Them a couple of times because we're supposed to, What's, with miss, What's the No. Club Clubello. She didn't turn in. I don't know who that is. Right here. Hello. Hi. Hi. Hello. How are you? Good. I am Kathleen Glavazzi. I'm the deputy secretary. Okay. Nice to meet you. I'm just filling in for John tonight. I don't know. I really like to put my glasses on. I can't see. Maybe he's a little under the weather. Oh, that's true. And I sort of met you the other day with John.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just a marine. Yes. You're Marie. Yes. Maria. You're Maria, you're the person I emailed. Yes. Great. Then And I'll choose to have them write your last. Okay. That's the one I'm watching. Have you Well, come on up. Do you want me to swear where Yeah. And you get to pick wherever you want there. Did you get a chance to get, sworn in? Yes. I did my financial disclosure, and I've done all the things next Thursday. Okay. I read the things you sent, but, like, they didn't mean a lot to me. It takes about a year. Yeah. That's a long time. I'm Bridgette. Hey, Lee. It's nice to see you here.
The email. Yeah. Yes. And I don't know if oh, is this a shirt for somebody? Know because I was supposed to, like, say what size I was, and I never did. So Maria, who's this shirt for? Gillette. Erica. I'll set it under You can set wherever. Yeah. I just set it down because she said there a list. And you said Earl's here. How many of us are there now? Four. No. I mean In person, three in in Javier's update. No. I mean, on the board at all. Not like like I can count on that. Do you know how long have you been on before? Four.
Mhmm. Do you re knocked? Yes. So I Okay. Yay. We have a new football in. Thank you for being in the Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much. You can just leave it right there because I can't just leave it right there. I'll get it afterwards. Thank thank you. Hi. Hi. So nice to meet you. To meet you. Hi. Hey. I'm sorry? Just last.
We actually Yeah. That's fine. We'll get it. This. We'll talk about this. Me too. Yes. Because I interviewed for a job in Tom Ferrell's office, and you interviewed me. And I was like, you you, like I, have a con uncommon name, and so I recognize that as your name, like, from a million years ago. That is a million years ago. Yeah. I was a, like, a little child. Were you like, you were in Charlotte, though? No. That's I mean, which makes sense why I when I was in DC, but, I was, like, just out of college and trying to find a job in 02/2009, which,
as you remember, might have been a Hard time spent. Job. I worked for a criminal justice nonprofit, that, like, was, like, a policy org trying to work on preventing wrongful, incarceration by dealing with, like, policy causes. So Was it a state based one? It was national, but it had, state offices in Tennessee and Texas. And then it was basically when the Innocence Project started, the Innocence Project only did litigation. They didn't do, like, policy stuff, and so this was, like, a faulty thing.
Oh, that's what I'm saying. And then variation was much better at fundraising, and so this is not a winner. For sure. It was a good learning experience. Oh, good. So, Maria, did, appear in for Michael? No. Okay. I also got cupcakes for us afterwards because it's Earl's birthday. Oh, my lord. Oh, my god. Oh, have a cupcake. Alright. Well, then maybe we should get going. Okay. Okay. So I will call this meeting to order. Can we do a roll call, please, missus? Commissioner Hicks? Here. Commissioner Rodales? Here. Commissioner Rosenblatt?
Here. Am I saying saying that right? Rosenblatt. Blatt. Okay. Rosenblatt. Yeah. Commissioner Wicks? Yes. O'Rourke. O'Rourke? Okay. I've changed my name twice while Oh. In the course of being on this board. Sorry. Commissioner Clovell. Here. I pronounced it from my view. Okay. Let's see. We have a form. Alright. We will now take a moment of silence. Okay. General announcements, meeting dates, and reminders. Our next board work session is Thursday, September 11 at 6PM. Next regular board meeting is Monday, September 22 at 6PM.
We have the redevelopment committee meeting every first Thursday of the month from three to four. We have the CRHA admin redevelopment meeting every third Thursday at one, safety committee every second Wednesday at noon, and then resident services every second Tuesday at one. I think we'll get to it later, but we, do you need to elect do some elections tonight? And then, at a subsequent meeting, we probably we've had a a lot of shifts,
so we probably need to, like, realign what different committees and stuff people are assigned to. I don't know if that's an I'm, like, staring at you, Kathleen. I don't know if that's on your radar or not, but I just thought about it. Oh, well, next is next on the list is to elect officers. Do we need, are there any public comments before we move on? I said I I I just noticed there are some how houses on Monticello on
on Monticello Avenue are being built and at 763 yes. And, you know, I'm thinking about moving next yes. What's the public housing for because I'm having issues with not being allowed to write a check to pay for my rent. And I'm gonna try to yes. For yeah. Yes. For for for the April or March in 2026.
Been a nice place to live, but but that it's set. And no no one no bank that concerns me personally, the Wells Fargo Bank, and I wish it would be back back soon. And what what is the South South Sixth Street gonna be built? Is there gonna be a be an open house to be shown around? There there are number number of things in there. I don't think we have dates yet for when we would be able to If
I have any questions of this information, who should I go to? The who would be the best of you? Shonda or Maria. You the best person to talk to would be miss Carrie. Right here. Right there. Maria. Carrie. Hi. She can help you with those questions. Hello. Okay. Alright. Thank you. Okay. So next is, on the agenda is annual meeting to elect officers. Previously, we and and we're only required to have a chair and a vice chair.
Wes was the chair, and he's he's obviously completed his service, and I was the vice chair, and I guess that's up to you. So at a minimum, we need to to have those. We have previously in the course of me being on the board at one point, Laura Goldblatt was treasurer, but we are not required to have a treasurer. And I don't if anybody asks me what that entails, I have no idea. So is Delphine Delphine, can you advise Yes.
I'm on. So, so for tonight, as you said, the most important positions are the vice chair and chair. Although if you desire to elect a treasurer as well, you can certainly do so, but not every housing authority has a treasurer, as an officer of the board. You typically proceed first with the vice chair election and second with the chair. So I am not sure if you have, considered whether there would be multiple candidates or any candidate at all for each of those two positions.
But when you're ready to proceed, the best way to do it is for a commissioner to nominate someone on the board. They can nominate themselves or another commissioner for one of the two positions, and then we take a vote, and then we move on to the next position. So we could start with the vice chair and then move on with the chair position, again, assuming there are commissioners willing to serve in both of those positions. Okay. Thank you. Oh, hi, Michael. Who?
So I guess I'll open it up. Does anybody have any nominations for anything? I guess we'll start with vice chair. I well, I didn't talk to him, but I would nominate Javier. I would second that. Based on board tenure. Not that that's required. I would if if you make a motion, I'd be happy because I think Bridget would be in a very good position to be the chair. If I could, just support you in that way. If it pleases the board is there. Oh, we're getting fancy now. We're looking for pleasing them. Board. Whole habits. Okay. So it looks like we have a motion by com by commissioner Wicks, seconded by
commissioner Payne to nominate commissioner Rodales for the position of vice chair of the board. Are there any other nominations for that position, or is the board ready to proceed with the vote? Great. It looks like we're ready to proceed with the vote. So, if you would call the role, or I'm happy to do it if you prefer, whichever way you would like to proceed. Maria, you're welcome. Commissioner, Hicks? Here. Commissioner Gold Rosenblatt? Yeah. You were voting yes. Right? Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay.
We're no. Yes. Thank you. Yes. Commissioner O'Rourke? Yes. Commissioner Clavell? Yes. Commissioner Rodales? Yes. Commissioner Payne? Yes. Unanimous. Okay. Congratulations, Javi. Thanks, everyone. Okay. Wait. Do we have any nomination for the position of chair of the board? I'd like to nominate Bridget O'Rourke as our chair. I second that. Thanks, Right. It looks like we have a motion by commissioner Rodales, and the second, was Commissioner
Rosenblitz. Oh, thank you. Commissioner Rosenblitz. Thank you. No problem. We have a lot of new names. Totally totally understandable. We have a a motion made by commissioner vice current vice chair or former vice chair, Bridget, Witz O'Rourke, as the new chair of the board. Do we have any other nominations for the position of chair? Hearing none, we can proceed to the roll call, please.
All in favor? Aye. Aye. Yes. Aye. All opposed? Alright. Congratulations. Thank you, everybody. Okay. Next up, I don't see anyone from far. Oh, yes. I'm sorry. I don't know you. I didn't know you were from FAR. Hi, everyone. My name is Sofia Marrero, and I'm a community organizer at FAR. I just recently started maybe, like, four months ago. So if you haven't seen me, me Welcome. It's nice to meet you all. So Latricia is away on vacation, so I'm gonna be providing the FAR update today. We recently celebrated West Haven Community Day, and it was a great success.
I wanna thank CRHA for all that they did. This event was a collaborative effort, and we could not have done it without you all, as well as many of our other partners. We had a go go band that was recruited with the help of Stacy, which is a community organizer at FAR, and it was incredibly popular. Many of us told us it was their the highlight of the event and their favorite part. So that Go Go Band was great. I stayed back and listened to it, and personally, I really enjoyed it. We are also recruiting for our adult internship program. This is a program for residents that emphasizes civic participation and developing leadership skills.
It lasts six months, is up to ten hours a week, and pays $15 an hour. If anyone is interested, they can call our office at (434) 984-3255. We're also celebrating our first ever youth internship program. They had a great success and we are having a graduation to celebrate them on. CRHA is also having a back to school event this Thursday at South First Street and we are having a fall festival at Sixth Street on October 3. We have also been working on LV Collective's 11 story luxury student housing building to try and advocate for more step backs and setbacks.
We are also working on asking city hall to change city council to change the zoning ordinance. The West Haven resident planners have been very active and have been speaking at all the meetings. So we think it's been a success. We've been flaring. We've been door knocking. We've been doing all of that. So thank you. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. And do we have any other, public comments? Okay. Not yet. Okay. Any updates from commissioners? No. Oh, I have an update, which is that, I spoke to the mayor of Alexandria
on Thursday Thursday of this past week. I'm in my academic role, an expert on public housing history, and she wanted to reach out to me, to talk about that and kind of, share the good work that CRHA has been doing. And she was thinking, potentially that maybe at once the Alexandria Housing Authority, I don't know if you've seen the news, is kind of in the midst of a scandal type situation. But they were hoping that they might be able to learn from some of what
CRHA has been doing in the future once things kind of settle down and they make sure that they're fully compliant with the law. And I was just praising the residents and CRHA for everything that they've been able to do for Charlottesville. And, she was really heartened by the example that, Charlottesville residents and and advocates have have, you know, been over the many, many decades. So, yeah, she when she learned about everything that you all were doing, found it
really impressive and wanted to learn from it and to to support residents in Alexandria in the same way. So I didn't agree to anything, you know, didn't want to volunteer anybody else's time without being able to do that, but said that I would report back to you all and keep the lines of of communication open. And and, obviously, I can give you her information too so that you can reach out to her directly. It doesn't have to go through me. So but I think she's hoping for that maybe in a few months or so. Yeah. So thank you.
Are they in troubled status like you were? So I like, the what she had said is that, I guess, their, ED was living in public housing while making 6 figures. And so Okay. They are going through a little bit of, a rehire situation. So I think it was, like, a specific issue. Pretty specific. But also, I think they're just trying to figure out she's trying figure out how to build resident power, because residents are experiencing, hardships.
And obviously, living in Alexandria is quite expensive. And so she is you know, as mayor, obviously, you have only so much power. But she's trying to talk to anybody she can to figure out how to support, the citizens of her city, and specifically, the people who have been marginalized along numerous, axes of identity. And so she was kind of in the throes of things with the new news of that. But I think she's also not as happy with the board, not as happy with
some of the kind of public facing people. So wanted to figure out what to do to kind of build power on the ground. Got it. I would also recommend that they speak with Farr. Yeah, that's what I told that's what I said. It was, like, CRHA and Farr residents like, speaking to residents themselves and people who have been doing the work. So I think, you know, again, I can give you her contact information, and and she can indicate, you know, when she feels like she's in a space where they're
prepared to hear, and learn in a way that feels conducive to everybody. So I don't wanna gatekeep. I just wanted to announce that I was excited about everything that you all were doing and and hopeful that that might be an example for other cities to to take up. Awesome. Thank you. Any other updates for me? Commissioners? I think that she did a public comment that she's ready. You ready now? Or do you wanna wait till the end? I'm ready. You know, miss I'm ready for you. Let's go. For it. Okay. I haven't seen you guys in, like, four days. It might be a whole week. So Hello, everybody.
