It was too expensive. It's like $100 more, you know. Oh, just $100 more. Just $100. Jesus Christ. What? It's like $1,200. Yeah. You pay full nails. Get colored uh
for a year. How about that? Yeah. See? See guys? See, we're we're looking out for central office. No, no, Kathleen got a Oh, we're looking for out for people who have those. Just saying. Everyone got all the
Oh, yeah. All the poster quality. Well, yeah, because the colors don't show. All my stuff comes out. It's not supposed to be purple.
What is it? The color printer where colors Eric had it too, but it doesn't show reality. Okay. Photos. Okay. So, all my
ways. You're the first one here. No matter when I get here. Were you walking up the sinks thinking, "Man, I'm going to be late." I like kind of was being really leisurely.
It's toasty out, very I think most y'all, my daughter says, and this is her first summer. Um, and today she's just next to me. She's like, it's brutal. And they are starting earlier
and earlier. Tomorrow they're starting at 6:00 to try to like get ahead of it. But wow, at 6 this morning it was already 7 days. That's true. It's not cooling down at all at night either. Um, tomorrow's supposed to be worse, but it does look
like the back end of the week we're supposed to get rain again. As if we need any more than that. But we don't need any more grass to cut. Uh yeah. [Music]
Dy, did you get a link for this? Can you send it to Quarantine, please? She was TC has all the smart. Yeah. You know this is the petty. Whatever that was the other night.
Brandon looked good. He's not listening to me. I was saying talking to Brandon. Whatever you cooked the other night looked good. Yeah, it was bombing. I was like, yeah, it must have been. Yeah, I guess
it was set. That was like a week ago. So, I'm delayed, but if it's in my memory. Hi. Your hair looks great. Thanks. Is it just the two of us so far? Uh, yeah. I would like to shave my head. It's too hot. Yeah, I'd like to shave my
whole body. Sounds like I know. I didn't realize that Alex um had done it. He was like, "My will be here tomorrow." I was like, "Oh," and he was like, "Yes, I made a reservation." And I was like, "Oh, I thought you'd forget." So, I made one, too. He was like, "Oh, you should cancel yours." Uh, yeah. I was kind of
surprised to hear from him, but I think I shouldn't say anything. No. Um, he knew. Um, or I knew. Um well I mean like an ideal world he would like be in bed like she could be like and then he be like
um I'm assuming he's just I'm sure it's got to be awful cuz there's probably presumably no shame. Should we get We can't vote on anything. It's just the
two of us. Yeah. We can't wait until 6:05. This is Maria. Your hair looks amazing. Thank you. It's very glamorous. Thank you. That's our cowboy Carter.
Thanks. Um, we go to to do beautifification, to pick up trash, to dig in the dirt, and here comes Maria somehow looking fancier than I ever look, but she is in like a t-shirt and leggings. I was about to say, "Yeah, wait a minute."
But she just, you know, and I look like this. And we loved that though. That was like, what? You're going to give us a whole bunch of flowers and let us dig in the dirt. Yeah, it looks nice. Have you been up? Have you been by? I haven't been by. It
looks good. See you. I need to go over and uh stock the pantry. Yeah, my I can't. Cool. Yeah, I'd like to see I wasn't able to make it to the last one, but I'll get the next one. There's a lot of Yeah, like a million
cigarette butts everywhere. Um, but you know there's nothing. It's just bare in the front. Wes is going to be walking in any second. No one's emailed me. So that I guess
that's why he he did answer me. Just so nobody has heard from Michael or Jav. No. No, I have not heard from um and Earl if he's not. Yeah, Earl probably won't be here. He's obviously not coming cuz he gets He always beats
me. I think he gets here. Yeah, Earl beats everyone. Andy always tells us he's coming. Mhm. Great. Now call Michael. His phone was drinking worse. He's blocking your calls. No, it didn't. It didn't ring one time.
I don't think that's a block. I know that one, guys. Come on. Like, I ain't answering that. But I didn't know. It's good though. She's She's living.
Yeah, we're trying to get We're trying to push bedtime earlier, but I think could relively happen. I mean, I don't think so. Um, and then, you know, uhoh, sun's out, guns out. It is 10,000. He's extremely mad. I have
a leather or leather chair in my home. has been I guess like it's just in trouble. All right. I haven't called us. You want me to do it? Please. Okay. We're ready now. Join by our chief. I think we still
don't have a quorum, but this is who we're going to have. So, um, can you give us a roll call, please, Miss? Commissioner Wixs here. Commissioner Goldblad here. Commissioner Bellamy here.
All right. We will now have a moment of silence. Okay. Um, next up, general announcements and meeting dates. We have our next board working session coming up on Thursday,
July 10th at 6:00 p.m. and our next regular meeting Monday, July 8th at 6:00 p.m. The redevelopment committee meeting is every first Thursday from 3:00 to 4:00. Um, re or admin redevelopment meeting every third Thursday of the
month at 1. safety committee every second Wednesday of the month at noon and the resident services committee every second Tuesday of the month at 1. Can I just also add that we have the u we didn't put on the agenda. Um we have
the uh board retreat on July 12th. That's right. Correct. Uh Commissioner Javier just parked. He'll be coming in just a second. Excuse me. Okay.
Um, next up, any public comments or far comments? You sure? Okay. All right. Um, any updates from commissioners? No update. Uh, Commissioner Wixs, but I will say um
want to give a special shout out and kudos to um our executive director, Mr. Sales, and his staff and everyone else who participated in the beautifification day. Know uh Commissioner Wixs, you were out there shoveling um cigarette butts
and everything else. So, very very proud of everybody who came out. It was a good time. Um, hot time, but it was good. So, not not as hot as if we did it today. Amen. So, the just wanted to show some love to the staff and everybody who
played a role in that. So, really good time. The next one is coming up on July 11th. Oh, the day before our thing. Yes, the day before our thing. Solidifying Wes and I will not be running four miles every four hours, which is probably a
good thing. Amen. That's our excuse. It's a prolific fundraiser. which is insane. Um and that one is at West Haven. Mhm. All right. Welcome. Thank you. Okay. Um did you want to Miss Gals, did you want
to hold to the end? Okay. Um All right. Next up is approval of the board minutes from 526. Um I move to approve the board minutes from May 26, 2025. Second.
All in favor? I. All opposed. I Okay. Next up, we have our safety update. Thank you. Um, so this one is going to be shared uh with uh by myself and Chief
Cotchas. And so we wanted to just get in front of you guys because the last meeting we talked about uh having security at South First Street and getting an update on that. Um and we have been talking about for a very long time at safety committee meetings how we
improve our relationship with the police department. Um and so we have been working on that internally. um just getting on getting to some clear lines of communication and how we uh both effectively help each other. Uh because
some of our problems are also the problems of the city. And so uh we have been communicating really well lately. Uh we have a monthly meeting set up between uh CRA and CPD uh to talk about cases that we have going on and any
other issues that we have going on on the sites and also for us to check in to make sure that uh they're getting what they need from us also. And so um I wanted to invite Chief Kajas here to talk about talk about that and also some of the um the different times that we're
seeing activity on our sites. Well, thank you, John, and thank you, board, for for having me here. I appreciate the work you all do as well. Um, to just to reiterate what Mr. Sales was saying, the relationship. Um, I've been doing this a long time. Um, worked very closely when
I was in Alexandria with the Alexandria Redevelopment Housing Authority as as a liaison, and I could tell you I've never had a closer relationship or a better uh working relationship with the an executive director of housing authority I have now. And I think that's important
in a lot of ways. We know that most of the folks, an overwhelming majority of the folks who live in the communities that that you serve are good, hardworking folks who want to live in a safe environment for their families. Um, and that it's typically maybe a very
small group of individuals, oftentimes folks who don't live in the community, uh, that cause a lot of the public safety concerns that, uh, that we hear about. And so being able to work through those challenges, being work be able to work through those things um in partnership with Mr. Sales has been
helpful and I think it uh ultimately um will will bring a a safer community. Um John had asked me about um South First Street and some of the hours and the private security that that you all have put there and do and so I had some
data. Now look with data I mean it's not it's not an exact thing, right? I mean you we we can we have our numbers and numbers are one thing and perception is another. Right? I can stand here and tell you part one crime is down. Gun violence incidents across the citywide are down on a three-year average about
40% right now. We are seeing drastic reductions in incidents involving firearms in the city overall and that includes in public housing. That being said, you have one person fire 30 rounds on a block or small children who don't care where any of those bullets go.
Nobody wants to hear that those numbers are down, right? And so, uh, we spent a lot of time in the community. I specifically spent a lot of time in West Haven. I live very close there. And, um, you know, the fear I hear from folks when something like that happens is
real. You know, when someone shows a a bullet hole in their in their window and and tell you a story about a kid that can't sleep on the window closest to the street, that really hits home. And and so, um, and it's not fair. And so we're going to work and do our part to make sure we can we can address th those
issues. Um specifically to South First Street, what we are seeing for the most part um the spikes in calls in South First Street are between Friday and Saturday between 5:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. And on in West Haven, it's Thursday, Friday, and Saturday between 700 p.m.
