Detroit Housing Commission — Board of Commissioners, 3/27/2025

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    Thank you. Good morning. Welcome to the Detroit Housing Commission Board commissioners meeting for Thursday, March, 27 2025 it is 10:15am,

    please. Caught up, roll, sure I see you, Commissioner mosey, it appears present. I see you. Commissioner Cowan, present you. Commissioner Williams, excellent.

    So we have Forum. Thank you very much. So first item is approval agenda call for a motion. So moved support. Any questions, comments, hearing, none. All in favor. Aye. Thank you. The agenda is approved. Next is the approval of the minutes for the regular meeting in closed session for February 27 2025 call for a motion. So moved

    support.

    Thank you. Any comments, questions, hearing, none. All in favor. Thank you. Minutes for February, 27 2025 for the regular and closed session. Meetings are approved. Next is public comments on agenda, action items,

    there will be two opportunities for members of the public to provide comments to the board. The first opportunity is now, when any member of the public may comment on any agenda action item. Comment is limited to three minutes for individuals and five minutes for group representatives to ensure speakers adhere to the time limits, the time keeper will give a One Minute Warning for persons with a three minute comment period, and a two minute warning for persons with a five minute comment period. This warning will be by means of a tone. When the speaker's time is up, the timekeeper will disconnect the call later, there will be an opportunity for public comment on matters unrelated to agenda action items. Members of the public must sign up in order to address the board during either public comment period, if you are appearing at the meeting virtually, you will be able to sign up by calling the number specified on the DHC website and or by raising your hand and identifying yourself within the Zoom app during public comment, all other persons may sign up if they are able to appear in the room, provided there is sufficient space to accommodate those who care to make a physical appearance. A person representing a group must identify themselves and the group when calling, when your name is called, if you are in the room, please stand and state your name in a clear, audible tone. And if you are appearing by zoom, when your name is called, please respond clearly and audibly after your microphone is unmuted.

    Thank you. Do we have any public comments on agenda action items? Thank you very much. Then we'll jump right into action items.

    First action item,

    this is you don't you say this? Oh, could be the first action item was approval to acute change order number two, for additional funding to contract 4027, with Michigan custodian and environmental for ongoing environmental services throughout the entire GHC. Resolution number 3285,

    good morning commissioners and Bill is here. We are happy to present this resolution, because this resolution presents the last of the plan testing for booster we did briefly ask for two contracts with our consultant, MCE. They not only help with booster remediation of playground, but also other environmental activities, but also supporting the development team in their application process with HUD. This specific change order is just to address the last phase of testing. We do have our legal counsel, Anne Marie, on the line, and she can answer any questions, but the expected outcome from this particular resolution is to have a finalized report submitted to the city of Detroit and HUD, we have been working very closely with Egle, as well as with the city of Detroit. Eagle have expressed there they're guiding us on the testing and making sure the testing is very within their guidelines. They're very happy with our consultant, MC. And so we want to continue this. To date, we have roughly less than $100,000 left on the last two contracts. But again, development is utilizing that for their application process, with the upgrade for various sites and the requirements and HUD and that. So we have to utilize that, plus we can go over that. We have a current estimate for this last phase, over 202,000 we're asking for 250 because if there's questions they have, we have to meet with HUD. You know, we bring consultant underneath the HUD. We also bring the consultant underneath with the city of Detroit, working with Penny and her experts.

    Thank you. Call for a motion. So moved forward. Any comments questions you're asking for 250,000

    you have a quote which is attached to the last phase of testing, and it's a lot of testing, the breaking. So this took or miss Anne Marie, you can, you can chime in the brick and eco has asked us to not just have big chunks of testing. They want it more defined, so that we can truly isolate each part of soil and also vapor. And so the quote that we have for that is $202,000 we're asking for 250 because it may be some additional back and forth with ego to be working closely with them just to make sure we have enough.

    Thank you. Do

    public housing projects? Is going to sound Elementary, but the public housing projects qualify for any of the ego grants when there is remediation and work done. So

    the answer is yes, if you can get improved. We did try to talk too much to get some additional funding, but we didn't make the deadline, and this was all last year, every year, I think they have so much allocated, and we can get that, but I think art that we support them,

    I would say that I think we are eligible for it as part of the remediation, and that's where I think we targeted, getting funds to support that once we have this but getting this scope completed, where we really Understand what the nature of any problems, if there are any, are is the way essential to being able to get a grant fund? We'll go to the state as well to see if

    that's what I'm

    referring to. It's the state grant funding through ECO or

    okay, I talked to a gentleman last year. We have to get into the pipeline. I think he has only so much that he can give out. I don't know. I'm thinking about mailing the same question last year, but definitely we're trying to take those moments

    and listen to if they have anything.

    We hadn't pursued missions, to be honest, but that definitely, oh yeah. I mean, it's we didn't pursue initiative because we were working with Eagle. We didn't pursue initiative because, at the time, when we were coordinating with Eagle and others and HUD, we were pointing to what Ms Colin said, we had those discussions. Right now, we're just getting those reports. When we get into the remediations, we're going to solicit from everybody and anybody who have money, because, you know, that's going to be a whole different ballgame right now. We're just trying to get the report and finalized, and this is the last stage. We're very happy about that, and

    I assume that the the prior two contracts with CIP, you know, have gone well. They've been, excuse me, not CIP with Michigan consulting, yeah,

    they've gone extremely well with the fact that eagle, the relationship with Egle and working with Dickerson Wright, has has just trajectory has been like 200% so when I first started, it was very difficult to get a meeting. I mean, we got a meeting that was, you know, very, very uncomfortable to now the calls are welcome. They can even get a call within a week or two weeks, and the conversations are moving well and tech and what we have allowed and learned that that the tech people talk with the tech people, because there's three different groups you have to work with people. And now MCE is at the highest level, where they're talking to the tech individual. So when you see these plans, you see these folks. It's been approved. This direction of ego has been a u bar external expert, which is Anne Marie, who supports Jefferson white as well as the city of Detroit. So that's why this is moving so progressively, and that's what we're very hopeful that by September, and I'm being really, really

    conservative,

    you know, that we should have a nice report to come back and say what we're going to do next, and we can hand it over to the development and a lot of great stuff, because what all we're doing now, it can be supported in the upgrade and follow the prerequisites for the application process. I

    don't have any further questions.

    Thank you. All in favor, aye, thank you. Resolution, 3285, is approval. All right, so the next one, thank you. Next approval to execute a contract with collabo or choice planning coordinator. Resolution number 3286, right? So that was really

    title hurting. Do you need development director?

    Good afternoon or good morning, please. So before you is a recommendation for the choice planning coordinator, I think I presented just an update before this body last month to let you all know that we received the $500,000 planning choice planning grant in partnership with the city of Detroit. We have a part of that $500,000 allocation will go towards hiring a grant the planning grant coordinator. So we released an RFP seeking a qualified firm to help us plan this grant. We interviewed five teams. The recommendation is collab of collabos. Scope will include, we've got an 18 month scope that includes planning and development for the Forest Park digs and greater Eastern Market area. And so really the content of this plan focuses in three key areas. It's people, housing and neighborhood. And so really the vision behind all of this is, you know, how do we create a stronger public housing site at Forest Park gigs? How do we connect that public housing site to really the broader Eastern Market area. This is really a true asset there and then, where are some of the other economic development opportunities. And so this planning towards this choice, planning coordinator is going to really bring the DHC city and City of Detroit team together and help us bring forth this plan through the contractors for 18 months. Once we finished developing the plan, we will submit that to HUD in September 2026, so we our selection is collabor. I mean, it really stood out, just in terms of their experience with Choice Neighborhoods and extensive experience and successful applications. They also had strong community engagement tactics, which really stood out to us. And then their their housing plan was solid, so this is our recommendation, and happy to answer any questions in terms of the attachments that are included in the report. We've got attachment age just walking through our recommendation and from scoring. Attachment B is the formal recommendation from the procurement team. Attachment C just outlines all that scoring. It really shows that COVID opening stood out from the bunch. And you've got a map in here that shows you what that that planning area is. Um, attachment C has the budget, so I mentioned that the contract is not to exceed $350,000 and you've got supporting documentation for each of their their proposed fee. Thank

    thank you

    for a motion. So moved.