My name is Salithia Carr. I'm the founder of Not Me, I Believe. And, I just wanted to give a quick update about, the good work that we're doing at Crescent Hall's. We do a Crescent Hall's dinner program, since January, and it has been very, very successful. We run two, two meetings that we do a month, the first and second Saturday of each month. The third, the third Sunday, we do a big meal.
And the last one is coming up in October. October 19 will be the, the ending meal for that. It have been having over I'd say the highest number that we had to come into this dinner is 74 people out of a 105 units and a 105 residents that lived in this establishment. And so we are doing great, great work, and we would love to continue it for the next year. Also, I wanted to because September 13, Rose Hill Neighborhood Association is having a block party at Washington Park. NotMe, I believe, have partnered with them to do that, and we're looking for, volunteers,
for this event. And, I believe to for me, everyone is invited. So, I'm extending that invitation to you all as well. What time is the block party? I know you gave me a flyer, but It's from twelve to two. I do I have brought some flyers. Okay. But it's from twelve to six. Sorry. Twelve to six. K. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Alright. Next up, we have, approval of the board minutes from July 28. Did I request that we amend the minutes? Yes.
There's a vote on, minutes from last from the previous month, and it just doesn't include my vote in approval. I could put that into a motion if that's okay. From the June 23? Yeah. Just looking over it quickly. It just kinda skips me, so I think it's just a typo. Yeah. If we could, I could motion to approve the minutes from the July board July 20 board meeting with an amendment, to include the affirmative vote of Javier Randalas, approving
the, board minutes from June 23, if that makes sense. Yep. I think that makes sense. You got that, Maria? Yes. Okay. I'll second that. Can I ask a clarifying question? If are we voting on that? Yes. Do Lisa and I vote on that if we weren't there? You can abstain. Okay. Okay. Well, you you were Oh, we have the twenty eighth. Okay. You were at the twenty eighth. And eighth. So that's fine. You were not sworn in yet. So you can abstain and I wasn't there. Okay. Okay. Sorry. We've got ourselves yeah. I know. Maria to vote. Okay. Commissioner Hicks?
Yeah. Commissioner Rosen, Flip. Flip. I'm sorry. You're good. You're totally fine. Yes. Commissioner Overlord? Abstain. Commissioner Cloverdale? Abstain. Commissioner Overdallis? A. Yes. Commissioner Payne? Yes. Alright. Thank you, everyone. Alright. We have two recognition resolutions. So first, a resolution, CRHA resolution fourteen ninety, a resolution recognizing the dedication and effort of doctor West Bellamy and his service to the residents and HCV, Sysrep, participants of
the Charlottesville Redevelopment Housing Authority during his tenure on the CRHA Board of Commissioners. Whereas doctor Bellamy was appointed to serve the CRHA community as commissioner of the CRHA Board of Commissioners beginning in September 2022 and chair since July 2023. And whereas during his tenure on the CRHA Board, doctor Bellamy has worked diligently to represent the needs of CRHA residents while ensuring the ongoing health and well-being of the agency. And whereas doctor Bellamy's commitment to a resident centric approach to the management of the
CRHA demonstrates the value of true asset based community leadership and whereas Doctor Bellamy's commitment to serving residents in CRHA communities with annual events like the turkey and bike giveaway and the breakfast at the bus stop. And whereas during his tenure on the CRHA board, Doctor Bellamy served as the board chair for two years while serving on the redevelopment committee, maintenance, parallel track committee, finance committee, and resident services committee. And whereas the board of commissioners of the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority wishes to
express its appreciation for the admirable work that doctor Bellamy has done on behalf of the CRHA community over these past three years as he has sought to redefine our agency through partnerships with residents, FAR, the City of Charlottesville HUD, and numerous supporters and stakeholders. Therefore, be it resolved and then by all that with much gratitude, the board of commissioners of the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority do hereby recognize and formally commend doctor West Bellamy for his admirable efforts exercised on behalf of the residents of the CRHA
that's benefiting not only those directly served, but the greater Charlottesville community as a whole. I'll do a call, please. Sure. All in favor? Aye. All in favor? Aye. Alright. Passes. I see him there's, like, an official one for us to sign somewhere to Maria. Okay. Alright. CRHA resolution fourteen ninety one. A resolution recognizing the dedication and effort of doctor Raul Laura Goldblatt in her service to the residents and c, sorry, HCV, CISREP participants of the Charlottesville Redevelopment Housing Authority
during his tenure on the CRHA Board of Commissioners. Whereas doctor Borblatt was appointed to serve the CRHA community as a commissioner of the CRHA Board of Commissioners beginning in May 2019. And whereas during her tenure on the CRHA Board, doctor Goldblatt has worked diligently to represent the needs of CRHA residents while ensuring the ongoing health and being and well-being of the agency. And whereas doctor Goldblatt's commitment to a resident centric approach to the management of CRHA demonstrates the value of true asset based community leadership, and whereas during her tenure on
the CRHA board, doctor Goldblatt served as treasurer for four years while serving on the safety committee and resident services committee. And whereas the board of commissioners of the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority wishes to express its appreciation for the admirable work that gold doctor Goldblatt has done on behalf of the CRHA community over these past six years as she has sought to redefine our agency through partnerships with residents, far, City of Charlottesville, HUD, and our numerous supporters and stakeholders. Therefore, be it resolved and known by all that with much gratitude, the Board of Commissioners of the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority do hereby recognize and formally commend doctor
Goldblatt for her admirable effort exercised on behalf of the residents of the CRHA, thus benefiting not only those directly served, but the greater Charlottesville community as a whole. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. All opposed, could we change it so that her pronouns are right? Yeah. At the very first sentence, yes. There's two times where it's It says he. His tenure. Okay. Yep. Thank you. I was I was gonna say it too. Good call. Laura will immediately see that. Mhmm. Alright. So moving ahead, the HCV program manager update.