and 2:00 a.m. Then we see drastic drop offs when it comes to to our numbers. And so, um, that's kind of how we are deploying our resources. And so, when our officers, uh, uh, are doing extra patrols around those time frames and go
into the community, uh, the direction they are given is to not only just go into the community and sit there in a car, but get out of your car, walk around, get to know people, talk to folks, have that that presence, that relational presence uh, in the community on a regular basis. And at the times we
need them there. We don't want to make it look like we're we're over, you know, bearing a community. We want to be out there in the times where where the data is showing us that we need to be there and how we need to be there. And so those are the the times and those are the um the things we are seeing. Um and
again when it comes to the issues that we are seeing when it comes to public safety um again it's it's what we're seeing everywhere else in the city is that basically young adults or teenagers um having conflicts that erupt over petty disputes u many of which just
escalate quickly and then result in violence. Um, I will say the most troubling trend that we are seeing is just the indiscriminate nature of re of our recent shootings, not caring who they hit or what they hit. And I think that's the most troubling thing. If if
this was over territory or drugs or or a specific crime or something like that, um, that'd be one thing, but these continue to be over petty beefs. And um the accessibility of firearms is just something I haven't seen in my 28 years
of doing this. Um they're they're everywhere. So that's what we're seeing. Those are our relationships, how we're working. And I'll I'll answer any questions that any of you may have. I'll just Oh, please. Um just one, Chief. Thank you for coming. We appreciate it.
Uh I'll share a really really quick story. Um, a couple of weeks ago, I was out in West Haven late night and um, there were some shots that were fired and I was there and kind of talking to folks and particularly a young lady um,
was like 15 or 16 who was much like she was describing just hysterical, very sad, very upset, um, traumatized. other folks who were very close to proxim in close proximity to the
shooting traumatized um and I'll say that the officers came out they were very respectful they did their absolute best to ensure that the scene was um respected and and everyone was treated in a nice and appropriate
way tried to answer as many questions as they could and unfortunately things like this are just happening u not a little bit but they're just happening far too often often. But I will say, contrary to what I think some may believe, even in recent reports that we've seen, the
actions in which you all have taken um to apprehend some individuals who've been doing certain things, I think that in many ways um you it's it's justified. And personally, just based off of what I've seen and how I've spoken with folks in the community, like from me being
there basically every day, I I would say it's appreciated. Um, I think we're living in unfortunately very dangerous times with the high access to firearms and there are a lot of people who don't speak up in many ways who are
looking for the police to to to be present in a wide variety of different ways and I think that you all have been trying to do that. Obviously, you can't be everywhere 24/7. Um, but I I just want to again tell you I appreciate the work which you all have been doing and
um I'm praying that things can continue to go in the right direction or they can go in the right direction. I know we got a lot of work to do but thank you for your service. I appreciate it. Thank you, sir. Um, so I had a couple questions about some of the things that you um shared. So you said there's a 40% reduction in
gun violence across the city. Does that like do you have more granular data on that? Does that include like is it down in our communities too or is it down in some areas and up in some area? Do you know? So I would have to dig into the different specific neighborhoods. That's
citywide over threeear average. And what I'm talking about are gunrelated crimes. So it's incidents like aggravated assault involving a firearm, robbery involving a firearm. Um you know any any incident involving that that would have involved a firearm. So, I could probably
dig down into the, like you said, the granular detail of like what's West Haven look like? What's South First Street look like? We don't have that right now, but we can we could probably get to it. Could you also I don't I mean, can you maybe I shouldn't ask this, but could you speculate about why do you have any sense of what's been
working? I think one of the things when we talk with city council about what's like it would be helpful to us to to know if you have any sense of why it's down um as we as a city I think try to deal with this and especially in our role try to think about how we best can try to get a handle on some of the
violence in our communities. So, I could really only go back to it's been two and a half years now this month, right? When I got here, um, you know, I remember the first probably three months I was here, we had four homicides in three months and I think we were averaging like a
shots fired call a day and we were just coming out of COVID. Um, and I remember a community meeting that that I had over at the the old Trinity Church near near the dairy market. Not I was told there was going to be like 10 people there. I think it was it
was packed, right? About 400. Yeah. It was crazy. So, but what that showed me was that the community was and they weren't like mad at the police that this was happening. It was like the community was like, "Hey, we're better than this." And I say that because I'm not sure you
can just say it's one thing, right? Cops love to We We love to get up and say, "Hey, crime's down. Rah, we we did it." Right? That's not reality. The reality of it is it's a lot of different things. We know violent crime is rooted in poverty, right? And so to address that, you invest in people and places. I think
the city in general has done a really good job at investing in people and places. Probably better job than I've ever seen anywhere I've ever been. And so that's that's a piece of it. the community, the community is is laser focused and involved in in trying to
address a lot of these things from root causes, whether it be housing and transportation and and we're continuing to have those conversations. All that goes towards crime, right? I you know, we we still have a long way to go. If you use the analogy of like a goalie on the soccer field, right? Like the
police, we're the goalie, but there's a lot of other people on that field. You know, if the ball gets to us and then how did it get to us, right? And I so I think you know there's again it's a long way to answer your question that I don't know but I think it's just a combination of things. I think this community
specifically has done a really good job. I think the city council's done a good job. I think those who live in the community did a good job. The police department I think we've we have people there now. I mean we had 30 vacancies two and a half years ago. today 332, you know, so we have resources to put
out there and and and do the and and and be there when when it's needed to be there. But I just think it's been a whole of community approach and a whole of government approach. Um that's a lot of feel-good type stuff, but I think if you drill down into the data and all that stuff, I think you'd find that that
type of stuff works. So if I could ask just one more question. Um, Commissioner Bellam Bellam's story made me think about the fact that there's a lot of trauma in our community. I think um, trauma from people who have been here from a long time from um, interactions with police and other kinds of violence.
