This important discussion. Joining us today or i agree matthews, interim executive director of the Housing Authority of columbia, South Carolina. Mark, president and chief executive officer of the Skyline Champion Corporation and peggy bailey Vice President for housing policy at the center on budget and policy priority is for purposes of todays hearing they are focused on examining three bipartisan piece of legislation in particular that have been introduced in the 116th congress. S. 2160 the overt act was introduced in july by senator scott and menendez and has the support of five republicans and five democrats on the committee. S. 1804, the manufactured housing modernization act was introduced in june and has five bipartisan cosponsors including senator cortez, scott kramer and smith and hr 4300 of the fostering stable housing opportunities act which has bipartisan interest in the senate and is moving quickly through the house of representatives on a strong partisan basis. The alert
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Housing units. Senator mike crapo of idaho chairs the banking, housing and urban affairs committee. This hearing will come to order. Today, the committee will receive testimony from leaders in the Housing Community on bipartisan opportunities this congress to expand access to Affordable Housing, to improve the safety conditions within current federallyassisted housing, and to consider how we might better target some of our existing Housing Resources to meet unaddressed need. Welcome to our witnesses, and thank you for taking the time to be with us today for this important discussion. Joining us today are ivory mathews, interim executive director of the Housing Authority of columbia, South Carolina; mark yost, president and chief executive officer of the skyline champion corporation; and peggy bailey, Vice President for housing policy at the center on budget and policy priorities. For purposes of todays hearing, we are focused on examining three bipartisan pieces of legislation in parti
I move approval. Second. Any Public Comments on the minutes . All those in favor . Aye. Opposed . The motion carries. The next item, please. Item 4 is general member of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commissions jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda. Mr. Di costa. Commissioners, i want to talk on a number of issues, and i was watching one of the committees the board of supervisors. Two of your consultants, one who deals with iso, electricity, and the other one is, i suppose hes an engineer that i havent met before. So im very much interested in how you commissioners are going to be dealing with the transmission line from the 75 megawatts. So i had to do a little bit of investigation, and i see that the digesters cannot go forward unless they have steady energy, electricity. So why dont we have this conversation . Are we dumb or something . We have a Contracting Center there and we dont have any discussion what really is happening with the diges
We would urge every other neighborhood that is facing such a major disruption to business to follow our footsteps. Get involved, and make sure we are actively involved with whatever the department and contractors that are involved. Yes, i have attended the dumb festival in chinatown. It is organized dumpling festival in chinatown. It is a promotion for the businesses in chinatown. Many of the restaurants participated by providing different types of dumplings. Delicious. I mentioned previously, i been working with oewd on a possible concert for jobs area that continues to progress. I just want to drop while everybody is here. When it hopefully pops up down the road, we are already to jump in and be supportive. Any other commissioner comments . Do we have any members of the public that would like to make comments on Commission Reports . Seeing none. Next item, please. Item ten, new business. Allows commissioners to introduce new agenda items for future consideration by the commission. Di