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From YouTube: HAND FY2021 Budget Presentation on August 19, 2020
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Presented by Director Doris Sims
A
The
hand
department
has
17
staff
members,
six
compliance
officers,
five
program
managers,
three
housing
specialists,
one
financial
specialist,
an
assistant
director
and
a
director
and
I'd
like
to
say
thank
all
of
my
staff
members,
because
I
feel
that
they
are
the
ones
who
run
the
hand
department
and
make
me
look
good
on
a
daily
basis.
So
thank
you
to
my
staff.
A
Some
of
the
activities
included
an
annual
celebration
of
neighborhoods,
which
would
have
taken
place
in
june
during
the
farmers
market.
Events
celebrating
historic
preservation
month
in
may,
which
included
lectures
and
a
trivia
fund
contest,
also
had
to
be
cancelled.
We
postponed
rental
inspections,
programs,
rental
inspections
back
in
march
and
resumed
them
in
mid-may.
A
We
continue
to
work
with
landlords
and
tenants
who
are
concerned
about
the
virus
to
either
postpone
inspections
to
another
day
or
to
do
viral
walk-through
inspections
with
the
tenant.
We
moved
all
our
boards
and
commission
meetings
to
zoom
and
we
learned,
along
with
our
board
members,
on
how
to
operate
this
new
meeting
platform.
A
A
One
of
the
most
important
goals
of
the
hand
department
is
to
work
to
increase
the
amount
of
affordable
housing
for
all
income
levels
within
the
bloomington
community.
Our
goal
for
2021
is
to
continue
to
work
with
the
directors
of
planning
and
transportation
department,
as
well
as
the
economic
development
department
to
offer
incentives
center
incentives.
Excuse
me
to
create
or
maintain
100
units
of
affordable
housing.
A
We
also
will
continue
to
monitor
over
the
800
units
of
affordable
rental
housing
that
has
been
added
or
maintained.
During
mayor
hamilton's
administration,
we
will
report
to
the
mayor
and
the
common
council
any
expenses
that
will
take
place
under
the
housing
development
fund
by
the
end
of
the
third
quarter
in
2021,
and
we
will
provide
ongoing
awareness
awareness
of
the
recover
forward
down
payment,
insured
equity
loan
program
to
first-time
home
buyers,
to
prevent
to
improve
economic
wealth
among
bloomington
residents.
A
We'll
also
continue
to
offer
our
citizens
academy
class,
which
begins
next
week
to
offer
it
in
a
combination
of
virtual
meeting,
as
well
as
in
person
socially
distancing,
and
we
look
to
improve
their
our
class
satisfaction
rating
from
of
to
4.7
4.7
out
of
a
rating
of
5.,
and
one
thing
that
our
new
neighborhood
program
manager
looks
to
do
is
to
get
students
more
involved
and
more
engaged
within
their
respective
neighborhoods.
So
stay
tuned,
we'll
report
back
next
year
on
how
we've
been
able
to
accomplish
that.
A
We
will
continue
to
track
the
time
it
takes
to
complete
the
inspections
in
order
to
continue
to
have
efficiencies
with
our
rental
inspection
process,
we
also
will
be
looking
to
educate
both
tenants
and
landlords
on
smoke.
Detector
maintenance
smoke
detector
violations,
one
of
the
highest
violations
found
during
rental
inspections.
A
This
was
a
program
that
we
had
hoped
to
offer
this
year.
However,
with
covet,
we
are
re-evaluating
how
to
deliver
this
information.
One
of
the
ways
that
we
have
been
communicating
with
landlords
through
is
through
our
pulse
newsletter.
We
hope
to
continue
this
communication
and
increase
the
publication
to
at
least
four
times
per
year.
A
Under
historic
preservation
for
2021,
the
department
will
increase
by
20
percent
the
number
of
participants
at
our
historic
preservation
workshops
and
seminars.
We
also
will
look
to
provide
education
to
the
public
on
the
updated
state,
historical,
architectural
and
archaeological
research
data
survey,
known
as
the
shard
through
mailings
and
virtual
meetings.
Information
will
be
provided
on
what
is
discharged
and
what
properties
are
included
in
the
updated
survey.
A
Under
title
vi,
neighborhood
compliance
the
department
investigates
and
resolves
citizens
complaints
under
those
sections
of
title
six,
as
it
relates
to
tall
grass,
trash
and
snow
removal.
Our
goal
for
2021
is
to
maintain
an
average
response.
Time
of
three
days
to
you,
reports,
complaints
that
are
submitted.
We
also
look
to
resolve
94
this
year
of
the
youth
of
next
year
of
the
new
report,
complaints
that
are
valid
and
we
also
will
be
developing
an
email
survey
that
will
be
sent
out
randomly
to
get
feedback
on
how
our
reports
are
handled.
A
Now
I
would
like
to
provide
you
some
information
on
our
nine
general
fund
programs
that
we
administer
our
hud-funded
programs
on
different
fiscal
year
than
the
general
fund.
Our
cdbg
and
our
home
program
are
on
a
june
1st
to
may
31st
fiscal
year
and
our
housing
counseling
grant
is
on
an
october
through
september
fiscal
year,
under
housing
counseling
the
department
will
continue.
The
department
provides
one-on-one
counseling,
the
areas
of
pre
and
post
purchase,
mortgage
default,
delinquency
and
rental
housing
counseling.
A
A
A
Under
the
physical
improvement
goals,
under
the
block
grant
program,
we
hope
to
partner
again
with
planning
and
transportation,
to
provide
accessible
sidewalks
on
14th
street
between
madison
and
woodburn.
We
also
will
be
partnering
with
mother
hubbard's
club
to
provide
facility
improvements
to
their
office
space
and
we
will
assist
habitat
for
humanity
with
infrastructure
improvements
for
their
osage
housing
development.
A
Under
the
home
program
during
2021,
the
department
will
be
providing
up
to
fifty
thousand
dollars
per
unit
to
develop
twenty
affordable
rental
housing
units.
We
also
will
be
partnering
with
the
bluetooth
housing
authority
to
provide
assistance
for
one
year
for
four
households
who
are
on
their
wait
list
by
providing
them
rental
assistance,
and
we
will
continue
our
down
payment
and
closing
cost
assistance
program
and
hope
to
provide
two
households
with
down
payment
assistance
to
purchase
their
first
home.
A
A
One
of
my
biggest
budget
highlights
is
in
the
category
four.
I
decreased
that
line
item
by
fifty
thousand
or
a
hundred
percent
on
the
funding
that
was
used
this
past
year
under
category
4,
was
to
use
to
purchase
two
new
fleet
vehicles
for
inspectors.
We
had
two
fleet
vehicles
that
was
experiencing
problems
with
water
filtration
that
was
causing
mode
in
the
vehicles.
We
have
received
our
new
vehicles,
I'm
happy
to
report
this
week.
A
So
this
is
the
budget
summary
overall,
the
hand
department
budget,
which
is
two
million
seven
hundred
forty
thousand
seven
hundred
and
nine
dollars
a
decrease.
I
might
add,
of
26
000
17
are
a
net.
I
decreased
my
budget
from
2020
to
2021
by
one
percent
in
category
one
there's
a
two
percent
increase,
which
is
the
two
percent
increase
for
all
hand:
department
staff
for
2021.