The Ramaytush Ohlone have never zeeded, lost nor for goat en their responsibility as care takers of this place. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders and relative of the Ramaytush Ohlone, and by acknowledging their soverne rights. Item 4, the president s report. Great, nothing to share at this time, beyond comments during the ceos report. Thank you, president torres. Item 5, item Public Comment. It is not appropriate for commissioners to engage in a debate. If you have questions and would like to bring comments to attention, please bring, with that being said, i do have some speaker cards that have been filled out. Would you like to come up for your general Public Comment. And you have two minutes. Speaker through the chair, thank you very much. Im craig, there is been a slight change at John F Kennedy and want to alert you the new officer, im now the president , for the record i wanted to let you know that. We were sworn in today and we look forward to working with you. And its really, really good news that were able to now, not be dysfunctional on how we have one another in our new meetings. So two, three Board Members are here today just so you can see who they are. And we have one he vept coming up, John F Kennedys birthday coming up, so we want to plan a little celebration just because, John F Kennedy towers building. Now we may want to do it up a little more next year. But well have just a little small gathering honoring john fk. But in the future i would like to work to have some art work of maybe a, we have a fountain there, beautiful in the middle, fountain. And we can put his musk or statute orjust a thought, just a thought. And have that be recognized, so i think that would be good for the residents for being in a building like that and authority as well as the city and county, you can kind of make it a big deal out of it. And so thats it, thanks again and we look forward to working with you in the near future and look forward to seeing you at juneteenth. Right, thank you very much. Next written Public Comment is from francis hayward. Speaker thank you very much, thank you very much. Im frances horhoward, ive been advised to tell you, there was a vote taken today regarding the acting president of the ccsd, and that i need to show you this. This is for the record, that 6 to 0 vote was taken today at the board meeting, regarding the 19th president of ccsd margaret and that is going to be called. So i just wanted to inform you that. Thank you very much. No problem. So right now we an acting president martha smith she is taking over that position and margaret has been officially removed from the ccsd board. Thank you. Great, thank you. Thank you, our next written Public Comment is from c bear if you would like to come up to the podium. Speaker good afternoon, im c bear from the loan nation, im a representative of jfk towers and vice president. I would like to say thank you so much for recognizing any people to have a moment and time of your day even to recognize us. That is a pleasure to know. My colleague here is lilly wong, she is chinese and she is my treasurer for jfk. I would like for to you recognize lilly and she is an elder, so am i, so were trying to make it to your meeting to address you and say hello. Speaker okay, sorry i dont speak english well. Can i have a translator . And ~ yes, can you hold on one moment, what language do you speak . Cantonese. Cantonese. Give me one moment. Translator just when you thought the Housing Authority wouldnt perform quickly, that took about 45 seconds to have a translator. She says she does not know what youre asking her. Speaker [speaking cantonese] my name is ms. Wong, im 9 4 years old so my building they trust me to she sent me here to talk about the Financial Issues in the building. Speaker [speaking cantonese] translator she is just talking about her Background Information and how she got here. Let me ask her to talk about the real issue. Speaker [speaking cantonese. And she is very excited to be here to represent her building even though she is 94 and not very healthy but she is here to talk about the other incidents. Speaker [speaking cantonese] translator she says she use feels a burden and huge responsible on her representing the residents, she is trying her best to come in front of you to speak her issues. Speaker [speaking cantonese] translator thats it, she says thank you. [applause] thank you, thank you very much for coming and well want to know what the number what building it is, that she is speaking about so we can followup. Say again. Jfk towers, got it. Next Public Comment is rager met mcnolty. Clerk speaker hello thank you for having me. I come to you as a first time for president , there was some retaliation on calling them out i did resign before i was recalled. The good thing is that dean preston has taken up our proposal and hes interested tenants rights and lawyer and im Going Forward with the resident advisors. So ill have cards next time we see each other. Thank you for your support throughout the transition and its going to be a positive thing, only good is going to come out of it. Thank you. Thank you very much. Clerk next is monique wilson, apologize if i got the last name. Thank you. Speaker good evening, im monique, im here on behalf of myself, my son, recently i lost my husband in july. And he was on section 8. He once in section 8 to get him a twobedroom so he can get a caregiver and as a matter of fact, my son was going to be a livein with him. In the process of that, it took a very long time. Its been since january 2022, never heard from anybody, everybody i go down there and have my receipts, go down there and all i hear is ill email you back, ill email you back. Never got an email, i might have got two emails within two years from section8. So i have to keep going down there, you