Miss Hester? Good I mean, I'm sorry. Good evening. Good evening. Hi. So we have a total of 651 vouchers, 71 including the CSCRAP participants, and we have eight vouchers on the street. Miss Hester, would you like to introduce yourself? Miss Hester, would you like to introduce yourself? Oh, I'm sorry. I'm Lashonda Hester, the interim program manager of h HTV. Any questions for miss Hester? Thank you. You're welcome. Okay. TC, finance update?
Hey, TC Nichols, director of finance. Just a couple quick updates since we're not in that quarter month. We are continuing work on EFT payments for landlords and working on a more digitized, document system for all of our public housing records, HCB records, and finance HR records. And at this point, we've received a quote from Rico. So we're kinda looking over that right now and making a determination if that's the way we wanna go with our product or do something more in house. And that's all we have. Awesome.
Any questions for TC? Alright. Thank you very much. Housing update. Good evening to the board and everyone else in attendance. Tyrone Banks, interim director of property management and compliance manager. Three things we wanted to highlight tonight. The first thing is that, a majority of the property management maintenance and resident services staff was able to complete a fair housing, training with one of the top trainers,
in the industry on August 13. The trainer was very pleased and said how interactive, the agency was. And so we will be looking to do that at least once a year with as many of the staff members as possible. Also, asset collections manager with the help of PM staff and resident services was able to either postpone or completely avoid eviction.
We were able to get $16,126 in rental assistance for residents that were either facing eviction or right at the brink of eviction. And we are still continuing to work through our EDP program. Lastly, on sorry. I'm flipping through notes here. On September 11, the property manager for Madison and Mickey, along with our other PM staff and partners, will be doing an ice cream social for, those two communities.
And so I don't have exact times yet, but we'll try to get that out if you all wanna if anyone wants to pop by. It'll be a hour at Madison and an hour at Nikki. We'll be doing snacks, drinks, and then we'll have the ice cream truck, out to do ice cream for not just the kids, but the adults that like it as well. And, I think that's all we have. Are there any questions? I have a very random question, not about anything you just said. But I know that we always do a trunk or treat.
Have you guys like, do you have a target date for that yet? Yes. We'll, we'll be working on it in September. I know typically, honestly, we we're kinda, we start planning maybe three or four months out. So, yes, as we do every year, we will be doing that. And we'll we'll get some information out on that. I'm sure miss Joy will be heading up the candy collection Yep. For that. And, yes, we'll we'll get some more information out on that, but that yes. That is an annual thing. So we'll definitely be doing that.
Prolific is, planning to do the Halloween spectacular again, in partnership with City of Promise, and so we started working on that. So we just don't wanna, like, conflict with stuff. We're targeting October 25. And, I mean, when I say starting, like, we talked about it, you know, like, this morning. So Okay. Got it. Just wanna put it up. Make sure it doesn't conflict. We'll make sure we get with you on that. We'll work with y'all. Yep. We like to give out we like to trunk or treat too. So I gotcha. Thank you.
Any other questions for miss Banks? Okeydokey. Nonprofit update and request. Yes. My name is Kathleen Glen Matthews and I'm the deputy executive director. We, for many years in the making, we've been part of our, annual and strategic planning to, launch a nonprofit. We, part of the presentation I'm giving tonight, we actually had almost a year ago today, but we decided to pause at that point in time so that we could, do some capacity building and the board at that time had also asked us to
work on SOPs which we have completed. We believe we're ready now, to launch those endeavors. So and since we have a lot of, new faces, I thought I would just give a quick review of, what we were proposing. So, part of it is just logistics, and there's definitely time for questions at the end. But please let me know if you have questions, while I'm going. San Luis. The main reason we're wanting to have a nonprofit, and I've been talking about it for, a bit, six years and more, is that we are limited with the, grants
that we can apply to. We're a quasi government agency. And, many times we come across funding that we're really excited about and then realize that, we cannot as we are not a five zero one, two, three. We also want to do some diversifying. The world has been changing a lot with different funding, and, it's a bit uncertain as to, you know, where some of our funding's going to be coming in the future. And we feel this would give us more stability. We're also undergoing, tremendous redevelopment efforts that are led by our residents, and we want to make sure that we can support, residents. And we want to make sure that we can support, some of these, proceeds that
are going on as well as costs that come up that might not have been anticipated or just changes in the economy. We're also looking at, being able to actually, you know, garner support from our community with in kind donations and, personal property donations. We could even have property itself donated, which we could not do previously, and give the donor, you know, full tax credit. Fundraising is something we're really excited about. A lot of our residents talk to me about this a lot, and they have
so many amazing ideas around fundraising. And, and sometimes it's for programs, sometimes after school, and sometimes it's for redevelopment as well. And, this would open up a lot of avenues for that. Logistically, you know, we need to have a board resolution, a name, mission, vision, programming with Eversight, a conflict of interest policy, and looking at some financial data and fundraising. And, then the last part is gonna be filing our articles of organization.
We, had a board resolution done in 05/24/2021. As I said before, we've been very vested in this. We, you know, we've been everything's in place as far as, that piece. But we need to obtain city council approval. For city council approval, we're looking at, you know, one or two of, our commissioners going to city council, and they could also, I would also ask our council to assist them with some recommendations of that presentation, but it is a requirement.
For the name, we've been, tossing around ideas a lot. We even had some names thrown out on the website. Once it's approved by city council, we would like to, have sort of a final vote on our website and fly our neighborhoods and really encourage residents, to vote for a name. The mission and vision. This was done quite some time ago, and it's definitely open for wordsmithing. But it's a nonprofit organization that would be organized in 2025 to support the development
of physical, economic, social, and cultural revitalization of low and moderate income residents in the Charlottesville area. The main purpose of the organization is to identify and address the needs of these individuals with a focus on education, job training and placement, redevelopment, housing stability, training and placement, redevelopment, housing stability, health, wellness, and other community social services. To accomplish its mission, the organization has been granted the directive to secure and manage contributions, requests, grants, and other funding from individuals, organizations, and government agencies.
