Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority Board Work Session   5/9/2024

I said okay.

That's a nice glass.

Thank you.

I need y'all to call for something.

Okay.

Oh, you did?

That's right.

I did, yeah.

I did.

That's why we up to two or three o'clock in the morning.

And I guess

Yeah, that's why it's going to rain.

Why?

Because you on time.

I'm always on time.

Whoa, whoa.

Hey, you going to relax like having a boy?

Right.

Hey, look, John don't have to run and give me no water tonight.

I bought my own.

Well, that was my exercise for today.

Either two I had to

walked in the hall and take trash and go wash clothes and go get them and bring them back and mop the floors and all that good stuff.

He on the top of me.

They swore you in here?

No.

When did they say you were in here?

Okay.

Good.

Everybody running today, I don't know why.

Yeah, I saw, yeah.

And I didn't know all of that.

One, though, together at the breakfast, the eagle's like, we probably both need to get to the, let's go to the school.

I'm like, all right, we can go after.

We were there till like one o'clock.

And to her.

It ain't like there's gossip, but she says it to her.

Yeah, she knows she does her hair.

Hey, she talked for half a year, let's see.

Now, then today, apparently, he went to the UVA faculty senate and was like, I have a role in dangerous far left circles in Charlottesville.

And I have information.

Everything's in production.

Should we do it?

So let's just ask for it.

Miss Alice, sorry.

We're going to call this meeting to order.

Michael Payne is going to join us on Zoom.

Yeah, and then Miss Harriett isn't sworn in yet.

She is.

So alright, good evening everybody.

I hear about call this meeting to order.

Commissioner Goldblatt?

Here.

Commissioner Melloway?

Here.

Commissioner Witz?

All right, thank you, Miss Carey.

So we know that Mr.

Sales, our executive director, is actually at a cookout for our residents at Sixth Street, right?

Yeah, so.

No, no, Riverside.

Riverside, excuse me, thank you.

So he's on the grill right now doing his thing, so we appreciate him.

I know that we were going to have Miss Kathleen go over

on the strategic plan, but while she's waiting for folks downstairs, we probably can just go ahead and get started.

Since we've done the roll call, can we take a quick moment of silence, please?

Thank you.

and we will move forward.

Miss Carrie Devine texting Miss Glenn-Matthews to let her know we're about to get started.

Are there any public comments from PHAR or from anyone else?

Well, do we have to zoom up?

It's the Verilink.

The Verilink is up.

All we see is a window.

So sorry.

Okay.

But it is the zoom is up and running.

Okay.

All right.

Well, that's fine.

And what we'll do is we'll go ahead and get started.

We believe that Mr. Payne, and again, we'll apologize for those who may not have just heard, but those who are watching, the Zoom link from the city is having a little bit of technical difficulties.

We currently can't see or hear you, but we understand that you all can hear and or see us.

So we're going to proceed forth with our

Infamous approval of the strategic planning session.

I wanted to allow my colleagues, before we kind of read or do an overview of this, if my colleagues have anything they want to add and or share prior to getting started.

Yeah, I will concur.

I thought this process was a really good one overall and I'll just read the first paragraph.

I'm sorry, Javier or Alice, do you have anything you want to say?

You're fine.

Okay.

Alright, so I'll read the first paragraph just as an overview and then also provide some background for those who may be watching.

So we went through a very strenuous process, including retreats, including informational sessions and surveys from staff and community members and then the commissioners as a whole.

And shout out to Spark Mill for putting this together and working with us.

The primary goals of the plan are to deepen our commitment to the model residents first, to advance resident wellbeing, drive redevelopment and preservation,

through collaboration with community and partners and equips CRHA with an organizational structure that stewards a healthy relationship with residents and the Charlottesville community.

The strategic plan reflects these three goals and is accompanied by an appendix of specific strategies and their intended results, as you all who may be not able to see.

For those who may not be able to have the document in front of you, again as we alluded to, we work with Spartan Mill, which is an organization out of Richmond and their strategic planning firm to facilitate this process.

The consultants from Spartan Mill collected information from four areas as part of the information.

and the rest of the community.

and established in 1954.

I was not aware of that.

We've got some history with this.

I'll just say that nicely.

CRHA provides low income residents, including seniors and disabled community members, with affordable housing opportunities in the city of Charlottesville.

We operate under the Virginia State and Federal Housing Regulations from the Department of HUD.

And the Charlottesville city appoints the seven member CRHA commission.

two of whom are public housing residents.

Commissioners are responsible for promoting policies and the selection of the CRHA's executive director.

