT THESE ARE, ARE TRUE CHAMPIONS, UH, THAT ARE OUT THERE AND AVAILABLE TO YOU.
YOU NEED TO BE AWARE OF WHAT'S HAPPENING AND BUILDING AN ONGOING DIALOGUE ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE DOING, WHERE YOU'RE GETTING TRACTION, WHERE YOU MAY NOT.
QUICK TO THAT, KYLE IS ONE OF THE THINGS, AND AGAIN, WHY COMMUNITY IS THE NUMBER ONE PRIORITY WAS THERE WERE 35 INDIVIDUAL STAKEHOLDERS IN THE ROOM TO, THAT PARTICIPATED FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS IN, IN THE CHARETTE.
BUT WHAT KEPT COMING UP OVER AND OVER AGAIN WAS THIS BROADER, UH, GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT THAT THAT COMES TO FOLLOW AND THIS ENGAGEMENT FROM ALL THE WAY THE NEIGHBORHOOD LEVEL, UM, THROUGH, UM, THE GRASS TOPS AND REALLY ADVOCATING FOR THAT.
AND I JUST WANTED TO EMPHASIZE THAT BECAUSE OVER AND OVER AGAIN, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT THERE WAS 35 LEAD STAKEHOLDERS IN THE ROOM FROM VARIOUS BACKGROUNDS, BUT ALWAYS EMPHASIZING THAT THAT'S JUST THE START OF THE CONVERSATION.
AND IN THAT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND NEXT STEPS WERE SO ESSENTIAL, UM, TO ENGAGE THAT NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY LEVEL AT, AT A BROADER ADVOCATE.
AND I THINK THAT'S HIGHLIGHTED HERE, BUT I JUST WANTED TO EMPHASIZE THAT CUZ I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT IT WAS THE BROADER CONVERSATION OF WE REPRESENT A CERTAIN COMMUNITY IN A CERTAIN AREA, BUT WE RECOGNIZE THERE'S MORE TO ENGAGE.
AND YOU KNOW, I THINK OUR TEAM MEMBERS DURING THE DAY THERE, UH, WERE EXCITED BY THIS ONE BECAUSE YOU, AGAIN, YOU'RE NOT STARTING FROM SCRATCH.
THERE IS A LOT OF OF INFRASTRUCTURE THAT'S ALREADY BEEN BUILT THERE.
AND IN SOME WAYS IT'S ABOUT ACTIVATING, I THINK, UH, OF THOSE GROUPS.
BUT, BUT, BUT KEY, I THINK COMMUNITY, WE'LL TALK ABOUT THIS IN JUST A MOMENT, IS THIS IDEA OF COMMUNICATION, RIGHT? EVERYTHING MISSY SHARED, THE DATA POINTS, THE, THE UNDERSTANDING OF WHERE WE'RE HEADED, RIGHT? THE TREND PIECE OF THIS IS JUST SO IMPORTANT FOR THAT BROADER COMMUNITY TO UNDERSTAND AND HOW IT WILL AFFECT, NO MATTER WHERE, WHAT ANGLE THEY ENTER INTO THIS CONVERSATION, THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE, THEIR EXPERIENCE IN THE ISLAND, THEIR ABILITY TO BUILD LIFE LIVELIHOODS, UM, BUT BAKED INTO THIS AS WELL.
UM, YOU KNOW, AND, AND, AND WE'RE MISSY AND I THINK THE STAFF AND TEAM AND THIS, THESE, SOME OF THESE BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES CAN COME INTO BEARS.
THE IDEA OF PLANNING, RIGHT? SO AS WE THINK ABOUT THE WORK, YOU KNOW, YOU THINK WELL PLANNING, IS THAT REALLY AN ACTION WELL INDEED TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THE LUXURY AND TIME TO STUDY THIS ISSUE TO DIVE IN DEEPER.
CUZ EVEN THOUGH WE DO HAVE A RICH DATABASE OF UNDERSTANDING OF THE CHALLENGE HERE, THERE'S SO MUCH DEEPER WE COULD GO, UH, THE CONNECTIONS, WHETHER THEY'RE REGIONAL OR LOCAL, HOW THIS TREND IS SHAPING UP, UH, UH, YEAR TO YEAR, BUT ALSO, YOU KNOW, MONTH TO MONTH.
UM, BMPS, I PROMISE I WOULDN'T USE ACRONYMS, BUT I MEAN BY THOSE IS BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES.
SO EVERYTHING TAMMY BRINGS UP, STARTING TO EVALUATE THOSE THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON, EXPERIMENTATION, EXPERIMENTS AROUND THE COUNTRY AND WHAT MIGHT FIT HERE.
DEVELOPING ACTION PLANS, DEPARTMENT
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INTEGRATION.UH, AND INDEED, I CAN'T UNDERLINE THIS ENOUGH, THE IDEA OF COMMITTING TO ONGOING EVALUATION.
SO AS YOU COMMIT A PROGRAM OR A POLICY OR NEED A PROJECT, YOU KNOW, WITH NUMBERS, WHETHER IT'S WORKING OR NOT, RIGHT? UH, AND IDEALLY MORE THAN ONE NUMBER, UH, HOW YOU'RE HEADED, BUT YOU NEED PEOPLE TO DO THIS.
UH, AS WE HAD THIS DISCUSSION, AGAIN, ANOTHER FAILING POINT FOR, FOR OUR COMMUNITY IS THAT HAVE, HAVE DONE THE FIRST TWO VERY WELL, BUT FAILED THE THIRD AREA.
IT'S JUST SO CRITICAL THAT WE'VE GOT SOMEONE WHO WAKES UP AND SAYS, THIS IS A DIRECT QUOTE FROM OUR SESSION.
THIS IS MY JOB, RIGHT? THIS IS MY JOB TO FOCUS ON THIS WORK TO CREATE INTERNAL STRUCTURE THAT MAY ACTUALLY WORK OUTSIDE OF, OF GOVERNMENT AND ALONGSIDE OTHER GROUPS THAT ARE ALREADY STOOD UP, UM, IN AND AROUND THE ISLAND OR INDEED AROUND, UH, THE REGION.
ONE, THE IDEA OF ROLES, CLEAR ROLES, CLEAR RESPONSIBILITIES AND FUNCTIONS.
AND ALSO THIS IDEA OF, OF, OF PARTNERSHIPS.
SO WORKING WITH, UM, YOUR, YOUR FELLOW GROUPS TO ADD CAPACITY IN A MULTIPLYING WAY.
UH, AND, AND LAST, BUT, BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST, UM, THIS WAS ANOTHER QUOTE OF THE, YOU KNOW, MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS ON THIS ISSUE, RIGHT? A COMMITMENT, UM, AS, AS OUR 35 PARTICIPANTS AND HAS BEEN, YOU KNOW, HIGHLIGHTED OTHER PLANS THAT ARE, THAT HAVE HAD SUCCESS AROUND THE COUNTRY.
A COMMITMENT IN THIS AREA REQUIRES A TRUE STREAM OF RESOURCES.
AND AS WE HAD THE DISCUSSION, IT WASN'T JUST ABOUT ALL THOSE RESOURCES BEING ACCUMULATED WITHIN THE TOWN, BUT THE IDEA OF BEING ABLE TO SCALE TO THE NEED, RIGHT? WHETHER IT'S ABOUT PROTECTING HOMES, WHETHER IT'S ABOUT ADDING WORKFORCE HOMES ON THE ISLAND, WHATEVER THE USE OF THAT.
UM, THIS WAS A, A CRITICAL PILLAR FOR US TO EXPLORE AND INDEED, UH, UH, TO PURSUE.
NOW WITHIN EACH OF OUR PILLARS, UM, WITHIN YOUR FRAMEWORK, AS YOU'LL START TO SEE TOURING HERE, UM, FROM PAGE, UH, 21 ONWARD, UH, WE HAVE A SERIES OF STATEMENTS, UH, THAT START TO SAY WHAT OUR COMMITMENT IS IN THIS PARTICULAR AREA.
AND WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO IS, IS WALK THROUGH THE FOUR AND THEN BACK UP.
SO I THINK STARTING WITH OUR COMMUNITY AND THEN MOVING THROUGH, WOULD LOVE TO GET THE FEEDBACK.
DAVID, TOM, FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE PART OF THE SESSION FLAVOR FROM YOUR EXPERIENCE, UH, YOU KNOW, DURING THE, THE CHARETTE, UH, BUT WORK THROUGH EACH OF THESE AND WHAT, WHAT THEY INDEED MEAN.
I WON'T READ THESE WORD FOR WORD CAUSE AGAIN, THEY'RE RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU.
BUT I WILL START WITH THE GOAL STATEMENT AND A LITTLE BIT ON, YOU KNOW, WHAT, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, WHAT THIS, UH, WHAT THIS PARTICULAR PILLAR MEANT TO OUR PARTICIPANTS TO ENGAGE, COLLABORATE, AND INFORM THE COMMUNITY ON HOUSING CHALLENGES, SOLUTIONS, AND TO IDENTIFY COMMUNITY LED HOUSING PROGRAMS, UH, AND SOLUTIONS.
THIS IDEA THAT THIS IS A, UH, A DISCUSSION WITH, WITH THE BROADER COMMUNITY, WITH NEIGHBORHOOD GROUPS, WITH LEADERS.
UH, IT'S ABOUT FINDING LEADERSHIP.
IT'S ABOUT FINDING ADVOCATES AND WORKING TOWARD, REMEMBER THAT EACH OF OUR PILLARS HAS, UM, ONE OR TWO OR SOMETIMES THREE STRATEGIES THAT BEGIN WITH A VERB.
UH, AND USUALLY THAT VERB IS COMMIT
IT'S COMMITTING TO WHAT, UH, IN THIS CASE, AND REMEMBER, WE'RE NOT GONNA READ THESE ALL BUT MAINTAINING THESE PARTNERSHIPS IN WORKING.
UH, AND OBVIOUSLY THIS ASSUMES A SIGNIFICANT LEVEL OF ADDITIONAL ACTION.
UH, THIS HOUSING ACTION COMMITTEE WORKING WITH AND STANDING UP A GROUP THAT IS SOLELY FOCUSED ON THIS AND HAS AN EAR ON THESE ISSUES AT THE VERY LOCAL LEVEL, NEIGHBORHOOD LEVEL.
UH, SO IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTANDING WHERE WE GO.
I'LL EXPLAIN THIS LAST PIECE JUST SO THAT WE'RE CLEAR ON WHAT WE MEAN BY CRITICAL FIRST STEPS.
THIS DOES NOT MEAN CRITICAL ONLY STEPS.
SO I WANT EVERYONE TO BE AWARE OF THAT, RIGHT? AS WE THINK ABOUT, AGAIN, OTHER COMMUNITIES WHERE THEY'VE HAD SUCCESS, THIS MENU OF STEPS, RIGHT, OR SPECIFIC TACTICS EVOLVES AS IT'S EVALUATED, IT GROWS WITH TIME AS YOU ADD CAPACITY, ADD RESOURCES AS YOU'RE ABLE TO DO MORE.
WELL, WE TRIED TO IDENTIFY WITH THIS FIRST BATCH OF CRITICAL FIRST STEPS ARE THINGS WE CAN START OUT.
RIGHT? KYLE, IF I COULD, YOU'RE DOING A GREAT JOB.
MY RECOMMENDATION TO YOU AND I ASK IS THAT SLOW DOWN AND EXPLAIN THE STRATEGIES, CUZ THAT'S THE MEAT AND THE POTATO OF, OF THIS DOCUMENT.
I KNOW YOU DON'T WANT READ 'EM ALL, BUT, BUT LEAVING HERE TODAY, WHAT THOSE STRATEGIES ARE, ARE MOST IMPORTANT.
SO PLEASE IF YOU CAN READ THROUGH 'EM AND MAKE SURE THAT TOWN COUNCIL UNDERSTANDS THEM AND THE COMMUNITY HEARS THEM.
UH, SO LET, NO, LET'S, AND THEN I, I THINK WITH, WITH THAT SAID, MARK, MAYBE, UM, A BETTER STRATEGY HERE IS TO TAKE THESE ONE BY ONE.
SO LET'S BEGIN WITH COMMUNITY AGAIN, UNDERLINED THROUGH OUR WORK.
UH, SO LET, LET ME, LET ME JUST INTRODUCE OUR, OUR FIRST TWO STRATEGIES HERE AND OPEN UP SOME CONVERSATION.
AND, AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO PARTICIPATE, CAN GIVE SOME BACKGROUND STRATEGY.
ONE, TO COMMIT TO DEVELOP, MAINTAIN, SUPPORT PARTNERSHIPS WITH COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS AS WELL AS REGIONAL AND STATE PARTNERS TO COLLABORATIVELY ADDRESS LOCAL HOUSING NEEDS.
SO A LOT, UH, ENCOMPASSED IN THAT STRATEGY, BUT I THINK A RECOGNITION, TAMMY, THAT THERE ARE WAY MORE FOLKS TRYING TO HELP SOLVE THIS CHALLENGE THAN JUST SIT WITHIN THE ISLAND, RIGHT? THERE'S
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EMERGING REGIONAL WORK THAT'S, THAT'S GOING ON.THERE'S COALITIONS THAT ARE, ARE FORMING, BUT THE IDEA HERE IS, IS, IS IS TRYING TO DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN THIS, UH, THESE PARTNERSHIPS OVER TIME.
UM, IN ADDITION WITH THE COMMITTEE TO THE HOUSING ACTION COMMITTEE, THE IDEA HERE IS TO COORDINATE, UM, UH, WITH COMMUNITY GROUPS.
I APOLOGIZE FOR THAT TYPO AND HOUSING SPACE TO CULTIVATE AN ONGOING DIALOGUE AND ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY, THE HOUSING, EDUCATION, PLANNING, INNOVATION, PROVIDE ADVICE AND RECOMMENDATIONS.
THIS STRATEGY REALLY EMERGED, I THINK, FROM THE GROUP, UH, THIS IDEA OF AN ONGOING, A COMMUNICATION EDUCATION EFFORT AROUND WHAT'S BEING DONE IN THIS AREA AND WHAT, WHAT MORE COULD BE DONE.
BUT I WANNA STOP HERE AND SEE IF THERE'S ANY CONVERSATION, THOUGHTS ON EITHER THE PILLAR, THE GOAL, OR SOME OF OUR INITIAL STRATEGIES IN THE AREA.
I MENTIONED PLANNING, UH, BEING ESSENTIAL HERE IN, IN A, IN AN AREA THAT, UM, MOST COMMUNITIES DO THIS REALLY WELL, RIGHT? THEY'RE, THEY'RE GOOD AT CREATING POLICY OR, OR PROJECTS.
WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANS LATER.
BUT WITH OUR PLANNING PILLAR, THE IDEA TO CREATE SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT STIMULATES WORKFORCE, HOUSING, INITIATES PLANNING, POLICY AND PROGRAMMING.
WE HAVE ONE STRATEGY HERE AND IT'S REALLY A, A PERMISSION TO COMMIT TO CREATE A MULTI-YEAR WORKFORCE HOUSING ACTION PLAN.
THAT'LL INCLUDE A RANGE OF PRIORITIZE, HOUSING TACTICS AND TOOLS.
THIS IS PERMISSION FOR STAFF TO SPEND TIME, ENERGY, AND RESOURCES IN DEVELOPING A VERY SPECIFIC AND A VERY TAILORED STRATEGY, ACTION STRATEGY, UH, TO MOVE TOWARD OUR BROAD VISION.
UH, CRITICAL FIRST STEPS OF THIS ARE, ARE, ARE PRETTY SELF EVIDENT, BUT THE WORKFORCE HOUSING TACTIC TOOL, BOOK TOOLBOX, DEVELOPING AND MAINTAIN A MAP OF DATABASE.
AND THIS, THIS GETS BACK, I THINK SOMETHING YOU SHARED HERE EARLIER, KNOWING WHAT YOU HAVE ON THE ISLAND TODAY,
BUT LET ME PAUSE HERE AND SEE IF THERE'S ANY, UM, ANY DISCUSSION, THOUGHTS, REACTIONS TO THE, THE PLANNING PILLAR.
YOU HAVE A COMMENT HERE? YEAH.
UM, IT'S DIFFICULT FOR COUNCIL TO REACT TO THIS PRESENTATION BECAUSE ONLY TWO OF US HAVE EVER SEEN IT, AND IT CAME OFF THE PRESS AS AN HOUR BEFORE THE MEETING.
AND SO THE FACT THAT YOU'RE NOT GETTING A LOT OF STRONG REACTION IS A REFLECTION OF THE FACT THAT WE'VE NEVER SEEN THIS BEFORE.
AND SO YOU'RE MAKING A STRONG AND COMPELLING CASE.
I'M VERY PLEASED TO SAY, SEE MY FRIENDS, MANY OF THE CITIZENS HERE, UH, TODAY THAT ARE CRITICALLY INTERESTED IN THIS, UM, SOME OF, SOME OF THE FOLKS WERE IN THE CHARETTE, SO THEY'RE WAY AHEAD OF US AS WELL.
SO DON'T READ ANYTHING INTO THE FACT THAT WE'RE NOT HAVING IMMEDIATE REACTIONS AND, UH, CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS TO THIS, BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY HUGE, WE NEED TO BE CAREFUL HOW WE MOVE FORWARD, UH, BUT STILL BE VERY, UH, COMMITTED TO DOING THAT.
UH, AND WHAT I SEE IN THIS ROOM IS, IS OR ARE THE SEEDS OF THAT COMMITMENT.
SO I'M PLEASED TO SEE IT GOING ON THIS WAY, BUT I JUST WANNA MAKE THAT COMMENT.
I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, GLEN, BUT IT ALSO SHOULD FOSTER A LOT OF QUESTIONS.
I MEAN, BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO READ AND DIG INTO IT, WE SHOULD HAVE MORE COMME QUESTIONS FROM THE COUNCIL FOR THINGS THAT WE REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND, OR WE THINK THAT HE'S READING BY TOO FAST.
SO THE QUESTION PART IS, R IS, I KNOW IT'S WRONG.
WE DIDN'T GET IT AHEAD OF TIME AND IT'S A MISFORTUNE, BUT WE SHOULD HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS.
WHAT WE DON'T UNDERSTAND OR WHAT WE THINK IS HAPPENING TOO QUICKLY, I'LL, I'LL ADD A, A COMMENT BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED.
UM, THE STRATEGY SAYS, AND I THINK THIS IS WHAT NEEDS TO BE EMPHASIZED, CREATE A MULTI-YEAR WORKFORCE HOUSING ACTION PLAN.
THAT'S A SIGNIFICANT COMMITMENT FOR COUNCIL.
AND THE CRITICAL FIRST STEPS CAME OUT OF THAT GROUP OF, OF PROFESSIONALS WHO WERE AT THE, UH, CHARETTE AND THEY WERE SAYING, IN ORDER TO GET ANYTHING STARTED, THESE ARE THE, THESE ARE THE THINGS YOU NEED TO DO.
I THINK YOU COULD ALSO ALMOST SAY MANDATORY.
MR. I HAVE A QUESTION FOR THE, UH, CONSULTANTS.
IS THE, UH, FIRST GOAL, UM, SOMETHING THAT IS ONGOING, UH, OR ARE YOU LAYING OUT THESE AS A LOGICAL SEQUENCE? THE REASON I SAY THAT IS, UH, CERTAINLY GETTING COMMUNITY UNDERSTANDING SUPPORT, UH, ENTHUSIASM
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IS CRITICAL.UM, WE HAVE PEOPLE COMING AND GOING IN THIS COMMUNITY, LIKE ANY COMMUNITY, WE HAVE PEOPLE THAT CHOOSE TO IMMERSE THEMSELVES IN SUBJECTS LIKE THIS AND OTHERS SIT ON THE SIDELINES AND PICK AND CHOOSE.
UH, THIS IS AN ONGOING PROCESS COMMUNITY TO, FROM MY STANDPOINT, UH, IT'S LABORIOUS.
UH, IT CAN BE FRUSTRATING, UH, BUT YOU CAN'T, YOU CAN'T MISS THE STEP.
UH, THAT SAID, I WOULDN'T WANT TO SPEND, UH, TIME ON THIS STEP TO THE POINT WHERE I'M CONVINCED THAT AT LEAST 60% OF THE POPULATION IS ON BOARD.
SO WHAT DO YOU, WHAT DO YOU THINK? I WOULD SAY IT'S, UM, IT'S, IT'S NOT SEQUENTIAL NECESSARILY.
IT'S, IT'S ONGOING AND IT'S SIMULTANEOUS.
AND SO I THINK THERE'S MULTIPLE THINGS THAT CAN BE HAPPENING AT THE SAME TIME.
AGAIN, THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IS, IS DEFINITELY ONGOING.
AS I MENTIONED, IT'S ESSENTIAL FROM NEIGHBORHOOD ALL THE WAY, YOU KNOW, TO GOVERNMENT ELECTED OFFICIALS.
BUT I THINK IN TERMS OF THIS MULTI, YOU KNOW, THIS PARTICULAR PLANNING STRATEGY IS SOMETHING THAT THE STAFF AND THE TEAM HAVE ALREADY BEEN WORKING ON.
AND WE HAVE TO CONTINUALLY EVALUATE.
YOU'RE RIGHT, WE HAVE TO ONGOING EVALUATE WHAT'S WORKING, WHAT'S NOT WORKING, AND WHAT NEW THINGS WE COULD BE IMPLEMENTING.
BUT PART OF THAT, UM, I THINK WHAT DOESN'T REALLY EXIST RIGHT NOW IS THAT SORT OF HOUSING COALITION THAT COULD BE THAT ONGOING VOICE AND AVOCA ADVOCACY GROUP.
THERE'S LOTS OF PARTNERS THAT ARE DOING THIS, BUT HOW ARE WE CREATING SYNERGY AND ASSET MAPPING THOSE OPPORTUNITIES? BUT I DON'T THINK IT'S ONE STEP HAPPENS FIRST OR THE OTHER SEVERAL.
AND THAT'S WHY THE COMMITMENT IS SO IMPORTANT, WHETHER THAT'S TO THAT PARTICULAR COALITION OR TO US TO STAFF OR SOME SORT OF ENTITY THAT HELPS WAKE UP EVERY DAY AND LEADS IT.
UM, AND THERE'S CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THIS THAT THE TOWN CAN DO, AND THEN THERE'S CERTAIN ASPECTS THAT COMMUNITY LEADERS SHOULD DO.
BUT, BUT I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT, IT HAS TO BE SIMULTANEOUS.
AND WE, YOU KNOW, WE WORKED THROUGH, GO AHEAD.
I WAS GONNA SAY, WE, WE WORKED THROUGH A LOT OF ANALOGIES, I THINK DURING OUR CHARETTE, RIGHT? BUT WE KEPT COMING BACK TO THE PILLARS AS, AS REALLY FOUR POINTS OF OF CONTACT, RIGHT? THAT ARE LIFTING THIS AT THE SAME TIME.
UM, AND IT IS, IS TAMMY RIGHTLY POINTS OUT IS WE HAD THIS DISCUSSION WORKED FROM TOPIC TO TOPIC.
WHAT BECAME CLEAR IS, UM, ALL THESE ITEMS WERE INTERRELATED, RIGHT? THE REVENUE AND SERVICE OF WHAT THE MANAGEMENT, BUT DOING WHAT THE PLANNING, BUT WHAT PROJECTS, WHAT POLICIES DO THE, DOES THE COMMUNITY SUPPORT AND REALLY WANNA SEE AS A PRIORITY FIRST? SO ALL THESE THINGS BECAME QUITE INTERRELATED AS WE DISCUSSED THEM, AS WHAT WE TRY TO GET TO WITH CRITICAL FIRST STEPS, I THINK WITH THE HELP OF LEADERSHIP, UH, IN, IN STAFF IS IDENTIFYING THOSE AREAS WHERE WE TRULY CAN START TOMORROW.
RIGHT? IT DOESN'T ASSUME THAT WE WON'T ADD RIGHT OR WE WON'T EVALUATE, BUT THESE ARE AREAS WHERE WE CAN ACTUALLY KICKSTART TOMORROW THE EFFORT.
YEAH, I WOULD SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, PART OF THE DISCUSSION WAS THE SORT OF SHORT, MIDTERM AND LONGER TERM STRATEGIES AND OPPORTUNITIES.
AND AGAIN, WHAT DO YOU HAVE PERMISSION TO DO NOW AS THE TOWN COUNCIL AND TO MOVE FORWARD? AND THEN WHAT THINGS NEED A LOT MORE CULTIVATION AND DISCUSSION, NOT AMONG, NOT ONLY AMONGST YOURSELF, BUT AMONGST COMMUNITY LEADERS AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS.
AND SO SOME OF THOSE ARE SORT OF SHORT, MID, AND LONGER TERM, BUT YOU ALWAYS HAVE, FOR EXAMPLE, THE, UM, THIS TRAIN WON'T LEAVE THE STATION, UH, WITHOUT ACCESS TO CAPITAL, UH, WHICH IS THE FOURTH.
BUT, UH, SO AS, AS THIS STARTS CONCURRENT WITH THIS STEP AND SEVERAL OTHERS, UH, WORK HAS TO BEGIN ON IDENTIFYING THE REVENUE SOURCE OR SOURCES THAT ARE SUSTAINABLE.
CUZ I, I'D HATE TO DO EVERYTHING ELSE AND THEN GET TO THAT POINT AND SAY, OOPS, WHERE, WHERE'S THE MONEY? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.
AND I THINK PART OF A DISCUSSION IN THE REVENUE DISCUSSION WAS WHAT ARE SOME LOW HANGING FRUIT OPPORTUNITIES THAT COULD BE IMPLEMENTED NOW? WHAT ARE SOME LONGER TERMS? THERE WAS TALK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, SOME STATE LEGISLATURE OPPORTUNITIES THAT I KNOW SENATOR DAVIS IS.
SO THERE WAS A DISCUSSION OF THAT BROAD TIMELINE, UM, OF WHAT CAN, WHAT CAN WE ACCOMPLISH TODAY? BUT YOU'RE RIGHT, THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT COULD BE DONE NOW FROM A REVENUE.
SO IT REALLY IS LOOKING AT THOSE FOUR PILLARS AND SAYING, OKAY, HERE ARE SOME ACTION ITEMS THAT WE CAN ACCOMPLISH WITHIN THE NEXT 60 DAYS, 90 DAYS.
BUT THEN THERE'S SOME LONGER TERM ADVOCACY THAT HAS TO HAPPEN FOR THAT COMMITMENT TO, FOR THAT FULL GO TO GOAL TO COME TO FRUITION.
THOSE GROUPS YOU TALK ABOUT ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME PEOPLE OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
WE STILL MISS HALF OF THE ISLAND AND ANYTIME WE TAKE AN OPINION POLL, BECAUSE WE NEVER TOUCHED THEM ALONG THE WAY, WE, IN MY OPINION, MOST LEADERS KNOW THAT ALREADY WE NEED A REFERENDUM WHERE PEOPLE CAN EXPRESS THEIR OPINION.
DO THEY REALLY NEED, DO WE REALLY NEED WORKFORCE HOUSING? HAVE WE CONSIDERED YET THE IMPACT THAT WORKFORCE
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HOUSING WILL MAKE ON OUR COMMUNITY BY PROBABLY INCREASING THE PERCENTAGE OF FIVE TO 10 MORE OF THE POPULATION.DO WE TALK ABOUT THE HOUSING? WELL, WE WILL INCREASE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM HERE CUZ MOST OF THOSE HOUSING HOPEFULLY WILL INVOLVE FAMILIES AND CHILDREN THAT WE LOOK AT HOW WILL AFFECT THE HOSPITAL HERE THAT IT'S 40% VACANCY BEDS NOW BECAUSE THERE'S NO ONE TO WORK THERE ALONG THE WAY.
THERE'S A LOT OF ISSUES WE DON'T TALK ABOUT IN THAT.
SO WE NEED SOME KIND OF REFERENDUM FROM THE PEOPLE.
SO THE PEOPLE SPEAK AS WHAT THE PEOPLE REALLY WANT, NOT JUST THE INDEPENDENT GROUPS THAT HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH THIS SUCCESSFULLY FOR A LONG TIME.
MAYOR, MAY I RESPOND? YES, SIR, YOU CAN.
THAT'S WHY WITH WITH, WITH ALL NEW RESPECT, I THINK THAT THE COMMUNITY HAS TO BE BROUGHT UP TO SPEED.
IT HAS TO BE PROVIDED INFORMATION.
IT HAS TO UNDERSTAND THE RISKS BEFORE WE GO TO THE COMMUNITY AND ASK THEM TO MAKE A DECISION ABOUT A REFERENDUM.
AND THAT'S TRUE, BUT YOU HAVE TO FIND A BETTER WAY TO INFORM THE COMMUNITY.
THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE IS NOT BEING INFORMED.
THEY'RE BEING INFORMED BY SECTIONS.
PEOPLE THAT HAVE THEIR OWN FOLLOWINGS ALONG THE WAY.
WE ARE NOT TOUCHING THE WHOLE COMMUNITY.
WE ARE TOUCHING IT SECTION BY SECTION.
MY MY OPINION IS THAT IF WE WENT FOR A REFERENDUM, AND I'M NOT SAYING YOU'RE SAYING THIS, BUT IF WE WENT FOR A REFERENDUM TOMORROW, IT WOULD FAIL.
SO IF THE EDUCATION IS NEEDED, HOW DO WE DO THE EDUCATION PILLAR ONE TO MAKE SURE WE'RE COVERING THE WHOLE ISLAND? PILLAR ONE.
WELL, WE HAVEN'T NEVER DISCUSSED HOW WE'RE GONNA DO THE WHOLE HAWAIIAN.
WE DISCUSSED THE GROUPS THAT ARE REPRESENTING THESE PEOPLE, CUZ THEY'RE ALL IN THE PILLARS.
THEY'RE ROLE IN THE SURVEYS, THEY'RE ROLE IN EVERYTHING, BUT THE 60% WE'RE MISSING ARE NOT.
AND HOW DO WE GET TO THOSE PEOPLE? MAYOR, IF, IF I COULD, I I THINK WHAT YOU'RE BRINGING UP WAS CENTRAL TO THE DISCUSSION WE HAD 10 OR SO DAYS AGO, WHICH IS THE IDEA THAT THE 35 PLUS FOLKS IN THAT ROOM REPRESENTING A WIDE VARIETY OF BACKGROUNDS ALL UNDERLINED ONE THING THAT THIS IS AN ISSUE AND THAT WE'VE GOTTA DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
UM, THAT'S SOMETHING VARIED
I THINK, UM, WHY WE STARTED WITH COMMUNITY, WHY WE KEPT COMING BACK TO THIS PAT PILLAR AS BEING SO CRITICAL IS WHAT YOU BRING UP IS THAT, DOES EVERYONE KNOW NOT WHO YOU ARE, BUT WHO WE'RE BECOMING.
