The suspended executive director of the Housing Authority of the City of Pasco & Franklin County is no longer with the agency.

Les Domingos, chairman of the housing authority’s board of commissioners, confirmed to the Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business that Matt Truman, who was placed on paid administrative leave in late September 2025, is no longer an employee.

He declined to say whether Truman resigned or was fired.

Truman told the Journal that his departure “was a mutual decision.”

“I’m thankful for the experience and what I was able to accomplish in the community and am focused on the next chapter of my career,” he said in a statement. “I’m also focused on caring for a loved one with health issues.”

Domingos also said an investigation into Truman by outside counsel Allyson Dahlhauser is complete but declined to say what it found, instead directing the Journal to file a public records request. The Journal submitted a written request for a full report or findings resulting from the investigation to which the housing authority responded that “no report was generated from the investigation.”

Truman posted to his LinkedIn profile around the beginning of 2026 that he was “seeking a new role” as an executive director, financial controller, director of finance or similar position in either the Tri-Cities or Boise. His profile still listed him as the housing authority’s executive director.

He joined the Pasco Housing Authority in 2018 as its chief financial officer before becoming its executive director in 2020. In late 2023, the Pasco-based housing authority and its related institution, the Kennewick Housing Authority, combined to form the Benton Franklin Housing Consortium, with Truman at its head, though each maintained separate boards of commissioners.

“We each pull a tremendous amount of weight, and we each do a lot of good in the community. But I’m hoping that with this consortium, we can pull a lot more weight and serve many more throughout the community,” Truman said when the consortium was announced.

However, that entity was dissolved by the Pasco Housing Authority in June, where Truman is recorded in meeting minutes as saying, “The Benton Franklin Housing Consortium is almost completely dismantled.”

When asked why the consortium was dissolved, Domingos said “it wasn’t functioning properly.”

Truman hasn’t been mentioned in Kennewick Housing Authority meeting minutes since April 2025, when he was last listed as executive director but had an excused absence.

From that point on, Hermelinda Sierra, the deputy director/CFO, was identified as interim executive director in published meeting minutes. She is now listed as KHA’s executive director on the agency’s website.

The October and November 2025 regular meeting agendas include an item for “discussions regarding the intentions moving forward with the executive director position” but the October minutes do not mention it or any relevant discussions.

The Journal has contacted the Kennewick Housing Authority to request information and decisions regarding those executive director position discussions but has not received a response.

Both housing authorities help provide housing to thousands of families in the Tri-Cities, whether in designated properties it owns or via vouchers. 

The Kennewick agency is currently building Bubble on Gum, a 10-building, 58-unit development at the corner of 13th Avenue and Gum Street, which will cost $11.2 million.

The Pasco Housing Authority recently received $6.2 million from the state Department of Commerce toward the $22.3 million cost to develop the Heritage Boulevard Apartments in east Pasco on a 2.29-acre parcel it bought for $750,000 in August 2025. That project will create 48 apartments to serve those making half or less of the region’s median annual income, with some set aside for homeless residents.