North Adams Housing Authority Receives Favorable Audit
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — North Adams Housing Authority Executive Director Jennifer Hohn reported that the fiscal 2015 audit came back with no financial findings.
"We have no financial findings which is the most important," Hohn told the housing authority commissioners Monday. "There are no questioned costs."
She said there was a minor non-material finding and the auditors noted that the Housing Authority should go out to bid every year for some of its services, such as painting and trash removal.
Hohn said this could make maintenance more difficult.
"It puts us in a tough situation because we aren't reaching out to people that are local so we aren't helping the local economy," she said. "We would be reaching out to people in Springfield who really can't be here when we need them which is right away."
She added that plumbing services, electrical, and painting have been placed on the Central Register.
Hohn said construction on the new patio off the community room at the Ashland Street should be complete by the end of June.
"We are getting a new grill," Hohn said. "We usually borrow one from the American Legion so now we can have one of our own for our picnics."
Hohn said the transfer of the Flood House to the Family Life Support Center, which operates the Louison House family shelter, is ongoing. The center's board did show interest of replacing the Louison House, located in Adams, with the Flood House, but this would be a change of intent and would restart the whole transfer process, she said.
As for the dissolution of Housing Opportunities Inc., Hohn said the attorney general's office is still processing 990 forms and there is really no estimated timeline for the completion of the project. The Housing Authority has been trying to divest itself of HOI for some years.
"So now we just wait," Hohn said. "Hopefully, it is done before winter."
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