I THINK WITH THIS TREND, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT MISSY BRINGS UP THAT WE COULD, WE COULD UNDERLINE EVEN HEAVIER.
I MEAN, THE COMPETITION FOR LABOR BACK ON THE MAINLAND, RIGHT? THE TIME OF COMMUTE, RIGHT? THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF THIS COMMUNITY, THE PLATEAUING OF POPULATION AND COST REAL ESTATE, RIGHT? ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE PLAYING INTO WHAT IS NOT A, WAS NOT A, A STAGNANT CHALLENGE, BUT IS A GROWING CHALLENGE, RIGHT? AND WILL AFFECT, I THINK WHAT WE GOT INTO THIS A LOT, THE, THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL FOLKS ON THE COMMUNITY AND ON THE ISLAND.
SO IT WAS CENTRAL TO THE DISCUSSION, THE IDEA OF AMPLIFYING THIS
THESE WERE TRYING TO ADDRESS EXACTLY WHAT I THINK YOU BRING UP, MAYOR.
WHO ARE WE BECOMING? AND WHEN WE LOOK IN THE MIRROR, WHO DO WE WANNA BECOME? I MEAN, THERE'S A WHOLE QUESTION HERE.
WHO ARE WE BE COMING? I MEAN, ARE WE BETTER OFF SERVE WITH PUTTING HOUSING IN BLUFFTON AND BUILDING PARK AND RIDES AND SHUTTLE BUSES AND DO TRANSPORTATION, WHICH IS THE GOVERNOR'S FOURTH BIGGEST ISSUE, LOCAL TRANSPORTATION.
WHO ARE WE, WHAT DO WE WANT TO BE? THEN HOW, HOW ARE WE GETTING IT? WE'RE GOING RIGHT TO HOUSING, BUT WE'RE FORGETTING ABOUT YOU'RE BUILDING THESE HOUSING.
AND THEN I'M IN FAVOR OF THE HOUSING PROJECT, JUST SO YOU KNOW, I'M NOT A I'M IN FAVOR, BUT YOU BUILD THE HOUSING AND HOW DO YOU MOVE THE PEOPLE AROUND? WE WENT TO SEE SOME NICE PLACES THE OTHER DAY.
THERE'S AN OLD BOTTLE SH COST SERVICE GOING THROUGH THERE.
AND YOU DON'T WANNA PUT PEOPLE IN A PLACE WHERE YOU CAN'T GET 'EM IN AND OUTTA THERE.
SO THEY BECOME UNHAPPY VERY QUICKLY ALONG THE WAY.
PHYSICAL TRANSPORTATION, WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT IT HERE, THEY TALK ABOUT ROADS.
IT'S NOT, IT'S THE THINGS THAT RIDE ON THE ROADS THAT MAKE UP THE TRANSPORTATION.
AND I THINK THAT'S SOMEWHAT INTEGRATED IN THAT PLANNING PILLAR MAYOR THAT WE TALKED ABOUT IS THAT IT'S NOT JUST HOUSING ALONE, IT HOUSING ALONE, IT IS TRANSPORTATION.
IT IS THE OTHER ELEMENTS OF THE COMMUNITY PLAN THAT'S IMPORTANT AND, BUT THAT HOUSING IS SO CRITICAL THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME PRIORITIZATION AND ACTION ON THAT AS WELL.
BUT THE OTHER THINGS HAVE TO BE INCLUDED TO MAKE THAT FEEL SUCCESSFUL.
PEOPLE, PEOPLE TALK ABOUT TRANSPORTATION IF THEY'RE 14 OR 15,000 PEOPLE COMING TO THE ISLAND EVERY DAY, THAT REPRESENTS 280 BUSES TO MOVE THAT GROUP.
NOW SOME OF THEM ARE GONNA DRIVE CARS AND SO ON AND SO FORTH.
BUT WHEN YOU START TALKING ABOUT TRANSPORTATION SLASH BUSES, THERE ARE A LOT OF IMPRACTICAL ASPECTS OF THAT SOLUTION.
BUT WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT IT AS PART
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OF THE SOLUTION AND YOU TALK ABOUT A REASONABLE THING, YOU CAN'T DISCOUNT IT.YOU COUNTING ALL OF BUSES, YOU GOTTA TALK ABOUT THE PART OF IT.
THERE IS NO ONE PIECE HERE THAT FITS THE WHOLE THING.
AND IT HAS TO BE A PART OF WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
I I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO SAY THAT THIS REALLY ISN'T THE BEGINNING OF THE CONVERSATION.
THE CONVERSATION STARTED A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO AND I SEE LEE LU HERE IN THE BACK.
AND HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS LEE? 10 YEARS, 15 YEARS.
THE CONVERSATION STARTED A LONG TIME AGO WHEN WE AS A COMMUNITY NOTICED THAT, UH, OUR FAVORITE WAITER OR WAITRESS, UH, WASN'T THERE ANY LONGER WHEN OUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER CLOSED THE HILTON HEAD OFFICE AND RELOCATED IT TO BLUFFTON.
THE CONVERSATION THAT WE AS A COUNCIL GOT INVOLVED IN EIGHT YEARS AGO WAS WE SEE A, A SERIOUS THREAT TO OUR ISLAND QUALITY OF LIFE.
AND THAT THREAT IS OUR ABILITY TO ATTRACT A QUALIFIED WORKFORCE.
AND THERE ARE A LOT OF COMPONENTS OF THAT.
CERTAINLY HOUSING IS THE MOST CONSPICUOUS, BUT TRANSPORTATION, EDUCATION, RECREATION, WAGES AND BENEFITS, HEALTH CARE.
THERE ARE A LOT OF ELEMENTS TO, UH, OUR ABILITY TO ATTRACT A QUALIFIED WORKFORCE WITH, WHICH IS THE REAL THREAT.
WE ARE HERE NOW, WELL INTO THE CONVERSATION MAYBE 15 YEARS INTO IT, SAYING TO OURSELVES OR ASKING OURSELVES AS A COUNCIL, WHAT ROLE, IF ANY, DOES LOCAL GOVERNMENT HAVE IN DEALING WITH NOT HOUSING, IN DEALING WITH OUR ABILITY TO ATTRACT A QUALIFIED WORKFORCE.
AND WE HAVE FALLEN ON HOUSING THINKING THAT'S THE SILVER BULLET.
IT'S NOT, WE CAN DO SOME THINGS, BUT THE QUESTION IS THESE THINGS THAT WE CAN DO, WILL IT EVER MOVE THE NEEDLE? I THINK IT'S TO BE DETERMINED AND THAT'S WHY WE ARE HERE.
SO WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TODAY ISN'T A BRAND NEW CONVERSATION.
IT'S DEEP INTO A CONVERSATION THAT HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR A LONG TIME AND PEOPLE LIKE LEE HAS SEEN THIS COMING FOR A LOT LONGER THAN WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IT.
SO I I I, I THINK THE FOUR PILLARS REPRESENT FOR STRATEGIES IN TRYING TO DEAL WITH THAT.
UH, THE, THE FOUR GOALS, I THINK, UH, ARE SUPPORTED BY STRATEGIES BEHIND IT.
BUT I THINK THE FOUR GOALS, UH, THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED, UH, ARE REAL GOOD GOALS BECAUSE THEY'RE MEASURABLE, THEY'RE ACCESSIBLE, UH, THEY'RE ATTAINABLE.
UH, AND IT'S STAFF'S RESPONSIBILITIES WITH THE BLESSING OF COUNCIL TO IDENTIFY THE APPROPRIATE STRATEGIES AND TACTICS IN SUPPORT OF THOSE GOALS.
AND I THINK THAT'S THE DISCUSSION THAT WE HAD FOR 10 HOURS A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO AND WE'RE HAVING RIGHT NOW COUNTS.
AND I AGREE WITH TOM TOO, BY THE WAY.
UH, DAVID AND TOM, IF YOU RIDE AROUND THE ISLAND, THE ASTONISHING NUMBER OF NEW BUSINESSES STARTING BLOW ME AWAY.
I MEAN, WE'VE GOT EIGHT NEW BUSINESSES COMING INTO PORT WORLD PLAZA FOR A YEAR AGO WAS CLOSED ALMOST.
WE USED TO CALL IT THE FOOD COURT.
WHEN YOU DRIVE AROUND DIFFERENT PLACES OF ISLAND, THERE ARE NEW BUSINESSES SPRINGING ALL UP.
IT'S SURPRISING IS A BIG WORD.
I MEAN, WHERE ARE THEY GETTING ALL THEIR HELP FROM? I MEAN, WHERE DID THEY DO THEIR, THEIR, UH, EXPLORING BEFORE TIME TO GET PEOPLE TO WORK SOMETHING MISSING IN ITS EQUATION HERE.
AND THE NEW PEOPLE ARE COMING ON.
THEY'RE PEOPLE THAT ARE INVESTING THEIR OWN MONEY.
SO WE SHOULD LOOK INTO WHY THEY'RE COMING.
HOW COME THEY'RE COMING HERE AND WHERE DO THEY THINK THEIR SUPPLY CHAIN IS GONNA BE.
I WAS GONNA MAKE A COMMENT, BUT COUNCIL MEMBER BROWN.
UM, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE I'M GETTING BACK TO CENTER HERE AS FAR AS THE INTENT OF TODAY.
UM, SO WHAT WE ARE BEING DELIVERED TODAY WILL COME BEFORE US ON NOVEMBER 1ST TO BE ACCEPTED OR ADOPTED IN EITHER THIS FASHION OR SOME OTHER VERSION BASED ON THE DIALOGUE TODAY.
UM, SO THERE'S A FEW THINGS THAT ARE RINGING IN MY HEAD AS WE HAD THIS CONVERSATION.
NUMBER ONE IS VERY LOUD AND CLEAR TO ME THAT ALL FOUR PILLARS ARE EQUALLY IMPORTANT AND ARE GOING TO WORK TOGETHER OVER TIME.
UM, I I THINK THAT THERE'S JUST A COUPLE THINGS THAT I THINK ARE, ARE, ARE MISSING HERE AT THE MOMENT.
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WITH THE WORD HOME VERSUS HOUSING.ALRIGHT? I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE BEST WAYS TO ENCOURAGE AND ENHANCE BUY-IN IS WE ARE TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE.
ALRIGHT? UM, SO SOMEHOW THROUGHOUT OUR STRATEGIES, UM, I THINK THAT NEEDS TO BE CALLED OUT JUST A BIT MORE.
I AGREE WITH COUNCILMAN AMES WITH REPLACING THE WORD CRITICAL WITH MANDATORY.
UM, THREE OF THE FOUR PILLARS TO DATE HAVE A LIBRARY OF INFORMATION THAT WE CAN POINT BACK TO, TO SAY, THIS IS HOW WE GOT HERE.
ALL RIGHT? UM, SO I THINK WE'VE IN A SENSE ALREADY TAKEN SOME STEPS, BUT THE NEXT STEPS I THINK NEED TO BE MANDATORY OR ELSE WE GO RIGHT BACK TO WHERE WE STARTED.
UM, AND THE LAST THING, UM, I'M GOING TO ECHO AS LOUD AS I CAN, BUT COUNCILMAN HAWKINS SAID, WHICH IS, WE ARE MAKING A DECISION HERE, BUT WE'VE MADE A DECISION ACTUALLY TO GET INTO THE HOUSING BUSINESS.
AND THERE'S NO BUSINESS THAT YOU CAN START WITHOUT MONEY.
AND THAT'S THE PILLAR THAT WE CAN'T POINT BACK TO.
THERE ARE NOT ANY SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS, AND I'VE SAID THIS BEFORE, WE WERE BLESSED WITH THE AMERICAN RESCUE FUNDS COMING DOWN AND WE COULD GRAB A MILLION DOLLARS THERE TO START THE NORTH POINT PROJECT, BUT WHAT IF THAT HADN'T HAPPENED? WOULD WE BE DOING NORTH POINT? SO WITHOUT THE CAPITAL, THE OTHER THREE PILLARS, WE'RE JUST GONNA KEEP TALKING ABOUT 'EM FROM NOW TO THE NEXT 15 YEARS.
UH, SO THE, THE STRATEGIES AND THE, THE MANDATORY FIRST STEPS IN THE FINANCIAL PILLAR, IN MY MIND NEED A LOT MORE DETAIL.
I UNDERSTAND THAT WE'RE TRYING TO IDENTIFY, BUT I THINK BY NOVEMBER 1ST WE NEED TO HAVE THEM IDENTIFIED, OKAY, SOMETHING, IF IT'S FINDING A MILLION DOLLARS IN THE CURRENT BUDGET, FINDING A MILLION DOLLARS IN THE NEXT BUDGET THAT WE HAVE NO SAY SO IN BY THE WAY, BECAUSE THERE'LL BE A NEW COUNCIL DOING IT.
BUT SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE IDENTIFIED AS FAR AS FINANCIALS ARE CONCERNED SO THAT THIS BALL CONTINUES TO ROLL.
I MEAN, I'M SURE TAMMY AND KYLE ARE NOT HERE DONATING THEIR TIME.
WE DO LOVE YOU, BUT YES, RIGHT,
WE NEED TO IDENTIFY THAT FIRST AND FOREMOST IN ORDER FOR THE OTHER THREE PILLARS TO WORK.
AND I THINK THAT NEEDS TO BE, UH, CALLED OUT IN NOVEMBER.
I THINK WE SHOULD DECIDE THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT WE NEED OR THE VICINITY OF WHAT WE NEED, AND THEN WE OUGHT TO MAKE IT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE TOWN MANAGER TO FIND THAT MONEY.
I MEAN, FOR SEVEN OF US, WHO UP WITH DIFFERENT IDEAS AS TO WHERE WE'RE GONNA FIND THE MONEY, IT DOESN'T WORK.
HE SHOULD FIND THE MONEY BETWEEN NOW AND MAY BUD SECTION TO MAKE SURE THAT MONEY'S THERE.
I MEAN, HE KNOWS THE BUDGET MUCH BETTER THAN WE DO.
BILL WOULD LIKE TO PUT A MILL ON IT.
DAVID WOULD LIKE TO DO SOMETHING.
WELL STICK IT TO THE TOWN MANAGER AND NOT STICK IT TO 'EM.
LET'S GIVE IT TO THE TOWN MANAGER AND SAID, WE NEED A MILLION AND A QUARTER.
I'LL LET HIM, HIM FINDING WHETHER IT'S INCREASED TAXES OR WHATEVER IT IS, THAT'S HIS JOB, NOT SEVEN DIFFERENT OPINIONS COMING FROM US ALONG THE WAY.
AM I DON'T TAKE ANYTHING YET,
UH, FOLLOWING UP ON WHAT ALEX IS SAYING, UH, BEFORE I, I WALKED INTO THIS ROOM, I ASKED MYSELF, WHAT'S THE PURPOSE OF THIS MEETING? UH, WHAT'S, WHAT DO WE WANNA WALK OUT OF HERE WITH? AND SO I'VE TALKED TO SEVERAL OF OUR COLLEAGUES INFORMALLY, AND IT SEEMS TO BE A, A GROWING CONSENSUS THAT, UM, IT'S TIME FOR US TO STEP UP ON A POLICY LEVEL AND ASK THE QUESTION, ARE THE PILLARS THAT ARE BEING SET FORTH BEFORE US TODAY ON PAGE 16 OR WHEREVER? UH, AND IF WE ASK THE QUESTION, CAN OUR TOWN MANAGER, MARK ORLANDO START RIGHT AWAY MARCHING TOWARD THOSE PILLARS? THE ANSWER IS NO.
