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Cochise County housing authority presents budget showing small shortfall; no action taken at work session
Summary
At a Cochise County Board of Supervisors work session, housing authority representative Anita Baca reviewed a HUD-funded budget that projects a $6,001.24 deficit, described funding sources and reserve rules, and outlined possible cuts to training; the board discussed but took no formal action.
At a Cochise County Board of Supervisors work session in the Supervisor's Hearing Room on Melody Lane, Anita Baca, a representative of the county housing authority, presented the authority's proposed budget and said the authority currently projects a $6,001.24 shortfall for the estimated fiscal year.
Baca said the housing authority is funded primarily by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and runs multiple voucher programs, including tenant-based rental assistance, Section 8–style vouchers, emergency housing vouchers, special-purpose vouchers and HUD-VASH. "The voucher programs are, are under an annual contributions contract," Baca told the supervisors, saying funding levels are set by HUD based on prior-year leasing and reconciled quarterly.
The nut of the issue, Baca said, is federal funding and…
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