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(including the secretary) shall be determined by the Authority <br />subject to the laws of the State of Texas. And going back and <br />looking at some of the stuff that I saw which I did print but was <br />lost, it says that the secretary of the Housing Authority, when that <br />job becomes vacant you can open it up in the within the county or <br />region, depending if it's a small region, but it said larger city <br />/county then if you didn't find anyone within the county you could <br />open it up for people to apply. I have been through the same <br />process in the school system. We did open up within the school <br />system then they went to a broader range. Now, I don't know if <br />that's something that the state of Texas actually sanctions or not, I <br />was just researching. As far as the nepotism, I found an old paper <br />from the Attorney General of the State of Texas and he rendered a <br />ruling on nepotism which said that the commissioner's board could <br />be held liable for nepotism but the director could not. I guess that's <br />because I never hired anybody except do we do the hiring, approve <br />the hiring, or have to sign off on the hiring? Do we choose then if <br />we signed off on it then it's kind of like what you were saying <br />about the tenants? If we sign off on it then we are liable and I <br />know that in the school system, if the superintendent recommends <br />who they want then normally you go with the recommendation but <br />we have the right to say no at any time. I don't care if the <br />superintendent, principal, or whoever agrees to hire this particular <br />person, we have the right to say no as a board. This board is <br />different than a school system or a county or city council they <br />actually represent a people in a certain region. We don't. We are <br />just over this commission. The board, over this commission, we <br />don't represent certain people or a section of people like they do in <br />the city and different rules apply to this. And, another thing on this <br />board, there is a line that board members can not cross. I've seen <br />people on the board at Chisum ISD they would micro manage the <br />superintendent. They were there every day micro managing the <br />superintendent but it says it in black and white as far as a Housing <br />Authority board and Housing Authority director, we hire the <br />director and basically trust that the director makes the right <br />decisions and we are here not to micro manage. Like tenant <br />complaints, we can't come up as a normal citizen and complain or <br />talk to the board. That's really out of the scope of our job. Now <br />because of the board being the way that it is, we do talk about <br />these things. Really, those things are not suppose to go on in the <br />board meetings but because we are so informal we do. We can dig <br />deeper; we didn't have much time to dig. <br />Ms. Cherry: Let me say this, I disagree with the statement that we just have to <br />trust everything that the director does. <br />Mr. Savage I didn't mean trust everything that's not exactly what I was saying. <br />Business that goes on at the Housing Authority, the director runs <br />that. The board doesn't. That's all I was saying. <br />Ms. Cherry: I understand that; but, if the open meetings act didn't apply to us <br />we wouldn't need to train. You know I'm not just, I've talked to <br />people too. You have to have transparency, you have to announce <br />4 <br />