Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority Board Meeting   6/23/2025

Oh, just a hundred dollars.

Just a hundred dollars.

Jesus Christ.

Get colored, uh, those.

We'll get a color print for a year.

Yeah, see?

See, guys?

We're looking out for central office.

It's in the office.

This is her first summer.

She just texted me, she's like, it's brutal.

He said it's Quentia, please.

She was.

That's what she said.

TC has all the smart people in the office.

He's like your favorite.

You know, this is the petticoat.

Whatever that was, he made the O'Night plan and looked good.

He's not listening to me.

Yeah, it was bombin'.

Yeah, it must have been.

Yeah, I guess it was powder set.

That was like a week ago.

So I'm delayed but it's in my memory.

Hi, your hair looks great.

Thanks.

I didn't realize that Alex had done it.

He was like, Maya will be here tomorrow.

I was like, oh, really?

And he was like, yes.

And I made a reservation.

And I was like, oh, I thought you'd forget that's what I made one too.

I was kind of surprised to hear from him.

No, no.

He knew.

Or I knew.

In an ideal world, he would be like that.

She could be like that for me, and then he'd be like that for us, but we'll see.

I'm assuming he's the only one that can get out there.

I'm sure it's going to be awful.

Because there's probably no shame.

Maria, your hair looks amazing.

Thank you.

It's very glamorous.

Thank you.

We go to do beautification, to pick up trash, to dig in the dirt.

and here comes Maria, somehow looking fancier than I ever would have been if she was in like a t-shirt and leggings.

I was about to say, yeah, wait a minute.

But she just looked, you know, and I looked like the best.

We loved that though.

It was like, what?

You're going to give us a whole bunch of flowers and let us dig in the dirt?

Yeah, it looked nice.

Have you been up?

Have you been by?

I haven't been by this.

It looks good.

I need to get one of our stock pantry.

Cool.

I wasn't able to make it to the last one, but I'll get the next one.

But you know, there's nothing.

It was just bare in the front.

That's where the flowers fall.

No.

Earl probably won't be here.

He's obviously not coming.

He always beats me.

No, it didn't ring one time.

I don't think that's a lock.

but I didn't know.

She's living with us.

Yeah, we're trying to get her.

We're trying to put Jessica's bedtime earlier but I think it relaxes.

I mean, I don't know if they'll be able to move.

I think it'll be like 730.

And then, you know.

Uh oh, sun's out, gun's out.

It's 10,000 degrees outside.

Okay, we're ready now.

I think we still don't have a quorum, but this is who we're going to have.

Yeah, Commissioner Wiggs?

Here.

Commissioner Goldblatt?

Here.

Here.

All right.

We will now have a moment of silence.

Okay.

Next up, general announcements and meeting dates.

We have our next board working session coming up on Thursday, July 10th at 6 p.m. and our next regular meeting Monday, July 8th at 6 p.m.

The redevelopment committee meeting is every first Thursday from 3 to 4.

Can I just also add that we have the, we didn't put it on the agenda, we have the board retreat on July 12th.

That's right.

Okay.

Next up, any public comments?

Or PHAR comments?

You sure?

Okay.

Alright.

No update, Commissioner Wicks, but I will say I wanted to give a special shout out and kudos to our executive director, Mr.

Sales and his staff and everyone else who participated in the beautification day.

No, Commissioner Wicks, you were out there shoveling cigarette butts and everything else.

So very, very proud of everybody who came out.

It was a good time.

Amen.

So just wanted to show some love to the staff and everybody who played a role in that.

Yes, the day before things.

Amen.

It's a prolific fundraiser, which is insane.

and that one is at West Hammon.

All right.

Okay.

Did you want to, Miss Gals, did you want to hold to the end?

Okay.

All in favor?

Thank you, so this one is going to be shared by myself and Chief Cachos and so we wanted to just get in front of you guys because the last meeting we talked about

having security at South First Street and getting an update on that and we have been talking about for a very long time at safety committee meetings how we improve our relationship with the police department and so we have been working on that internally just getting one

We have been communicating really well lately.

We have a monthly meeting set up between CRHA and CPD

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 they're getting what they need from us also.

Well thank you John and thank you board for having me here.

I appreciate the work you all do as well.

Just to reiterate what Mr.

Sales was saying, the relationship.

I've been doing this a long time.

Worked very closely when I was in Alexandria with the Alexandria Redevelopment Housing Authority as a liaison and I can tell you I've never had a closer relationship or a better working relationship with an executive director of housing authority I have now.

