To roll call, please at. Maker here, Yang here. Justin, here, there are 6 present and one that's in that thing. Commissioner Item number one on the minutes. My and 26 dash 1, 1, approval of the MARCH 2026, a jury meeting minutes trust everybody had a chance for a few. It will take a motion from. Commissioner to approve all those in favor. All opposed. 6 and favors are opposed. The minutes are adopted. Item. Number 2 for discussion are yes, 26 dash 5, 1, 5, Authorization of Cdbg loan agreement by and between the city of Saint Paul and JR. Dm Investments, llc. 4, to Cesar Chavez Street District. 3 more too the next 2 items we
actually have the staff report and previous meeting. But if there are any additional questions on this item, I'll take them now. All right, seeing none. I'll take a motion from Commissioner to approve all those in favor. Aye. Aye. All opposed. 3 for our yes. 26 dash 5, 1, 6, authorization to designate Rotor Walton Development, llc, a Minnesota limited liability company or another entity that is affiliated with uncontrolled fire, Overwhelm Development, llc developer. Tentative developer of 0 Robert Street self fox lot properties between Fairfield Avenue in Plano Boulevard, District 3 war, 2. If you'll recall, can we have a staff report on this last meeting?
But we also had a chance to hear from the Walton teen. I want to Commissioner Nick or if there's any questions o anything to additional that you might Thanks, just again, thanks to staff of the work on radar Walton for interest I this property and for the commitment to develop. Large scale affordable housing, especially with larger units and the really exciting public space and green space just to know this is something, of course, and the staff about want to make sure that we also are looking closely at the West Side plots master plan, which guides development in the area to make sure that if there's commercial space called for, for example, whatever the uses are that that plan dictated that. We're also hearing to that has developed most part, in strong support Thank you commission. You appreciate those sentiment as well. And
just hearing a little bit more from. What the what the findings will be or what kind of the uses that you're referring to. 2 on the West Side piece to ensure that that's what happens. Know that there's been a lot of interest on list of all the site coming together. And so it's a primary example. But it looks like one land acquisition goes our way where we can actually see what we intended to see in the space come to fruition. So Commissioner Nick or has motion to approve all those in favor. All opposed. Senator and face 7 in Favor. 0 Post resolution has attacked us. And number 4 staff report Sr 26 dash, 5, 9 healthy homes and power of home programs. Updates. All right. So the next few items will be staff report fortune and genuinely
really excited to hear some of these updates as well. Welcome discussion from the commissioners. Any questions that folks have? Really excited to hear about healthy on the par Home program. Update more so because it was a huge priority for office last year and just something that we're really know that we have a lot of constituents, interests in the program. So welcome. And thank you so much for being here to provide this update out. I had restructure even if there's something you want before him. Otherwise, because straight over not just the center for days shorter. Here to give the the programs. All right. Thank you, Jaime Martin, welcome. Thanks. I commissioners a traitor and housing. Resilience and housing program specialist for the Department of Planning over. And also manage the healthy home. In the interest of Briefly go over the program. Overview is then provide a
program. 8. So for the first program, healthy homes are pretty weatherization. And so health and safety and weatherization program eligibility is one to 4 unit owner occupied homes and seeing all the with healthy homes as a whole must have pre weatherization preventing weatherization from happening. To qualify for the program's. There's 3 different ways. One is through income qualification method 80% area. Median income participation in a similar income-qualified program. And the 3rd way is the preapproved geographic map. As you can see on the slide. One thing to note is the distribution with the qualification methods have been pretty even with the with 3 different ways. And types prudence politician commissioner maker start for
the early question. Thank you, MADAM Chair. And I just I might have. MR. Member this. But is it is complication methods, they're all or so. Percent and I or participation in competitive program for being located in a spot on the map. I guess I'm just wondering. If you're only located in a preapproved spot, understand that these are income-qualified areas, but you could potentially the high income person living in one of these areas then and get this help. Is that right? Chair Chair Johnson commissioner. Yeah. Technically if you are located in that area, you could call them automatically qualify. There was an instance of that that home was in the area. They were over the income but still qualified. They didn't have any pre weatherization present. So
they were no longer able to be in healthy homes had to have pretty weatherization in order to qualify, working with the homeowner. I was kind of able to direct them to other programs that we're able to offer them assistance for for weatherization. So for types of improvement with healthy homes, the pretty weatherization examples. This is by no means exhaustive. But I didn't save wiring. The older housing stock Saint Paul has not been to. Wiring is pretty common for making latest Festus mold mitigation leaks leaking grating and foundation repair potentially as well. And then the weatherization side of things as wall and roof insulation, air sealing. Ad weather stripping. For the goals of the program. One of the major
goals of healthy homes is to get homes in a place where they're comfortable and healthy and safe so they can be weatherize finding. And then also homes and helping them get weatherize leads to. Greenhouse gas reductions in helping make the city's climate goals. For the second program. A programs are a lot of patient and let program similar eligibility. However, it's open for single family homes. Qualifications are slightly lower. Am I also another income-qualified program and then the preapproved geographic as well. Similar to healthy homes, pretty even distribution between the 3 qualification methods and MISTER Schroeder MR. I just had a curiosity than what the publication that that's on both of the
part of homes and healthy homes programs we currently tracking like which. But but the numbers of homes that were serving just which category people fall under sorry, currently tracking like how many homes from power homes are in the 50%? Am I or are you tracking those different methods are just yes, I tracking yet tracking that and household size. As the projects. Begin also be tracking measures and costs. And then the rebates that will expect back. Okay, wonderful. And Commissioner Cohen. Thank you. Chair think it's presentation so sorry missed this. But the the graphic maps are different for both programs just because they want what that is. Chair commissioner, part of the reason is because of the different am the area median income.
