Board of Directors
Chair: Michael Rhoads
First Vice Chair:
Russell Tschopp III
Second Vice Chair:
David Beecher
Secretary:
Michele (Shelly) Kimes
Assistant Secretary:
Victoria Connor
Treasurer:
Ed Waltemyer
Assistant Treasurer:
Shane Patterson
Other Members:
Norman “Skip” Spangler
In December of 2008, the board approved a new mission
statement and a 5-year Strategic Plan. (This was a process
that the board did not take lightly. We hired a facilitator
to assist us. Several board members and staff served on the
Strategic Plan Committee which met monthly. There were 8
focus group meetings, a half day retreat, etc.)
The mission statement we adopted is:
We improve
communities, strengthen neighborhoods, and stabilize lives
by providing quality housing for people with limited
resources.
The Strategic Plan we adopted includes four major goals:
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Build organization structures which support furthering the
mission
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Achieve meeting the balanced needs of each of our facilities
– fiscal, physical, and social
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Thrive as a company
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Develop new projects
We established a number of objectives to assist us in
attaining the four goals – and set time frames for the
objectives to be met as well as assigned the responsibility
of meeting those objectives to specific individuals.
We feel we have made significant progress during the first
year. We have:
- Converted to web-based property management software
- Developed a template for the Policy and Procedure Manual – as well as
finalized a number of policies for the manual
- Formed a Development and Public Relations Committee – and it, as well
as all of our other committees, are meeting regularly
- Developed job descriptions for board members, officers, and committees
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Begun the process of updating all of the staff job descriptions
- Acquired laptops for all of the Property Managers and the Executive
Director
- Updated the computers at our main office
- Offered our staff members additional training opportunities
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Refinanced two of our facilities – Cloverfield Apartments and Kingston
House
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Begun working with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to
restructure the debt on another one of our facilities –
Highland Manor Apartments
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Applied to participate in the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency (PHFA)
Smart Rehab Program – to obtain funds to make energy
improvements at three of our facilities
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Acquired Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds from both the
City and County of York to make improvements to our Dutch
Kitchen facility
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Broadened our partnership with the York College nursing program and
initiated a partnership with the Messiah College nursing
program to offer our tenants blood pressure screenings,
education on nutrition, diseases, medications, and
opportunities to participate in activities - such as light
exercise, etc.
As we have made significant progress in 2009, we hope to
continue to meet additional objectives
in 2010.
John Flinchbaugh
Chair
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