The Brooksville Housing Authority is in limbo now that Mayor Pugh has forced the majority of their board to submit resignations against their will with his flimsy charges of being inefficient in their board duties. The Brooksville Housing Authority Board is suppose to have seven full time members from the community but only has three left standing which does not constitute a quorum to conduct the BHA business. It will be interesting to see how long it takes with this now, dysfunctional board before the business at the Brooksville Housing Authority comes to a screeching halt.
With these forced resignations, David Pugh, Jr. has envisioned a group of business leaders temporarily taking the rein of the Brooksville Housing Authority Board to determine if the Hernando County Housing Authority should assume responsibility for this decade's long debacle. Beyond the clear intent for the Brooksville City Council to micro-manage the BHA with this latest action, it appears that no one has logically evaluated who makes the final decision in reference to the Hernando County Housing Authority assuming responsibility for the Brooksville Housing Authority.
Any changes to the structure of the Brooksville Housing Authority must first pass the approval of HUD officials. The Brooksville City Council has absolutely no authority to mandate changes in Brooksville's Housing Authority oversight, and neither does the Hernando County Commissioners. The Hernando County Housing Authority Commissioners, who serve by the appointment of the governor of Florida, have the final oversight in any final decision of assuming the Brooksville Housing Authority.
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As if anyone takes your comments seriously or that they are a statement of fact.
As a current Hernando County Housing Authority Commissioner, I can state for fact that our board has the final say on whether to accept the oversight of the Brooksville Housing Authority. This information was confirmed in a public Hernando County Housing Authority meeting on Dec. 7, 2007 by Mr. Donald Singer, our executive director.
The Mayor could have shown some professionalism by acting as a mediator between a split board or, as was previously noted in the press, by immediately appointing a seventh member to the BHA board. The mayor, and even the entire City Council, by their actions of publicly humiliating volunteers, have shown they are a bit dysfunctional themselves. Sadly, it seems they don't care about those poor people.
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