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 you serve are good, hardworking folks who want to live in a safe environment for their families.

and that it's typically maybe a very small group of individuals, oftentimes folks who don't live in the community that cause a lot of the public safety concerns that we hear about.

And so being able to work through those challenges, being able to work through those things in partnership with Mr.

Sales has been helpful and I think it ultimately will bring a safer community.

John had asked me about South First Street and some of the hours and the private security that you all had put there and do and so I had some data and now look with data

I mean, it's not an exact thing, right?

I mean, we have our numbers and numbers are one thing and perceptions another, right?

I can stand here and tell you part one crime is down.

Gun violence incidents across the city wide 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.

We're small children who don't care where any of those bullets go.

Nobody wants to hear that those numbers are down, right?

And so we spent a lot of time in the community.

I specifically spent a lot of time in West Haven.

I live very close there.

You know, the fear I hear from folks when something like that happens is real.

You know, when someone shows a bullet hole in their window and tells you a story about a kid that can't sleep on the window closest to the street, that really hits home.

And so, it's not fair.

And so we're going to work and do our part to make sure we can address those issues.

Specifically to South First Street, what we are seeing for the most part, the spikes and calls in South First Street are between Friday and Saturday between 5pm and 1am.

And in West Haven, it's Thursday, Friday, and Saturday between 7 p.m. and 2 a.m. Then we see drastic drop-offs when it comes to our numbers.

And so that's kind of how we are deploying our resources.

And so when our officers are doing extra patrols around those timeframes and go into the community,

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 presence, that relational presence in the community on a regular basis.

At the times we need them there.

We don't want to make it look like we're overbearing a community.

We want to be out there in the times where the data is showing us that we need to be there and how we need to be there.

So those are the times and those are the

the things we are seeing and again when it comes to the issues that we are seeing when it comes to public safety again it's what we're seeing everywhere else in the city is that basically young adults or teenagers having conflicts that erupt over petty disputes many of which just escalate quickly and then result in violence

I will say the most troubling trend that we are seeing is just the indiscriminate nature of our recent shootings.

Not caring who they hit or what they hit.

And I think that's the most troubling thing.

If this was over

territory or drugs or a specific crime or something like that, that'd be one thing.

But these continue to be over petty beefs.

And the accessibility of firearms is just something I haven't seen in my 28 years of doing this.

They're everywhere.

So that's what we're seeing.

And I'll answer any questions that any of you may have.

Just one, Chief.

Thank you for coming.

We appreciate it.

I'll share a really, really quick story.

A couple of weeks ago I was out in West Haven late night and there were some shots that were fired and I was there kind of talking to folks and particularly a young lady who was like 15 or 16 who was much like she was describing just

hysterical, very sad, very upset, traumatized.

Other folks who were very close to, in close proximity to the shooting, traumatized.

And I'll say that the officers came out, they were very respectful.

They did their absolute best to ensure that the scene was respected 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, not a little bit but they're just happening far too 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 to apprehend some individuals who've been doing certain things, I think that in many ways 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 would say it's appreciated.

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 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.

But I just want to again tell you I appreciate the work in which you all have been doing.

and I'm praying that things can continue to go in the right direction, or they can go in the right direction.

I appreciate it.

So I had a couple of questions on some of the things that you 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?

Do you know?

I would have to dig into the different specific neighborhoods.

That's city-wide, over a three-year average, and what I'm talking about are gun-related crimes.

So it's incidents like aggravated assault involving a firearm, robbery involving a firearm, any incident that would have involved a firearm.

So I could probably dig down into the granular detail of

What's West Haven look like?

What's South First Street look like?

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 know if you have any

When I got here, 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.

And I remember a community meeting that I had over at the Old Trinity Church near the dairy market.

I was told there was gonna be like 10 people there.

Yeah, it was crazy.

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 that we love to get up and say hey crimes down rah-rahs 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

So that's a piece of it.

The community is laser focused and involved in trying to address a lot of these things from root causes, whether it be housing, transportation, and we're continuing to have those conversations.

All of that goes towards crime.

You know, 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, then how did it get to us, right?

And 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 do a good job.

Police Department, I think we have people there now.

I mean, we had 30 vacancies two and a half years ago today.

33.

Two.

So we have resources to put out there and be there when needed to be there.

But I just think it's been a whole of community approach and a whole of government approach.

