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168 | ROAD MAP TO ACCOUNTABILITYRECOMMENDATIONS3 The Mississippi Legislature should enact legislation that would require the Department of Human Services to meet matching fund requirementsthat would maximize the state’s access to federal CCDF funds each year.4 DHS and the Governor’s Offi ce should apply for aid from the Bush/Clinton Hurricane Relief Fund to extend for 12 months the aid qualifyingfamilies can receive for childcare.5 DHS should waive for 12 months its current policy requiring a parent to apply for child support or to establish paternity in order to obtainchild care funded with CCDF funds.6 DHS and the Governor’s Offi ce should release emergency hurricane funds to school districts to pay incentives to teachers who holdappropriate credentials in licensed early childhood programs.7 Private corporations should use as models successful approaches such as: the Chevron Daycare Recovery program which operates inJackson County with 23 daycare centers; military programs for supporting family childcare; and efforts by the gaming industry to developearly childhood and childcare programs with fl exible schedules to accommodate workers on all shifts.Responsible Entities and Funding SourcesState legislatureDHS and GovernorDHSDHS and GovernorPrivate businesses8 The U.S. Congress should appropriate requested funds to offset property tax and gaming revenue losses. U.S. Congress9 The Mississippi Legislature should appropriate funds to build wireless Internet access along the Coast. State legislature10 MDE and local school districts should offer additional online learning opportunities by opening high school computer labs at night. MDE and local school districts11 MDE should hold Coast school districts harmless on average daily attendance (ADA) and property value worth when calculating MississippiAdequate Education Plan (MAEP) allocations for the next two years.12 Local school districts should collaborate with FEMA to ensure new buildings are designed to mitigate future wind and water damage. Local school districts13 Local school districts should mitigate future damage by relocating schools further inland when possible. Local school districts14 The Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) and the State Board for Community and Junior Colleges should use existing funds to create theAdvanced Partnership for Higher Education (APHE), a partnership between the University of Southern Mississippi, Mississippi Gulf CoastCommunity College, and Pearl River Community College designed to meet the educational and economic development needs of the GulfCoast.15 Community colleges should request federal appropriation to offset property tax and tuition revenue losses. Community colleges16 IHL and the Governor’s offi ce should request federal appropriation to provide fi nancial tuition assistance to homeless/displaced postsecondarystudents.MDEIHL and State Board for Community and Junior CollegesIHL and Governor17 IHL and MDE should expand dual enrollment opportunities. IHL and MDE18 The state should utilize high school and community college vocational centers as night skilled construction labor training centers.19 IHL and MDE should collaborate with the state legislature and the U.S. Department of Labor to offer free tuition for students in courses ofstudy in industry-identifi ed areas of need.IHL and MDE20 The Mississippi Legislature should create tax incentives for employers to hire students in career and technical programs. State legislature21 Community colleges and universities should expand “English as a second language” community programs to integrate Hispanic citizensinto the Coast community.Community colleges and universitiesNON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS1 Grant writing assistance should be provided to supply immediate funding. Governor’s Commission with the Association of Fundraising Professionalsand the American Society for Association Executives2 A member of the non-profi t community should be appointed to serve on future committees or commissions tasked with long-termrecovery.3 Mississippi Center for Non-Profi ts should engage with organizations on the Gulf Coast including United Way and Gulf Coast CommunityFoundation to form the Gulf Coast Non-Profi t Clearinghouse that creates lasting support for non-profi t organizations in the area.GovernorMississippi Center for Non-Profi tsHOUSING1 A detailed housing needs assessment should be conducted on a county-by-county and community-by-community basis State and Local government. Funding available through a combinationof private and public sources, such as USGS and FEMA.
