1 1 HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF NEWARK 2 NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 3 THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2023 4 x--------------------------------x 5 IN THE MATTER OF: * 6 THE ANNUAL MEETING * TRANSCRIPT 7 OF THE HOUSING AUTHORITY * OF 8 OF THE CITY OF NEWARK * PROCEEDINGS 9 Commencing at 6:30 p.m. * 10 x--------------------------------x 11 HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF NEWARK 12 500 BROAD STREET 13 NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 14 B E F O R E: 15 HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF NEWARK 16 NORMA GONZALEZ, President 17 BRIAN LOGAN, Commissioner 18 ALIF MUHAMMAD, Commissioner 19 IMAM DAUD HAQQ, Commissioner 20 PATRICK COUNCIL, Commissioner 21 LINDA WASHINGTON, Commissioner 22 23 24 ANTHONY HOFMANN, C.C.R. 25 LICENSE NO. XIO1854 2 1 PROFESSIONAL STAFF: 2 3 VICTOR CIRILO, Executive Director 4 KATIA OLIVEIRA, Executive Assistant 5 ELIO MENA, Counsel 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 3 1 I N D E X 2 PAGE 3 Opening Statement 4 4 Election of Officers 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 4 1 COMMISSIONER LOGAN: Let's call to 2 order the annual meeting for election of officers. 3 MR. CIRILO: Mr. Chairman, this is the 4 annual meeting of the Board of Commissioners. It is 5 6:31 p.m. Reading of the Open Public Meetings Act 6 as required by N.J.S.A. 10:4-6 known as the Open 7 Public Meetings Act, notice of this meeting was 8 provided in the following manner. On December 6, 9 2022, notice of the meeting specifying the date, 10 time and location was transmitted to the Star 11 Ledger, El Especialito, Luso Americano and to the 12 Clerk of the City of Newark. 13 Roll call. 14 Commissioner Washington. 15 COMMISSIONER WASHINGTON: Here. 16 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Council. 17 COMMISSIONER COUNCIL: Present. 18 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Haqq. 19 COMMISSIONER HAQQ: Present. 20 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Muhammad. 21 COMMISSIONER MUHAMMAD: Yes, here. 22 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Logan. 23 COMMISSIONER LOGAN: Yes. 24 MR. CIRILO: Chairperson Gonzalez. 25 CHAIRPERSON GONZALEZ: Present. 5 1 MR. CIRILO: Mr. Chairman, we are 2 going to move onto the election of officers. 3 COMMISSIONER MUHAMMAD: I'd like to 4 make, Mr. Chairman, wait a minute, she's on the 5 phone. Can she hear us? I would like to make a 6 nomination for president of Commissioner Patrick 7 Council. 8 COMMISSIONER COUNCIL: I will decline 9 the nomination. I think the Commissioner has a 10 nomination. 11 COMMISSIONER LOGAN: I'd like to make 12 a nomination of Chairwoman Gonzalez for chairperson. 13 COMMISSIONER HAQQ: I second the 14 motion. 15 MR. CIRILO: Is there a second? There 16 is a second on the floor. 17 Commissioner Gonzalez, there is a 18 motion to nominate you for the position of 19 Chairperson, yay or nay? 20 CHAIRPERSON GONZALEZ: Yes, I will 21 accept the nomination. 22 MR. CIRILO: Mr. Chairman, on the 23 nomination motion. 24 Commissioner Washington. 25 COMMISSIONER WASHINGTON: Yes. 6 1 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Council. 2 COMMISSIONER COUNCIL: Yes. 3 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Haqq. 4 COMMISSIONER HAQQ: Yes. 5 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Muhammad. 6 COMMISSIONER MUHAMMAD: No. 7 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Logan. 8 COMMISSIONER LOGAN: Yes. 9 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Gonzalez. 10 COMMISSIONER GONZALEZ: Yes. 11 MR. CIRILO: Motion passes. 12 Congratulations, Chairwoman Gonzalez. 13 We will now move on to the election of 14 Vice Chairperson. 15 COMMISSIONER COUNCIL: Motion to 16 nominate Mr. Logan for Vice Chair. 17 COMMISSIONER HAQQ: Second. 18 MR. CIRILO: Are there any additional 19 nominations? 20 Commissioner Logan, we have a first 21 and second, do you accept? 22 COMMISSIONER LOGAN: Yes. 23 MR. CIRILO: Yes. 24 Commissioner Logan. 25 COMMISSIONER LOGAN: Yes. 7 1 MR. CIRILO: On the motion to nominate 2 Commissioner Logan as Vice Chair. 3 Commissioner Washington. 4 COMMISSIONER WASHINGTON: Yes. 5 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Council. 6 COMMISSIONER COUNCIL: Yes. 7 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Haqq. 8 COMMISSIONER HAQQ: Yes. 9 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Muhammad. 10 COMMISSIONER MUHAMMAD: Yes. 11 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Logan. 12 COMMISSIONER LOGAN: Yes. 13 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Gonzalez. 14 CHAIRPERSON GONZALEZ: Yes. 15 MR. CIRILO: Motion passes. 16 We will take nominations for the 17 position of Treasurer. 18 CHAIRPERSON GONZALEZ: E.D. Cirilo, I 19 would like to nominate Patrick Council as our 20 Treasurer. 21 COMMISSIONER LOGAN: Second. 22 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Council, do 23 you accept? 24 COMMISSIONER COUNCIL: Yes, I'll 25 accept. 8 1 MR. CIRILO: Any additional 2 nominations for Treasurer? Seeing none, on the 3 motion to nominate Commissioner Council for the 4 position of Treasurer. 5 Commissioner Washington. 6 COMMISSIONER WASHINGTON: Yes. 7 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Council. 8 COMMISSIONER COUNCIL: Yes. 9 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Haqq. 10 COMMISSIONER HAQQ: Yes. 11 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Muhammad. 12 COMMISSIONER MUHAMMAD: Yes. 13 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Logan. 14 COMMISSIONER LOGAN: Yes. 15 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Gonzalez. 16 CHAIRPERSON GONZALEZ: Yes. 17 MR. CIRILO: Motion passes. 18 Congratulations, Commissioner Council, 19 Congratulations Commissioner Logan. 20 We will entertain a motion to adjourn 21 at this point. 22 COMMISSIONER LOGAN: Motion for 23 adjournment. 24 COMMISSIONER MUHAMMAD: I will second. 25 MR. CIRILO: On the motion to adjourn. 9 1 Commissioner Washington. 2 COMMISSIONER WASHINGTON: Yes. 3 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Council. 4 Commissioner Haqq. 5 COMMISSIONER HAQQ: Yes. 6 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Muhammad. 7 COMMISSIONER MUHAMMAD: Yes. 8 COMMISSIONER COUNCIL: Yes. 9 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Logan. 10 COMMISSIONER LOGAN: Yes. 11 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Gonzalez. 12 CHAIRPERSON GONZALEZ: Yes. 13 MR. CIRILO: Thank you very much. 14 That concludes the annual meeting of 15 the Board of Commissioners. 16 17 (Whereupon, the proceedings were 18 concluded at 6:35 p.m.) 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 10 1 C E R T I F I C A T E 2 3 I, ANTHONY HOFMANN, a Certified Court 4 Reporter, and Notary Public within and for the State 5 of New Jersey, certify that the foregoing is a true 6 and accurate transcript of the stenographic notes of 7 said witness(es)who were first duly sworn by me, on 8 the date and place hereinbefore set forth. 9 10 11 12 ___________________________ ANTHONY HOFMANN, C.C.R. 13 LICENSE NO. XIO1854 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25