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Anonymous wrote:I’d definitely like a FOIA request on mayor and city council communications from August until now re ARHA as well.

The board of ARHA is not like a board of a large corporation. It’s basically an advisory board made up of part-time, volunteers from the community who live in Alexandria. They are not responsible for the daily operations or management of ARHA and its properties.

For example, Willie Bailey, Sr., an “Alexandria living legend” and a fire captain and professional firefighter. He was one of the commissioners who resigned. It’s regular people like this who volunteer who are getting thrown under the bus.

ARHA got caught with the CEO living in a Section 8 unit. Then more news came out re the living conditions of the senior development after it came under new management. This isn’t the board’s responsibility. It’s literally ARHA and their staff’s responsibility. Mayor and city council are looking for people to blame IMO and this is being handled very poorly.

From ARHA's website:

The ARHA Board of Commissioners provides policy guidance and oversight of the agency’s programs, operations and activities.

Doesn't seem like a lot of oversight was happening.

Read the bylaws. The CEO of ARHA is responsible for ALL financial, administrative and personnel matters of ARHA.

And do you know what oversight means in this context? It is not micromanaging or governance. Have you ever been on one of these kinds of advisory boards? Or are you just pulling up rage bait stuff because you don’t understand and you’re upset how much the CEO was getting paid (no, I don’t love that either)?

How much was the CEO being paid? No one knows.

Reading through the minutes of the board meetings it seems like the board was far more than advisory. Read the January 2025 minutes from https://www.arha.us/board-books particularly the bit about creating new bank accounts and who approved the resolution. It was not purely advisory.

His salary was $305,000. This has been reported multiple times.

Imagine pissing that away because you wanted to skimp 2000 a month on rent.

What a moron.