    Please, work, support, questions, comments,

    so a couple things. So I thank you, Tyler. I like the approach, as I said last week, to you know, how we're looking at, you know, redevelopment neighborhoods, how we show up in the neighborhood and the community and and how we're supporting our residents. I also like this team. I've seen them in their work right between, you know, all three that are going to help in executing this. I just want to make sure I understand from a budgetary perspective, this $350,000 contract collabor is going to take the lead in these. These other two are going to be subcontracts and covered within that budget. And then the 225 that is coming from DHC, that is 225 from our $500,000 allocation, correct? So we'll have 275 to do some other work in other neighborhoods. Wait.

    Let me make sure. Understood that that second part correctly. So 275 and other neighbors.

    Well, there's 275 left for us to do more work under the choice.

    So the choice planning grant is specific to kind of that planning area. So the budget that you have under financial considerations. Really outlines how each of those things will expand. So the so the grant includes any sort of environmental testing, there's market studies, there's kind of some pre development work that needs to take place. So there's actually the city is putting forth some additional dollars. We'll probably ultimately spend more than

    okay, I think I understand that.

    So this, yeah, so this chart just breaks out the two roughly, you know, 275,000 is DHCS contribution to what is ultimately going to be a total about 1.2 million. And this is just the breakout of, like, how each of these things will be allocated.

    So let me make sure I'm clear. Then, if DHCS portion is was round 275, we've got, we were allocated or awarded a grant for 500 Correct? What? What is, what are our plans for the balance the other 225,

    so the we were co, co grantees with the city, so it'll be, it'll be split between,

    okay, that that's the clarity. Okay, just thinking, Oh, the 500 was granted solely to DHC, understood. Thank you for that clarity. Yes.

    Finally, have some extra

    develop this incredible plan to get the choice money we might have to acknowledge it is

    worth mentioning Commissioner Colin that we the we had our final public hearing about two weeks, actually, last week for the CDBG Dr Action Plan, which had an allocation of $33 million for our other properties. So we actually are expecting to get capital that will help us do other neighborhood projects. In addition to this, when those dollars come also, we're expecting the city to in philanthropy, to participate in this even a little bit more, because they they will have achieved that what we're getting 33 they're getting about the same amount. So we're expecting that there could be additional dollars available there. Just want to make sure you heard that so

    that that makes me think of another question, how does this work connect, if at all, to JLG?

    That's a great question. I think I don't have a direct answer to that right now, but I think that would be part of the overall planning effort. So throughout the duration of this 18 months, it will include, you know, conversations with our city partners and previous studies that have been done making sure that we integrate, you know, everything that's happening in the city adjacent to the area to plan

    the Dequindre test. As you know, it's just on the other side of the big defense factory there, correct? So the plan is going to include how the development can connect to the winter cut and future phases of it, one of which would connect right there on the other side of other side of the church. So we're it's a focus. It's going to be something that will emerge from planning work that lavo and their sub consultants perform. And

    really the basis of the plan is connectivity. It's acknowledging that, you know, Forest Park digs, how do we connect our target housing site to adjacent communities and all the amenities? And how do we, you know, whether it's some sort of design intervention we may need to the recommendation might be, hey, you actually need to reenact the street grid here to create some better create connectivity, and so that is part of

    the Greenway goes right past this, right so the other side of the

    blessed Heart of Mary Church, can The team also give a quick

    update on the meeting we have the HUD yesterday to talk about connectivity the city and some of the same questions you're asking. They asked as well.

    Yeah. So the the grant requires we have, like, a monthly check in with our HUD project person that's allocated to us yesterday we gave it a presentation, really, of because it was they were supposed to comment, I believe, about a month ago for a site visit, they weren't able to make it, and so we did, almost like a virtual site visit. Yesterday, we walked them through, really, the assets in the community and what our our vision is to for the planning coordinator. And so a huge part of that conversation was around connectivity. HUD really wants to see how we can connect the housing side to commercial corridors and just really creating that. So we're looking for, I guess, the leveraging, the adjacency, excuse me, like Eastern Market and some of the other assets, and so they were, I think, really impressed by the way counted in the way they're centering our target housing site.

    Thank you for that.

    Thank you any questions, comments and All in favor. Aye, thank you. Resolution number three, 211,

    it was 3286, there right.

    3286, is approved. So next is the approval to execute sub recipient agreement with the city of Detroit to proceed with trade neighborhoods planning grant from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. Resolution number 3287,

    so listen to me as well. I think Fiona listed this one went first. But this is really just to allow us kind of permission to be, you know, enter into a sub recipient agreement with the city of Detroit. So as I mentioned during the last resolution, we were co applicants with the city for this grant. And so um, HUD only allows for the grant to be allocated to one team. And so in order for the city to be able to reimburse us for our portion that we're covering, we have to enter to a subrecipient agreement. So it's just, we're asking your approval to be

    able to enter to that agreement.

    Nice move for the approval of resolution number 3287,

    support, perfect.

    Any questions, comments other than that, we don't approve this, and we just pay for the other one. Exactly. All. In favor, aye, thank you. Resolution 3287, and approve next. We have approval to execute a contract with HD supply facilities maintenance Ltd to replace exterior entry doors at Sojourner street homes within the Detroit Highway Commission. Resolution number 3288,

    more important, I'm Michael Edwards

    improvement hand out a packet, because, you know, I'd like to be my presentation. Thank you. Well, I'm coming here for this resolution. Is a need that's drag truth to replace the doors we've identified. The need to replace 392 exterior doors at 200 group, the current exterior doors at sojo are varying sizes, which presents multiple challenges and probably monumental tasks on having a way to replace them. No door in one unit was the same. From the front door to an ADA doors to the back door, they vary in sizes, thicknesses and the multitude of things. So over time, as they've been replaced, they don't have a good seal, or they don't have good secure they're not secure little resolutions. And I'm just going to shorten it's basically the place in, all the doors, all the screen doors, all the hardware. Three, door, 343, hunt, frames, tuck, pointing, flashing. We actually went out and surveyed every single door in the community with both the supplier and the contractor, every plan to use the Omnia contract. The total comes out to 139498, 6.31, so $1.3494 million and all the information at the back of the packets are actually showing their the breakdown of their costs. So you have a great idea of understanding what it's going to take

    to do. So Turner, can you talk about that? It's a historical site,

    historical site. We've had to get approval from the city of Detroit historical district for historical program to make sure that they approved what we're planning on doing.

    And yeah, and this is not the only door project that's in the pipeline. There's others. They may be coming. For example, sharing during the process of looking at sharing doors. Yes, and a lot of this is coming stemming from the residents themselves too. These are doors facing the outside, so they're not in, they're not in a high rise. So there was some security concern.

    Absolutely locks. Just over time, they've all gone, you know, they need

    replacement. We Irene and I and I think Michael, you were there had a extensive community meeting, at which we've been having a series of them during the winter, this was kind of white as the number one physical concern, and because of this connection to safety, number one safety concern. So that's why it's important for you

    today

    and shared and it's on the pipeline that and out the door. Yeah.

    Thank you for motion. So moved support. Any comments, questions?

    Okay, so the mathematician in the good Lord calculus, Here am I understanding? So is this 392 actual entry doors, or is this 392 units? Oh, no, I totally get the pictures. No. I mean, it's our journal. Truth. It needs it. No disagreement. I appreciate the fact that there's tough, pointing, framing, security, efficiency, all of that. Now. So

    186 units, yeah, these are

    interior, or, I'm sorry, exterior doors, right back and 88 got it right. So it's a truckloads of doors, two front loaded doors, actually, for the 186

    units. And and remind me. And so, Joe, how many units are there? All the units are getting it. Thank you.