For power home, it's a slightly. Less shaded. Due to that reason. And then healthy home being 80% and my area median income, slightly shaded area. Thank you. Then types of improvements for power, a home slightly but a lot of heat pumps, so-called climate or source. He pumps that would provide heating and cooling. He pump water heaters. He pump clothes, dryers and then electric induction. Stoves panel expansion and junction box upgrades as necessary. The goals of power home, somewhat similar to healthy homes focusing both the homeowner savings, but also the wider city goals of climate. Lastly for the update program funding healthy homes is funded through this year. And dn't have funding passed 2026. As
of right now. The power of home as a reoccurring 300,000 each year. Homeowners qualify for these programs qalify for up to $50,000 and a grant for each program. That and that grant funding is paid directly to te contractors. So there's not a change in income for household. Homes can be in both programs simultaneously. However, weatherization will always happen first before electrocution, U.S.. And then lastly, the rebates will be reinvested in the programs depending what rebates are associated What measure? Commissioner thank you. Chair jets it's safe. Household is in the healthy homes program and needs pre weatherization. They can get up to $50,000 for that. You said one of the goals of the program is meant to make sure
that those homes go on to be whether I'm wondering. Would they then be eligible for another 50,000 through healthy homes to be weatherize or if not? How do we make sure that the pretty weatherize homes also going to be whether stops. Children, singing commissioners, so with with healthy homes, House designed is it sort of start to finish. So the goal is to weatherize homes at the end. So we do all the weatherization once that's complete. Then the insulation contractors to come in and complete it. If for some reason we need to partner with an organization there are weatherization organizations out Energy Sense Coalition provides weatherization services as well community Action. Partnership. Some
friends in Washington County. We can provide those weatherization services but due to their funding, they can't always address the costly pre weatherization issues that as General Lee, the 50,000 a sufficient to take a household from pre weatherization all the way through check on some commissioner. It is. on to the program, updates. So as to date. We have currently 29 homes in healthy homes and 15 homes and power home of those We've done audits for the majority of them scopes of work. Van. Completed for the majority of them. There's a a few more recent applicants that are getting work done. Cutting scheduling for the energy audit. MR. Schrader has a follow-up. This is where I
think my previous question just of getting the who's under the 50% and my who's in the 80% and my for the respective programs. But getting those those details would be really helpful in a follow-up e-mail. Joe Johnson commissioners. Yeah, I can certainly follow up with Thank you. So this map is a very approximate. So the you know, individual homes are identifiable. It's just to give everybody. A general idea of the distribution of homes. There's a few extra points since this map was was made, like I said, just to kind of give everyone an idea. The distribution across a program of state. So ae implementation partner for both healthy homes our home is center for energy and environment are working closely together. And then referrals are a two-way street. For homes that have costly pre weatherization that
aren't able to be addressed. By either Energy Sons, Coalition or Camp rw, community action partnership granting Ocean County. They are referred to the Healthy Home program. Vice versa. If home doesn't have pre weatherization present, they're referred to either. Ucc York have rw who are able to address the weatherization for that home. And then lastly and importantly, these programs are meant to them. Compete with either isis have rw. They're meant to. They're meant to complement those programs and assist in those homes that are unable to be So for energy savings we've estimated so far 14 homes there is there will be more
savings coming. But of those 14 homes estimated savings annually of nice and $9,700 with a greenhouse gas emission reduction, equivalent of 14 cars taken off the road for a year. The power of home. The estimates are coming extra calculations are needing to be done those. So. We'll have a live update. Want to have those numbers. So outreach? We haven't we haven't advertise the program's widely, but we are consistently getting interest forms and applications We'll speak with cte MAY or regarding whether or not outreach is necessary and needed and what that might look like. We're also working tc media team to create kind of a short video highlighting the process testimonials before and after photos, kind of to give homeowners and potential participants an idea
of what to expect in the program. Wonderful. And we do have 3 questions. So I see commissioner maker Yang and then covid. Thanks, MADAM Chair. Definitely appreciate the follow-up that chair us for about that, who is receiving these dollars and curious the 20? I see 22 protests participants for healthy homes and 11 for power homes and 15. Does that just need to be updated? Yeah. Okay. It does that exhaust both of that tranches of money or other still dollars left. So there are still dollars left it will, depending on the entire scope of work. And then what will be will be getting close. We kind of estimated about 40 homes and healthy homes. Potentially with those rebates that will certainly. Help extend that money for healthy homes. And healthy homes funding. Has to be used by the end of this