WHAT HE NEEDS FROM US AT A POLICY LEVEL IS HE NEEDS A CONSENSUS VOTE.
UH, A HARD VOTE WITH AT LEAST A MAJORITY OF US SAYING TOWN MANAGER AND STAFF OR NO STAFF'S, HIS, HIS PURVIEW, BUT TOWN MANAGER, UH, START MOVING FORWARD ON THESE FOUR PILLARS.
AND THEN, UH, IN TERMS OF SOME OF THE TACTICS, UH, UH, AND ON THE REVENUE STREAM, UM, IT, IT COULD BE, UH, A MILL, MILL 0.5.
UH, IT COULD BE GOING INTO THE GENERAL FUND.
UH, IT COULD BE A FEW OTHER THINGS TO DEALING WITH THE COUNTY AND THE SHERIFF, UH, ACTIVITY AND THAT MONEY THAT'S BEING ESCORTED.
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A POLICY LEVEL, IT HAS TO BE, WE HAVE TO HAVE ONE ADJECTIVE IN THAT REVENUE DISCUSSION.AND THAT'S RECURRING, ABSENT RECURRING.
UH, CUZ WE WANT TO CREATE A MULTIPLE ON, UH, ONE REVENUE SOURCE MULTIPLIED OVER 20 OR 30 YEARS.
AND, AND TO DO THAT, WE CAN GO INTO THE BOND MARKET WITH A PREDICTABLE RECURRING SOURCE OR SOURCES OF CAPITAL.
SO MY SUGGESTION IS THAT WE LEAVE THAT TO MARK.
UH, BUT CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, WE'RE HERE TODAY TO SAY, DO THESE FOUR PILLARS REPRESENT A DIRECTION, UH, THAT WE WOULD LIKE THE TOWN COUNCIL, THAT WE WOULD LIKE OUR TOWN MANAGER TO MOVE FORWARD ON? AND, UH, WE CAN'T DO IT TODAY CUZ THIS IS A WORKSHOP.
BUT I WOULD RESPECTFULLY SUGGEST THAT THAT BE ON AN AGENDA, PROBABLY THE KEY AGENDA.
I THINK IT IS ON THE AGENDA FOR NEXT.
I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ABOUT THE COMMUNITY PILLAR A LITTLE BIT MORE.
I AGREE WITH THE MAYOR THAT AT A TIME IT'LL BE APPROPRIATE FOR US TO HAVE A REFERENDUM TO TEST THE PUBLIC WILL AND COMMITMENT BEHIND THIS.
BUT WE'VE LEARNED THAT EDUCATION IS WHAT IS CRITICAL IN GETTING A REFERENDUM ACROSS THE FINISH LINE.
SO TACTICS TO ME MEAN WE ORGANIZE A COMMITTEE THAT ORGANIZES A WHOLE SERIES OF PUBLIC FORUMS IN CHURCHES, IN ROTARY CLUBS, IN COMMUNITY CLUBS, UH, IN NEIGHBORHOODS.
ALL OF THIS COME UP WITH A STRATEGY WITH PEOPLE THAT ARE ARMED WITH A POWERPOINT, ARMED WITH DATA THAT CAN GO OUT AND DEMONSTRATE WHAT I THINK IS THE CRYING NEED FOR THIS ACTION HERE IN THIS COMMUNITY.
SO THAT'S A TACTIC THAT I WOULD STRONGLY RECOMMEND UNDER THE PILLAR OF COMMUNITY, WHICH IS WHAT WE STARTED TALKING ABOUT HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
AND, AND MR. STANFORD, I'M GONNA ASK A QUESTION IN A SECOND ON IS, IS WHAT YOU JUST ASKED FOR IN ONE OF THESE CRITICAL FIRST STEPS.
SO THE WAY I LOOKED AT THE FRAMEWORK, THE DIRECTION YOU GAVE, REALLY, THE, THE DIRECTION YOU GAVE COUNCILMAN AMES AND COUNCILMAN LENNOX A COUPLE MEETINGS AGO, AND THEN WE MOBILIZED AS WE BROUGHT, I WOULD CALL SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS FROM DIFFERENT PLACES WITH DIFFERENT SKILL SETS AND DIFFERENT INTERESTS TO A ROOM TOGETHER, RIGHT? AND, AND THE GOAL WAS, OR THE, OR THE EXPECTATION SET TO ME WAS TO ESTABLISH A FRAMEWORK.
AND SO THE FRAMEWORK WE'RE HERE TODAY.
I'M, I'M GLAD WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THIS CUZ IT IS IMPORTANT.
I THINK WE, WE GOT OFF AND, AND TO, TO A GREAT START.
BUT WHAT'S THE ULTIMATE GOAL TODAY? THE ULTIMATE GOAL TODAY IS TO TAKE A LOOK AT A DOCUMENT THAT YOU WILL HAVE ON YOUR AGENDAS AT A TOWN COUNCIL MEETING ON NOVEMBER 1ST, AS YOU DIRECTED ME TO HAVE IT THERE.
MISS CS WORKED AROUND THE CLOCK WITH, WITH, WITH A GREAT TEAM TO GET IT THERE.
BUT THE FRAMEWORK, THE WAY I SEE IT, IS SIMPLY A SET OF GOALS AND STRATEGIES THAT WILL BE USED IN OUR DECISION MAKING RIGHT, IN THE FUTURE TO GUIDE A MORE DETAILED SET OF POLICIES, ACTIONABLE ITEMS IN THIS CASE.
IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE DO HAVE SOME IMMEDIATE FIRST STEPS.
CALL 'EM WHAT YOU WANT, CALL 'EM MANDATORY, CALL 'EM CRITICAL, THEIR FIRST STEPS.
AND SO WHAT I WOULD WALK AWAY FROM AS THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE TO IMPLEMENT YOUR POLICY DIRECTIVE ON NOVEMBER 1ST ARE THOSE GOALS, STRATEGIES, RIGHT? THOSE, THOSE ARE PRETTY SIMPLE.
WE KNOW WHAT THOSE LOOK LIKE, BUT THOSE CRITICAL FIRST STEPS ALLOW ME THE CONFIDENCE TO SPEND MORE TIME WITH STAFF TO ADVANCE THIS INITIATIVE, RIGHT? SO CASE IN POINT, NORTH POINT HOUSING, PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP, THAT BECAME A WORK PLAN THAT BECAME A PRIORITY THROUGH A WORKSHOP BASED UPON A REQUEST, RIGHT? HAD THAT BEEN BAKED INTO YOUR CRITICAL FIRST STEPS, YOU WOULD'VE BEEN LOOKING AT THIS IN WHOLE? NOT IN PART.
SO I THINK FOR ME, THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND TODAY, RIGHT? SO I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT, AND WE'LL SLOW DOWN FOR A SECOND TO SAY, LET'S FOCUS ON WHAT THE SEVERAL STRATEGIES ARE TO ACCOMPLISH THE GOALS, RIGHT OUT THEIR FOUR PILLARS, BREAK 'EM DOWN, AND THEN LET'S GO BACK TO WHAT THOSE CRITICAL FIRST STEPS ARE.
AT LEAST FROM MY VANTAGE POINT, WHAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR ARE IN SOME OF THE CRITICAL FIRST STEPS.
SO WHEN WE GET TO HOUSING, YOU'LL SEE RECURRING REVENUE.
I DID NOT TAKE, UH, I DIDN'T ASSUME HOW MUCH MONEY, HOW MANY FUNDS YOU WANT EVERY YEAR.
I DIDN'T PUT $1.42 MILLION AND BRING THAT FORWARD.
WE SET A RECURRING REVENUE STREAM KNOWING WE TALK ABOUT IT TODAY.
SO IF WE COULD LET, LET'S PERHAPS BACK UP FOR A SECOND, SLOW DOWN AND TALK COUPLE STRATEGIES.
AND I THINK THAT WHEN WE LOOK AT ALL FOUR PILLARS, THEY ALL HAVE TO BE DONE IN DIFFERENT INCREMENTS AT DIFFERENT TIMES AND LOTS OF 'EM
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AT THE SAME TIME.MARK, THE FRAMEWORK IS THERE ARE FOUR GOALS.
FOUR GOALS, AND SEVEN STRATEGIES.
SO WE WENT THROUGH THE COMMUNITY STRATEGIES.
WHAT'S THE NEXT ONE WE WERE LOOKING AT? WE WERE TALKING ABOUT PLANNING, WENT THROUGH PLANNING.
SO COMMIT TO CREATE, AND KYLE, I'M GONNA BACK UP, JUMP IN A LITTLE BIT SURE.
JUST TO HELP US CREATE A MULTI-YEAR WORKFORCE HOUSING ACTION PLAN.
SO WE DIDN'T BRING THE TOOLBOX TO THE ROOM TODAY.
WELL, WELL THE, THE 12, WE HAVE TO CRITICALLY VET, RIGHT? WE HAVE TO RIGHT SIZE AND WE HAVE TO CALIBRATE THOSE TOOLS FOR OUR PROGRAM.
AND, AND JUST THROWING THE KITCHEN SINK AT IT BECAUSE THEY DID IT IN BRECKENRIDGE OR MARTHA'S VINEYARD OR SARASOTA, DOESN'T MEAN IT'S RIGHT FOR US.
THOUGH THAT AS A TAKEAWAY, KNOW THAT WE'VE RESEARCHED PRETTY MUCH EVERY, WE WENT TO LOWE'S PRETTY MUCH, AND SPENT SOME TIME IN THE TOOL SECTION TO KNOW EVERY SINGLE TOOL YOU COULD POSSIBLY PUT AS A TOOL IN YOUR TOOLBOX TO MOVE THIS FORWARD.
SO KNOW, KNOWING THAT THE STRATEGY WOULD BE TO CREATE THIS MULTI-YEAR WORKFORCE HOUSING ACTION PLAN, WE WOULD WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY, WITH EXPERTS, WITH TOWN COUNCIL TO FURTHER DEVELOP THAT TOOLBOX IN THE FUTURE, RIGHT? I THINK I'M SAYING THAT RIGHT.
UM, AND YOU'LL SEE THE CRITICAL FIRST STEPS ARE CREATE A TOOLBOX AND DEVELOP AND CONTAIN A MAP OF ALL HOUSING UNITS ON THE ISLAND.
KNOWING WHAT'S OUT THERE IS MOST IMPORTANT.
WHAT, WHAT'S THE NEXT ONE? INTO MANAGEMENT THEN MARK.
UM, AND IT, YOU KNOW, IN THIS PILLAR MARK, WHEN WE DISCUSSED THIS, THIS WAS GETTING BACK TO THE IDEA OF, OF WHOSE JOB IS THIS OR WHOSE JOBS ARE, ARE THESE? UM, THE IDEA OF ESTABLISHING A PROGRAM POLICIES, ADVANCED WORKFORCE HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES, THE, THE STRATEGIES, UM, UH, U UNDER THIS, UH, UH, PILLAR MARK, AGAIN, THREE COMMITS, BUT TO ADDING DEDICATED STAFF TO PROVIDE COORDINATION AND PLANNING.
UH, COMMIT TO EXPLORE THE CREATION PROFESSIONALLY, MANAGE HOUSING ORGANIZATION, A KEYWORD THERE BEING EXPLORE, UH, AND TO COMMIT TO MAINTAIN A DASHBOARD OF, OF CORE METRICS.
THIS GETS BACK MARKED THE IDEA OF, OF KNOWING, RIGHT? THE IDEA OF GROWING AND KNOWING ON HOW IMPORTANT THAT WOULD BE.
THERE WERE TWO, UH, CRITICAL FIRST STEPS WITHIN THE MANAGEMENT PILLAR.
UH, MARK AS WE, AS WE WORK THROUGH THIS TO DEVELOP THIS ASSET MAP OF EXISTING PARTNERS, THIS WAS IMPORTANT IN THE DISCUSSION OF KNOWING WHO'S DOING WHAT ACTIVELY TODAY, RIGHT? IN TERMS OF A FIRST STEP, HAVING SOME UNDERSTANDING OF, OF WHAT THIS, THIS WEB OF ACTIVE ORGANIZATIONS, INDIVIDUALS, NEIGHBORHOOD LEADERSHIP, UH, UM, UH, THAT, THAT ALREADY IS EXISTING TODAY AND, AND COULD BE ACTIVATED.
I OTHER PIECE OF THIS IS A RECRUITER HIRE AT LEAST ONE STAFF PERSON.
THIS GETS FAIRLY POINTED IN THE IDEA OF WE NEEDED AN INDIVIDUAL, UM, TO BE, UH, UH, A TASKS WITH ADVANCING THIS AND IN THIS CASE INSIDE.
UH, BUT THE IDEA THAT, UH, THERE'S EXTERNAL CAPACITY AS WELL.
BUT IN TERMS OF SPIRIT OF STARTING AND WHERE DO YOU START, UM, THIS IDEA OF HAVING A STAFF PERSON AS MANY, MANY, MANY COMMUNITIES LIKE YOU DO, INCLUDING MANY OF THOSE LISTED TAMMY ON YOUR, ON YOUR SHEET.
UM, HAVING SOMEONE WHOSE JOB IS TO FOCUS ON THESE ISSUES.
AND I'LL STOP THERE, MARK, I CAN SEE IF THERE'S ANY DISCUSSION.
TAMMY HAD A QUESTION ABOUT THREE SECONDS AGO.
UM, I WANNA SAY FIRST THAT, UM, I'M HAPPY TO HEAR THE CHANGE IN LANGUAGE, UM, FROM HOUSING TO HOME.
I'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT IN THIS WAY FROM THE BEGINNING.
UM, MUCH OF THE INITIAL CONVERSATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN HAD WE'RE NOT, UM, WE'RE NOT ALIGNED WITH MY WAY OF THINKING.
AND IT SEEMS AS THOUGH THERE'S BEEN SOME ADJUSTMENT TO THAT.
UM, BUT THE OTHER COMMENT THAT I HAVE REALLY AT THIS POINT, UM, IS SIMILAR TO, UM, COUNCIL ON STANFORD'S THAT WE JUST RECEIVED THIS, THERE'S LOTS OF LANGUAGE IN HERE THAT I WANT TO READ AND I WANNA UNDERSTAND, AND ESPECIALLY THE PARTICULAR WORDS USED, THOSE ARE, UM, USED FOR SPECIFIC REASON, I'M SURE.
AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I UNDERSTAND THEM IN THE CONTEXT OF, UM, WHAT THEY ACTUALLY REPRESENT IN TERMS OF MANDATORY, UM, VERSUS CRITICAL VERSUS THE WORD SHALL THROUGHOUT HERE.
UM, I AM TENTATIVELY LISTENING TO ALL OF THIS BECAUSE WHEN YOU AGREE TO A FRAMEWORK THAT HAS MANDATORY AND SHALL AND THOSE TYPES OF WORDS, WHAT YOU'RE INDICATING, QUITE FRANKLY, WHILE IT'S SUBJECT TO THE FUTURE CONDITIONS, UM, IT DOES SET FORTH THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE'VE AGREED TO.
