Time (Min)					Agenda Item	
8:00-8:30		Networking between members and guests 	
8:30-8:35		Introduction of members/guests (Katie Porta)
8:35-8:40		Approval of minutes
8:40-8:50		Sponsor -- Latinos in Action (Rolando Cintron)
8:50-9:10		Speaker -- City of Orlando Building Department (Ken Wagner)
9:15-9:40		Other Items:  
     County HAC Report 
     City of Orlando HAC Report
     Counseling Collaborative
   New Business:
     Review correspondence
Next membership meeting -- Wednesday, April 28, 1999 @ 8:30 am at The Beardall Center
Adjourn	(TOTAL MEETING TIME -- 1 HOUR AND 45 MINUTES)

The Beardall Center, 800 S. Delaney Street, Orlando, FL 32806
Located at northeast corner of Orange Avenue and Gore Street.
The meeting will be in the multi-purpose room, 1stfloor.

• They are a relatively new organization which deals with Latino issues
• Two of their main areas of emphasis in the near future will be to try to develop partnerships with nonprofit housing who provide affordable housing for Latinos. They are also working on setting up individual development accounts with banks. These accounts are savings accounts which help lower income families save for such items as school, starting business, or other life necessities.
• Mr. Cintron encouraged all people who interested in working with the Latino community to contact him and work with his organization at 872-2355.

Agenda Item 2 -- Speaker: Ken Wagner and Skip Lukert, City of Orlando, Building & Permitting Department

Ken Wagner was on-hand to talk about how the City of Orlando has redefined their permitting department.

• The new department has brought several fragmented departments under one source.
• Frank Billingsley is the Director.
• They made physical changes in the lobby of City Hall and people can now come into City Hall and sit down and talk to somebody one-on-one. The new format resembles a bank lobby.
• They are working on a system which will eventually allow developers to submit on the Internet and receive comments and reviews through the Internet. They hope to be online with this service by the end of this year.

Skip Lukert is a building inspector and briefly talked about some of the changes that facing the state in the building code.

• The building code has been somewhat fragmented in the past and there have been several different codes which have been used. This fragmentation has led to much confusion.
• The State of Florida is now seeking to adopt a building code for the entire State of Florida. This code would be all encompassing in that it would several different sections; it would be much larger. The code for the entire state would be in one booklet. It is likely that will differentiate areas of the state in an appendix format (i.e. wind load capacity for Miami would be different than that for Orlando).
• By the year 2000, there will be a draft of this code, which will be an extremely important document.
• There are now small committees dealing with each individual section of the code and the Central Florida area is represented on these committees.
• Not included in this code will be the fire code which will continue to be a separate code, governed by federal guidelines.
• Schools will fall under this code and this will be the first time. In the past, schools were separate from this code.
• Eventually, the entire United States is going to work toward a international code, in which these state codes will relate to a larger code.
• Questions were raised regarding rehabilitation and the confusion regarding when certain items must be complete. Skip indicated that the new code will be more definitive in terms of what improvements are necessary based on a certain value of the structure. This should help clarify what you have to do on rehab jobs.
• Ken indicated that the City will be holding contractor feedback meetings on a quarterly basis. He will keep the Roundtable as to these meetings. These meetings are sought to get feedback and to help people understand the problems, etc.
• For more information, please contact Ken Wagner at 246-3199.

Agenda Item 3 - Counseling Collaborative Update:

Randy Sprayberry was on-hand to give us a brief update of what's going on with the Collaborative.

• Office space has been secured in the Washington Mutual building at the corner of Michigan and Orange Avenue. The space should be ready by early April. He will provide members with an address and phone number when he gets them.
• We are now looking for furniture. Several sources have donated some furniture, but still much remains. If anyone knows of any sources of furniture, please provide this to Randy.
• Randy went to Charlotte to look at their Collaborative. He picked up many new ideas. They gave him a copy of the survey which he plans to use in order to make the matrix of provider within Central Florida.
• The following items are going to be the first tangible things that the Collaborative will do; 1) creation of a web site; 2) creation of a consumer oriented resource director which includes schedules of all down payment assistance programs; and 3) a code of ethics which will be signed by those members who belong to the Collaborative. This code of ethics will seek to lay out ground rules in terms of skills and experience for counseling entities.
• Evette Francis from Fannie Mae indicated that there still should be a continued push for membership. She indicated that membership forms should be mailed to all people who are not currently members. John Hazelroth indicated that of the 70 people who have been accepted into the Collaborative, the membership now stands at 15-20. Randy will continue to work on this.

Agenda Item 4 - Other Business:

• Victor, from HUD, was on-hand. He indicated the two new community builders who will be responsible for support and technical assistance. For any information on HUD, he suggested you call the office at 648-6441. He also indicated that the Super NOFA is out and the local HUD office has received the training tapes. Please call the local office to make arrangements to review these tapes. Lastly, he indicated that the property disposition program for HUD has been transferred over to a private concern called Southeast Alliance. They are currently going through the setup and they anticipate the program will back on line within the next few weeks. Nonprofits will still be able to purchase homes at a discount.
• Karen Rogers, from Crest Realty, was on-hand. She expressed interest in working with not-for-profit organizations to find property. She can be reached at 843-7070 at extension 15.

This concludes the end of the meeting minutes.



GUEST SPEAKER
Marilyn Kersher and Ignacio Esteban

The Florida Community Loan Fund is an organization who provides capital when many other typical sources will not become involved. They have a broad mission statement which lets them loan money for housing, economic development and community development. Terms and rates are usually substantially better than that which the private sector offers. Staff from the Loan Fund will be on hand to discuss their organization and how it may benefit members and supporters of the Roundtable.

For those nonprofits needing capital, this is a "can't miss" meeting.

 

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