So are we on track to spending all of that by the end of this year? If we potentially to double the number of homes. I Chair Jones commissioners. Yeah, we're on. I would say we're on track for using all the money. It would also say in speaking with kind of JUNE MAY JUNE JULY. And kind of seeing where we're at as far fnding and the current projects being worked on at that time as And we can kind of how many more participants we can potentially and roll look to other sources of funding. Things Church on Sunday. Really appreciate the update. I do what I do. I have a follow-up question wondering, can you remind us what happens to the dollars if we have any that are use at the end of
this year for healthy homes. If we don't, charge on some commissioners if we don't use them healthy homes, funding by the end of this year will lose. We can't pull it over 10 next year than I don't believe so. But I'm happy double on that. Yeah, that degree. And then I know in the slide without mentioned. We're not doing any sort of. And or outreach about this. So for the households that are currently in our to hear about the programs, Commissioner Johnson. Johnson commissioners. So there's a number of ways. It's a Google has been. So for the interest form, we do have a line asking how they heard about the program. So it's a lot of work them out some fom the council. Homeowners were watching these programs pass. And as soon as
they were approved by the City Council started getting interest interest forms right away. And then recently there was a newsletter that went out with just very short kind of blurb about healthy homes and power a home. And we've had. Even influx of interest forms just from that alone. So I don't feel like the outreach if we have to do it will be really heavy lift. I think it'll be relatively straightforward to get the get the word out that these programs are available needing more participants. Thank you. I appreciate knowing that just I did want to just share that for me. Like knowing that in my ward, we have such a heavy population of folks for immigrants, refugees and English MAY not be their frst language fr you. And I would say this isn't just for like the healthy homes our homes,
but whenever we do launch a new program on for for us to make sure that even if we didn't have, you know, a full-on planting outreach, if you can make sure to utilize that, but our resources and public spaces that already have so they can be even camp out committee centers libraries, if we could have our pd staff be maybe we have a few who are can do some tape lane to train and get out to our marginalized communities. That would be really great curious if it's like the house, was ready receiving the services from the 2 programs like how many of them are from? I saw your map of like, you know, the households. But how many of them are from these marginalized communities knowing that many of them are probably the ones who don't have first access to getting the information. So I very invested in making sure that
we can get the oppnities out to them so that they at least know it's out there. Can try take it on. And I didn't have phone hate. My. My last question is I believe you said the. The Healthy homes program that's pre weatherization, too, right. And so you have you brought up example in the beginning where there was a household, too, isn't within like the income requirement that we have. However, they lived and the geographic area on the map there. And so didn't have the weatherization does, but that didn't qualify. So can you explain that if that because I heard. From you that weather is a shunt is a part of what can be the work that can be done healthy homes. Chad Johnson Commission is to healthy homes designed that.
We do the weatherization, but they have to have pretty weatherization that's preventing that in other programs such as isis have our w they have a weatherization program where they go into a house, taking energy audit and then they weatherize at home. There are instances where they go into a home and there's pretty weatherization and they can't so healthy homes takes care both of those aspects within one program. So the homeowner doesn't get sort of juggle the around between organizations and programs. that that house with a kitten qualify for for any of that, that maybe I'm just not understanding its but I can follow up with get an So the
home that didn't have pre weatherization. No longer qualified for healthy homes. Catches so than the healthy homes dollars could have covered. The cost for the Weather Station or no. They didn't have free weatherization needs. So how just a follow-up question. Kind of to what is getting at. Could repeat weatherization restriction example, so that to meet the eligibility? They have to have a weatherization. That's makes it not possible make of that isn't allowed to something like that. I'm looking at the eligibility slide. Could you just give an example of what that is? Homes must weatherization need preventing weatherization for taking place. A Yes, such Joe Johns weatherization of the and tube wiring wuld be a pretty weatherization measures.
Asbestos would be a pretty weatherization measure if they had a leaky roof. Fixing that And then if there's any to go along with that, that would be pretty weatherization. And then the installation would be the weatherization. home that you the home that we were referring to and the example that you provided didn't have one of those things, correct? Okay. Yeah, they didn't. They didn't have any of the pretty weather station examples. Okay. They only needed the weatherization the weatherization. I think we're going to get there. It's great to know that this is why all of our folks that really in the weeds for things to. So thank you for making sure that we just got that for a moved on. I think it I thought it was really important to you. Because when you get into pre weatherization weatherization examples with 2 programs can be a little confusing.