know, asking questions why theyre taking so long. So well email you, okay, fine. Sol in the process of that trying to get the doctors to get the paperwork so that he can get a twobedroom that was another process, well email you. That took another year. So i finally end up getting the two bedroom and my husband this h signs for his son to take over his voucher. So i presented to them and in the process of that, when i presented to them, and we did the paperwork, the guy dranko, he said my son could not receive the section 8 voucher because he was too old and thats 25. I said well, what age, he said at 25, i said well hes 25. So he said he cant do that. I said that does not make sense to me. He tried to put him as a livein aid instead of living with his dad, because his dad needed 24hour service because he was paralyzed so in the process of me trying to get the paperwork as my son as his livein caregiver too, we finally got that but im still waiting on the answer for him being the livein basically, since he passed, i was trying to kind of much bringing up memories, i was trying to have my son to receive his grant even though he is disabled which he should have been before he passed. So in the process of that, all im getting is the run around. Ill call you, back, ill email, ill call you back, ill email there, i went on there thursday, on the 18th again. I spoke to la sean, daysean some mustard name, however that mustard. I have not heard from him. Its just, theyre good for telling you that theyre going to email you, they do not do their job and im still sitting here waiting to see if i can get my voucher. I had to take a housing lady that has been working with me for a long time with me. The only time i get somewhere is when i bring her, the other way, i take no help. Im sorry this has been your experience, they will walk this through with you. I hope that you dont have to come back to this commission to bring up an issue like this, it should be straightforward but were always here as a resource and im glad that you came. Please we can with ms. Crawford. Thank you for listening to me. Absolutely. Clerk maxine jones. Speaker good afternoon, i first want you to ask that you excuse mia paneser. Ive been working and doing maid service. With that being said. You look great. Speaker thank you. I went to housing section 8 housing thursday the 18th with my niece and she wanted to discuss some things that was on going that was not, in a timely matter for her as inspection and Little Things that should have been done. But in the process of that, they tell us, we got there at 10 00 oclock, they tell us, oh you will not be able to see anyone until 12, right. Theyre in a meeting. So we said, okay, were not going anywhere, were going to stay right here and wait it out, right . The next thing i know, almost noon, here come a lady comes out with the a piece of sake and i said, oh that cake looks good can i get a piece. Come to find out, they were having a potluck in the back and they had people all in the front waiting to see supervisor. One guy they had just told him that he was about to lose his section 8, he left out, my niece shes already in a panic because she dont like there anyway, because she always having problem and it looks like a jail house. For me, the problem is, you lie and you say its a meeting, you have people there waiting to see you. And the person that we asked for, which was ofk or, he was not even there. And we were waiting on somebody that be was not even there. So when the head guys come out, i said to him, you guys had a pop luck back there in the back, and nobody shared and we were just lied to. He says oh im going to take care of it. Then the next thing, they are running out like roaches, they want to help us now. That was sad. And the saddest part was, there was a lady there by the name of belinda, this lady is always in the Housing Authority, when people come there, this lady is will be to help them with their needs are and this is sad that this lady is in the waiting room, waiting to help some other people so they can get the help they need and to find other people come in there and constantly help, and there is nobody to help anyone, thats sad. Now i have a question, my question is, when you have somebody waiting for a voucher and youre on the list and youre waiting for the voucher and they tell you, you need to go look for a place. Are they just to tell you that you will lose your voucher. Thank you, im glad that you came n im sorry that that was your experience, kendra is here to talk to you and help answer the questions. Thank you for bringing the issue, thank you. Any additional Public Comment inperson or online . Anyone from city wide council, that would like to report out to the board . Then we can open for Public Comment, item number 6 . Dont see open closing Public Comment. Item number 6, this is the chief executive offers report, starting with 7a, this is the east updates. John steward if you would like to come up. Speaker good afternoon, commissioners, staff, everybody. Our first slide is always the staffing slide, there is no change in the last couple of months, we are still short. Two maintenance guys, since this was the march report, we hired somebody on started march 30th but it didnt get on this report. So were down one maintenance t ek and we continue to use a tech to fill that position. At this time, i also, commissioner for he is asked me to talk about resident communication and without really being specific but i did want to say that, that the property manager meets biweekly with the council, we also go to the coffee hour that they have once a month. We currently are not going to Council Meetings because they have not been inviting us which is absolutely their right but i wanted to report that were available for those meetings left side and any other