New regulation to shake up housing authority management
Under a new regulation that takes effect Saturday, local elected officials can have greater control over the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority. Senate Bill 183 will reduce the housing authority’s board of commissioners from 13 to 9 individuals. Only three of the cutting-edge commissioners will retain their seats under the modifications.
To fill a number of the vacant seats, the regulation requires the Clark County Commission and the councils of the county’s three biggest towns—Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, and Henderson—to hire one of their contributors to serve on the new board.
It’s a primary shift away from the 2009 regulation that regionalized the valley’s three public housing companies of their goal to provide public housing to heaps of low-income families.
That law stipulated that elected authorities officials could not be on the board. (Wes Rand/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
“Having no elected legitimate oversight has become a difficulty due to the fact, in the end, we’re nevertheless chargeable for the housing authority,” stated County Commissioner Chris
Giunchigliani, a former assemblywoman who co-wrote the 2009 rules. “(Elected officers) deliver some economic oversight, a few stability.”But Dora LaGrande, former chairman of the housing authority board, warned that adding elected officers to the fee could politicize the board.
“They’ll be pulling towards each other for their districts,” she stated. “I assume they’re going to curry favor with the constituency that they serve.”Other board members
The board’s other seats can also be appointed using elected officers.
Four of those seats may be held via cutting-edge recipients of help from the housing authority. The county fee and metropolis councils will each rent a resident to fill those seats.
This way, modern-day housing authority board members Chris Goodloe of Clark County, Misha Hooks of Las Vegas, and Theresa Davis of North Las Vegas will keep their cutting-edge seats.
Henderson’s resident commissioner seat is vacant, so its metropolis council will want to fill it.
The county commission can even hire one extra at-big member, who isn’t always required to be a commissioner.
The terms for housing authority commissioners will take four years.
Possible appointees
Under its new shape, the housing authority board received a quorum of contributors until nearby governments began making appointments.
Giunchigliani stated she’d want to rent fellow County Commissioner Lawrence Weekly to the board.
Weekly’s geographical district lies in North Las Vegas, which includes a massive portion of the housing authority’s population. The commissioner also lived in local public housing as a baby.
“I think it’s a discussion for the board, and we’ll do what’s inside the excellent hobby of the housing authority. But I’d be commemorated to do it,” Weekly stated of being appointed. “It would be a complete circle moment for me.”
County spokesman Erik Pappa said the county would probably take packages for its at-large function at the housing authority board. Commissioners would make their selection throughout their July 18 meeting.
Giunchigliani said she’d also like to appoint LaGrande or Sanje Sedera, whose free seat was removed, lower back to the board within the county’s at-huge seat.
North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee said he favored appointing Scott Black, the city council’s latest Ward 3 consultant, to the board.
“He has a keen experience of creating suitable selections and going for walks an organization along with his business experience,” Lee said of Black. “It’s going to be the latest committee, so we must ensure it’s up to speed.”
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman said through a spokesman that her metropolis’s appointee could be decided at a future city council assembly. She did not comment on who might agree.
Henderson spokesman David Cherry stated his town’s council would make its appointments at its July 18 meeting.
