 All right folks, we're ready to start and we're going to try it without a microphone. I'm a little loud so you should hear me and if you can ask them to speak up. Before we start, this is also televised on zoom. So this little device here will, there's a camera in the microphone. So if we get to a point where public participation and Freddie is going to speak that camera will zoom right under Freddie or anybody else, you know, and same thing up here the board. So if a board member speaks the camera should zoom should go on to the board member, pick up your voice and it'll broadcast it on the zoom because there are a handful of people on the zoom. So, don't be afraid it doesn't bite. So, so we want to open up the monthly Allington housing authority regular board meeting it's Wednesday September 21 704. We're going to have a roll call. God, Nick. You and your Ella. Everybody's here. We're going to move right into it just for the audience. So as I told you at the last tenant meeting for the next four months the board is taking the board meetings and doing it at the different facilities. So, this is truly your time. And I'm going to open the floor to you folks if you'd like to speak under the public participation guidelines, because it's your facility as they say it's your community. And, but there's an awful lot of votes that we have to take first the material we're going to go quickly. We'll, Jack, usually gives his report and then as we do these boats on the different budgetary things Jack might explain about it. So it might be a little bit over your head. If you have a question, you know just for this meeting I'll allow you to raise your hand. If you have a question about what we're talking about, raise your hand and we'll, we'll spend a little time answering the questions and because normally we just go right through this stuff. Anybody have any questions. Okay, so first order of business is the executive directors before Jack. All right, thank you. So I'll start with some of the capital project updates here at Drake Village, the fire alarm upgrade project for the house or building is currently out to bid and we hope to be able to present that the recommended bid at the next board meeting in October. The electrical panel upgrade at the great cottage is in the house or building is in the design phase. The electrical panel upgrade project at the cottages is also in the design phase. The roof project at the house or building and the door project at the cottages should be going out to bid soon. At Chestnut Manor, the electrical panel upgrade is in the design phase. We should have a better idea of the start dates for the window and ESOS heat pump projects at Chestnut and Winslow and the ESOS heat pump at Chestnut and Winslow windows only at Chestnut after the board meeting tonight and the board votes on those items. The second and third floor units at Chestnut that were taken offline due to the fire in January are just about ready and we should be able to be able to start leasing up those units effective November 1st. The first floor unit should be ready soon after as well. At Winslow Towers, we have found a pathway forward with the contractor to complete the building envelope work that was still pending from the window replacement project from last summer. At Minotomy Manor, we are encouraged that the window replacement project is on schedule. Each city will be providing guidance on next steps. The draft of the feasibility study at Minotomy Manor has been completed and it shows a pathway for the housing authority to complete the deep energy retrofit at Minotomy Manor, which not only includes the window project but a building wrap and some other components that will lead to a carbon neutral in passive house and potentially passive house certification. We also met with Action Inc. This past month is part of our lean application. They will be completing some weatherization work at Minotomy Manor, Cusack Terrace, and the Great Cottages in addition to some other work that should help create water savings at our buildings with gas heated water. We will have a better idea of when that work will begin after the board vote tonight. Some news related to the Housing Choice Voucher Program, effective October 1st. We will have five new Housing Choice vouchers. These vouchers were made possible through President Biden's Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022. This coupled with the over 10% increase in KMAC and rent will be great for our Section A program. In regards to Chapter 689-2 development, we are still looking into potential options for this development. We met with the town this past month related to a potential property and we're continuing to have discussions there as well as looking at other locations as well. We received a notification from the town of Arlington this past week that they'll be holding COVID-19 booster vaccination clinics and flu clinics at all of our senior public housing sites. Those notices related to the dates and times for those will be going out to all residents by the end of the week. An email will also be going out to the residents related to that. But to keep an eye out, they're going to be the first and second week of October. And if I remember correctly, I believe Drake is the first week of October. Test kits are also available for residents and staff. We will make efforts to provide them to residents as we move into the fall. And for the residents here today, if you need test kits, please contact your property manager or Tricia Horgan, the resident services coordinator, should be able to get those to you. A national night out and the cookouts at the senior developments went very well. Residents were pleased to see the return of these events. There was a great opportunity to meet new staff and new residents. A special thanks to Rowley Demers, Lynn Sullivan, and Tricia Horgan for the hard work they put into making these events possible. For a resident services coordinator update, Lynn Sullivan, Maria Pierre, and Tricia Horgan did a great job coordinating with community partners to get some back-to-school supplies and computers for students at Monotomy Manor. And some staff updates. We have some new staff members to introduce to the Board of Commissioners. Annette Thomas is the new property manager for Chestnut Manor, Q-Stack Terrace, and Winslow Towers. Samuel McCour is the certification specialist and will support the state public housing and Section A programs. Maria Pierre is the new resident services coordinator. The position is being funded through Town of Wellington ARPA funding. We're in the process of completing the interview and screening process for the FSS position and should be ready to hire the new coordinator soon. Thank you. Is there any questions for Jack? Yeah. All right, moving on to the next one. Groove of the Family Self-Sufficiency Action Plan that was in your packet. Any questions on that? There were some updates. We ended up hiring a consultant who's better versed in this stuff than I am to help us meet some of the new federal guidelines that are necessary for the update to our FSS Action Plan. And she was able to do that. So we'll be able to ensure that we meet the requirements for the FSS programs so we can move forward. And how many people do we have participating approximately? Approximately 25. That's a lot. Yeah. And we're hoping to grow it. It's a great program. I know a lot of the board members, I mean, I'm still learning about it, but it's a five-year program provides participants in the Section 8 program the ability to build escrow that can help them move forward to get training or in other abilities to deal with the cliff effect as they get off the program. Go ahead. Yep. Go ahead. Where does the money come from? Is it part of the rent? So my understanding is so when the person joins the program, their subsidy is X and, you know, their rent is X is Y. As their income increases because they get new jobs with higher paying with that are higher paying, etc. That difference, their rent freezes. So the difference that they should have been paying gets put into escrow. So it's an incentive to continue to grow and get, you know, continue to grow professionally. So a good example is recently we had a person graduate the program with $50,000 over $50,000. Yeah. Yeah, unbelievable program, life changing. Any other questions? We need a motion. Motion to accept the updated action plan. Second. Who's taking minutes? Sandy on Trisha's. Oh, Trisha's. Thanks. Yeah, so moved by Nick. Second, my God. All in favor. Yes. Nick. You in? You're all right. Yes. That's the unanimous vote. We move on to the number five approval. The housing trades voucher payment standards. It's in your packet Jack also included current one that was affected May 1. You'll see the second one effective October 1. And as you'll notice this, obviously it's a pretty interesting increase in rents. These are the section eight. These are the section eight rents. Yeah, so now a one bedroom, not necessarily an Allington number section eight can go anywhere. A one bedroom is now going to be reimbursed that $2,198 two bedroom point 635 and it goes up. So that's a pretty significant increase. Anything you want to talk about Jack on that one. Yeah, this is this is this is going to be very helpful for our section eight program and the participants we have a number of participants who have recently had difficulty finding homes and and raising these family and rent standards will allow them to hopefully be able to find a home, not only in this area but ideally in They did the money, the amount of money and the number of vouchers to so we yeah we're at we were at 422 and now we're at 427. Yeah, yeah. And those folks live all over that aren't just like right. Yeah, we managed the program, about 40% living out. I was wondering. Yeah, the number. Child. Yeah, absolutely. Yep. Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah. We're talking to each other and not on the housing boys program I was just talking about someone. One is that it's a cat person. So, if you get a job. Yeah. Or you have a little child. Around 40% of the people. But for Florida. So, So this new, these new rates will be effective October 1. So, so we need we need a motion to adopt this as of October 1. I move to approve the section eight. 2020. October 1. So we have moved by Gar second by Joanne. All in favor got Nick. Yeah, Joanne. And Brian is the yes. Thank you move on to number six. This is approval of the, the MOU for the shine program that's in your packet. So our big push to move into this agreement with the shine program through minutes in your services is as many of the residents here in this room know there were a number of waivers from Medicare and from mass health related to allowing them the ability to access our sites and giving them space to meet with residents and recertified will help ensure that the residents of housing authority are able to recertify in a timely manner. Given that the waivers have expired. So the, I don't know if you read it yet. I think that's one of the things that I brought to Jack's attention that, you know, I'm okay with approving this tonight and have Jack work out the details. The first is the indemnification clause. You know, this document is making housing indemnified minimum, but there's no minimum indemnifying housing. So, so it needs to be a mutual indemnification clause and he can fix that on the document. Second is that 56789 ensure that a council is available and agreed upon location for minimum number of hours per week. It kind of shifts the burden on to us really I mean this is a program that minimums doing. So if you take it for its face value. We shouldn't be labored with ensuring that somebody's there so he needs to tweak that a little bit. I think the progress of Bob and he's got to work on that one too. And the number two is to maintain two volunteers. Again, it's shifting the burden on us so this just needs to be tweaked a little bit so it's usually acceptable. I mean, other than that I'm okay with with approving it. The draft with with future corrections by Jack is no money attached to it doesn't cost us anything we do give them an office here. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, go to our other sites too. Yeah, so it's a pretty good program. Yeah, pretty good program. So any questions on that. Is there anything more that we're asked to do that obviously he went over. So initially they were asking us for access to a computer or phone some other different types of devices to them after working with them. And I know I've taken that down indicated that essentially if they need access to that I can provide to that that to them at the main office, but as far as providing that to them at satellite sites. That's not, that won't be. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, question. Yeah, I could say that I can be so. The volunteers so the volunteers will be assisting the residents with the paperwork needed to get on to Medicare mass health do the paperwork for the recertification understand what they're eligible for and help in that in that manner. Yeah, I would think so. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Trisha. Yeah, they'll post hours when they'll come in. And, you know, they'll be sufficient notifications made. It's very good because you want to check your insurance periodically. It'll be the easiest here because Cody's going to be directing it. Yeah. So we have a motion to accept. Yes. I make a motion to approve. Subject to the jacks. Yeah. We have moved my next second by Pirella. Yes. Gar. Yes. Yeah. Pirella and Brian's yes. Moving on to number seven. This is an RFP. Being a quasi state agency, we just can't go pick and buy. We've got to come up with an RFP with where have we have funds $300,000 a month so far for the purchase of a condo unit. And we now want to go out to bid to try and find one. So that's these documents here that were in your folder. It's all legal jargon and process. And we have to as a board approve the process to do the process then accept the bids. So any questions on that? Absolutely. And we'll be working with the town of Allington to make a deed restrict deed restricted as well. Yep. Yep. We have a motion for that one. Yeah. Move to approve the request proposal for the purchase of condo. Second by. Second by Pirella. Second by Pirella. All in favor of God. Yes. Number eight. We will notice the proceed for action for the Boston development. Who placed the windows and install the heat source pumps at chest.mina. This was a huge feather inject. To find funding for this project. We've talked about a number of times and now we're moving forward. So anything you want to add to that, Jeff? Nope, just for at Chester Manor. I mean, we were really happy to be able to do this, but it's also going to help us in our capital budget. Because they're going to be funding in full. The window replacement for the chest nut manner. Development as well as adding a source heat pumps. In the total cost of this. Um, You know, some of the ongoing work that's been happening at Chester Manor related to the fire being able to get action for Boston. Um, Developmenting to come in and. And do this project is going to be to a great benefit to the residents of Chester, but what's the total cost of this? Um, I think what they're indicating is it's under a million, but. Yeah, 796,000. And that's that's that's their price. If we were to go through the price, it would be quite a bit more because of prevailing wage and some of the other requirements that as a state agency, we go through. So we we saved a considerable amount of funding. So just for the audience, how did you get this? We submitted a lean application in November of. 2021. And part of that is spearheaded into some of the different things we're going to talk about tonight. So we're what it makes us eligible and what it helps them to consider us for is programs through our electric, which is for us is ever source and then through gas, which is national grid. So this project is through ever source or ever, you know, ever source because it's electric. It's going to help on the electric efficiency side. But, you know, we're continuing to push and work with these different partners to figure out what we're eligible for. And, and, you know, not to get ahead of ourselves, but there's potential that other projects come here to Drake Village that are similar in scope. Very good. Excellent. So do we have a motion to approve that? Yes. I don't know that everybody. It's, it's energy savings. The thing that I think the residents are going to like the most is not only does it provide heating. It provides cooling. So it's going to provide the cooling aspect for all those residents as well in the summer months, which will help infrastructure wise because, you know, putting AC units in windows, if not installed properly could cause damage to the windows. So I think it's going to reverberate and lead to