Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority Board Meeting   2/23/2026

Oh, I think you can keep that.

Yes.

Yes, that's where I was going.

Yeah, he went that way.

I don't know where.

I know.

It's awful.

It's very strange between like Friday and Sunday.

Gorgeous.

It was like warm in the sixties.

I know.

Today was wild.

Wild.

Stop telling our age, oh my God.

That's crazy.

Oh, yeah.

Also, too.

I can't think of her name.

The doors will be open for you to walk down to the tablecloth session.

Oh, okay great.

No, no, she opened them.

Okay.

Caroline, yeah, she said she would leave them open.

usually I'm first but I started eating jelly beans and we got distracted.

I really did just stand in the kitchen and that's hilarious.

Okay so I think this is everybody everybody we're getting tonight actually.

So call the meeting to order.

Can I get a roll call, Miss Carey?

Commissioner Rosenblith?

Here.

Commissioner O'Rourke?

Here.

Commissioner Raudales?

Thank you.

May I have, we'll take a moment of silence, please.

Okay.

So, general announcements, meeting dates, and reminders.

We have our board session coming up on Thursday, March 12th.

And then our next regular board meeting on March 23rd at six.

We have the redevelopment committee meeting every first Thursday of the month, three to four.

at the safety committee meeting every third Wednesday of the month from 12 to one and resident services committee every second Tuesday at one o'clock.

Let's see, any updates from commissioners?

Good evening, my name is Annette Wilcox.

My public comment is I saw some cute new changes going on and I saw twice as nice store to replace Reed's Market where I can buy clothes on Preston Avenue.

And I saw some beautiful colors and cute new things

Thank you, Miss Wilcox.

Thank you.

Miss Skiles, are you ready for PHAR or do you wanna hold off?

All right, not to put you on the spot.

Okay, so we are now gonna move to

A brief closed session.

Okay, be it resolved that the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority will convene in a closed meeting pursuant to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act to discuss the following matters which are specifically exempted from public disclosure by the code section referred to below.

Personnel matters involving the assignment, appointment, promotion, demotion, performance, salaries, or resignation of employees of the authority is authorized by section 2.2-3711A1 of the Act.

May I get a motion?

Motion.

Okay, all in favor?

Aye.

All opposed?

Okay, we'll be, we'll be, I promise it'll be more like right back than it was last time.

It'll be really good.

Hi, how's it going?

Good evening.

Good evening.

How are you?

Very well.

whereas the authority has convened a closed session.

on the state pursuant to an affirmative recorded vote and in accordance with the provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act and whereas section 2.2-3712D of the 1950 Code of Virginia as amended requires a certification by this authority that such close meeting was conducted in conformity with Virginia law.

Now therefore, upon motion duly made and seconded via resolve that the authority hereby certifies that to the best of each commissioner's knowledge

One, only public business matters lawfully exempted from open meeting requirements by Virginia law were heard, discussed, or considered in the closed meeting.

And two, only such business, public business matters as were identified in the motion convening the closed meeting were heard, discussed, or considered by the authority.

Do we have any motion?

Second.

Aye.

Okie dokie.

Next up is approval of board meeting minutes from November 24th, 2025.

Does anyone have any changes?

Is there a second?

Commissioner O'Rourke?

Yes.

Alright.

Next up.

Resolution 1499.

It is the procurement policy resolution.

Mr.

Commissioners, does anyone have any questions or feedback for Mr.

Sales?

All right, can I get a motion to approve?

Motion.

Wait, I have to read it.

Resolution 1499, resolution approving the amendment of Charlottesville's redevelopment and housing authorities procurement policy.

Second.

Yeah, commission passes.

Yes.

Commissioner O'Rourke?

Yes.

All right, motion passes.

Okay.

Sales, anything to comment?

Because of state inspection,

Okay.

Commissioners, any questions before we ask for a motion?

Commissioner Rosenblith?

Yes.

Commissioner O'Rourke?

Yes.

Commissioner Downs?

Thank you.

Good evening to the board and to everyone that's there.

Really quickly, we don't have much

Tonight we are just planning for the year.

We'd like to encourage our partners to encourage our residents to attend the meetings that we plan.

