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Tuesday, September 4,1990 The Battalion Page 5
HUD wipes out
wrong address
AUSTIN (AP) — Kenneth and Antonio, said, “The contractor went
Marjorie Glaser lost antique furni
ture, family photographs and silver
they got for their 25th anniversary
when a company threw away more
than $60,000 worth of their belong
ings after going to the wrong ad
dress to pick up property foreclosed
by HUD.
“At first it was such a shock,” Mar
jorie Glaser, 53, said of discovering
that the house she had lived in for 35
years was virtually empty. “We had
our things there, our memories and
stuff. That’s why it was so upset-
ting.”
According to a lawsuit filed by the
Glasers in state district court in Aus
tin, workers from J.B. Goodwin As
set Management Corp. threw away
five rooms of their possessions and
took them to a dump “where they
were bulldozed, covered and sum
marily destroyed.”
J.B. Goodwin Asset Management
Corp. has a contract with the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban
Development to take possession of
homes that HUD has foreclosed be
cause the owners failed to make
their house payments.
The Glasers, in the lawsuit filed
recently, are seeking $60,000 to re
place their belongings and $3 mil
lion in punitive damages, the Austin
American-Statesman reported.
Randy Allen, president of the as
set management company, said he
could not comment on the suit ex
cept to say that the company’s insur
ance carrier is dealing with the prob
lem.
Ralph Hernandez, supervisor of
property disposition for the 57-
county HUD district office in San
to the wrong house.”
“The way I understand it, some
body took (the address) down
wrong,” he said. “We were con
tracted by Mr. Glaser and we con
tacted the contractor (J.B. Goodwin)
and told them immediately to re
move the lock. At that point, they
hadn’t taken any furniture.”
HUD notified J.B. Goodwin last
year that a house at 5319 Harmon
Ave. had been foreclosed and
needed to be secured, according to
the suit and HUD officials. Instead,
J.B. Goodwin took down the address
as 5311 Harmon, HUD officials said,
and the Glasers’ nightmare began.
On Dec. 8, 1989, Kenneth Glaser
found an FBI sign on his house tell
ing him that it belonged to the U.S.
government and he could not enter.
Glaser said he knew something was
wrong because he had paid off the
loan on his house about 25 years
ago.
The Glasers had been living for
several months at a family ranch
near Georgetown, and did not know
how long the sign had been on the
window.
Glaser called the FBI, which re
ferred him to the HUD office in San
Antonio, where he was told an error
had been made. Three days later,
according to the lawsuit, the sign re
mained and the locks on the front
door had been changed.
A week later, the Glasers found
their house was emptied.
Henry Bell III of Austin, the Glas
ers’ attorney, said, “It’s one of the
most unique cases I’ve ever had in 20
years” of practicing law.
Hard work, dedication pay off
Poor school district
makes full recovery
HOUSTON (AP) — The days of
turmoil at North Forest Indepen
dent School District seem to be over
now that full accreditation has been
restored to the poor minority dis
trict.
The northeast Houston school
district rescued itself from near self-
destruction, bringing the district up
to the state’s standards and regain
ing full accreditation last week in re
cord time.
Joe Randow, the state-appointed
master who spent two years oversee
ing the troubled district’s operations,
said it is heartening “just to see some
of the people laughing and talking
and making jokes. T hat was not hap
pening in 1988 — people were
barely talking to each other.”
Three years ago, the district was
on the verge of bankruptcy. Federal
and state law enforcement agencies
were investigating possible misuse of
funds, and the Texas Education
Agency reduced the district’s accred
itation to a status that was one step
away from a crippling loss of state
funding.
Randow, his duties with North
Forest now behind him, is so im
pressed by the district’s resurrection
that he says he wants to write a book
about it.
“It’s a great feeling inside to see a
tremendous turnaround in that pe
riod of time and a change for the
good of the education of children in
that district,” he said.
In the time he assisted the district,
the staff rewrote its curriculum,
making the district more instructio-
nally sound. Randow said the district
still has a long way to go, but added
"I trusted,! believed
and I expected from
people.”
—Carrol Thomas,
NFISD superintendent
he would send his children there.
Superintendent Carrol Thomas,
who assumed the post in March
1989, said hard work and dedication
were the keys to the turnaround.
The superintendent before him was
fired for students’ continued poor
performance.
“I trusted, I believed and I ex
pected from people,” Thomas said.
But not all of his actions were
popular, including the dosing of
several schools because of a budget
deficit.
Thomas said he worked hard to
reinforce the staff and delegate re
sponsibility. According to many, his
positive attitude was contagious.
“People began to feel a sense of
responsibility to make this work,”
Thomas said.
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