That's a lot of feel good type stuff.

So if I could ask just one more question.

Commissioner Bellamy's story made me think about the fact that there's a lot of trauma in our community.

I think trauma from people who've been here for a long time, from interactions with police and other kinds of violence, but also for some of our refugee communities, trauma from where they're coming from, and I think in current ICE raids, trauma 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

In the communities, I was concerned, I think it was last week, to see images of cops in assault gear in our communities.

And for me, that was really scary.

And I thought, this has got to be extremely traumatizing 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

Yes, I'll answer that.

I'll take that as two questions.

So the first is the fear in our 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.

Our Afghan community, same.

They're scared to death.

And the last thing I want as a police chief

is someone 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 least at our level, there's only so much I can do.

I can't interfere with federal immigration or anything like that.

But that's not our job.

We don't enforce immigration law, nor can we.

We don't ask for immigration status.

We have enough work to do in doing that.

And I think we've worked really hard to try to build trust in our communities.

So that's the first piece.

I think that's a real concern.

It's a real fear and I'm very aware of it.

And so is my staff.

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, but they were both from the county, county search warrants.

They involved a shooting, a drive-by shooting that was pretty bad, it was a violent incident that happened in the county.

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, 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 are those bullets going?

You know in West Haven how many little kids are running around out there.

Every time I go there, I see how many kids are out here running around.

God forbid, 30 rounds.

And we're talking AK-47s.

So 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 deemed to be a violent individual 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 get to the level of probable cause to even do that.

We have to do it safely.

And so we do what's called a surrounding call out, which is very different than a lot of other places.

You may have seen like if a SWAT team goes 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 a 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 can put a phone into that house and negotiate with them to come out of that 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'll 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 a multi-day planning for an incident like that.

But I understand how that can look.

So 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

But they can't tell them ahead of time because if I mean they're trying to trying to

Take someone, I mean I'm not gonna, if someone did, I'm just saying it from this perspective, I'm sorry Chief, I'm only, like now we're having a conversation if that's okay.

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

Yeah, so I was there.

I came out there that morning.

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 I was out there that morning when I got off like many times I come by and I talk to folks and I was there 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 you know it would I get it there you know the trauma that can be you know

The trauma that folks deal with is real and seeing that in your neighborhood, nobody wants to see that.

Nobody wants to see SRT, a special response team showing up and dealing with a neighbor, right?

You're like, hey, am I in danger?

Nobody wants to see that.

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 it's a balance, and we sincerely care about that community.

And I'll continue to be out there and answer those questions to folks.

Like I said, I was there that morning.

When they were there, they made sure I was there.

So dovetailing off that, it's like the Hispanic Academy you have, I know community members who participate in that.

And I feel like I can speak better to the Latin community, but also we have that new Afghan community they were talking about.

And as you kind of navigate it, I think you hit upon a point like fear.

I think you've heard that.

I'm scared to death.

Even from me, I'll put it that way.

The one thing I've been thinking about is also a clarity about 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 said you were doing before and after and clarifying this is for this specific reason in regards to this warrant.

That could assist with alleviating some of that and it also would clarify what efforts you have or what lines you have put down in the sand in regards to what you want to do for the city.

Absolutely.

Until recently, when we would do a search warrant, we would just say, hey, we're in this area doing a search warrant.

Now we put it in there, we are in this area doing a search warrant related to this, what type of incidents related to, and that it is us, or it was us and Albemarle, and no other law enforcement agency is involved.

I think Mr.

Yeah, sorry.

I just want to also plug that after this happened, we did have all the resident services there to help and work with residents as well as some property management staff to address concerns.

Yeah, everything that goes out to the public is translated in all of our languages.

Thank you.

Commissioners, anything else?

No.

Thank you for presenting.

Anybody else, Chief?

Thank you.

Oh, Mr. Payne, do you have anything?

I'm sorry.

Hold on, Chief.

Sorry.

Mr. Payne, Commissioner Payne, Council Payne, you got 12 titles.

You're good.

OK.

All right.

Good evening to the board of directors and everyone who's online.

Really quickly, I'll try to get through this fairly quickly.

We are trying out a new format to provide better visuals.

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.

And so I just wanted to let you all know that for West Haven 16 non-payments were filed for June.

Next month we'll have that information in there and I do apologize again.

We are happy to report that there's been no actual eviction since May 15th.

and with that being said, TARS are still extremely high.