We will try to have in-person and virtual option as we've had in the past.

We also are planning our events for the upcoming year so we may be reaching out to partners and some of the board members to participate and make donations just like they've done in the past.

We have completed our beginning of the year evaluation so we are scheduling

Team, trainings for this year and I think that's pretty much all.

We're just basically preparing for the year to come.

Did anyone have any specific questions on the report?

Okay, if not, that's all we have.

We just want to encourage our residents to come out to meetings and to participate in events this year and just encourage more team building and collaboration between the staff and the residents.

Thank you, Miss Banks.

I'm going to do that one.

I'm the ACP program manager, that's LaShonda Esther.

The program has been pretty consistent.

We have 466 participants with a total half of about half a million dollars a year a month.

We have 1,700 families on our wait list.

We have not pulled from our wait list and we do not anticipate pulling from our wait list this year.

The mainstream program is steady at 34 families.

That program did enter into a shortfall last year

and so we have not pulled for that as well.

There's 45 vouchers at Crescent Hall's and so we have some vacancies there.

There's seven vacancies there.

and at South First Street, there's 24 project-based voucher units and so all 24 are leased up.

Tax Credit has, not Tax Credit, the crossings, I'm sorry, has 21, which means they have one voucher open.

Enhanced vouchers, we have five.

Emergency vouchers, we have 12.

And those vouchers, we are gonna start transitioning over to the regular voucher program because HUD has sunsetted that program.

The tenant protection vouchers, we have eight tenant relocation vouchers, we have eight FASH vouchers, we have three, but we're looking to apply for more.

FYI, we have 17 and we have 11 port vouchers.

You're gonna see that number has changed or it should have changed, it should have went down because we just did a large absorption because we had housing authorities that had not paid us since 2017.

and so it's only bad is that we continue asking for a check that we haven't received since 2017 so we've actually moved all those families on our regular program as of this VMS report this month and so that number dropped and we will be meeting quarterly with some of those big housing authorities to make sure they stay up to date on their payments going forward because I think the amount was a little bit over $300,000 so it was a pretty big number.

Cis Rep is consistent at 70 participants and there is not any room for growth at that program at the moment.

We're currently looking at the administration of the program and how it's currently

the current requirements for participants to be in self-sufficiency programs to make sure that folks are actually in those programs and they're working with the caseworker because we have folks who have been in the program since 2017 and self-sufficiency the way it's supposed to work your income should come up in that case a lot of them it's actually going down and so we need to figure out what's going on there and figure out if we

We need to add more resources or we need to talk to the city about how they can expand the funding just because the program is not, it's gonna take a lot longer for folks to get to where the city would like to see them get to.

We do have eight vouchers on the street and those are for people who are moving.

And that is all I have tonight.

All right, TC finance update.

Hello.

Don't have too much.

We have our audit completed.

It has not been approved by HUD yet, so once that is, I'll get it in front of you guys.

No timeline on that.

By the time last year, it was already approved, but I know they've had some major staff changes, so really not sure what timeline to give you on that.

Our tax credit properties are under audit right now.

Those should be completed by April 15th.

So once those are completed, we'll get those in front of you as well.

Alright, any questions for TC?

Alright, thank you very much.

Hi, how are y'all doing?

So something we have coming up is our financial literacy event on March 2nd.

That's going to be at Crescent Halls.

We're also planning a trivia night for voter engagement and voter education.

That's going to be sometime in April.

That's all thanks to a grant that we got through the National Low Income Housing Coalition, which we're very excited for.

Additionally, we have our community power labs coming up.

They're the last Thursdays of every month.

and our internship class is going well.

We actually just started our public speaking section today which went really, really well and so we have some interns here who were very excited to learn about public speaking.

So yeah, just lots of different programming coming up.

We are also looking to have a resource fair, spring resource fair with different partners including CRHA so that residents know what resources are available to them and yeah.

Awesome.

Do we have any other, anyone else who wants to comment?

Okay.

Well, I wasn't expecting it to be such a short meeting, but that concludes our agenda for tonight.

Second?

All in favor?

Aye.

Yes.

All opposed?

Goodnight.

Oh, you can keep it if you want.