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- 2:17… that's all good. Um the next item on my uh admin report is the ZBA approved the um was it setbacks basically for the town houses for the HHA development um
- 2026-09-16Housing AuthorityHudson Housing Authority Board of Commissioners 9/16/264 passages longer discussion40:38program where is the Hudson Housing Authority HJ administers the housing choice voucher HCG program under the US department of housing and urban development and whereas HUD measures the performance of public housing authorities PHA to en uh to ensure that authorities operate the program as prescribed by statuses and regulations and whereas the CNAP performance Indicators …
- 15:37… Any public comment? Well, you know, now it tempted me. [laughter] That is my fault. But in the meeting last night, the thing with the the bliss towers, it's taking way too long and it's something that
- 1:43:20So understood, we're all neighbors. We live in the city of Hudson. Many of you live close to Bliss Towers, but you don't live in Bliss Towers. And there are two residents here that have been here since the beginning and continue to show up and listen to some of these comments. They share their feedback with the developers. One of them sits on the housing authority board. I …
- 10:48… And this was an issue that was brought up public hearing. regarding a little bit tonight. It was discussed by the board tonight. Uh did HHA evaluate a smaller phase one principle addressing the relocation existing HHA residents or sequence involving redevelopment of some portion of the existing Bliss Tires Columbia apartment property before full development of site B? If so, …
- 11:04So, these were given out at Bliss Towers.
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- 1:49:03get a building with at least 40 units behind bliss so first the first phase probably in two phases would be a rebuild behind bliss would be a new build and a new build on state you would slowly but surely move everybody out of bliss towers as people move out of blizz towers you would take apartments offline you would not move new tenants into bliss you would have to empty the …
- 1:45:08at the hudson housing authority all of the time most of the time some of the time rarely or never what do you like most about being an hha tenant what do you like least about being an hha tenant how do we feel about this framing it's necessary all right i am satisfied with the services hudson the hudson housing authority provides me all of the time most of the time some of the …
- 1:44:28… give a summary of the structure a summary of the materials probably also a summary of like the state of the building right so the state of bliss towers the state of columbia apartments will rises um give a big breakdown probably include a lot of photographs to show um just to give any prospective developer a really good understanding of you know what the space is so there's no …
- 37:40address that um so the part of the resolution that says whereas the board of commissioners of hha the hha board determined that the physical condition of the hdfc owned buildings known as bliss towers and the low rise is below optimal standards and a substantial renovation of both bliss tower and the low rise is desirable okay so in this resolution resolution we're talking …
- 12:09… yes you spoke about the buildings different heights so what are the tyes of the buildings by floors I have thought uh well as you know Bliss Tower is nine stores which is two store two tall so everything here is between five and seven stor and um lower than the tower um so it's it's a result of actually higher ceilings Bliss tower has 8 foot ceilings uh but much deeper slabs …
- 25:10sign a contract with the housing authority so the housing authority will basically carry out the housing authority's portion of the grant and the city would also sign a contract with nyserda to sort of to receive the money and there's a small project that's not related to the housing authority it's also attached to that project so that's where we're at and we're hoping to have …
- 54:25… there's so many different questions pertaining to this right but the biggest building that the hudson housing is our already um has is bliss tower and so we really want to discuss bliss tower here but this is just the
- 2026-08-11Planning BoardPlanning Board Meeting Pt. 1(Public Hearing) 8/11/2628 passages longer discussion42:55Um dear members of the Hudson planning board before Bliss Towers became the subject of redevelopment plans, public hearings and architectural renderings. It was simply home. My connection to Bliss Towers began before I was even born. My mother along our first resident of Bliss while 5 months pregnant with me moved into Bliss. We were the first family in 8:14. I was born into …
- 44:11is speaking Claire this is Claire I'm asking where would you like these families to go if you don't believe that the Housing Authority should be I'm sorry Claire what you say where would you like to see these families rehoused if the Housing Authority should no longer I would like I would like to see I would like to see a project that looks at De demolishing Bliss towers and …
- 1:17:48… may 12th okay so so since actually the rfq let me just imagine this the rfq rfp will will give a fairly good idea of the direction that hha is going to head with regards to the narrative right are we rehabbing bliss towers uh are we uh rebuilding uh behind bliss towers are we uh adding a new building what are we doing on state street i think more generally we'll have a that's …
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- 9:28… tax reduction in lieu of taxes. In exchange for providing affordable housing. By approving financing for rehabbing apartments and bliss towers. And I'm pleased to report that because of our action. 25 rehab units will be ready for occupancy. This year. At this point, I should also add. But the Hudson housing authority. Which is responsible for the bliss tower rehab. Has no …
- 2:17… that's all good. Um the next item on my uh admin report is the ZBA approved the um was it setbacks basically for the town houses for the HHA development um
- 2026-09-16Housing AuthorityHudson Housing Authority Board of Commissioners 9/16/264 passages longer discussion40:38program where is the Hudson Housing Authority HJ administers the housing choice voucher HCG program under the US department of housing and urban development and whereas HUD measures the performance of public housing authorities PHA to en uh to ensure that authorities operate the program as prescribed by statuses and regulations and whereas the CNAP performance Indicators …
- 15:37… Any public comment? Well, you know, now it tempted me. [laughter] That is my fault. But in the meeting last night, the thing with the the bliss towers, it's taking way too long and it's something that
- 1:43:20So understood, we're all neighbors. We live in the city of Hudson. Many of you live close to Bliss Towers, but you don't live in Bliss Towers. And there are two residents here that have been here since the beginning and continue to show up and listen to some of these comments. They share their feedback with the developers. One of them sits on the housing authority board. I …
- 10:48… And this was an issue that was brought up public hearing. regarding a little bit tonight. It was discussed by the board tonight. Uh did HHA evaluate a smaller phase one principle addressing the relocation existing HHA residents or sequence involving redevelopment of some portion of the existing Bliss Tires Columbia apartment property before full development of site B? If so, …
- 11:04So, these were given out at Bliss Towers.