Our vision is to strive to build exemplary communities that integrate essential services, empowering our most vulnerable population to thrive in the city of Charlottesville.

Our mission is similar in terms of CRHA as a resident centered organization committed to excellence in providing affordable quality housing, revitalizing community support, resident involvement,

in promoting upward mobility and self-sufficiency through partnerships in the public and private sectors.

Our goals and strategies, I mean, they're multifaceted.

Our first goal, a foster an environment that advances resident stability and well-being.

Second goal, community building.

We want to drive redevelopment.

preservation opportunities through community collaboration and partnership.

And in our third goal, Inspire Transformation equips the RHA with an organizational structure that stewards a healthy relationship with residents and the Charlottesville community.

And within each goal, there's a wide variety of different ways in which we are looking to provide impact.

And this strategy and this strategic plan as a whole, again, was created in conjunction with both staff, residents, as well as the commissioners.

I think I can speak for my colleagues when I say we all feel very confident

that their strategic plan was able to accomplish our set out mission and our goal.

And I believe that we all would say that this is a representation of where we are and where we want to be.

Yes ma'am, I agree wholeheartedly and I got to give some kudos to commissioners Dr. Goldblatt and Commissioner Wicks who especially Dr. Goldblatt like ensuring that in all of our conversations we think about not only grace but also different ways in which we can put our residents first so I appreciate your comments in that regard.

with his very linear focus in terms of ensuring that we're following the procedures and policies.

I think that is to be commended, Miss Alice, with your expertise in terms of a person actually living in public housing and the experience of what it's like to be here currently.

That input was invaluable so thank you as well and much kudos to our executive director and his wonderful staff, Mr.

Sales, Ms. Carey, Ms. Kathleen, Glenn-Matthews and everyone else who helped attribute to this.

We are really appreciative and I think that we can move forward with taking a vote to approve our strategic plan.

and Commissioner Payne, thank you so much for your value input.

It is greatly appreciated.

I just asked if you have anything you want to say about the strategic plan.

No, set on the committee for it and looked at it and I think it's good.

Yes, sir.

Well, thank you, Commissioner Payne.

Can you hear me?

This is Wes.

Yes.

Okay.

Thank you, Commissioner Payne.

We appreciate you.

And with that being said, we'll move to take a vote.

Yes.

And amazingly, prior to us taking a vote,

Our executive director has jumped off of the grill with charcoal on his pants and his hands.

Miraculously he did not bring us hamburgers or any refreshments.

Doc his pay, I'm making a motion.

Second?

All in favor?

Aye.

All right, motion carries.

Sorry, I got ahead of myself.

Excited about the implementation.

Excited, excited.

We have room for more public comments.

Is there anyone online or here who would like to say anything?

I'll second the motion.

There's a second.

I'm so sorry.

Update, I spoke with Miss Thomas from here at City Hall.

Oh, thank you.

And we've been working on it, trying to get a meeting with City Council and with the board members.

We are working on it.

And I'll give you all an update one time in the morning.

Okay.

Alright.

So we have already moved to my adjournment meeting.

This meeting is hereby over.

That was easy.

the people who always feel afraid of them chanting again, but whites who don't have a system that we're working on right now, they're the ones to stay.

They walk in and they keep talking about historical events that have happened in the past that have changed the procedures.

I was like, just say it, just say it, like when we rolled out the red carpet towards the premises.

Well, so right now, I forgot.

Everyone wants to rest up.

So no, Beth did not make a new one, and then I said, Kristin?

Yes.

She has to ask them back.

So we have videos, apparently her legal team is here.

So this one, so I'm going to put it on the charts.

We have a faculty member who walks in, and this police officer was like, what?

Yeah, no.

She was up in here.

I'll take care of you.

I would not be surprised if they said that they owned this building.

You could be anywhere.

What about all those parking lots in front of your car?

So we've got new trespass orders.

Students have university judicial committee charges.

And they're facing trespass charges from the 19th.

So the county prosecutor has already said that we will not seek jail time for any of them.

But hopefully, well, so right now, the big question is, was it legal to declare a homeless person dead?

Like, do you see my body cam footage?

And it's like,

I'd like to see it.

I mean the good news is that local press is really like I've never done one of these things where like local press is actually on our side.

You were making a fine decision.

You said you'd take this to John.

He said I gotta go get you.

I said I gotta pop it.

She wants to do an investigation.

In part because it's exactly the same.

It's happening everywhere.

It is, no, it's totally, I mean, you might know these people, so I don't know how well you know.

I have a personal empathy for our provost.

I think he's- Not ginger.

No, do you know her?

I mean, she plays the game.

Yeah, she knows, and like you said,