some additional savings as well. So these are more commonly referred to as mini splits. These are the things you'll see in buildings. They're two feet or four feet. And they're just tucked up like that speaker there. And they put in each room. So they more commonly it's called a mini split. So do we have a motion to move forward with that? Second. Move by Nick. Second by Fiorella. All in favor. Yes. Great. Now we move on to number nine. Same thing, but at Winslow. Jack, do you want to add anything? The only thing that will be missing from this project is the, is the window replacement. As the board knows, we re-did the windows of Winslow towers last, not this past summer, but the summer prior. So this will just be the air source heat pumps. Great. Any questions on that? Motion. Second. Second by Fiorella. All in favor. Yes. Nick. Joanne. Fiorella. Brian's yes. Number, number 10. This is a notice to proceed for action ink to install equipment and sealants to improve the water and energy efficiency at monotony. So we're going to move on to the next slide. Thank you. Thank you, Nick. How's a QZAC just not in the family house, Jack, you want to mention a little bit about that one? So, so this is, um, this is encompassing all of our national grid, um, powered. Properties. Some only have gas heated water while some have gas heated water and, um, gas heat. Um, at monotomy manner, it's going to be, it's going to provide something that I think we've all been talking about. It's going to provide some additional insulation that is going to help, um, and then over the course of the next winter, um, it's also going to provide, um, They're looking at adding some additional insulation, whether at the cottages and some of the other areas as well to improve the energy efficiency. Um, on the water side, they're looking at installing some aerators and some new shower heads. Um, that will help with that in, um, and we'll be looking. Those are the ones that we're looking at right now. The total cost of the program is $920,000, right? $925,000. I believe so. Yeah. Uh, any questions on it? You have a question? That's a great suggestion. Those are the plus side stone doors. I don't know if that's all, but it's all of them are just hers. Is that all, is that all of, all of the units are just yours? All of them. We're definitely going to look at that. That makes sense. Is this. So it's a storm door screen and glass, but no other glass to roll out, right? Well to put in. So there must have been one years ago. Well, let me, let me circle back with the maintenance department. Um, and we can look into that because they're, you know, there could be reasons why that, there could be reasons why that's the way it is, but we'll look into it nonetheless. Yeah. Yeah. So that's a great suggestion. Yeah. Fred. No, at the end, at the end of the spring. Yeah. Yeah. So any other questions on number. Number 10. The wind's low. I moved to approve number 10. Too long to read. Uh, no, wait a minute. Yeah. Number 10. We have a second. So we haven't moved by God second by the umbrella. All in favor for number 10. Yeah. Nick. Yeah. You in the umbrella. Brian's a yes. Move on to number 11. So this is the certificate of final completion for the roof replacement project that cues act. Which is now a 100% complete. Yeah, I check. That's correct. And. They want to get paid. I think the state. I forget what the retainer Jesus might be just 5%. Coming on budget. It came in on budget. I think it's 16. Is that it? That's it. 16,000. Yeah, they did. They did well. Yeah. So we, it looks like 16. So, so do we have a motion to pay them? second by Nick. All in favor? Guy? Yes. Nick? Joanne? Yeah. Pirella? Yeah. Ryan's a yes. Move to number 12. This is to approve Jack submitting a request to the CPA Community Preservation Act for the Monotomy Manor Window Replacement Project. We're asking for $500, $500,000. And hopefully, and Joanne, since in that committee as a member of this board, so give them some beatings. Any questions on this? Yeah. So do we have a motion to approve it? Yeah, I move to approve number 12. Submission of Community CPA Act, CPA preliminary application for Monotomy Manor Window Replacement Project. So you get the move by Guy, second by Pirella. All in favor, Guy? Yes. Number 13. This is for $250,000, and we also submit a request to the CPA Committee for monies to fix the house of building roof replacement project here. Same thing, just $250,000. $250,000. Any questions? It's this roof here. Yeah. I move to approve submission CPA preliminary application for house of building roof replacement project. Hold on. So it's moved by Guy, second by Joanne. Fred, question? Yeah. Can you give us notice about the times and noise that happened here? Oh yeah, they do. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. Fred, we understand there's going to be a lot of project coming up here at a great village over the next probably six months to a year. So there'll be a lot of communication, not only with all the residents, but especially between us and the tenants association. Sure. I believe they did them all at the same time. But I don't have that figure. Does it leak? Does your unit leak? Good. Good. So that's a good point now. Remember, as I said to you when we had our meeting the week ago, there's a new kind of off the track a little bit, but there's a new process in place. We have our board meetings. The president speak at the board meetings and tell us what the tenant activities are. And nothing to do with the facility because after this meeting, Jack and Chris and Rolly then meet with the presidents and their board if they want, or most specifically the