Commissioner called. Thank you. My question was actually smiling about have finding out about program of the things that's been answered. A last second question, which is it and both programs are for homeowners to for renters to. We know all of the expenses or are any of these friend Jackie pie. But the homeowner applied for the program. I checked just commissioner healthy homes. It's permitted one to 4 units. It does have to be owner occupied. But the other, you know, up to 3 units can be renters. We today have not had any. Properties above a duplex but in those cases, the homeowner lives in one unit and then a renter lives in that second.
Thank you. And just a cold front that for any single family residences those fall, then to And this commissioner for power from its requirement that it on thank going mission police going as well. I'm going to have yu think you MAY have the conclusion slide that was left and then there was keeping I just wanted you to be able to punish or last light. And then we'll do the last to conclude a couple of key points. Key takeaways, these programs serving need. And especially with healthy homes of homes being deferred long term. And that work never being able to be completed because of the the the high cost. Lower-income homeowners also have difficulty elect find homes because of again, the high upfront costs. So power of home sort of
allows gives a possibility and a chance to. To elect for their home and have high efficient equipment. Lowering energy burden. And both programs invest in housing stock Saint Paul while helping city climate goals. And then lastly, like thank everyone for your continued support and your guidance for these programs. And I will pass it back to church and see. Thank you so much for just being able to also give this update. As I shared earlier, this was a priori pressure for our office. And I know for many of my colleagues here, I'm to see that are getting to some of our homes here in the city. And I'm really excited about the map with multiple. That's because it shows just the distribution and to do that work in the midst of a
transition, then also just the uncertainty with the federal government and federal guidelines. I jst want commend yu and and the team for like continuing to work on this because I know sometime in transition, some of things can get lost. And so I do appreciate just all the work that is went into ensuring this program. Got up and running and continue to be able to be a resource for community members. I think one of the be really helpful and why ask for the breakdown and the and calm and just the areas we are noticing maybe a lag in one area. I think think it's fair to say that maybe if you are considering region future endeavors when it comes where to post things are. How
do outreach that you consider trying to do our? It's amongst those populations as well. And so for noticing a, you know, a smaller amount of 50% and my leveled homes. Maybe that means that they see him some more intentional or reach to homes where that might be the case. If there's, you know, for noticing that MAY be in the area that I live in the geographic area that we're looking at, that not all of the applicants are a small portion of the applicants are in those areas. Looking at the map. I don't think that's necessarily the case. But just thinking that it might be also just a level of understanding for what it means to like a fire and for folks that are ready to go in, maybe evidence id or it, it's it's not that big of a lead. But for some folks who maybe have solar
panels on their home and have never really thought about it, which I've had a couple of residents. You know, in my in my one take of the woods out when I've been out door knocking at my capsule, appears your home like I just bought it that way. Didn't know. I think like How do we tap into it out actually utilize that? I just think that resource is really important to to Commissioner point as well. Commissioner Bowie, saw your hand. I do still have a question. Yes, Questions to follow up and say I know short on time here, thank you so Chair Johnson for having this back the commission for update. Really excited to hear about this program. I know there's a lot of interest in
my word about it actually. Camp Ross, a couple Facebook ads. So the outreach was pretty well. Spread I have a question particularly around the size scope and impact understanding one this program first was launcher and its creation. We knew we were not be able to meet them. Tired need. Of the the footprint of the need here in Saint Paul. But I am curious, particularly just thinking through the longevity of this program, unlike the lifetime of this program, maybe 10 to 20, 30 years from now. What is the scale and scope of how many homes we would be able to serve over, you know, a decade or longevity. And then my second follow-up and, you know, maybe this is better suited a fast. But when I first heard about this program, I I thought it was a permanent source of
funding was through the franchise fees. And I'm just I'm curious to know, and again, this, you know, you don't have to answer this, but could be a follow up front or fast. If there's any like financial policies that the council can adopt. So we ensure that that money is lost radar. We do, you know, lose aspect of that. Those fines and we can roll over some of that unspent dollars into the next year. Just because this program so important and I just wouldn't want us to be in a crunch last year, as you let the later into the year and not be able to ensure a secure those dollars from budget. Chair Jnes Commission a great question. The first question, the number of homes
10 Would depend a lot about funding. You know, the more funding we have, the more Holmes we cn address it would be nice to sort of see, you know, 50 to 100 homes in But that's a lot of uncertainty. For the franchise fee, you are correct for power a home. That's the continued funding. And then power home as sort of the stand-alone program. She certainly and discuss as the year goes on whether or not to sort of make them one program and have healthy home. And I home just as one. Or or what that might look like. But I agree with you. I would like to see healthy on continue. After this year as well. Certainly we're seeing the need that's already out there. Early in the program. Launch as well. Thank you so much for just being here to be able to provide. This update was
really important. That was something that commissioners have requested. So. just being able to hear from you, I think folks some views and reassurance that this program is alive and well and actually continuing for it and seems to be on track for expanding its dollars for this year. And also upside potentially being able to use what we learn from this program that when it comes to future investments future investment conversations, which we will be transitioning into shortly. So I appreciate that. I'm sure folks have questions and some follow-up that be on what we talked about today will be able to talk to you and to director van with those questions. So thank you so much. Item number 5, the staff report Sr 26 Dash 6, 0, a on land disposition or development planned for 2026. All right. We've seen this Lorenz coming up to this to