    No more questions. Thank you. And so this your pricing. You feel good about it. With the Home Depot thing, I

    claim that they don't want to have change orders, which makes me feel good, okay, about it, but it's a monumental task, because, again, you're, you're not only talking about bacon games. We're talking about occupies units, right? So, right? There's going to be a lot of days where there's going to be coordinations that people don't want to open their door, you know? So hopefully, if we get this started, we can get it during the spring, come up with a game plan to kind of do it in a basis. But, yeah, there will be truckloads and material out there and guys going out there daily, right? And, you know, coordination with the ability manager the site management going to be important communicate with residents and then, like I said, explain to them that this is what we need to do to get your doors up to snuff and be secure energy efficient, too. Perfect.

    And they're giving us a and so they're providing both the material and the installers, yes. So

    HD supply will be supplying the material, and then Home Depot net will be

    supplying them later, perfect. And they're giving us all the the same things they would give a private person with the send the rebates and

    oh yeah, we get,

    yes. I hope I negotiated the rebates to make sure that they apply, because HD has a different rebate than Home Depot, but when people own speech needs so I've negotiated that. I'm getting it across the board, perfect. We should go

    into our comment.

    Alright,

    perfect. So thank you. So this gets to remember, about a year or so ago, nobody was like, Oh, they would never put our refrigerator, so we have to overpay for them. So they just solved

    that. Yeah.

    So thank you very much.

    So Michael, I just, I do have one follow up question. HD, supply is going to be the supplier of the materials and a Home Depot is going to be the labor

    agency suppliers. Okay, I

    heard that a little differently at first, and I was going to ask, yeah, is there two contracts or

    no? Yeah, patient supplies.

    So this is supplies and labor. Yes. Okay.

    I'd be curious to see if there is any change in utility expenses right as a result of replacements and door jambs and leveling things and so forth, that whether or not we see any change in our

    some of them have the nail slots too,

    but the historical Yeah, so, yeah. So I guess the year over year analysis will be coming back to the board this time. That's, you know, once you complete 12 months from there, you can see both of the whole summer and the whole winter. So that would be a takeaway follow up,

    are the residents aware? I mean, I know they've they've shared issues. Are they aware that this is coming or

    not yet? They are aware that we are looking into it. We had to give notices to go through the door inspections with the contractors, so they aware that we are working on that they're going to get static once.

    Yeah, I think they know, because we were measuring every single door in the community, so people yellow jackets. So I'm sure a lot of questions asked,

    right? So, so they are aware they don't have a date when it's going to be installed and when it's going to be finished? That's what we hold back after this time of body.

    So thank you. So the staff deal really quiet about this accomplishment. We have for the entire 10 years that I've been here, and 10 years before being on the advisory, struggled with always having a consistent low cost provider for our capital needs. We only got one bid, or we only got three bids, and they were all super high because they could coordinate, right? And so we needed to bring in a consistent low cost provider for that that could cover any capital need position, right? And so the relationship that they've established here it it changes the whole dynamic, such that now are what 12 million a year, capital proceeds

    and take off administrative so now you're talking about 9 million, right, less, right? And

    so stretches it so much further. And everyone who wants to do business with the Housing Commission has to come with their best pricing for the first time, and so and and always compete with a national low cost provider who will also bring the installation as well as the materials and so. So it just changes. The whole dynamic is it's as though we got maybe a 50% increase in our capital budget, because we're not getting gouged in the same way. And we have, you know, experts now in our in our procurement and capital process, to make sure that we're not getting guys make sure we're getting the best price. So it just changes everything. So thank you all for making this happen. This is, this is what we've been hoping for for 20 years. So

    one thing I also want to add to your statement is we're going to get stuff done

    right, right?

    I'll give you a report. Sorry, are you trying to

    Luca? Are you trying to say something that? Are you trying to have

    a separate just trying to tell them to mention that we work together to get a discounted rate with Home Depot.

    Oh yeah, so yes with the sorry and setting up Home Depot, actually, all of our products that we buy now we're going to be scaled with a discounted rate, because the projects that we get approved here will apply to all the projects that we do when we have to buy materials for maintenance or anything like that. We're going to get a discount pricing

    right straight across the board, and so that that was exactly what I was asking did, were you getting everything that a private and it sounds like you are, so yeah, as well. I was talking about the

    rebate too. Yeah,

    we also getting discounts on things that we're going to buy more of, right? So if all of a sudden, maintenance is buying a lot of something, they're going to take that into consideration and give us the best discount.

    And it becomes this concierge account where they can say, we need this. Please ship it on this date, put it on our account, and we just manage it,

    yeah. And then, if I may, add to you all probably see that as a routine. Now you've been seeing in the past few months about how many apartments. You know, that's the we get the best rates, prices, government rates. So and then we don't have to go through that typical procurement process, you know, but we already 30 days sexuality. So right? We have those. I don't get reps, pull them off the shelf if needed, get those government rates and streamline processes. And then, of course, as anything you can see next two minutes with the threshold, we're just going to board approval of the process. So we plan the discussion with Michael, this would be the new thing to do. You know, going forward makes the makes, makes the most sense to streamline profit.

    And if the government rate, everybody was tired in the private rate, you always know we go after

    so thank you all. Great job. Any other questions? Comments? Hearing, none. All in favor. Aye, thank you. Resolution 3288, is approved. Next we have the approval to execute change order number two for additional funding to contract 4022, with DMC pixeling for a time extension of additional 15 days of construction services with Detroit housing portfolio. 3289,

    yes, and to just we're closing out the phase two of the digs. Modernization, 2.2 units in doing so, there's been some items that need to be addressed, and this is just a time extension onto the contract to give the contractor just the you know. More, yeah, a few more days to represent the some of the delays that happened in the front so,

    yes. So overall, there were two contracts now for 10 units, and this was the 22 minutes which we came to the summer board over a year ago. Mike was closing us out getting it done. First 10 units have been put back into capital above the 22 you're expecting these big piece meals. What you're expecting needs to be completely done by

    substantially complete by the end of April, most of them will we got eight of them ready to be turned over, punched just on Tuesday. So walk that again today and hopefully be turned morning. And it's over to the real estate team. Hopefully. So

    of the overall 22 which was counted as phase one, phase 232,

    it's 32 and that have all been turned back over, looking at four to eight to be turned over, hopefully today.

    Yeah, so this hadn't really been started on to the degree. So Michael and his team came in, working with legal. We're working with procurement, so we gotta get this done so there's no additional cost. It's just time, and we're looking forward to finishing this back. And these are family units, three to six bedrooms, which is desperately we've been moving the one bedroom is pretty, pretty good. Did over 250 move ins last year, about 250 today, we'll get into that. You know, we're projecting to be 80% of our goal without a 90 and with what the work that they're doing, bigger families.

    Nice, good work. Call for a motion. So moved. Report. Any questions, comments.

    Maybe we could talk about it offline, but we approved this last year, and here we are, a year later, for 22 units in the private market. It does not take that long to renovate a unit. Are there provisions in place now that it will not take this long? Because although this is an extra 22 days and no additional to the contract, the reality is Time is money, and it may not be more money to this contractor. It is money that we are losing because we're not renting these units, and it is also impacting people who otherwise need housing. So I'm just wondering whether or not this is in our in this new administration, this new team, this new leadership team, it don't take a year, absolutely, and it should not take a year. It should not and if that's the output that we're getting from our contractors, we might need to revisit that. If it's a process that we've improved on great check mark the next time, I'll evaluate the timeline based on our new and improved team process, whatever has changed.

