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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1980-02-05 - Minutes - ArchiveMINUTES OF SPECIAL MEETING OF THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS The Housing Authority of the City of Fayetteville, ARkansas met in Special Session at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, February 5, 1980 in the office of the Authority #1 North School, Fayetteville, Arkansas. Upon Roll Call, the Following were present: Commissioners Present: Windham, Seaton, Endress Commissioners Absent: Morgan, Shreve Others Present: Chad Kumpe, Bromo Wilson , Pat Donat Mr. Windham opened the meeting. We will start this meeting going from the meeting we had Monday, February 4th. Our alternatives being Appealing, going with Comley or going Conventional. Chad stated that Mr. Howard had confirmed that we do not have to specifically advertise for any Architect. If we interview two or four that would be more than sufficient. After further discussion, Mr. Seaton made a motion to go with the Conventional Method. Mrs. Endress seconded the motion. Chad mentioned that he has to be in Little Rock Thursday, February 7, 1980 and that he would drop into the Little Rock Office and get some guidlines. Also I will get a Zoning map from the City to look at when we interview the Architects. After further discussion, the meeting was adjourned. THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS IRMAN •-eoueing cautkorit y • • of the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas 1 NORTH SCHOOL - 21P 72701 TELEPHONE 521-3850 URBAN RENEWAL OFFICE Phone 442-5326 January 29, 1980 NOTICE TO ALL COMMISSIONERS AND PAST CHAIRMAN, PHIL TAYLOR The Acting Chairman of the Board has called a Special Meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the Fayetteville Housing Authority. The reason for this call is to meet with a group of HUD Officials from Little Rock. They will explain the rejection of the Turn -Key Preposal as well as discuss the Conventional method of Constructing Low Income Housing. The Leader of the delegation will be Lloyd Clapsaddle who is Director of Multi -Family Housing for the ,prea Office. Chad Kumpe Executive Director • • • • 1509 Oak Manor Drive Fayetteville, AR 72701 July 23, 1979 Mr. Andy Watts, Area Manager Dept. of Housing & Urban Development Union National Bank Building Little Rock, AR 72201 Dear Mr. Watts: On April 3, 1978, we received a notification of Housing Assistance availability. On May 5, 1978, we made the necessary application and on May 18, 1978, the City expanded our cooperation agreement to include the new 52 units. On September 21, 1978, we were informed that our application had been approved and the Director was instructed to attend a Project Planning Conference on October 21, 1978. As a result of this meeting a time table and developers' packet were formulated and sent to HUD on February 20, 1979. This packet was subsequently approved as of March 21, 1979. We advertised for developers and opened bids on May 8. The bids were too high, primarily because of the scattering of the units throughout the community and inflation. On June 22, 1979, our developers' packet was submitted with a signifi- cant decrease in the number of sites (from 16 to 4). We would certainly desire to continue to pursue the construction of this housing under the Turn -Key method as we have considerable time and some money invested in this procedure. We feel we can attract qualified developers, and the money market is not as tight in Northwest Arkansas as in other parts of the State. I am sure you are aware of the growth of this area. Consequently, we are in desperate need of new rental units for low income families. Our current waiting list, with completed applications, totals 42 families. The delays in this project have certainly been frustrating because of the impact of inflation on construction costs. I am appealing to you for your assistance in expediting the current review of our submitals in order to provide assistance to that portion of our ever-growing population that needs U.S. Government assistance in acquiring sanitary and decent housing. We are fearful that further delay on this project, which we have been working on for nearly a year, will either diminish the number of units we • • Mr. Andy Watts, Area Manager Page 2 July 23, 1979 can provide or ultimately kill the project. Moreover, inflation is dimin- ishing our scarce resources. It is our opinion that extended delays have been detrimental to this project. I would appreciate hearing from you in the near future. PHT/sel cc: Chad Kumpe • rely, Phillip H. Taylor Charman of the Commission Fayetteville Housing Authority • 4 11111111 • b, so A" REGION VI • :PARTMEN'f OF r.L. o .. ,,.\ •°OMEN LITTLE ROCK AREA OFFICE UNION NATIONAL BANK BUILDING, ONE UNION NATIONAL PLAZA LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS 72201 January 4, 1980 IN REPLY REFER TOi • 6.2HDH Mr. Chad Kumpe Executive Director, Housing Authority of Fayetteville #1 North School Street Fayetteville, AR 72701 Dear Mr. Kumpe: Subject: Turnkey Public Housing Project No. AR -097-002 Fayetteville, AR We have reviewed the proposals which were submitted in response to your recent advertisement and find that we cannot concur in the selection of Ernest R. Coleman Company as developer of the subject project. Specifically, we have determined that we cannot agree with the increment of value ascribed to the elements of Design and Construction Quality, Developer Qualifications, and Price in the proposal evaluation system. We believe the conclusions reached are in certain respects