Um, but also for some of our refugee communities, trauma from where they're coming from and I think in current ICE raids, traum fear about what's coming in. And I'm wondering if you could say something about the ways that that trauma response informs your engagements
um, in the communities. I was um concerned last I guess think it was last week to see images of cops in assault gear um in our communities and for me that was really scary. Um and I thought this has got to be extremely traumatizing for our for our residents
and I'm wondering if you can speak to some of the tactics that perhaps you're trying to use or some way to deal with our communities in ways that are not going to continue to traumatize people. Yes, I'll I'll answer that. I'll take it as two questions. Sure. So, the first is
the fear in uh our um immigrant community. It's real. It's real. We just graduated our first Hispanic community police academy and it was full. And I got to tell you, they're scared to death about what's going on out there. So, I get it. Um our Afghan community, same.
They're scared to death. And the last thing I want as a police chief is someone from to hesitate calling us if they're a victim of a crime. And so we've worked really hard at making sure we're at at least at our level. There's only so much I can do. I can't interfere
with federal immigration or anything like that. Um but that's not our job. We're not we're not we don't enforce immigration law, nor can we. Um we don't ask for immigration status. We that's we have enough work to do than doing that. And um I think it we've worked really
hard to try to build trust in our communities. So that's that's the first piece. I think that's a real concern. It's a real fear and I'm very aware of it. Um, and so is my staff. The, uh, the second question is about tactics. So, I could speak in general about why we do and what we do. Right. So, the incident
that you're talking about on West Haven. So, there were two search warrants that were applied for. Both of those search warrants were sealed. So, I can only speak to some things of it. Um, but they were both from the county county search warrants. They involved a shooting, a drive-by shooting um, that uh, was it
was pretty bad. It was a it was a violent incident that happened in the county. Um, as they were putting those search warrants together and we identified a specific house where we believe firearms and possible people who were involved in those incidents were at, um, it's our obligation to make sure
that we go there and recover that evidence and further that investigation. Now, that is very dangerous work. Think about what I said earlier about folks who indiscriminately shooting in a neighborhood, not caring where those
bullets go. We all, you know, in West Haven, how many little kids are running around out there? Every time I go to I see how many kids are out here running around, god forbid, 30 rounds, and we're talking AK-47s, right? These aren't just So if if folks
wouldn't hesitate to do that to those kids, if my officers are going to a home to execute a search warrant for someone who we have we have deemed to be a violent individual and who and looking for firearms involved in a violent crime
that has been connected and I say connected because we have to apply for a search warrant through a judge and and get to the level of probable cause to even do that. uh we have to do it safely and so we do what's called a surround
and call out which is very different than a lot of other places. So um you may have seen like if a SWAT team goes and and and executes a search warrant, they roll up, break in the door and run in the house and start clearing and doing all that kind of stuff, right?