For, oversight, and I invite you to, ask our council more questions on this. But we had talked about, you know, borrowing staff from CRHA. Essentially, it would be a mere board and with mere staff initially, when we launched this. The hope is, you know, know, in the future, we would look at, as we did acquire more funds and build the nonprofit, there would be staff associated directly to it. Initially, the main staff that you would see, working with this, would involve my myself,
our grants, management coordinator, our finance department, and, of course, Mr. Sales and yourselves. We, have been looking at different activities and, who would be involved with these. It's been we've had this in place for about a year now, and, everyone is feeling ready to launch this. We're looking at, our grant writing and research, which right now is one person, and we'd love to be able to grow that, being about 50%. And we're also looking at donor stewardship.
This is all about building relationships in the community. This is gonna, be for the first time something we also will be talking to the board about, looking at about 20% of the board's time. Outreach and marketing. The first year is gonna be really, all about marketing and letting people know what this is about, why we're doing it. Financial management, as we said before, it will be a mere entity following, almost consistently all of the SOPs that are currently in place with the exception of some new database management, we already, have acquired, some systems for that.
We would be generating some new forms in place, being able to provide tax letters. And event planning, which is something, as I said before, we would also be doing, with our residents. There's I at least once a week, I have someone coming to me with ideas of something they'd like to do, particularly around redevelopment. Programs, barrier assistance is at the top of the list. We cannot remove barriers, but we can help people, overcome them. So we're looking at different supports of that.
Education opportunities. Our self sufficiency programs often, have funding just for staff and not have funding just for staff and not for other services. We are looking at, scholarships. We would really like to be able to, assist more of our community with attending higher education, as well as, community with attending higher education as well as, trade schools. Housing stability is something that's really been on our mind with this list. We, need funds, as I said before, around redevelopment efforts.
Sometimes that might be soft costs involving computer labs. Sometimes it might be that, fees have gone up for certain things, that are being built with the construction that we had not anticipated. But we're also looking at with housing stability funds for eviction prevention. And, funds to, be able to, we'll talk about this more with PBP, but funds so that we can actually, work with individuals on programs and have incentives for them.
Not just to pay their rent, but that we can match what they pay on certain months while they're attending training programs. We're, also really wanting to compensate our residents for all their hard work, and it's often really challenging, to find any funds that can be used for stipends or other compensation. We want to have really nice, on-site events, just like any other, community would have, and we want to have the funds to do this.
We're looking at, when we do on-site celebrations, also maybe being able to hire people in the community to cater these events. All of this is a focus on being resident led. This nonprofit will, one of the things that will happen is we'll be talking to the resident service committee about, having an advisory group that will be built out over the first year for this homeownership programs that we've been developing, but there's a lot
of gaps there. And we don't wanna just get people in the homes. We wanna have aftercare services. And this would be, a method for want to have aftercare services. And this would be, a method for us to pursue some of that. Youth and family programming. We've just hired our first youth coordinator. We're really excited about that. We want that to be the beginning. We want that to be the beginning. We don't we want to have programs at all of our sites, and we want to really be reaching out to a wide range of youth, very young youth, as well as specific programs for teens and young adults. Any questions on any of that?
The conflict of interest policy. This would be very similar to the policy we already have. We, would look at pretty much, as I said before, mirroring this. As far as financial data and fundraising, we, you know, would be looking at providing some projections. We're definitely looking at fair market value of any services as we're building in what we're doing in house. We're considering, you know, some things as well as, our first year possibly bringing in,
a consultant to help really launch things quickly, so that we can, see this nonprofit up and running pretty rapidly. So financial controls, we have some great SOPs that our, finance our controller, our finance director has put in place, and we would be following those. The bank accounts would be separate, and money would be handled separately. We, you know, would be part of our financial reporting and audit compliance. So, you know, fundraising is going to be a big responsibility for all of us.
We're going to be, talking about it more. It's part of our strategic plan. I'm going to be, we're looking at getting a draft of our annual plan out in, right near the October. I've already had the first president advisory board meeting, at the fire board meeting, just this just this month. So we're going to be having a lot of meetings around this, and this will be a topic that we'll also talk about. We're gonna be asking, you know, we're gonna be asking people, what they're interested in
seeing. We're gonna be talking about, you know, some of our how our website's getting revamped and also about events, what people want to see us doing. And, miss Carnes, did you want to talk at all about filing with the articles, of incorporation? Filing the articles, of incorporation? That's really the easiest step. So once you pick a name and once city council has given you approval to move forward with the creation of the entity, we would verify that the name is available because the Commonwealth of Virginia doesn't obviously want two entities that have similar names
or names that are so close they could be confused with each other. So we check the availability of the name, and then we file the articles of organization with the SCC, and you can get a certificate back. If you do it online, you can get it immediately most of the time. The difficult piece will be really working on the organization's bylaws and making sure that even though the organization will borrow staff from CRHA, it is a separate organization with separate books and records, separate finances, separate bank accounts, obviously.
And that that can be challenging. It's obviously very feasible, but you need to have a very clear delineation of roles and responsibilities such that, for example, if board members engage in some fundraising activities on behalf of the nonprofit, it has to be clear that you're not wearing your hat as a member of the board of commissioners of CRHA when you're doing that. So there are ways to ensure that, and we'll put in place some protocols. But other than that, it should be pretty straightforward. As, Kathleen mentioned, this is something that you have been talking about as a board
and as an organization for several years, which is why you adopted a resolution, several years ago now, but we never really got to the second step of getting the approval from city council. Okay. Any questions or feedback? This is exciting. It's a very long time coming. I have a number of questions, but I don't necessarily wanna go first since I don't I know less than everybody. But if no one else has questions. I asked a few questions, but I have some questions as you, so go for it. For it. And I'm sorry if I missed this in the did you do you have an
idea of what you would want to raise in your first year or full year? Yes. We both we were looking, we were being very, moderate. I had we've been looking at, you know, a very modest amount initially. Some of this was done over a year ago. You know, initially, we just talked about a $100,000 because a lot of it was going to be capacity building and getting things in place. But we also, we really want to be able to support redevelopment efforts too.