- 2026-08-11Planning BoardPlanning Board Meeting Pt. 1(Public Hearing) 8/11/2628 passages longer discussion42:55Um dear members of the Hudson planning board before Bliss Towers became the subject of redevelopment plans, public hearings and architectural renderings. It was simply home. My connection to Bliss Towers began before I was even born. My mother along our first resident of Bliss while 5 months pregnant with me moved into Bliss. We were the first family in 8:14. I was born into …
- 20:32The HHA is federally mandated to safely rehouse every single person that's currently housed into the new building before they can tear down bliss. So it seems to me is extremely clear and I don't know what's on there.
- 20:00… Is there any concern in your mind of the water system and with what you see on the developments going around new neighborhood uh possible HHA redevelopment possible affordable housing is there any concern in your mind relative to
- 3:28No, they're closed Fridays, aren't they? So I'll go back Monday and see how how that's going. If they're getting more answers than we got at Bliss.
- 56:10So I didn't catch all of this conversation. The general question is, do we have any idea of the potential truck traffic that might be associated with the Bliss Towers uh reconstruction project or is it still too preliminary of a stage to get an answer?
- 18:28… you know, for that uh that June meeting and one leading up to this um RCMP, it says four invoices. They always invoice by subject. Um so HHA contract general and again HHA. So two months. Um and then the housing justice director Q2 salary reimbursement.
- 47:41My name is Randa Smith. I am the Hudson Housing Authority board chair. I was also born and raised in the Hudson Housing Authority. My parents still live there. My mother and family is here tonight. And you know, I just want to really speak on the duty of the board of commissioners of the housing authority and also the executive director.
- 2026-07-21HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 7/21/2026 Board of Education Meeting1 passage38:18… kids in the summer. Um and then the other thing just as community impact to to keep an eye on right is there's public comment on the Bliss Towers renovation uh happening currently. Um a lot of our kids live in those um in the housing there and just um worth keeping an eye on and thinking about if you want to contribute to the public comment period as they're thinking about …
- 26:18The eyes have it. The next resolution is uh resolution number 559 advance developer fees. It's a resolution authorizing the advance of developer fee. Where is the Hudson Housing Authority HJ partnering with Marco to develop replacement housing for Bliss Tower?
- 2026-07-14County Health and Human Services CommitteeHealth & Human Services || Public Safety || July 14, 20261 passage19:02people pay attention right after a disaster like this too. What might happen next time? Well, you know, I think we'd all want to know what does HHA say if something happens at the tower. What are they going to do? How are they going to call? And if it hasn't happened for a while,
- 6:35Yeah. And then I'm doing the training tomorrow with Logan at the club. With the HHA. Training is tomorrow, isn't it? Oh, that's right. Sorry. [laughter]
- 15:01Okay. In fact, just as an aside, they go folks go to our website and click on we have like a landlord tab which um says uh HCP and you know asking landlords to become partners with the housing authority and the advantages of the
- 34:25Yeah. um I do that um and report back. And then the other thing that I promised to do is tell you all that there's a public hearing for the housing housing authority project on the 21st. I cannot if there's anything you all would like to comment on that. Um we can't like have any problems in any way other than asking you to come and say public does but that
- 14:30and so you know when we have public hearings for you know the housing authority or something else if we have more supporters,
- 18:31So, uh, we're going to hopefully do the survey on July 13th at Bliss Towers, uh, uh, tenant appreciation, uh, committee has volunteered to, you know, sit down there and and ask some questions on the survey for some of the tenants. And um I'm still going to coordinate with Providence Hall or the committee to do a day down at Providence Hall uh you know to uh bring a survey …
- 2:28It's a big open room. the um survey. The survey what I'm looking is you guys can email me three dates for June to do um Providence and I'm thinking July 16th we can probably get a lot of uh interest if we attend or plan to attend for a couple hours and tenant landlord for bliss at
- 11:08Thank you. Good evening, Chairman Bo, and planning board members. Um, thank you for allowing us to be here again. We're pleased to be here to present that on the authority redevelopment the initiative. Um by way of background uh you all are aware that the Hudson housing authority the home and manages 135 units uh called Bliss and Columbia Bliss Towers and Columbia apartments.
