Volpe’s company Governance & Fiscal Affairs LLC has been paid more than $400,000 for a year’s work in handling procurement for the agency.

His work was criticized by former Housing Authority Executive Director Matt Doherty at a public board meeting last month, and two weeks later the board fired Doherty.

On Thursday’s agenda is a resolution for a change order on the contract with Volpe, presumably to increase the cap on how much he can be paid for his services. Currently it is capped at $460,000.

The authority has not provided a copy of the resolution after multiple requests, but Volpe is known to be approaching the maximum in his contract.

Volpe declined comment on Thursday’s meeting.

The meeting is scheduled for 5 p.m. at the All Wars Memorial Building at 1510 Adriatic Ave.

The agenda also says the authority board will consider a new management consultant contract for John Clarke’s Sunbelt Industries and outline plans for the future of Stanley Holmes Village, over which the authority is being sued by residents for poor living conditions.

Clarke was interim executive director under a previous contract with the board from August 2022 to May, when Doherty arrived. He stayed on as a consultant through Aug. 11.

It was during Clarke’s tenure that the city declared an emergency at Stanley Holmes Village due to lack of heat and hot water and the inability of the authority to provide basic services like trash pickup.

At the time, Clarke was also executive director of the New Brunswick Housing Authority and interim executive director of the Princeton Housing Authority. He spent much less time working for the Atlantic City authority than the minimum of 20 hours per week he had promised to spend in his contract.

An analysis of Sunbelt’s billing invoices revealed Clarke did not meet that threshold in 31 of the 38 weeks he served as interim leader. At least four of those weeks, he dedicated less than five hours to the Housing Authority, including one in which he logged zero hours.

Clarke recently retired from the New Brunswick job.

There also are resolutions to hire an auditor and a mold remediation company.

More than a week ago, Volpe had said he would hold a news conference within days to outline the fraud he has found at the authority, but that did not happen.

At the same time Volpe has been handling procurement, the authority has run into problems related to its procurement practices.

In June, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ordered the authority to stop using emergency contracts, which are awarded without competition. That required the stoppage of much of the work going on to fix problems with disintegrating gas lines, mold and pest removal, and other repairs.

Doherty, who started with the authority in May, was fired by the board in a 4-1 vote early this month. None of those who voted to oust him commented on why they did so, saying only that it was “for convenience.”

Doherty had said Volpe’s failure to go out to bid for an auditor, after saying he would do so, resulted in the authority missing a deadline for submitting an audit and being listed as “troubled” financially by HUD.

Asked about the failure to issue requests for proposals for an auditor, Volpe said he had asked for and never received specifications for what to require of an auditor.

Doherty also said Volpe had told him via email he would go out to bid on a new heat and hot water system for Stanley Holmes Village, where heat and hot water have routinely failed. But Volpe never sought those bids either.

Now, the old system will have to be used for another year, and more failures are likely.

Volpe has said the executive committee of the board told him not to go to bid on the new heat and hot water system.

Volpe has run Governance & Fiscal Affairs since 2002.

In 1999, he was barred from working with any federally insured credit union by a government agency responsible for regulating federal credit unions and protecting its members.

He was the former manager of the Jersey Metro Federal Credit Union in Passaic County when he signed a stipulation and consent order with the National Credit Union Administration, according to NCUA documents.

Volpe agreed to be “prohibited from further participation, in any manner, in the conduct of the affairs of any federally insured credit union.”

Asked about it recently, Volpe said he signed the order to end the cost of litigation, and denied wrongdoing.

“It was a civil matter, having nothing to do with the Housing Authority. It had nothing to do with purchasing,” Volpe said. “I uncovered monumental fraud, like I do at the Atlantic City Housing Authority. I am a whistleblower. I am whistleblowing at the ACHA.”

But the NCUA said it had information that penalties were in order.

“The NCUA, based upon information reported to it, is of the opinion that grounds exist to initiate an administrative prohibition/civil money penalty proceeding against Gerald F. Volpe,” said the order dated May 28, 1999. “Gerald F. Volpe denies that such grounds exist, but desires to avoid the time, cost and expense of such administrative litigation and, without admitting that such grounds exist, hereby stipulates and agrees to the following terms in consideration of the forbearance of the NCUA from initiating such administrative litigation against him.”

The order contains no details of what type of wrongdoing was suspected or found.

While leading the credit union, Volpe said he had helped put its former president and vice president in jail for fraudulent activities there. But he said the NCUA eventually took it over and then balked at paying Volpe the more than $1 million owed to him upon termination. It was part of a “golden parachute” he negotiated in his employment contract, he said.

The NCUA said Jersey Metro, once called SKD Federal Credit Union, is no longer in business.

The 1999 censure did not affect Volpe’s ability to get government work.

Volpe has been an adjunct professor at Rutgers University teaching procurement classes and municipal finance, his resume says, and worked for both the Passaic County and Hudson County sheriff’s offices. He also was the purchasing agent for Passaic County from 2001 to 2008.