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ricardo Dawn i'll call the meeting to order and with a roll call miss Boness stephanie Boness mr smith smith mr golds yes we have a call first item on the agenda will be to approve
the minutes to March 19th meeting [Applause] make a motion March 193 do I have a second i all in favor motion
passes approval of bills submitted in March and communications i have a question uh check number 8513 all right so check number 8 513 was for
service master it was a um clean up on an apartment something that we couldn't do so we had to call in um service master uh the bill was high i agreed when I um had seen it we did write it out the board did question it it is um back to service master i think they are
going to give us a discounted price on that amount so um I would suggest that the board um vote to pass the agenda accept check number um 8513 and we can add it to uh next month's
agenda okay you want to second second favor did you make a motion so the exact motion is to accept the warrant i'm sorry what was that the exact motion
would be to accept the warrant excluding check number yep until we get a Yes yes absolutely no other communications to go there director of the board okay so things have been going
um as usual in the office i just want um the board to meet Jean she's our new office person she's going to be taking Nancy 16 hours and Nancy is going to become my assistant nancy still will be here for 21.5 hours as the resident
service coordinator so she will be here um you know 21.5 hours we haven't figured out the hours so either team or Nancy will definitely be here within the four cuz we're closed on Fridays within the four work days um you're welcome i
could Oh thank you so far so good um so uh the only thing that I can um it's it's just been training and getting things ready for Nancy to um move on to um a different position i did have a
meeting this morning um and I just it's just a report to the board u maybe for future discussion um Dartmouth Housing Partnership is a 501c um nonprofit organization they're looking to expand um and help other
communities in Bristol County i'm actually on the board of um over at Down Partnership to um build more housing senior housing veterans housing so I did um talk to them this morning about possibly building um maybe adding 10 whatever we'd have to have an architect
come in around the parking lots making the parking lot a little smaller we did do the parking lot cuz we needed it for to get the cars off the road we might be able to um reconfigurate the parking area for visitors while new tenant if we do build new tenants so right now
there's some um grants from ma the state of Massachusetts uh they're going to be opening up again May 1st till June 1st and what that would do is um some of the grants would be to get the the the develop development started put the
studies um architect plans and um everything just to um see if it it'd be feasible to build um for elderly here and then there's more grants to help build so I'm just bringing that to the board today uh we've talked about it for
years we do have a shovel ready piece of land right here uh if um if um I guess I'm going to put on the next agenda to have the gentleman um the president of um Mass Housing Partnership come out to explain we're hoping that this will give
the I believe and don't quote me on this when you build something like this the first people that are welcome into these apartments are Kushnet residents and then after that it goes to the champ list i'm not 100% positive but I just want to verify that too um for the next
meeting if I bring the general to discuss um possibly adding to u the housing authority for elderly how many units you Okay the more Yeah how many yeah we we would we wouldn't even
know because it has to have like the study has to be done and you know all of that would maybe single stories that way we don't have to bring in an elevated contract like all of that has to be put into consideration when they do the design on the property but it has to be
go through an architect know yes yep it has to be it has to be done have a study first and then see if we need we know all that stuff Yes and I mean in other communities housing authorities have um gotten together with
the town and they're taking there's actually a special grant for you for municipal buildings like if a town has an old school empty or for instance they're working on um they just did the police the state police armed barracks and I think we're working on the police department uh the old police building in
Dartmouth we just built um a 689 facility uh for elderly um with um dementia and other things that have a staff inside so little places like that and the municipal buildings that empty around towns grants for those things too so we're just kind of looking into
different things but for us we do have a piece of land that we've looked into in the past and it might be might be just worth a while just to look just have the study done if the grants are available yeah good idea and as far as our 689 Mike's going to be
starting the bathroom project over there um things are going really good he continues to do work orders if needed and uh that's it that's our report on here and our 689 how many apartments right now uh we have uh three
vacancies one two one two we got to sign the other ones up today right yeah at least today we have some people so it's it's tough um to say exactly how many and then the downstairs ones that are open we have a few people
coming upstairs from down so by the by the next meeting um I mean right now we technically without people leasing up we have how many available i mean how many vacants four three one 2 3 four yeah and then we have three people coming down so then it's going to
be three so four yep all right and uh Nancy continues and now Jean to work on Champ so as he's as they're being um done and we're also actually asking for a hold mike has how many how many walk-in showers have you put in three so
Mike has put in three walk-in showers only on the bottom floors with the agent in place grant that we received they'd like the bottom units to have walk-in showers if they if we can't do a walk-in shower we're doing a tub cup which was approved by DHD they really like the way
that guy does the uh work on that tub yeah that tub cut so um we are going going ahead when the units are turn being turned over uh for the bottom ones um to do the agent in place with the showers and for the top units they're just being um done aging in place
without um putting any other walk-ins due to the fact you know the water if it falls that's going to be a big problem so but there again all the other agent place like brighter lights um I think most we've already done a lot the um
handles other hand in the economy yeah but any agent placing they're asking for upon um turnover we are putting it all in and that was also a grant that was given to all the housing authorities in Massachusetts you yeah I'm I'm done with the direct I have a motion to accept the
directive report motion to accept second all in favor i I passes new business vote to vote for mosquito squad yes so um for years now we've had the
property sprayed mike did do it one year cuz we had an incident in Swansea that had his license but he's no longer there so last year we had mosquito squad and this year we're just asking to um have mosquito squad come out to spray what's the board what's involved in
getting a a license for that it's pretty expensive yeah they do have chemical they do have chemicals that you can um we do it at my own property like it's a backpack and we use a all natural spray i'm not sure it works as good as I don't
know but they actually they use an all natural spray so yeah they use an organic spray that doesn't have that bees or anything say it works yeah the tent finds a difference so motion motion to accept the mosquito squad that's for the whole season right
that's yeah the whole that's all October second motion second All in favor all in favor i one [Music] no beast no it's it's it's Mr
reese yeah that's right no old business no old business i have no old business there's a maintenance report she more or less said it for me i didn't get any assignments done it was all work yeah i know so yeah like I say
we were going to try to get uh Tarn to come do the Garfield Street One but they're so busy so I I think I can fit it in now and get that one done in in the middle of these other ones so Fwood also has a program too um with
contractors plumbers and so if we're if you do like find that we can you know we can rip it out put it back in i mean it's not a big deal i was just going to do it all right that's about it okay could I have a motion to accept the
maintenance report motion to accept the maintenance report all in favor i motion passes no tenants input next meeting
21st do I have a motion to adjurnn motion to second all in favor i We are All [Music]
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