presidents. And that's when they bring up any issue with the facility. So if there's any issue with the facility, yeah, okay, good. So if there's any issue with the facility, make sure you bring it to Fred's attention so they can be fixed directly. And that gives these guys the opportunity to walk the premise and see it. So just a side bud. Good. Good. So do we have Okay, vote all favor. Yes, and Nick to end your Ella. Ryan's yes. We move on to number 14. Acceptance of CBG CBG funding for the house a roof replacement project in the amount of 250,000. So the community development block grant has awarded us 250,000 dollars for the room. So the roof obviously costs more than 250,000. So so do we have a motion to accept that? Let's move by Nick second by Fiorella. All in favor. Gar Nick to end your Ella. Brian's yes. Number 15 consideration of First Amendment to the antenna lease agreement with AT&T for Winslow powers. Jack's reviewed it. John's reviewed it. Hi, John. And I think we're ready to decide it. I believe it was $300 more a month. That's a great question. I think the existing was just over 3000 a month. Yeah, it's about 10%. Yeah, changing shown in pink, but I printed it in black and white. Yeah, I assume that's it, right? That's it. Yeah. Yeah. So and the reason this is back on the agenda is there was there was some additional language that AT&T wanted to wanted to well change. They wanted to be updated. And John Greco recommended that it go back to the board due to the change so that the board could review and and vote if they they wanted to make that vote due to the fact that they had made the vote in July based off of some some other language. There's still some dispute, I guess, our uncertainty on this. I don't know if you can hear me. Can you hear me? Yeah, go ahead, John. Still some uncertainty on this. What we did is when we added the $300, we said it gets added to the base because remember in this contract over many, many years, there's a cost of living effect factor. And that cost of living factor should be added to the base. So this $300 that they're commencing on a certain date should be added to the base. So every year that, you know, that cost of living adjustment that they give will be include that $300 will be included in it. They evidently are having some concern about doing that. And they want that worded in a way that that's not a certainty. And I said, Well, what do you tell me what the language is that you don't like about it? And we can maybe make the language more comfortable for you. They say, Well, we just don't like any changes at all. I said, Well, bottom line is that's a $300 increase to the monthly rent. That $300 increase ought to be to the monthly rent. And over the next five, 10, 20 years, whatever it is, the cost of living figure ought to be adjusted on to that. So that's still some little dispute over that. And I said that as far as we're concerned, that's reasonable. And if you tell me there's a particular reason why you want to change and what you're aiming to do with that language, let me know. And the answer I got back was we don't like any changes in the language we did. I said, Well, I don't understand that because all lawyers go back and forth with the changes they're all comfortable with. So I don't know exactly where they are now. I said, But the only thing I can say is that if that's $300 to be added to the rent, and that $300 should be also included in any cost of living factor that's added to the rent over the next 10, 15, 20 years. Thanks. Any questions, John? Do we have a motion to appeal there? I have a question to John. So John, look at this. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. He's been negotiating it. So he's approved that he just wanted us to vote again. The language that should be in there is that that $300 will be added to the base rent so that the cost of living factor will be adjusted on that base rent plus the $300. We have moved by Fiorella, second by Gar, all in favor, Gar? Yes. Nick, to Ann, Fiorella, Brian, yes. So there's no need to go into the executive session. We put that on there in case we had to go in further to discuss the antenna issues. Now we have 17 approval of the minutes that are in your pack at the minutes of July 21. We did not have a meeting in August. Do we have a motion or is there any questions about the minutes? Do we have a motion to approve them? Second. So moved by Fiorella, second by Nick, all in favor, Gar? Yes. Nick, to Ann, Fiorella, Brian, yes. Now we move into public participations, local tenant organizations. Fred, I'm going to have you go last, only because I think we'll open to the floor for the residents of Drake. So is Ann of Zoom or in person, Jen, monotony? She's right here. Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry about that. Anything you'd like to ask? All right, good. That being said, I'd like to thank Fiorella for coming to the last meeting. We need to have a few cats that we can stand and buy a sample of some other animals that we would like to provide. This is a canola, I think it's not a canola, so I don't know if there's any there, but I think it's great to see that we have the cats and they're finding a loving forever home. Hey, very good, good job, good job. Vince? Vince is the cat. Vince? Good evening. Good evening. Right now, the new RSS coordinator, and we are already working together on detailing the list of services and offering available to parents in the elementary school and in the high school and high school. As well as connecting with the boys and girls community, I would like to ask you guys to look at the list of programs, sign-up dates, policies, and what