And we, you know, want to know that if, you know, there's opportunities to, you know, acquire properties that, you know, this mechanism was also in place for that. So part of what we'll be doing that first year is making sure some of the structures are there. We're also going to be really looking at our staffing. I'm going to be, you know, asking TC a lot, you know, what he needs from us as well as, our grants coordinator, Katrina Bikes, who's been just absolutely phenomenal. This is all seems super exciting.
I the, two thoughts I had were, one, if you're thinking about bringing in a consultant for the first year, which makes no sense, I would, advise finding someone who whose responsibility will also include a bunch of fundraising. So, like, they're setting up the organization, but, you know, have some accountability for bringing in funds as well because I think that's a reasonable, like, twofer to try to get, you know, versus just having an consultant who comes in and, like, sets up
the structure. And then the only other thing I was gonna say is that, it seems like there are a lot of really cool opportunities with setting up a c three that's connected to the CRHA. The mission statement seemed to focus on sort of one set of those opportunities but didn't include and I don't know I don't necessarily know that you want to include it in there. I'm just, like, saying you said, like, if people could donate property or land or whatever, that's that's not in there.
And I don't know if you I don't know if you want it in there. I don't know if you wanna get really specific about, like, what kinds of things you're trying to start out with versus, like, what it could look like three to five years in. That's a great suggestion. I think we will add that. But I don't think any of that it seems like the next step is precedes any of the, like, wordsmithing necessarily of the mission and the vision and right? I don't know. So, that's if I may, that's a really good point, and it highlights really the
distinction between the immediate next steps to create the entity and then apply for five zero one c three status as opposed to the ongoing operations of the entity and some of the broader things that you can do with the entity. And one example of that is that if in your five zero one c three application, you mentioned receiving as a donation real estate, you have a whole other section that you need to fill out. You have to be pretty specific if you start talking about real estate.
And the danger is that if if you want to go too big right away at the stage of your five zero one c three application, you may not be successful if you're trying to be, I guess, overly optimistic, but don't have yet all the details that you would need in order to provide an estimate of the fair market value of that real estate and how you're going to acquire it, who are your donors, who are your contacts. It's really gonna force you to go down the path where perhaps you're not prepared yet. So perhaps there can be a description of the mission of the new entity that
is broad enough to contemplate receiving land and engaging in redevelopment initiatives down the road, but at the same time at the stage of the application, you're not immediately saying we're gonna build 50 units on, you know, Parcel 21, which is located at the corner of such and such streets because we don't have that data, and you're not ready for that. So I think there are ways to accomplish that, both getting the five zero one c three, designation, but also not closing the door to future opportunities that may well
involve the development of real estate. Does that make sense? Yeah. That totally makes sense, and it's very helpful. Thank you. Yeah. Definitely makes sense. Good question. Yeah. And so in terms of, like, the timeline or kind of the action items for us, you know, is it putting together with you all a presentation at the work session that we have next or kind of what you you know, like, obviously, these there's a lot of little things that have to happen in order for this to kind of get rolling. Are the action items that you need from us? The first action item will be, having, someone from the board get a city council
asking for approval, because we can't really move forward without that approval. Right. And so you were saying, like, working on a presentation. And so would we would we crib from I'm assuming we would just crib from this presentation, but maybe there would be specific questions that we would wanna anticipate that may or may not I I don't know. Like, I just what the process, right, may or may not be be, we might be able to anticipate them or not. And then we would work with, I'm sorry, the name of the woman who's been
so helpful, at who's the council with your name? Daphne Carnes. Daphne Carnes. Okay. So, miss Carnes on that. Right. I'm just making sure that we're all is is it one person or the whole board? This would be a promise, I believe, two. Two. Okay. Is there are we on council's agenda for this yet? Or We need to get That's our first step is getting on Getting on the agenda. Getting on the agenda. Okay. And then putting that presentation together. K. Too bad we couldn't have asked when we just saw them, and we're asking for all those other things.
And for the presentation to city council, to the extent extent they need an actual PowerPoint presentation, I would recommend pairing this one down. Yeah. I think just a few slides, not getting perhaps into too many of the details, particularly since commissioner Payne can really make the bridge the gap, so to speak, and be a liaison with regard to that. But, I think longer presentations tend to ultimately work to the detriment of the presenter. And we've spoken about this to council before, so it shouldn't be new news.
We just didn't seek approval. Do you I guess, do you have a, timeline in your mind, Kathleen? Yes. The expiration of our panel is about to see something. Oh, okay. Sorry. Michael. Oh, no. No. No. No. I was just gonna say, I think, as you mentioned, I think council is hopefully, up to speed on the idea. And I think as soon as it's on a council agenda, I would anticipate it wouldn't be controversial or, encounter resistance or anything like that. I think they'd be glad for us to go go get money from someone other
than them. Right. I mean, I would like us to, look at getting on the agenda in the near near future. Okay. Okay. Do you feel like you'd be, ready for an agenda in September or October? I do. Okay. Well, let me I'll I'll communicate that with city staff and citizen because I mean, there shouldn't there really shouldn't be an issue on citizen, whether it's September or October or for for getting that on. Are there any, any of my fellow commissioners who would want to take this to
council or to partner in taking this to council? I don't know with anyone. Okay. I just feel like I haven't been part of that talking about it, so I'm happy to go in a supportive role. But I feel like I don't know as much as others. Laura probably best, and and she we can't send her anymore. Okay. Then why don't we work work together as volunteers? Is this is this coming up in September, you said? September or October, whenever we can get on the agenda.
Okay. If you if you feel passionately that you would like to go to council, Javier, I don't have to. I'd be more than happy if it's just to kind of divide the the work load here. I will gladly let you and, our new commissioner, Rosen Glyph. Glyph. Glyph. Glyph. Yes. I'm gonna learn everybody's names too, do that. So there you go. You've got two folks. And I'm happy to support and help any way I can. Any other questions for now? I'm sure we'll have more as this comes to fruition, but this really has been
a long time in the works. Alright. Thank you very much, miss. I will open it back up for more public comments if anybody has any. I do. Okay. Did you bring candy with you, though? I know. Right? Look. I'm on a side of things on-site. She makes freeze dried candy, and we spent some time together. Yeah. She helped me, and I ate a lot of freeze dried candy, which is just amazing and strange all at the same time. Thank you so much. You also helped me put up my tip for the very first time. I did help you. And because of you, I now know how to do it on my own. So I appreciate that.
