HOUSING TRUST FUND ADVISORY BOARD

200 E. Wells Street City of Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202 Meeting Minutes HOUSING TRUST FUND ADVISORY BOARD ALD. MURPHY, CHAIR Kalan R. Haywood, Sr., Vice-Chair Swarnjit Arora, Ald. Robert Bauman, Toni Biscobing, Nicholas DeFino, Fred Hannah, James Hiller, Jim Mathy, Brian Peters, Kori Schneider Peragine and Donsia Strong Hill Staff Assistant: Joanna Polanco, 286-2366, Fax: 286-3456, jpolan@milwaukee.gov Legislative Liaison: Jeffrey Osterman, 286-2262, joster@milwaukee.gov Thursday, December 6, 2018 1:00 PM Room 303, City Hall 1. Call to Order at 1:03 PM 2. Roll Call. Present 8 - Murphy, Bauman, Peters, Mathy, Schneider Peragine, Biscobing, Haywood Sr. and Strong Hill Excused 2 - DeFino and Hannah Also present: Steven Mahan - CDBG Office Mario Higgings - CDBG Office Aaron Michelson - CC LRB Nick Ramos - Mayor's Office Michelle Wick and Debra Gorra - sign interpreters for Member, Peters. 3. Review and approval of the November 16, meeting minutes. Motion by Ald. Bauman, seconded by Ms. Biscobing to approve the minutes of the November 16, 2017 meeting. There were no objections. 4. Communication from Community Block Grant Administration Office. In a letter submitted to the city of Milwaukee Housing Trust Fund Board by Mr. Steven Mahan on behalf of the Milwaukee City & County Continuum of Care Lead Agency. Mr. Mahan requested funding for expanded capacity of existing cold weather Warning Rooms. He requested Seventy Five Thousand dollars ($75,000) for the use of expanding the capacity of Warming Rooms within the city of Milwaukee the allocation of these funds will provide expanded capacity in the form of additional beds, staff and supplies. Additionally, funding will expand the temperature threshold to allow more City of Milwaukee Page 1 HOUSING TRUST FUND ADVISORY Meeting Minutes December 6, 2018 BOARD days operations. The intend recipients of the funding are the following: Adullam Family Warming Center Population: Families with Children 3033 N 30th Street Repairers of the Breach Population: singles (Male and Female) 1335 W Vliet Street St. Benedict the Moor Population: singles (Male and Female) 1015 N 9th Street The grantee fiscal agend will be Community Advocates, Inc. Increase of services due to additional funds Beds: Fifty (50) Additional days of service: Adullam (15 days) Repairers of the Breach (30 days) St. Benedict (30 days) It was moved by Mr. Haywood, seconded by Ms. Schneider-Peragine that Mr. Mahan's request be accepted and that Common Council File Number 181314 - Resolution authorizing an appropriation from the Housing Trust fund relating to homelessness; be approve. There were no objections. Mr. Mahan and Mr. Higgins also shared a list of agencies awarded Housing Trust Fund monies with work-in-progress status. The hope is that, although these circumstantial efforts would only provide for a temporary solution, it is not in the best interest of the Housing Trust Fund to use their funds for this type of purpose as regular practice. 5. 181314 Resolution authorizing an appropriation from the Housing Trust Fund relating to homelessness. 6. Announcements. 7. Meeting adjourned at 1:38 PM Joanna Polanco Staff Assistant City of Milwaukee Page 2 HOUSING TRUST FUND ADVISORY Meeting Minutes December 6, 2018 BOARD In the event that Common Council members who are not members of this committee attend this meeting, this meeting may also simultaneously constitute a meeting of the Common Council or any of the following committees: Community and Economic Development, Finance and Personnel, Judiciary and Legislation, Licenses, Public Safety, Public Works, Zoning, Neighborhoods & Development, and/or Steering and Rules. 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