    And I think it's great that you brought this up now, and we can talk more about it online, but it's primarily because of what you said. It's new people, new processes. Michael came on last quarter of last year and had to step in and look at everything, and he's trying to close out the old stuff. A lot of stuff have been closed out and start new things. And so I really have to attribute it to the new team, Colleen, Michael, working together, because we would not be where we and that was pivotal. And I want to thank the board here for allowing all the changes that occur, because, as you said, we're going to get it done, and those were the things that weren't happening. Please

    point out that they asked for 30 days, and I only gave 15,

    because he's out

    there, the fact that they wanted just long time to not get the job done, sitting

    here watching and saying, nobody's showing up, you only got two guys. Why is this not happening? So Michael's a fish and war when he's out on the street. There are some other holes out that we're trying to do that multiple years corporate hygiene, working with Emily, helping the team closing out a CFP of things that had not been done. And with this new team, we're trying to switch that. So as we entered into 2026 calendar year and fiscal year, it would be good, you we shouldn't get a lot of this. This is just going up in previous years and previous administrations,

    right? That's my expectation. Is that this is what we're seeing right here with the, you know, get it done whenever they feel like. Getting it done is the old process where, you know, I'm sure we look back a year, they were like, well, I mean, you know, we two people bid it and we got to get this done and and then those people acted importantly, right? So, because they've always not had someone to compete with, and so bringing in someone for them to truly compete with, who says, Oh, I'll get it done on time and on budget. And here's my low cost. Now, if we ever see this name again, they'll have to really be competing and performing well.

    He's working on as well.

    You might see more, a couple more situations like this. Oh, your old contracts. That's come back here for a little bit more time or something, but they're the result of a negotiated settlement to get them to get it done on a specific schedule and delivered. So as someone, I was going to say, we may see a little more. There's a

    tail, right, and

    that's some stuff. So we possibly may come up with a cancel and have to come up with a new we're looking at another situation. But all of this is clean up work from previous and it's a new day. So, yes, so, so thank you

    for that. And thank you, Michael, right? Because it's, it's not only about, you know, competition, it's a, it really is GSD, right? Get stuff done, right? Um, and I don't, I don't know I was asking, because I wanted to know if it was are we just not putting pressure on these folks to get stuff done and monitoring it? So I appreciate the fact that you all heard some of the our concerns, the residents concerns, frankly, as well about how we should be showing up, how we should be managing to this, as if this is our own money. This is where our family, our mothers, our daughters, our whomever are living in these, these housing units and and creating an expectation that's that's how we deliver, right? We talked about humanization last, last year, and exactly so my last question, so we can move on, is, is there a wait list for these units?

    So, yes, there is a wait list for these units. Um, so Joe has a lot of I'm sorry there is a wait list. And we actually are moving individuals in now, right? The pipeline, and there some units have been moved in, but we've been to four is being allocated, and there's additional things for 36 years, right?

    So this is example of how important it is to have the fix all across the organization, so that we don't go, ah, we fixing. We got these units, and then it's like, oh, but we have the wait list so

    people already assigned what to pull the pull out of the agents releasing.

    So there's no silos,

    no, no sherray Leslie,

    she raised, been out there on the site, conducting eligibility reviews to try to get these units occupied. It's best,

    not just dicks, but across the portfolio, working with Edrick Matthews, who is our maintenance lead, as well as Tiffany, as well as I wanted to show you there, right? Shout out the continental team. Yes, everybody's collective. You can see a collective family now and and it is being pulled into.

    So thank you all, because you know, on any, you know, as you know, any construction project, the minute someone's not performing, the question is, who are we going to go to otherwise. And having something where we were like, oh, there's no one else to go to, we just got to work it out with this person. Get what we get when we get it has been at us for all these years, and so having somebody that we can say, Okay, you're off, and we already got the replacement, and it's not going to cost us more. You know, it should pay some attitudes, or just give it some, some prior providers. Thank you all. Any other questions? Comments? All in favor, aye.

    Thank you.

    We'll see contract Three, two, resolution 3289, next is the approval to execute change order number one for additional funding. Contract 3085, revision consultants LLC for extension of construction management services within Detroit housing resolution, 3290, yeah, so just

    against the corporate hygiene, we did extend the contract for the primary on the job, but we never extended the contract for the construction management that helped us do the job for the extra Four to five the date that we approved from before. So this is just to cover the additional time that we need that wasn't added before. To construct management contracts you can equal the finishing of the project.

    Thank you. Call for motion. So moved any comments or questions. Hearing, none. All in favor. Aye, thank you. Resolution, 3290, approved. Thank you. Thanks, sir. Great job. Michael, thank you.

    The next is the approvals of submit to United States Housing Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Detroit Housing Commission is 2025, annual and five and five year plan, five year PHA and capital plan, resolution, 329,

    so to share that with us, rob a our special projects director, is going to speak to the questions,

    good morning. So this year, we're submitting our five year plan that happens every five year. It's just keeping in mind with the items that DC was already working on, and continuing to make those inclusions. As far as the annual plan, it's the same process. The only substantive change that happened to our ACOG and admin plan was that HUD was unable to execute on hardware changes, which were changes that we had told all of our residents about. The staff was prepared. So we actually had to break out those chapters into how we're operating right now, and then a secondary chapter for how to operate once they figure out how to get pick and and well, the new system hip and hot, we're going so you'll see in the new a cop and admin plan, there'll be a chapter six, a, 6b, reflecting those changes. Staff is trained. They're ready to go. Everybody's been aware. We had our Rav board meeting. The residents attended, and this year was great as well, because we had our first elected council members. Resident council member for Parkside was in attendance at the time. And this week, Monday, we had our public hearing. We had great attendance versus last year. We saw residents were on the call. We saw new council members. Resident council members were on the calls and questions that they asked were in line with things that we were already ready to do.

    Give us just some examples. Example,

    Michael's doors, for example. So there were questions from the residents about maintenance items that they wanted done, and they were already in our plans, things that we were saying, you know, we want to do. We want to make sure the flooring gets repaired. Communication items was already a part of it, resident services, requests that they have, and this team already had programs like the home ownership that

    was one of the best processes that we've had. Overall, it's gotten smoother and smoother over time, and just a lot of involvement and great information now going forward. Absolutely.

    Thank you for motion so moved.

    Questions, comments,

    what is made it better?

    Oh, you said, What is made it better? She's made it better. I mean, I think the just the overall process that rob a has come in and really streamline the whole process. I will be a witness that I, I was inherited it, and it was, you know, it was a lot. It's a lot to get every department to come together, give her everything that they need, everything that they're planning to do, and then keep that going, to keep everybody on pace and rob a has created a great streamline process. I

    think that in the last year, all the departments have actively participated in breaking down silos that were there. So for example, before Michael's units already go real estate already knows that those units are coming online, compliance is ensuring that the wait list has reviewed residents who are also aware and that that so that process made the planning of how we're going to execute the next year better, and then also communicating with the residents, because it's not helpful if they Don't know what's coming down the pipeline. For example, the IT team has put the hearing is online. It's accessible, and some people can't watch the videos, so the presentation itself is also on there, so that they can download it and read it on digested over time.

    Teamwork, that's why I missed out. Teamwork at the end of the day, that's really what has made this congruent together, is the teamwork of each department and us all together. DHC, analyst,

    thank you. And so as we move from cleanup and fixing to kind of being ready to take off and launch, how hard is it to change a five year plan, if, if we get things together and we just go to, you know, fully dynamic,

    the annual plan is that avenue for us, and throughout the year, if needed, we can do a significant amendment, which we can get done in about 50 days.

    Thank you. Bucha, yes, the

    internally, because we're talking So collectively, especially now with Tyler being the biggest piece of what's going to have to put on board. It's, you know, working together. So

    this, again, the paperwork in but it doesn't contain us being as dynamic as we can because,

    in fact, I probably suggest that, you know, once now we have capital and and real estate working closely together, prioritized there may there may be a need for a significant change in the act, in the annual plan later In the year, but it's going to be a coordinated a coordinated move, so that way we're getting the best value out of our time, and having a streamlined process makes it less okay to change the plan. I think the process was so well. I mean, I can see from just from calendar dates and deliverables the way it was being managed through the year. So it was really an outstanding process that you ran though. Okay,

    so through the chair, last but not least, things now getting tied up and legal like these, process, it's a great team that's coming together to get this

    done. This is a big deal,

    significant change. We try to anticipate as much as they could, so that we didn't have to do that. We did it two years ago, right? So, you know, anticipated a lot, and have it in that plan, so that we can get our approvals and people not board, right?

    And you know, our legal team didn't review sections, especially of the ACOG, to ensure that, and they were really helpful,

    no so that, that's what we would hope for, for everyone to work together to accomplish this mission and and and see it all as one organization. So thank you all very much. Okay, other comments, questions here, none. All in favor. Aye, thank you. Resolution, 3290, is approved. Thank you. Thank you. Oops, 329, sorry, 3291, and so our final resolution is the employment agreement with s Enriquez, resolution 3292,

    here we

    speak to it. Right? I'd like to commissioners that we have now turned page finally on, on moving forward with DHC and the new administration and everybody working together, we had residual issue at the end of the termination of our Former, you know, CEO negotiated that now, and frankly, are bringing to the board of the resolution we have great tentatively, Secretary pool of the board of a final, final settlement of agreement so that this chapter is behind this moving forward. So I'd like to request that the Board approve the final agreement about six months severance and and hoping that we have now attorney page and particular

    situation, thank you. Call for a motion. It's not moved. Support. Any comments, questions. It's the end. Thank you hearing none all in favor, aye. Thank you. Resolution, 3292, is approved, excellent. Thank you. Next, we have the information windows, yep.

    So I think first informational item comes from about, resident engagement. So,

    yeah, so I'm not going to pass out your lovely handouts that you get every month, because we finally came to the conclusion of our resident council elections, and we had the MOU signing ceremony yesterday. I want to just first say thank you to our my executive leadership. So Arthur, Irene Pearson, for you know, just being a great support and guidance on this process. But we have now in place five resident councils that would be Warren, West river bend, Harry telling State Fair and Brewster home, all signed MOUs, and we'll be moving forward with them and just being able to utilize them very much with resident services and resident engagement in the community. I also want to talk about home ownership, because we really move forward on that one a lot we have right now. We have 178 probably 180 because things come in every day. People interested in purchasing homes of that 178 114 are actually enrolled and have been assessed. 66 of their, 114 are employed, and 65 of their, 66 are actually escrowing and or they have JP ID Jobs Plus Earned Income Disallowance. So we are moving forward. We have two that purchase homes and one in contract. And then I think you have two that are actually in the process of out there shopping, so that home ownership is really looking forward.

    So that's huge, like, compared it to the prior year's numbers, it's like we have one every four years or something. So this is a big, big

    deal. I mean, we're excited about, very excited, yeah.

    So maybe just to provide one sentence of context, so you've been doing sort of survey and information gathering, which is what the which is one of the ways we've got the great data that she was sharing, in addition to the pipeline of people who are already in the process, working with the real estate section, we're developing a plan sort of even so both through this, we've had a lot of philanthropic interest in supporting it, so we're trying to put all the streams together, and we're expecting to, by the end of fiscal year, present something more detailed with this topic. So this is a great update. Denise,

    thank you for sharing that are we coordinating with the land bank to say, Yes, you got the rehab and ready fairly low cost homes that have been thoroughly done and so

    explicitly right facts. We've had three significant briefings with them, and they are part of the team that we would be proposing to to get philanthropy to support it. So, so they've been an annual part of what we're trying to do with our tenants. But that's here. So it's,

    you know, maintaining long term affordability without, you know, necessarily the long term income qualifications is a hard thing, right? And so, you know, no attempts to disappear, naturally occurring as a neighborhood, you know, gets all this interest, but home ownership assures it and allows people to kind of to to benefit as as you know, revitalization happens, and so thank you so much. We've been wanting this to take off, and you know, everything we can do as a board to help grow this. As much as you guys have capacity to do,

    please let us know, absolutely. I just want to emphasize too, so the escrow amount that, because the FSS program is so significant, it's been a little quiet secret, but it's, it's out there now, and everybody knows about it, but it's a great program. So it allows them to earn income, income Espo, and then that escrow amount typically what, by the time that they're done, about five years, they have anywhere from $10,000 or more. So that kind of helps with that whole 20% down payment, where you don't have to pay PMI, if anybody knows what that right? So that's very significant. They're able to buy homes and actually have equity in the home when they buy. Can

    I love to see, I want to say either mister or the state of Michigan has a new, first time home buyer program that they rolling out. Yes, I love for that. Our people will be a priority.

    Yeah, we're GPA, okay, yeah, as well, sorry, down here,

    right? Okay, perfect.

    Yeah, we're in partnership with mister, as well as Huntington's, they have a great program too. So it's 7500 and not refund. They don't have to pay it back 5070 500 but their mortgage actually is no PMI, so that's awesome, right?

    Are they helping to facilitate any of the home buyer training programs? Yes, yeah, perfect.

    So you know, this is the example of the better we do, the more people come in to help us do it, that much better. So thank you all. This is that thing that we've been hoping to see started in. This is huge for the video going on.

    We'll be hosting a resource fair coming up, so I'll definitely make sure that everybody knows, and then invited to come out and see you.

    Yes, good morning. They are was presented as part of my financial report. We're continuously working to reduce the bad debt and to fill the units to hopefully COVID have better elections, great.

    So if they move this correctly, piggyback on that Arthur and I have been supposed to be looking at different strategies that can be implemented, because once, along with continental legal working closely together, because we see once residents are beyond 60 days, even in a repayment plan, it may be challenging for them. And so at this point in time, we would like to ask for to come back with a later date, to come with a more comprehensive plan that we can present publicly, that we have in place.

    I want to add to what Irene said, we have been working closely on this. We have a specific concept that we've been developing for the deal with these as well as rent collection, and it involves both sort of, now sort of capital or operating funding allocation as well as a to potentially team members to help drive it. So we're, just like Arian said, We're we'd like to come back once we've had a chance to finalize and bring the team together to present a proposal on this, probably, I think, at the April period.

    Yes, and just as a footnote, when we say we would like to come back, we're going to have end to end process when people lined up, and even our systems. So we've been working closely with it. Who the last 18 months have been trying to endorse us moving from the paper to the cloud. So we're building this out in a test environment as well, just to make sure that it can be sustainable. So not just we have a plan here it is, and but also how we're going to track it, how it's going to be actually fulfilled. And so we're doing an end to end process, and that's something I think moved to DC over the last a couple years, we've been working on that cleaning, corporate hygiene, but also, as we roll out new programs, we're also seeing how we're going to sustain it from a system perspective, and we're including it so that that's that collaboration.

    Julie Schneider and HRD are also proposed participants in in this process, so welcome back,

    right? I look forward to that. I think of the residents as the partners as well, right? So in the best case scenario, a resident, as soon as they know they have an issue, they call us to say, Hey, you got this thing that just popped up this month. I'm going to be late. I need a payment plan right away so that, so that we're not tracking them down, because they trust that you know that we're there to work with them. And so they're on it right away. And so it's, I think, you know, General

    Counsel at Continental. One of the key things that I really appreciate this came from General Counsel this they've been training, as you know, continental has a lot of our properties now, and they said, Hey, once they get past 30 days, get them into a prepayment, but they don't get them into one, because once they get past 60 days, we're not trying to leveraging them. And that was a whole part of the hybrid and management, you know, we had to get everything leveled up, and we're at a good pace now to stop looking behind us and look in front of us as many

    incentives as we can have out there Detroiters or whatever they say, Hey, this is all the things that go with being on time or being on payment plan

    and keep it to

    payment plan, possibly new plan, right?

    Inspections is all tied up into it, not just, you know, yeah, wanting Connect is important, and finance keeps us on track is monthly. They send us reports. So it's not that the data is not there we do,

    like, like Denise or people have certainly worked as a team together between all these areas departments to make sure things are getting possible. Wait.

    Alright, so those are informational items. Now we can do departmental monthly reporting highlights, though, so I've had a few highlights that Irene and I can share, then we can go to the other divisions. I just want to highlight to the group that we had an event that some of you attended at Parkside since our last board meeting, where we were celebrating along with other low income housing tax credit awards winners, the fact that two of our phases are, are, at this point, fully funded, and so we're, I think that means that at least one of our number high or has a very busy summer plan to get us to the clothing table and get shovels in the ground out there, but that's, that's what we're doing the rest of the year. So I just wanted to highlight that those first two phases are underway. I want to make sure that Irene has a chance to talk about some of the things that are going on in Li pH operations. But I would just say also want to highlight and celebrate the choice decisions that you guys made today, both the the the agreement and the selection of the planning coordinator brings us closer to having a plan that will get $30 million for our two developments. It's very exciting. And the last thing I'd want to highlight before asking, I mean, she wants to highlight anything in particular would just be yesterday's event, signing resident Council. Mo use was great, knowing that having law in a brand new community center, by the way, that's almost done over at AV Ford, was exciting. But more exciting is knowing that we have partners to work with on redevelopment plans that need to advance and that we're working hard to execute. So I'm, I'm always pleased that we're able to have that that I want to make sure. I mean, if anything you want to add when I operate as results, uh, well, for you to do that Sure.

    So as we keep moving our residents in to the L, I P portfolio, our goal was 90 at the end of March, 31 which will be Monday, we're attracting to be over 80% of that. Right now, we're at 70 new residents in and of that, approximately 34 homeless individuals who self identify, who came through the city and when you so we're very happy about that from Inspire. Inspiring has been called, but yet, the final scores are coming in and scored around 90% um, it's some of our portfolios with the help of the hybrid and working with Continental. But that doesn't mean that each and every unit is that 90% you know, they take a sample, and so we're continuously, even though it has been paused by HUD. Right now, the team still working on this fire. We're trying to leverage capital funding more as we get through, you know, our entire portfolio. And then I just want to highlight the work from occupancy overall and the cleanness of it, meaning that we were looking at units, and we have people that we can rely on that say they looked at and they actually looked at it, which is very, very, very important. Ezra Tiffany, working along with Sheree and the continental teams, and their teams were very, very happy. For example, Forest Park is about 90% Okay, so we're and now we're moving over to Sheridan. When I first started, was 50 percentage. Now it's like 70% continuation of gas. Yes, it's still but you got 400 unit, right? So you still got over 100 but still, we're moving toward good, clean data, which means that we did take it offline and had approved it. We know we got a contract in place to get it done, and we have people to follow up, and we have a collective group that will encourage and assist to make it happen. So I'm very, very proud of the team. More good stuff to comment. By June, we're hoping to be about 85% occupied the end of participation. That's why we want to come back and talk to the team, because we just don't want to evict people humanistic, as you know, working with legal we got humanistic legal team. We want to put a process in place to have people stay. You know, they're the penguin, but work with that a little bit more closely.

    So, I mean, I just do want to highlight that, you know, in the last six months, you and the team of people working together, we're talking about a very significant percentage increase in knowing that it's legitimate and appropriately calculated and that we have a follow up, and units are going to come back, that that occupancy work has been an opportunity.

    And I think the board for approving the contract, course, letting us get out of the old contract, the Omni contract, that Mike and Colleen put together for the additional 100, up to 150 units, that's what's working. And of that, I think you

    have over 10 we're seeking in our capital improvements. Update, well,

    yeah, this also is online with what Miss COVID Commissioner COVID said, Why is it taking so long? This contract was just signed in January. Yeah,

    you guys asked about, you know, deliverable right now we have nine units that we walk with, Rem continental ourselves, and those should be, if not done today, they're going to be done by Friday that we're turning back over again. These are Pinterest examples on those units. That's that state fair. That was the pilot part, right? Yes, that's the pilot part. So older, there's 10 units, one unit staying as a storage unit, right? Now we have started the next 14, so it'll be a total of 24 but as you guys asked, you know, when are they going to start getting done? This is right at that point. This is the second board meeting since you approved it, and we are going to have those done. Hopefully they're averaging about now five a week. The material still delivering to the next

    phase. We call it phase two,

    and by the end of next week, I'll have the notice to proceed to start at Sheridan, where I'm going to also include about 50 to 70 new entry doors, because they're damaged. We replaced along with the modifications that we're going to be doing over at Sheridan, we're going to start a Sheridan one. So it's actually going to be a coordinated effort that they're going to finish at State Fair, but I hope to get another restarted at Sheridan. Go to Sheridan one, and we'll jump over to Sheridan two, and then we're going to move to the next site after that,

    and state fair wait list again, to be an overshot by our compliance officer Charlie, working with continental start moving people. So it's all working together as it should. I would say in here before, but where, you know one line the Next, go to the next line and keep it moving. And it took a long time coming, but it's it's here. We started this in 2023 in October. Do

    you want to give an update on the river bidding? Entry way?

    Yes. I think that's something

    we can be open with sharks. So making sure this white cards there and and whatever. But they are routed. Ceiling tiles are in, lights are in, the doors are operational. Except for traffic, they're putting the base in right now, touching up the paint, and, you know, maybe sooner, the next week. But, yeah, I just want to

    let you know. Why is that so important? That's another cleanup that was discussion when I started.

    Okay,

    what's the discussion when I started

    eight weeks it

    should have been, you know, yeah,

    and part of that corporate governance that we're talking about, I wouldn't let him start the next project. That's

    right, that's right, that's

    right. No, that's that's super helpful. So so many times people take the government work and use it as fulfilling, exactly. And so do they leave, they go through private, they come back, you know, when, when there's a gap, and go to the government. So, you know, you see highways taking years to put it into things like that, and they have to treat us like private. They made

    a mistake. And I'm working on so many, many dollar bid right now my guys down there,

    right? That was the wrong thing to say, right, right? Well, that's exactly so. Alright. Thank you. Appreciate it.

    Great. So everything else you want to say for our executive office? No, Excellent, alright. So then, Luke, anything you want to add from finance?

    Anything you want to add for us? Tyler, from the development section,

    yeah, I think the one thing I would highlight is just the legal strategy contracts that the board approved last month. We're finalizing the back and forth contract negotiation there. So if you remember, we split that scope and then two contracts. I expect to have one of those contracts advocated by the end of this week, and then the second sometime next week, balls and both of those teams scores to kind of get us their comments back or sign which means that we're going to start to get busy here on the development side. So really excited to to bring them on board. And I think within the report that I provided just we've got a couple of sites that we want to get working on immediately, and we're really able to start to get some of those RFPs on the street. So perfect timing with Denise and her efforts to get the resident Council in place, because Brewster is one of those sites, and so going to work really closely with that resident Council and some of the community engagement leading up to the RFP hitting the street up this summer.

    Excellent, nice. All right, Alicia,

    I guess I would note one thing. As we're talking about partnerships and collaborations, it should be noted that we have greatly increased our footprint, especially in the city of Detroit, where affordable housing is concerned. I was looking at the mayor's address, and if you listen to his address, and he talked about the 1.2 billion in affordable housing. Of the projects he listed, with the exception of two, those were all project based developments that DHC is partnered in. So I think it's very noteworthy to know that we have had a huge impact in affordable housing in the development in the state of Detroit, this project

    based Thank you. We're glad you mentioned it. It's so important to making sure that not only the market developments have 20% affordable and it can really serve Detroiters, but also, again, all those developments you highlighted and making a big difference all over the city.

    No So, and you know, us being able to operate so well and officially opens the doors, right? And so it's, you know, heard from the developer, went to a neighboring community to get their project based section eight, because that neighboring community was actually having problems getting, you know, their their allocations out the door. And it made me wonder, like, as we go back to being a high performer, are we able to reach out to, you know, other housing agencies around the state or region, and say, you know, your people can live anywhere, and so do you want to have us help you allocate these so that we have more capacity here? But we gotta go back to being a high performer to make that pitch right?

    So wish anything else

    we just we're continuing to get through that we have, you know, we implemented a plan, five point plan that involved professional development, customer service, strategic planning, improving special program activity. We are on target with all those activities. We're not where we want to be. Our goal is to hip hop performer next year, and I think we're trajecting them back. Thank you

    still seeing the 99% research number, alright, so Well, 1%

    unexpected audit, yes, you know, right? And then, in addition to have broken hygiene filing, thanks to the retention policy is ruled by, thanks to the direction given by me, I want to burst

    her supplies.

    And so the team was cleaning out funding so that they can have more, which was a critical, one of the top three items that the team wanted so we expected that. We expected

    to go back over this. Yeah. So alright, so then I think we have. We had very robust discussions from capital. Anything you want to add? Michael, good Kirsten, anything from General Counsel?

    Yes, I'm pleased to announce that as of Tuesday, the State Administrative Board officially approved the DHC record retention schedule. So we can very excited so we can start purging some of those old documents and really help with corporate hedging moving forward. So we'll begin implementation of that policy early next week, so that people can start not only packing up but shredding whatever it is that needs gotten out of here to make more space for new, brighter things. Are

    we scanning? Administrating or just shredding. It'll

    depend on what the record is. If it's necessary for maintaining and keeping for historical purposes or for just FYI information for the history, then yes, we'll scan and then shred. But the goal is to get rid of stuff from decades ago that that we don't need to keep them.

    Oh, yeah, no, absolutely nothing important. I promise. Okay, perfect. I get a little paranoid.

    Yeah, thank you. So the best part is the state's approved it, so we do get rid of it. Theoretically, it's been

    state approval and for sustainability. That's one of the KPIs that we're tracking. That's what that rent Cafe is tracker on page 45 is showing, you know, HCV has been a part of the longer time. A lot of stuff is getting scanned into the plow versus all this paper. And now IPA just moving forward. So every once you see incremental increases, right? And we're hoping to have, like, 90% of our residents and African participants of the program be in the cloud.

    And if you need to look back 20 years, you can, and it's not going through old stacks and like, that's Minister,

    thank you. Anything else you see? No, that's it great. Um Doris from resources

    have agreed that the continuing work on our policies to bring to the board, the flexible work policy, the town. Policy, have a sick time. Policy, our next step will be to have that review by leadership on the next week so get their buy in and to express any concerns or, you know, comments, don't

    forget, this is the board within the

    next four forward to that. Leadership obviously knows what we want to see and being dynamic. So

    look forward to seeing that. So thank you very much.

    How many employees are there at DHC? And

    approximately one

    and then how many open positions

    do we have budgeted for this year?

    So if, if we were fully staffed, 130

    Oh, yeah, I had like 160 years ago.

    130 No.

    Other Place so it's kind of in and out. It might affect the total entities, but it doesn't affect our operating funds, right?

    No, no, that makes sense to me. And I was think of, you know, making sure that you guys have the resources that you had when you were active warmers before. It's like,

    frankly, that the department division, whichever is term is used here, ultimately earns its own right. You know, the better the experience that the residents have, the more likely they are to communicate, more likely they are to have pride in their units. You know, we're likely to be prioritizing and trying to make rental payments, you know, even when things are challenged. So it's an investment that certainly can have a return.

    Yeah, it's all across. I mean, the justification certainly is there. It definitely is. It's all across the spectrum. You know, so many times we've been trying to shed our single family home because our capital plan was so awful that it was taking us a year and a half to fix them, and, you know, $200,000 and so, you as that dynamic changes, it makes a difference on a lot of our going forward decision. And

    we're going through the budget process now, and these types of goals and are being discussed, and if the directors are bringing their best office to the table,

    so then sure and share something for

    for I think one thing, according to, we are not implementing the new module in the called crypto bay that will help deployment to have some of their partners in mind. It has a vendor cafe. It has a vendor shield like that, ensure that any vendor that is their insurance or anything that is not complying to directly, and we hadn't passed an issue with that from the different brand native thought, the way that we are. So that's one, one thing that we are adding this year. So implementation already started. We already done the first part of it, called a scan, directly streamline the endorsing process. Right now we have existing memory, electronically, like from beginning, approving the invoices. That's something in the system. We are doing the demo next week, and everything looks COVID, and then it's a foundation of services within the same module.

    I appreciate that. It's funny. I think, you know, your department is the seamless integrator of it all. So I know I'm a person that if somebody sends me something that's got a click here to make it a habit button, then that gets clicked, and it's like, go through this process and that process, then that happens down the road. And so, you know, all the things that we can automate, both to computer and then to phone. I think it just makes everything work that much better.

    Thank you very much. Thank you very much.

    Just pretty much continuation what we've been dealing on, talking about today, working on back filling the department staff, and then we want to potentially start rolling out early meetings again. We started when we first got here with each department, and just see what needs they have coming down the pipeline, RFPs or whatever, you know, etcetera. And then kind of plan accordingly. But once you kind of get that staff kind of brought the needs that's alive. You've been spending

    a lot of time on performance management.

    Yes, yes.

    So just kind of gaging, you know, was getting engaged all the contracts, what's been happening, what hasn't been happening, and, you know, streamline and make it smoother.

    Personally, yes,

    looking at invoices, making sure that, you know, yes, you step up and step in. Thank you. No

    problem, and it's very important. I know you all spoke about that earlier, about just like the resident, same thing in my experiences with the vendors, you know, once you talk to them, make a warm understanding, or they can reach back out to us and the issues concern kind of bridge the gap, you know, kind of makes everybody like these on both sides. So,

    excellent, right? So, thank you very much. So then last item, anything you want to add? Denise,

    no, we kind of talked about the whole staffing up. So I do have nine open positions that's going to give me, like a 26 person staff that we can really just kind of go out there and make sure that we touch all the residents at the sites and just get more money to the table. But services.

    Nice, great. Alright, so that is our complete departmental Market Report section. So now we go to the general public comment section, and I'll pass it back to you, and I think we have a thank you. Take deployed.

    Good there will be two opportunities for members of the public to provide comments to the board. The first opportunity is now when any member of the public may comment on any agenda action item. Comment is limited to three minutes for individuals and five minutes for group representatives to ensure speakers adhere to the time limits. One Minute Warning for persons with a three minute comment period, and a two minute warning for persons with a five minute comment period. This warning will be by means of a tone. When the speaker's time is up, the time keeper will disconnect the call later, there will be an opportunity for public comment on matters unrelated to agenda action items members of the public must sign up in order to address the board during either public comment period,

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    during you gave the gist, though, you know, obviously this is the Second period the

    public comment on matters unrelated to This is the opportunity.

    This, yeah, this is right. You.

    This is the opportunity for public comment on matters unrelated to agenda action items. Comment is limited to three minutes for individuals and five minutes for group representatives to ensure speakers adhere to the time limits, the time keeper will give a One Minute Warning for persons with a three minute comment period and a two minute warning for persons with a five minute comment period. This warning will be by means of a tone when the speaker's time is up, the time keeper will disconnect the call if you are appearing at the meeting virtually, you will be able to sign up by calling the number specified on the DHC website and or by raising your hand and identifying yourself within the Zoom app during public comment. All other persons may sign up if they are able to appear in the room, provided there is sufficient space to accommodate those who care to make a physical appearance, a person representing a group must identify themselves and the group when calling, please note that speakers may not pool their time nor yield time to another speaker. Persons who have called in to sign up to speak during the public comment period will be recognized first in the order in which they signed up, then all others who have raised hands when your name is called. If you are in the room, please stand and state your name in a clear, audible tone. And if you are appearing by zoom when your name is called, please respond clearly and audibly after your microphone is unmuted.

    Thank you very much. Do we have any general

    public Well, I kind of missed your voice. Hey, hello. My name is Zachary Rowe. I'm the Executive Director of the prince of Parkside from the Parkside is a resident led organization founded in 1991 vice resident for residents. I want to give a shout out to Parkside residents and friends of our side, board, staff, the volunteers who joined today's commissioners meeting since the February Detroit Housing Commission meeting, we have continued our community work and programs, and I would like to highlight a few. Okay, so our Parkside senior bingo continue every Tuesday from one to 145 popping event that brings joy and connection to our seniors. We help still build friendships to some senior may not seem important, but to them, this is important to them because they address the real issue of social isolation and building on the success of our weekly bingo game, things are now participating in new classes. How's it? That's Community Center, which include oral design and painting scenes are learning computer skills in the friends of our site Tech Club. In terms of food delivery, in partnership with Catholic charity, we deliver food boxes to 15 to 20 park site seniors. This ensure to help seniors have access to healthy foods and youth programs. The youth program. We actively reactively work with kids with their homework because I learned the basic computer skills. Our kids are learning basic basketball skills. Also, we started to introduce the kids to virtual reality headset. They really enjoying that, because their kids also people ride free snacks and dinner. And I want to just point out that the youth program has been led by Leticia Arnold, and she's a resident of Parkside Okay, so just in terms of the Parkside checkup, we launched our 2025, classes in partnership with digital Trinity, Senior Planning, grow, Google, Comcast, little zone and the digital field project and technical zone, we offer six computer classes a week, Monday through Thursday, from 11 to 1230 and from one to 230 and offer an open lab on Wednesday from 11 to three. In addition, we have assisted residents with their resumes, applying for jobs and signing up for public assistance, just to name a few things that's happening in the tech in partnership with the Detroit digital field project and tech goes on, we awarding our first set of Chromebooks with one year of internet service, headphones, mouths, to students who completed their 15 hours of required training. Also, I'd like to mention our lead trainer and assistant coordinator for the take up is yovanda Robinson, who is also a Parkside resident in partnership with Nest childcare center, which is located inside the Parkside Community Center. We are, we are partnered with them to offer time to the children, age three to five, who visit the take up Monday through Friday, from 10 to 11, the next steps shared that the children love using the computers, and teachers are adding the computer time to their lesson plan, and this is the only nest site where chairs are introduced to computers and not have had a chance to watch the kids interact with the computer. And it's so adorable. In terms of our food pantry, we continue to work with Catholic Charities to provide home delivery of food boxes to seniors. Closing remark, I want to thank the Detroit housing commissioners and staff for hosting a well organized press conference to not to announce the park service development, especially thanks to park size on jaletha Goodwin for thoughtful words about residents continue involvement engagement in the redevelopment process. And also, I'd like to extend an invitation to Detroit Housing Commission to partner with when the park side, when I sit 16.6 annual Park side health and safety and job fair on July 16. As always, I want to thank the Detroit Housing Commission and staff for the ongoing effort to enhance safety, living environment and preserve quality, affordable housing for low income

    families. Thank you. Thank you.

    Thank you.

    Rhonda Adams, yes, hi, my name is Rhonda. Yes. I'm well with businessmen and women's social club of Detroit, and I am so glad to see how in tune you all have been here lately, and, you know, working with the state and in reference to the needs and leveraging and fostering transparency on corporate policy strategies and tax incentives in which you know either leverage local stakeholders, private capital, strategies and government resources you know to maximize impact or not, but I believe you are in going in a right direction. And I would encourage you know, to to look at more than just the, I'll say, human housing. We need to look at the agricultural space for our livestock, for looking at not just the Eastern Market, but venues where we can go and purchase a space for a housing livestock that can be purchased and, you know, reared. We do have these ordinance now, so we want to kind of facilitate that more, and then also looking at the fact that we have to figure out what the corporate sales tax, how to increase these revenues. Because, as I said, Amazon, before it's been it's been getting away with these long term contracts. And these contracts is not leveraging our community. The majority of the vendors that go through Amazon, which they have, you know, site control of a big space in our community. It doesn't provide the needed support we need to leverage that. And so Devon to that a little bit deeper, too. And that is primarily, you know, expressing that I do see this as a necessity, looking at the housing for our livestock, since we have these ordinance where we can provide that and people, because we had to stay fair at one point. And now we got Amazon, which is not putting money here. It's just totally crazy. So I just want us to take a note of that. And then the zoo. The zoo is closing at the Bell out. What kind of things is happening there? Can we look at the housing for our animals and our livestock as well? We need food security. Thank you. Well,

    thank you very much. It's me. So our mission is always going to be housing the residents, the actual people, first. But I'm sure there may be places, as we work throughout the community where there's something that that it dovetails with, you know, a resident services, or something along those lines, that it makes sense. So we'll keep our eyes open for those opportunities. So thank you very much.

    Michelle Smothers, thank you.

    Hello, hello, we can hear you. Hi. How are you guys doing today? This morning, happy afternoon, everyone. And I would first like to say thank you all. Excuse me, sorry. Thank you all for your contributions that you do for the community, but I listened in on this meeting because I am a resident with the Detroit Housing Commission out of the Orleans location, and I noticed during the meeting, one young lady mentioned about the F S S program where when I originally went to my social manager throughout the Orleans operation, she kind of denied me for applying for that program. So was there like a time frame where I had to apply or not apply?

    I'll be glad to review with you this afternoon, because I there are some other information I need to look at, but if I have your contact information, if you're with our department, I'll reach out to you this afternoon, and

    I will, I will highly appreciate that. Thank you so much,

    Tam. Do you have contact information that you could pass on? No, she's not on the program. Okay,

    no, I'm not on the program. But no, I'm not on the program. I requested information about the program for I can get on the program for home

    ownership. Miss mothers, you are on the voucher program, correct?

    Yes, I do. I do have the H the HCV voucher, I believe so. I am on that voucher program, but I wanted to advance myself by going into home ownership. I've been on the section eight program now for over seven years. So within that seven years, I have advanced in many different ways, and I'm proud to say I graduated with my associate's degree and just other different things that I have pursued in life where I wanted to continue to advance myself. So when I spoke to my counselor about, you know, getting into these programs to help me and my family advance even more, I was completely denied, and I didn't know if it was a time frame of why she denied me or like I really don't I really can't explain why I was denied, so when you mentioned it during the meeting, I'm like, okay, so this program is still active. It's still there for the residents. So why was I originally denied, and I have had problems with different social managers at the Orlean office, so I'm just at a spot where I kind of need help, because I'm not getting the help that I need from that particular counselor.

    Okay, we will certainly follow up with you, Miss smothers and but follow up, and we'll often get you in touch with NFS does a coordinator that will be able to walk you through that process? Okay?

    Thank you. I appreciate you guys. Thank you. You're welcome.

    Thank you for reaching out.

    We have a thank you.

    No more public comments. Next, we have a commissioner comments.

    Commissioner comments, I have one.

    Alright, after listening to the mayor, I heard a name that I recognize,

    yeah, I will mention from Mayor. Thank you very

    much. Thank you. I appreciate that. And my comment is, so we have a long term Commissioner when the thing when the housing commission came back under Detroit operation from HUD, actually, during that transition, Commissioner Penny Baylor was was here from the start and integral to the process, and for years and years and years before that, Commissioner Baylor was, you know, sometimes school board member Baylor, she was head of the girls Council of America. I believe locally, she did Detroit. She's just been a huge part of the Detroit's active scene of people trying to help and make things better for 50 years and so and Commissioner Baylor is now moving to be closer to her event, and so with that, she's offered her resignation, and so we'll be looking for a replacement. But I didn't want to not mention how big of an impact on the community she's had for the last 50 years, and how big of an impact she's had on the the Housing Commission Board for the last 10 years. And thank her for her service, and wish her you know all of us.

    Next we have staff comments.

    All right here. I guess we could,

    but someone who.

    Thank you. We are adjourned. Ned.