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Housing Authority review recommends clearer lines between HACM and Treveaux, proposes HR and COO changes
Summary
An MRA review presented to the Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee says blurred reporting between HACM and its instrumentality Treveaux has caused duplicated roles and payroll complexity; consultants recommended HR expansion, a clarified COO role and centralized maintenance with better work-order tracking.
Ken Barbot, acting secretary/executive director (as identified in the record) presented initial findings from an organizational-structure review conducted by Management Resources Associates (MRA), saying the study was contracted in April 2025 under HACM’s HUD sustainability-plan corrective actions. Barbot told commissioners MRA identified “blurred lines of authority” where Treveaux employees and HACM employees perform similar duties under different pay and benefit structures.
The report singled out Treveaux — the authority’s instrumentality that employs a substantial share of on-the-ground staff — as a principal source of confusion. “When you hire people, there are people that are employees of HACM and people that are employees of Treveaux, and sometimes they’re doing the exact same thing with the same title,” Barbot said, summarizing MRA’s findings and noting that the arrangement has complicated payroll and accounting.
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