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Mrs. Ruthart: There was no recourse from us not paying her rent. Mr. Dangerfield: The deal was, the lady at the Town Parc she violated that girl rights. She went to her with a problem, she had rats. Then when she come to the girls house and searched the house she had, anyway, all of us heard that we sat with that lady and it didn't make no sense that lady would lose her whatchacallit and that's why we voted her in to keep her voucher to go wherever she want to go. Mrs. Ruthart: And it was appealed to County Court and the County Court upheld the eviction. Ms. Cherry: I mean, I was actually at, so I know exactly what happened and they shouldn't have upheld it, but... Mr. Savage: I got to stop right here. On the agenda, it says practices of the PHA. We need to discuss practices not specific cases. If we want to discuss specific cases then that young lady or whoever can come up if she felt like her due process was violated, you know there is a process for that. Let me finish, that is not what we are here for to discuss specific cases and if you've got a question on the process, the practices as it's listed here, then that's what we need to discuss. Whatever your question is as far as the practices of the PHA, it's kinda broad on the agenda, whatever your question is on practices, just ask that and we can discuss that. Ms. Cherry: I did, but anything that comes up there's something behind it. Something happens why I'm asking the question. My question was what is the practice if someone gets evicted outside of the Housing Authority, and they get evicted do you still pay the rent? Mrs. Ruthart: Yes. Ms. Cherry: Before, which case or not that didn't happen. Mr. Savage: If somebody gets evicted then you're not going to pay their rent anyway, right? If the case goes against the tenant? Mrs. Ruthart: We have to pay, according to our admin policy, we have to pay as long as the tenant is in the unit if the landlord is evicting them and we did that. But, we waited through the hearing process so we didn't have to recoup $736. Mr. Savage: I got that, but if the hearing process went against that person then we would only have to pay whatever days they were there, right? Mrs. Ruthart: No, up until the eviction. Mr. Savage: That's what I mean. Mrs. Ruthart: Yes. Until the day they set their stuff on the street. Ms. Cherry: My point is until the person has had a chance /gone through the hearing process their rent should be paid. Mrs. Ruthart: Well, we had a discussion amongst ourselves in the office about this particular case. From now on we will pay the HAP payment, we're just gonna pay it, we may have to go back and recoup it, but we are gonna pay it until, we're not even gonna send out a letter saying that we are taking them off the program until the landlord has actually set their stuff on the street. That's gonna solve that. 2) Ms. Cherry: Some of the houses that are being approved are nothing but slums. I would like to know what kind of standards you use or how is that determined? Mrs. Ruthart: It's Housing Quality Standards. Very, very basic. Ms. Cherry: There's this house that I'm familiar with because before the tenant moved in it, this was before I was on the Board, before the tenant moved in it, I took pictures cause I know these people and they have a camera and I took pictures of every inch. I got like 50 jump drives it's on one of those jump drives. But, it did not have a smoke detector in it, the floor still had, you could bounce because the floor would give when you walked N.