1 1 HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF NEWARK 2 NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 3 THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2021 4 x--------------------------------x 5 IN THE MATTER OF: * 6 THE SPECIAL MEETING * TRANSCRIPT 7 OF THE HOUSING AUTHORITY * OF 8 OF THE CITY OF NEWARK * PROCEEDINGS 9 Commencing at 4:00 p.m. via Zoom * 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 EDDIE OSBORNE, President 17 MARTINIQUE COSTA, Commissioner 18 FAUSTO BAEZ, Commissioner 19 NORMA GONZALEZ, Commissioner 20 BRIAN LOGAN, Commissioner (Absent) 21 ALIF MUHAMMAD, 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 5 RESOLUTIONS PAGE 6 H-1 5 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 4 1 CHAIRMAN OSBORNE: It is now 2 4:00 o'clock. 3 MR. CIRILO: It is 4:00 o'clock. 4 Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It is Wednesday, April 14, 5 2021, 4:00 p.m. We'd like to call the meeting to 6 order. 7 CHAIRMAN OSBORNE: We are now going to 8 call this meeting to order. Can we get a reading of 9 the Open Public Meetings Act. 10 MR. CIRILO: As required by N.J.S.A. 11 10:4-6 known as the Open Public Meetings Act, notice 12 of this meeting was provided in the following 13 manner. On April 12, 2021 notice of the meeting 14 specifying the date, time and location was 15 transmitted to the Star Ledger, Luso Americano and 16 to the Clerk of the City of Newark. 17 CHAIRMAN OSBORNE: We have roll call. 18 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Logan. 19 Commissioner Baez. 20 Commissioner Costa. 21 COMMISSIONER COSTA: Here. 22 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Gonzalez. 23 COMMISSIONER GONZALEZ: Present. 24 MR. CIRILO: Vice Chairman Muhammad. 25 COMMISSIONER MUHAMMAD: Present. 5 1 MR. CIRILO: Chairman Osborne. 2 CHAIRMAN OSBORNE: Present. I see 3 Commissioner Baez is here. 4 At this time we are going to start. 5 COMMISSIONER GONZALEZ: Is Baez on? 6 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Baez. 7 COMMISSIONER BAEZ: I'm here everyone. 8 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Logan. 9 Commissioner Logan is not on. 10 Mr. Chairman, we have a quorum. 11 CHAIRMAN OSBORNE: Next we are going 12 to start with the resolutions. 13 COMMISSIONER MUHAMMAD: Chairman, I 14 have some statements to make, but I am going to make 15 them in Executive Session. I don't want to make 16 them publicly. 17 COMMISSIONER BAEZ: Chairman, I make a 18 motion to move the resolution. 19 MR. CIRILO: Mr. Chairman, on the 20 resolution that the NHA Board of Commissioners 21 authorizes the Executive Director -- 22 COMMISSIONER MUHAMMAD: Excuse me. 23 MR. MENA: Is there a second? 24 COMMISSIONER COSTA: I will second the 25 motion. 6 1 COMMISSIONER MUHAMMAD: I want to do 2 Executive Session first. 3 MR. CIRILO: Residential complexes -- 4 COMMISSIONER MUHAMMAD: I want to do 5 Executive Session first. 6 MR. CIRILO: -- for an initial term of 7 two years with options to renew at the sole 8 discretion of the NHA for two additional one-year 9 options not to exceed five hundred eighty thousand 10 dollars per year or an aggregate amount of 2.320 11 million dollars or four years, whichever comes 12 first. 13 COMMISSIONER BAEZ: Chairman. 14 CHAIRMAN OSBORNE: I need a mover and 15 a second. 16 COMMISSIONER COSTA: I'll move. 17 CHAIRMAN OSBORNE: Moved by 18 Commissioner Costa. Seconded by. 19 COMMISSIONER BAEZ: Commissioner Baez. 20 COMMISSIONER MUHAMMAD: My Executive 21 Session is denied? 22 CHAIRMAN OSBORNE: We will do it after 23 we do the resolution. 24 COMMISSIONER MUHAMMAD: I will say -- 25 I will just say it in public. 7 1 COMMISSIONER GONZALEZ: Are we in the 2 middle of the vote, Mr. Chair? 3 COMMISSIONER MUHAMMAD: It is okay, no 4 problem. 5 COMMISSIONER GONZALEZ: Can we 6 continue the vote, Mr. Chair? 7 CHAIRMAN OSBORNE: We are voting, yes, 8 we will continue to vote. 9 MR. CIRILO: On the resolution. 10 Commissioner Logan. 11 Commissioner Baez. 12 COMMISSIONER BAEZ: Yes. 13 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Costa. 14 COMMISSIONER COSTA: Yes. 15 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Gonzalez. 16 COMMISSIONER GONZALEZ: Yes. 17 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Muhammad. 18 COMMISSIONER MUHAMMAD: I just filed a 19 suit against the Office of Inspector General. 20 COMMISSIONER GONZALEZ: It is either 21 yes or no. 22 COMMISSIONER MUHAMMAD: I just filed a 23 complaint on this motion with the Office of 24 Inspector General. What I am saying is this 25 shouldn't be moved. This is an action right now. 8 1 MR. CIRILO: Chairman Osborne. 2 CHAIRMAN OSBORNE: Yes. 3 COMMISSIONER MUHAMMAD: Office of 4 Inspector General. I am telling you there is an 5 action right now and this thing should be held up. 6 MR. CIRILO: The motion passes, 7 Mr. Chair. 8 CHAIRMAN OSBORNE: So you don't want 9 to go into Executive Session. 10 COMMISSIONER MUHAMMAD: No need now. 11 I already said it. There is no need now. I said it 12 already. 13 CHAIRMAN OSBORNE: The motion passed, 14 right, the resolution passed. 15 COMMISSIONER GONZALEZ: I call for the 16 meeting to be adjourned. 17 COMMISSIONER BAEZ: I will second it. 18 CHAIRMAN OSBORNE: Roll call. 19 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Logan. 20 Commissioner Baez. 21 COMMISSIONER BAEZ: Yes. 22 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Costa. 23 COMMISSIONER COSTA: Yes. 24 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Gonzalez. 25 COMMISSIONER GONZALEZ: Yes. 9 1 MR. CIRILO: Commissioner Muhammad. 2 Chairman Osborne. 3 CHAIRMAN OSBORNE: Yes. 4 COMMISSIONER MUHAMMAD: I filed a 5 complaint with the Office of General Counsel. 6 COMMISSIONER GONZALEZ: Is the meeting 7 adjourned? 8 COMMISSIONER MUHAMMAD: We will let 9 the Federal Government deal with it. 10 CHAIRMAN OSBORNE: Meeting adjourned. 11 COMMISSIONER COSTA: Have a good night 12 everyone. 13 14 (Whereupon, the proceedings were 15 concluded at 4:05 p.m.) 16 17 18 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