Miss Banks, I'm sorry to interrupt.

I see all you guys looking.

It's verbal only, I'm sorry.

We'll send out the finger.

Sorry, Miss Banks.

I don't know if you can see us.

Yeah, no problem.

Okay.

So TARs are extremely high.

However, we are working the EDP, which is the eviction diversion program, especially hard right now.

We're working with our resident services department and our other partners to get the TARs down and also prevent evictions.

So I wanted to, that was worth mentioning.

We thank everyone.

This has already been said, but for beautification day, we thank everyone that came out and everybody that brought somebody.

West Haven beautification day is going to be July 11th, 830 to 1230 weather permitting.

We will have to keep an eye on the heat index.

So it's definitely going to be all hands on deck as West Haven is probably

We look forward to all our partners and board members that can join.

We will send out a reminder email and

to remind everyone of that.

We are proud to announce that we have finally gotten our individual events on the properties started again under the directives of Mr.

Sales.

And so we will start sending out those flyers for the individual property events as well as partner events.

We will start doing some property management pop ups as we discussed in the safety meetings.

Residents having an opportunity to talk to property management staff outside of a formal office setting.

So we'll be doing some pop ups.

They'll be happening once we talk this week and get a schedule and we'll send those out.

So if anyone would like to join us at those pop-ups, just to talk to residents and socialize, we'd be happy to have you.

We'll keep you informed on that.

And then last but not least, we know that vacancies are like a big thing right now.

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, a lot goes into filling vacancies in the different programs.

So that is our goal for the next 30 days.

And we're working on that and we have goals and we're meeting those.

So we're happy to

We have some progress there.

So I just have like a process question.

I know, and some of this was my fault, but that we were supposed to have an update on the eviction diversion program for our work session that was canceled, was it last week?

Yeah, the full program will be at the next work session.

Okay, cool.

And then my other question is, 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?

Let me pull up the other report unless someone has it open.

I have it.

Thank you.

So Phil, more than a third.

And I will say some of these units are at properties that we just acquired.

So like Greenleaf as a development that we purchased on 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 that was planned and we knew it was going to take a little bit of time and one of the duplex, it's a duplex on the development at 217 5th Street which is across from Greenleaf.

That building is currently empty and we're looking at changing the way we

and so we're looking at doing some rent by the bedroom options to capture some of the folks that are losing housing in Cavalier crossings and so that's going to require a huge remodel and so that one will probably be vacant for a little while but we're going through that process now and so units that show vacant aren't always vacant because

We just can't get to them.

That's all I have.

Thank you.

Mr.

Sales, a special shout out to Miss Banks.

She was out there at beautification 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 I know how serious it is.

She was definitely boots on the ground.

Thank you.

I'll be there.

I appreciate it, Commissioner.

All right.

Good evening.

Yes, so for this program, HCV program is still operating like normal.

It is not in shortfall, but we are watching the program and so we have not released any new vouchers just because we've received a lot of rent increase requests.

And so that will eat up additional revenue that we were anticipating.

We are keeping a eye on

the units that the vouchers that turn over but we are not anticipating pulling from the waitlist anytime soon so the waitlist number is thin pretty steady at 1,700

for the HCV program.

We are looking at closing the wait list for the crossings because they do have 1,200 applicants and so that development alone will not serve 1,200 folks and so it's really unrealistic keeping the wait list open this long.

They are all over the country.

So when these wait lists open up, everyone applies from everywhere.

And so we could run a list to give you some data around how many are local compared to other areas.

We can run that pretty quickly.

But when you look at these wait lists, you're typically getting folks all over the world to apply.

Because you have a very short availability everywhere.

And so if you can get your name on a list and then get called

to stay there for a year, or you can do a reasonable accommodation to not even ever live there, but deport that assistance.

Oh, so we have a preference.

And so our wait list has a preference system.

And so it gives preference points to folks who are living or working in the city of Charlottesville.

So we have a local preference.

The other thing folks should be very mindful of is the Emergency Housing Voucher Program.

You will continue to see that number drop.

So we initially had 15 vouchers.

We've gotten to the point where those vouchers sunset.

And so when 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 your tenant protection vouchers and your tenant relocation vouchers.

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 they no longer qualify for the program.

We are doing HDS inspections.

We have a new inspector.

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 on the inspections.

a couple days a week is the commitment I'm making.

But that will improve our CMAP score.

I will say I do anticipate us not receiving all of our points for HBS inspections and that's because we did not do enough quality control inspections last year.

