Remarks by Tonia Lediju
149 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 6
- Play at 52:38
“Can you share how you have decided to reformulate?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
- Play at 58:34
“Thank you. So we're extending, my understanding is we're extending a current contract that we have had in place with ALICA for how many, for how long?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
- Play at 59:11
“And what other work has ALICA performed on behalf of the Housing Authority before the Broadway project? For the Broadway project or for the Housing Authority? Before the Broadway project.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
- Play at 59:27
“And how long have they been doing the recertification work for the Housing Authority?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
- Play at 59:40
“Excuse me? Is the contractor in the room?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
- Play at 1:00:10
“So my question is, how long have you been working or contracted with the Housing Authority of Vallejo?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
- Play at 1:00:24
“And this has been ongoing work? It has been. Okay. So with that in mind, I would assume that your staff do not need the help of our staff to do the work that you're doing. Is that true or not true?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
- Play at 1:00:48
“So when you say fill in the gaps, can you describe what that means? There's a backlog of recertifications. How far are we in a backlog of recertification? Can you give me an estimate?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
- Play at 1:01:35
“Sometimes longer are we talking two months six months? I'm asking this question because I can say as a council member. I know how many emails I receive We just had a gentleman come and talk about not having his hearing The week before we have consistently heard this so how many months are we talking two months? Are we talking four months six months?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
- Play at 1:02:24
“And... HUD's standard for recertifications, especially when our residents get them in on time, is how many days in terms of being fully certified and moving on.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
- Play at 1:02:51
“Thank you. And so if we are 60 days, 120 days behind, that means that any changes that are required are not noticed on time, correct? That is correct. Okay. And so are you doing any of the reasonable accommodations, any of the hearings?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
- Play at 1:03:35
“So Assistant Manager Conley, can you tell me what our backlog is?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
- Play at 1:03:52
“Do you know the backlog of our hearings?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
- Play at 1:04:10
“hearings are hearings so 23 or 26 hearings and those 23 or 26 hearings and i'm saying this for us as leaders those 23 or 26 hearings potentially means as that gentleman said when he came to this podium potentially someone being unhoused unfairly because why we have not been able to provide a hearing am i correct”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
- Play at 1:04:38
“Yes. Okay. So with that in mind, what I would like to know, can you share what your expertise and experience is, please?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
- Play at 1:05:32
“So do you provide technical assistance to housing authority staff As well from a transfer of knowledge and helping teams build up their capacity.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
- Play at 1:06:06
“Okay. And so... Given your prior, given your experience of 30 years, of more than three decades, and working with multitude of housing authorities across the nation, can you share as you're doing this work, and I don't know if it's in the scope of the work, and I can be corrected if it is or if it's not, how you would also be able to provide technical assistance and help our staff um, increase their capacity for the work that we need to be done on a day-to-day basis.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“So in the scope of this work for ALICA, I have a reason for I'm asking these questions. Okay. In the scope of the work for ALICA, can you tell me, Assistant City Manager, are we asking for their technical expertise to help increase our staff capacity?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
- Play at 1:07:45
“Okay. And so then from a long-term sustainability perspective, one of the things that I would like to see is how do we have or be provided what is the condition what is the current condition of our housing authority what is the fundamental strategic plan that will occur as we have the contractor there to assist us to move through those actions first of all most importantly for our residents that we serve to for us to get all of the backlog done, and then begin to do the necessary training and lay a foundation of the things that we need to do so that we can be a viable, operable housing…”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
- Play at 1:09:47
“So the goal is not having our contractor replace our current staff and staffing up.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
- Play at 1:10:34
“And so to our contractor who works across the nation, so from a perspective of hiring staff into housing authorities, generally what do you see? Usually we talk about having staff that have one to two years of experience and we're building departments. Can you talk about that a little bit?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
- Play at 1:16:28
“So I'd like to make a motion, and part of my motion will be that We'll adopt a resolution to amend the fiscal year 2026-27 budget to allocate $300,000 of Measure P funds to the Housing Authority of the City of Vallejo's Administration Fund. In addition to that, I'd like for us to put a moratorium on suspending the housing subsidy with a plan of where we're going to catch up because we have hearings behind. So we want to do a moratorium on suspending anyone's subsidy.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
- Play at 1:17:59
“Okay, that's fine. And I will tell you, you're already late, so you're already doing that, to be very frank about it. I know what I'm talking about. I do this work every day. You're already doing that unofficially when you are not on time. And what's happening is we are being inundated by emails. We are having people come to council. And we have families who feel totally unsecure while we are trying to get to a place of being on time, responding. And while that's happening, continuously letters are generated to our families and individuals because our system does not show the information…”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
- Play at 1:20:07
“I'M FINE WITH THAT, BUT I WANT THE LETTERS TO STOP GOING OUT. to our families. I don't. No, we can. Because what we continue to do, we are sending letters because our system does not show that the work that's needed has been done. You all are not, I just have to stop and say this.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
- Play at 1:20:36
“Our residents are receiving these letters. And so what we need to do, I agree that this is step one, but at the same time of implementing step one, we also need to acknowledge that we are behind and let people know that we're behind so that they are not on edge about their housing. It generates more... Contact to the housing authority which at this moment in time can't even take in all those requests So what I would like is yes, we can do it as stated But we also I would like For us to consider. How are we going to? Either notice our residents Immediately around this is what we're doing, this…”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026