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December 3, 2007
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Agenda
Item No. MHGB3 Roll
Call No. 07- Communication No. 07-710
Submitted by: Chris
M. Johansen, Housing Services Director |
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AGENDA
HEADING:
Receive and File
2007 Section 8 Management Assessment Program (SEMAP) Certification Score.
SYNOPSIS:
Recommend approval to receive and file the Des Moines Municipal Housing Agency’s 2006 Section 8 Management Assessment Program (SEMAP) certification score from the United States Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD).
FISCAL
IMPACT: NONE
Amount:
N/A
Funding
Source: N/A
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION:
The Des Moines Municipal Housing Agency is required to submit an annual Section 8 Management Assessment Program (SEMAP) certification to HUD at the end of each fiscal year. The certification is used to evaluate the performance of the Section 8 program in significant areas of management operations.
The certification includes the following indicators:
· Selection from the waiting list
· Rent reasonableness
· Determination of adjusted income
· Utility allowance schedule
· Housing Quality Standards quality control inspections
· Housing Quality Standards enforcement
· Expanding housing opportunities
· Fair Market rent limit and payment standards
· Annual reexamination of clients
· Correct tenant rent calculations
· Pre-contract Housing Quality Standards inspections
· Annual Housing Quality Standards inspections
· Lease-up
· Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) enrollment and escrow accounts
A deconcentration bonus indicator is also included.
The Housing Agency is required to perform a quality control review of client files for some of the indicators and the other indicators are assigned a performance rating using data submitted electronically through HUD's Multifamily Tenant Characteristics System.
The Housing Agency received a score of 97% (140 out of a total of 145 points), designating the agency as a “High Performer” for its Section 8 Program. A score of 90% or higher achieves a “High Performer” rating. This is the sixth consecutive year that the agency has received this designation. The chart below shows the agency’s performance over the past 6 years:
PREVIOUS
COUNCIL ACTION(S): NONE
BOARD/COMMISSION
ACTION(S):
Date:
August 20, 2007
Roll Call
Number: 07-1566 (MHAGB)
Action: Approving 2007 Section 8 Management
Assessment Program (SEMAP) Certification. (Council Communication No. 07-505)
Moved by Nesbitt to approve.
Motion Carried 7-1. Absent: Coleman.
Date:
March 26, 2007
Roll Call
Number: 07-514 (MHAGB)
Action: Receive and file 2006 Section 8 Management
Assessment Program (SEMAP) Certification Score from the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development. (Council Communication No. 07-175)
Moved by Hensley to approve.
Motion Carried 7-1.
Date: August
21, 2006
Roll Call
Number: 06-1641 (MHAGB)
Action: Approving
2006 Section 8 Management Assessment Program (SEMAP) Certification. (Council Communication No. 06-515) Moved by Nesbitt to
approve. Motion Carried 5-2.
ANTICIPATED
ACTIONS AND FUTURE COMMITMENTS:
NONE