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Housing Advisory Board
Minutes
October 17, 2016, at 3:30 p.m.
Historic Light and Waterworks Building, 406 W. 81h Street
Georgetown, Texas 78626
Members present: Richard Glasco, Chair; Brenda Baxter, Vice Chair; Nikki Brennan, Marion
Goforth, Randy Hachtel and Harry Nelson
Members absent: Joseph Gonzales
Staff present: Jennifer Bills, Housing Coordinator; Nat Waggoner, Transportation Analyst; and
Karen Frost, Recording Secretary
Call to Order by the Chair at 3:32 p.m. with reading of the opening remarks.
A. Welcome to guests.
Legislative Regular Agenda
B. Consideration and possible action to approve the minutes from the September 19, 2016
meeting. Karen Frost, Recording Secretary
Motion by Hachtel, second by Goforth to approve the minutes as presented.
Approved 6 — 0 —1, Gonzales absent.
C. Presentation on the Transit Plan — Nathaniel Waggoner, Transportation Analyst
Key points from the presentation:
The Transportation Plan includes a fixed bus route which will include four
routes.
The transfer center will be at the Georgetown Public Library on 8'h Street.
Busses will stop at every stop location every 60 minutes during the operating
hours. Monday through Friday, two busses will run for 12 hours. They will run
for 10 hours on Saturdays. An extra bus will be added for the paratransit system
for the same hours. There will not be services on Sunday.
This plan was adopted in September of 2016 after lots of public involvement and
outreach. The fare structure is still being developed. The Transit Working
Group has included the city of Georgetown, Capital Metro Transit Authority,
CARTS, the Georgetown Health Foundation and the Faith in Action program.
The Faith in Action program currently provides 500 volunteers providing rides
to elderly for errands and medical appointments, along with social interaction.
They currently provide services 9 —12 Monday through Friday. With help from
the city with mapping and trip planning, and a grant, they will now be
increasing their services to 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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• Next steps for implementation of the program by August 2017: CARTS/ Capital
Metro will be purchasing the busses. The stops and charges will be decided. A
marketing campaign will be developed.
• CARTS will maintain and operate the busses. The city will pay $65 an hour for
the operation of those busses.
• The city will construct a covered structure with benches in front of the library
and is looking at funding mechanisms and design. They are also working on two
other shelters and a bench for every stop, along with signage for each stop.
• All of this would not have been possible without the contribution of $200,000
from the Georgetown Healthcare Foundation
D. Update on the timeline for the Housing Advisory Board Work Plan — Jennifer Bills,
Housing Coordinator
Bills reported that the Housing Tax Credit process and schedule was approved by
Council and is ready to go.
The Housing Element of the Comprehensive Plan will be updated this next year. She
will begin working on the scope of work for consultants to bid on in January. There i
$24,000 budgeted for updating the demographics in the Housing Element, along with
updating the multi -family housing availability map, and public outreach.
Bills will begin work on the Workforce Housing "Tool Kit' program with a Request for
Proposals going out in March. There is $35,000 budgeted for that project.
There are three new tax credit apartment complexes coming in the next year. They are
projected to start moving dirt in mid -2017 and must be available to open by the end of
2018 to receive their approved funding.
E. Upcoming items:
• The next regular meeting of the HAB will be November 21, 2016.
Motion by Brennan, second by Baxter to adjourn. Meeting was adjourned at 4:37 pm.
Approved, Richard Glasco, Chair Attest, Brenda Baxter, Vice -chair
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