the podium here. If this is really just something that we've had other conversations about that, as you know, we have several injury own properties that we are looking to continue to to develop on and or do something with that exist in our wards. And so really just hearing from them about their strategies as it relates to that. So I'll let MISTER Is going presentation and And if there's anything for that, they want to say about those 2 are to preface or differentiate between this one and the Yeah, I'm just noting that Daniel rents will be given the next 2 presentations. So should be for both for cherry property you've received past once. And so this is more of an update. Feels past patients that you received. One after that, I think health nicely into it with a small scale to They should be on
Good afternoon, everybody. Daniel runs. I'm a supervisor in the economic development team and he's the first of 2 presentations today. And as for Trump and said both closely related, the first one here is about our a jury on property and some of the things that we've been up to since he last heard from this past fall. So want to give a little bit of background or reminder about what the jury owns. We currently own about 200 persons or property 6 of the 7 words. There are no injury home properties in Ward Every other we're does have at least one piece of property. For te past several months of those 200 prts of the property staff has been pretty laser focused on to kind of trying areas of the property that we own first would be our
neighborhood, stabilization or nsp properties. Call them going forward, which will hear a lot more in my next presentation. But quick overview of what we're doing with those and we've got about 40 remaining and his p per souls that can be either developed or sold her. Those and its peak guidelines and its p federal programs through the and Urban Development Department or hud. So tere's pretty specific guidelines and outcomes that into te meat for those properties. I will say most and it's properties. Do become affordable homeownership opportunities for us or that has been the way that we have approached, taking those properties back into their useful life. pt. The other piece of property that we've been focused a lt on last several months will be parcels that to be transferred
to the city for city. Use. So currently we've gt about 30 properties like properties identified that could be transferred to the city to be used in multiple ways. Generally, these are really small pieces of property remnant properties or piece of property that are already actually being used at the their public works right of wy. Our city parks, property. So just makes sense for the city to take them over because in a lot of ways they're already maintaining them. They're already looking after them. But they are still on the trees book books. And we've got some financial obligations as it see the benefits of transferring properties to the city. Is it become city infrastructure for operations, whether that's in our parks, sidewalks, pieces of roadways. Or just generally part of needed infrastructure
to make the city work. Cities often already performing maintenance. We contract with them through the hra. So it just makes sense to roll it right into their budget. They're already accounting for this. It also reduces our need of the injury to pay assessments or to actually actively manage the properties if they're jst back to the and a lot more streamlined and then just generally, I think the difference between how the city handles property and how the hra handles property. This is not an absolute rule, but generally a tree holds property to be developed at some point transfer properties generally cannot be developed. Like I said, they're turning into pieces of city infrastructure necessary for ongoing. Use city. So quick overview, I won't go through all of this, but just a reminder of all the different ways that we can sell property
or we get property. I'm back into useful life in the city. So we've got request for proposals. This is probably what we've used the most when selling property. I solicited proposals or direct asks we have quite a few sites that are used gardener community garden sites also have the ability to sell certain sites that are certain sizes at side, lot to sales or splinter parcels transferred to the city, as we said. And then, of course, owns several parking grants. Some of the things that we've been up to on the real estate side that have not resulted necessarily in development, but just getting rid of some of these properties that are not considered an sp available properties would be first 70 seconds. 7 Congress, you guys, you also this last fall. so is a property to an adjacent Rick's. That's what's
in the photo there for their own programming sace. I'm for personal Property parcels are both in process of being transferred to. The city Parks department to be used as part of the park system. Jessica Parker. So should be probably early summer. just finishing up what we need to with city real estate there and then things like property transfers probably looking closer to the end of the year because of some of that watershed work. If you remember that has to take place to use part of the property as storm water control and then transitioning into park space. the and then we do have additional police were continuous 18 to transfer most of those 30 remaining parcels to the city by the end of the year or early 2027. Transfers generally take about 3 months
just from getting through all of the different sort of legal things that we need to talk about, even though it rained city are very linked. We've got different legal considerations that we need to think about here. And but the way staff does tend to transfer properties, we group them a batch them based on similar geographic geography. And use meeting who's it going to public works, department cetera, and or the department that receives the property. And again, we're looking at this kind of quarter by quarter to get through those 30 properties by the end of this year or into early next. And the stories before you move on, do have question of commissioner maker and then I have a question for you, Commissioner thanks for MAY the same question as often happens. First I'm just curious percent, if you can
speak to why the tray I know we we have given direction as a body that we want to focus Disposing of his many of these parcels as we possibly can, because it does us no good to continue to on to them. I'm just curious why transfers have been such a priority. It seems like of all the different ways of disposing of property. That's the one that is the least economically beneficial comes back to the city. The city has to continue to maintain it. We don't sell So why has that been a priority over say, for example? Trying to get more of our developable parcels off. Johnson Commissioner Nick, I would say they are both priorities here. Transfer properties talk about in our next presentation as well. Transfer properties are very much like a real estate heavy because we're not dealing with development. Those develop mobile properties. They take a lot