It's incredibly dangerous. You wind up doing that. People in the house don't know who you are. Next thing you know, there's shooting. You don't know what's happening. We do it a lot different. We will roll up and we will surround the house and then we will knock and call you out and call every individual out of
that house. That takes time. We're not going to rush in there. But while we do that, it's also very dangerous in the sense that what if they barricade themselves in the house? What if they take those guns we're looking for and shoot it out with the police? And so that's why we have to have vehicles that
our officers can stack up behind and protect themselves. in that vehicle are negotiators, hostage negotiators in that car so that if someone doesn't want to come out, we could put a phone into that house and negotiate with them to come out of the house. But they have to do that from a place one where they can
communicate and speak to them where they can hear them so they know they've come out and they have to feel like they're safe doing so. So there's a lot that goes into an operation like this. Everything from medics on standby to I mean it's it's a multi-day planning for
incident like that. But I understand how how that can look and sometimes it doesn't look good. So I'm I'm wondering and I don't know if you can speak to specifics, but I'm wondering about the kind of interaction you can have with Mr. Sales or his staff to let people who are not involved with the incident know. Because again, I mean, I think there's
also some really good compelling evidence coming out of sociologists who study criminals and criminalization who say that the more the police amp up their response, the more likely there is to be violence. So it invites a violent response. And I'm wondering thinking about kids doing something that might invite someone to say, "I see the police
in riot gear. I'm I'm going to level up um because I'm scared." What kind of communication you have to make sure that our residents are as protected as possible and so that those who fear that they're like, "Oh, they might be coming for me know that that's not what this is going." But they can't tell them ahead
of time cuz if I mean, they're there trying to trying to take someone. I mean, I'm not going to if someone did. I'm just saying it from this perspective. I'm sorry, Chief. I'm only like now we having a conversation if that's okay. If if someone shot 30
rounds into a neighborhood that was full of little kids, they have no regard for everybody else. The police, in my personal opinion, I'm not a police officer, but the police, in my opinion, then have to take they they
need to take every precaution they can, but then also be prepared to meet this individual with some level of force cuz they've shown they they have no regard. No, that's But what I'm asking is can they can you say to staff like can you encourage people to get away from the playground for Yeah. So, so I was there
that I came out there that morning. I I was out there talking to neighbors. I got a lot of thank yous because like we said, most people live in the community. They know where the issues are, right? And so, um, I was out there that morning when I got off like many times. I come by and I swing by and I talked to folks
and I was there uh in the afternoon as well and spoke with folks and so and we'll continue to do that because you're right, they have to understand that this is an isolated thing. Um, you know, it would I get it there there, you know,
the trauma that can be, you know, um, the trauma that folks deal with is real and seeing that in your neighborhood. No, nobody wants to see that. Nobody wants to see a SRT, a special response team showing up and and and dealing with a neighbor, right? If you're like, "Hey,
am I in danger?" You know, nobody wants to see that. U, but nobody also wants them to be able to stay in there and have these guns. We've recovered firearms out of the house. So, you know, it's a it is it's a balance part of trying to um and we sincerely care about that community and um and and I'll
continue to be out there and answer those questions and folks, like I said, I was there that morning, when they were there, they made sure I was there and I was there afterwards as well. Thank you. Yeah. So, dovtailing off that, it's like, you
know, the the Hispanic comma academy you have, I I know community members who participate in in that and and I feel like I can speak better to the Latin community, but also we have that new Afghan community that we're talking about. Um, and as you kind of navigate it, I think you hit upon a point like
fear. I think you've you've heard that and even even from me, I'll put it that way. Um the one thing I've been thinking about is also a clarity about um the academy like these are the city police compared to X
Y and Z and that might be an outreach effort that could be feasible to kind of clarify that. You know, you said you were doing before and after and clarifying this is for this specific reason in regards to this warrant. um that that could assist with alleviating
some of that and it also would clarify what what efforts you have or or or what lines you have put down in the sand in regards to what you want to do for the city. Um and I that could be a start to helping with fear and that applies in general to the whole community as you know. Absolutely. You know, until
recently when we would do a search warrant, we would just say, hey, we're in this area doing a search warrant. You know, this now we put in there we are in this area doing a search warrant related to this. What type of incidents related to and that it is it is us or if it was
us and Alamaro and no other law enforcement agency is involved, right? And so um you know we've we realize we have to do that stuff because there is there is this fear in the community that that there's other stuff going on. So
absolutely. I think Mr. Sales has a comment or question. Yeah. Sorry. I just want to also plug that um after this happened, we did have all the resident services there to help and and work with residents as well as some property
management staff to address concerns. Um and we are working on what that model looks like uh whenever we have incidents like that, but also other incidents um from other residents or visitors of residents in communities. Would it be possible for SRA, speaking
of these notices that go out to trans to I know we have translators to make sure that they're translated into as many languages as possible so that I mean I realize this is happening rapidly but I think it would be helpful because if someone speaks Pashtune and they get something in English they might say like I I still don't know what's going on. Yeah. Everything that goes out to the
public is translated in all of our languages. I think it's nine different spoken languages. Thank you. Commissioners, anything else? No, thank you for presenting. Anything else goes, Chief? Thank you. Thank you anytime.