UM, AND THAT'S NOT, UM, CURRENTLY AS A COMFORTABLE
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PLACE FOR ME.UM, THE OTHER PIECE IS THERE WAS, IN, IN TAMMY AND SOME OF OF YOUR DISCUSSION, YOU MENTIONED THAT THERE WAS DISCUSSION BETWEEN COMMUNITY LEADERS AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS.
AND LIKE OUR MAYOR, I THINK THE MISSING ELEMENT IN THAT, UM, IS THE RES OR THE RESIDENTS THAT THE RESIDENTS IN WHOLE HAVEN'T BEEN HEARD.
AND SO THAT EDUCATIONAL PIECE THAT, UM, WAS DESCRIBED BY, UM, UM, COUNCILMAN STANFORD IS IN CRITICALLY IMPORTANT.
I WANNA KNOW WHAT THEY THINK I WANNA KNOW ACROSS THIS ISLAND.
WHAT MORE THAN 35 PEOPLE AND TWO OF OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS AND, AND EXPERTS IN THE FIELD, UM, THINK BEFORE, UM, I'M PREPARED TO BE ABLE TO MAKE ANY RECOMMENDATION.
I QUITE FRANKLY THINK THAT NOVEMBER 1ST IS, UM, TOO QUICK.
WE'VE HAD THIS MEETING, AND THEN WE'RE GONNA GO RIGHT TO A MEETING WHERE THERE'LL BE A VOTE.
I THINK THERE NEEDS TO BE A SECOND MEETING AFTER THIS ONE, AFTER WE'VE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO READ, DIGEST, AND SPEAK TO OUR CONSTITUENTS ABOUT WHAT'S BEEN PRESENTED HERE BEFORE WE CAN, UM, CONFIDENTLY SAY WE REPRESENT OUR, UM, THE INCIDENT QUESTIONS.
ANYBODY COUNSEL THAT HAS QUESTIONS AFTER TO READ THE MATERIAL, WILL SEND THOSE QUESTIONS TO MISSY.
WE WILL TRY TO GET BACK TO YOU BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
IT IS ON THE NOVEMBER 1ST AGENDA.
IT WILL STAY ON THAT AGENDA, RIGHT.
BUT WE'LL TRY TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS BY THE END OF THE WEEK SO EVERYBODY HAS THEIR QUESTIONS BACK.
UM, THANK YOU MISSY, FOR TAKING OUR QUESTIONS ON THAT.
UM, I THINK I'M REFERRING, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU WANNA KEEP IT ON THE NOVEMBER 1ST, UM, AGENDA.
WHAT I'M SUGGESTING THOUGH, IS THIS IS A BIG CHUNK OF, UM, THIS IS A BIG CHUNK OF INCREASING GOVERNMENT, UM, RAISING TAXES.
AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THE RESIDENTS SHOULD HAVE A A FIRM UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT WE'RE DOING.
UM, AND I WOULD LIKE TO PUT IT IN THE BIGGER CONTEXT OF ALL THE OTHER, UM, INITIATIVES THAT WE HAVE AND THE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THOSE.
SO THE REVENUE PIECE OF THIS IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT, RIGHT? SO THOSE ARE QUESTIONS THAT I HAVE THAT I, UM, I APPRECIATE THE TIME TO FIGURE OUT.
UM, OH, MS. BE, I APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS.
I, I DID JUST WANNA SAY, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF, OF OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND INPUT AND SUPPORT, YOU KNOW, ONE OF, ONE OF THE, THE CRITICAL STREAMS INTO THIS PROCESS, YOU THINK ABOUT THE, OUR PLAN AND THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT THAT LED TO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
A LOT OF THAT WORK IS, IS REFERENCED AS PART OF THIS BROADER, UH, BROADER EFFORT AND BROADER CONCLUSIONS THAT ARE BROUGHT UP IN HERE.
BUT I CERTAINLY APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU, YOU BRING UP IN YOUR COMMENTS.
AND I, AND I THINK THAT'S TRUE, AND I THINK THAT'S ABSOLUTELY TRUE AND A VALID STATEMENT.
I WILL SUBMIT QUESTIONS TO MISSY, UM, BASED ON MY THOUGHTS AS WELL AS MY CONSTITUENTS.
SO, UH, I DON'T WANT TO BELABOR AT THE POINT, BUT I JUST WANT TO HEAR AGAIN WHAT'S GOING TO BE THE AGENDA ITEM RELATIVE TO THIS, UH, MEETING TODAY.
AT OUR NOVEMBER 1ST MEETING, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT WE HAVE FOUR GOALS, THE PILLARS, AND WE, WE HAVE SEVEN STRATEGIES, UH, AND WE ARE ASKING OURSELVES TODAY TO DELIBERATE ON, ON THIS DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS, AND THEN COME TOGETHER AS A, AS A BODY, AS A BOARD, IF YOU WILL, ON FEBRUARY THE FIRST TO VOTE UP OR DOWN AS TO WHETHER MANAGEMENT SHOULD BE CHARGED TO ACT ON THE FOUR GOALS AND THE SEVEN STRATEGIES.
PAGES 22 TO 25 IS THE CLIFF NOTES.
AND THAT IS, AND AND TO DAVID'S CREDIT, DAVID SAID WE OUT OF BILL A FRAMEWORK AROUND THIS ISSUE BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT FOR SO LONG.
AND THAT FRAMEWORK IS PAGES 22 TO 25 IN TODAY'S WORKSHOP.
AND EACH OF THESE PILLARS ARE EQUALLY IMPORTANT.
UH, YOU CAN'T BUILD THIS WITHOUT, WITH THREE, YOU CAN'T BUILD IT WITH TWO, YOU CAN'T BUILD IT OF, UH, THERE'S DIFFERENT, UH, DIFFERENT ELEVATIONS ON, ON DIFFERENT PILLARS.
WHAT, WHAT WE WANTED TO DO, IF I COULD HAVE A WORKSHOP TODAY, BECAUSE LIKE I SAID, HOT OFF THE PRESS, THIS IS PROBABLY VERSION FOUR OVER THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS, UM, REALLY FOCUSED ON THE STRATEGIES AND THE CRITICAL FIRST STEPS.
UM, THE MEETING IS A WEEK FROM TODAY.
NOVEMBER 1ST IS A WEEK FROM TODAY.
UM, IF WE GET OUTTA HERE SOMETIME SOONER THAN LATER, THE PACKETS WILL GO OUT THURSDAY MORNING, MAYBE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
UM, I KNOW WE HAVE A COUPLE EDITS TO MAKE TO THIS.
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WILL HAVE IN THE, IN THE COMMUNITY WILL HAVE THE DOCUMENT.UM, THE AGENDA ITEM WILL BE TOWN COUNCIL CONSIDERATION TO ADOPT, UM, A WORKFORCE HOUSING FRAMEWORK FOR THE TOWN OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND ON THE NOVEMBER ONE AGENDA AND PACKAGED A WELL THURSDAY.
AND I, I THINK, UH, TA TAMMY HA UH, HAWKINS, UH, MADE A GOOD COMMENT EARLIER THAT, UM, THERE, THERE'S A POP PARADE OF RESOURCES TO DRAW ON TO BE SUCCESSFUL.
SOME ARE AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL, SOME ARE AT THE STATE LEVEL, SOME ARE AT THE, THE LOCAL LEVEL.
UH, THERE ARE OTHER SOURCES IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR, FOUNDATIONS, UH, SOME WE KNOW OF.
SOME WERE, SOME, WE HAVEN'T EVEN SCRATCHED THE SURFACE YET.
UH, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT LAUNCHING SOMETHING NOT IN A SINGULAR FASHION, PUTTING THE, THE A HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE BURDEN ON THE BACK OF THE TONE OR THE BACK OF OUR CITIZENS.
WE'RE SAYING THAT THIS IS A, THIS IS A COMPLEX ENDEAVOR, AS KYLE SAID.
UH, IT'S, IT'S AN ENDEAVOR THAT, UM, CREATES AN OPPORTUNITY TO DRAW FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES TO MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN.
UH, UH, UH, KYLE ALSO SAID THAT, UH, IF YOU DON'T ORGANIZE CATTLE PLAN UNDER THE PLANNING PILLAR, YOU'LL NEVER GET TO FIRST BASE.
UH, HE'S ALSO SAID, OR YOU SAID, WITHOUT COMMUNITY UNDERSTANDING, UH, WHICH HAS TO BE ONGOING, WHICH IS COMMUNITY EDUCATION, UH, THIS WILL FAIL.
AND WE'VE ALSO SAID THAT, UH, FROM A MANAGEMENT STANDPOINT, THIS IS GOING TO REQUIRE EXPERTISE THAT MAYBE SOME PEOPLE HAVE WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION.
SOME MAY BE, HAVE TO BE BROUGHT IN ON A CONSULTED BASIS, AN AD HOC, OR A COMBINATION OF THE ABOVE.
UH, AND WE'VE ALSO SAID THERE CAN BE, AND I, WE KNOW THERE ARE MULTIPLE REVENUE STREAMS THAT CAN BE RECURRING IN SUSTAINABLE TO MAKE THIS WORK.
SO WE ARE NOT TODAY OR A WEEK FROM TODAY SAYING THIS COORDINATED COMPLEX ENDEAVOR IS GONNA RESULT IN PRODUCT A, B, OR C.
IT'S GOING TO RESULT IN A PROCESS THAT CAN CREATE, UH, HOMES FOR PEOPLE THAT WOULD LIKE TO LIVE HERE AND WORK.
SO, UM, NOW DO YOU SUMMARIZE AMINI? SHOULD I ADJO IT?
I, I LEARNED BY TALKING OUT LOUD.
SO I, AND I APPRECIATE THAT AS ONE, BECAUSE THESE ARE THE TYPES OF CONVERSATIONS THAT OVER THE NEXT WEEK I HOPE TO HAVE WITH MY COLLEAGUES AND OTHERS TO BE ABLE TO HEAR THOSE TYPES OF, UM, VERY, VERY WELL PUT TOGETHER THOUGHTS AND INSIGHTS.
BE BEFORE WE LEAVE THE MANAGEMENT PILLAR.
UM, CUZ THIS IS A QUESTION FOR, FOR YOU, MR. ORLANDO.
UM, IN OUR CURRENT BUSINESS MODEL, WHICH FOR THE MOST PART ALL OF OUR INITIATIVES FALL WITHIN THE STRATEGIC PLAN, THEN ACCOUNTABILITY FALLS BACK TO EITHER SOME SUBCOMMITTEE OR INTERNALLY WITH TOWN STAFF.
UM, HOW, HOW DO WE SEE THE MANAGEMENT OF THIS PARTICULAR WORK, UH, FRAMEWORK, UH, I GUESS PANNING ITSELF OUT DOWN THE ROAD? WELL, YOU KNOW, I TOOK, I I REALLY, IF, IF TOWN COUNCIL ADOPTS THIS FRAMEWORK THAT STARTS TO BUILD THIS MULTI-YEAR WORKFORCE HOUSING ACTION PLAN, RIGHT? AND WE, WE, WE GROW WHAT WE LEARN, WE CALIBRATE.
ALL OF THAT GETS BAKED INTO YOUR STRATEGIC PLAN.
THE NEXT TIME YOU'RE AT, AT THE DRAWING BOARD WITH STRATEGIC PLAN OF, OF COURSE I'M GONNA HAVE A HOUSING ACTION PLAN BASED UPON THE FRAMEWORK AS PART OF YOUR STRATEGIC PLAN RECOMMENDATIONS.
UM, SO JUST MARRY THEM TOGETHER.
IT'S, AND IS TO A DEGREE, IT A, A PIECE OF THIS IS ALREADY IN THERE.
IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THE STRATEGIC PLAN, CONTEMPLATION OF ADVANCING HOUSING PROGRAMS ARE IN THAT STRATEGIC PLAN THAT CAME OUT OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN, YOU KNOW, THAT YOU ADOPTED LAST YEAR.
DOES THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION? YEAH, IT DOES A ABSOLUTELY.
UM, AND AS WE HAVE OUR NEXT STRATEGIC PLANNING SESSION, WE'LL BE ABLE TO TALK TO IT A BIT MORE.
I WAS GONNA MAKE, JUST WAIT, MAKE ONE COMMENT IF YOU DON'T MIND.
UM, BUT I DID WANNA, YOU KNOW, FIRST OF ALL JUST RECOGNIZE COUNCILWOMAN BECKER FOR HER COMMENT ABOUT, UH, COMMUNITY.
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WORKED IN COMMUNITIES MY WHOLE LIFE AND I TOTALLY APPRECIATE THAT.AND I WANTED TO JUST MENTION THAT I THINK PART OF THIS, THIS PERMISSION TO ACT FOR MARK AND THE LEADERSHIP TEAM TO ACT PART OF WHAT WAS SO IMPORTANT IN THAT FIRST COMMUNITY PILLAR WAS PERMISSION TO ENGAGE AND CREATE THIS ONGOING COMMUNITY CONVERSATION THAT COULD THEN ADDRESS WHETHER IT'S A REFERENDUM OR THINGS LIKE THAT, THAT WE'RE CREATING THAT COMMUNITY CAMPAIGN AND STRATEGY.
BUT IT'S SORT OF LIKE, WHAT IS IT THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG AND, AND, AND THE PERMISSION TO ACT AND TO THE POLITICAL WILL OF THIS BODY TO SAY THIS IS SO ESSENTIAL AND IMPORTANT TO THE LIVELIHOOD OF THE TOWN AND THE FUTURE THAT WE ARE WILLING TO ACT AND GIVE PERMISSION TO AT LEAST MOVE FORWARD.
AND I THINK HOPEFULLY THAT THAT COMMUNITY AND THAT COALITION AND THAT ADVOCACY MA MA MANDATORY CRITICAL, LIKE YOU SAID, FIRST STEPS, YOU KNOW, IS EMBEDDED IN HERE TO GIVE COMFORT THAT THAT'S AN, A CRITICAL COMPONENT OF THAT ONGOING CONVERSATION.
BUT I JUST WANTED TO REFERENCE THAT BECAUSE I, I, WE DID, BECAUSE I, WE HAVE STUDIED COMMUNITIES TO DEATH IN MANY CASES IN, IN PARTICULAR IN COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
AND SO WE DID WANNA BE THOUGHTFUL ABOUT WHAT THE FEEDBACK WE RECEIVED IN THOSE PAST PLANS.
BUT YOU'RE RIGHT, THAT ONGOING COMMUNICATION AND, AND HOPEFULLY PART OF WHAT CAME OUT OF THAT COMMUNITY PILLAR IS THAT, AND SO I JUST WANTED TO, TO REFERENCE THAT AND THAT PERMISSION TO ACT AND MOVING THAT FORWARD.
AND THAT HELPS TO KEEP THAT DIALOGUE GOING CUZ IT WAS ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL IN EVERY CITY OF HOUSING COMMUNITY THAT I WORKED IN.
AND THAT'S THE CONFIDENCE I NEED, RIGHT? THE POLITICAL WILL, THE CONFIDENCE POST-NOVEMBER FIRST TO ACTUALLY MOVE FORWARD ON SOME OF THESE INITIATIVES.