No. For real. Like, you did it really great. Hey, guys. How y'all doing? Hi, miss Orchard. Hi, missus Wade. Hi, missus Pinkston. Hi, miss. How you doing? Did I say that right? No. We don't need These aren't our names. Oh, look at me. They're like, how's yours going? And I'm addressing everybody. Yeah. We don't even know who's name. So Sorry. Sorry. My name is Angela Carr, and, I'm here today. And I wanted to, like, come to the board because I feel like I've taken every step that I needed to take considering my barment from all of CHRE properties. There's a video from West Haven that, that shows me arguing with another individual that
lives on, CHRA properties as well. I was never in a physical altercation. I was never, like, you know what I mean? Like, the aggressor or, like, in someone's face or or, like, in their property, like like, never in that manner. I'm sure mister, sorry, mister John yes. Mister John sales and missus Tarana Banks who was in the meeting as well. I'm sure both of them still have the video from that incident as well. So I'm just kinda asking the board if y'all could take a look at the video and see, like, if I deserve to be barred or not because this was back in my phone's right here.
Sorry. I I believe this date was April 9. I sent missus Tarana Banks. April 0 sorry. April 6, I saw mister John Sales on where was I when I see him? Oh, oh, at a far board meeting because I sit on the far board, association as well here in Charlottesville. But, and my community chose me to be a part of that board. So if I was a bad person, they wouldn't have chose me to be a part of that board. But, I see mister John cells coming in because he had to come speak one day. And I was like, hey, mister John. Can I talk to you real quick? And I felt like that was my chance.
So I I kinda long story short, the story of, you know, what was going on on, West Haven. And he was like, oh, I've seen that video. He was like, and I heard somebody saying stop. Your grandkids gotta live here. And I was like, hey, man. That wasn't even me. You know, like, that's how low my voice was. That wasn't even me saying that. That was the aunt of the children that lived there telling the grandmother that, hey, chill out. Stop trying to fight because your grandkids live here. Right? So stuff really did get out of hand. I'm talking about a lot of police officers came. The individual that I brought there was the father of the children, and he wanted to do a wellness check because one of his children, long story short, had hit
the family have reported that that child got a broken nose by an adult that wasn't supposed to be around them anyway until they're over 18 years old. So he was concerned. So he showed up. Hey. Let me see my kids. If I can't see them, then I'm gonna call the police because I wanna do a wellness check to make a long story short. Things got out of hand when the mother kinda disrespected him. Let another, one of her other children disrespect them. At that point, I'm like, alright. He's getting out of here. I walk up. I mean, I get out of my vehicle. I walk up to the door, and I'm like, hey. Just come on. You know, we can we can call police or go from that point. The girl might get out. Really big argument. Why why why?
All this stuff is happening. But I contacted mister, John Sells, told him the story. He in his head, he replayed the video that he saw while I was telling him. And I believe that he also agreed that I wasn't, you know, like, in no big up like I wasn't doing extra stuff in the video. That's what I believe. So he was like, hey, I think you should go talk to miss Toronto Banks. And I was like, who is that? And he was like, she's the one that you would take your, your appeal to, like your grievance and stuff. I'm like, alright. Cool. I take it to miss Toronto the banks. Honestly, in my opinion, like, just in a professional opinion, being a founder of a
candy company and, like, how I would treat people. I'm just saying, like, just and I'm not trying to be disrespectful to miss Toronto Banks at all. But the professionalism of how she contacted me weeks later to even give me a response on my appeal is concerning to me because if I am A person that doesn't even get in trouble in the community. You know, it made me wonder how many people are barred from a community and then don't know how to appeal it or don't know who what steps to take or who to talk to. And then if they did talk to someone, if it did if it even went further or if they just gave up, like, forget it.
I'm gonna just go to the property anyway. But you have someone who's trying to follow the rules. And I did break the rules one time, but honestly, like, I completely forgot that, the new South First Street was CHRA property. And when she asked me about it, the person that bring that to them, she didn't even know she was telling on me. She was, you know, praising me on icy cup that I was telling her. She was she was like, oh, and came back to me. She's like, Angela, I think I got you in trouble. I'm like, why you say that? She said because I was explaining to Salithia and John was right there that, that you gave me real good slushies. And I was like, why would I be in trouble? So then a few days later, I got a call.
I I mean, either email or a call. I believe it was, oh, it's email. Sorry. From miss Tarana Banks asking why I had went on the, CHRA property anyway. And I was like, wait. What? I was like, okay. And I tried to kinda long story short explain to her. I know how that happened. Boom. Boom. Why? Why? This lady said that. I'm sorry. My bad. I kinda forgot because I even thought Garrett was CHRA. Celitia had to explain to me that it wasn't. I've been raised in housing my whole entire life. Like, I'm talking about from a child up to now. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like, I moved on my own, did my own thing, but coming back to Charlottesville, having my own kids, I now live in housing.
There's a lot of things that I'm not involved in with the kids and housing because I'm barred, and I don't think it's fair. There's a, at Crescent Halls. We made this plan last year. I'm supposed to make homemade gingerbread houses for the elderly people and go there with directions to help them put them together. I can't do that. So this has been four months, almost five months of me fighting for my rights. You know what I mean? To say, hey, when can I be on barred because I'm not doing anything? You can clearly see on the video that I was never in a physical altercation.
I just had some words back and forth exercising my fifth amendment right. It doesn't say anywhere in the policy of housing or CHRA as far as I'm concerned because I read my front to back on the policies with my lease when I got it and with far when I got into the board. Like, there's not nothing on those policies stating that you can't have an argument on the property. There's nothing in those policies stating that you can't go back and forth and have a heated argument with someone on the property. But I mean, you know, balance is unacceptable. I understand that. But neither I or the party that went there, they got into the big argument,
wasn't a physical altercation. And you can see that on the video. So missus Preferchu at the time when she was here, she wrote up a statement and wrote me a piece of paper and said and I didn't even get it in my hand, which is again unprofessional. I didn't get a phone call to say you're barred. I didn't get anything except a piece of mail in the mail that I barely checked because I don't really get mail. You know what I mean? So I got the mail, like, two months after I was barred. And I'm like, oh, snap. I done been over to the projects, which is West Haven, numerous of times. Let me tell, you know, somebody that so they don't think that I'm just like, oh, forget that.