Oh, Mr. Payne, you have anything? Sorry. Hold on, Chief. Sorry, Mr. P. Commissioner P. Councelor Payne, you got 12 titles. You're good. Um, I don't have anything. Okay. Thank you, Chief. Okay. All right. Housing director update.
Good evening to the um to the board of directors and everyone who's online. Um really quickly, I'll try to get through this fairly quickly. Um we are trying out a new format to provide better visuals. Um and so you
will notice that West Haven has information missing. My apologies. We were at the last minute trying to work on this new format. Um, and so I just wanted to let you all know that for West Haven, 16 non-payments were filed for
June. Um, next month we'll we'll have that information in there and I do apologize again. Um, we are happy to report that there's been no actual eviction since May 15th. Um, with that being said, tars are still extremely
high. Um, however, we are working the EDP, which is the eviction diversion program. Miss Banks, I'm sorry to interrupt. It's a verbal only. I see all you guys looking only. I'm sorry. We'll send out the one. Okay. Thank you.
Sorry, Miss Banks. I don't know if you can see us. We were all looking through the packet for it, but it's verbal only. I'm sorry. Yeah. No. Yeah, no problem. You can continue. Okay. Um, so TARS are extremely high. Um, however, we are working the EDP, which is the eviction diversion program, um, especially hard
right now. We're working with our resident services department and our other partners to, uh, get the TARS down and also prevent evictions. Um, so I wanted to that was worth mentioning. Um, we thank everyone, this has already been
said, but for beautifification day, um, we thank everyone that came out and everybody that brought somebody. Um, West Haven beautifification day is going to be July 11th. Um, 8:30 to 12:30. Weather permitting. We will have to keep
an eye on the heat index. Um, so it's definitely going to be all hands on deck. Um, as West Haven is probably cumulatively the size of most of our other properties together. Um, so bring someone um, who wants to work hard and
have fun and and be part of a team. Um we look forward to all our partners, any board members that can join. Um we will send out a reminder email and um to remind everyone of that. Um
we are proud to announce that we have finally gotten our individual events on the properties um started again um under the uh directives of Mr. Sales. And so, um, we will start sending out those
flyers for the individual property events, um, as well as partner events. Um, we will start doing some property management popups as we discussed discussed in the safety meetings. Um,
residents having an opportunity to talk to property management staff outside of a formal um, office setting. So, we'll be doing some popups. Um, they'll be happening once we talk this week and get
a schedule and we'll send those out. Um, so if anyone would like to join us at those popups, um, just to talk to residents and socialize, uh, we be happy to have you. We'll keep you informed on that. Um, and then last but not least,
we know that vacancies are like a big thing right now. Um we are excited to say that we in the next 30 days we hope to fill five to seven vacancies. That may not seem like a lot in the grand
scheme of things. However, um a lot goes into filling vacancies in the different programs. Um so that is our goal for the next 30 days and um we're working on that and we have goals and we're meeting
those. So, we're um we're happy to be have some progress there. Are there any questions? Um so, I just have like a process question. I know and some of this was my fault. Um but that we were supposed to have an update on the eviction diversion program for our work session that was cancelled. Is it last
week? Do we have a date that that'll be rescheduled for so that we could get the the full program? Yeah, the full program will be at the next work session. Okay, cool. It's going to be that. We're going to try to keep that at 30 minutes. Okay. Um and then we're going to do the strategic planning. Okay. In preparation
for our our retreat on Saturday. Um and then my other question is uh like since we don't have the numbers. You said that you're hoping to fill five to seven vacancies. What's the current number of vacancies? Do you know? Um let me pull up the other report
unless someone has it open. We have 19. Thank you. So, so Phil, more than a third. That actually seems like good progress. Yes. Yes. Okay. And I will say um some of these units are at properties that we just acquired. So like Green
Leaf as a development that we purchased on um Fifth Street. And so that property has four vacancies by itself. And so yes, we already knew we were going to be getting some of these and they were going to need some work. And so uh that was planned. Uh, and we knew it was
going to take a little bit of time. And in one of the um um duplex, it's a duplex on the development at 217 Fifth Street, which is across from Green Leaf. Uh, that building is currently empty, and we're looking at uh changing the way
we uh rent. And so, we're looking at doing um some rent by the bedroom options to uh capture some of the folks that are losing housing in Cavalier Crossings. And so, um, that's going to require a huge remodel. And so, that one
will probably be vacant for a little while, but, uh, we're going through that process now. And so, um, units that show vacant aren't always vacant because, um, we just can't get to them. Some of them are have really big plans and projects
