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Exhibit A (2) Community Input other than Quantifiable Community Participation. If an Application receives points under §§11.9(d)(1)(C)(iv) or (v) of this chapter, then, in order to ascertain if there is community support, an Application may receive up to four (4) points for letters that qualify for points under subparagraphs (A), (B), and/or (C) of this paragraph. No more than four (4) points will be awarded under this point item under any circumstances. All letters must be submitted within the Application. At no time will the Application receive a score lower than zero (0) for this item. (A) An Application may receive (2 points) for each letter of support submitted from a community or civic organization that serves the community in which the Development Site is located. Letters of support must identify the specific Development and must state support of the specific Development at the proposed location. To qualify, the organization must be qualified as tax exempt and have as a primary (not ancillary or secondary) purpose of the overall betterment, development, or improvement of the community as a whole or of a major aspect of the community such as improvement of schools, fire protection, law enforcement, city-wide transit, flood mitigation, or the like. The community or civic organization must provide some documentation of its tax exempt status and its existence and participation in the community in which the Development is located including, but not limited to, a listing of services and/or members, brochures, annual reports, etc. Letters of support from organizations that cannot provide reasonable evidence that they are active in the area that includes the location of the Development will not be awarded points. For purposes of this subparagraph, community and civic organizations do not include neighborhood organizations, governmental entities (excluding Special Management Districts), or taxing entities. Should an Applicant elect this option and the Application receives letters in opposition, then two (2) points will be subtracted from the score for each letter in opposition, provided that the letter is from an organization that would otherwise qualify under this subparagraph. (B) An Application may receive (2) points for a letter of support, from a property owners association created for a master planned community whose boundaries include the Development Site that does not meet the requirements of a Neighborhood Organization for the purpose of awarding points under paragraph (1) of this subsection. (C) An Application may receive (2) points for a letter of support from a Special Management Districts whose boundaries, as of the Full Application Delivery Date as identified in §11.2 of this chapter (relating to Program Calendar for Competitive Housing Tax Credits), include the Development Site and for which there is not a Neighborhood Organization on record with the county or state. (D) Input that evidences unlawful discrimination against classes of persons protected by Fair Housing law or the scoring of which the Department determines to be contrary to the Department's efforts to affirmatively further fair housing will not be considered. If the Department receives input that could reasonably be suspected to implicate issues of non-compliance under the Fair housing Act, staff will refer the matter to the Texas Workforce Commission for investigation, but such referral will not, standing alone, cause staff or the Department to terminate the Application. Staff will report all such referrals to the Board and summarize the status of any such referrals In any recommendations. (3) Commitment of Development Funding by Unit of General Local Government. (§2306.6710(b)(1)(E)) An Application may receive up to thirteen (13) points for a commitment of Development funding from the city or county in which the Development is proposed to be located. Development funding from instrumentalities of a city or county will not qualify for points under this scoring item unless such instrumentalities first award the funds to the city or county for their administration, at least 60 percent of the governing board of the instrumentality consists of city council members from the city in which the Development will be located (for Developments located in a city) or county commissioners from the county in which the Development will be located (for Developments not located in a city), or 100 percent of the governing board of the instrumentality is appointed by the elected officials of the city in which the Development is located (if the Development is located within a city) or county in which the Development is located (for Developments not located within a city). The government instrumentality providing Development funding under this scoring item may not be a Related Party to the Applicant. Development funding must be provided in the form of a construction and/or permanent loan with an interest rate fro higher than 3 percent per annum and term of at least 5 years, a grant, an in-kind contribution, a Page 16 of 25