You know what I mean? So I had a conversation with with with, miss Alethia about, hey, like, they're taking me away from West Haven when there's three families in West Haven that I pick up to take them to go meet their kids at social services. Now they gotta walk outside of you know what I mean? That you're restricting a lot for me, and I'm a good person. You know what I'm saying? On top of that, I have to pay my rent on CHRA property every month. So I'm breaking the rules anyway every month to be able to go into CHRA's Sixth Street Center and give them, you know what I mean? The money for my rent. So how can I go about?
You know what I mean? Who do I talk to next other than where I am today to say, hey, when? And not only that, but Mrs Tirana Banks had, the same day she was asking me about why I was over, South First Street. She told me, that I would get back to you later on today with the decision that was almost a month ago. So you said later on today, like, as of today, now I'm gonna put you on hold and make you wait even longer. I don't think it's fair because I'm important too. I have things to do too. You know what I'm saying? I have children to to lead too. And I'm I'm I'm a good person, period.
Can't nobody take that from me. So I want somebody to be like, hey. The same way y'all just kinda voted just now. I'm just being honest. You understand? After you take a look at the video, like, you will see that I don't deserve to be barred. I don't understand what's taking so long. But then when I think about it, you know what I mean? And I I didn't put this two and two together at first, but I think it also could be a conflict of interest with me. I mean, no. Not personally myself, maybe. I don't know. But I think it could be a conflict of interest with miss Tarana Banks and my family because of my last name. Because when we were younger, making long story short, Tarana Banks missus Tarana Banks had
thought that my mom's children were the one who had did something in the neighborhood and it and we weren't. Like, when the cameras came out and we all kinda got to get together, that was like an altercation that her and my mom had had. And then years later, she had an altercation with another family member with the same last name as me, and she got kicked out. You know what I'm saying? So it's just a lot where I guess my last name, but I've never had an altercation with you. I I even know her family. You know what I'm saying? Like, I've never had altercations or fought anybody that she personally knows. So I don't understand why I am still waiting almost five months into the garment
for the appeal. You know what I mean? And I know there's, like, a forty five or ninety day limit on a yes or even a no. But I haven't even gotten that. So I'm just here at the board like, hey. What do I do next? You know what I'm saying? Because there I have things to do and missions to accomplish, and there's kids that need me. I don't care what nobody say. And sometimes you know what I mean? Like, it make you wanna be like, man, forget that barman. Alright. I'm here. Come on. Like, they're like I live on the inside. I'm not on the outside just looking in. You know what I'm saying? So I know what we need. We need. I know it.
So I need that barman gone. Like, for real. That's why I'm here. So, thank you Yes, ma'am. For sharing. I will tell you the board, like, we can't decide about a garment. But, and mister Sales is not here tonight. Miss Banks is, on the phone, but I don't, I don't know if she has anything she wants to say, but I can commit to to following up with mister Sales. He's sick.
But I can follow-up with him tomorrow and and make sure we have your information and and follow-up Thank you. Commit to following up with you. I appreciate it. For real. No doubt. Even if the answer is no, at least I get an answer. But still, I will not understand if it's no. I I won't understand because my barman says I was barred for a physical altercation. Physical, you know, is hands on fighting, like, boom, brawling out. I was never in a physical altercation, so I'm barred for nothing. And again, brings back the concern of how many people are actually barred for no
reason. Yes. So this is miss Banks. I just wanted to say number one, we're we're not gonna discuss this in an open forum. Number two, mister Sales is involved in every step of the process whether he's there or not. So he's aware of everything that's going on, and we are following our process to make a determination. Okay. So I have a quick question, miss Tarana Bates. How long like, what is your policy on making someone wait for the barman? Like, how long do you have to give an answer to someone, or how long do you have to keep the appeal without an answer is my question.
We're following our processes, Carla. But that's not an answer, missus Tarana Banks. The answer would be umpteen amount of weeks or days. So then again, that brings me back to it must be some type of a conflict of incident. And you you know what I'm saying? Yeah. I hear it. That's all I'm saying. Yeah. I hear it. So again, can anyone tell me what how long like, what is the policy? How long do you wait for your appeal to be heard? That's crazy. I I don't know. Nope. No. I mean, we don't know. I don't know. We don't know. We don't know. We don't know. We don't know. We don't know. We don't know. We don't know. We don't know. We don't know. We don't know. We don't know. We don't know. We miss Tarana Banks know? Today.
She's not even trying to give me an answer. She's gonna be quiet and just say, nope. That's it. That's it. That's all. Conversation over. That's professional. Oh, you're on mute. Oh, okay. I'm not gonna go back and forth in this form per mister Sales. This is not how we handle things. And so we are following our process. There is no set time when there are variables that are involved, and that's all I'm gonna say about it. So there is no set time to an appeal. That's what you said? Okay. Thank you. I'm a do my own homework and research on that. I appreciate it. Thank you. Any other public comments?
Hi, Brandon. Hey, everybody. I'm Brandon. I'm your redevelopment coordinator. I don't often give public comments, but there's a very serious matter, that usually falls on me to bring to your attention, which is, Commissioner Hicks is celebrating a birth day, and I'm really excited about it. I would also just remind everybody that, the commissioner gave an amazing speech at, the BAR meeting Tuesday night, inspiring and, just really drove it home.
Best speech I've heard you give yet, and it was it was awesome. Also, really well dressed when you did it, for reasons. So here's how I like to deal with the birthday thing, and this does usually fall on me. I don't know why I'm the guy. But, so we'll about like that. So on the count of three, and we start on the four and we sing it. One, two, three. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear Earl.
Commission. Thank you all very much. Thank you. And for those of you who are here in person, I did bring cupcakes. Yay. So I think it maybe it's time I seek a motion to adjourn. Can I get a second? Second. Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. All opposed? Meeting adjourned. Thank you. Robert's rule of the boarders or something? Yes. Yes. Okay. So but yeah.