that take multiple months to actually complete. Thank you. That's all I have. Thank you. Thank you. Just a commissioner. I mean, um, Mr. Sales, a special shout out to Miss
Banks. She was out there at beautifification day, hands in the dirt, shovel. She tried to hit me with a shovel. So, I don't know who I report that to, but no, seriousness, she did a she was she was definitely boots on the ground. So,
thank you, Miss Banks, and we look forward to getting our orders from you on July 11th. Thank you. I'll be there. Thank you. I appreciate it. Commissioner. All right. HCV program manager update. Good evening. Um, yes. So, for this
program, HCV program is um is still operating like normal. Um it is not in shortfall but we are are watching the program and so we have not released any new vouchers um just because we've received a a lot of um rent increase
requests and so um that will eat up additional revenue uh that we were anticipating. Um we are keeping a eye on um the uh units that the vouchers that turn over. Um but we are not
anticipating pulling uh from the weight list anytime soon. So the weight list number is standing pretty steady at 1,700 uh for the HCV program. We are looking at closing the wait list for the crossings uh because they do have 1,200
um applicants. Jesus. Um and so that development alone will not serve 1,200 folks. And so uh it's really unrealistic keeping the uh weight list open this long um for folks just to get on the
program to not get assistance. And uh it also profuses the process a lot because they feel like they're getting on our weight list but in fact they're actually only getting on the crossings wait list which we only hold because we administer the voucher program for them for those units. Um do you know anything about I
mean I this is a this is a crazy waiting list these I mean they're they're it's not this is not new but do we know anything about like are these long-standing residents like are they they're just looking for something? They are all over the country. Okay. Uh so
when these weight lists open up, everyone applies from everywhere. Um and so we could run a list to give you some data around how many are are local. Uh compared to other areas, uh we could run
that pretty quickly. Um but when you look at these weight lists, you're typically uh getting folks all over the world uh to apply. because you you have a very short availability everywhere. And so if you
can get your name on a list and then get called, you stay there for a year or you can do a reasonable accommodation to not even ever live there but deport that assistance. Uh it all depends on uh the qualifications. So you can't require I'm
assuming you can't require that they be here. Oh, so we have a preference and so our weight list has a preference system and so it had gives preference points to folks uh who are um living or working in the city of Charlottesville. So we have a local preference.
Um the other thing uh folks should be very mindful of is the emergency housing voucher program. So that program you will continue to see that number drop. Uh so we initially had 15 vouchers. Um we've gotten to the point where uh those
vouchers sunset and so when uh the folks no longer qualify or no longer using the voucher, they go away. We're not allowed to release those vouchers. And so you'll continue to see that number drop as well as uh your tenant protection vouchers and your tenant relocation vouchers.
Uh we may be steady on the relocation though because some folks chose not to come back to Crescent Halls and so they'll keep their voucher until uh they no longer qualify for the program. Um we are doing uh HS inspections. We have a new inspector. Um I actually went
out last week and did some QC inspections for the voucher program. And so I'm going to be working with him at least for the next month or so uh on the inspections a couple couple days a week uh is the commitment I'm making. Um but
that will uh improve our our um CAMAP score. I will say I do anticipate us not receiving all of our points for HPS inspections and that's because we did not do enough uh quality control inspections last year. And so we have to
do a a certain percentage of QC inspections. Um so those are inspections that our inspector has already completed within 30 days of the person either being leased up or uh their renewal. Um and so we did not hit hit the max the
minimum number we needed to do. And so u we have that scheduled to where I'm doing the QC inspections. And so I should get them almost all knocked out within the next three months for the year. Awesome. Thank you. Any questions for
Mr. Sales? All right, TC, you're up with the finance update. All right. You want to try to see all this? My version used to be. Um, so we wrapped up for our fiscal year 25 uh
bought our FDS in house um for the first time. So that was fun experience. U for the past five to 10 years, I think we paid someone $30,000 a year to file a FDS for us. So, this is the first time
it's been done in house ever. Well, that's like a real Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Uh, so much fun. So, I think the first thing you got on the is public housing. Um, so we'll start there. So,
this is all public housing. Uh, together we had uh roughly $4.3 million in total revenue. 2 million of that, a little over 2 million being the uh HUD operating grants. We had 943,000 in tenant rent and we had about 1.3
million in capital fund. Uh the big expenses, salaries, they were just shy of a million dollar uh between maintenance and um admin. Our utility expenses um always high.
