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Meeting of the Board of Commissioners
Wednesday 11/27/24
10:00am
Meeting Minutes
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Attendees: Shawn Wolcott, Kim Longworth, Deb Callies, Ernest Cienfuegos -Baca, Scott
James, Juliana Kitten, Stacey Aurzada, Bobbier Cranston, Kyle Holman, Olivia Milstead
Call to Order by Board Chair Shawn Wolcott at 10:01 am
- Action Item -Approval of the November 13th meeting minutes - Motion to approved by
Kyle, seconded by Kim, no opposition, motion passed.
- Public Comment - motion to amend the meeting agenda by Scott James to add Public
Comment as first agenda item, seconded by Juliana, no opposition, motion passed.
o Danielle Aninia — Public Health Representative and a recipient of section 8 voucher.
Is there a plan or awareness of the disarray of the Weld County HA. Had been
asking many questions about it and where she stood with her voucher. Original
package had fallen behind a desk. Is there a plan to provide security to recipients.
Haileigh is managing the case load.
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- Action Item — Removal of Holly Darby from the Greeley Housing Authority First Bank and
Wells Fargo bank accounts. Motion by Ernest Cienfuegos -Baca, seconded by Kyle Holman,
no opposition, motion passed.
- Action Item - Approval of 1St Amendment to IGA for Interim Executive Director Services —
HR and Legal Services. Motion by Ernest Cienfuegos -Baca, seconded by Kyle, no
opposition, motion passed.
- Action Item - Board approval of special counsel — New Communities Law, authorize
Board President to sign. City of Greeley does not have legal knowledge for specific
housing authority matters. Contracting with New Communities Law/Alex Gano, to
provide these services for GHA through the City of Greeley. City of Greeley will pay the
fees for these services to being with. No specifics in the IGA, just approval to engage
services with them. Motion to approve by Kim, seconded by Kyle, Scott James opposes,
no other opposition. Motion passed.
- Action Item — Board approval of Peek Goldstone, LLC — act as counsel in eviction
actions, authorize signature — updated agreement was sent yesterday to Deb.
Engagement letter to continue their services to do the evictions and paid for by the HA.
Motion to approve by Juliana, seconded by Kim, abstention by Scott James, motion
passed.
Action Item — Board approval of Employee Handbook — Holidays, per Anita, followed
the Weld County holiday list. Motion to table employee handbook by Ernest, seconded
by Kim, no opposition, motion passed.
- Update on Weld County Housing Authority transition — Second meeting next week to go
through the files. Looking towards a February 1st split out date. Stacey and Commission
James feel this will be a very smooth transition. Communications plan for those receiving
vouchers through Weld County side. Elizabeth will have the responsibility to reach out to
voucher recipients about the change and where their communications should go.
- Update on Peakview Trails - Rent increases had been completed, per Deb's research and
she has set up a rent increase for the next year. Deb has a couple of staff that will be
spending time with the community manager to mentor and determine how to support the
management better. Working on the sprinkler issue, owner engaged with a company to
work on this outside of the agreement. Still working to determine whose responsibility the
sprinkler issue is, was this a flaw in the building design. Still waiting to see if they are going
to walk away from the agreement.
- Update on Lincoln Square debt service ratio challenge - Condition of property and
expenses is more than what the property/debt is valued at. $100,000 pledge or $400,000 to
pay down the loan. Need more information on this issue before making a decision on how
to move forward. Deb has accounting staff at the HA working to get all the accounts
information updated and completed.
- Update on LOI from City Line - Bobbier is still reviewing this agreement, hope to have
something at the next meeting.
- Executive Session - Determining positions relative to matters that may be subject to
negotiations for the hiring of a new Executive Director of the Greeley -Weld Housing
Authority § 24-6-402(4)(e), C.R.S. — Hiring committee met with a 2nd candidate last week,
give an update on the ED position. motion by Ernest, seconded by Scott, no opposition,
motion passed.
- End executive session at 11:40 am back to public session.
- Resume Public Session — Resolution of any action items required to resolve executive
session discussion
o Motion to accept Vincent's counter offer for the ED position at $180,000 for the
Greeley Housing Authority and Shawn with presentation to Vincent by Ernest,
seconded by Juliana, no opposition, motion passed.
Adjourn - motion to adjourn by Scott, seconded by Ernest, no opposition, motion passed.
Meeting adjourned at 11:41 am.
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