THE GOVERNOR’S COMMISSION REPORT | 169RECOMMENDATIONS2 A best practices assessment should assess building technologies, model codes, and zoning ordinances, and management practices thatcould be applied on the Coast.3 A barriers assessment should analyze, at a detailed level, existing code and zoning provisions within individual counties and cities in theaffected region in order to identify potential barriers to the creation of a suffi cient supply of safe, effi cient, and affordable housing.4 A former HUD housing site that was destroyed during the hurricane should be developed into a new high density, mixed use affordablehousing project.5 A small-scale program should be developed to pilot some of the proposed fi nancial mechanisms that provide incentives to go beyond basicbuilding codes.6 A housing pilot should be developed that involves the development of modular, permanent housing on a site that is currently being usedfor temporary housing.7 Cities and counties should immediately adopt – and grant expedited permits under – temporary codes that combine FEMA's interim basefl ood elevation advisories with Florida's stringent coastal hurricane resistance building standards.8 Over the long term, cities and counties should establish stringent minimum building safety codes based on the latest International BuildingCode (IBC) and International Residential Code (IRC) as well as hurricane and fl ood resistance codes.9 Cities and counties should consider reviewing their building codes to make sure that new modular and panelized housing technologies arepermissible within their jurisdictions.Responsible Entities and Funding SourcesState government. Funding available through a combinationof private and public sources, such as HUD's Partnership forAdvancing Technologies in Housing, the Building and Fire ResearchProgram in the National Institute of Standards and Technology,and the Department of Energy’s Building American ProgramState government. Funding available through private and publicsources, including philanthropic organizations and federal sourcessuch as HUD's Partnership for Advancing Technologies in Housing.Coordination between HUD, the state government, a local housingauthority, one or more private developers, and one or morelending institutions. Funded by HUD, for the affordable housingcomponent, and a private developer for the other housing andother components, such as retail.The state government should ask for assistance from the Departmentof Energy’s Building America Program and EPA’s EnergyStar Building Program. Funding provided by EPA and the DOE.Large insurance companies and/or Fannie Mae may also provideassistanceState government, FEMA, Mississippi Home Corporation. Fundedby FEMA and private developers.Local governmentsLocal governmentsLocal governments10 Communities should ensure that their zoning codes allow for dense, mixed-use development, including ample multi-family housing. Local governments11 Areas near airports, shipping ports, and other heavy industrial sites should be strictly zoned solely for compatible industrial or commercialpurposes.Local governments12 Local governments should be required to set and maintain permanent affordable housing goals. State government13 Developers of certain projects, as part of the permitting process, should be required to develop a minimum percentage of affordablehousing.14 In place of, or in addition to, affordability requirements for developers, cities and counties can create incentives to encourage developersto incorporate a greater percentage of affordable housing within their projects, as well as to make their housing units safer and moreeffi cient.15 Federal and state funding should be allocated to pay a portion of the lost property taxes of affected local governments for 2006 and2007.16 Programs should be developed which address population segments with known diffi culties in recovering their pre-Katrina housing situation.17 CDBG disaster relief and HOME funds should be used as forgivable second mortgages to make home ownership affordable and to helpresidents build equity.Local governmentsLocal governments18 A percentage of units in all LIHTC projects should be dedicated to very low income families. State government19 Local housing authorities, acting in concert with “New Statewide Community Development Entity,” should explain the process of qualifyingfor a mortgage loan to their voucher holders. The “New Statewide Community Development Entity” (CDE), acting in cooperation withHUD, should develop an initiative that would support this effort.20 The state should help educate businesses on the advantages of providing fi nancial assistance to support affordable housing and create theappropriate institutional mechanisms to funnel corporate housing assistance in the most effi cient manner.Congress, federal agencies such as HUD or FEMA, state governmentThe state, potentially acting through the Mississippi Home Corporationor the "New Statewide Community Development Entity"The state, potentially acting through the “New Statewide CommunityDevelopment Entity” and with HUD“New Statewide Community Development Entity”. Fundedthrough FEMA and/or HUD.The state, local governments, and private corporations
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