not to talk about and over on this particular section. This time you're going to publicize right now, and then you're going to be able to move on to a lot of things. Coming up. It takes your time and you can have a lot of work to do. You can have a full program and then you can have a lot of work to do. And then you're going to be able to do so. We're having a new resident and then something to do. I think it's going to be a lot of work. It's going to be up to yourself. So we're going to have a Zoom hospital as well, as a person, or we're going to know if they're going to be here or have access to one. And it's going to be something that you can do tonight. You can go up to the 30th through four yards and then you'll have a school center. So it's going to open soon. And which comes out on the same day. Reflections are up to you to determine. And lastly, we're in the process of planning a tie-dye next week and tie-dye later. Excellent, off and running. Very good. Awesome. Yeah, thank you very much. Very good. Good to hear. Mike's not here from Q-Zack. Anybody out from Q-Zack? No. No. Doreen from Winslow. Yes. Hello. Good evening. Hey, Doreen. So this is the time that I mentioned when we were at your cookout that if there's anything you can tell us about the tenant activities and things that's going on down there? Sure. Right now we're working on getting together a Hawaiian night. We're getting together a high tea afternoon time. We're planning on a Halloween party to be catered by Diego Steno's. Our game night this month was a success again and we're still working on our holiday bazaar which is going to be on December 3rd from 12 to 4 p.m. It's a Saturday afternoon. That's awesome. So Doreen is the new president down there. New as of September. Just down here. So that's awesome. So you guys are off and running COVID's over so we're kind of back to normal which is great as we've talked about here. So anything else you want to add Doreen? No, we're just trying our best to get the tenants out of their apartments. Great. Thank you very much. Absolutely. Absolutely. You got to do it with food. So that's great. And Fred, now we go to drink. Fred, our newly elected president. Rockback from two years of COVID. Go ahead, Fred. I've got a lot of things going to bring up so maybe you can take them. First of all is the honours of the morning. When will that happen? A keyboard. When we left the meeting last week, it was last week, right? Yeah. I said to Kristen and to Scott that they needed, because they're the piano players, they need to figure out what model they want and contact Jack. So you might want to follow up with the two of them. I thought Kristen said she just bought one for herself and I think Scott said it was a good model. It was somewhat reasonable price. I'll set up my own sound here that it is for everybody to give you all the time. Please don't waste your time. We're going to work with Fiora. Okay. He's already on. Fiora. Yeah. Graciela. Yeah. Graciela is going to get me. Graciela is going to get me the making model for the... Oh, good. All right. Yeah. So we're on it. So let's... You used to have machines in here that sell food and drink and you're in the front now. I don't mind it in the front, but here's something that could be done about the crisis of the goods in there. It's a rip-off. I'm sure that... To the guy that comes here, raise it to $2. There was a time, I don't know if we could still do it, but the people at Coca-Cola sells the soda, they'll give a discount to the seniors and stuff here. I got it for 75 cents before. I believe you can get it for like $1.25 as a discount. I just thought you could negotiate with them. The names of the people are on the machine. I did that myself before, but I'm wondering if you could add more coal than I would just to maybe do it. So seniors and handicap people here, they deserve to have a fair amount of stuff coming out of that machine and not get that done. We'll look into it. We'll look into it, but that's one of those things you can't promise, but we'll look into it. I just wanted to look into that. Because he doesn't charge rent for the machines, right? I think that... Yeah, I know. But we'll look into it. Yeah. Also, a possibility of wide buy for everyone here, possibly maybe use some of the money you're using for the project. It's not a lot. You can also negotiate with Comcast or maybe the other companies to get it in here. I know you did something good. By bringing the computer upstairs. But a lot of people really could use the Wi-Fi if you could. A lot of people can't afford to get it from Comcast. So there's Wi-Fi here. Yeah. And not a community room. Well, community room and out front, I assume. Right? I'm not sure. I know for a fact that's in this room. Just to speak to that quickly. There are some different programs out there and we're hoping at some point to take advantage, but it's just going to be a matter of when those become available and working with them on that. Let me know. I'll help. Okay. The other thing is the cottages were brought up briefly. I don't live in the cottages, but when I go to visit people there, they're deteriorating the stairs, the breeze like that. I would hope that you really help the people in the cottages. Some people have trouble walking up the stairs or something. It really needs to be attended. Okay. That's one of those things that you definitely need to bring up at your meeting. Because this is an open forum, this is fine today, but that's one of those things you bring up at your meeting. And that's when the three up for you are going to get up and you're going to go walk over and you're going to show them the