City of Milwaukee - File #: R13557

• File #: R13557
• Version: 0
• Type: Housing Authority Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 1/27/2025
• In control: HOUSING AUTHORITY
• On agenda: 1/31/2025
• Final action: 1/31/2025
• Title: Resolution approval of the proposed Public Housing Assessment System Recovery Agreement with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development The Board may receive a motion to convene in closed session pursuant to Section 19.85(1)(e) deliberating or negotiating the purchasing of public properties, the investing of public funds, or conducting other specified public business, whenever competitive or bargaining reasons require a closed session, regarding the Recovery Agreement and Sustainability Plan. The Board may then reconvene in open session concerning any such item following the Closed Session.
• Sponsors: THE CHAIR

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
1/31/2025	0	HOUSING AUTHORITY	ADOPTED; Minutes note: Dena Hunt, HACM’s Chief Operating Officer – Real Estate and Public Housing, explained that the Public Housing Assessment System Recovery Agreement with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HACM) is the Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee’s first step toward moving forward and out of a Troubled status. HACM meeting the benchmarks listed in the Recovery Agreement related to scoring and performance requirements, which would take place over the next two years, would recover the agency to a standard performer. Ms. Hunt stated that the second component of the agreement with HUD is the Sustainability Plan which works in tandem with the Recovery Agreement. The Sustainability Plan is a working document with a more detailed plan of action with tasks and targeted deadlines that are divided into four categories: Governance and Oversight, Financial Management, Physical Asset Management and the Capital Fund. HACM has already begun the work – some Governance items have been addressed and internal assessments are being done. HACM’s next steps are to continue working with a firm that is helping to develop Standard Operating Procedures, to continue working with HUD to establish attainable deadlines as HACM reviews draft documents that have been started to keep the agency on track, to seek and incorporate resident and community feedback as the draft for the Sustainability Plan is updated, and to break down the goals into manageable tasks and assign the tasks to responsible parties - holding them accountable to meeting deadlines and goals. HACM believes it can achieve all the requirements of the agreement.	Pass	5:0

Number
13557

Version
Original

Reference

Sponsor
The Chair

Title
Resolution approval of the proposed Public Housing Assessment System Recovery Agreement with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

The Board may receive a motion to convene in closed session pursuant to Section 19.85(1)(e) deliberating or negotiating the purchasing of public properties, the investing of public funds, or conducting other specified public business, whenever competitive or bargaining reasons require a closed session, regarding the Recovery Agreement and Sustainability Plan. The Board may then reconvene in open session concerning any such item following the Closed Session.

Analysis

Body
WHEREAS, HUD previously designated the Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee’s (HACM) as a Troubled Public Housing Authority due to HUD’s overall Public Housing Assessment System score of 53 (of 100) for the fiscal year ending 12/31/2022, which was received on April 19, 2024; and

WHEREAS, the designation of HACM as a Troubled Public Housing Authority required HUD to draft and deliver to HACM a Recovery Agreement, which is a contract between HACM and HUD that is required by federal law and delineates performance requirements, reporting requirements, and statutory recovery benchmarks and focuses mostly, but not exclusively, on the Public Housing performance; and

WHEREAS, the HACM Board of Commissioners received HUD’s draft Recovery Agreement from Shirley Wong, Director of the Milwaukee Office of Public Housing at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), on January 17th, 2025; and

WHEREAS, the HACM Board of Commissioners, was notified that the Recovery Agreement must be executed by HACM no later than January 31, 2025; and

WHEREAS, the HACM Board of Commissioners is required to approve the Recovery Agreement prior to HACM executing and delivering the same to HUD; now therefore be it;

RESOLVED, by the HACM Board of Commissioners that the propose...