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Flagstaff housing commission outlines 2025 priorities, will use in-room dot vote to set calendar
Summary
The Flagstaff Housing Commission reviewed its purpose, surveyed possible 2025 agenda items, and agreed to prioritize topics using an in-room dot exercise (with an online option) to set a working calendar that will feed January meetings and council briefings.
The Flagstaff Housing Commission on Dec. 19 reviewed its role and set a process to prioritize agenda items for 2025, asking commissioners to use an in-room “dot” prioritization and an electronic option for absent members.
Staff reviewed the commission’s duties — advising the City Council on housing policy, examining funding sources, and overseeing any housing-related bond funds — and walked commissioners through milestones since the commission’s 2019 creation. Chair Kevin Bond emphasized that the commission’s recommendations should be accompanied by full staff analysis when items carry fiscal impacts and may go to council.
Commissioners proposed several priority topics to include on the working calendar: an education series on low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) properties and an inventory of upcoming qualified-contract maturities; a liaison position to improve coordination with Planning & Zoning (proposed by Moses Milazzo); a review of short-term rental (vacation rental) sales-tax revenue as a possible funding source; and active involvement in the city’s code-analysis project and incentive policy updates.
Several commissioners urged the commission to bring outside experts and public-policy groups to present case studies that would help the public and commissioners understand technical code changes before they move to council. Councilmember House, the council liaison, encouraged commissioners to invite constituents and use the commission’s meetings to elevate community priorities to the council.
Staff said the commission will collect dots at the meeting, accept online dot-votes from absent commissioners, and will publish a proposed working calendar in January that balances commissioner priorities with the city’s existing schedule of code amendments, CAP project updates, and a planned net-zero policy discussion.
Next steps: staff will compile the dot results, share the prioritized working calendar with commissioners and council liaisons, and present the proposed sequence of items at the commission’s January meeting.
