Administrative Staff

Reginal B. Barner
Chief Executive Officer
Community Development & Improvement Corporation

Reginal B. Barner

Reginal B. Barner is the Chief Executive Officer and founder for the Community Development & Improvement Corporation, through which he has successfully completed various tax credit projects turning traditional public housing into single family homes, as well as assisting local government in developing blighted areas into viable striving areas for economic development and affordable housing. He formerly served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Housing Authority of the City of Aiken for the past 13 years and has over twenty (20) years of experience in housing. Mr. Barner has a Bachelor’s Degree in Healthcare Management from Southern Illinois University – Carbondale. He also maintains many certifications: Executive Management Certification from Rutgers University; Mortgage Specialist Certification from Capstone Institute; and, certification as a Housing Finance Development Professional from the National Development Council (NDC).

Currently he serves on following Board of Director’s:

Aiken Regional Medical Center Board of Governor’s
Wachovia Bank Local Advisory Board
SCANA Local Advisory Board
Business Carolina, Incorporated
Carolinas Council of Housing and Redevelopment Codes Officials
SERC-NAHRO Legislative Committee
CDIC (the Authority’s Not-for-Profit) Housing Achievement Award Recipient 2000-2003 (The State’s Highest Award)
Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta Board of Directors

Ivory N. Mathews
Acting Chief Executive Officer
Aiken Housing Authority
(803) 649-6673, ext. 258

Ivory N. Mathews is the Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Housing Authority of The City of Aiken. Ms. Mathews, a doctorial candidate in the field of Public Policy and Administration at Walden, University, holds a Masters of Education with a concentration in Counseling and Psychology from Troy State University-Augusta in Augusta, GA and a Bachelors of Arts in Sociology from Newberry College, Newberry, SC. Her professional career consists of over 11 years experience as a results oriented and decisive leader with proven success in grants administration, program compliance, and management working with quasi-governmental entities.

Ms. Mathews came to Aiken Housing Authority/Community Development & Improvement Corporation from the Augusta Neighborhood Improvement Corporation (ANIC) where she served as operations manager. During her tenure at ANIC Ms. Mathews garnered over $1.2 million of funding for housing and economic development projects within 17 months of employment. Ms. Mathews experience lends itself to the arena of Workforce and Business Development where she’d previously served the Lower Savannah Workforce Investment Area in several capacities, to include; Supervisor of Contracts & One-Stop Activities, Program Coordinator, Workforce Developer/Compliance Monitor, and Job Developer. Under these capacities Ms. Mathews managed over $7 million of federal, state and local funding. She is currently the president of the South Carolina Chapter of the Southeastern Employment & Training Association.

Ms. Mathews currently serves as a member of the following civic and community organizations; Aiken/Barnwell County Homeless Coalition, Public Housing Authorities Director’s Association, Southeastern Employment & Training Association and the Untied Way of Aiken.

Sharon Emel
Director of Finance
(803) 649-6673, ext. 233

Chanosha Lawton
Executive Assistant / Human Resource Manager
(803) 649-6673, ext. 232