CITY OF IRVINE HOUSING SUCCESSOR ANNUAL REPORT FOR LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING ASSET FUND FOR FISCAL YEAR

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1 CITY OF IRVINE HOUSING SUCCESSOR ANNUAL REPORT FOR LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING ASSET FUND FOR FISCAL YEAR The City of Irvine Housing Successor Annual Report (Report) for the Low and Moderate Income Housing Asset Fund (FUND) has been prepared pursuant to California Health and Safety Code Section (f). This Report sets forth certain details of the City of Irvine Housing Successor (Housing Successor) activities during Fiscal Year (Fiscal Year). The purpose of this Report is to provide the governing body of the Housing Successor an annual report on the housing assets and activities of the Housing Successor under Part 1.85, Division 24 of the California Health and Safety Code, in particular sections and (Dissolution Law). The Report is based upon information prepared by Housing Successor staff and information contained within the independent financial audit of the Low and Moderate Income Housing Asset Fund for Fiscal Year (Fiscal Year) as prepared by Lance, Soll & Lunghard, LLP (Audit). The Audit is separate from this Report and is included as part of the City s Comprehensive Annual Financial Report submitted to the City Council on November 25, This Report conforms with and is organized into sections I through XI inclusive pursuant to Section (f) of the Dissolution Law: I. Amount Deposited into FUND: This section provides the total amount of funds deposited into the FUND during the Fiscal Year. Any amounts deposited for items listed on the Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule (ROPS) must be distinguished from the other amounts deposited. II. III. IV. Ending Balance of FUND: This section provides a statement of the balance in the FUND as of the close of the Fiscal Year. Any amounts deposited for items listed on the ROPS must be distinguished from the other amounts deposited. Description of Expenditures from FUND: This section provides a description of the expenditures made from the FUND during the Fiscal Year. The expenditures are to be categorized. Statutory Value of Assets Owned by Housing Successor: This section provides the statutory value of real property owned by the Housing Successor, the value of loans and grants receivables, and the sum of these two amounts. Prepared December 9, 2014

2 V. Description of Transfers: This section describes transfers, if any, to another housing successor agency made in previous Fiscal Year(s), including whether the funds are unencumbered and the status of projects, if any, for which the transferred FUND will be used. The sole purpose of the transfers must be for the development of transit priority projects, permanent supportive housing, housing for agricultural employees or special needs housing. VI. VII. VIII. IX. Project Descriptions: This section describes any project for which the Housing Successor receives or holds property tax revenue pursuant to the ROPS and the status of that project. Status of Compliance with Section : This section provides a status update on compliance with Section for interests in real property acquired by the former redevelopment agency prior to February 1, For interests in real property acquired on or after February 1, 2012, provide a status update on the project. Description of Outstanding Obligations under Section 33413: This section describes the outstanding inclusionary and replacement housing obligations, if any, under Section that remained outstanding prior to dissolution of the former redevelopment agency as of February 1, 2012 along with the Housing Successor s progress in meeting those prior obligations, if any, of the former redevelopment agency and how the Housing Successor s plans to meet unmet obligations, if any. Income Test: This section provides the information required by Section (a)(3)(B), or a description of expenditures by income restriction for five year period, with the time period beginning January 1, 2014 and whether the statutory thresholds have been met. However, reporting of the Income Test is not required until X. Senior Housing Test: This section provides the percentage of units of deedrestricted rental housing restricted to seniors and assisted individually or jointly by the Housing Successor, its former redevelopment Agency, and its host jurisdiction within the previous 10 years in relation to the aggregate number of units of deed-restricted rental housing assisted individually or jointly by the Housing Successor, its former Redevelopment Agency and its host jurisdiction within the same time period. For this Report the ten-year period reviewed is January 1, 2004 to January 1, 2014.

3 XI. Excess Surplus Test: This section provides the amount of excess surplus in the FUND, if any, and the length of time that the Housing Successor has had excess surplus, and the Housing Successor s plan for eliminating the excess surplus. This Report is to be provided to the Housing Successor s governing body by December 31, In addition, this Report and the former redevelopment agency s predissolution Implementation Plans are to be made available to the public on the City s website I. AMOUNT DEPOSITED INTO FUND No moneys were deposited into the FUND during the Fiscal Year. II. ENDING BALANCE OF FUND At the close of the Fiscal Year, the ending balance in the FUND was III. DESCRIPTION OF EXPENDITURES FROM FUND The following is a description of expenditures from the FUND by category: Fiscal Year Monitoring & Administration Expenditures Homeless Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Services Expenditures Housing Development Expenditures Expenditures on Low Income Units Expenditures on Very-Low Income Units Expenditures on Extremely-Low Income Units Total Housing Development Expenditures Total FUND Expenditures in Fiscal Year IV. STATUTORY VALUE OF ASSETS OWNED BY HOUSING SUCCESSOR IN FUND Under the Dissolution Law and for purposes of this Report, the statutory value of real property means the value of properties formerly held by the former redevelopment agency as listed on the housing asset transfer schedule approved by the Department of Finance as listed in such schedule under Section 34176(a)(2), the value of the properties transferred to the Housing Successor pursuant to Section 34181(f), and the

4 purchase price of property(ies) purchased by the Housing Successor. Further, the value of loans and grants receivable is included in these reported assets held in the FUND. The Housing Successor owned no assets as of the end of the Fiscal Year. As of End of Fiscal Year Statutory Value of Real Property Owned by Housing Authority Value of Loans and Grants Receivable Total Value of Housing Successor Assets V. DESCRIPTION OF TRANSFERS The Housing Successor did not make any FUND transfers to other Housing Successor(s) under Section (c)(2) during the Fiscal Year. VI. PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS The Housing Successor does not receive or hold property tax revenue pursuant to the ROPS. VII. STATUS OF COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION The Housing Successor does not have any real property acquired with Low and/or Moderate Income funds. VIII. DESCRIPTION OF OUTSTANDING OBLIGATIONS PURSUANT TO SECTION Replacement Housing: According to the Implementation Plan for the former redevelopment agency, no Section 33413(a) replacement housing obligations were transferred to the Housing Successor. Inclusionary/Production Housing. According to the Implementation Plan for the former redevelopment agency, no Section 33413(b) inclusionary/production housing obligations were transferred to the Housing Successor.

5 IX. EXTREMELY-LOW INCOME TEST Section (a)(3)(B) requires that the Housing Successor must require at least 30 percent of the FUND to be expended for development of rental housing affordable to and occupied by households earning 30 percent or less of the AMI. If the Housing Successor fails to comply with the Extremely-Low Income requirement in any five-year report, then the Housing Successor must ensure that at least 50 percent of the funds remaining in the FUND be expended in each fiscal year following the latest fiscal year following the report on households earning 30 percent or less of the AMI until the Housing Successor demonstrates compliance with the Extremely-Low Income requirement. This information is not required to be reported until 2019 for the period. X. SENIOR HOUSING TEST The Housing Successor is to calculate the percentage of units of deed-restricted rental housing restricted to seniors and assisted by the Housing Successor, the former redevelopment agency and/or the City within the previous 10 years in relation to the aggregate number of units of deed-restricted rental housing assisted by the Housing Successor, the former redevelopment agency and/or City within the same time period. If this percentage exceeds 50 percent, then the Housing Successor cannot expend future funds in the FUND to assist additional senior housing units until the Housing Successor or City assists and construction has commenced on a number of restricted rental units that is equal to 50 percent of the total amount of deed-restricted rental units. The following provides the Housing Successor s Senior Housing Test for the 10 year period of : Senior Housing Test # of Assisted Senior Rental Units 0 # of Total Assisted Rental Units 134 Senior Housing Percentage 0 %

6 INDEPENDENT AUDITORS REPORT ON COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE REQUIREMENT AND ON INTERNAL CONTROL OVER COMPLIANCE To the Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council City of Irvine, California Report on Compliance We have audited the Irvine Housing Successor (the Housing Successor) compliance with the California Health and Safety Code sections applicable to California Housing Successor Agencies under SB 341 for the year ending June 30, Management s Responsibility Management is responsible for compliance with the California Health and Safety Code sections applicable to California Housing Successor Agencies. Auditor s Responsibility Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Housing Successor s compliance with the California Health and Safety Code sections applicable to California Housing Successor Agencies under SB 341. We conducted our audit of compliance in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America; the standards applicable to financial audits contained in the Government Auditing Standards, issued by the Comptroller General of the United States. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether noncompliance with the types of compliance requirements referred above that could have a direct and material effect on the Housing Successor occurred. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence about the Housing Successor s compliance with those requirements and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion on compliance for the Housing Successor under SB 341. However, our audit does not provide legal determination of the Housing Successor s compliance. Opinion In our opinion, the Housing Successor complied, in all material respects, with the types of compliance requirements referred to above that are applicable to the Housing Successor under SB 341 for the year ending June 30, Report on Internal Control over Compliance Management of the Housing Successor is responsible for establishing and maintaining effective internal control over compliance with the type of compliance requirements referred to above. In planning and performing our audit of compliance, we considered the Housing Successor s internal control over

7 To the Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council City of Irvine, Californiaa compliance with the types of requirements that could have a material effect on the housing program to determinee the auditing procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances for the purpose of expressing an opinion on compliance and to test and report on internal controls over compliance, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of internal control over compliance. Accordingly, we do not express an opinion on the effectiveness of the Housing Successor s internal control over compliance. A deficiency in internall control exists when the design or operation of a control over compliance does not allow management or employees, in the normal course of performing theirr assigned functions, to prevent, or detect and correct, noncompliance on a timely basis. A material weakness in internal control over compliance is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over compliance, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material noncomplianc ce with a compliance requirement will not be prevented, or detectedd and corrected on a timely basis. A significant deficiency in internal control over compliance is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over compliance that is less severe than a material weakness in internal control over compliance, yet important enough to merit attention by those charged with governance. Our consideration of internal control over compliance was for the limited purpose described in the first paragraph of this section and was not designed to identify all deficiencies in internal control over compliance that might be material weaknesses or, significant deficiencies. We didd not identify any deficiencies in internall control over compliance that we consider to be material weaknesses. However, material weaknesses may exist thatt have not been identified. Report on Excess/Surplus Calculation We have audited the financial statements of City of Irvine, which includes the Housing Successor Fund, as of and for the year ended June 30, 2014, and have issuedd our report thereon dated October 24, 2014, which contained an unmodified opinion on those financial statements. Our audit was conducted for the purpose of forming an opinion on the financial statements of the City of Irvine as a whole. The accompanying report on excess/surplus calculation is presented for purposes of additional analysiss only and is not a required part of the financial statements. Such information is the responsibility of management and was derived from the financial statements. The report on excess/surplus calculation has not been subjected to the auditing procedures applied inn the audit off the basic financial statements, and accordingly, we do not express an opinion or provide anyy assurance. The purpose of this report on internal control over compliance is solely to describee the scope of our testing of internal control over compliance and the results of that testing. Accordingly, this communication is not suitable for any other purpose. Brea, California October 24, 2014

8 IRVINE HOUSING SUCCESSOR COMPUTATION OF HOUSING SUCCESSOR EXCESS/SURPLUS (HSC ) HSC If a housing successor has an excess surplus, the housing successor shall encumber the excess surplus for the purposes described in paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) or transfer the funds pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) within three fiscal years. If the housing successor fails to comply with this subdivision, the housing successor, within 90 days of the end of the third fiscal year, shall transfer any excess surplus to the Department of Housing and Community Development for expenditure pursuant to the Multifamily Housing Program or the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program. For purposes of this subdivision, excess surplus shall mean an unencumbered amount in the account that exceeds the greater of one million dollars ($1,000,000) or the aggregate amount deposited into the account during the housing successor s preceding four fiscal years, whichever is greater. Housing Funds July 1, 2013 (Estimated Projection) Housing Funds July 1, 2014 Opening Fund Balance $ 1,350,000 $ - Less Unavailable Amounts: Loans receivable $ (1,350,000) $ - (1,350,000) - Available Housing Successor Funds - - Limitation (greater of $1,000,000 or four years deposits) Aggregate amount deposited for last four years:* Total $ - $ - Base Limitation $ 1,000,000 $ 1,000,000 Greater amount $ 1,000,000 $ 1,000,000 Computed Excess/Surplus None None * Housing Successor deposits began as of February 1, 2012.