stairs. And you're going to say, listen, these are the things to need fixing so they can see it. Right. So those things can be fixed. You know, major things take major funding, but fixing stairs and less like that. So that's another thing, but definitely, that's when you walk them over and you say look at this. When you do the project or stuff, I want you to also account, but whatever noise, whatever dirt might be blown, is this happening before? It was a big deal when they did the mowing, the leaves. Remember, I know a lot of people were affected by that. Too early in the morning. The leaves, I know you promised me, but I want to bring it up to the tenants, is it took 34 hours to blow leaves around this year. And I'm not exaggerating, because I am trying to call instead of about eight or 10 hours to do the leaves. And you cannot get all the leaves in the public, like doing it partitionally. You have to wait till they come down. And that's the logic of it. Instead of trying to get them as they come down. And that created the noise factor. And also, when they do the mowing on these machines, the blades don't even touch the grass on many areas. And they're blowing dirt around. I had my caretaker upstairs with me by the window. This was last year. And the dirt blew up right to where the window was. And my caretaker and I had to close the window. Now, I'm not complaining. I'm just saying, can you please avoid using machines when you don't have to. Those hand blowers are just as good. It means maintenance of my product, you're a little more manual labor. What's the difference? They're getting paid for that. And it's not a big area, not an area at all. When you really look at it, it doesn't need a lot of noise because it just comes right in the windows and the dirt, especially in the cottages. The dirt was blown in the windows. Cody was there with tenants outside. And dirt was blown on them. He actually called your office. He doesn't like to get involved, but he did then. And that's an important thing. We've got to watch out for pollution, noise pollution and dirt pollution. Sorry, but you discuss this with Rolly. And again, these are things that bring up in the maintenance. Yeah, no, that's, that's fine. That's why, listen, this is an open one to the Drake port. So we're allowed to say anything you want. You know what I mean? But go ahead. And just to remind houses that we're an independent organization. I like the idea as you've run up at the meeting about reading the police, the environment and everything. I'm all for that. Wait a minute. As speakers. As speakers. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I'm very okay with that. Anything you do and anything like that, of course, we'll always need food and money, which I hope you need to hear, you know, that's important. Let me see. I'm not gonna have much else. Just, we will have another meeting in October, probably the first and second. So you're going to do monthly meetings, right? So you're going to do monthly meetings now? Forget about it here. And I'll take all the suggestions that I bring it to you guys. Well, and no, you remember, you're a separate organization. So you can feel free to do what you want to do. I mean, what we ask at the board meetings is you just keep us informed of the activities that you're doing, just like Jen, so that we can help or offer something. You know what I mean? So, right, right, right. Yep. That's very good. I guess that's it for now. You can be but me. So any other Drake folks want to go ahead? I'm sorry, Graciel, you had a hand right here, but that's right. Go ahead. Graciel, just watch out for the court here. That's why we're here. Okay. And over here are the bylaws. Mr. Chairman, the bylaws amended in 2014. And the DHCD recommended the housing authority to put in the bylaws for everyone. Because we don't have bylaws in this community. I invited you to give me my vote to amend the bylaws in 2014. And they are amended. If the president wants to amend the bylaws, it's up to him. So DHCD now has recommended bylaws, I believe. Yes. So did you look online to see those? Yes, I did. Oh, you did? Yes, absolutely. They recommended the bylaws. So these them? We followed the bylaws forever. They've seen the election or the same bylaws. But according to the DHCD, we need to pass bylaws all over, 214 units bylaws. Okay. Because over here, there are 214, 310 residents. So I'll give this to Jack. Yes. He'll review it. And I will pass this around. Yep. And now also, you've got 10 different, I think we, the other time we were here, we've got 10 different languages here. Right? Yeah. So we'll have to figure that out. We have over here the English as a second language. Yeah. We need volunteers. But we have a service that we would give that to and then they translate it and print it. I'm sorry, what are you? Oh, yeah, you're still running your ESL programs? Yeah. Very good. Yep. Oh, okay. Yep. Anybody else? And Drake, go ahead. That isn't, but it's something that we're aware of. We want to do. Yeah. We're going to work on it. And also, I have one on the side. Here's a little bingo machine. Absolutely. Oh, so can it be fixed? I don't know. We tried it. You tried it? Yeah. So can you do a little research and tell us where to find one? And send the email in? And send it to me. Or Jack. Send it to Jack. Send it to Jack. And after he's making the 214 copies, still get it now. Yes. No, seriously. Because that's obviously an important machine. You guys use it every week. So, right. And that's quite a concern for Jack. Yeah. So this is a much better machine, but I have to do, I have, I'm on the call for bingo. I get sometimes you're sick. Yeah. We