longer so we're trying to just get these transfer properties off books so that we can really start to focus and check like broadly and the part of our portfolio that can be developed. But we're doing both of them simultaneously. Quick follow up of the 200 parcels that we have. How many of those are those all developable or to those include some of those winter sets in transfer parcels. Yeah, Johnson Commissioner Nick are good question. I think 150 of them would be actually developed a bowl at different scales. Thank you. And then I just as a follow up and it's not the same question. But I think it's one of the same similar vein right? So when I look at these properties in icu, but the jury spent to acquire the land, the transfer pieces like a net-zero doesn't providing revenue back to the jury for their initial purchase. Essentially we're giving, however. S if we did pay for
the land that we own technically speaking, the injuries giving. Transferring to the city land if they purchased that spotty purchased. And so. Correction, thing, resources in revenue in that case. So I am just curious from a lens of prioritization that in comparison to the transactions and I think we'll get to it and possibly in the And then the next presentation. But instead of maybe potentially prioritizing the 30 he says are 50 pieces of property transfer and over to the city, not necessarily regaining any of that revenue back. I think there is something to be said for possibly thinking about ways to continue to, you know, things that they are back. But we've invested because not
only do we purchased property for the purpose development, but we rarely get it for free. And so the land that we do on, even though the city has maybe but maintaining indoor, we have ways to operate it. It's still a free transfer. And so a way that we're not able to get we were to do something else with it. And so that is something that I just in the back my mind noticing things think its worst kind of name. Because matter it's never not a it's not going back to the tax base. It's not going to revenue-generating species. Just pieces of land that were essentially given to the city. You know, but it's not necessarily accomplishing some of the goals of the spy when it comes to economic development we generate our tax base for catering to our housing capacity needs. And yeah, probably more of a statement, but also just in that you know, I think it'll be really helpful to
understand. What the next few months look like, especially for 2026, it to be a better 2026. And we've transfer of lovely property, but haven't actually residents development projects. Johnson, I think that is all fair questions. Again, I will reiterate these transfer properties. They do cost less money now. So to get them into the city's books, well, it looks like net-zero. It does end up saving us some kind of maintenance and ongoing dollars. There. And these properties are so small that it's almost like prioritizing them now to just get them off of our book so we can really go all in those developable properties that really meet the goals of the body is sort of our thinking there, but always open to to how we prioritize 6. We'll because I just what I do want to hold us to 3. And so I like to maybe spend for the 2 more minutes on this presentation and then heading over to the next slide. So you
can talk about the also important. Website. Thank you, Chair Johnson. So yes, as you said, we are now also in the process of updating our website. And think we currently math all of our property on our website. But now we have identities. I think it's really fun. A clickable map where people can go and if they are interested in learning more about the types of property, we have property that is available and how we are intending to dispose of it going forward or sell it going forward. They can do that. Now. So we'll continue to iterate on Eventually would like for it to be fully clickable that people can even be applying to purchase land directly in the map. Take a
little bit of time and tech to get there. But we're working on that. But this is a big step forward to just be a lot more transparent and how were talking to developers and talking to the community generally. About what we've got available and just having a consolidated source in space - for all of the hour. So again, just reiterating what I just said the benefits of these mapping and updated communications, one is just should always be iterating updating these things as we go. It had been a while since we really updated our map. more transparent for the development community and the broader community. If they are just interested in learning more, they want to learn how they can work with us. That is this is the mechanism and which we can do that central a source of information consolidated place with for
information, which is helpful to you all. And it's helpful to us. And so that as well as with the rest of the key. And then some additional upcoming communication materials, updated development atrium, property applications again, currently don't have those available online. We're gonna get them online. As a way to just make sure we are actively working with our developers who are interested in investing Saint Paul. And then we're iterating on the idea right now. The development newsletter to highlight resources and development opportunities and more sort of similar to our small business his letter probably wouldn't be quite at that same frequency. But we think this is an important place to Just make sure people who are interested investing
in Saint Paul and nowhere to go know how to get a hold of us know about resources. Coming up. And it's a great opportunity for us to just market opportunities that we have once the coming Any other Commissioner thanks. Chair super quickly. Really grateful that this I know this has been a huge lift and I think it's exciting. If you can send us the link and some language to talk about it. I think it's important for us to mention it. And then this is just thought back when I volunteered at the Animal Humane Society a million years ago. But it occurs to me that often with some of our some of our harder to adopt hats at the time. Just sort of having them at the Humane Society wasn't enough. We need to really hey, like them and make give them a little bit more publicity love. And I think something similar might be the case for some of our
properties here. I think the list is great. And then maybe a next step is every so often to be showcasing the property person of the week. I know it's a weird analogy, but just because sometimes the list itself kind of become stale and the opportunity to really highlight like this is, you know, this is an exciting development opportunity from the list is and the extra push. The team creating my to do yes, I think that for the and I echo sentiments as well. Just creative ways to continue to You know, I think about the ready cohort with you. And how, yu know, there is some eager developers that come out of the emerging about the programs that we have crossed the the Metro. And I think that folks are always looking
for an opportunity to get a foot in the door and a piece of land and partnering with the city and so and with the injury to so I think just being able to have that mp. Available that link available. I know I will share it out if get sent over. So. Please well. Didn't. We can be creative in knowing I commissioner maker lately she's been exploring so many different ways to communicative online. So I'm sure we'll find some way to have a nice little deck and patio. It's out her way. But thank you so much for that as well. And then Commissioner Kim, did you have? $0.2 I'd rally like to help effort the top a graphical challenge. Watson, my word. So Longtime Sayre. But they're terming strong personality.