And so we have to do a certain percentage of QC inspections.

So those are inspections that our inspector has already completed within 30 days of the person either being leased up or their renewal.

And so we did not hit the maximum, the minimum number we needed to do.

And so we have that scheduled to where I'm doing the QC inspections.

Awesome, thank you.

Any questions for Mr.

All right, TC, you're up with the finance update.

For the past five or two years, I think we paid someone $30,000 a year to follow our FDS for us.

So this is the first time it's been done in-house ever.

Yeah, okay.

So much fun.

So I think the first thing you got on is public housing.

So we'll start there.

So this is all public housing together.

We had roughly $4.3 million in total revenue, $2 million of that, a little over $2 million being the HUD operating grants.

We had $943,000 in tenant rent, and we had about $1.3 million in capital fund.

The big expenses, salaries, they were just shy of a million dollars between maintenance and admin.

Our utility expenses, always hot.

That's just shy of $700,000 for the year.

That's water, sewer, and gas.

A little bit of that storm water tax and then trash removal.

Our total net on public housing for the end of the year is about $219,000 of net income actually.

So that's where we finish up on public housing.

What happens to the net?

It typically goes to like our reserve.

So we're supposed to have, you know, a couple months in reserve for HUD guidelines.

So we should have three months, well so hunt rule is two months, our rule is three.

I think we're at like three, three and a half, close four.

And based upon the climate we need to stay closer to four.

because we've all heard concerns about budget cuts, the big beautiful bill.

So yeah, we need to be very mindful on that piece.

So we have not anticipated spending the reserve.

Next I believe is HCV.

Pretty quick here, we had $8.5 million in HAP received from HUD this year A little over a million of that was the shortfall money that got us hold from prior years where we were having to put in other funds 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 was getting made up from prior years so that basically just took care of here in our company.

All right, city housing.

Total rent income, just over a million dollars on the year.

Admin salaries are one of our bigger expenditures at 92,000.

Our total utility expense on the city housing portfolio was only $96,000.

That is because a lot of those tenants pay their utilities or an allowance of total maintenance salaries was about $120,000.

The other big expenditure I'll show on here is the $384,000 of interest expense for the loan that we are paying on that.

And the other big expense on there is, but it has the revenue to match it.

The roofing expenses, what is it?

The roof.

The contract repairs there.

One quick thing I meant to mention before.

we do public comments I guess it's a public comment there is a tween and teen so ages 12 to 17 field day at Washington Park this Sunday that the city is sponsoring and it's all free from 3 to 6 so

and your teens and tweens.

Weather permitting.

Weather permitting, yes, if it's not 12,000 degrees or pouring rain.

Okay, so I will open it back up for public comments or FAR comments.

They're our favorite.

My name is Latricia Giles and I'm the executive director of PHAR and the only real comments that I have this evening are related to our youth actually.

We are very excited about our young organizers that will be joining us so as a community I am asking as we will be reaching out to just people to

Mentor because that is part of what we really are trying to do is create opportunities 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 and so we are just really hoping to shape and mold folks because they are already leaders, the ones that have signed up for the task, we already know that, but really loving on them, encouraging them,

because 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 part of the change, being driven to do the things that they are called and whatever that looks like so we're ready to equip them in that so just looking for your support as we will be reaching out and just also thanks, we were able to host our Smoke and Vote event a few days, last week

We were able to barbecue and have the candidates come out to really talk about ranked choice voting and what that looks like, how that would work for folks who 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 going forward and

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, and to whomever they support.

But getting the word out, helping them to understand, and activating our youth, of course continuing with our adults.

We had a wonderful actually bingo event as well at West Haven the other day, so shouts out to West Haven, really lively.

If I didn't know before, I learned that day for sure.

So we are just really excited about what we're having at PHAR.

We have new organizers, we have organizers coming, and we really are starting to make sure that residents know that we are here to support them in all of the ways that we need to support them and that they want to be supported in the ways that they want to transform community.

So we'll have organizers in all of the communities, we have assigned organizers that are there and it's already starting to, we are starting to see 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 we are just looking forward to what the summer has to bring.

We know it's hot and we're hoping to cool down a lot of things

from our perspective and from our end.

So we continue to look to support in the best ways that we can 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.

All right, any other comments from anyone?

All right, that concludes our agenda for this evening.

Second?

All in favor?

Aye.

All opposed?

Thank you, everyone.