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[0:06] Okay. Good morning. I'll call to order the Wellesley Housing Authority special board meeting today, September 8th.
[0:16] It's the 8th.
[0:18] I forgot to look.
[0:22] And we'll do a roll call vote.
[0:25] So I'll start with who's on my screen, Janis Kudori.
[0:31] Renee Spencer? Yeah. Lisa Heisen? Yeah. And her death is Sanchez? Present. And more in Zell
[0:39] a present. And we are joined by Wesley Housing Authority staff member, James Sullivan. The only
[0:46] item on the agenda this morning is a discussion to whether or not Wesley Housing Authority wants
[0:58] to remain in a management agreement with Cambridge Housing Authority,
[1:05] so may I have a motion to open
[1:07] the discussion? I'll link a motion. Second. I'll check it.
[1:16] So I'll open it. I want to make sure
[1:18] I know Odessa Renee was going to connect with you to bring you up to speed on the meeting from last week.
[1:29] And then I do just want to mention, unfortunately, we just received a response to the email from Cambridge this morning at 736 that I forwarded on to the board.
[1:48] I do not obviously expect anyone to have read it or even seen it.
[1:54] I am happy to read it or I will just simply say there was nothing in it that
[2:07] would change
[2:10] anything leading forward in the discussion.
[2:14] So, I will just kind of open it up or decide do you have any questions or does anyone?
[2:23] No.
[2:24] I've read the email.
[2:25] So, I don't know if anybody else has.
[2:28] I read it.
[2:29] Just read it.
[2:34] Okay.
[2:34] You know, I don't have any questions.
[2:40] So at this point, does the board feel comfortable voting on next steps?
[2:46] I do. Yes. Okay. So I will put forth and again, I mean, we've already, I will put forth based on, well, I mean, I guess I'll just ask a question and then we can vote on it based on that. Yeah, is the board comfortable terminating our management agreement with Cambridge housing authority.
[3:13] Yes, yes, yes.
[3:15] Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So I don't kind of kind of backing into this, but I guess just for confirmation and clarity. I am I'm going to put forth kind of emotion to terminate our agreement with Cambridge housing authority for the Wellzing Housing Authority to terminate our agreement management agreement with Cambridge housing authority.
[3:41] And I guess I know we're already in a motion,
[3:43] but I just want to kind of make this a distinction.
[3:46] Could I have a motion for that?
[3:50] I'll make a motion.
[3:51] And a second?
[3:53] I'll second.
[3:54] OK.
[3:54] So voting again, I'll do it by screen, Janis Kudori.
[3:59] Renee Spencer.
[4:00] Yes.
[4:01] Lisa Heisen?
[4:02] Yes.
[4:03] Oh, does the Sanchez?
[4:05] Yes.
[4:06] And I also vote, yes.
[4:08] OK.
[4:10] So then kind of transitioning to next steps,
[4:13] James, were you able to get in touch with the attorney
[4:19] about how to proceed with the response?
[4:23] So that was Thursday before a long weekend,
[4:25] so I haven't heard back from them yet.
[4:28] So just I want to get, just kind of make sure the board is comfortable.
[4:34] We are going to an attorney for our response.
[4:37] We're going to ask the attorney to advise us on how to create a response.
[4:42] Then I will share that response with the board.
[4:47] For any edit suggestions, thoughts.
[4:49] And once we have a final draft, we will send it to Cambridge.
[4:53] Is everyone comfortable with that?
[4:56] Yes.
[4:58] I'm comfortable with that.
[5:00] But could we make it clear to the attorney that there is a time factor here?
[5:04] So that, you know, he can't spend a month refueling it.
[5:09] Yeah, I agree.
[5:11] I would like to have the response out by Friday.
[5:17] Is that fair?
[5:19] Yes.
[5:22] Okay.
[5:23] And the board also, so maybe if the board's comfortable moving with it,
[5:27] the board also has access to town council.
[5:30] So we'll go to the housing attorney because it's, you know,
[5:33] It's kind of within the industry,
[5:35] like they're more familiar with housing ins and outs,
[5:40] like the public housing world.
[5:42] But if we don't get the response we need
[5:44] is the board comfortable with me reaching out to town council,
[5:48] just to ensure that we get a response
[5:49] to Cambridge by Friday.
[5:52] Yes.
[5:53] OK.
[5:55] Does anyone have any other questions?
[6:02] So, I would say priority is getting the response out, and then our next priority is probably
[6:11] meeting I'll have James checking with folks on availability for next week, because we're
[6:18] going to have to figure out a response.
[6:23] Maybe we'll wait till we hear a response from Cambridge, but we're going to have to start thinking
[6:27] next steps. So I guess what I would ask of the board is to kind of think about, you know, at Lisa,
[6:38] those options that you had option 1, 2, 3, could you send out the options that we have
[6:48] that are available to us on the table and share it with the board? Yes. And then I would ask that the
[6:55] So what your thoughts are for how we move forward, whether we go in a direction of an ED search,
[7:04] whether we look into management agreement with another housing authority or do a combination
[7:09] of both, but Lisa will send out based on the discussion that we have last week about our options
[7:16] moving forward,
[7:22] and then we'll have a board meeting.
[7:27] Is everyone in a group what we have aboard me
[7:30] On the 17th, but is everyone an agreement that if we, you know, once we get a response from Cambridge that we touch base again to move, you know, in case to start movement on our next steps before the 17th, if assuming we get a response by then, or do you want to wait till the 17th.
[7:50] I'm not available next week. James and we'll be at the convention.
[7:55] So, I mean we can do zoom if we do zoom, if we do zoom, I bring my thing, right? Yeah, okay.
[8:06] Realistically, if we're going to send this out by Friday, that's the 11th.
[8:13] And our meeting is the 17th. So, yeah.
[8:18] Yeah, I really need to say, yeah.
[8:20] And if Renee and James are tied up, then, so we'll just plan on, we'll put that on the agenda for the 17th.
[8:28] Okay.
[8:28] Time is just moving too fast.
[8:31] I know.
[8:36] All right. Does anyone have anything else?
[8:41] May I go a motion to adjourn?
[8:43] Make a motion?
[8:45] Oh, second.
[8:47] And roll call vote.
[8:48] Janis Kudori?
[8:50] Yes.
[8:51] Renee Spencer?
[8:52] Yes.
[8:53] Please the hyphen?
[8:54] Yes.
[8:54] Odessa Sanchez?
[8:56] Yes.
[8:56] And I also vote, yes, more and more.
[8:59] Alright, thank you all.
[9:01] Thank you.
[9:02] Thank you.
[9:03] Have a good night.