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6. NEW BUSINESS: A. Commissioner Cherry request to discuss: 1) Practice of Housing Authority — Ms. Cherry: Ok, so I know I'm just gonna get some backlash for mentioning this, but I'm gonna mention it anyway. If, what's the policy for when a person that lives outside the Housing Authority units they get evicted by their landlord and do they in this particular instance this person the housing was removed before they got a hearing. Mrs. Ruthart: No maam, it was not. She was never taken off the program because she filed for a hearing and we heard the hearing, I have a timeline. Ms. Cherry: The landlord after she got the 1St eviction, she got another eviction for non - payment of rent because the Housing Authority didn't pay the rent on time. Mrs. Ruthart: She doesn't pay any of her rent, we pay all her rent. Ms. Cherry: I know. Mrs. Ruthart: Here's the timeline. OK, she moved into Town Parc on 12/1/2015, Mr. Dangerfield: We talking about Harmon? Mrs. Ruthart: Yes. Landlord gave Ms. Harmon an eviction notice on January 7th about an unauthorized guest, January 25th the eviction was upheld in JP court, January 28th the PHA sent an EOP — end of participation letter to Ms. Harmon effective 2/1/2016, we did not mail out the HAP check because normally when/if you don't file an appeal to county court you have 5 days, so it was on January 25th the eviction was upheld in JP court, she could have possibly been out before February 1St , so instead of sending the landlord a check and having to recoup $800 it's easier just to hold it, see where the hearing goes, and as soon as the hearing was over on the 17th we wrote them both a check. Ms. Cherry: But yall voted to... Mr. Dangerfield: That she does not lose her voucher. Ms. Cherry: But that's what I'm saying. Had she not had that hearing, her voucher would have been lost right? Mr. Dangerfield: That's why she came to us. We all sat in here and heard everything that went on. The lady at Town Parc violated her rights telling her she gotta get rid of her rats, get rid of this, we seen what not to lose her voucher. All of us voted she keep her voucher. She can go anywhere and still she won't be off of it. Mrs. Ruthart: And she was never removed from our program. We held the HAP payment due to the fact that we have to pay as long as she is in that unit. We would have paid $736. Mr. Dangerfield: We heard the whole thing. We voted to keep her deal going. Mrs. Ruthart: And as soon as they gave me their decision, we wrote them a check and sent the check. She was never removed from the program. Ms. Cherry: Removed from the program, I don't know how that works, but when the HA didn't pay the rent then she got a second eviction this time for non - payment of rent and she had a court date and all of that but... Mrs. Ruthart: But it was not for non - payment of rent Ms. Cherry: Yes it was. Mrs. Ruthart: No it wasn't it was for unauthorized guest. Ms. Cherry: She got 2 evictions. Mrs. Ruthart: You can't do 2 evictions at a time. Ms. Cherry: I can bring the paperwork where she got 2 evictions and she got 2 different court dates. First she got one for the unauthorized house guest and then after the rent was not paid she got a non - payment of rent eviction. I don't know if that illegal or.. Mrs. Ruthart: But it never went to court? Ms. Cherry: After yall did that they took it back. 7