not supported by the proposal contents and are therefore not reasonable. Also, certain environmental and physical features of the sites;i.e., possible noxious noise and odors, remoteness, steep slopes, heavy traffic, etc., render some of the sites undesirable. The net effect of our review is that the relative order of your top two proposals would be reversed; i.e., Comley, Coleman rather than Coleman, Comley. The Public Housing Development Handbook, 7417.1, provides that, if the Area Office and the PHA cannot agree on the ranking of proposals, then the program reservation will be canceled. However, before such action is taken we believe it is appropriate to discuss the matter and seek alternative solutions. Please advise as soon as possible as to your desires in this matter. SincerQly, Alr Kenneth D. Brown Deputy for Development Housing Division • g-Qoufaing c4uthoriiy of the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas 1 NORTH SCHOOL - ZIP 72701 TELEPHONE 521-3050 URBAN RENEWAL OFFICE Phone 442-5326 January 8, 1980 Kenneth D. Brown Deputy for Development Housing Division Dept. of Hous. & Urban Dev, Union National Bank Bldg, Little Rock, AR 72201 Subject: Turnkey Public Housing Project No. AR -097-002 Fayetteville, AR We are stunned that you feel the locations and Developer, as selected by the Local Housing Authority Board of Upstanding Fayetteville Citizens, is not satisfactory to the Area Office in Little Rock. We do ascribe a great deal of value to scattered sites and design and construction quality. What ever is constructed by the Fayetteville Housing Authority,we, the citizens of Fayetteville, must live with for the next fifty years. We already have two Public Housing Complexes that have serious design problems. They are very poorly located. And we want no more of that. We would think that you should certainly feel the same. We also cannot understand your example of poor physical features of site; i.e. remoteness because this was one of the big reasons for choosing Coleman rather than Comley. One of the two Comley sites required a "Low Income Family" to have a car to even go to the Grocery Store. This seems to be ridiculous. When Andy Watts gave the main speech at our last NAHRO Con- vention, he stoutly advocated scattered sites and getting away from the "Project" image. We hole heartedly believed in what he said, now it is his office that is attempting to force us to concentrate Public Housing in traditional little boxes with brick stuck on the outside. Why is there only one acceptable mold? Did Andy, himself, actually review this decision? Page 2 January 8, 1980' We, of course, need many additional units of Public Housing and we hope this disagreement does not result in the Program Reservation being canceled. We would be very interested in discussing the matter. We had thought we had picked the best alternative solution of the two we had to choose from. If there are any other alternative solutions we feel it would be up to you to suggest them. As we all know time is of the essance. Please advise us for how to proceed. fs Chad inpe Executive Director - — — - • • DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING ANL) URSAN DEvtLOPMENT LITTLE ROCK AREA OFFICE UNION NATIONAL BANK BUILDING, ONE UNION NATIONAL PLAZA LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS 72201 January 22,1 1980 IN REPLY REFER TOI 6.2HDH Mr. Chad Kumpe Executive Director, Housing Authority of Fayetteville #1 North School Avenue Fayetteville, AR 72701. Dear Mr. Kumpe: Subject: Turnkey Low Rent Public Housing Project Number AR -097-002 Fayetteville, Arkansas Pursuant to our telephone conversation this date, and to reflect that this office and the Fayetteville PHA are unable to agree on the ranking of proposals, you are hereby notified that the program reservation for the above captioned project is cancelled. You are invited to submit a request for the same number of units of conventional low rent public housing. This should be done no later than February 12,_1980: Sincerely, 21-fda—?ASQW41 ASL. D. Clapsaddle Director, Housing Division cc: Congressman John Paul Hammerschmidt • • • ouocn9 cAuLAortog of the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas f NORTH SCHOOL - ZIP 72701 TELEPHONE 521.3550 URBAN RENEWAL OFFICE . Phone 442-5326 January 24, 1980. L. D. Clapsaddle Director, Housing Div. Dept. of HUD Union National Bank Little Rock, AR 72201 After receiving your last letter, I have a feeling you three guys put this Old Country Boy in a "Trick Bag". I feel that our Board and Community need a little more explanation before we are going to tell anyone we are even mildly satisfied. If past per- formance are any indication, it now seems Fayetteville is 18 mos. to two years away from any additional Public Housing This sure will not be acceptable. You need to answer a few questions for us. 1. How long will the Conventional Process take? 2. How will we go about the site selection process? After all, you saw an awful lot of potential sites when you visited. We still do not know your criteria for site selection and design qu0Lty. It still looks to us that you are saying "Do it my way or not at all" but yet we are not sure how your way works. It will be very hard for us to accept the idea we have spent 18 mos. to get backed to the starting line. We still need assurances that your decision, originally made in Little Rock (Comley VS Coleman), was not Just a you against us buracratic position. When we talk face to face, I think we are on the same team. Your explanations leave me with a feeling we are not even in the same Ball Park. ad Kump Executive Director •