I THINK YOU HAVE ALREADY, MOST OF YOU SAID THAT'S DONE IT A LITTLE BIT
AND, UM, NOT TO BE IGNORED WITHIN THIS CONVERSATION IS, YOU KNOW, WHERE ARE THE RESOURCES TO FUND THE GREAT IDEAS THAT THE FLOWER, THE PLANNING CONVERSATION OR THROUGH THE COMMUNITY THAT WE WORK WITH THAT HAS IDEAS ABOUT HOW WE SHOULD INVEST OR OUR MANAGERS, YOU KNOW, WHAT DO WE DO? HOW DO WE CREATE, UM, UH, A SUSTAINABLE MODEL, MULTISOURCE MODEL? UH, AND AND THIS IS A VERY MUCH AN UNDERLINED COUPLE THERE, THE MULTISOURCE PIECE OF THIS, RIGHT? THAT, UM, YOU'RE, YOU'RE LUCKY AS A COMMUNITY TO, TO BE FAIRLY WELL-RESOURCED.
BUT I THINK WHEN WE THINK ABOUT HOW DOES THIS THING BECOME AN ONGOING, UM, UH, SUSTAINABLE, UM, UH, SET OF INITIATIVES THAT THAT IS, THAT IS KEY, UH, WE HAVE A STRATEGY, A SINGLE STRATEGY WITHIN THIS, UH, BUT IS, IS LARGE TO COMMIT TO A FUNDING PLAN THAT MEETS THE NEEDS OF MULTI-YEAR WORKFORCE HOUSING A ACTION PLAN.
THE IDEA THAT WE HAVE PROJECTS, POLICIES, PROGRAMS THAT BEGIN TO FLOWER OUT OF THAT GARDEN, UH, AND THAT THEY ARE, ARE, ARE FUNDABLE, UM, AT SOME SCALE THAT HELPS US TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
AND AGAIN, I I WANNA REITERATE THAT WITHIN THIS DISCUSSION, MAYOR, I THINK YOU BRING THIS UP QUITE WELL, IS, UM, TH THE, THE VERY LITERAL IDEA OF JUST BUILDING A HOME OR A HOUSING UNIT WAS ONLY ONE PART OF A, A VERY MULTIFACETED DISCUSSION ON THIS ISSUE, RIGHT? UH, TRANSPORTATION WAS CRITICAL IN THIS, RIGHT? THE TRANSIT CONNECTIONS, UH, UH, UM, TAPPING INTO EXISTING THAT WE CALL THIS NATURALLY OCCURRING AFFORDABLE HOUSING, NOAH HOUSING THAT'S HERE.
HOW DO WE PROTECT THOSE UNITS IN THE LONG TERM? UM, ALL THOSE PIECES WERE PART OF, OF THAT DISCUSSION.
SO ADDING, LITERALLY ADDING UNITS, NOT UNITS, HOMES, UM, WAS ONLY ONE PART OF THAT.
AND, UM, THIS COMMITTED FUNDING PLAN IN SERVICE OF WHAT I THINK IS THE KEY THING, FIRST STEPS.
AND THERE ARE, THERE ARE THREE WITHIN THIS SECTION.
UH, YOU KNOW, MARK, WE JUST TALK ABOUT ESTABLISHING RECURRING FUNDING SOURCES THAT ARE ALLOCATED FOR WORKFORCE HOUSING.
THIS WAS IMPORTANT TO OUR GROUP.
THIS WAS, HAS BEEN IMPORTANT IN A NUMBER OF YOUR PAST PLANS.
THAT IT'S NOT JUST ADDITIONAL MONEY, IT'S MONEY SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS ISSUE.
UM, UH, AND, AND, AND ALLOCATED, UH, FOR THIS ISSUE.
POSSIBLE TOWN REVENUE SOURCES FOR WORKFORCE HOUSING PROGRAM ALLOCATION, A LOT OF WORDS THERE.
BUT ESSENTIALLY THAT, UH, WE HAVE THIS RECURRING, UH, UM, UH, FUND.
AND THE ALSO IDEA NOT LOST WITHIN THIS, AND I THINK A NUMBER OF YOU HAVE ALREADY BROUGHT THIS UP, THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO BE ALONE IN THE WOODS IN HELPING TO SOLVE THIS.
AGAIN, THERE ARE PARTNERS, THERE'S A NETWORK OF POTENTIAL FINANCIAL PARTNERS, NOT LIMITED TO THE PRIVATE, UH, INVESTORS OR PHILANTHROPIC ORGANIZATIONS, BANKS, ET CETERA.
AS, AS TAMMY KNOWS, UM, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A, THIS IS A BIG BOAT, A BIG SHIP ENDEAVOR.
I THINK WHAT YOU PROBABLY HAVE LEARNED AS WELL THOUGH, IS MANY OF THESE REVENUE STREAMS, WHETHER THEY'RE FEDERAL OR STATE OR TAX CREDITS, UM, ASK FOR A LOCAL COMMITMENT.
SO IF A PROJECT OF INTEREST IS GONNA HAPPEN ON THE ISLAND STATE HOUSING, ABSOLUTELY WILL SAY, WHAT'S THE LOCAL COMMITMENT? WHAT OTHER FUNDING SOURCES ARE LEVERAGED? AND SO FOR PROJECTS TO COME TO FRUITION, I THINK THAT THAT LEVERAGING POINT OF WHAT THE TOWN CAN DO, YEAH.
BUT THEN WHAT THESE OTHER ENTITIES CAN DO TO BRING OTHER
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TYPES OF REVENUE STREAMS TO THIS WORK.AND WE, AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE TALK ABOUT BUILDING SOMETHING OR FUNDING SOMETHING.
THIS IS GREEN LIGHT, RED LIGHT, RIGHT? EITHER YOU EITHER GETTING IT DONE OR YOU'RE NOT.
AND I THINK WE TALK ABOUT THAT WHAT CREATES THE GREEN LIGHT IS THE ABILITY, AND THIS CAME UP A LOT DURING OUR WORKSHOP OR THE CHARETTE, WAS HOW DO WE, HOW DO WE FUND THE GAP, RIGHT? UH, EVEN IF THE LARGE SOURCE IS FEDERAL, STATE, PHILANTHROPIC, WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE, HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THAT THAT GAP IS COVERED, UM, IN THE WORK KEY TO THIS REVENUE, UH, PILLAR, LET'S STOP HERE AND DISCUSS ONE COMMENT ON THAT IS, UM, THAT CERTAINLY HAVING SKIN IN THE GAME IS OBVIOUS THAT'S REQUIRED.
UH, AS WE LOOK AT REVENUE SOURCES, ALL REVENUE SOURCES ARE, ARE NOT CREATED EQUAL.
UH, SOME WILL HAVE A NEUTRAL IMPACT, UH, ON OUR BOND RATINGS.
SOME, SOME COULD HAVE A NEGATIVE AND SOME COULD HAVE A TOTALLY NEUTRAL.
SO AS WE LOOK AT REVENUE SOURCES, I WOULD RESPECTFULLY SUGGEST THAT, UH, WE, WE PUT, WE, WE HEAVILY WEIGHT THOSE THAT DON'T TAMPER WITH THE STRENGTH OF OUR BALANCE SHEET.
YOU KNOW THAT MARK AND JOHN WON'T DO THAT.
BUT I DON'T SEE THAT AS NO, NO.
I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE WE ALL UNDERSTAND.
IT'S NOT A QUESTION, IT'S A STATEMENT.
BUT IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THE PUBLIC TO HEAR THAT BECAUSE UH, SURE.
PEOPLE COULD SAY, ALL RIGHT, WELL, YOU'RE USING TOWN MONEY, YOU'RE WEAKENING THE TOWN'S FINANCIAL POSITION.
AND IF WE'RE CAREFUL, THE ANSWER WOULD BE WE ARE NOT.
AND THAT'S THE, THAT'S THE BENEFIT OF HAVING THAT FIRST STEP BEING IDENTIFY POSSIBLE TOWN REVENUE SOURCES, UH, FOR WORKFORCE HOUSING PROGRAM ALLOCATION.
AS WE IDENTIFY THAT AND WE BRING FORWARD THAT ANALYSIS, THAT ASSESSMENT TO YOU.
THAT'S, THAT'S THE INFORMATION WE'LL BRING.
WE WOULD WORK WITH BOND COUNCIL.
DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING MORE TO SAY, KYLE? NO, JUST LAST ON, ON THIS PARTICULAR PILLAR, UM, SIMILARLY WITH PLANNING, YOU KNOW, IT, IT, IT'S, IT'S HARD WORK IDENTIFYING, YOU KNOW, WHERE ALL THAT OIL UNDER THE GROUND IS, RIGHT? AND THIS PARTICULAR PILLAR, SO THE SURVEYING WORK, THE CONNECTIONS, THE RELATIONSHIP BUILDING, THAT GETS BACK TO MANAGEMENT, RIGHT? IT GETS BACK TO, UH, THE, TO PLANNING AND UNDERSTANDING WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO FUND THEN GOES BACK INTO THE COMMUNITY PILLAR.
I THINK MAYOR, AND THE IDEA OF, YOU KNOW, HOW ARE WE COMMUNICATING WHY WE'RE DOING WHAT WE'RE DOING
UH, THIS IS REALLY, UM, WE BELIEVE, YOU KNOW, IF INITIATED AND COMMITTED TO A, A VERY RIGHTEOUS CYCLE, RIGHT? THAT YOU CAN, YOU CAN BEGIN TO WORK THROUGH.
AND, UM, EXCITED TO BE PART OF THIS CONVERSATION WITH YOU ALL.
I'D LIKE TO DO UMT, SOMETHING TO SAY, TAMMY.
I, I, I WOULD JUST, UM, DITO WHAT KYLE SAID AND THAT IT DOESN'T HAVE, IT COULD BE MULTIPLE SOURCES.
IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE JUST ONE.
AND WHETHER THAT'S YOUR DEFINITION OF THE SOURCE YOU ALL DECIDE, BUT ALSO LEVERAGING SOME OTHER STATE OPPORTUNITIES WILL BE CRITICAL.
WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO NOW IS HAVE FINAL QUESTIONS BY MEMBERS OF THE, OF THE COUNCIL, AND THEN GO TO THE PUBLIC FOR COMMENTS.
WILL YOU, TAMMY? CAUSE YOUR FIRST, UM, I SAID EVERYTHING I NEED TO SAY FOR THAT.
I LOOK FORWARD TO NOVEMBER 1ST.
I, I, I TRULY BELIEVE, UH, THAT THERE'S A NEED FOR THIS IN THE COMMUNITY.
UH, WE'VE HEARD FROM MANY PEOPLE FROM MANY MONTHS THAT THERE IS A NEED.
UH, CERTAINLY THERE'S A NEED FOR TRANSPORTATION.
UH, CERTAINLY THERE'S A NEED FOR EMPLOYERS TO, TO LOOK AT THE COMPETITIVENESS AND THE FAIRNESS OF THEIR WAGES.
BUT, UH, IF YOU'RE, WHEN YOU PUT A FACE ON THIS PRO, UH, ON THIS SUBJECT, UH, THAT, THAT FACE IS, UH, UH, CAN BE FOUND IN A RESTAURANT WHEN YOU'VE BEEN WAITING THERE FOR 10, 15, 20 MINUTES AND LEAVE, YOU KNOW, THAT FACE CAN BE ON A FAMILY, UH, THAT HAS TO CROSS THE BRIDGE EVERY DAY AND NEVER GETS TO SEE THEIR KIDS PLAY BALL IN THE EVENING.
UH, IT, IT HAS MULTIPLE FACES.
AND, UH, CERTAINLY WE CAN'T BE ALL THINGS TO ALL PEOPLE IN THIS.
UH, BUT OUR, OUR, OUR BIGGEST, UH, ROLE, I THINK IS TO USE OUR TALENTS TO CREATE THE FRAMEWORK TO BE A CONVENER, UH, UH, AND YES, TO CREATE A, A CORPUS OF MONEY.
SO WE CAN'T HAVE A, A SKIN IN THE GAME.
UH, BUT IT'S SOMETHING WE SHOULD GET ON WITH GLENN.
I WANNA SAY THAT I AM EXTREMELY GRATEFUL TO, UH, MISSY, TO THE REST OF THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE WORKED SO HARD IN PUTTING THIS TOGETHER.
THIS IS ASSIMILATED AND TO FIND A PROBLEM FOR US.
NOW IT'S UP TO US TO ESTABLISH THESE GOALS,
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NOT ALL OF THE STRATEGIES THAT ARE UNDERNEATH IT.BUT TO ESTABLISH THESE GOALS ON NOVEMBER THE FIRST AND COME UP WITH A PLAN TO WHERE WE'RE ACTUALLY ABLE TO GET THIS DONE.
AND I ALSO WANT TO EXPRESS APPRECIATION TO CITIZENS WHO ARE HERE, WHO ARE VERY VITALLY INTERESTED IN ALL OF THIS, BECAUSE YOUR INPUT TO US IS GOING TO BE INVALUABLE TO US.
AND FINALLY, TO DAVID AND TO TOM, GREAT LEADERSHIP.
UM, MANY, UH, MANY THANKS TO COUNCILMAN NAMES AND COUNCILMAN LENNOX FOR, UH, TAKING THE LEAD ON THIS.
UM, KYLE, TAMMY, THANK YOU ALL FOR Y'ALL'S TIME.
AND OF COURSE, THE, THE REST OF THE STAFF AND THOSE THAT PARTICIPATED IN THAT DAY AND A HALF.
I, I, I WILL SAY THAT THE STATEMENTS THAT I'M ABOUT TO MAKE ARE NOT JUST FOR THE COUNCIL, IT'S FOR THE COMMUNITY AS WELL, BECAUSE THIS IS AN EVERYBODY ISSUE.
YOU AND, AND I, I CAN'T HELP TO THINK OF THE WORD DEJA VU JUST A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE WE ADOPTED A PLAN IN 2019.
AND THE REASON I SAY THAT IS BECAUSE WE AS A COMMUNITY, PARTICULARLY LEADERSHIP, HAVE TO LOOK AT THIS MORE EXPEDITIOUSLY, OKAY? AND I WOULDN'T SPEND AS MUCH TIME STUDYING WHAT OTHER FOLKS ARE DOING VERSUS FIGURING OUT HOW WE CAN DO IT ON HILTON HEAD.
AND WHAT, WHAT WHAT KEEPS COMING BACK TO MIND IS A STATEMENT THAT I MADE WHEN WE FIRST HAD THE CHIMNEY COVE CRISIS COME BEFORE US IS THE BEACH RE NOURISHMENT.
I SAT IN A COMMUNITY SERVICES MEETING ON YESTERDAY.
WE HAD NO BEACH IN SOME AREAS.
THE, THE, THE ROCK THAT WE WERE USING TO PROTECT THE SHORELINE, YOU DON'T EVEN SEE IT ANYMORE BECAUSE IT'S BURIED BY THE SAYING THAT WE HAVE PUT ON THE BEACH.
SO WE MADE THE COMMITMENT, WE FOUND THE MONEY, AND WE GOT THE JOB DONE.
NOW, WHEN YOU LOOK AT OTHER COASTAL COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE THE SAME ISSUE, THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO SOLVE THE ISSUE THE WAY THAT WE CAN.
SO LET'S FOCUS ON HILTON HEAD STYLE OF SOLVING ISSUES, NOT EVERYBODY ELSE'S.
OKAY? I KNOW THAT THERE'S SOME EXAMPLES WE CAN BORROW FROM I GET IT.
