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[music] [music] >> Game Wednesday, June 17th, 2026. Call meeting to order. This meeting is being recorded. Roll call. Here. Here. >> Stephanie Jackson.

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>> Bob Brown. Here. And myself. Okay. Discussion and board vote to recognize or reorganize the board of commissioners. >> So, it's about time to reorganize the board. So, if anybody wants to make any um

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nominations, and then you guys can vote. Um we need a chairman, a vice chairman, um and two treasurers. And anybody can be the chairman. >> I'd like to nominate our vice chairman, Andrew Bowman, as the

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new chairman. >> Second motion. Do we need anyone to second? >> All in favor. >> All in favor. >> I. >> So, now we need a vice chairman. >> Vice chairman. I'm happy to serve the role if you'd like. >> Okay. >> So, we just need a motion.

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>> Yep. And I can I agree. >> Okay. Make a motion. Okay. >> Make a motion. Bob Brown. All in favor. >> I. >> All right. And we have two treasurers. [clears throat] >> So, we need two treasurers. Um we can Uh actually, yeah. We just say we need

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two treasurers, but any any of the board can sign. I am going to get some new paperwork. So, if we ever stuck if we need you to sign some checks, we can just give you a call or we just need we can actually have three signers also if you want to make it that way and we can make stuff.

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But, we just need a motion. >> Motion for Stephanie Bon Jess. >> And you can you can do all three if you want and Mr. Saucy. Um anybody can do >> I'll make a motion then for Stephanie Bon Jess, Jerome Smith, and Paul Saucy

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to become treasurers of the board. All [clears throat] in favor? >> All right. >> Okay. Got that written down? >> Yep. >> Perfect. All right. Approval

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of the minutes of May 20th, 2026. I didn't make that meeting you can have to approve it out. >> We need a motion. >> I motion to approve the minutes >> Minutes from May 20th, 2026. Second? >> Second. Okay. All right. All in favor?

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>> All right. >> Passes. Bills submitted for May 2026. I will make a motion to approve the warrant as presented before us. >> [snorts] >> Is there a second? All in favor?

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>> All right. >> Okay. Communications. >> Um there's really no communications. We just have some board votes on some plans. Uh so, it's a communications. >> No communications. For the month of April, I don't know I

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guess. Uh director's report. >> All right. So, for our president of Terrace Gardens, as you can see when everybody pulled their electrical project has started up again. We are going to all meet and reorganize the project. It was

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stopped for quite a bit due to a change order that had to go through to the electrical box. That was done. So now they're moving the electrical box and Department of Housing is coming down and then we're going to meet with the engineer.

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This project should be done. It's it's just been a nightmare and hopefully I'll have some better news for you next month on this project. Um I really don't have much to say about it except we can't wait till it's all over. As far as the back porch project, that's

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going to be starting probably more toward the end of summer due to the fact that we have another project of all new flooring in the hallways of the buildings and we don't want to have two egresses locked off at once cuz

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if we're doing the front hallways, they're going to have to use the back exits. So we're going to kind of like do one job then stop the other one so everybody can get in and out of the building safely. And as far as office stuff, we're just

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you know, doing everyday office work. We did have Nancy did an amazing job. I just want to note that. We had the 250th celebration that the state paid for this week and we had quite a few tenants come out. Eric took burgers and hot dogs and it was very successful.

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And as far as 689, Eric could probably tell you about that. He has been working over there. They had an inspection and we've been working just to get everything done that needed to be corrected in the inspection. So that's what I have for that.

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>> No, they didn't say anything. They don't know. >> Oh, it's coming up. [clears throat] >> Yeah, yeah. >> Yeah, they're getting ready for the inspection. Sorry. So >> [snorts] >> that's all I have for the director's report. >> Motion to accept the director's report. Second. All in favor? >> Aye.

