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Ms. Cherry: Well, if his family chose, friend chose to do it that way then so be it. But <br />what my issue isn't how you report it, my issue with this is there was a false report done <br />by the Housing Authority. Now, handle it however, but... <br />Mr. Savage: Now, you're saying that but that's you saying that. You have not <br />substantiated that there was a false report so I don't know why you keep saying that, but <br />where is the substantiation of that? <br />Ms. Cherry: For me not to substantiate it, so it's possible, you're saying that these <br />pictures that are time stamped on my phone are a lie. <br />Mr. Savage: No, I'm saying we have official mold reports and documentation, we've <br />all gotten it and we have paid people to come in and do this work, so I'm not saying <br />nothing, I'm just saying that these, whoever it is, have to come in and make a complaint <br />just like everybody else. <br />Ms. Cherry: Like I said, it's been recorded, I've talked about it today, I'm done with <br />that part. It is whatever it is. <br />b. Ms. Cherry reported that in April of this year the Office of the Inspector General of <br />the United States from the Housing Urban Development completed an investigation of <br />the Jasper, Texas Housing Authority and they found that they were misusing funds and <br />equipment. And one of the things listed was keeping Housing Authority vehicles for <br />personal use and using them outside of the Housing Authority hours. According to Ms. <br />Ruthart and I think she put it in everybody's package, the HA has 8 vehicles. The most <br />expensive is a Chevy Traverse purchased in 2012 in which Ms. Ruthart keeps for her <br />personal use and does not have the HA logo on it. Ms. Snow, the inspector, also keeps a <br />vehicle for personal use and it also does not have the HA logo on it. Mr. Scott keeps a <br />vehicle at his home and it does have the HA logo on it. <br />Ms. Ruthart: No it does not have a logo on it. All the Maintenance trucks do except his. <br />Ms. Cherry: Ok. The three that are kept at people's homes do not have the logo on it. <br />And a on call maintenance man takes a truck home for emergencies. Keeping vehicles for <br />personal use not only goes against HUD policies, it goes against the Paris HA policy. The <br />vehicles need to have logos on them and they need to be used for Housing Authority <br />business only. I'm putting that out there. <br />Ms. Ruthart: May I respond? <br />Ms. Cherry: Have I tried to stop you? <br />Ms. Ruthart: They are not used for personal use. They are driven home at night because <br />we get called out here in the morning and at night all during the night. Kim had to go out <br />when PRV flooded. She had to go all weekend and pick people up and take them to <br />hotels and home and take them from their home and back. Scott gets called out all night <br />long. About the logo, you go to any training for Section 8 or any of that, they say do not <br />put a logo on any vehicle that goes to a Section 8 home because you don't want to <br />embarrass the tenant and let everyone in the neighbor hood know that they are on <br />12 <br />