activities that were putting on by services where they ask us to show up. Again, ifls not sure what you want today hear but i did collect that data for you. Thank you very much. In terms of the resident engage, i know that the Housing Authority and thank you again for making time to be present when we had that collective meeting, well members of the Resident Council and residents who had also been serving at the dack and for also sitting there that you can make yourself available to residents. In our further conversations, were going to want to ensure that the Property Management questions that they have ultimately can be the relationship between Property Management and residents can be established to such a degree that theyre not issues of residents and resident bodies that are responsible for leadership onsite not to want Property Damage in discussion thats pertain to their main needs. That is the main intent and well be reinforcing that tomorrow to as we listen to residents, we appreciate being drawn in and where they exist to help you work through them but that does require Property Management to be in the room so you can address those issues and if there are any concerns or questions that arise out of your operational choices and structure onsite, we can followup on those. As oppose today getting involved in the daytoday needs of residents, but i want touz to be present for that conversation i know that we will well be having more. In terms of, the outstanding questions that we were hearing, and i know you may not be prepared to discuss those today, these are similar to communications that the Housing Authority thats received at various levels from resident. That there needs to be a level of follow through, documented follow through at large at high level issues that residents have brought to the table. We can assure how were responding holistically, how Property Management is responding basic operational issues that need constant confirmation, so at the very least the body understand how to share information at issues that are taking place whether that is on recertification issues whether thats on relocation questions, et cetera. I think that they need to feel and need to know that they come and can come to you to answer questions and where the housing where the Housing Authority can be involved or other grantees can be involved, City Departments or otherwise, that we will be responsive but based on the engage that Property Management has on sign, based on what ~ understand. Understood. I will comment that i think there is a narrative from the past, covid happened and there was a transition with companies thats been hard to overcome. But i think that we have had the same staff there for a while and i think, you know, person by person, we are reestablishing that trust and that relationship but it takes a while. It does take a while and again i want to say thank you for being present at that meet anding thank you for reiterating that you want to be present in there and i appreciate you staying true to that by staying consistent in your approach with president. Were here to be supportive of that approach and together with residents to make sure their questions are being answered. And well go from there, so thank you very much on this part of the question. Absolutely, the read of the council has my personal cell and im as available as i can be. Just so make a quick note on that, the, the im getting more involved on issues that i should be commenting on but from what i have been seeing, one thing to watch out for, as youre having conversations one on one with residents, making sure that youre documenting the themes of issues that Property Management is responding to so that you can communicate back to Resident Councils when you are invited to present or invited to answer a specific question, you can share for example, yes for the past quarter ive talked to xy andz. And thank you for that, thank you for that feedback, here is what weve done, what every one here in this room understand, because i know that sometimes that communication does not take place after an issue has been trouble shot and at times resolved. Excellent. Moving on to our unit slide, we still have 160 units occupied. We have 12 units vacant and ready to rent and that means for us that we have asked for referrals for those 12 units. We have five units vacant and under remodeling, two are being used as a motel units right now. Three of them are waiting for remodel and i have more details after this slide. There is 14 units off line, so sorry, you would ask for some detail on this also. I have a verbal report today and next month, they will have their own slides. So, of the of the 12 units that weve asked for referrals for, we have received 6 referrals in april that is not in this report because this report is in march, of those six, two people have come in and had their initial application and their in the compliance process right now. One person has was a noshow, and the three others are have also not returned calls. So, the Housing Authority and as theyre working closely to continue to get referral sxz process them, there is a process when people dont call, they get a certain number of letters then we tell the Housing Authority that and then they move to the next person, so were communicating on that process. Can you jufpt from a time mrien sper respective, can you share what that timeline looks like and what the repercussions are when somebodys Contact Information that you reach out to help fill vacant units with individuals who have been waiting quite a long time for these opportunities in most cases, when they dont answer the phone, when youre not able to reach them, when they dont call back or respond to, respond via the Contact Information what type of timeline are we talking about both for the individual resident