Good evening, everyone.

This is the regular meeting of the Board of Commissioners, St.

Charles Parish Housing Authority, Tuesday, October 27, 2026.

The time is now 6.03 p.m.

I call the meeting to order.

Will you please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance?

Pledge allegiance to the flag.

Indivisible.

All right.

And our first agenda item this evening is review and approval of the agenda.

We have any discussion or motions.

Commissioner Bailey.

Yes.

Yes,

I'd like to pass a motion that we approve the agenda as presented for today's meeting.

Okay,

Commissioner Bailey's move to approve the agenda as presented.

That's been seconded by Commissioner Joseph.

Please cast your votes.

And

that motion passes.

Commissioner Bailey.

Yes,

I'd like to approve the uh board meeting minutes from the previous meeting on September 22nd, 2026.

Commissioner Bailey's move to approve board meeting minutes from September 22nd, 2026.

That's been seconded by Commissioner Joseph.

Cast your votes.

Next agenda item is public comments.

Public comments is now open.

Seeing no one in the chamber, public comments is now closed.

This time we'll review and accept financial reporting.

August 2026 low rent HCV reports.

Um requesting deferral of the September 2026 financial reporting to the November 24th, 2026 meeting.

Yes,

I'd like to accept the uh financials for 2026 lower rent ECV and also referring, also requesting the referral of the September 2620 2026 financial reporting to the November meeting.

All right, thank you, Commissioner Bailey.

Commissioner Bailey has moved to accept the financial reporting for August 2026 for low rent and HCV reports and also to defer uh the September 2026 financial reporting until the November 24th, 2026 meeting.

Good evening, Commissioners.

Thank you as always uh for your continued service to our community and to this housing authority.

Uh just briefly go over a couple of things in your board packet tonight.

Um we have our uh low rent report for September 2026, which can be found on page 172.

Um with the report actually beginning on 173.

And for the month of September uh 2026, uh we received 17,646 and eight cents uh in rent collection.

Uh we did also receive two uh excuse me, 400 in deposits uh for two new admissions of the 129 units in our portfolio, 70 are on mod status uh pending uh demolition and disposition, and of the 59 units that are available to be leased, uh 56 are currently were currently leased at the end of September with three uh vacant units uh in various states of repair uh and also in the process, I believe one of them of getting leased up.

So uh just to let you know, we um had two waiting list mails uh letters mailed out, uh, and we did have seven uh work orders uh which were completed and started in a started and completed in a timely manner, and again with two uh new admissions as well.

We also uh would like to point out that as of today we do have those two remaining vacant units um that are out that are being worked on.

One is uh in the process of getting bids to be uh repaired and turned.

Uh and again the seven work orders that we did complete for the month of September, those can be found on pages 177 uh through 183.

Uh those are the work orders that we completed for the month of September.

On page 186, you can find your uh HCVP uh general activity report uh for the end of the month of September.

For that month, uh we had zero port out searching for housing.

We had nine uh port outs leased up, paying three with St.

John, four with Kenner, uh one in Texas, and one with Harris County.

Uh for the port ins leased up, we had 32, uh, eight in Kenner, um three in Hanno, one for Thibodeau, two for Houston Housing, six for St.

John Parish, one for the City of Frontendino, Florida, one for Nacadish, eight for Jefferson Parish, one for Hammond, and one for Harris County.

Uh

we did have of the port ins three searching for housing.

Uh,

we had no EOPs as the end of at as of the end of last month.

Uh we made 257,682 and 66 cents in HCB payments for the month of September, and we uh had an income of 296,989 and 30 cents for the month of September as well.