NOTICE OF LEASE MODIFICATION TO RESIDENTS
PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT your Lease provides that the East Chicago Housing Authority (ECHA) may modify the Lease at any time during the Lease term, so long as it allows a 60 days notice to tenants and resident organizations and considers their comments before adopting any new Lease form or revision to the Lease. A written rider to the lease is required for all revisions to the Lease. The ECHA has the right to terminate the tenancy if a tenant refuses to sign the rider within 15 calendar days following the last date
(May 9, 2004) of the 60 day notice to tenants and resident organization.
PLEASE BE NOTIFIED that due to the increasingly poor attendance at resident council meetings, the ECHA finds it very difficult, if not impossible to involve a representative number of residents carry out its role and responsibilities as set forth in the Lease Agreement and the Memorandum of Agreement; and has further determined that a representative number of residents are not actively participating in activities that involve their community, including the management of specific functions of the public housing development(s) that are planned for the benefit of residents and that may be mutually agreeable to the ECHA and resident organizations.
The ECHA now deems it necessary to amend Part I, Terms and Conditions, Section 5 Resident’s Obligations, A.1- A 34, Responsibilities of said Lease Agreement to include A. 35 as follows:
A. 35 That as a condition of continued occupancy, the head of each household will be required to attend four (4) Resident Council meetings a year. If the head of household cannot attend, then he or she must send any other member of the household that is 18 years of age or older. Attendance of at least four (4) meetings annually is mandatory for the duration of resident’s tenancy. Exceptions to this condition of continued occupancy will be considered for the frail, elderly and disabled residents residing in the senior high-rises.
All adult members of a household are encouraged to attend your Resident Council meetings, so that you may become a
well informed, community conscious resident.
HOUSING MANAGEMENT
March 10, 2004