Report from 1:00 p.m. March 5, 2019, SHAC Monthly Meeting
Monthly Senior Housing Advisory Council (SHAC) meetings rotate
among at least three subdivisions designated as South, Central, and
North that have Pauline Wesley, Rosemary Coleman, and Perry Casey
designated as their current respective SHAC subdivision presidents
serving the CHA administration.
I attended the 1:00 p.m. March 5, 2019, SHAC monthly meeting at
Albany Terrace Apartments, 3030 W 21st Place, the location of which
was provided along with its time and date by Kathryn Dougherty, our
Resident Services Manager (RSM/RSC), on her March monthly calendar.
Like Hattie Callner Apartments, the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA)
administers Albany Terrace Apartments.
I added my contact information to a sign-in sheet but turned
down the sandwich, chips, and drink offering. Then I entered a
west-end high-ceilinged hall maybe three times wider and taller
than the community room at Hattie Callner Apartments. Its array of
seats were festooned with (1) bright orange, pink, yellow, or green
“Agenda” sheets with red-flowered borders possibly influencing
where some attendees chose to sit. This Agenda sheet was stapled to
(2) a white “SHAC Comments, Concerns or Questions” halfsheet for
participant questions, concerns, or comments during the meeting and
(3) a https://www.ssa.gov text-&-graphics sheet entitled “With
You Through Life’s Journey…” with which Nicole Joseph—a SSA
retirement-benefits expert—launched a question & answer session
with the meeting’s attendees about their retirement benefits.
After Nicole Joseph finished her SSA retirement-benefits
Question & Answer session, a CHA employee somewhat familiar
with the Agenda’s “CHA Updates” for the “CHA RAD Program” gave a
talk and conducted a question & answer session on what RAD
means to CHA tenants. This CHA employee obliquely explained that
HUD required the CHA to break its residential-property slush fund†
into financially manageable “LLC” buildings or projects to simplify
analysis. This, in turn, allowed private institutional lenders to
gain better insight into whether any particular developmental
goals—that needed to be submitted as part of LLC-building or
-project loan proposals—were worth the risk of a loan. Our
building, at 855 West Aldine Avenue, was labeled “Hattie Callner
Apartments, LLC” as Albany Terrace Apartments was labeled “Albany
Terrace Apartments, LLC” for such considerations. ———————————— † In
accounting terms, a “slush fund” describes a general ledger account
of commingled funds, which does not have a designated purpose.
Then it might have been the SHAC North Local Advisory Council
(LAC North) President, Perry Casey, who took command of the meeting
(hereinafter “the MC”) to answer questions about SHAC financial
transparency. ‡ I believe the MC might have said that, with some of
the $5,000 received three times a year from the CHA by each of the
three LACs, the LAC government bodies recently decided to provide
some tickets to Hamilton, the Musical, for respective building
property and resource managers to do with as they wished. When one
of the attendees questioned the LACs’ financial transparency in
handling money provided by the CHA, the MC appeared to take offense
and expressed that he and any of the other two Senior LAC
presidents would never wrongfully hide financial dealings
concerning matters about which members of any of these three LACs
had a right to know. In fact, the MC went so far as to say that any
SHAC member could personally telephone him, and he would reveal
where all the money is going that the particular member had any
business knowing about. ———————————— ‡ The WBEZ 91.5 FM March 11,
2019, broadcast of “On The Media” (OTM) had a guest who defined
transparency in government in the following way: “Transparency puts
the government on notice that it could get caught.”
In politics, transparency is used as a means of fighting
corruption by holding public officials accountable. When (a) a
government's meetings are open to both the press and the public,
(b) a government's budgets may be reviewed by anyone, and (c) a
government's laws and decisions are open to discussion, that
government is seen as transparent. Openness, accountability, and
honesty define government transparency. The MC refused to be
transparent with the CAC/SHAC budget so that LAC members know and
have a say where money goes.
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LOCAL ADVISORY COUNCIL PRESIDENTS CENTRAL ADVISORY COUNCIL 243
E. 32ND ST, CHICAGO, IL 60616
Phone: (312) – 913-7828 Fax: (312) 225-4120 Revised 4/30/14
DEVELOPMENT ADDRESS PRESIDENT ADMIN SUPPORT OFFICE (312) FAX
MONTHLY MEETING
Brooks Homes 1254 S. Loomis Chicago, IL 60608
Annie Davis Deborah Martin
(312) 786-3480 (312) 786-3454
(312) 455-1871
2nd Tuesday, 5:00 p.m.
