And could you tell me, could you tell me about maybe a specific patient or two that has really seen tremendous positive outcomes from some of your research? Sure, absolutely. Obviously I can't mention names, but one of the work of the projects that we've done, and this is a project that we've worked on for a while, and by necessity, because you're going through FDA, you're getting clearance to use it clinically, it takes a longer period of time, but it's a technology that's used to detect internal bleeding. In the course of doing medical procedures, often internal bleeding can be a complication of these procedures. And normally, we don't figure out that there's, you can't figure out that there's a bleed until and unless there's a significant amount of blood, because the patient's lying on their back, they're sedated, the bleeding is internal, so there's no outward sign. And unfortunately, by the time most of us find out, the blood pressures drop or the patient suddenly goes into excruciating pain, then it becomes a medical emergency, often surgery is required. But with this technology, soon as even the beginnings of a bleed occur, we are notified. And this technology has been now used not only in our hospital, but in seven, eight, I think actually now we're up to 10 hospitals across the country. And so that is, and that was the first one. So that's something that's made us very proud. Absolutely. Well, I mean, changing the world, changing the quality of life one patient at a time at the Texas Heart Institute. Thank you. Thank you so much for being here today. Thank you. Thank you.


Hi, my name is Sara Sunshine. I'm an assistant professor of ophthalmology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a member of the University of Maryland Greenbaum Comprehensive Cancer Center. I take care of patients with corneal diseases, especially ocular surface disease patients, as well as dry eye disease patients. I do cataract surgery and corneal surgery as well as congenital lesions. I see patients with any kind of complication from cancer therapy and it's very unique because we're actually located within the cancer center and I work closely with the oncologist to help care for the patients in a very comprehensive manner. I found ophthalmology as a first-year medical student when I started working in a retinal laboratory and I fell in love with the surgeries and the patients and the potential treatments and the relationships that you can develop with your patients is just it's extraordinary. Now I spend some of my time doing research where I'm studying ocular graft versus host disease and the rest of my time is spent in clinic where in the operating room where I'm taking care of patients with corneal diseases, other corneal diseases and cataracts, as well as corneal transplants. My goal for my patients every single patient that I see is to treat them as if they were my own family member and I also hope to give them the best outcomes and the best vision possible. We have the opportunity to help patients with cataracts see better which is truly awesome but also patients with corneal diseases and dry eye disease and ocular surface disease. We have more options and therapies than we've had before and I think that the future based on our research and other research is really about to take off so it's very exciting.


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Board of Commissioners, can we have a roll call? Chairwoman, I've got it right. Commissioner Christ. Commissioner McCoy. Commissioner Yopro. Martin Sallie, Assistant Director, LHA. Tim Hall, Assistant City Attorney. Kimberly Gaines, County Supervisor. Sarah Arnie, Public Safety. Ali O'Donnell, Housing Director. Commissioner Yelgo Farrie. Commissioner Martin. Okay, thank you. Do we have any... Oh, Harold. Harold, introduce yourself. Director Harold Gaines. Does Erica need to introduce herself? Yeah. Thank you, Erica. Do we have any agenda revisions? Can I have a motion to approve the March 21st, 2024 minutes? I move that you approve the March 21st, 2024 minutes. Second. Commissioner McCoy. Second by Commissioner McCoy. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed. That passes unanimously. We're now at public, invited to be heard. We have three minutes per speaker. There's no sign of this, so... Shipheel was first when I saw it. Strider was here before I was. Oh, Strider? Strider. I feel a little unprepared. I just got this material two hours ago. Oh, my goodness. From the Bill Bank use and from the San Susie House and the trailer park in South Boulder, 2018. But anyway, the basic thing is, I don't know if it's a new management or they just started acting that way, but two to five months ago, and everything has been so attacking us that it's hard to know when and what transpired. But all of a sudden, they started attacking almost all of the trailer park owners. I got this note on my door after I was in church one night I come home and said, I have not paid my rent. They already had my rent for two days. And they never acknowledged to me that they had already cashed my money order, but they did tell Susan when we had the mediation meeting. The mediation was, there's a young girl local. She didn't know anything. She'd just been trained to be abusive. And there's a regional lady who was, just everything is absolute. Arbitrary has nothing to do with health safety, decency, anything like that. It's a violation of what we have been living under up in there for 15 years, some for 24 years. And everybody gets these threatening notices on their door every week. It's arbitrary. It's not clear. Like one example that says you cannot have a clothesline. Well, the trailer park put in the clotheslines. And you cannot hang up clothes to drive. Well, trailers aren't big enough to have a driver. And many of those things, it says I cannot have a filing cabinet. There's nothing in the words, but they say filing cabinet counts. They call it internal furniture. Well, you can't even see it. Like this, you can't even see it unless you're standing right in front of it, looking at it. And they say, well, I got two small tables in case friends or, I mean, I'm a writer. I like to sit out in the sun and have access to my material. And for example, this one, you cannot have this one. And it's totally arbitrary. It's absolute. There is no mediation, no consideration, no acknowledgement. I had cleaned out 95%. I had quite a bit of stuff there because my church squeezed my bigger storage locker into my smaller one and everything else got stuffed there. So I got rid of that. 95% of it. Stan had some stuff in my place. He got his stuff out. I had to buy another storage locker. And at one point, the example of just one quickie, the regional manager said, well, you could have a lattice. But then in the same sentence, she made it into a life. You can have a lattice, but you can't have the tarp to protect against the wind and the snow. So you have to tear that out anyway. And it's just everything is arbitrary, absolute, and different from the last 15 years. All of a sudden, it's whole new set. So are you still working with Susan Spalding on this? Well, I'm willing to, but I want to work with LHA and Bill Van Dussen just told me that we have rights under the law that I need to learn about. Okay. Thank you, Sterter. Thank you much. I have nowhere to go and I'm with Section 8, so I like that. Kill the Law, 219 Francis Street. I just want to mention that the clothesline prohibitions that Strider was complaining about are actually quite common in age-away neighborhoods throughout the city of Longmont. So this is a thing that actually affects many people in the city of Longmont, and this is an extremely unfortunate example. So just food for thought. So commissioners who also happened to be mayor and members of council, in partnership with Prosper Longmont and Longmont Public Media, Longmont Housing is taking off a book club to bring members of the community together to talk about the rising cost of housing problem. The first book that we are reading is called Escaping the Housing Trap by Charles Morone and Daniel Heritage of the nationally-recognized organization Strong Towns. The book describes the tension between the financialization of housing and the need for housing to shelter and the actions that municipalities can take to address the crisis of housing affordability. We invite you and any member of the public to join us in reading the book at longmonthousing.org. Our first meeting requires no reading and is on Monday, April 22nd at 6.30pm at Longmont Public Media. We'll have a presentation with all the information you need to get the most out of reading the book and also we'll include a presentation by Elizabeth Bodewin, the curator of history at the Longmont Museum. We've placed this event on the council calendar in compliance with the Colorado Open Records Act and Launch Longmont Housing has purchased a copy of the book for each one of you. We'll have them at the next council meeting because the book's not out yet it'll come out next Tuesday. Members of the public can pre-order the book at barbed wire books or place a hold on a copy at the Longmont Public Library. Thank you. Before we accept the gifts we have to know what the price is. I believe the book retails at $28. I was going to mention Strider's situation and what it is is that you got little alterities of HOAs and we got this situation where we got corporations buying up trailer parts because they figured out that they could buy them up and they got trapped people and they raised the rents a lot. Sometimes they try to intimidate everybody that they start enforcing rules and they try to make it pristine so they can basically resell it in place. So what it is is the city I think really needs to adapt some of the state requirements so stuff can be enforced on a local level by the common people because trying to get enforcement through the state is a difficult process. If it's local and the other thing is a lot of these HOAs and trailer parts what they're doing is they're trying to keep minorities and marginal people basically exclude them from housing things like restricting parking on the street you can't park in your own driveway a lot of it stuff. The city I think needs to enact basic rights to people because essentially the state law has something if you're just a irritating person a lot of times you'll get forced out of your community. The state law says if they're doing something like that it's a violation. The city really needs to make things like that part of their local ordinances so a code inspector can actually enforce some of this stuff instead of trying to get some overtaxed state person to do it and things like when people are trying to rent a place banning you got landlords taking deposits from people not deposits but just to apply for a place they're charging like $300-400 just to apply and then they don't want to give it back if you don't get the place the city needs to establish there's actually the HUD regulations saying that's illegal but trying to get a federal thing enforced is almost impossible you have to file a federal lawsuit against the landlord that didn't give you back your $100 a lot of times it's more $200-300 and most people don't know about it but if there are local rules that make it safe for people to rent make it so people aren't being excluded through things like oh you can't park on your own street thank you very much seeing no one else going to close the public hearing the public might be worried old new business the sweet slam concepts we'll be seeing Molly O'Donnell I'll be reporting on this one you'll be seeing an item most likely at next month's LHA board meeting requesting authorization to execute an easement for the dry creek trail but the city side parks department is working on designing right now and hoping to begin construction on shortly so what you see here is going to show that but that is being drafted right now that easement is being drafted right now so that is not yet totally in effect but it's a little bit challenging to see but the proposed trail alignment in the thatched orange and the trail easement would be this green line, the blue line you can ignore so the reason we're talking about this tonight however is that we do have an option agreement to allow element properties the same developer that did Zinnia to develop this backlog behind the sweets so there's some history in that that Harold might jump into because he was involved at the time this was a little bit for my time but when LHA was trying to build Fall River they needed extra cash on hand to help close the deal and so they approached the city and said would you buy out half of the land behind the sweets just a paper exercise not necessarily saluting the lot itself to be in the ownership structure of that land so that we could get some funds to help finish the Fall River project and council at that time agreed the property acquisition occurred and so now the city and the LHA own this backlog behind the sweets 50-50 as part of the Zinnia when we're working with Element on Zinnia back in maybe 2019 when they were first getting started the option agreement was for the area where Zinnia is now plus this backlog and so that was the phase one of the option agreement in this area is the phase two we were reviewing that option agreement when we were considering this easement to see if it would trigger an amendment of any sort and it does not it would just require consent from Element to be able to construct that easement but it did make us start talking to Zinnia Element about what we should be planning for back there because the option agreement requires that Element obtain a li-tech award by the end of 2025 for this option to still be in effect so in order to do that we need to start get moving in order to hold the option as is and so we just wanted to conceptually talk about what the LHA board would like to see in terms of a product back there so we've worked in working on this easement we worked with Element to do kind of a conceptual plan very conceptual here about just to see what could fit back there and if it could fit within and still accommodate the trail easement and knowing that there's a riparian set back there and the FEMA flood plane is mapped here as well just to see what was possible on that backlog so this is what you see here is a conceptual building 63 units you can see this is a drive aisle and potential parking areas still and meeting the pocket park requirements that are assumed to be that would have to go into site planning but really what it looks like right now is certainly feasible 63 unit building how many stories I'm sorry so Zinnia is four stories podium with wood on top so I would assume it would be the same there similar so we just we brought this to the advisory board here last week just to say if you wanted to make any recommendations to the board start thinking about it they asked for an outline of some options to consider and so that has not come to fruition yet but we really wanted to start the conversation with the board and then we don't need to take any action tonight but it's more brainstorming ideas to eventually get some real direction to element on what you all would like to see so wasn't this the property that when we had you and Harold and I talked about the Dolores project that I personally would really want to see that so very similar to the Dolores project so for the rest of the board that members that weren't on that tour about half of it so we went down to Denver where they have an affordable housing development that has a 45 bed shelter for women and transgender people and then permanent supportive housing units attached to traditional affordable housing and so people could the idea was to show hope and move people along and transition them up and out and so that was a super interesting idea I totally agree the one challenge that we've come up with since then is that they got that shelter element paid for by the tax credits because it was in a QCT this side is not in a QCT so the tax credits couldn't pay for the shelter but so there would have to be another funding element attached to be able to do it that way so that was the one piece of information that we had first of all what's a QCT and second do we have enough like first floor housing for mobility challenged residents because that comes up every so often and it seems like designing it in the beginning would be a good thing yes it's a qualified census tract so HUD designates qualified census tracts each year and lie tech projects in qualified census tracts essentially get the it's kind of a bonus on the credits so they could attach for example if the ascent was in a qualified census tract the ECE could be covered by the tax credits because it's a service for the residents but it's also more for the broader community in this case if it was in a qualified census tract the tax credits would pay for the majority of a shelter or services or some sort of service oriented element of the project and then the second question on mobility units we are actually LHA when you consider the entire portfolio is exceeding the minimum required for mobility units when you consider it all together that's why in Aspen Meadows when we did the construction project we actually added extra mobility units to make sure that the entire portfolio was covered and we are meeting the requirements I'd say the reason that I ask is because people living in non LHA properties on vouchers frequently seem to be claiming mobility limitations and then they get a bad neighbor and they can't move around inside the building that they have a lease for because of accessibility of the unit that they're in and they're in like the only one or something so that's the reason I ask because people can't get away from an odious living situation right now so a couple of things that we've talked about the kind of it's a framework on the qualified census tract it's inherently the same issue that we are dealing with the project so you know when we were looking at the early child care component have the Aspen project been in a qualified census tract we could have put that into the basis of the project it wasn't so we're having to look at other fun options for that piece in early child care in that facility one difference in this location while it's not in a qualified census tract it is in an enterprise zone so one of the things that we can do is really dig in and potentially pre-certify with the state as part of an enterprise zone and that may be able to do something similar that you would see in a qualified census tract but we'll need to dig into that a little bit more Harold did you mention something that I didn't quite understand that the block from Boulder Shelter had mentioned something about background services can you explain that well I think when we look at the area and we look at what options we have I think one of the concerns that has been brought forward to Mali is you know right now every unit on the site is permanent supported housing and so there is a conversation about watching the density of permanent supported housing in a single location and if you think back to the Dolores project you know one of the things they had was they had the shelter component they had permanent supported housing and then they had what we would consider traditional affordable housing and that was one of the pieces that Mali and I talked about is you know that's really kind of a missing piece of this site is more of that traditional affordable housing that we built so that could be an option that the board could consider and you know we've thrown out other options in terms of if you look at a podium style structure potentially having space to bring to lease to service providers who serve members of our community that utilize permanent supported housing and affordable housing as an option we talked about utilizing space for some of our services that we have as we're running out of space in this facility so there they could really be a mixed use concept in terms of ground floor activity services with other components to this but I think what they were communicating to us was really watching how much permanent supported housing were allocated in a single location yep so would it be possible with a four story building that part of it is the shelter part of it is transitional but could not one floor be traditional housing as people move up and out that can't care of some of the concerns that there wasn't enough traditional housing I think the concern is more how many permanent supported housing so once the city is built we'll have 130 and so I think the concern that was coming up is just was more of a request please consider how many high needs people are going to be on site and considering how the interactions with each other so just thinking about having opportunities using that back lot for ways for the existing permanent supportive housing residents to be able to look towards the future as well so that could include services could include traditional affordable housing that's more of an extension of the comment but that is where it was coming from for me it would round out the idea of a campus type of solution for people in need I'm not going to say just unhoused but even if someone is living on their own in their own unit somewhere else they could still use hopefully the wraparound services like addiction and health work is that what we're thinking about as well or is it just contained to the Swedes area Zinnia I don't know this is just a thought process that I'm kind of going through well it seems like this other concern may weigh more heavily because we don't want to ghettoize any kind of subsidized housing which means that we I would say that while I really like the idea of wraparound and basic services for street living people I propose things like that multiple times but maybe this is not the place for it because we want a more functional group of people living in this situation and providing role models and and just not not lumping all of the people who need a lot of services together I mean we don't want to end up with something like true I go right I was in St. Louis when they grew it up we don't want to get there I would like to see something more upscale maybe even a combination of the unsubsidized but you know 80% type housing probably with that is financing grants and so the factors that we'll say this the factors that we'll weigh in regardless once we have an actual deal there will be a market study that will say if that area and the general market in that section of town could support certain percentage of affordability units so 80% for example that market study will drive a lot of the decision making on the investor side and so that would that would be telling I would say that something that this site has going for it is that we constructed 55 units of permanent supporting housing permanent supportive housing with virtually no public negative comment it is it is a site that is traditionally if you're gonna if it's going to face opposition then that is often when it's in established neighborhood or near more single family residential so that is something that this site has going for it so it is I think it's just something for the board to balance the concentration argument versus the campus argument if you do it do it well with the services etc I think they're all pieces to pretty all the way I just wanna make note of the fact that out of sunset way over here in the parkway right in this corner is a very active child care center supports these businesses in this area and so we're talking about density in terms of people that need a lot of support that might get on to it with the child care center being that support I've just seen that on my side too would you like do you mind if Sarah spoke? I'm just on my side 10 and a half of the space I mean it's been there for quite some time and as far as issues with residents there's a lot of residents maybe if you drive in there you're constantly seeing them go to the gas station walking around we have not had any issue I mean I didn't have to look it up maybe one or two very minimal issue with the residents that are currently living there and you're correct but if we look at the data that we have I don't think that we could support that it would be an issue there could be an offshoot of a problem it could always happen but what we've seen in the past doesn't indicate that we will and when we do have a problem folks this week are very active they're apt to contact me public safety police if there's an issue same with the daycare center they're very low on calls yeah there's I think one of the reasons that we actually have a security contract on the side of the Swedes is probably more about the people that are residents of the Swedes that are impacting the livability of the residents in terms of some of the issues that we're seeing you know I think we're at a better spot with our residents because the last time I was at a coffee and conversation and coffee and conversations with Sarah they were telling us you need to look for this problem here and this problem here and this problem here so and if it's interesting we're seeing that external influence that I think in some cases actually challenges the residents that live there and to add to that with this additional construction and creating more density we've seen the trend is a lot of our on-house folks are looking for private property they know that it's taking longer for them to be moved along so we have had issues up along this ditch right here on the north side significant they're gone now but it took us a long time to do all the work to move them along so with more people in there I don't see the issue of the I'm not saying they'll be totally gone I don't see them visiting that area as often and Paul here on the 21st of child care center there was even a stabbing there years ago that happened right outside that and we had the child care center persisted but as soon as the people on north Longmont the businesses there started having trouble with breaking into their garbage there was a lot of traffic pretty much between those railroad tracks there I think it's a perception problem but then parents don't want to leave their kids there and now that child care center has closed so we've lost it we've lost it in our neighborhood and sorry this one is very active and supports those businesses in the area and so you know on the positive side we have a portable housing there that doesn't have a lot of access to that kind of service very close because it is industrial there's lots of work you can walk to and then child care would be right there too I'm just worried about too much density being a problem for parents when they see that dropping their kids on it's just because of that and we miss that different child care center and that's one of our goals is to keep those child care centers open are there any other thoughts on what this property should be used for or or Jojen said we need some more Joe Lesson named Jojen and said we need some more buffets hahaha oh yeah that's good she's not wrong so because this is city and LHA land whatever ends up happening would end up coming back to both but I just wanted to start the conversation um and give some ideas to elements so if you'd like to express any now to have element look into or if you'd like us to come back with some options we could do that too are we looking at a particular demographic you know because we have a whole lot of housing aimed at senior residents we would like to apply some demographic pressure in favor of younger people staying in Longmont or even moving to Longmont if they have jobs here so would some kind of Viva whatever it's called kind of concept of something that is for people aging out of foster care or just you know people coming out of their own families and starting at an job is that a possibility though such people might be more resilient in terms of acceptance of their neighbors I think what that would be is traditional affordable housing and then when in design you try and just like we are designing a scent to be family friendly we're not going to have any preference necessarily but that is something that we could do to try and so like singles and young couples from the aesthetic and etc so what space are we here what space would you be hearing from the background I'm hearing boys yes he's from the great y'all so are we looking at the city of Longland area it is one parcel owned jointly so it's not split up it's not split up it is this general parcel starting from the where you have the images of the pocket parks and all that that was all conceptual okay so that kind of confused me so I could jump in and report again this is before the city was involved in the housing authority they needed 750,000 on Fault River the city with affordable housing funds purchased property for 750 we took from a majority ownership interest in the property and at the time we negotiated where we have ultimate control on the property in terms of what was developed on it because we didn't have a housing authority now it's a little bit different since we're intertwined with each other but that's a good history so I'm going to just pop in go ahead I was going to finish with I was just asking well something I would like to see is there's going to be an ongoing component to this is really I'm thinking about the life skills wraparound services how can we get people who are in these units and even other residents or other individuals or unhoused who you know getting folks on a trajectory to be able to live a sustainable life so knowing how to pay bills, knowing how to budget, knowing how to find a job and keep a job so having some kind of um place or a hub that we can tap into you know along with city funds and LAJ to be able to support ongoing sustainability for residents who are kind of like on that verge of you know they don't have those skills to to keep a job they might find a job and then they can't sustain it so we're looking at that sustainability to help people stay in housing and help people stay employed is that it? yeah that's it that was wonderful it was we should applaud so I liked Marcia's idea about children aging out of foster care I think that is perfect but also Mr. Yarbrough mentioned together with the kids who were in that program as well a lot of those you know I should say a lot they might be couch surfing individuals as well so they do fall under or could fall under the homeless or unannounced umbrella of people who need housing just keep that in mind I don't know where they fall in any kind of paradigm of health or under the LAJ requirements to be able to be housed element had actually proposed that as an idea to be on about youth I think we should look at that I really like Marcia's idea and I know that it would be nice to have something like that here in Longmont for our youth and I don't know if any of them even know how to fill out applications for voucher and to be on section 8 or you know any of that so to be able to have a point place to go to knowing that it's here in Longmont just for them it will be amazing I can't even imagine to me that's part of supportive services it isn't just supporting mental or physical health but it's skills oh there we go any other really good suggestions thank you that's what those kids are doing Oreo cookies I'll leave a rooftop a rooftop buffet there is this trail we used to lead to the China buffet but I don't think the China buffet is a business make a building high and we can shoot our fireworks I'm a huge pilot over there there's a lot of pavement right now oh jeez I think we're getting slapped okay we have two more we have some more to cover okay Annie and Millie's place partnership update I've been taking that I got this update from Lisa our regional housing our regional property manager so she's been in contact with Annie and Millie's they hosted a veterinary clinic in partnership with the street dog coalition on January 30th with booster shops on February 26th she said you guys are interested in having Annie and Millie's do more with our residents not just with LHA residents but also voucher residents so she has been in contact with the organization they are very interested in doing more their board is currently working on clarifying their current programs and looking to expand and build partnerships with the annual clinics and other properties so they're seeing how that will work with their mission and then also interested in expanding past PSH but also people who were on vouchers within the community or truly at risk of becoming unhoused they do help cover up costs of veterinary services especially as they escalate they will look at the costs and see if they can partner with other organizations and veterinarians in Longmont to cover that and they have some upcoming events May 5th they're going to be at St. John Episcopal in Boulder they're doing initial vaccinations and general well checks spay and neuter vouchers June 1st at Bethlehem Lutheran here in Longmont to do follow up needs for May 5th new guest initial vaccinations spay and neuter vouchers and then June 22nd again at Bethlehem Lutheran here in Longmont to follow up from the June 1st visit and then any additional necessary check of care needed so this was a discussion that was brought up at the February 20th LHA meeting so this was just a report back based on that information we researched we have a density map of where housing choice factors that are not in LHA properties where they are being used I'm thinking particularly about countryside local home part in the context of Annie and Millie's because there's a veritable population explosion of Chihuahuas there I'm serious this is no I mean everything there's clearly some community building going on there because everybody's got two or three really interesting and you can't the security dogs whatever a lot of them there and they might need care and especially some kind of a low cost spay and neuter event might be good I don't know if it's somebody's side gig then maybe not so he used to be with he's involved with them now and I could connect the two of you that'd be great he's involved with countryside or with Annie and Millie's yeah sure I know Annie and we do have plans to we don't have a map showing voucher holders however we are in talks with the other housing authorities on getting information to their voucher holders who live in Longmont so once we have more information about this we can just send that to their program people and have them disperse that information we don't have a reciprocal agreement to share data about the residents so we have to rely on them to share that I was just thinking of as a housing authority is it worth our time to nudge Annie and Millie's into a direction of a particular neighborhood I think we're targeting outrageous I think you should contact Becky Doyle and get an app for that she's pretty responsive I've asked her for weird map layers and she's screaming you just done a roll to make sure sorry don't be sorry I'm glad she wrapped up in a blanket I don't know are there any more comments on Annie and Millie's and you are done with your update thank you I thought it was very interesting now Commissioner you had said that you would make the motion for Aspen Meadows Senior Park was floored I think Harold so commissioners a brief background of this Aspen Meadows senior apartments is a property that is in the Longmont Housing Authority portfolio prior to the city integrating in with the housing authority the Longmont Housing Authority began the recent vacation process and so as you know now that's when we go in and we get funds we essentially refinance properties that we give funds to make capital improvements to that property all the development work and the design work was done prior to the city getting involved with Aspen Meadows apartments right at the point where we started finding that transition one of the first things that we undertook was actually having to secure the financing for that project because the initial investor fell out and we had to find another investor so there was very little in terms of the architectural design and the other work that was all done ahead of time went through the process made improvements to the units and we noticed that there were some issues with flooring that we've been trying to resolve since late 2022 and 2023 staff is requesting the board authorize us to file a lawsuit if needed and take all the legal steps necessary to preserve our client so I'd like to make a motion to direct staff to continue working on a solution to the flooring issue and take all necessary steps to achieve a solution including if such action is deemed necessary initiate legal action to rectify Aspen Meadows senior apartments flooring failure it's been moved by councilor commissioner Hidalgo Ferry to give direction to staff to continue working with Aspen Meadows flooring and take legal action if necessary it's been moved by councilor McCoy all those in favor say aye all those opposed that passes unedits 6 to nothing with commissioner Aaron Rodriguez absent we're on the interim executive director's report development of the bonus commission for indulging me tonight to connect with Molly I got something for my son who got something at CSU so I do want to risk getting you all sent as well so thank you for allowing me to do that tonight I'm going to turn it over to Molly to go over the development updates so we are in construction at village place our village on main to keep it simple still trading my own right we have our we've done two wings now one on each side of the first floor and we've got residents moving back in generally the feedback is very good about workmanship and materials and then but no construction job is perfect so we are people are living in it now construction is starting into the common areas it's going to be more disruptive so we're really trying to engage with the residents right now work through requests and questions as they come and just trying to keep everybody in good communication right now because we are about to peak on construction on the inside the common areas will be worked on from now through the end of June or so construction work outside in the parking lot and on the inside will be June through August so we're about to hit so trying to work with residents to get everyone ready otherwise things are going good on schedule on budget so that is that property Zinnia's construction is also moving right along on schedule they will be completing in September with lease up happening until October we've been preparing with the entire team including Element and Boulder Shelter and our mental health partners to prepare for lease up and use any lessons learned that that team went through on Bluebird Boulder the sister project to this one to implement any of those lessons learned since that so fresh there so what do we have else? Ascent, we are rolling right along to an anticipated closing on Ascent in July and then turn around and start construction at that time as well you'll see a good amount of items coming forward to prepare for that closing between now and July in the next couple of meetings getting everything worked out there in terms of the Early Childhood Education Center we have promising news from Color to Health Foundation we do not have an actual dollar value yet but it's just going through final tweaks of Milestone and things that they want to see kind of deeper in the agreement that would be coming so as soon as we have that good news we'll share it and otherwise just a full court press on Ascent we've got development opportunities coming at us that we're waiting through to see how to prioritize things, work on our projection of when we need to time certain projects through the next several years and so that's all underway is there any other properties Harold that you wanted to touch based on that I didn't hit? One thing that I wanted to talk about that unfortunately I can't get into very specific detail now but it is likely that we're going to need another executive session and commissioners to talk about a potential development opportunity and get negotiations and negotiators this project is a little different in that it's affordable housing but it's also potentially income qualified attainable housing and the rental side Molly and I have had a handful of meetings and all of them discussing different financing options I'm bringing this up today because we have a really good meeting today that brought some clarity on how we're going to how we can finance a project like this and so just adding to what she's saying development opportunities are continuing to come in we're continuing to evaluate those we do have the ability now to be really look for those who can maximize our revenue potential and how that applies in the future so we'll probably need an executive session in May with a board to talk through some of these issues that's really the big one for me oh well when we look at this, I remember a few years ago before we started building projects as the city council and as the housing authority board you all set a target for us on projects in terms of the number of units that you want to build and I believe that number was six units six properties six properties in five years and to just recap what you've seen so Christmas too was the first one that's leasing up right now as we speak Zinnia will be leasing up this year we're going into construction on a scent quality am I forgetting well we originally included the project that you all agreed as the city council related to ownership opportunities number four just wanted you to know and that's equating to how many units Molly oh gosh I gotta pull it it was something a lot I know over 300 over 300 units in that kind of frame I wanted to say that to you because I think the vision that you all set for us in terms of what we needed to do to you know we wanted your major points of housing you're really now seeing that start to move out of the system so the work that you did in that goal setting session has really allowed us to see where in our start it was not really development related but I did want to take this opportunity to part of the director's report to say you've also made a number of decisions that it's really kind of this really shifted the organization in a way that is making us better but I think in terms of staff capacity has helped us a lot and if you look at if you look in the room and you look at budget decisions that you've made that has drastically helped us make a start with the one with Tim Holt and really bringing in a housing attorney to work with us it's definitely streamlined the process made my life easier you can look at Sarah in the work of funding the police officers of Sarah works with this dealing with the safety issues and then obviously with Kendra and the accounting that you've been able to do in the most recent addition is long and I will tell you when you said that you actually said that as both of me as part of my city manager evaluations a few months ago that said you needed an assistant director in this world and I appreciate that because that's what it's for and I can tell you what I've seen since Lawrence joined our team is it's just another critical piece in taking this organization to the next level and we talk about this a lot this is a we and this is the team of the commissioners and staff and I really wanted to take this opportunity to thank you because what Molly and I have realized out of this is when you get the right people and you bring on that support it's actually brought some calm to us as well and let us look further out in the future and so you know not too extremely high expectations but you know the folks in this room are just killing it and when you bring the right people together you can do some pretty amazing things and when you have the right team including the commissioners I think it just sets a different trajectory for us so I wanted to say thank you so you all cannot leave in your position I wanted to compliment you from our last meeting that when we got a chance to actually be on location and I think Harold said that maybe we would be doing that a little bit more often and I'd like to see that because I think it's great to see these things up front I agree not at eight o'clock at nine though but not at nine not at nine so I want to say right back to you Harold that I am so impressed with the team you've put together because it's fun working with them I mean they're fun people and I think that that's a huge part of a team is that you've got to enjoy what you're doing you have to like who you're working with and be able to voice your opinion whether it's an opinion that everybody agrees with or not and I think that's what I've noticed and I really appreciate about that because you can't move forward and if you can't work together and just respect your points and come to a conclusion that actually moves you toward the target you're trying to get to so I think that the team you've put together is amazing and so thank you you're welcome they're not shy they're not supposed to be in that room with you they're shy it does seem like we are either so that's good so if it's okay with you we'll move to the operational update so do you have anything on public health and safety I do if you'd like me to go yes please alright so we've added two new meth detectors to ones that village on Maine in a non-construction area and the other one is at the suites we picked those locations for signal strength so that was the real detriment of the first few devices that we had for signal strength so those are monitoring those daily and we also have the one up at Fall River so keeping tabs on that we're looking at getting a quote to get some for Christmas too on the units that have not been rented also asking keep asking the questions where they are where they are with their technology to kind of mesh with what we're doing here in one month another piece about meth recently Heidi and I believe the directors of the county have put together a meth task force with the county they asked myself and Molly to be on that task force and as you know it's a very complex topic and there's a lot of challenges and impacts of use and especially when it is regarding to our housing industry so I think due to our lens and our expertise and some of the things that we've seen and had experience we're going to be sitting at that table and we're really going to be having conversations regarding what to do, how to move forward do we contact the state regarding lowering some levels to make things more feasible once we have more information on that we'll bring it to you and I know that I met with on a side note that this involves you all is that the whole meth information just in general that you had asked about we met today with Molly a little bit and Grant and Dane and Jeremy and we're going to be putting a presentation for you together on that so I'll let the other folks talk about when that's going to happen but just look forward to that cameras I think Harold informed you that he put a VDA for two weeks out to get his ball rolling he's had that there well no I didn't inform them I pushed him to be pursuing that that's what I meant with the VDA out so that is exciting for us especially the coffee conversations that's a constant question for our residents about cameras what's the scoop very exciting and that's moving forward and next slide we'll be working very intricately with that whole system set up for cell signal especially at Fall River and Spring Creek like I said coffee conversations have gone very well lately people seem to be you know a lot of the same issues keep coming up and I think staff is doing for instance like a maintenance piece but I think staff is doing a very good job especially me we lost some folks we're trying to hire some folks I think we're doing our best to keep up and keeping the peace with everyone and last the coffee and conversations is posted on the next slide I wrote who's doing that next door I'm sorry next door next door next door next door next door next door next door I think it's holding people to their commitments to attend but I thought that was pretty cool I don't know who's doing it do you know who's doing it I think there's probably people in the property and so the property manager's doing monthly or all at large she knows more about it but I come in quarterly and meet with them on the camera piece that Sarah talked about this is become my numbing work and it's not the cameras it's the procurement process so overall from the system standpoint we're taking more of a systems approach to this we're bringing in general fund which is the easiest but we're bringing in CBG funds and we're bringing in RFI funds and those two have created a nightmare in the procurement process based on the rules and laid clarifications from the Treasury Department actually but CBG funds are easier than the RFI funds when it comes to this type of work because the Treasury guidance is a challenge but we think we've threaded the needle and we'll be moving forward on that so Sarah go ahead go ahead Senator do you have anything else I don't oh go ahead okay I know that the contractors haven't been in very long at all but have you noticed any difference that they're in have you like any of the units or anyone entering the building that has meth on them or smoking head so we have not placed them in any units that are occupied the only units that we've had them in are unoccupied and had tested positive those were the units unfortunately that we're having issues with battery signal strength we were getting the information that the new platform that they've designed have not had battery issues we're getting some indications and we're trying to follow that is it is it ventilation through the hallway you know when we can see some of the cameras if someone walked through and we're trying to pinpoint the data is exactly for a time and date so have you seen a few things yes but nothing to really press moving like this is all just information gathering at this point in what we're going to do with the information and working with property craft and that's another piece that now that Lisa's back we're following up with that company that gave a presentation to us I know Harold talked to him about it last time but they offer a different type of remediation and it's fast so working with those folks if we do find anything so yeah it's kind of a work in progress I just want to make sure those metdetectives are working they are we're getting a lot of inquiries about them okay good so the battery issue we knew they were the battery issue that we could seem to figure out now that we're getting clarity the batteries are lasting now and so we're ordering Eric is going to order 20-ish I'm using my contingency fund for that and that's going to be a combination both of the housing authority properties and some city rescue facilities so it's sort of the next level of testing I have had conversations with Sarah's point with the ownership group that we partnered with on Christmas too and Sarah's getting information so we can present it to them in terms of acquiring the metdetectives to put into the non-leased units that's important for us because the deal that we struck with NGL on that property is that in seven years we're going to take ownership essentially of both Christmas 1 and Christmas 2 and so the more we can do to protect that property for that transition for the better for us and that was actually one of the first deals that we did okay great thank you for that so is that it? I mean that was all you have on your agenda Carol did you want anything else? operational updates from Lauren really quick okay so we have some vacancies in a lot of our units a handful of meth units some as you know have been down for a long time given the amount of work that's going to go into them and lack of insurance that we have now but there are a few that are being cleaned or in process getting ready to rent so we're seeing more turnover of those units and releasing those and I just wanted to say as far as like an operational standpoint with staff coming on at this time and sort of getting my feet out under me and getting a handle on things it's been really eye opening and great I'm not moving as fast on things as I would like to but really excited for the future and what's going to be coming the other thing that I wanted to say was to give kudos to our housing choice voucher team Aquila and Shelby they just had an audit last week and got zero findings which is what to call their file rate perfect and then also since our last meeting when you guys first met me we just promoted Patrick one of our maintenance technicians to their supervisor position and that created the maintenance vacancy that Sarah was mentioning and we are actively recruiting and getting ready to interview for that position we've opened it up not just for tech one but a tech two so that we can hopefully get some more skill sets in and have a lot of future planning so we have one technician who has HVAC skills and certifications which is really important for cost savings to LHA and so we're looking to fill future planning more skills and certifications to sort of keep that going and really create a pipeline for your progression for staff so yeah that's kind of what's going on with our properties we've been getting through a lot it's just going to be a work in progress for a while for me I get used to everything and everyone yeah we're seeing good results do you guys have any specific questions could make questions if I could add real quick some of the things that Lawrence is already doing these are things we didn't have time to really dig into so one of the first moves that she suggested that Molly and I were thinking is we actually moved maintenance to Lauren so Lauren has direct supervision of her maintenance so we bifurcated the property managers and the maintenance group and I've had a chance to meet with Lauren and Patrick and really setting down the information about operational reports, what you're doing and empowering them to really get that information because that data is going to be really important to us as we assess what our operational capability is and really seeing what we can get done on a daily basis and setting benchmarks in terms of unit terms and things like that, holy to it so part of what she's a bit overwhelmed when we did, but we did based on her recommendation and then digging into things like we're dealing with reports right now and really her ability to begin and give us the information I think lets us assess in a different way versus getting caught in the weeds and so that's really the operational capability that we're gaining out of this would you agree Molly? Absolutely the intent was to okay let's dip our toes in and move from bit to bit of the areas of work that need attention but Lauren's style is a little bit more jump right in and let's just figure it out right now because you've got to figure out the big stuff and then the rest can start to fall into place easier that way so I appreciate it, it's been a lifesaver I love her I love my self-care I heard from staff across the whole organization that they're seeing a different Molly now, it's like meeting a holy Molly because she has more capacity to breathe and so that's really nice they said my shoulders were never so relaxed and I have a lot of plans, I have a lot of goals on streamlining operations where we can gather more data because it's hard to make budget decisions going forward for not only new projects that we're planning and budgeting for for operational but just for the organization as a whole and so we really need that data in order to make those requests and so it's going to take a while but I'm hopeful and we have a great team so I'm not worried it's just a matter of getting together the other thing that we did bringing this team together is really the next phase of the work that we have to do we brought in the psychologists that I've worked with for 20 years almost now and we really focused on individual communication training so everyone went through and took a disk assessment which basically is the first look at how you approach the world and how you communicate what I really like about this disk assessment it also tells you how you communicate under stress and really getting everybody to understand each other's perspectives and how we work what was interesting is we found some very distinct things that we needed to deal with because almost everyone fell in a similar section of this and part of the characteristics that we learned is they hold things in I'm not that that's true and so really working and empowering people to not do that, that was a piece of it the second piece of it was really what we call the parent report and without going into too much details what it really does is again it looks at how you approach the world and what your best self is and what your shadow self is and how you react in certain situations this is a test that I actually started to use on public safety departments because what it's starting to identify what are your triggers as an individual and how do you respond to certain things so that we can train and teach people to avoid the triggers we spent about two days doing that work with the team and different components and how they work with each other then as a broader group and that's really been setting the stage for us in terms of communication and how we go forward we're going to do some more training on this in turn and really get into things like resiliency self care and things like that because distress is significant but I wanted you to know that because I did that with this group I also did it with my leadership team on the city side but we're going to start working more on this as we get down the road because part of a good team is good communication and every time I've been through an after-actual review on any issue of communication is number one and so this is really getting us to the point where we understand each other so when Molly says something that triggers me I know it's a trigger and I don't fall into that trap although she doesn't have it all the time it's really understanding or when I communicate to them because I'm one of the few deans strong as deans in the group and so I can trigger them basically now I communicate it's helping me adapt to their styles so that we're a stronger unit that's the last piece of the operational report but I just wanted you to know that not only are we working on the technical and the tangible we're working on the teamwork side of this as well sounds great it was like our shadow self I think it's a good idea for all of council too how do we communicate shoot a year ago yeah we did I mean it was similar but there we didn't talk about no shadows no there was a little bit out of order so it was just to know I don't share my review well and if council is interested in it I'll talk to a couple of you because you came in after I did it and it's really insightful and what I will say personally it's actually helped me at home as much as it is anywhere else because I can contain myself pretty well at work but at home it's one of my shadow self to show itself and it's actually helped me catch things and so it's as a board if you're interested in doing this be happy to talk to you all about it okay great thanks for offering that up so is that the end of the reports that is the yes so can I have a motion to oh I'm sorry go ahead Mr. Holmes did you need an additional motion for us to protect all of our rights in regards to our legal rights yes absolutely so can I have a motion to adjourn I'm here to adjourn second I'm here to adjourn although some people say I I I'm not that old I'm not that old bye I'm going to be in third bye


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فشرف بالشتغالي بالعلم ولا تبغي به ما عشت يا بدا بدا وياله من شراف عظيم الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثناء الجميل وأشد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له يقول الحق وهو يهدي السبيل وأشد أن سيدنا ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بإحسان إلى يوم الدين أما بعد my beloved brothers and sisters we are in the explanation of the book ثلاثة الأصول written by شيخ الإسلام محمد إبلا عبد الوهاب رحمه الله تعالى we were talking about التوكل we were talking about ودعوط رحمه الله he brings the evidence for التوكل we defined what the word meant we spoke about the reality of the word and the statement of إبلا القييم and others and that which سعيد من الجبيل said we also even mentioned the beautiful Hadith of the of the Banu Israel story in which إمام البخاري ونريت إنه صحيح من حديث أبي هوريرا and now insha'Allah we are going to go into بإذن الله الكريم مواطن التوكل مواطن التوكل means the places where the التوكل is sought or a person comes with but first what we have to truly understand is that توكل is مطلوب it's requested في كل شؤون الحيات in all of the affairs of our life every part of our life we need to come with التوكل reliance on Allah تعالى that is something we have to understand but there are بيد أن هناك مواطن كثيرة بيد أن مواطن كثيرة ورد فيها الحظ على التوكل والأمر به للمصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم والمؤمنين but if we look at the Quran we find that there are many times when توكل was stressed on and it was emphasized okay and the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was commanded to come with it and the believers were commanded to come with it and فيروزا بادي رحمه الله he mentions it in his great book بصائل داوى التمييز في رطائف الكتاب العزيز he mentions it and he says the following he said انطلبتم النصر والفرجاء فتوكلوا عليه the first one is the first one is if you are requesting victory if you are looking for victory and you want to gain the upper hand فتوكلوا عليه rely on him and that's the one in Surat Al-Amaran ay 160 where Allah says this one is means انطلبتم النصر if you are looking for victory then rely on him the second time is the second one is اذا اعرضت اذا اعرضت ان اعدائك فليكن رفيقك التوكل فليكن رفيقك التوكل he says when you turn away from your enemies then let it be the thing which you take as a close friend التوكل and that's the one Allah says in Surat Al-Nisa ay 81 فاعرض عنهم وتوكل على الله وكفى بالله وكيلة فاعرض عنهم turn away from them وتوكل على الله and rely on Allah وكفى بالله وكيلة Allah is enough for you وكيل number three اذا اعرض عنك الخلق فاعتمد على التوكل if the creation turn away from you then let it be the thing which you take and you rely on بتوكل that's the one in Surat Al-Toba ay 129 where Allah says the fourth one is اذا تلي القرآن عليك أو تلوته فاستند على التوكل if you recite the Quran or if the Quran is recited onto you then let it be the thing which you come with التوكل الله says وإذا تليت عليهم آياته زادتهم ايمانا وعلى ربهم يتوكلون this is also the time where you urge to come with a التوكل توكل is emphasized on the fifth time is اذا طلبت الصلحة والإصلاحة بين قوم لا تتوسل إلا ذلك إلا بالتوكل if you are looking for الصلح صلح means what if you are looking for reconciliation and if you are trying to bring a treaty and peace بين قوم and a people then come with توكل وإن جنحوا للسلم فجنح لها وتوكل على الله وإذا وصلت قوافل القضاء فاستقبلها بالتوكل فالله تبارك بالتعالز قضاء comes to you and that which he destined for you then receive it with توكل reliance الله says in صورة التوبة آية 51 إلا ما كتب الله لنا هو مولانا وعلى الله فليا توكل المؤمنون number 7 إذا نصبت الأعداء خبالات المكر فدخل أنت في أرض التوكل if the enemies resort to if they resort to مكر plotting them and deception then enter into what into the land of التوكل الله سبحانه وتعالى ودري say in صورة يونس آية 71 وتل عليهم نبأ نوح إذ قال لقومه يا قوم إن كان كبر عليكم مقام وتذكير بآيات الله فعلى الله توكلت number 8 number 8 إذا عرفت أن مرجع الكل إلى الله وتقدير وتقدير الكل فيها فوطن نفسك على فرش التوكل if you realize and you come to know and you acknowledge that every single individual their return point is to الله تبارك وتعالى and their destiny is to الله تبارك وتعالى فوطن نفسك على فرش التوكل then nurture yourself upon and teach yourself say in صورة هود آية 123 فعبده وتوكل عليه number 9 إذا علمت أن الله هو الواحد على الحقيقة فلا يكن اتكالك إلا عليه if you truly believe الله is one then don't be one who realize anyone other than him سبحانه وتعالى الله says in صورة الرعد آية 30 قل هو ربي لا إله إلا هو عليه توكلت وإليه متاب number 10 if guidance is from الله تبارك وتعالى إذا كانت الهداية من الله فاستقبلها بالشكر والتوكل if guidance is from الله تبارك وتعالى then فاستقبلها come with it بالشكر والتوكل with gratitude and reliance in صورة إبراهيم آية 12 الله سيس وما لنا ألا نتوكل على الله وقد هدانا سبولنا ولنصبرا على ما آذيتمونا وعلى الله فليتوكل المتوكلون number 11 إذا خشيت بأس أعداء الله والشيطان والغدار فلا تلتج إلا إلى باب الله if you find a better fear then don't turn to anyone except the dua of الله تبارك وتعالى and don't rely on anyone except الله تبارك وتعالى الله سيس صورة النحل آية 99 إنه ليس له سلطان على الذين آمن وعلى ربهم يتوكلون number 12 صورة النساء آية 81 الله سيس oh sorry number 12 is إذا أردت أن يكون الله وكيلك في كل حال فتمسك بالتوكل في كل حال if you want الله تبارك وتعالى to be the one who takes over your affairs and deals with you in all of your situations then you have to come with every single time and every single place وتوكل على الله every time وكفى بالله وكيل enough for you is Allah the one who is going to take over your affairs and control your matter number 13 إذا أردت أن يكون الفردوس الأعلى منزل كفنزل في مقام التوكل if you want جنة الفردوس to be the station that you reside in then come with the station of التوكل الله سيس صورة نحل آية فوتي 2 الذين صبروا وعلى ربهم يتوكلون number 14 إن شئت أنت نال محبة الله فنزل أولا في مقام التوكل if you want to gain the station and the love of Allah تبارك وتعالى then first come with the station of التوكل الله سبحانه وتعالى سيس صورة آلة عمران number 15 إذا أردت أن يكون الله لك وتكون لله خالصا فعليك بالتوكل if you want الله to be for you and if you want الله تبارك وتعالى to be one who helps and aids you all the time then be one who comes with the station of التوكل if you want then be one who comes with the station of التوكل ومن يتوكل على الله فهو حسبه صورة الطلاق آية 3 الله أصول سيد صورة النمل آية 79 فتوكل على الله إنك على الحق المبين الإمام البخاري والمسلم both narrated on the authority of جابر بن عبد الله الأنصاري ربي الله تعالى عنه جابر سيد غزونا مع رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قبل نجد فأدرقنا رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم في واد كثير العضاة جابر بن عبد الله الأنصاري we fought with the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم in one of their expeditions قبل نجد from the direction of a nest فأدرقنا رسول الله we reached the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم في واد كثير العضاة a very bushy فنزل رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم فعلق سيفه برصن من أعصانها so the prophet he laid down under one of the trees and the branches the prophet laid down under it فعلق سيفه and the prophet placed his sword بغصن من أخصانها on one of his branches واتفرق الناس في الوادي يستظلون بالشجري and all of the people the companions each one went under his own tree trying to find shade because of the sun no one wants to go out in the open everyone is just trying to look for a shade where they can shade themselves from the sun قال فقال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم and then the prophet set to them after رجلا أتاني وانا نائم وايلست فأخذت سيفه and he took my sword فستي قدت I woke up ووقائم على رأسي he was standing at my head the prophet said فلم أشعر I didn't feel it إلا وسيف صلطان في يدي I didn't feel it until the sword was in the man's hand فقال لي the man said to me من يمنع كمني محمد who is going to prevent me from you now who can stop me now from you then the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said Allah الله أكبر look at the Tawheed look at the Tawheed of the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم look how he is reliant صلى الله عليه وسلم was strong look how he is belief in Allah was strong he looked at a man who has a sword in his hand الله الله سبحانه وتعالى he is the one who can prevent you from harming me ثم قال في الثانية دمان سري again من يمنع كمني who can stop you from me قال قلت to the prophet فشام السيفة فها هو ذا جالسون the sword fell out of the man's hand and he was sitting down on the ground ثم لم يعرض له رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم the prophet then did not want the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم did not harm him once the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم got the sword in his own hand and Allah brought it to his hand the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم did not do anything to him فهذا هو سيد المتوكيل the master of those who are who relied on Allah نسأل الله I ask Allah to give him the day of judgment with him في جنات النعيم بمنه وجوده وكرمه إنه ولي يدالك والقادر عليه also take another glad tidings my beloved brothers and sisters and another example as well لمن حقق التوكل على رب العالمين a people who have come or a person who has come with the thing that Allah promises them in this verse الله تباركه سيز ومن يتوكل على الله فهو حسبه anyone who relies on Allah and comes with توكل الله is enough for him إن الله بالغ أمر قد جعل الله لكل شيء قدرا also Allah تباركه سيز إنما المؤمنون الذين إذا دكر الله وجلت قلوبهم وإذا تليت عليهم آياته زادتم إيمانا وعلى ربهم يتوكلون when this verse Allah tells us that the believers if Allah تباركه وتعالى as mentioned وجلت قلوبهم their hearts tremble وإذا تليت عليهم آياته if the verses of Allah are recited زادتم إيمانا and the iman increases وعلى ربهم يتوكلون and they rely on their Lord الله سبحانه وتعالى الله also says إنه ليس له سلطان وعلى ربهم يتوكلون إنه أي الشيطان he has no strength nor power above the believers he has no strength over the believers وعلى ربهم يتوكلون and those who rely on Allah also Allah says about the people of Jannah he is describing في وصف أهل الجنة الله سبحانه وتعالى he says من تحتها الأنهار خالدين فيها نعم أجر العاملين الذين صبروا وعلى ربهم يتوكلون الله أخبرنا those who have believed in Allah and they have come with righteous actions their iman manifested on their limbs and it wasn't just a mere claim but it was seen on their limbs الله أخبرنا الله أخبرنا that he is going to give them houses houses and they are going to be from the inhabitants of Jannah and those who reside in Jannah then Allah described Jannah to us تجريم تحتها الأنهار rivers, flow بنثب خالدين فيها they will stay there forever الله then says what a great reward and a great action that they have come forward with and then Allah tells us who are these people الذين are the ones who have these characteristics they came with patience in this world they were patient they were patient upon that which Allah has predestined for them they were patient upon Allah's obedience they came with how Allah come on they were patient and it was hard and they were also patient from what they were patient from the sins and also وعلى ربهم يتوكلون and they were also those who relied on Allah واتعالى and also there is a hadith الإمام البخاري الإمام المسلم they both narrated في صحيحهما they both narrated in authentic books both of them narrated it in authentic books عربنا عباس رضي الله عنه ما عبد الله بن عباس may Allah be pleased with him and may Allah also be pleased with his father عباس بن عبد المطرب that the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم said nations have been brought forward in front of me and then the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم told us in the hadith that there is going to come a prophet there is going to come a prophet when the prophet another prophet will come by and there is only with him a prophet a group when the prophet another prophet will come and there is ten people with him when the prophet and another prophet يمر معه الخمسة he has five with him and another prophet when the prophet a prophet who is alone another narration says a prophet and there is no one with him فانضرت فإلا سواد كثير قلت when the prophet I saw a number of people who had closed off they have closed off the horizon سواد large pitch black and then I said to يا جيبريل هؤلاء أمتي this is my umma I mean no but rather look towards the horizon look towards the direction فانضرت فإذا سواد كثير I saw a large amount of people I saw a large amount of people I saw a large amount of people and it was set to me يا أمة that's your umma right over there that one that you can see that large amount of people وهؤلاء سبعون ألف that's your umma also on that side as well right there there is سبعون ألف and seventy thousand يدخلون الجنة they will enter paradise جنة بغير حساب ولا عذاب without any accountability they are not going to be accounted ولا عذاب without no punishment قلت I then said I asked I asked and it was then set to me كانوا لا يكتون they never used to do كي which is to ban themselves they weren't using كي as a form of medication ولا يسترقون and they did they did not ask for what they did not ask for روخية they go to anybody and say روخية for me ولا يتطيرون and they never came with and they weren't superstitious وعلى ربهم يتوكلون and they relied on their Lord فقام فقام إليه عكاشة من محصن عكاشة من محصن stood up فقاله he said to the prophet ادعوا الله هل يجعلني منهم سبليكوا الله to make me from them the prophet then said الله مجعله منهم or Allah make him from them in another narration the prophet said to him أنت منهم you are even from them you are from them so this shows that there is no contradiction between the two narrations by the way somebody might say oh look one time he is making dua for him and another time saying you are from them out of these those narrations work together so even if he did make the dua he is accepted عليه الصلاة والسلام ثم قام إليه رجل آخر another man stood up قاله he said ادعوا الله هل يجعلني منهم another man stood up and he said سبليكوا for me that Allah makes me from these people and then the prophet said سبقك بها عكاشة عكاشة beat you to it the scholars they said they mentioned here this man that the prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام that the scholars mentioned that this man who made the second man the second man who came after عكاشة بن محسن who said ادعوا الله هل يجعلني منهم the scholars they some said that he was a bonafek he was a hypocrite and if he was a hypocrite brothers look at the answer that the prophet gave look at the wisdom and the speech of the prophet how he was wise and he didn't say yes he said it in a way where the individual will get hurt by it but he's also صلى الله عليه وسلم he's not compromised so he used his words wisely عليه الصلاة والسلام when he say سبقك بها عكاشة beat you to it are you there and that you have to understand is that جنة is not a place that somebody can take your place are you with me are you with me but the reason why the prophet عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم chose to say to him like that it was a no to him but in a way where it was with wisdom and the believers like that when you have the chance of using your words in a wise way and you can portray your message in a very why would you choose and why would you take the path of speaking in a very despicable manner why would you that's one the other narration they said it was a noble companion it was an individual who was righteous but they said that the reason why the prophet said that is to close this door that not everybody goes he wanted to close the door he wanted the door to be closed and that only one person was also صحيح من حديث ابن عباسر رضي الله تعالى عنهما may Allah be pleased with both of them he said they were a people from Yemen يحتاجون ولا يتزودون they were a group of people from Yemen they would come to do Hajj but they wouldn't bring provision with them they wouldn't pack a provision ويقولون and they would say نحن المتوكلون we are the ones who rely on Allah that's what they used to say are you there they used to come to Hajj without any provision with them and they would say نحن المتوكلون فإذا قديموا مكة when they come to Maka سألوا الناس they start asking the people they start begging the people because they need to survive right فانزل الله تعالى الله they said وتزودوا فإن خير الزاد التقوى take a provision but remember the best of provision is what التقوى ولذلك إما محمد رحمه الله says as إبن مفلح رحمه الله brings in this كتاب الأداب الشرعية إما محمد ينبغي للناس it is necessary for the people كلهم all of them يتوقلون على الله عز وجل that rely on Allah ولكن يعودون أنفسهم بالكسلي but you have to exercise yourself and you have to teach yourself to have an earning and a living فمن قال بخلاف هذا القول anyone who says opposite to that which I just mentioned he said فاذا قولوا إنسان أحمق the last statement of an individual who is dimwitted who is a fool and he also said أحمد من حمبل he says الاستغناء عن الناس أعجبوا إلينا من الجلوس وانتظار ما في أيد الناس to be rich and surprised from asking from the people by coming with actions and working is more greater and fascinated to us and is more beloved to us than sitting and waiting for what is in the hands of the people and that my beloved brothers and sisters is تقصيل المهم it is a very powerful formula place by the noble imam إمام أحمد رحمه الله taken from the نصوص الكتاب والسنة we prove that for many evidences I also want to remind you all my beloved brothers and sisters and conclude بحديثيني 2 حديث عن فضل التوكل in the virtue of وفضل المتوكلين and also the virtue of the ones who rely on Allah تبارك وتعالى and so the first one insha'Allah is going to be about the virtue of 2 noble prophets 2 noble prophets الإمام البخاري رحمه الله he narrated في كتاب تفسير القرآن باب قوله تعالى إن الناس قد جمعوا لكم من حديث ابن عباس that the prophet SAW said حسبو الله ابن عباس said sorry ابن عباس said this not the prophet من حديث ابن عباس رضي الله تعالى عنهم أما يلابي please with him and his father he said ابن عباس recited the verse حسبو الله ونعم الوكيل الله is sufficient for us سبحانه وتعالى he said قالها ابراهيم عليه السلام ابراهيم said this ابراهيم said حسبو الله ونعم الوكيل ابراهيم said this حين ألقي في النار when he was thrown into the fire وقالها محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم النبي الله محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم ودرسه حين قالوا when the people said to him our prophet also said the same but he said it when إن الناس قد جمعوا لكم فخشوهم فزادهم إيمانا وقالوا حسبو الله ونعم الوكيل our prophet said it when the people came together and they said to him فخشوهم فيه the people فزادهم إيمانا إيمانا increase for them the prophet and the believers وقالوا and they said حسبو الله ونعم الوكيل and the response that the prophet gave was what sufficient to be is Allah and he is the best one to rely on so two noble prophet ابراهيم عليه السلام when he was thrown into the fire what did he say حسبو الله ونعم الوكيل when our prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم وزبين أتاكت باقريش أن يوهامهم عليه الصلاة والسلام ودريسي إن الناس قد جمعوا لكم فخشوهم فزادهم إيمانا وقالوا وقالوا حسبو الله ونعم الوكيل لا استفاس حديث اللاصور إن شاء الله وتعالى is the hadith حديث which is إن صحيحين بقارئا مسلم which is the hadith of أبي بكر رضي الله وتعالى عنه قال أبو بكر said قلت للنبي صلى الله عليه وسلم I said to the prophet of Allah وانا في الغاري when we were in the cave لو أن أحدهم نظر تحت قدميه لأبصرنا if one of them just looked down if one of them peep he just took a little peak he peaked down and he looked under his feet because they were standing on the cave they were standing there if one of the heads of Quraish who was standing there just looked down لأبصرنا he would have seen us فقال the prophet then said to him ما ذنك يا أبا بكر بثنيني الله ثالثهما أبو بكر what do you think of two الله is the third one for them two and the third one is الله تبارك وتعالى what do you think who is going to beat them basically who can overcome them who can cause them harm and physical pain no one so the prophet is trying to remind me ما التوكل so I ask الله تبارك وتعالى نسأل الله أن يرزقنا التوكل عليه والثقة فيه وحدة إنه على كل شيء قدير على كنكلودة بإذن الله الكريم anything which I have said that was wrong slip of tongue error mistake show coming it's from me as shaitan and Allah and his messenger are free from it سبحانك الله وبحمدك أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله أستغفرك واتوب إليه


When people think of abuse, they often equate it to physical violence, but that isn't where abuse starts or ends. Abuse can be physical, mental, or emotional, and everything in between. It is important to understand what constitutes as abuse, and what you can do about it if you come to the realization that you are being abused. What follows is a list of ten red flags you might run into if you are in an abusive relationship. This list is not meant to be the only red flags of abuse, and if you feel that you are being abused, please seek out help. There will be a short list of resources in the description for this video. Number one, controlling behavior. In many abusive relationships, the abuser will want to control every aspect of their victim's life. They might want to know who their victim is talking to, who they are planning to meet up with, or where they are going. This can even flow into them controlling what their victim wears, how their makeup looks, or how they carry themselves. Number two, humiliates you. This behavior is often done in front of other people, perhaps his or her friends, and is used as a way to keep their victim down. The abuser's goal is to make them feel weak and small so that the victim doesn't stand up for themselves. Number three, guilt trips. This is a method employed by abusers when they want to get their way. They might say something like, if you loved me, you would or wouldn't do this, or I thought this meant something to you, but apparently I was wrong. The hope is that the victim will feel bad for letting their abuser down and just give in to whatever it is they want. Number four, forces you to take responsibility for their feelings. The abuser will use this tactic as a form of manipulation. They may say, you make me angry, or you've done this, you've done that, as a way to make their victim feel responsible for anything bad. This is meant to push that victim to work on making the abuser happy at all times. The abuser wants to keep their victim in line and making them feel like it's all their fault helps the abuser control their victim's actions. Number five, ultimatums. With ultimatums, the abuser is trying to get what they want by force without laying hands on their victim. With an ultimatum, the abuser might hold something over their victim's head, perhaps a child or even their home, in an attempt to gain absolute control over the situation.  Number six, physical violence. If the abuser can't get their way with words, they can and will resort to violence. This can start off as small things like holding their victim's arms during an argument and lead up to completely beating their victim or even killing them. Hitting, choking, tripping, pushing, or throwing things are all forms of physical violence in a relationship. Number seven, a bad temper.  This isn't just a symptom of having anger issues. It is also yet another form of manipulation. The goal of this is to scare the victim into being subservient and obedient by doing anything they can to stop their abuser from getting angry. Number eight, forces you to do things you don't want to do. This can mean anything from making you go to the movies when you'd rather stay home to making you do something physically that you don't want to do. It is another way for the abuser to gain control over their victim. Some might even find pleasure in watching their victim feel uncomfortable. Number nine, constantly checks up on you. An abuser might employ this as a way of keeping their victim in line. They may demand that their victim text them at certain intervals while they are out and can even request that the victim send specific pictures, like them holding up a peace sign or a selfie with the friend they said they were with. Number ten, picking a fight. An abuser might do this to test your limits. They will want to know how far they can take a fight and see what all you might be willing to apologize for. They won't take responsibility for anything and will instead make you feel as if it was all your fault. Once the fight is over, they may forgive you right away, or they may keep up a cold facade to see what you might do to win back their favor. If you feel like you might be in an abusive relationship, please seek help. If you are actively being abused, call 911 as soon as you can and report it. There are also many options based on where you live as well. There are some links in the description for this video. So what are your thoughts? Be sure to comment below if you want to see more content like this and please subscribe to see more videos from Psych2Go. Thanks for watching.


Health-related quality of life, HRQL, is an individuals or groups perceived physical and mental health.