Board of Directors

Fred Bentley, Timeline Advisors.

Fred is the Principal of Timeline Advisors, located in Manhattan, Kansas.  Timeline Advisors was formed in 2020.  Timeline Advisors was established to assist developers and rural communities with housing development, and financing.

Fred earned a B.A. from Kansas State University, and a J.D. from Washburn University School of Law.  Fred has been active in the real estate industry since 1973.

Fred was employed by the Kansas Housing Resources Corporation and the Kansas Department of Commerce from 1991 to 2020.  The Director of Housing Development was one of the titles, and areas of responsibility for Fred during that time period.  Fred was responsible for the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program, the Moderate-Income Housing Program, Rural Housing Incentive Districts, and Private Activity Bonds for Rental Housing during his tenure.  Fred Also managed HOME CHDO Funding, Interim Development Loans, Tenant Based Rental Assistance, Housing Development Program and emergency funding for communities affected by the 2007 disasters.

Fred also served as the Executive Director of the Kansas Rural Center, Whiting Kansas, from 1980 to 1990.  The Kansas Rural Center was an organization that functioned as an advocate for family farmers and rural communities with an emphasis on public policy research and education on environmental, agricultural and community economic development issues.

Matthew Barcello, CohnReznick

Matthew Barcello specializes in providing tax credit investment services. Based in Boston, he provides real estate due diligence and transaction services relating to the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC), the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Program, energy tax credits, and federal and state historic tax credit transactions. His experience with the LIHTC includes conducting due diligence and providing other advisory services on behalf of institutional investors in both primary and secondary transactions. He has provided due diligence services to nearly every tax credit syndicator.

Matt has co-authored a series of reports assessing the performance of the LIHTC industry as well as the implication of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). These reports include “The Community Reinvestment Act and Its Effect on Housing Tax Credit Pricing,” “The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program at Year 30: Recent Investment Performance,” and “The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program at Year 30: An Operating Expense Analysis.”

Before joining CohnReznick, Matt was an associate with a Big Four firm in the tax credit investment advisory services group. While there, he contributed to a quarterly publication that tracks and scores investment in renewable energy for each state by assessing factors such as power offtake price, tax climate, resource quality, and renewable energy infrastructure.

Andrew Mccoy, Virginia Center for Housing Research

Dr. McCoy is the Preston and Catharine White Endowed Fellow and Associate Director of the Myers-Lawson School of Construction (MLSoC) and Director of the Virginia Center for Housing Research (VCHR) at Virginia Tech. He is also Professor of Building Construction in the Myers-Lawson School of Construction, a joint venture of the College of Engineering and the College of Architecture and Urban Studies

Dr. McCoy has authored over 100 articles and his main area of research focuses on how innovation progresses through the residential construction industry and how it can make homes more affordable and sustainable. He has secured over $6 million as principal investigator on federal and state research grants focused on housing affordability, green building technologies, and construction safety, among other issues. Notable funded endeavors include: 1) The Commonwealth of Virginia's Executive Order 32 study "Addressing the Impact of Housing Affordability for Virginia’s Economy"; 2) HUD's " Impact of Market Behavior on the Adoption and Diffusion of Innovative Green Building Technologies," A Sustainable Communities Research grant; 3) NIOSH's “The Case for a Whole Industry Approach to Safety,” a grant on safety across cultures and sectors of the construction industry and 4) Housing Virginia's "The Impact of Energy Efficient Construction for LIHTC Housing in Virginia." Dr. McCoy’s research won the 2015 Game Changer Award for the State of Virginia and Engineering News Record's 2014 "Top 20 under 40" for the Mid-Atlantic. Dr. McCoy's work also won ASCE's Journal of Architectural Engineering "Top Paper Award 2015" and the American Real Estate Society conference’s "best paper prize for the topic of Sustainable Real Estate."

Beverly Easterwood, HDC Consulting Group

Beverly operates as a State Certified General Real Property Appraiser in Kansas and Missouri, Licensed Sales Agent for The Metro Group Real Estate, LLC and Robert Hughes and Company, and Principal of HDC Consulting Group, Inc. Beverly has been active in the real estate industry since 1977, and in real estate appraising since 1981. She is the president of the Arivs Kansas/Nebraska, LLC, an appraisal management company.

Beverly is experienced in the appraisal of all types of residential, commercial and industrial real estate, and her experience also includes the appraisal of partial takings and easements, foreclosures, and FHA 203(k) properties. Clients include banks, mortgage companies, federal, state, county and city government entities, as well as individuals, churches and attorneys. Consulting assignments have included serving as a consultant to the Acquisition Team for the Kansas International Speedway Corporation, which constructed the NASCAR race track in western Wyandotte County, Kansas, a consultant to the Public Housing Resident Council, which contested the flat rent schedule proposed by the Housing Authority of Kansas City, and a consultant to the Kansas Legislature – Legislative Post Audit Division. Beverly has testified as an expert witness for condemnation proceedings, tax protest hearings, divorces, etc., is a certified appraiser for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and a Review Appraiser. Other consulting services include market studies for Low Income Housing Tax Credit properties, rent comparability studies, and Comprehensive Needs Assessments (CNA’s) for HUD-insured properties.

Beverly is also a licensed real estate agent in Kansas and Missouri, and has a BSBA degree in Business Administration from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. She has also completed post graduate study in real estate from Rockhurst College.

Debbie Rucker, Housing Data Solutions

Debbie Rucker is a market analyst with Housing Data Solutions, coordinating market studies and research for the company. Over the last 20 years Mrs. Rucker has worked on over 3000 assignments and has conducted over 40,000 rent surveys. Mrs. Rucker is familiar with the wide array of affordable housing including low-income housing tax credits, tax-exempt bond transactions, HUD assisted and financed multifamily, USDA-RD assisted and financed properties, public housing, historic tax credits, conventional multifamily, and manufactured housing. 

Mrs. Rucker has extensive experience in income and rent restrictions along with their application when layering various programs and has assisted many developers in completing their LIHTC applications.  Over the past few years, Mrs. Rucker has worked with several new twin deals benefiting from LIHTC and Bond financing simultaneously.   

Mrs. Rucker’s assignments have been in over 40 states including thousands of metropolitan areas and rural counties.  She was also responsible for compiling the database of detailed information on of every tax credit and tax-exempt bond transaction in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Maryland, Delaware, Kansas, North Dakota, and Texas since 1999.

Clyde R. McQueen

Clyde R. McQueen has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Full Employment Council (FEC) since 1987.  The FEC is the managing entity and fiscal agent for two Workforce Development Boards, which serve Kansas City and vicinity, as well as the Eastern Jackson County region, impacting the community through job training, education opportunities, and economic development activities in rural, suburban and urban areas throughout five counties, covering 2,700 square miles.  Before coming to Kansas City, McQueen served as the Senior Division Director of Training and Employment Development with the Texas Department of Community Affairs. Prior to that, he spent seven years as the Senior Business Development Consultant, Training/Economic Development Consultant, and Procurement Analyst with the Texas Industrial Commission, now known as the Texas Department of Commerce.  McQueen served as the Chairman of the Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City, president of Kansas City Consensus, and is presently a member of the Executive Committee of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce.