2011-01-04 Housing Authority Minutes

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READING HOUSING AUTHORITY MINUTES OF THE Regular BOARD MEETING, January 4, 201 1 A regular business meeting of the Reading Housing Authority was held on Tuesday, January 4, 2011 at 5:30 P.M at the office of the Reading Housing Authority the town of Reading, Mass. The meeting was called to order at 5:39 P.M. with the Chair, Diane Cohen, presiding. Those members present and forming a quorum were Timothy Kelley, Kevin Mulvey and Karen L. Flammia well as the Secretary/Executive Director, Lyn Whyte. Mary Connors was absent. Minutes Move Tim Second Karen Vote 4 -0 11.40 VOTED: To accept for the record the Minutes of the Regular Business Meeting of January 4, 2011, as presented. Finances Move Tim Second Karen Vote 4 -0 1141 VOTED: To approve and sign the checkroll/billroll for the period for Accounts Payable Check #3160 -3198 Payroll Summary as presented for December, 2010. Section 8 Voucher Program, #5576- 5670 as presented. Finances Move Tim Second Karen Vote 4 -0 1142 VOTED: To certify receipt of monthly operating statements for all RHA programs for the month end November, 2010 of the current fiscal year. Personnel Matters: - None at this time Old Business/Report of Programs: Vacancy Report- Mitch Hudzik, State Program Coordinator did not provide her monthly report due to vacation schedule and offices being moved. She did confine that there had been no changes in December for both the elderly development and the family program. RHA will have an available unit in Tannerville by the end of January and our next applicant has been processed to lease up that unit when available. - Sec 8 Report- A report was provided indicating that RHA pulled sixty-six potential applicants from The centralized wait list for fiscal year 2010. Twenty-six applications were returned. Thirty did not respond and only one was returned as undeliverable. Ten vouchers were issued, however only five leased up. The remaining five vouchers expired with no additional response from the applicants. - Resident Service Coordinator- Current Tannerville Newsletter provided. - DHCD returned signed contracts to the RHA regarding our ARRA funding for boilers in our 705 family developments. We are awaiting engineering results before bidding the project. - DHCD returned signed contracts to the RHA for its Capital Funding Award of $181,000 to be distributed over the next three years. The first disbursement of these funds will be due RHA in July 2011 in the amount of $38652.00. Plans are underway to utilize these funds in our family w developments. New Business: None at this time.