Members In Action!

There are abundant opportunities for Resident Association members to exercise a voice for the betterment of community housing. And to have fun doing it! Look at all that has been accomplished on behalf of the SMHA Residents over the past year:

• We continued to represent resident concerns to the Housing Authority for resolution.
• Our first allotment of funding from HUD was acquired by negotiating and agreeing to a Memorandum of Understanding with the Housing Authority
• We opened our own savings and checking account at the SMHA Credit union
• We amended our bylaws
• We issued six pages of comments concerning the Five-Year and One-Year Plans that SMHA submits to HUD every year for approval
• We underwrote seminars by Melvin Gravely on Parliamentary Procedure and Running Effective Meetings for 14 resident leaders
• We presented each group association, represented at that seminar, with a complimentary copy of "A Complete Guide to Roberts Rules"
• We sponsored the 2004 SMHA Volunteer Appreciation Awards Dinner at the Carousel Dinner Theater, honoring over 100 residents
• We underwrote a trip to a national Resident Leadership Seminar in Detroit comprised of 11 resident association members and 3 staff members
• We launched our public website and built our database
• We published and mailed out our first newsletter
• We published our first promotional brochure
• We purchased necessary equipment to continue and expand our operations

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