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Mattapoisett Housing Authorities.Board meetings are Successful management agreements continue usually held monthly,usually on the second Thursday with Great Cove Community, Asher's Path of every month unless otherwise posted at the Town Apartments, Brewster Housing Authority and Carver Hall. The location of the meetings is usually at the Housing Authority. In early 2018 we were main office at 7 Job's Fishing Road. Meetings are approached to manage Mattapoisett Housing always posted with the Town Clerk at the Town Hall. Authority as they had been without an executive direc- The authority has a website: for for about six months and there were several admin- www.mashpeehousing.ort and receives email com- istrative and maintenance deficiencies that needed to munication at: mashpeeha@capecod.net. be addressed and remedied. We entered into a man- agement agreement with Mattapoisett and have since Administration enjoyed a mutually beneficial arrangement with CHA. The housing authority has contracted with Leila A Five-Year renewal contract has since been entered Botsford as our Executive Director. Management and into for all three management agreements, Carver, administration of the Mashpee Housing Authority is Brewster,and Mattapoisett. the responsibility of the Executive Director,with sup- In 2018 the Authority paid out $634.600.50 in port from staff comprising of an Assistant Executive Director, a Property Manager and Resident Services rent subsidies for Mashpee residents. We paid the Coordinator, a Director of Maintenance, two Town of Mashpee $7,786.41 for taxes, $15,000.000 for sewer treatment charges, and $2,560.00 for dump Administrative Assistants, a Custodian/Groundskeeper, and a maintenance assis- fees. tant. Mrs. Botsford also supervises the staff at the Our programs and properties include reviews by Brewster, Carver and Mattapoisett authorities for a five different oversight agencies as well as an annual total of 13 staff members. audit. All agency reports were submitted in a timely Policy is established by a five member Board of manner and all property reviews and audits/reviews Commissioners—four of whom are elected and one were done with no findings. state-appointed by the Governor of Massachusetts. We continue Monitoring Services for Bridges by Current members are Francis Laporte, Jill Allen, EPOCH at Mashpee. We signed a contract provide Kevin Shackett,Richard Halpern and Lisa Meizinger. Monitoring Services to the new assisted living site in Activities during the Past Year Mashpee,Laurentide. Our Capital Benchmarks for Fiscal Year 2018 Several policies were reviewed, updated, and were met with no findings. Our five-year Capital adopted including the Rent Collection Policy, Improvement Plan was submitted to the Department Procurement Policy,and Personnel Policy. of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) and approved. Our major capital improvement this We applied for Community Preservation Funds past year was the parking lot expansion at our from the Town of Mashpee for a continuation of our Homeyer Village/Main office site, which has been Housing Assistance Program and for funds to assist in completed,adding 9 new parking spaces,a new travel the purchase and rental of an affordable Single Room lane, and new sidewalks. Occupancy (SRO) home in Mashpee. All budgets, year-end reports, and quarterly Resident Services financial statements were reviewed by the Board of Several services and recreational activities are Commissioners and submitted as required. offered to our residents: A monthly newsletter is pro- vided; Bingo and several games are offered free of Mrs. Botsford attended much training through- charge; there is an annual Ice Cream Social; pot luck out the year and continues to maintain her certification dinners; afternoon teas; holiday events and parties; a as a Credit Compliance Professional and increased to monthly meeting/coffee hour with residents; and mis- level C13P. cellaneous presentations throughout the year. In addi- tion, the housing authority maintains a small library 125