Whether the Warsaw Housing Authority is a city department or not must be decided before the start of the next fiscal year. The WHA is not officially recognized as a city department, but the mayor appoints the members of its board of commissioners, and the agency's board minutes, budgets and annual reports are filed with the city's clerk-treasurer. WHA Executive Director Catharine Walker said Monday the Department of Housing and Urban Development is mandating that the agency either be recognized as a city department or reorganized as its own entity prior to the start of its next fiscal year, which begins Oct.1. Walker said the matter became a problem when she tried to get a tax identification number to make purchases for the office.
Ruth Anne Lipka, Times-Union Lifestyles Editor- | July 28, 2016