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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION (CDC) DRAFT Minutes Regular Meeting December 14, 2021 – 6:30pm Austin City Hall, Board and Commission- Room 1101 301 West 2nd Street, Austin, TX 78701 Some members of the Community Development Commission may be participating by video conference. The meeting may be viewed online at: http://www.austintexas.gov/page/watch-atxn-live CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS: Fisayo Fadelu Public Sector Appointee Cheryl Thompson St. John’s Miriam Garcia North Austin Vacant Dove Springs Kendra Garrett Private Sector Appointee Julia Woods South Austin Eloise Sepeda Public Sector Appointee Heidi Sloan Public Sector Appointee Vacant Rosewood-Zaragosa/Blackland Jose Noe Elias Montopolis Michael Tolliver Colony Park Please visit https://austintexas.gov/cdc for more information about the Community Development Commission. Members Absent Fisayo Fadelu Eloise Sepeda Staff in Attendance James May Angel Zambrano Erica Leak Jesse Gutierrez Amit Motwani, Chair Public Sector Appointee Karen Paup, Vice Chair Private Sector Appointee Bertha Delgado East Austin Joe Deshotel Public Sector Appointee Members in Attendance Amit Motwani, Chair Karen Paup, Vice Chair Bertha Delgado Joe Deshotel Jose Noe Elias Kendra Garrett Heidi Sloan Cheryl Thompson Michael Tolliver Julia Woods Miriam Garcia  CALL TO ORDER DRAFT MINUTES Vice Chair Paup called the meeting to order at 6:36pm with 10 members present. CITIZEN COMMUNICATION: GENERAL The first 10 speakers signed up prior to the meeting being called to order will each be allowed a three- minute allotment to address their concerns regarding items not posted on the agenda. No speakers signed up to speak. 1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES Discussion and possible action on the October 12, 2021, Community Development Commission meeting minutes. On Commissioner Tolliver’s motion, Commissioner Elias’ second, the October 12, 2021, meeting minutes were approved unanimously. 2. COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT (CSBG) a) Briefing and discussion on the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) (Angel Zambrano, Manager, Neighborhood Services Unit, Austin Public Health) 3. NEW BUSINESS a) Briefing on Housing Investment Review Committee (HIRC) appointments (James May, Angel Zambrano gave the briefing. Housing and Planning Department) James May gave the presentation. b) Discussion and Possible Action regarding affordability aspects of South Central Waterfront Plan (Vice Chair Paup) Vice Chair Paup presented the draft recommendation. On Commissioner Tolliver’s motion, Commissioner Thompson’s second, the recommendation asking City Council to commit to 20% affordable housing in the South Central Waterfront Vision was approved on a vote of 11-0-0. Commissioners Fadelu and Sepeda were absent. c) Discussion regarding CDC goals and potential CDC member retreat (Chair Motwani) Chair Motwani led the discussion. 4. WORKING GROUP AND COMMITTEE REPORTS a) Update from the Joint Sustainability Committee (Commissioner Fadelu) This item was postponed for a future meeting. b) Update from the Austin Transit Partnership (ATP) Community Advisory Committee (Commissioner Elias) Commissioner Elias gave the update. 5. FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS • Update from HACA (Mike Gerber) regarding Chalmers Courts groundbreaking and general timeline (Delgado) • Presentation on Climate Equity Plan; strategies and goals that relate to CDC (Garrett) • Introduction to new Civil Rights Office and new Office Director; how CDC can support office (Garrett) • Presentation and update on citywide climate and emergency preparedness – possibly Office of Emergency Management and/or Office of Sustainability – resiliency hubs (Garcia) • Update from Code Department regarding mold issues and policy that came from winter storm Uri • Inventory of apartments that were closed due to winter storm, units lost as a result of mold • Count of displaced people, how long were people displaced, was there an increase in homeless population due to storm? • Were properties with code violations those on repeat offender list? ADJOURNMENT Chair Motwani adjourned the meeting at 8:12pm without objection.