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MEETING SECTIONS:

Part 1 (Video ID: cdsmmRodnCo):
- 00:00:04: Meeting Called to Order, Roll Call, Board Reorganization
- 00:01:45: Approval of Minutes and Bills Submitted for April
- 00:03:03: Director's Report: Capital Plan and Day-to-Day Operations
- 00:04:11: Amending Budget for Celebration and Change Order Discussion
- 00:07:21: Old Business: Ongoing Construction Projects and Grant Money
- 00:10:17: Maintenance Report: Landscaping, Repairs, Washing Machine Issue
- 00:11:38: Tenant Input, Next Meeting Date, Motion to Adjourn


Part: 1

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[music] [music] >> I like to bring the meeting to order. Wednesday, May 20th, 2026, which is being recorded. Roll call to order. Roll call. I would like to welcome

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Paul Susi. Welcome aboard. So, are you here, Paul Susi? >> [laughter] >> Now, you just have to say your name. Paul Susi. Here. Jerome. Okay. >> [clears throat] >> All right. Discussion and board vote to

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recognize the Board of Commissioners. Yes. So, we're going to we're going to reorganize the board, but Bobby is not here, so I put it on there because it's supposed to be done after the next election. But, if you guys want to table it, that way we have a full board, and then everybody can vote to reorganize the board once we have a full

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board. So, do you want to Do you want to make Anybody want to make a motion to table it? Motion to table. Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Okay. Approval of minutes of April 15th, 2026. Motion to approve the minutes of April 15th. Second. All in favor?

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Aye. All right. Passes. Bills submitted for April 2026. So, this is the the bills that Yeah. So, that's always under the warrant. So, what this This all the bills we paid last month. And you can question us and get an answer.

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And yes, that was the second biggest check I've ever written out being a health department. Yeah, that was a project that actually comes out of my capital fund. The 19,000 was for our comp property insurance. Which stayed the same this year, go up.

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Motion to approve the water bill. Second. All in favor? Okay. Communications. Nothing except what we have on to vote for. All right.

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Director's report. Okay. So basically in the office, we're just still doing day-to-day operations. We have no vacancies right now. So we've been trying to just catch up on getting everything ready to do research and

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just some other things that we've been closing up on the office. As far as Doc F. Street, it's been pretty quiet with them. So I've been working on our um new capital plan, new construction plan. I just actually submitted it the other

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day, which unfortunately we're going to have to you know, usually we meet in July, but because the state changed the way that they're doing the capital work, um we have to meet in July to go ahead and approve our capital our new capital planning and what we're going to be spending for the next year. So we've

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been working on that and just business as usual here. Do you have a motion? I would motion to accept. All in favor? Aye. Second? Second. Mr. Suzy seconds. Mhm. All right, new business. Okay, so our

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first um line item is A, a discussion and board vote to amend the 2026 budget in the amount of $600 under the subsidy uh number 3801 and non-routine maintenance. So, what we did, and um I guess the accountant didn't realize she

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didn't put it through. This year, um the state of Massachusetts is allowing $10 per unit for every um every housing authority to have a celebration for the 250th year um of the United States. So, we are going to put some kind of a party

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together for the residents um using the $600. So, I just need the board to make a motion to go ahead and do a budget revision in the amount of $600 under the subsidy category. Make a motion. Second. All in favor? Aye.

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Great. Great. Okay, and our second vote, if you can see right here, um it's this in your folder, PRT. This is everything included. I just included the first four pages for the board. Um so, this project, as you know, has been a

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hard hard for all of us, but um we have talked about this before, but the change order finally came through. So, this box that the electric goes in behind um through the middle of buildings um four and five, it's not big enough to

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hold It's not big enough to hold the electric that's going to come into the property. So, we have to replace the box. Um so, this change order number six is for a new electric service. We already talked about moving the box from a building between this building to be

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between building three and four. So, with that being said, everything here, labor, materials, equipment, um doing it with um you know, what what the state um gives us and all the rules we have to follow.

