Today’s report covers highlights for your consideration on next week’s Board of Directors Meeting Agenda.  Items include:

Consent Agenda – We are recommending approval of a resolution designating April as Fair Housing Month.  This is part of our compliance activities as a recipient of HUD funds.

We are requesting approval of a contract with DSW Homes to complete one final home in Harris County under the Hurricane Ike Housing Program

Contract.

In Cooperative Purchasing, we are recommending contracts for radio communications equipment, and medium and heavy trucks and truck bodies.

We are requesting authority to execute a contract with TxDOT to receive funding for a resilience and durability in extreme weather pilot program.  The requested action brings the funding to H-GAC.  We will come back later with allocation of these funds to recommended activities. 

We are also requesting authority to contract for a Spring Branch special district study.  The primary focus will be barriers to pedestrian and bicycle mobility and proposed solutions.

Finance and Budget Committee - will meet at 9:40 a.m. in conference room A to consider finance related consent agenda items, monthly financial reports and other finance related actions.

Plans and Projects Review Committee – will meet at 9:15 a.m. in conference room B to consider the annual priority list of Homeland Security program grant projects.

Human Services – we are requesting approval of contracts with two CPA firms for detailed fiscal monitoring of all Workforce system contractors.  Both recommended firms have previously provided services in this program and their performance is satisfactory or better.

Advisory Committee Appointments – we have one Advisory Committee appointment for your consideration on Tuesday.  In addition, the Chair will be making Board of Directors Committee appointments as well.  If you have a preference concerning your Board of Directors Committee service, please contact the Chair or me.

Hurricane Recovery – we will have a status update on the FEMA Emergency Housing Program as well as other hurricane recovery funding developments.

Information – we will have the detailed programmatic 2017-year end activity report.  As a preview, next month we will have the 2017 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report and Independent Audit.

I hope you will plan to be present next week and participate fully in the discussions and actions of H-GAC’s Board.  Meanwhile, if you have questions about any agenda item or suggestions concerning any H-GAC program or service, please contact me.

                                                                 Sincerely,

                 Jack Steele

Request approval of minutes of the March 20, 2018 Board Meeting. (Staff Contact: Rick Guerrero)

Request adoption of resolution recognizing April as Fair Housing Month for the H-GAC region. (Staff Contact: Jeff Taebel)

Request authorization to execute a housing construction contract in the amount of $240,000 with DSW Homes. (Staff Contact: Jeff Taebel)

Request authorization to negotiate contracts with each respondent listed in Contract Award Recommendation Table for Radio Communication Emergency Response and Mobile Interoperability Equipment. (Staff Contact: Ronnie Barnes)

Request authorization of contracts with the lowest responsible bidders for Medium and Heavy Trucks and Truck Bodies.(Staff Contact: Ronnie Barnes)

Request authorization to contract with TxDOT to receive Resilience and Durability to Extreme Weather Pilot Program grant funds; amount not to exceed $375,000. (Staff Contact: Alan Clark)

Request authorization to contract with firms in order ranked to conduct Special District Study for the Spring Branch Management District; amount not to exceed $150,000. (Staff Contact: Alan Clark)

Request approval of March 2018 financial reports.  (Staff Contact: Nancy Haussler)

Request adoption of FY18 State Homeland Security Program grant priority list, as recommended by Regional Homeland Security Coordinating Council. (Staff Contact: Madeline McGallion)

Request authorization to negotiate workforce financial monitoring contracts with Christine H. Nguyen, CPA and Weaver and Tidwell, LLP in a combined total not to exceed $500,000. (Staff Contact: Mike Temple)

Request approval of appointments to H-GAC advisory committees. (Staff Contact: Chuck Wemple)

Request approval of Chair's committee appointments. (Staff Contact: Jack Steele)

Program status update. For information only, no action required. (Staff Contact: Jeff Taebel)

Program status update. For information only, no action required. (Staff Contact: Chuck Wemple)

Presentation of 2017 End of Year Report. (Staff Contact: Jack Steele)

Report on current and upcoming H-GAC activities (Staff Contact: Jack Steele)