That's uh just shy of $700,000 for the year. That's water, sewer, gas. uh a little bit of that storm water tax and then trash removal. So our total net on public housing for the end of the year is about $219,000
of net income. So that's where we finish up on public housing. Any questions on that? What happens to the net? Can you do any whatever you want with the net income? It typically goes to like our reserve. So we're we're supposed to have you know
a couple months in reserve per HUD guidelines. So we try to you know is 200 is that is that under reserve is that other targets there? We should have three months. Well so HUD rule is two months. Our rule is three. Okay. Uh I
think we're at like three three or something like that. Four certain in hard cash. So, you know, and based upon the climate, we need to stay closer to four. Okay. Uh because we've all heard concerns about budget cuts on
the big beautiful bill. Uh and so um yeah, we need to be very mindful on that piece. So, we have not anticipated uh spending the reserve. We've try to add to it at all. Yeah. Or not get into
it. Uh, next I believe is HCV. Um, pretty quick here. We had uh 8.5 million in HAP received from HUD this year. Um, a little over a million of that was the shortfall money that uh, you know, got
us whole from prior years where we were having to put in other funds. uh total housing assistance was $7.9 million and we end up with that net income of just over a million dollars and that is that shortfall money that you know was getting made up from from prior years. So that basically just took care of your
inner company stuff. All right, city housing um total rent income uh just over a million dollars on the year. Uh admin salaries are one of our bigger expenditures at 92,000.
Our total utility expense on the city housing portfolio is uh only 96,000. That is because a lot of those tenants pay pay their utilities or an allowance of um total maintenance salaries was aboutund just shy of 120,000.
And the other biggest finish I show on here is the 384,000 of interest expense for the loan that we are paying on that. So that ends up with a net income of $78,900. And that is net of depreciation.
And the other big expense on there is um but it has the revenue to match it. The roofing expense is what is it? The roof. Okay, perfect. The roofing. Yeah. Dogwood rich street. The contract uh repairs there. But we have the city grant to basically
offset that since a Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Um, one quick thing I meant to mention before, uh, we do public comments. I guess it's a public comment.
Uh, there is a tween and teen, so ages 12 to 17 field day at Washington Park this Sunday, um, that the city is um, sponsoring. Uh, and it's all free um from 3 to 6. So, send your teens and
tween. Weather weather permitting. Weather permitting. Yes. If it's not uh, you know, 12,000 degrees or 4. Um, okay. So, I will open it back up for
public comments or far comments. They're our favorite. Good evening y'all. Good evening. My name is Latricia Gals and I'm the executive director of FAR and I the only real comments um that I have this
evening are related to our youth actually. So we will be having our first ever youth internship program starting tomorrow. Congratulations. We are very excited about our young um organizers that will be joining us. So um as a
community I am asking as we will be reaching out to um just people to mentor because that is part of what we really are trying to do is create opportunities um because our youth will be learning how to organize. They will be going out doing a lot of the things that our organizers are doing but we are also
working on college readiness if those are what the candidates are interested or career readiness. Um and so we are just really hoping uh to shape and mold folks um because they already leaders, the ones that have uh signed up for the task. We already know that. Um but
really loving on them, encouraging them because the the idea really is to activate and engage the other youth in the communities to be involved in changing and honestly they already know what's going on. So just being a a part of the change, being um driven to do uh
the things that they are called and whatever that looks like. Um, so we're ready to equip them in that. Um, so just looking for your support as we will be reaching out. Um, and just also thank we were able to host our smoke and vote event uh a few days a few last week um
where we were able to barbecue and have the candidates come out to really talk about rank choice voting and what that looks like, how that uh would work for folks who uh participated in voting and also have them have an opportunity to meet the candidates themselves and have conversations. So we are really working
around a lot of things uh going forward and uh engaging around civic education to help people really understand the importance of what is coming, what is happening and preparing them in the best ways that they choose um and to whom whomever they support. Um but getting
the word out, helping them to understand um activating our youth. We're of course continuing with our our adults. Um we had a wonderful actually bingo event as well at West Haven the other day. So, shouts out to West Haven. Really lively bingo crews out there. I've learned. If
I didn't know before, I learned that day for sure. So, we are just really excited about what we're having at FAR. We have new organizers. We have organizers coming. Um, and we really are starting to make sure that uh residents know that we are here to support them in all of the ways that we we need to support them
and that they want to be supported in the ones they the ways they want to transform community. So, we'll have organizers in all of the communities. uh we have assigned organizers that are there and it's already starting uh to we are starting to see uh the positive results of what that really looks like
when we are deeply invested in what our community has to say and has to offer and letting them know that they can trust and support us in the process. So um we are just looking forward to what the summer has to bring. Um we know it's hot and we're hoping to cool down a lot of things uh from our perspective and from our end. So, we continue to look to
support in the best ways that we can um and just are looking for support in the ways that we can receive support as well. So, thank you so much and I appreciate y'all. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Any other comments
from anyone? All right. That concludes our agenda for this evening. I get a motion to adjurnn. So moved. Second. All in favor? I. All oppose.
Thank you very much. Thank you.