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The whole grand total is $120,840.19. This was approved by Department of Housing and it is going to be paid through our capital funding, so it won't uh won't affect our budget line items at all. Well, didn't we get a week based on

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So, we have to pay for the whole project. We're paying for it as we go along through the requisitions. We've already paid rec number one. Um I mean, we already approved this project, so um this change order has to be done. There's no way we can complete this

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project unless we have a box big enough to bring the electric in so it can be distributed through each building. So, unfortunately, it's one of those things that we need to approve because there's no way this project can continue without this change order. Okay. Well,

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need a vote. Make a recommendation to accept it. Second. Second. All in favor. Aye. Aye. Okay, that brings us to old business. We don't have any old business, um but

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what I can tell you is we have a lot going on here. Um we actually have um Eric and I have met I'll just tell you the construction projects we have. So, right now we're working on the electrical construction project. We did get the grant for the um

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back doors and screen project and also the grant for the new buzzer systems with the cameras. We also are going to be working on the new flooring for all the hallways and inside the buildings. So, those four projects along

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with the retro fit project, which is bringing in all the internet to each building and allowing the tenants to get internet at a lower price, are all supposed to be completed by the fall. So, there's a lot going on. Today we met with the construction project Oh, and plus the

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back screening and railing project. That's also in there. Today we met with the contractor. We I really like this contractor. We've worked with them on in Swansea. Very thorough. They came out and they questioned the engineer on a lot of things that are going on with this project. The flooring on the

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upstairs decks actually are a little rotted. So, there's going to be a change order on that project. That project also was grant money that came in. So, we're working with the HCD to see how we can get this done. But, they're going to replace the um And the upstairs, they're going to

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replace all the What is it? The plywood? Yes. And they have a new system. It's almost like it's almost like vinyl outside that covers the plywood. So, it gives it a lot more both probably a 30-year product. So, that

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would go on the floor. It's actually really nice. We looked at it That was just another option. They're just They're trying to give us options that's going to fit us best. So, that rubber vinyl deal Yeah, it's kind of like rubber or like they had like a rubber roofing on it and

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they painted over it. But, that has lasted since the housing authority has been built. So, we're working on that right now with the engineer. They don't even want to stop the project because of this. Um they don't want to go and put new railings and new screen when the floors are rotted. So, that's something

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we're working on. They actually have taken a job right now, which is better for us because they're going to stop the flooring project and we need a safe way um if we're doing the front walls, we need people to get out the back in case of an emergency, so we're working on that. But we um here at the Christian I

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have a lot going on um between now and the fall and we're looking forward to getting all these projects completed. Once we get the new decks, the new railings and now the new flooring, basically we're going to be looking really good here um because we've done almost everything to

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these buildings. The next thing um would be probably just the um the trim all around the outside of the porches and then these buildings will be 100% complete. So, and that's the old business. Very good.

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Motion? Motion to accept. Second? Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Okay. Maintenance report. Everything's been going pretty smoothly.

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Got rid of snow, now we're on to landscape, grass, weeds, weeds, trying to take care of all that and keep up with that stuff. Couple of faucets, plugged up toilet, other than that we're I'm actually working with the laundry people right now because it's starting

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to ruin our flooring, that's unacceptable, so. We've been calling the washing machine company and they keep saying it's the plumbing and Eric has done everything in his power to fix the plumbing and then he we finally realized that the washing machine is leaking and it actually is. It's doing a number, so he's been on the

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phone with them and we're trying to get them to repair the floor because we kept telling calling them for a work order and they they weren't fixing their problem, they were telling us it was the problem, so I'm actually going to make a phone call today to the company because it ripped up the floor in front of the bathroom. Mhm. Cool team. Yeah.

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The washing machine's flushing right up now. Yeah. So, we'll be working on the flooring. Wow. All right, well, thank you. Tenant input? None. Next meeting, Wednesday, June 17th,

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2026. That's the show. Motion. Motion to adjourn. Motion to adjourn. Second. Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Motion carried. >> [music] [music]