Can you hear me?

I can hear you.

Okay.

Roll call, please.

Bowie.

Here.

Coleman.

Here.

Jose.

Here.

Kim.

Yang.

Here.

There are five present, two absent, that being Commissioners Johnson.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Forgive me.

Chair Chiniqua Johnson.

Um, so I before we start, um, Chair Johnson is supposed to be up on the screen on video.

There she is.

And I think, is she supposed to be on the screen in front of us?

I don't know if someone with OTC can fix that, please.

And then just making sure we can hear Chair Johnson sound.

Can you hear me now?

Yes, we can hear you.

Perfect.

Okay, wonderful.

Okay, great.

So Chair Johnson is present.

I think we can get started.

Yeah, there are six present and one absent, that being Commissioner Camp.

Item one number one for discussion is resolution REST twenty-six dash one five six resolution amending the twenty twenty-six housing trust fund project budgets to reflect the twenty twenty-six adopted budget, including contingencies citywide.

So um, this is a resolution that is basically uh a it is for response from the contingencies regarding the tenant protections, and we have a few folks to present us to us here today.

I guess I can turn it over to Director McFan, and she can turn it over to our presenters.

There we go.

Apologies, Vice Chair Joe's.

Um, the action before you today actually is things that require HRA board approval or transferring budget amounts between projects in excess of 100,000.

So sort of the traditional annual cleanup of that.

In this case, it also includes the tenant protections item of 380,000.

And so the presentation before you today will be um mostly about that.

We've got Lynn Firkenhoff and Faith Dietz here to present and be available to answer questions.

Wonderful.

So with that, I will turn it over to Lynn and Faith for the presentation.

Hello.

Can you see the can you see the um yes?

Presentation is up on okay.

Perfect little screens.

Uh Chair Johnson, I know I can't see you, but you can see me, I'm guessing.

And uh Vice Chair Jost, Commissioners, uh, my name is Faith Deeds, and I am presenting from OFE, which is the Office of Financial Empowerment, and uh Lynn Ferkinoff is from uh the Department of Safety Inspections, and we're here to give uh significant update as to what's been going on with tenant protections uh to the HRA.

Um just a quick um so for the do you see this second slide?

Yes.

I just want to make sure technology is working today.

Uh so what we're gonna do is just go through a brief history uh for people who are listening or uh uh watching for the first time and don't know like what is temp protection, what does this mean?

Uh we'll give a significant uh response to the HRA memo that was sent in 2025.

Then we'll talk about next steps and we'll have times for questions.

And I'm guessing that we'll pause, we possibly may pause with it throughout the presentation for questions.

So um in 2025, um the tenant protections ordinance was back brought back by the council.

It was on 2020, it was passed, it was rescinded in 2021, and the council last last year wanted to bring it back.

So they did and passed it on May 7th, 2025.

Um DSI was which is Department of Safety and Inspections, they were designated as the administrator of the ordinance, and OFB Office of Financial Empowerment was given the role of putting together rights and responsibilities, and I'll talk about this a little bit later, but we've added resources to that as well.

Um DSI is the administrator and the funding at the time.