Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors (Acting as the Governing Board of Commissioners for the Housing Authority of the County of San Mateo)
From: Raymond Hodges, Executive Director, Housing Authority of the County of San Mateo
Subject: SAMCHAI Board of Directors
RECOMMENDATION:
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Acting as the Governing Board of Commissioners for the Housing Authority of the County of San Mateo, adopt a resolution authorizing the Housing Authority-affiliated not-for-profit SAMCHAI to appoint its Board of Directors for 2020-2021 as required under the SAMCHAI Bylaws.
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BACKGROUND:
On May 11, 2010, the Housing Authority of the County of San Mateo (“HACSM”) Board of Commissioners (“the Commissioners”) approved Resolution No. 2010-05 authorizing HACSM to establish a Housing Authority-controlled instrumentality. This process was completed to facilitate the disposition of Midway Village, a former Public Housing property owned by HACSM. As part of the disposition approval by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”), the housing ownership of Midway Village was to be transferred to a not-for-profit instrumentality or another non-profit organization. As a result, HACSM created SAMCHAI, an affiliated not-for-profit entity. In December 2017, when HACSM converted its remaining Public Housing property, El Camino Village, to Project-Based Vouchers under HUD’s Rental Assistance Demonstration Program, the property ownership was also transferred to SAMCHAI.
DISCUSSION:
As part of its creation, SAMCHAI was required to adopt Bylaws and Covenants. Pursuant to sections 4.2 and 4.5 of SAMCHAI’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (effective October 25, 2017) (“Bylaws”), the number of Directors on the SAMCHAI Board shall be three, and the three Directors shall be annually appointed “by the body acting as Board of Commissioners of the Housing Authority of the County of San Mateo (the ‘Commissioners’).”
The three Directors appointed to SAMCHAI for 2020-2021 will be the San Mateo County Department of Housing Director, the Department of Housing Financial Services Manager, and HACSM’s Administrative Services Manager.
With the resignation of the previous Department of Housing Director in December 2019 and the appointment of the new Department of Housing Director in May 2020, this Resolution from the Commissioners completes the appointment of the new Department of Housing Director to the SAMCHAI Board of Directors and adheres to the annual appointment rule set forth in Section 4.5 of the Bylaws.
County Counsel has reviewed and approved the Resolution as to form.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no net County cost associated with this action and there is no fiscal impact to HACSM or SAMCHAI associated with the action.