BUT WE NEED TO BE A LEADER IN THIS ONE BECAUSE IF WE DON'T
AND WE WON'T BE HAVING A CONVERSATION ABOUT EDUCATING, THE PUBLIC WILL BE HAVING A DIFFERENT CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW WE'RE GONNA GET BACK TO BEING HILTON HEAD THAT WE USED TO BE.
AND I THINK THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR US TO THINK ABOUT AS WE MOVE INTO NOVEMBER ONE.
I MEAN, THIS IS NOT THE FIRST STEP IN DEVELOPING A PLAN.
THIS IS THE FIRST STEP IN ACTION AND MOVING TOWARDS SOLVING THIS.
AND IT CAN'T BE ONE OF OUR OTHER ISSUES THAT KIND OF SHOW UP EVERY QUARTER,
IT'S A DAY TO DAY GRIND TO GET THIS DONE.
AND THAT'S THE ATTITUDE WE GONNA HAVE TO SUPPORT MR. ORLANDO IN TAKING ON THIS PROJECT.
SO I JUST ENCOURAGE US ON NOVEMBER ONE TO, TO COME PREPARED TO, TO MOVE FORWARD.
I I, I KNOW THAT THERE ARE QUESTIONS AT HAND, ABSOLUTELY, BUT THE COMMUNITY IS READY FOR US TO MOVE FORWARD.
THEY'VE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT IT.
YEARS AGO, COUNCIL LENNICK SAID 15 YEAR CONVERSATION MAY HAVE BEEN GOING ON FURTHER THAN THAT ACTION SPEAKS LOT LOUDER THAN WORDS.
THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS, MR. MAYOR, THANK YOU.
BUT AS A MEMBER OF THE SENIOR COMMITTEE, NOW YOU'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR BRINGING THIS PROJECT ALONG AND SHARING YOUR THOUGHTS WITH THE OTHER SIX MEMBERS THAT ARE HERE SO WE CAN GET TO THIS MEETING NEXT WEEK TOGETHER.
AND WE CAN'T JUST SAY, WELL, WE DIDN'T DO, YOU'RE A LEADER IN THIS GROUP.
YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE YOU USE YOUR LEADERS.
THAT'S WHY I STARTED OFF WITH, I'M NOT JUST HAVING THIS CONVERSATION WITH MY COLLEAGUES.
I'M HAVING A CONVERSATION WITH THE COMMUNITY AT ALL.
MR. LENNOX, THANK YOU AGAIN, UH, YOU AND DAVID FOR WHAT YOU'RE DONE.
I THINK, UH, IF, IF WE COMMIT TO THESE FOUR GOALS AND THE SEVEN STRATEGIES, UH, THAT ARE THE FRAMEWORK OF THE PLAN, UH, THAT DAVID SO SKILLFULLY LED, UH,
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I THINK THE RECURRING NATURE OF THIS, AT THE VERY MINIMUM WILL BE ANNUALLY AT BUDGET TIME.YOU AS A COUNCIL, YOU AS A COMMUNITY, UH, ARE GOING TO WEIGH IN ON HOW IMPORTANT YOU THINK THIS IS AND WHERE IN THE ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES THE TOWN SHOULD PRIORITIZE IT.
IS IT AT THE TOP OR NOT? BECAUSE THAT ANNUAL BUDGET THAT'S DONE IN OPEN PUBLIC WORKSHOP AND OPEN PUBLIC COUNCIL SESSIONS, UH, WILL DETERMINE HOW MUCH COMMITMENT, UH, YOU AS A COMMUNITY AND WE AND AS A COUNCIL HAVE TO THOSE FOUR GOALS AND SEVEN STRATEGIES.
THANK YOU DAVID, AND THANK YOU AGAIN.
COUPLE OF COMMENTS AND THEN A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.
UM, YOU ASKED WHAT, WHAT QUESTIONS WE HAD.
UM, I POSED THE THOUGHT THAT THE SUCCESS OF PILLAR ONE COMMUNITY IS WHEN THE CITIZENRY OF THIS ISLAND CHOOSES TO OWN THE PLAN.
PUT ANOTHER WAY IT WANTS TO INVEST IN HOUSING AS A SOLUTION FOR THE FUTURE OF THE COMMUNITY AND THE ISLAND.
I THINK A SOURCE OF THE COMMUNITY PRIDE THAT I FELT AND THAT OTHERS IN THE COMMUNITY FELT, UM, EARLY ON WAS THE LEADERSHIP THAT THE ISLAND TOOK IN PLANNING COMMUNITY DIFFERENTLY THAN OTHER RESORT COMMUNITIES ALONG THE COAST.
AND SO I AGREE WITH ALEX THAT THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THIS COMMUNITY TO DO SOMETHING BETTER AND DIFFERENTLY FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
ALL SEGMENTS OF THE COMMUNITY DESERVE THE KIND OF RESPECT AND COMMITMENT THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IN THIS FRAMEWORK.
THE QUESTIONS THAT I WOULD ASK ARE FOR THE COUNCIL, DOES THIS FRAMEWORK HOLD TOGETHER? AND THEN THE SECOND IS DIRECTED TO MARCH.
DOES THIS GIVE YOU PERMISSION TO ACT FOR EACH PILLAR? DOES THIS GIVE YOU CLEAR DIRECTION SO THAT YOU CAN MOVE FORWARD AFTER THIS COUNCIL ADOPTS THIS FRAMEWORK.
[4.Appearance by Citizens]
THE AUDIENCE? AUDIENCE? OH, I'M SORRY.FROM THE RESIDENTS WHO'S FIRST? TERRY UP FRONT MUST AS WELL GO FIRST AND THEN FOLLOWED BY LISA
OKAY, LISA, I THOUGHT THAT WAS, THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY.
I'M HERE TODAY ON BEHALF OF THE COALITION OF ISLAND NEIGHBORS, AND IT'S THE ONLY PERSON CALLED A, JUST A COMMUNITY ADVOCATE PARTICIPATING IN THE CHARETTE.
ALL OF MY PEERS HAD ALL SORTS OF NAMES AND TITLES BEHIND THEM, UM, AND TODAY WENT A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN I EXPECTED.
UM, I CAME IN HERE WITH PREPARED REMARKS AND YOU CAN SEE I'VE MARKED THEM UP AS THE DAY WENT ON.
UM, I WANNA GO BACK TO OUR PLAN.
IT'S WHAT WE, THE PEOPLE TOLD YOU IS OUR DESIRED COMMUNITY.
OUR VISION IS QUOTE, TO FOCUS ON REVITALIZATION AND MODERNIZATION AND TO BUILD AN INCLUSIVE AND DIVERSE COMMUNITY.
IT WAS, IT WAS DEVELOPED BY US AND THIS TOWN COUNCIL ADOPTED THAT VISION AND YOU PROMISED TO DO THE WORK TO GET US THERE.
WE COLLECTIVELY CANNOT CREATE THAT INCLUSIVE AND DIVERSE COMMUNITY WITHOUT FINDING A WAY FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO LIVE HERE, BUT ARE PRICED OUT OF THE RAPIDLY DWINDLING SUPPLY OF LONG TERM RENTALS AND ENTRY LEVEL HOMES TO BECOME A FULL-TIME PART OF OUR COMMUNITY.
WHAT WE DO KNOW TODAY IS THAT THERE AREN'T MANY BUSINESSES HERE WITH A LARGE ENOUGH FINANCIAL BASE TO BUILD EMPLOYEE HOUSING ON THEIR OWN.
AND THAT WHAT YOU ENACTED SINCE THE 2019 STIR EVENT STUDY HASN'T WORKED.
WE NOW KNOW THAT DENSITY BONUSES AND COMMERCIAL REDEVELOPMENT INCENTIVES HAVEN'T PROVIDED A MEANINGFUL
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ENOUGH BENEFIT TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO YIELD MORE BELOW MARKET RATE UNITS.WE RECOGNIZE THAT THIS FRAMEWORK IS ANOTHER STARTING POINT, AND WE DON'T YET HAVE A COMPLETE PLAN.
WE KNOW IT'S MORE THAN JUST HOUSING.
IT INCLUDES TRANSPORTATION AND CHILDCARE AND HEALTHCARE AND INFRASTRUCTURE.
TODAY'S DATA IS IMPERFECT AND THE DETAILS WILL TAKE TIME TO DEVELOP, BUT WE CAN'T WAIT FOR PERFECTION WHEN WE KNOW THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO LOSE THEIR ISLAND HOMES.
EVERY TIME A LEASE RENEWAL COMES UP, EVERY MONTH OF DELAY INCREASES THE GAP BETWEEN WHAT WE HAVE AND WHAT WE NEED.
RIGHT NOW, WE ARE EXCEEDINGLY FORTUNATE TO HAVE SEVEN DEVELOPERS WHO ARE INTERESTED IN THE NORTHPOINT PROJECT, YET SIX OF THEM WILL BE DISAPPOINTED WHEN THAT PARTNER IS SELECTED.
WE CAN'T SQUANDER THIS INTEREST.
WE NEED TO DEMONSTRATE THE TOWN'S REAL COMMITMENT TO PRIVATE PAR PUBLIC PARTNERSHIPS.
AND WE MUST QUICKLY IDENTIFY OTHER ISLAND SITES.
SO HILTON HEAD MIGHT REMAIN UNDER CONSIDERATION BY THESE DEVELOPERS RIGHT NOW.
THERE IS ONE ACTION STEP THAT THIS COUNCIL CAN TAKE AS A FIRST STEP, AND THAT IS TO, UM, CREATE A DEDICATED AND RECURRING FUNDING STREAM FOR COMMUNITY HOUSING.
WE KNOW THAT IT MAY NOT BE COMPLETE, BUT YOU CAN TAKE THAT ONE STEP TODAY AND KICK US OFF.
YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS PLEASE IS YOUR NAME, PLEASE
MY NAME'S UH, REVEREND JULIE RENO, AND I AM A MEMBER OF THE HOME COALITION.
AND WE HAVE, UM, RECEIVED, UM, KIND OF A PERMISSION AND A GOAL TO VIDEOTAPE AND DOCUMENT OUR, OUR, UM, PROGRESS HERE.
AND WE WOULD WANT TO KNOW, WE'RE STARTING THAT WITH FEDERICI VIDEO, WHO IS, THEY ARE, UM, VOLUNTEERING ALL THEIR TIME.
AND WHAT WE NEED AT THIS POINT IS WE ARE BEGINNING TO START TO TELL THE STORY, THE WIDER STORY IN THE INDIVIDUAL STORY SO THAT WE COULD PROMOTE AND ADVOCATE FOR WHAT WE'RE DOING AND ACTUALLY DOCUMENT HOW WE'VE DONE THIS.
BECAUSE THEN YEARS LATER WE'RE GONNA SAY, HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? WHO WERE THE PEOPLE? WHERE WERE THE SOURCES OF, UM, STRESS THAT WE, WE OFFERED TO THE COMMUNITY? SO WE DON'T QUITE KNOW AT THIS POINT HOW TO EDIT OUR PE OUR OUR STORIES.
WE ARE STARTING TO EDIT OUR INDIVIDUAL STORIES.
AND HOW WOULD YOU WANT TO USE THEM? DO YOU WANT TO USE THEM TO ADVOCATE, TO DO SOME FUNDRAISING? DO YOU WANT TO USE THEM TO SEND TO DEVELOPERS TO SOME OF THE REVENUE SOURCES? WE REALLY NEED TO HEAR YOUR DIRECTION FOR HOW THESE COULD BEST BE USED SO THAT WE COULD START TO HONE AND EDIT THOSE PIECES THAT WE'RE STARTING TO CREATE.
WE WERE AT THE, UM, LUNCHEON LAST WEEK AND WE'VE DOCUMENTED THAT AND WE ARE BEGINNING OUR INDIVIDUAL STORIES TOMORROW.
SO IF YOU KNOW PEOPLE AND YOU KNOW A WAY THAT WE CAN PUT THIS STORY TOGETHER, UM, VISUALLY, PLEASE LET ME KNOW.
CAN I GIVE YOU MY NUMBER? I SUGGEST YOU SEND A LETTER TO THE TOWN MANAGER, MARK ORLANDO, EXPLAINING TO HIM WHAT YOU WANT TO DO, AND HE'LL GET BACK TO YOU RATHER THAN CONTACTING THE INDIVIDUAL COUNCIL MEMBERS.
APOLOGIZE FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO GET UP.
UM, I AM ALSO A MEMBER OF THE HOME COALITION AND SUPPORTED A RECENT WORKFORCE HOUSING LUNCH AND LEARN WHERE 120 OF OUR FELLOW CITIZENS JOINED TO GET A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF THE OPPORTUNITIES AND THE ISSUES WE HAD HOPED TO ATTRACT 80 PEOPLE.
WE HAD 120 AND WE HAD MANY PEOPLE ON A WAIT LIST.
THE CHIMNEY COVE SITUATION CERTAINLY SEEMS TO HAVE SERVED AS A WAKE, WAKE UP CALL ALONG OVERDUE WAKE UP CALL FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
I APPRECIATE THE RECENT EFFORTS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE, AND I SIMPLY WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO CONTINUE TO WORK TOGETHER AND WITH THE COMMUNITY TO FIND SOLUTIONS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR OUR VERY, VERY NECESSARY WORKFORCE.
I'M GONNA SHARE WITH YOU SOME PETITIONS OF MY NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS ENCOURAGING YOU TO MAKE WORKFORCE HOUSING YOUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY WITH THIS COUNCIL AND FUTURE COUNCIL.
AS WE MEET EMPLOYEES AT LONG COVE CLUB, OUR SIGNING PETITIONS AND ARE
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ENCOURAGED THAT THERE WILL BE PROGRESS, THERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT NOW IS THE TIME OUR COMMUNITY IS CLAMORING FOR SOLUTIONS.SO PLEASE EARMARK THE RESOURCES NEEDED TO ADVANCE THIS WORK.
UM, I HAVE EVEN MORE PETITIONS THAN SANDY HAS.
WHAT PETITIONS? JUST GIVE IT TO THE YOUNG LADY IN THE BACK, YOU WHEN SHE OKAY.
THAT INDICATE COMMITMENT OF RESIDENTS TO THIS CRISIS.
WHEN WE ASK PEOPLE TO SUPPORT THEY'VE, THEY'VE OVERWHELMINGLY SAID YES.
SO WE HAVE PROBABLY A TOTAL NOW OF 500 OR MORE.
I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY SANDY HAD.
THIS ONE, AND THEN YOU CAN GO FIRST AND THEN JACK NEXT TO YOU.
I'M KEN CAMPBELL, A RESIDENT IN, UH, ON THE ISLAND.
UM, I GUESS THE, UH, INTERESTING THINGS ABOUT TODAY'S MEETING THAT I FOUND, UH, ONE ALEX OR, UM, ALLUDING TO, UM, SAND AND THE BEACH AND THE EROSION.
UH, WE'VE HAD TREMENDOUS EROSION.
UH, I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT, UH, UH, THIS COUNCIL, UH, ON THE FIRST TAKES ACTION, VOTE ON THAT.
IF YOU VOTE IT DOWN, YOU VOTE IT DOWN, YOU'RE ALL LEADERS.
UH, WE'VE BEEN ON WORKFORCE HOUSING FOR A LONG TIME, UH, SO PLEASE VOTE AND THE PASSES THAT PASSES, BUT VOTE.
AND PLEASE DON'T LET THE PERFECT BE THE ENEMY OF THE GOOD.
