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MINUTES
CITY OF FORT COLLINS
AFFORDABLE HOUSING BOARD
Date: Thursday, August 3, 2017
Location: Community Room, 215 North Mason Street
Time: 4:00–6:00pm
For Reference
Diane Cohn, Chair
Ken Summers, Council Liaison
Sue Beck-Ferkiss, Staff Liaison 970-221-6753
Board Members Present Board Members Absent
Diane Cohn Kristin Fritz
Catherine Costlow
Eloise Emery
Jennifer Bray
Curt Lyons
Jeffrey Johnson
Staff Present
Sue Beck-Ferkiss, Social Sustainability Specialist
Tina Hopkins-Dukes, Minute Taker
Guests
Christine Macrina, City Clerk’s Office
Dale Adamy, Community Member
Call to order: 4:00 pm
Agenda Review: No changes
Public Comment: None
Review and Approval of Minutes:
Jennifer moved to accept the July meeting minutes as corrected. Curt seconded. The correction is to
the last page third bullet should be Catherine with a ‘C’ not ‘K’. Motion passed 5-0-1. Eloise
abstained as she was absent for the July meeting
PRESENTATION: Engage Volunteer Software – Christine Macrina – City Clerk’s Office
Christine Macrina presented on the new Engage Volunteer Software. Christine registered all Board
members and set up everyone’s profile. All Board members should have received an email from
engage@mail.offero.com. You can log in to your Engage account and make changes by going to
engage.fcgov.com and logging in with your email and password. Once logged in you can use your
dashboard at the top to navigate. You can see upcoming events you are scheduled to attend, find
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activities/places to volunteer, make a to-do list, and view messages from staff under the tab
“Announcements”. The tab labeled “My Profile” is where you will go to edit and update your
contact information, availability, interests & skills, and change your privacy settings. Under this tab
you can also create a report of your service history. Christine mentioned that by adding interests to
your profile will trigger emails to be sent to you when opportunities to volunteer in those areas are
available. You may opt out of the email notifications however; Christine strongly urged not to opt out
of “Special Events” since that would include thigs like recognitions, awards, and social celebrations.
Christine mentioned that you must be on the waiting list in order to receive emails regarding
opportunities to volunteer. Christine said the “Discussion Tab” is strictly off limits for Boards and
Commission members. She is trying to get that tab removed. Christine showed the members how to
add hours to their record. This can be done through the dashboard and “My site visit” tab. You
simply click on the schedule/report research visit tab and calculate your time. Christine offered to
help anyone either individually or as a group if you have any questions or concerns you should call
or email her for assistance.
Comments/Q&A
• Can we change or add hours?
o Christine: Yes. If you have hours for prep time for meetings or research or if you
need to adjust your hours for any reason.
• Is this information public?
o Christine: You can change the privacy to make it public or private
• What is the purpose of this software?
o Christine: The purpose is to use this site to track volunteer hours and to use it as a
webpage for Boards and Commissions. It can be used to distribute communications
and to find volunteer opportunities.
• Can you change the name of the tabs? It would be easier to name the tab “Add Hours”
o Christine: I will see what I can do.
ACTION ITEMS: Christine Macrina will follow up with the issues we discovered when trying to
adjust hours and will suggest the changes to labels for accessing the tabs in the dashboard.
Update on City Waiver Policy: Sue Beck-Ferkiss – Social Sustainability Department
The current City Code states that fee waivers can only be accessed by Housing Catalyst for the
development of housing for individuals with an AMI of 30% or less. Council Finance would like to
extend that to include all developers who provide housing units to this AMI level not just to Housing
Catalyst. The new proposal will go to Council on September 19, 2017. Sue said that in 2016 no fee
waivers were offered and in 2015 about $300,000 was provided to Red Tail Ponds.
Raw Water Fee Rate Increase Discussion: Sue Beck-Ferkiss said the proposal being considered by
Council is to delay the implementation of a fee increase for six months and to make no
accommodation for affordable housing. They have committed to continue to discuss options for
affordable housing developments. The proposal brought to Council by Utilities staff would
implement an increase in fees for water and reevaluate the need for amount of water depending on
unit type. Diane reminded the members of the memo sent to Council and what the Board
recommended. Sue said Council has legal concerns regarding the freeze on rates the Board proposed
and that Council will discuss the phase approach over the next six months before finalizing.
Eloise Emery moved that the Affordable Housing Board support the proposed ordinance change
to allow any developer to request fee waivers for 30% AMI housing units. The motion was
seconded by Jennifer Bray. After much discussion the motion passed unanimously 6-0.
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ACTION ITEMS: Diane Cohn and Jeffery Johnson are available to attend the Council meeting on
August 15th to reemphasize the Boards recommendations and stance on this issue and to reference the
memo provided to Council by this Board earlier.
Open Board Discussion:
Diane Cohn was invited by City Council to attend a work group to understand and decide on
development fees. This group will discuss what the development fees are and how those fees are
assigned. The first meeting is August 14, 2017.
ACTION ITEM: Diane will present next month after this meeting and will share the Charter
information with this Board via email.
NoCo Housing Now – They are a regional group including City, County, Housing, and Real Estate
members who are gathering data regarding growth of the City to estimate where we will be in the
future in terms of planning and zoning based on projected population. The group has contracted with
EPS, Inc. to do a study on whether current zoning would allow anticipated population growth. The
group also just applied for a grant to send nine people to technical assistance training so they can
work to develop a regional housing strategic plan.
Diane and Kristin are meeting with Councilman Ken Summers for coffee on Monday August 7, 2017
and invite him to attend a meeting.
Sue said she will be gone for a few weeks in August and mentioned that Social Sustainability hired
an Administrative Support to replace Dianne Tjalkens, her name is Brittany Depew.
Agenda Planning
• September meeting: Beth Rosen – HBA and deed restrictions and Sue – Provincetowne
update.
• October meeting: Sue – Private Activity Bonds
Ginny Sawyer on U + 2
Meeting Adjourned: 5:54 pm
Next Meeting: September 7