- 4:33I think that's very helpful. That's what we did at HHA.
- 39:29there might be two issues because there was also an issue with their um where I think there's currently town houses like um just below Bliss Towers. They were going to put a four or five story building there. So, there might be two issues going on zoning wise for them.
- 1:04So the mayor serves on that, the town council president, two council members, the planning board chair, and the Housing Authority chair. Um and so what's kind of nice about it is that they do the heavy lifting in terms of bookkeeping and cutting checks and stuff.
- 0:38… has like the real city power. So, the mayor serves on that, the common council, the two council members, the planning board chair and the housing authority chair.
- 58:53Okay. And um it just seems, you know, like working on replacing Bliss Towers right now that everyone seems to want something shorter. Uh, so I, you know, the four stories seems a little bit high. Um, and I I also don't know if that kind of goes with the fabric of the city of Hudson and and in the shape and the size of the building um, as well. I mean, we're used to two or …
- 0:33Uh I do have uh the survey is here. Um my goal is to uh set up uh I spoke to Bliss. I left a message for Providence Hall and I'm my goal is to set a date and you know if everybody can you know I'll set a date and see if anyone's available. to kind of table at the bliss and try to get um some information uh you know from the survey.
- 13:52… couple months ago with the old engineer, he made us aware of some zoning on the townhouse property that um we are looking to purchase with HHA. And I'm still scrambling my brain. I'm still trying to figure out the easy way to go about this. Um, and from some meetings that we've been having, I'm learning that there's like three different avenues. Some of them is going through …
- 29:18Uh the goal is to distribute it down uh at Bliss Towers, Providence Hall, and the Terrace. Um hopefully uh some of the committee man members are going to, you know, team up and we're going to take an action, go down there and and ask people, you know, these these questions so we can get it right back. I think um you know what we can do is if we don't we can leave some surveys …
- 3:38… needed and um so I administered the grant for HBPA and then and then administered HBPA by virtue of some work there involving the the housing authority project that's upcoming I I was then asked to serve on the housing authority commission um until uh Mayor Harris uh asked me to serve on the planning board.
- 50:03… I guess hotels are are or are maybe even a separate item because they have a similar issue but not exactly the same. Um I think that the HHA development is going to have a problem. Um we're going from I think 85 families at the moment to possibly 250. And um I think the mix is going to change and maybe the car ownership is going to change but they based the the current …
- 42:35and uh you know, they just did put out a new uh policy statement or cultural statement on how they would run their company. So, I'll share that with you. Do you know maybe there's not an answer to this yet though, but with so if the state slows down on its payment to uh Bliss Towers project that won't impact next year's payment to Penrose. Is that right?
- 1:21Uh the second part would be the survey. So I I kind of just did a really simple survey and it basically is about trans uh transportation uh to the senior center. And I think my my goal is to um drop them off or or have some kind of um outreach at the Bliss and Prominate
- 13:39The rest of the financial statements are the footnotes which are basically just carry forward and updated for the current year numbers. Um not a lot of changes. The most important footnotes in here are going to CERN and the option agreement related to the Hudson Housing Authority.
- 5:04… a drop in program. Uh so we uh did uh talk about the possibility of I'm going to create a survey and send it to individuals uh living in Bliss and Province Point uh for seniors to see if they would be attending uh the senior center if there's transportation on a regular basis from their location to hopefully, you know, give them an opportunity to uh use the senior center if …
- 46:45So there will be comments on that. I would imagine the new So we're ready for our next uh uh poll business. That's Hudson Housing Authority. Uh I'd like to make a comment before inviting them to present. Uh they did post today on our portal revised uh renderings of the proposed project. uh but because board received them u at such a late notice, I'm going to recommend that we …
- 5:09a bus to run down to Providence Bliss,