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“Fair Housing A to Z”, “Got Mold?” & “Ask a Risk Manager”

A comprehensive FULL DAY AND A HALF of interactive training and discussions

identifying the complicated Fair Housing responsibilities of affordable rental-assistance

housing providers and managers as well as other insurance and legal issues .

DAY ONE: “Fair Housing A to Z” will be an all day course and will be taught by Lisa

L. Walker, the Executive Director and General Counsel of the Housing and

Development Law Institute. Lunch will be provided.

DAY TWO: “Got Mold? & “Ask a Risk Manager” is a half-day discussion on a variety

of issues facing property managers including mold intervention and an Insurance and

Legal roundtable discussion with Al Alvarez of Housing Authorities Risk Retention

Pool (HARRP) and the Housing Authority of the County of San Joaquin’s General

Counsel, Alan R. Coon.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Public housing site managers & managerial staff;

Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program leasing specialists & managerial staff;

Maintenance supervisors & maintenance staff;

Property management companies that manage public housing or participate in the HCV Program;

Independent hearing officers;

Public housing authorities executive staff;

Public housing authority’s legal counsel; and

EVERYONE with a need to know these concepts!

(See Registration Form on back and more details on the following pages.)

Housing and Development Law Institute,

HARRP, AHRP, Housing Authority of the

County of Stanislaus, and the Housing

Authority of the County of

San Joaquin presents:

A comprehensive training for public housing authorities and their community partners.

July 24, 2013, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. & July 25, 2013 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

at the University of the Pacific’s Vereschagin Alumni House,

1022 Dave Brubeck Way, Stockton, 95211

*

“Fair Housing A to Z”, “Got Mold?”

& “Ask a Risk Manager” Conference

Registration Form

Registration Deadline is July 19, 2013. Please enclose payment with the Reservation

Form. Cancellations must be received no later than 48-hours before event to receive a

refund.

Company Name or Name of Individual:

Contact Name:

Address:

City: Zip:

Email:

Phone: Cell:

Attendee Names:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

(10)

Lunch will be provided on July 24th. Please indicate if a vegetarian substitute is required.

# Vegetarian Lunches:

Payment:

Attendee ($20/ea) x =

Total Payment Enclosed:

Payment Method:

Check made payable to: Housing Authority of the

County of San Joaquin

Money Order - Please, No Cash

VISA/MasterCard ($1.00 convenience fee)

Card No: Exp:

Cardholder Name:

E-mail the completed registration form

to: krhea@hacsj.com

OR

Fax the completed registration form to:

209-460-5124

OR

Mail to (or send payment to):

Housing Authority of the County

of San Joaquin

Attn: Kristi Rhea

P O Box 447

Stockton, CA 95201

Questions regarding registration or

the conference, please contact:

Kristi Rhea: 209-460-5024

krhea@hacsj.com

OR

Jim Kruse: 209-460-5063

jkruse@hacsj.com

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Day One Training:

Provided by Lisa Walker

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Day Two Training: Provided by

Northwest Clean Air Agency, Mr.

Al Alvarez , and Mr. Alan R. Coon.

MOLD GUIDANCE FOR

TENANTS AND LANDLORDS

Many landlords and tenants do not understand why mold problems start and

how to safely clean them up when they do. The training provided is designed

to eliminate the confusion with simple guidance followed by detailed examples

to help prevent the most common problems we have observed responding to

hundreds of complaints.

INSURANCE AND LEGAL ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

Led by the Housing Authority’s General Counsel, Mr. Coon will facilitate a

discussion, including Q&A regarding insurance and legal issues faced by

property owners and managers.

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BIOGRAPHY OF LISA L. WALKER – Trainer HDLI, 630 Eye St., NW, Washington, DC 20001; lwalker@hdli.org (email); (202) 289-3400 (office)

Since July 2002 Lisa Walker has been the Executive Director and General Counsel of the

Housing and Development Law Institute (“HDLI”), a legal think tank and training organization in the public and affordable housing industry. Ms. Walker is responsible for all fiscal,

programmatic, operational, and marketing activities of HDLI and is the chief developer/writer

of all of HDLI’s publications, model policies, and training programs. Additionally, Ms. Walker plans and carries out HDLI’s conferences and other events. Ms. Walker has written and filed

amicus curiae briefs in support of HDLI and industry members in the following cases in the

U.S. Supreme Court and other appellate courts: Virginia v. Hicks (U.S. S. Ct.); Public Hous. Agency of the City of St. Paul v. Edwards (MN); Peart v. Jackson, et. al (DC); Boston Hous. Auth. v. Bridgewaters (MA); Akron Metro. Hous. Auth. v. Harper (OH); Hinneberg v. Big Stone C. Hous. and Redev. Auth. (MN); Dallas Hous. Auth. v. Highlands of McKamy IV and V Commun. Improve.

Assn, et al. (TX); Johnson v. Housing Auth. of Jefferson Co.( LA).

Ms. Walker designed and implements HDLI’s successful on-site training programs directed toward the

unique job responsibilities and challenges of public housing and redevelopment agencies, their management

companies, and development partners. Since 2004, she has provided on-site fair housing training for more than

3,600 front-line, maintenance, managerial, executive, and legal staff of housing agencies and housing developers of all sizes across the country through HDLI’s successful fair housing training program. Ms. Walker is certified as a

fair housing trainer by the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA). Building upon the

success of its fair housing training program, in 2011 HDLI rolled out a new comprehensive on-site “One Strike” evictions training program focusing on the myriad of critical issues relating to the process of evicting or

terminating public housing residents and Section 8 participants for criminal, and drug-related criminal, activity. In

2012, HDLI added another comprehensive training on the public housing and Section 8 administrative review

processes to its suite of training offerings.

Ms. Walker has a broad knowledge of federally-assisted public and affordable housing laws and programs,

applicable federal regulations (such as those implemented by HUD and the Justice Department), judicial decisions

interpreting those programs and regulations, and the fair housing obligations implicit therein.

Prior to joining HDLI, Ms. Walker was a partner at Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, L.L.P, a large regional law

firm servicing the Washington, D.C.-Maryland-Virginia corridor. As a commercial litigator, Ms. Walker handled the

business disputes of corporations, partnerships, organizations, and individuals in the areas of contracts, employment, torts, intellectual property, and product liability, among other areas. Developing a particular interest

in and knowledge of fair housing issues, for six years Ms. Walker actively represented the Housing Authority of

Baltimore City and City of Baltimore in Thompson v. HUD, major federal public housing reform litigation, and with respect to a wide variety of fair housing issues.

Ms. Walker is licensed to practice law before the United States Supreme Court, the federal Fourth and Fifth

Circuit Courts of Appeals, and the state and federal courts of Maryland and the District of Columbia. Ms. Walker holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the University of Maryland, College Park, where she received a

four-year academic scholarship from the university. She holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Maryland

School of Law, where she received a three-year academic fellowship and was a member of the competitive Moot

Court Board. She has been active in local and national bar associations, on nonprofit boards of directors, as well as a number of other service and civic organizations. Ms. Walker is an executive board member of her local middle

and high school PTAs, and serves as pro bono counsel to the Miss Black U.S.A. Pageant & Scholarship Foundation,

Inc. Ms. Walker also is a frequent speaker, trainer, and presenter at industry meetings across the country.

Alex & Jeri Vereschagin Alumni House University of the Pacific, Stockton Campus

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