work on it. Yep. Yeah, yeah. I think something like that'll let you see it and outnumber our voice. Oh, they don't see it. Oh, yeah, yeah. So do your research and pick the one you think is the best. Yep, go ahead. I just want to follow up on thinking about the floors. If you, if you suggested that our last meeting to have this inside toward the community room, automatic, and these doors, the large lifts that make it hard for Vicky or anyone else in a wheel gear or roadway, okay, they aren't automatic. When outside, either right now, you could be able to see a hole this big underneath the glass where the brain is, which is easy for anything to get out and not repeat. That means somebody just making a ram or something. Not just like, hey, you're just getting a ram or cement. I think that that's something we could have a project, but as far as making like those doors actually, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But if you start on that, okay. And so you're talking about the ledge once you go out, right? The lip. The lip underneath the ledge is the frame, okay, where the window is after the ends where the brick is. There's a hole about the leg that goes the whole length of the frame. We'll look at it after. I think I know what you're talking about. We got an idea. And I'm also wondering if it's possible for someone or other people that take rides and stuff, we have drivers that will drive around this place just looking for this place, looking for 37 and break road. I am wondering if we have it in our budget. I'm sure you do. So put the number 37 above house or on the front of this building. The building's large, but it's a large track. Maybe this big. Nobody can really see it, but it's on the 37. That's easy to see when a driver is coming to pick you up, whether it's dialysis, anything else, daycare, whatever it is, then they're not slowly looking around all over the different buildings. That's easy. Easy fix. Easy fix. Yeah, very good suggestion. So that's an easy fix. So Jack will take care of that. Joel, just to explain that for a minute, I call for the early morning ride pickup. And the driver's GPS sends them over to this side of the building. So they don't, if you put in 37 break road, whatever they call it, the map track or whatever, directs them over to that side. Here I am on the front and the other side is building a different side of the way to pick me up. So the number on, so do you think if we put a number on the door and then the front, would that suffice or do you need a separate little sign? I would think it would help. I mean I don't, I've only achieved some problems once because I've all called for a ride. But when I look at, you know, maybe if you let it, the 37 break road. Alright, he's going to look into this. So we'll have it resolved very quickly. Yeah, yeah, so what we have, good point, good point. We have a bunch of condos that we also own that we put tenants in. And some of the condos have different purposes. We've, in the past, we've had a condo for domestic violence. That's, that we would work with the police department if there's an issue. They call us and we place those male or female families or whatever into that secret condo, as we'll say. So we have some programs like that and we have condos down on Decatur Street that are just part of our portfolio. So you could, whether if you're living in the cottages here, or you're living in the condo there, it's the same structure, same everything. It's trying to increase the affordability of affordable housing. No, but we are looking at, that's a good point. We also own the Donnelly House, which is the White House across from the Highland Fire Station, beautiful house we bought it years ago. And that's for the 689 program. That's for mentally challenged and physically challenged folks. Because once, once you, my daughter teaches special ed and the cutting and, you know, once these folks age out to age 22, they're out. The state kicks them out. They have no place to go. So the 689 program tries to place them. So we've got 13 residents there. So we're actually also looking right now, we've got a grant, a $2.1 million grant that we got years ago to either build or buy another facility for this program. And Jack and I, we looked at a piece of property of the day, we've looked at some other properties to try and find another house that we can convert into this and hopefully put another 10 challenge males, females, and those. So it's good that you brought it up. Yeah. Yeah, Fred. I was baking all yesterday. So any other, any other folks, any other questions or comments? All right. Well, glad you all showed up tonight. Stay for the refreshments. And feel free to chat with the board members while we're here. And remember all these issues that you brought up today, maintenance type things, you've got to get them in writing to Fred. So he brings them up with the meetings, his, their specific meetings, you know. So no, I said, all the, we talked a lot of maintenance type things, the suggestions, you want to put those in writing in the suggestion box, Fred will get them and it'll put them, bring them up with the monthly meeting with the director and the head of maintenance and monetization. And those are the guys that'll walk the property. Yeah, let's talk with Jack about that. I don't, I think you should have a, you should have a, Oh yeah, we'll get them there. Fred, they'll get a new lock. They'll get a new lock. All right. Thank you. Oh, wait a minute. We're going to get a motion to adjourn. Get that. So motion by God, second by Fiorella to adjourn. All in favor, God. Nick. Yes. Go in. Fiorella, Brian's yes. Moe, we're adjourned.