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>> Aye. New business. >> New business. So, everybody has in their files um the amendment on number 10. Um actually for financial assistance. Um the only

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problem with that is um it's actually amendment number 11 and it's it's different now. Excuse me a minute. I'm going to go to the office. For some reason they sent us both 25 and 26. We had already approved 25. So, the only difference would be the change of the amount through the

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amendment. Excuse me a minute. I'm going to go grab it. >> [clears throat] >> What? Yeah. >> [snorts] >> I apologize. I think that the part of housing is the housing got all three housing authorities confused and Somerset got a

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Christian mix and they sent us last year's. So, this what it what we're just up here is extra money for our capital plan. So, we just need to approve the amount of 136 136,063.16

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to be added to our um our financial our contract for financial assistance for 2026. >> Okay, you want to do A B, C, D? You want separately? >> Um yes, so we got to prove prove the um

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this separate the um it's actually amendment number 11 and it's for the contract for financial assistance. >> 136,000 >> 136,063 dollars and 16 cents. >> 16 cents.

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Anybody? And [clears throat] what is that for? I see this one's for balconies and gas. What What is this for? >> It's for 2026 portion. We're going to actually um in the July meeting we're going to be voting for our new capital plan. So, it's just to add the 136 towards our 2026 capital plan.

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This the one for that was in here was the one that they gave us for um that we were receiving for our grant. This is grant money. >> I'll make a motion to approve amendment number 11, contract financial assistance in the amount of 136,063

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dollars and 16 cents. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Good. Then there has to be discussion. >> All right. So, um B, C, and D I think we could add um all to one. So, every year we have to do this and what as you can

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see the first one the um affirmative action rule, it's just um saying that we at the Housing Authority Authority go by this goal that we do a language plan in case um we have so many residents that speak a certain language

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that we go ahead and provide or get somebody here that can converse between the residents and us. Um so, that's the main plan. That's the affirmative plan. The um second plan, which is a language access plan, that's the one that says we will

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we'll we will provide that. And the third is the fair housing plan and that just states that um every um community has a goal of um minorities and we need to be at least I believe it's 12.6% and the inclusion of housing authority

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is actually at 10%. So, we do need our fair housing marketing plan for that the state requires us to have. Each community has a separate percentage that they need. So, every year when we give our year end

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and we get our we get audited, we just have to have the board go in all three plans each year. >> I need a motion. >> Yes. >> Make a motion that we approve the affirmative action goal

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plan, fair market plan and the language access plan printed in before us. >> I second it. >> All in favor? >> I. And last but not least, we every year get a um

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a pension amount appropriation from Bristol County Retirement. It's as as you can see it's separated between each um each county in Bristol, each town, housing authority, towns, different municipalities. And this year the

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Acushnet Housing Authority's share is $45,968 for the 2026 appropriation. So, we could pay um we could pay the whole for the 45,968 or can we do something?

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It's actually Yeah, okay, sorry. We can pay the 23,391 58 in two separate payments, but it's it's it's probably like six or seven hundred dollars extra that we have to pay cuz we have to pay interest on it if we break it up. >> I need a motion.

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I'll make a motion to you and pay the bill for $45,968. >> Second. >> Mr. Downey, retirement. >> Exactly. >> All in favor? >> Aye. >> All right. I'll do this too. Old business.

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>> I don't have no business. >> Well, I think this is the maintenance report. >> [clears throat] >> Uh as Lynn said, I'm working with uh Garfield Street over there trying to take care of a couple of little things that they found for their inspections. So, they should be good. Uh

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back in May, we had that issue with the washer and dryer. We finally got some stuff together with that. Got it all taken care of. And we're just encouraging the residents to use uh the high efficiency soap so it doesn't continuously be a problem

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that we had to fix. Uh other than that, just working with the contractors to make sure everything's going smoothly. Helping the residents with what they got. And moving forward day to day. >> So, the cleaning was an issue?

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>> No, it wasn't a washing issue. It was It was our issue. >> Oh, it was? >> Okay. Can we get a uh motion? Accept the maintenance report. >> Motion to accept the maintenance report. >> Second. >> Second. >> All in favor?

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>> Aye. >> Aye. >> Great. Tenant input. No one's here. Our next meeting will be Wednesday, July 15th, 2026. >> And it should be Yeah, I I have to We can't change that

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meeting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We can't change that meeting because it's the capital on plan and you have to list it 90 days before. So, we're going to try to go over with Jerome. Maybe maybe if you can go over like before you leave.

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>> Are you still on? >> Yeah, that works. Yeah, okay, perfect. >> Motion to adjourn. Yeah. >> Yeah, okay, perfect. We can go out and do that then. >> Motion to adjourn. [clears throat] >> Motion to adjourn. >> Second.

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>> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> I. >> [music] [music] [music]