Thank you. MISTER K. Item number 6 is staff report Dash 6, 1, update on the h or a small scale development goals and 26 plan. All right. Again. Yeah. Back. Small scale development update. So this is the developable side of the trio So again, want just a quick history being mindful of time, but I would remiss to not identify and recognize all of the significant work that has happened in a small scale development team. And so since 2013 td's operated, what you all know inspiring communities program. And this was the mechanism that we use to salary haven't redevelop properties acquired by the a trade with the goal specifically through that
program to provide small scale affordable housing options, particularly homeownership options. through that work, 240 parcels were designated as inspiring communities properties. So that would be to get to those small scale affordable housing options. And the way that we primarily we're selling those properties to date have been through facilitated rfps. As you call them. The entire communities are keys as processes to attract developers and to those specific atrium properties. Again, most of these properties were acquired with those nsp dollars. Have very specific federal requirements type of fund, which is rfp is often the best way to just very explicit about the kinds of outcomes that w need to make to make sure that we're attracting developers that can do this
kind of work. The impact this mosque the Belmont of those 245 for these designated as an inspiring committee properties, 9195 have been rehabbed were developed into either homes. This is a majority of what happened and to purchased by income qualified buyers. I did the math today since 2013, we produce 250 units of housing through this program that are available to houses between 120% and 9.30%, am I most of that falling like the 60 80%. So that's a really big deal the eu small but mighty team has been able to do that 2013. To really get bread and butter, economic community development projects. City. Some of these properties do become garden loss that could eventually be developed on.
In the meantime, they're being used. As Katie parties, which provide a benefit and then there are some that are sold. If a qualifying size side force winter parcel or yards Jason homeowners. That's why the fact that communities program also has a really strong history and really where we work most closely with our diverse emerging development communities, which means we're not in the 80's, affordable home ownership opportunities in community for interested buyers are stabilizing neighborhoods, but we're also starting to build wealth and our bench and developers in the community who tend to be hyper local, who also tend to be the most committed to the community. giving them an opportunity to wealth over time as well, which is something we're
really proud of with this where you Small-scale development work. So as I said, we only about 200 gives the developer property at the About 40 of those at this point would be considered, quote, unquote. Inspiring - communities properties. We also will develop other properties for small-scale work. As you recall in 2025, removed a skill development from the housing team into the economic development. Huge the team. I'm lucky enough to get to work with every day to allow for like a multidisciplinary team to work with our developers to really put our arms around these developers to make sure that they can get their projects across the land development is a really hard small skill development even harder. Particularly if you're working with developers tend to be a little bit undercapitalized.
They need extra help. So being able to really wrap our arms around them to get them across the finish line is another big goal of this program. And we've been pretty successful. And traditionally it has been sold, primarily be rfps. We talked about before the small-scale team is exploring other ways that we can be a little more dynamic and aggressive, quite frankly, with how we're selling lands or if still matter and they work. However, we do get kind of one-off proposals as we go through and we just don't want to lose the opportunity to be able to sell property to people who are interested in making an investment in Saint Paul outside of that process. Recently completed small-scale projects really quickly, 9.30, York 7.29. For 6.59 cut. These are all sold income qualified buyers. These went through the inspiring
communities, rfp process in the past. I'm 65. That is a twin home. And then 9.30, or can 7.29. All single-family homes. So any progress co-founded by 60 Branson, which is a 4 unit town home projects. Will be under construction yet summer skipping the season, I 11 95 or should be coming on son. There's finalizing some construction work there. A tender plan to same story. And we've got 47 Douglas, which is a little bit different because it's a historic Saint. Paul, the use of a home project as well. I see a question commissioning future Johnson. I was can remind does if the small-scale projects Holmes can be sold to anybody usually
requirements. Chair Johnson Commissioner Ian Great question. If they've run through the inspiring communities program, which most of these have they have to change can qualify buyers underneath that 120% you can Some upcoming you all And then if you all have not seen these quite yet, but get excited. We will be bringing to the board in the next couple of weeks tended developer status designation for properties we own and we lock our play and Jackson to consider whether or not we want to enter into a tentative vote for agreement with that developer. To eventually actually. Be a small-scale project, but because it's a only a small field team is running with it right now. They're looking at a larger, a multifamily project consideration sale at 10 87 Ross. And which would be a twin
home project is what they're proposing now. So, again, you should probably see these back to front of the board in MAY. depending on some of the the things that we need from worst of fighting. We did our publicly advertise in both of these through early notification system. So if you do end up seeing than anyone and you questions about them, And I do want to also preview really coming back to the board end of this month or early next month for some discussion about our next rfp for inspiring communities. We've identified 3 properties that have those and it's be requirements and we'll be bringing forward rfp number 8 running. That's similar to how we've run past inspiring communities properties. The reason we decided our fee for these properties again because they have such specific and unique funding requirements.
