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KAUA‘I COUNTY HOUSING AGENCY
THE COUNTY OF KAUA‘I
DEREK S. K. KAWAKAMI, MAYOR
MICHAEL A. DAHILIG, MANAGING DIRECTOR
ADAM P. ROVERSI
HOUSING DIRECTOR
FY2021 Housing Agency Budget Report
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REVISED
Salary and Wages
Benefits
Utilities
Vehicle/Equip, Lease
Operations
Fund: HOUSING REVOLVING FUND
FY 2020 FY 2021 $ + / -
0 0 0
0 0 0
0 0 0
0 0 0
4,350,001 5,190,001 840,000
4,350,001 5,190,001 840,000
% + /-
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
19.3%
19.3%
FY 2020 Operating Budget FY 2021 Operating Budget
•Salary and Wages
•Benefits
•Utilities
•Vehicle/Equip,
Lease
•Operations
FY 2020 and FY 2021 Comparison
Salary and Wages Benefits Utilities Vehicle/Equip,
Leas e
•Salary and Wages
•Benefits
•Utilitie s
•Vehicle/Equip,
Lease
•Operations
Operations
II FY 2020
11 FY 2021
MAJOR CHANGES AND/OR VARIANCES IN OPERATIONS BUDGET
The “Operations” portion of the Housing Agency’s Budget is effectively unchanged from FY 2020.
Personnel expenses have increased by 17.9%, or $129,630. 77%, or $95,022, of the increased
personnel expense is the result of negotiated HGEA salary adjustments approved by Council. Beyond
this negotiated salary increase, the remaining personnel expense increase is due to the funding of a
previously vacant and $1 funded Clerk Position within our Section 8 Division in the amount of
$34,608.
OPERATIONAL CHALLENGES
We have two operational goals for FY2021 that are directly tied to our budget asks. First, our current
housing development model is almost entirely dependent on federal grants and tax credits for project
financing. Our dependency on these funding sources imposes a requirement that any housing units
developed can only serve very-low income individuals and households. While we intend to continue
serving this low income segment of our community, we also have a significant housing crisis among
the “gap” group of families that earn too much to qualify for federally subsidized housing but still
cannot access market rate homes. Accordingly, we are requesting a significant increase in funding for
the County Housing Development Fund, which will allow us to begin to creatively develop housing
without the strings and red tape attached to federal funded projects.
Second, we have a relatively short lived opportunity to take advantage of $1.5 million in additional
federal funding for our rental assistance program. If we are unable to ramp up our rental assistance
program within the next year to utilize this additional funding we risk losing it. Accordingly, we have
asked for general fund dollars to hire an additional clerk for our rental assistance division to help
increase our ability to process and issue additional rental assistance to be underwritten by this newly
available federal funding.
TOP 3 OPERATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS FROM FY 2020
First, our housing development milestones in FY2020 include: 1) breaking ground on the 53-unit Pua
Loke Street affordable rental project and the neighboring 22-unit Kealaula at Pua Loke supportive
housing project in Lihue, which will provide both low cost housing and supportive social services to
families transitioning out of homelessness; 2) breaking ground on the 35-unit Waimea Huakai
affordable rental project; and 3) completing the 134-unit Koa’e Workforce Housing Project in Koloa.
Together these projects amount to 244 new affordable housing units for Kaua‘i.
Second, after more than 5 years of task forces and studies, the Housing Agency, Housing Chair Kuali’i,
and Council Chair Kaneshiro, proposed substantive amendments to Ordinance 860, the County
Housing Policy, which we believe will help kick start the development of higher density infill
development in our town core areas, helping to meet our island’s need for affordable workforce
housing while achieving the development goals of the 2020 General Plan.
Lastly, after more than a decade of planning, we opened the doors of the Adolescent Treatment and
Healing Center, finally providing an on-island resource for the treatment of adolescents with
substance abuse and mental health disorders through both residential and outpatient treatment
options.
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