UH, WE CAN'T DO, I BELIEVE THAT ALL OF YOU ARE CAPABLE OF WORKING ON TRANSPORTATION AND HAVE HOUSING, TRANSPORTATION AND WHATEVER IT IS.
SO PLEASE, YOU'VE HEARD A LOT CONSIDER IT.
I HEAR SOME CONCERN ABOUT GOVERNMENT.
MY PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY ON GOVERNMENT IS IT'S EVIL.
I DON'T LIKE GOVERNMENT, BUT IT'S A NECESSARY EVIL AND IT'S NECESSARY LOCALLY WHAT I WOULD NOT HAVE KNOWN 30 YEARS AGO.
I DO KNOW NOW THAT WHEN IT COMES TO WORKFORCE HOUSING, GOVERNMENT IS A NECESSARY EVIL.
IT'S NOT SUFFICIENT, BUT IT'S NECESSARY.
SO PLEASE TAKE THE POSITIVE ACTION.
I WOULD ALSO SUGGEST THAT YOU LET THE CITY MANAGER KNOW THAT THERE WILL BE OPPORTUNITIES COMING ALONG ONCE YOU'VE PASSED THIS, AND I HOPE YOU'LL PASS IT.
BUT TOMORROW, NOVEMBER 9TH, NOVEMBER 10TH, NOVEMBER 11TH, THERE'LL BE OPPORTUNITIES ON THIS ISLAND THAT HE HAS TO BE INSTRUCTED, PURSUE THEM.
THE FUNDING SOURCE MAY NOT BE READY.
THE COMMUNITY MAY WONDER, BUT BE READY.
TAKE ACTION ON THOSE PROPERTIES, GET PROPERTIES, PUT ON THE CONTRACT.
AND, UH, APPRECIATE YOU VOTING YES.
MR. MAYOR, MEMBERS OF COUNCIL, UH, TOWN MANAGER, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO, TO SPEAK.
UH, I'VE LIVED HERE ON HILTON HEAD, HEAD ISLAND FOR, UH, 32 YEARS.
EVERY ONE OF THOSE 32 YEARS, WE HAVE NEEDED BETTER OPTIONS FOR WORKFORCE HOUSING AND FOR MANY OF THOSE YEARS, TOWN COUNCIL AND ORGANIZATIONS AROUND THE ISLAND AND THE RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN EQUIVOCATING ON THIS ISSUE.
THAT TIME IS OVER THE TIME TO DO IT.
AL PLEASE DO IT STARTING NEXT WEEK WITH YOUR VOTE.
NEXT, WHO'S NEXT? ANYBODY IN THE BACK? I'M I, JUST MS. MAYOR, MEMBERS OF COUNCIL, TIME MANAGER.
DAVID, AND TOM, YOU ALL DONE AN OUTSTANDING JOB OF BRINGING US TO THIS POINT.
AGAIN, AS FAR AS THIS PROCESS OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING OR WORKFORCE HOUSING, ALL ALEX, MS. BECKER AND ALEX SAID, HOMES FOR PEOPLE.
I THINK THAT, UH, WHAT YOU'VE DONE TODAY IS COMMENDABLE, VERY COMMENDABLE.
I THINK THE STAFF AND THE TEAM WHO HAS PULLED THIS, UH, PULL US TO THIS POINT, UH, WERE FRAMEWORK TO MOVE FORWARD WITH IS VERY, VERY
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IMPRESSIVE.AND, YOU KNOW, THIS IS ANOTHER STEP.
IT'S ANOTHER, UM, EFFORT TO MOVE US OFF THE DIAMOND.
I THINK THAT, UH, WE NEED TO MOVE OFF THE DIME.
THAT COMMITMENT, UH, THAT THE TOWN HAS BASICALLY COMMITTED TO GET US TO THIS POINT IS ONE THAT, UH, I ADMIRE.
AND I THINK THAT IT IS THE STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, BUT TO STALL IT AT THIS POINT IS NOT AN, IS NOT AN OPTION.
WE NEED TO MOVE FORWARD, UH, NOT ONLY OUR PEOPLE WHO ARE COMING HERE TO WORK, HAVING DIFFICULTY, UH, CONTINUING TO COME, BUT, UH, PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE, WHO HAVE BEEN HERE FOR GENERATIONS, UH, MOVING OFF THE ISLAND AND MOVING TO BLUFFTON OR MOVING TO RIDGELAND OR SOMEPLACE ELSE, AND THAT'S JUST NOT RIGHT.
UM, YES, THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE OWN PROPERTY HERE THAT ARE HAVING A TOUGH TIME AS FAR AS GETTING THOSE HOUSES OUT OF THE GROUND, BUT, UM, CERTAINLY THE TOWN CAN HELP WITH THAT, AND I ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO THAT.
UM, I WORKED IN COUNTY GOVERNMENT FOR YEARS, AND, UH, JOSH OF COURSE IS BACK THEN, OR JUST SAY SOMETHING THAT, UH, I HOPE THIS IS NOT THE CASE WITH THIS, UH, EFFORT, IS THAT WE USUALLY STUDY THINGS TO DEATH AND WE USUALLY COME UP WITH PLANS AND PUT IT ON THE SHELF AND LIGHT TO BECOME A PART OF OUR LIBRARIES.
UH, WE DON'T NEED TO DO THAT WITH THIS.
UM, THE, THE ONE PROJECT THAT, UH, WE WORKED ON IN A STILL WORKING ON IN THE COUNTY SYSTEM OR THE, THEIR, OR THEY'RE WORKING ON IT IN THE COUNTY SYSTEM, WAS THE DEFO FERRY SYSTEM.
JOSH IS VERY FAMILIAR WITH THAT.
UM, WE USED TO SAY THAT IF YOU WANT JOB SECURITY, GET THAT ASSIGNMENT BECAUSE IT'LL NEVER GET, NEVER GET FINISHED BECAUSE WE ALL HAVE DONE HAD OUR PART WITH THAT.
SO PLEASE, LET'S, LET'S NOT MAKE THIS HOUSING EFFORT OR A HOME EFFORT A FOREVER OR A LIFETIME PROJECT.
LET'S GIVE, DO SOMETHING AND LET'S MOVE FORWARD.
AND THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR EFFORT.
ANYONE ELSE BEFORE WE CLOSE IT OUT? I'M YOU SHY.
YOU'RE SURE YOU GOT IN LATE? I HELP IT.
I'VE BEEN ON THE ISLAND 42 YEARS.
UM, MY FAMILY'S PRETTY, PRETTY FLUENT.
HOW ARE, HOW IS EVERYBODY? I HEAR, UM, I'VE BEEN IN THE RENTAL BUSINESS HERE FOR 30 YEARS.
I THINK THAT, AND I HAD TO GET PERMISSION FROM MY BOSSES TO SAY THIS.
THEY'RE RIGHT ON TRACK WHEN THEY BOUGHT THE TRACK OF LAND ACROSS FROM CAPTAIN WOODY SO THAT WE COULD HOUSE, DOES EVERYBODY KNOW THIS? OUR, OUR WORKERS? AND WE HAD TO DO THAT.
WHY? BECAUSE THERE'S NOWHERE FOR THEM TO RENT.
CAN YOU SPEAK UP HERE, PLEASE? OH, THERE'S NOWHERE FOR THEM TO RENT.
WE'VE GOTTEN TO THE POINT THOUGH THAT IT'S BEEN BANDAID LONG ENOUGH.
THERE ARE PLACES HERE AGAIN, I'M IN THE SHORTTERM RENTAL BUSINESS.
LET'S LOOK AT, UM, WE'LL GO DOWN CORDELA PARKWAY.
THEY USED TO BE ALL LONG TERM RENTALS.
NOW EVERYBODY THERE IS SHORT TERM.
PEOPLE CALL ME ALL THE TIME EVERY WEEK OR TWO.
THERESA, CAN YOU FIND ME THIS? CAN YOU FIND ME THAT I'M TO THE POINT NOW THAT I CARE ABOUT OUR WORKERS, OUR WORKFORCE, AND THAT'S WHO I'M TRYING TO FIND RENTALS FOR.
I'LL SAY, HEY GUYS, I'M LOOKING.
SOMEONE'S LOOKING FOR THREE, FOUR MONTHS, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH.
YOU HAVE TO TRAIN YOUR OWNERS, BY THE WAY, WHICH I DO.
AND WE'RE TO THE POINT NOW IS WHERE ARE WE GOING TO GO WITH THIS? YOU CAN'T GO TO THE HOAS.
IT'S ALREADY BEEN VOTED BY THE BOARD.
NOT THAT, NOT TO BE DISRESPECTFUL.
WORKFORCE WOULD PROBABLY NOT BE LIVING THERE.
BUT THE POINT BEING, WHERE ARE THEY GONNA GO, GUYS? I KNOW WHERE THEY'RE GONNA GO.
I SPENT THE LAST THREE AND A HALF WEEKS DRIVING AROUND THE ISLAND.
I KNOW THREE LANDLORDS RIGHT NOW, MEANING PEOPLE THAT OWN PROPERTIES HERE.
ONE THAT'S BEEN FIT, SITTING THERE FOR 15 YEARS BEHIND RILEY'S.
I KNOW THE OWNER, THE PLACE SHOULD BE RENOVATED.
AFFORDABLE HOUSING THAT PROPERTY ACROSS THE STREET.
HERE'S MY BANK AT WELLS FARGO.
WHAT'S THE ROAD THERE? THEY BUILT
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THE, UM, COLONY, UH, THE, UH, CULINARY SCHOOL THERE.WHO GOES TO THE SCHOOL THERE? DO YOU KNOW ANYBODY THAT GOES TO SCHOOL THERE? I'M BY THERE THREE OR FOUR TIMES A DAY.
THE ONLY PEOPLE I'VE EVER SEEN THERE THAT'S PARKED THERE.
IF THEY'RE HAVING A MEETING, THERE'S BEEN 10 CARS THERE.
AND I THINK THEY HAVE A BEACH DROPOFF SHUTTLE.
LET'S TAKE THAT PROPERTY BACK.
I BELIEVE THE TOWN BROUGHT IT, BOUGHT IT.
LET'S TAKE THAT PROPERTY BACK AND LET'S DO SOME AFFORDABLE HOUSING THERE.
WE HAVE AFFORDABLE HOUSING AREA BEHIND RILEY'S.
THAT'S JUST, THAT'S WHAT WE NEED TO LOOK AT.
NOW I CAN'T SOMEBODY A HAND BEHIND THE POLE.
I DIDN'T SEE BEHIND THE POLE THERE, SIR.
MR. MAYOR, MEMBERS OF THE TOWN COUNCIL PRESENT, UH, STAFF AS WELL AS CONSULTANT AS WELL AS THE PUBLIC.
MY NAME IS THOMAS C BARNWELL JR.
I AM A NATIVE OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND SHORT TERM.
I'VE ONLY BEEN HERE FOR 87 YEARS.
I AM HAPPY TO SAY THAT YOU HAVE MADE MANY OF US, YOU, THE TOWN COUNCIL MEMBERS, AS WELL AS STAFF AND CONSULTANTS HAVE MADE MANY OF US FEEL HAPPY.
TODAY BECAUSE OF YOUR SUBJECT MATTER ON THE AGENDA, YOU ARE MAKING PROGRESS.
I AM HERE TO ASK EACH OF YOU AS COUNCIL MEMBERS, PLEASE VOTE IN FAVOR OF THIS PRESENTATION THAT HAS BEEN PRESENTED HERE TODAY.
I MADE A NOTE HERE THAT TOWN COUNCIL HAVE BEEN DISCUSSING OFF AND ON SINCE 1994.
THAT'S WHEN, THANKS TO ONE OF YOUR COUNCIL PERSON SERVING NOW, COUNCILMAN DAVID AMES BROUGHT UP THE RUDA, EXCUSE ME, AND, AND, AND, AND A PART OF THE RUDA REPORT HAD AS ONE OF THE COMPONENTS HOUSING, OF COURSE, TOWN COUNCIL DID NOT DO AS WHAT YOU ARE DOING, MAKE AN EFFORT TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC.
THAT COUNCIL, MANY YEARS AGO,
BEFORE I SIT DOWN, I'D LIKE TO SAY TO YOU THAT I'M ONE OF THOSE FEW PERSONS ON HILTON HEAD WITHOUT AN AWFUL LOT OF COMMUNITY GRANTS, GRANTS FROM FOUNDATIONS, ET CETERA, BUT UTILIZE MY FAMILY AS THE FOUNDATION FOR RESOURCE UTILIZING FAMILY LAND AND OUR FAMILY RESOURCES, ECONOMIC RESOURCES, I'M REFERRING TO, TO PUT AFFORDABLE HOUSING ON HILTON HEAD.
LIKE BEFORE WE JOIN NOW, MR. DELANO IS A COUPLE STATEMENTS TO MAKE.
UM, CAN I JUST GO? UM, I I THINK THERE HAVE BEEN A COUPLE OF STATEMENTS THAT LEFT UNEDITED ARE A LITTLE BIT MISLEADING, AT LEAST FROM MY STANDPOINT.
THERE ARE, UM, I APPRECIATE THEM.
I'M SURE TOM APPRECIATES THEM, BUT TOM AND I DO NOT DESERVE THE LEADERSHIP.
CONGRATULATIONS, MISSY, KYLE, AND TAMMY DO.
THEY'RE THE ONES WHO HAVE BEEN IN THE TRENCHES VIRTUALLY TWO, FOUR HOURS A DAY FOR THE LAST THREE WEEKS.
SO ONCE AGAIN, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
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THANK YOU.THANK YOU MR. AMES FOR RECOGNIZING MISSY.
WE ALL THINK THE WORLD OF YOU AND KYLE AND TAMMY.
UM, I JUST WANNA GIVE A QUICK UPDATE BEFORE WE LEAVE TODAY WHILE FOLKS ARE HERE INTO TOWN COUNCIL.
UM, A QUICK UPDATE ON OUR NORTHPOINT HOUSING, PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP.
WE KNOW THAT SOME TIME AGO WE RELEASED A REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS.
10 FOLKS SUBMITTED, UH, A BID OF THE 10.
WE INVITED SEVEN TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL.
THOSE PROPOSALS WERE SUBMITTED FIRST WEEK OF, UM, NOVEMBER.
UM, WE WILL SCHEDULE INTERVIEWS TO INTERVIEW THE SEVEN FINALISTS WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE WEEKS.
I KNOW THAT KRIS'S BEEN REACHING OUT TODAY, IF NOT TODAY, TOMORROW TO SCHEDULE THOSE INTERVIEWS.
UM, SECOND WEEK OF NOVEMBER, WE'LL SCORE THE FINALISTS AND I'LL START WRAPPING MY MIND AROUND, UM, A POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PARTNER.
I COULDN'T DO THE WORK WITHOUT THE HELP OF THE NORTH POINT HOUSING COMMITTEE.
UM, UH, THE HOUSING ADVISORY COMMITTEE AS IT'S CALLED.
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
WE'RE LEARNING ABOUT IT MORE AND MORE EACH DAY.
BEN BROWN IS OUR PROJECT MANAGER ON IT.
HE'S DOING A FABULOUS JOB IN PUSHING, PUSHING, PUSHING EVERY DAY.
I JUST WANTED TO GIVE THAT UPDATE TODAY AS WE ROUND OUT THIS FRAMEWORK, UH, DISCUSSION.