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City Council Meeting Minutes June 5,2018 Housing Programs: use local and federal funding sources to build homes, support affordable housing builders,support potential home owners,and set aside land for affordable home ownership 2. Building a Task Force: collaborate with government and education agencies, major employers,development community,service providers, banking community 3.Maintain Existing Housing Stock in Safe Conditions: enforcement of unsafe rental conditions, housing rehabilitation programs (current housing rehabilitation programs are funded by the CDBG and CDBG-DR. Next Ms. Gillfillan discussed the upcoming policy decisions related to workforce housing which include: 1. Defining Workforce Housing in the form of an amendment to policy,which will be placed on the June 19th City Council agenda. 2. Low Income House Tax Credit Policy to consider amending the policy at the June 19th Council Meeting to allow all application for new projects and include more rigorous criteria. 3. Homebuyer Program as part of the FY 2019 Budget Process and consider a modification to the program to provide additional funds for household earning up to 140%AMI. 4.Housing Study RFP to come before Council at the August 2018 meeting to be funded from CDBG-DR planning money funding. 5. Application for HOME which is a requirement for matching funds. This will be brought before Council at the August 2018 meeting. 6. Housing Trust Fund -FY19 Budget Process,set aside money for workforce housing programs such as land acquisition, matching funds, HOME matching funds,other programs identified by task force 7. Developer Incentive Package to utilize recommendations by the workforce task force to attract housing developers. 8.Rental Registration Committee- Committee to determine the best approach to managing high number of properties in San Marcos to ensure safe City of San Marcos Page 2