We really want to work the front end to be able to get developers who know how to deal with those requirements can work through those requirements. And then they're also ready to homeownership opportunities for income qualified buyers, which is what we would require through communities program. As part of Have to answer any questions. Wonderful. I will. Just something asked for my own understanding as well. Just here different to the difference between the 1.7 5 and that we put into small scale development for a jury properties and inspiring communities fund Johnson, there is not difference. We use those interchangeably that 1.7 5 would be used for these properties that are coming up. That would need a subsidy And so just the presidents that we're having we're
understanding too, as well, that dollar amount that the jury put towards the funding for that that's coming out of the housing trust fund. I think this is going towards funding some of this correct? Wonderful. Thank you, Commissioner Billy. Thank you. Chair John Senden over right on time here. So much Daniella actually and going questions. For the last is no last presentation as well as this one. I was one of things I would say every lead. Appreciate about your presentation was emphasis on hyper-local developers and how same pa has been really intentional with designing programs that helps the gap between our hyper local developers and really those who like carry on the same pop pride when it comes to investing our city from the
last presentation. I wanted to ask question, particularly around. I'm with the purchase property. Understand what hra were transferring poperty to the city of Saint Pa. Curious to know if we ever been in the business of purchasing or trans having a transaction with te Minnesota Department of and that particularly there is a lot of men property, especially alongside I-ninety-four that could make great park space. I know this kind vision came out are selling University Alliance planning group. So I'm just curious around if we had in the past any transactions between counties, but most in that. But I just wait for that answer yet Johnson Commissioner Billie Eilish
have to look into our notes to see if we do not know. Look, it's fairly quickly in case she knows whether or not we have. Purchase anything directly from better the county in the past. But it is possible if opportunities we strategically acquired things in the past. If it makes sense. Whether that is for, you know, the trade and would probably be strategically acquiring to eventually develop. And I know the city has has done similar things as it makes sense. Thank you so much. And then my follow-up question. For the flying just got done with. I was particularly 2 questions. So or excuse me, 3 questions we don't mind. But the really short. You're gonna have a minute, ok, ok, ok, one last. Well, the most pressing question? I and you know, Ward I have some district councils are very
aggressive in really intentional around being part of the rfp process scoping in writing of that process. Has the city understanding the inspiring communities I all about like getting no emerging, though developers have the city historically ever had like a community-driven rsp to where the rfp is. Also in close up of what that district councils like small area plan. I'm just asking because like, for example, like Frogtown Neighborhood Association, very, you know, very intentional love to be a part of table. But as a council member as a commissioner, you know We're looking at, the future of rfp is like, where have you seen district councils as a stakeholder? What their role is when it comes to drafting these are Johnson Commissioner Bowie.
We have worked to district councils in the past various related to this. I don't know if we haven't got a look at Joe We work with District Council summit. Best to create insurgents getting an affirmative handshake. So, yes, we have done that and we can probably get more information about that and what that's like, lke thank you follow up Wonderful. I love that. Thank you, Commissioner boy pre she ate your questions as well. But I think, you know, check with the area of importance. Each commissioner, exception of our vice chair, who has it or a land in their wards. Take a look at the land that you own and you know, communicate to the small-scale team. They've been really receptive to times where we've been able to through the 7 properties just the plans that we have for it.
So as it relates to your word, you know, feel free to have that communication. I know that something that vice-chair gross predecessor did effectively and that's why they don't have a land and more 3, let's not not by know, hard work, but definitely by actually the opposite hard work and intentionality I share with you thank U.S. Today. As a reminder, emergency rental assistance program did opened today and it's open to accepting applications today and tomorrow the team did. Let me know that they have done some outreach efforts and already they have replicate Jean's. So we're on trajectory, you know, for about 200 pump before the close of of business tomorrow, I something to think about winter. Just continue to hear from folks. But just in case you're wondering if it was me, need it is. And in case you're wondering if the guidelines are in place and the
applications are open, also so he shout out to the pd housing team as well for that work that they've been able to do and a short period of time to turn that around. And with