Nittal to the Board of Supervisof COL Y of Riverside, State of California County Executive Office Submittal Date: March*

Recommendations 5

• R1
  Board of Supervisors to immediately authorize funding for a second full time code enforcement inspection team with additional responsibilities to locate and monitor unknown and unpermitted parks. RESPONSE: Concur. Approval was granted by the Board of Supervisors on December 21, 1999 providing for a Special Code Enforcement Team in the Eastern Coachella Valley. The Team consists of a Code Enforcement Officer, Code Enforcement Technician and a Code Enforcement Aide. The Team began work on January 1, 2000 and will focus on agricultural housing facilities in the Eastern Coachella Valley. RECOMMENDATION:
• R2
  Reevaluate the loan limit for each mobile home space to ensure adequate funding to cover site utilities. RESPONSE: EDA offers three programs to assist property owners in upgrading Concur. substandard agricultural housing facilities and mobile home parks, as follows: Agricultural Housing Assistance Loan Fund. This program targets existing unpermitted agricultural housing facilities located in the unincorporated area of Riverside County. Agricultural Housing Facilities may contain up to 12 spaces. The loan limit is $75,000 per facility. Permit Assistance Grant Program. This program also targets existing unpermitted agricultural housing facilities located in the unincorporated area of Riverside County. In addition to the Agricultural Housing Assistance Loan, each facility may receive a grant up to $10,000 toward the cost of County assessed fees for rehabilitation and improvement projects. Mobile Home Park Assistance Loan Fund. This program targets existing unpermitted mobile home parks located in the unincorporated area of Riverside County. Mobile Home Parks are those facilities that exceed 12 spaces in size. The loan limit is $6,250 per mobile home space. As of February 1, 2000, the Economic Development Agency has approved ten (10) agricultural housing facility loans and one mobile home park loan. The loan programs are intended to assist the property owners in bringing their facilities into compliance, while recognizing that ultimate responsibility lies with the property owner to provide for the improvements. In each instance where the anticipated costs have exceeded the Agency's loan limits, EDA staff have discussed this circumstance with the property owner and each property owner has demonstrated how they plan to fund the difference, either from their own funds or borrowing from another source. Once several facilities have completed the upgrading process and better information on the actual costs is received, if necessary, the loan limits will be reevaluated at that time. RECOMMENDATION:
• R3
  Provide adequate office personnel to monitor complete compliance with all grant and loan terms. RESPONSE: Concur. The Economic Development Agency has a diverse and well-trained staff within the Housing Division that currently manage a housing loan portfolio in excess of 500 loans, as well as several hundred grant projects per year. The Agricultural Housing Program team will work closely with other housing staff to ensure that all loans and grants initiated under the agricultural housing programs are integrated into the overall monitoring program, and that all conditions are fulfilled. At this time staffing is adequate for this task. RECOMMENDATION:
• R4
  Economic Development Agency, Environmental Health, Planning Departments and State HCD work closely together to expedite the park permitting and inspections process. RESPONSE: Concur. The Agricultural Housing Program within the Economic Development Agency is staffed by a bi-lingual Ombudsman based in EDA's Indio Office as the lead person assisted by three Development Specialists including a bi-lingual loan officer and two staff members with extensive experience in the County's planning and permitting process. This team is working closely with each program applicant as well s the County's Planning and Environment Health Departments to process each application in an expedient manner. This process has proven effective to date.
• R7
  FORM 11 (Rev. 8/96) ENVIRONMENTAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL RECOMMENDATION: