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Mr. Savage: So they have a legitimate complaint and they have a representative like yourself and they get evicted and you mean there are no civil repercussions behind that? Ms. Cherry: Let me give you an example. There's a person who lives over here, and she knows who it is, and there was mold everywhere, everywhere. He ask me to come and tell the Housing Authority that the mold was there. I did and it was Denny Head and he said ok. It was about a month had passed and nobody had came and so I told him to go file a complaint with the Legal Aide. Which he did. He got retaliated against. He got a letter accusing him of all kinds of stuff. Ya know, threatening eviction. And I got on top with the letter. It should not be that way. And that's how it has been in the past. So, I mean if tenants can't complain and nobody else but the Legal Aide can complain cause they got no choice but to accept they complaint but Legal Aide can't take all problems or handle all complaints and they should be able to come to the Housing Authority and be treated with respect and be able to complain. Mrs. Ruthart: And I would like that. Mr. Dangerfield: On the same token with this open act meeting, come and ask the director. The letter was posted almost a week ahead of time before the meeting even came up for people to ask questions. This lady sat there, she took down everything, if you had some kind of complaint, and if you need something worked on she put it out there. She said 12 people; I looked at 10 that showed up. Out of every person out here everywhere but no one showed up. She asked for them to come out if they had anything to say and put it on the table. She has only been doing this a good two weeks but she trying and you can see she trying. If people don't come out and participate what can you do. Ms. Cherry: Well first she have to gain their trust because like she's been here for years and things have gone on you know I know you weren't the top person but they're not going to all... Mr. Dangerfield: We are back to the same thing. Ms. Cherry: Come on now. They are not going to automatically know that we can trust her. You're going to have to gain their trust. Mrs. Ruthart: Right, and I'm trying. Mr. Savage: I'm going to have to stop this because it's branching off on from the item — the discussion of concerns regarding the promotions — and we are digressing from that. I think we all came to the consensus on allowing us to find more information and come back to the board with more information one way or the other. Because like you said we need transparency and there is only one right way. So it shouldn't be a problem. So I'm going to say that we just do that and end this because it can keep going on and on. Are there any more questions concerning this?