421 N. COUNTY FARM ROAD

WHEATON, IL 60187

DU PAGE COUNTY

Home Advisory Group

Final Summary

www.dupagecounty.gov

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

11:30 AM

Room 3500B

CALL TO ORDER

11:30 AM meeting was called to order by Chair Lori Chassee at 11:38 AM.

ROLL CALL

Chair Chassee appointed County Board members Lucy Evans, Paula Deacon Garcia, and Sheila

Rutledge to serve as temporary members of the Home Advisory Group Committee for purposes

of a quorum.

Staff Present: Julie Hamlin, Community Development Administrator; Evan Shields (Public

Information Officer); Ashley Miller, Community Development Manager (remote); Momina Baig,

Housing and Community Development Planner (remote); Alyssa Jaje, Housing and Community

Development Planner (remote); Bec DeLaura, Housing and Community Development Planner

(remote).

Assistant State's Attorney - Katherine Fahy

Chassee, Yoo, Garcia, Rutledge, Flint, Evans, and LaPlante

PRESENT

ABSENT

Bastian, Barfuss, Bricks, Cage, Childress, Crandall, Hocking, Honig,

Krajewski, and Schwarze

PUBLIC COMMENT

No public comments were offered.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES

4.A.

24-3214

Minutes - Home Advisory Group - Regular Meeting - Tuesday, May 7, 2024

APPROVED

Yeena Yoo

RESULT:

MOVER:

Sheila Rutledge

SECONDER:

COMMITTEE VOTE REQUIRED

5.A.

24-3215

Recommendation for approval of updates to the HOME Risk Assessment &

Monitoring/Financial Viability of HOME Funded Projects Policy, to be known as the

HOME Applications, Risk Analysis, and Monitoring/Financial Viability of HOME

Funded Projects Policy.

Julie Hamlin, the Administrator of Community Development, stated that they are

proposing minor changes to the existing policy. The most important change they are

proposing is the ability to have a formal notice of funding availability announcement

made that would seek to obtain specific letters of intent for their HOME funded projects.

Right now, they have it on a rolling cycle and there has been a lot of interest in their

home funding for more affordable housing projects throughout the county. Currently

CDC process requires that a full application would be due, which is a quite intense

application for not only the applicant to fill out but also for CDC staff to review. By

having the ability to set a date for a letter of intent and an application, Community

Development can build that into their workflow and then be aware it is coming and can

dedicate staff time to those application reviews. This will be similar to how the Illinois

Housing Development Authority (IHDA) has the requirement for the Preliminary Project

Assessment, or PPA, the CDC letter of intent will mirror that process. A lot of CDC

applications are tied to low-income tax credit funding, so it would be nice to align the

Community Development process with IHDA's LIHTC cycle as well.

Member Rutledge asked if this is the program that does home repairs and if there is a

relationship between this funding and the Ad-Hoc Committee funding. Ms. Hamlin

explained the two are not the same, the HOME Investment Partnership program funding

is a federal program, where Ad-Hoc is a county delegated program. It is possible the

funding could be layered between the two entities. This particular policy is just for their

CDC HOME Investment Partnership program funding.

APPROVED

RESULT:

MOVER:

SECONDER:

AYES:

Sheila Rutledge

Paula Garcia

Chassee, Yoo, Garcia, Rutledge, Flint, Evans, and LaPlante

Bastian, Barfuss, Bricks, Cage, Childress, Crandall, Hocking, Honig,

Krajewski, and Schwarze

ABSENT:

5.B.

24-3216

Recommendation for approval of updates to the Resale Recapture Guidelines for HOME

Investment Partnerships Program – Homeownership Activities for DuPage County

Policy.

Julie Hamlin stated this policy is specific to projects where the County would fund home

ownership activities, again with the HOME Investment Partnership funding from the

federal government. The reason Community Development brought this policy

amendment forward is because this is tied to the next five-year consolidated plan they are

presently working on. HUD requires they have a resale and recapture policy in place that

HUD approves, so their submittal is part of their consolidated plan. There are minor

amendments they are making to the recapture portion to clean up language. Under the

resale portion they wanted to clarify that capital improvements made by a homeowner

will be viewed as far as useful life components when they are calculating the fair return

on investment if they were to resell to another income eligible homeowner. The policy

will provide additional details on how they would calculate owner equity and investment

under the resale requirements, and it will incorporate when affordability restrictions could

possibly terminate under resale. Changes were made to what qualifies as affordable to

another potential home buyer to make it clearer, especially for their projects that have a

resale requirement attached to it. This makes it a lot easier to follow what is required if

there is that resale component trigger.

APPROVED

RESULT:

MOVER:

SECONDER:

AYES:

Sheila Rutledge

Yeena Yoo

Chassee, Yoo, Garcia, Rutledge, Flint, Evans, and LaPlante

Bastian, Barfuss, Bricks, Cage, Childress, Crandall, Hocking, Honig,

Krajewski, and Schwarze

ABSENT:

OTHER BUSINESS

No other business was discussed.

ADJOURNMENT

With no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 11:42 AM.

APPROVED

Lynn LaPlante

Paula Garcia

RESULT:

MOVER:

SECONDER:

NEXT MEETING DATE - January 7, 2025