Altgeld/ Murray Homes 987 E. 132nd ST. Chicago, IL 60827
Bernadette Williams Brenda Tillman (312) 786-3430 (312)
913-7647
(312) 913-7992 4th Tuesday, 1:00 p.m.
Cabrini-Green Rowhouse 530 W. Locust Chicago, IL 60610
Carol Steele Carolyn Willingham (312) 786-4070 (312)
786-3288
(312) 787-2296 4th Monday, 6:00 p.m.
Dearborn Homes 2940 S. State #104 Chicago, IL 60616
Carol Wallace Nazirah Safey-Ullah (312) 786-6632 (312)
913-7284
(312) 949-0409 4th Thursday, 4pm
Henry Horner Homes 123 N. Hoyne St Unit 1 Chicago, IL 60612
Charnae Harmon-Terry Letitia Woulard (312) 786-3146 (312)
786-3616
(312) 913-7866 3rd Wednesday, 5:30 p.m.
Lathrop Homes 2709 N Hoyne Chicago IL 60618
Titus Kerby Ethel Hodges (312) 786-3234 (312) 913-5822
(312) 913-7980 2nd Tuesday, 10:00 a.m.
Lawndale Area Scattered Site West
1325 S. Kedzie #204 Chicago, IL 60623
Charmeita Witherspoon Ronnie Jackson (312) 913-7734 (312)
913-7736
(312) 542-8801
3rd Thursday, 11:00 a.m.
TrumbullPark/Lowden Homes 2455 E. 106TH ST 1ST FL. Chicago, IL
60617
Myra King Kathleen Kendrick (312) 786-3148 (312) 745-2153
Trumbull - 2nd Wednesday, 5:00 p.m. Lowden-2nd Friday, 6:00
p.m.
Washington Park 3934 S. Prairie ST Chicago, IL 60653
Francine Washington
Jacqueline Mullen (773) 924-5389
(773) 924-5360 2nd Thursday, 10am or 2pm
Wentworth Garden 3770 S. Wentworth Chicago, IL 60609
Beatrice Harris Lorena Nellum (312) 913-7562 (312) 913-7564
(312) 786-6974 1st Tue, 5:00 p.m. Park District 3770 S.
Wentworth
North East Scattered Site 4429 N. Clifton 2ND Chicago, IL
60640
Maria Sopena Kathryn Lewis (312) 783-3440 (312) 786-3272
(312) 786-3141 4th Thursday, 6:00-8:00
North Central Scattered Site 3551 W Palmer ST. Chicago, IL
60622
LAC OFFICE Contact the CAC
(312) 913-7828
Lawndale/Bridgeport Homes Office Pending Rosie Nettle Pending
(312) 285-8644
SENIOR HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ADDRESS PRESIDENT ADMIN SUPPORT
OFFICE FAX CELL MONTHLY MEETING
Senior North 1845 N. Larrabee #100 Chicago, IL 60614
Perry Casey Gloria Bradley (312) 913-5892 (312) 913-7432
(312) 913-7978 (312) 617-5425 3rd Thursday, 1pm
Senior Central 3030 W. 21ST Place, #224 Chicago, IL 60623
Rosemary Coleman Tracy Evans (312) 913-7394 (312) 786-4086
(312) 913-7271 (312) 545-0713
1st Tuesday, 2:30pm
Senior South 6401 S. Yale ST, 1ST Fl. Chicago, IL 60621
Pauline Wesley Shari Johnson (312) 913-7920 (312) 786-3416
(773) 488-5024 (312) 287-1996 2nd Tuesday,1:30pm
CAC Office Numbers 1. Francine Washington CAC Chairperson
312.913.7828 2. Carol Steele Vice Chairperson 312.786.3291 3. Maria
Sopena Secretary 312.786.6604 4. Bernadette Williams Treasure
312.786.6616 5. Rosemary Coleman Senior Member
SHAC Meeting ReportAgendaSHAC Comments, Concerns or Questions
SheetWith You Through Life'd Journey... from the SSA.Central
Advisory Council (CAC) Local advisory Council (LAC) Presidents,
Contact Information.
