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Okay. Good morning. I'll call to order the Wellesley Housing Authority special board meeting today, September 8th.
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It's the 8th.
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I forgot to look.
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And we'll do a roll call vote.
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So I'll start with who's on my screen, Janis Kudori.
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Renee Spencer? Yeah. Lisa Heisen? Yeah. And her death is Sanchez? Present. And more in Zell
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a present. And we are joined by Wesley Housing Authority staff member, James Sullivan. The only
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item on the agenda this morning is a discussion to whether or not Wesley Housing Authority wants
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to remain in a management agreement with Cambridge Housing Authority,
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so may I have a motion to open
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the discussion? I'll link a motion. Second. I'll check it.
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So I'll open it. I want to make sure
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I know Odessa Renee was going to connect with you to bring you up to speed on the meeting from last week.
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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.
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I do not obviously expect anyone to have read it or even seen it.
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I am happy to read it or I will just simply say there was nothing in it that
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would change
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anything leading forward in the discussion.
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So, I will just kind of open it up or decide do you have any questions or does anyone?
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No.
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I've read the email.
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So, I don't know if anybody else has.
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I read it.
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Just read it.
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Okay.
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You know, I don't have any questions.
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So at this point, does the board feel comfortable voting on next steps?
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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.
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Yes, yes, yes.
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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.
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And I guess I know we're already in a motion,
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but I just want to kind of make this a distinction.
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Could I have a motion for that?
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I'll make a motion.
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And a second?
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I'll second.
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OK.
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So voting again, I'll do it by screen, Janis Kudori.
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Renee Spencer.
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Yes.
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Lisa Heisen?
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Yes.
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Oh, does the Sanchez?
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Yes.
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And I also vote, yes.
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OK.
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So then kind of transitioning to next steps,
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James, were you able to get in touch with the attorney
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about how to proceed with the response?
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So that was Thursday before a long weekend,
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so I haven't heard back from them yet.
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So just I want to get, just kind of make sure the board is comfortable.
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We are going to an attorney for our response.
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We're going to ask the attorney to advise us on how to create a response.
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Then I will share that response with the board.
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For any edit suggestions, thoughts.
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And once we have a final draft, we will send it to Cambridge.
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Is everyone comfortable with that?
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Yes.
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I'm comfortable with that.
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But could we make it clear to the attorney that there is a time factor here?
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So that, you know, he can't spend a month refueling it.
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Yeah, I agree.
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I would like to have the response out by Friday.
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Is that fair?
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Yes.
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Okay.
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And the board also, so maybe if the board's comfortable moving with it,
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the board also has access to town council.
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So we'll go to the housing attorney because it's, you know,
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It's kind of within the industry,
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like they're more familiar with housing ins and outs,
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like the public housing world.
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But if we don't get the response we need
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is the board comfortable with me reaching out to town council,
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just to ensure that we get a response
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to Cambridge by Friday.
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Yes.
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OK.
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Does anyone have any other questions?
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So, I would say priority is getting the response out, and then our next priority is probably
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meeting I'll have James checking with folks on availability for next week, because we're
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going to have to figure out a response.
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Maybe we'll wait till we hear a response from Cambridge, but we're going to have to start thinking
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next steps. So I guess what I would ask of the board is to kind of think about, you know, at Lisa,
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those options that you had option 1, 2, 3, could you send out the options that we have
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that are available to us on the table and share it with the board? Yes. And then I would ask that the
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So what your thoughts are for how we move forward, whether we go in a direction of an ED search,
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whether we look into management agreement with another housing authority or do a combination
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of both, but Lisa will send out based on the discussion that we have last week about our options
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moving forward,
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and then we'll have a board meeting.
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Is everyone in a group what we have aboard me
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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.
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I'm not available next week. James and we'll be at the convention.
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So, I mean we can do zoom if we do zoom, if we do zoom, I bring my thing, right? Yeah, okay.
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Realistically, if we're going to send this out by Friday, that's the 11th.
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And our meeting is the 17th. So, yeah.
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Yeah, I really need to say, yeah.
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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.
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Okay.
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Time is just moving too fast.
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I know.
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All right. Does anyone have anything else?
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May I go a motion to adjourn?
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Make a motion?
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Oh, second.
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And roll call vote.
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Janis Kudori?
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Yes.
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Renee Spencer?
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Yes.
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Please the hyphen?
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Yes.
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Odessa Sanchez?
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Yes.
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And I also vote, yes, more and more.
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Alright, thank you all.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Have a good night.