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FAIR
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CITY OF NORWALK
FAIR RENT COMMISSION
OCTOBER 3RD, 2007
ATTENDANCE: Commissioners: Richard A. Booth, Chair; Martin Bernard, Vice-Chair; Mary Geake; John Church; Patricia Genuario; Stacy Parrigin; Wendell Simms
STAFF: Adam D. Bovilsky, Director; Lawrence E. Patterson, Field Representative
The meeting was called to order at 7:30 p.m. by Chairman Booth.
1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING – SEPTEMBER 2007
The following changes were made:
? All instances of “Mr. Booth” should be changed to “Chairman Booth”
? All instances of “exhibit” should be capitalized
? All instances of “floodplain” should be changed to “flood plain”
? All instances of “St.” should be spelled out as “Street”
? Page 1, Attendance, “Dick Booth” should be changed to “Richard A. Booth”
? Page 2, 2nd full bullet, “Glen Ianicone” should be changed to “Glenn Iannaccone”
? Page 2, 3rd paragraph, 6th line, “resided” should be changed to “reside at”
? Page 2, 5th paragraph, 1st line, “increase in” should be changed to “increase
and”
? Page 2, 5th paragraph, 3rd to 4th line, “had neighbors” should be changed
to “have been neighbors”
? Page 2, 5th paragraph, 5th line, “$1300” should be changed to “$1500”
? Page 2, 5th paragraph, 6th line, “agreed upon instead” should be changed to
“agreed upon, but instead”
? Page 3, 7th line, “list” should be capitalized
? Page 3, 7th to 8th line, “[sic]” should be added after “Fair Market Rental
Commission”
? Page 3, 10th line, “rents are two-bedroom” should be changed to “rent our
two-bedroom”
? Page 3, 13th line, “bedrooms in out building” should be changed to “bedrooms
in our building”
? Page 3, 2nd full paragraph, 10th line, the commas after “bedrooms” and “asking”
should be deleted
? Page 3, 2nd full paragraph, 11th line, “addition of included an article” should
be changed to “addition we’ve included articles”
? Page 3, 3rd paragraph, 4th line from bottom, “income expense sheet” should
be capitalized
? Page 4, 6th full paragraph, 2nd line, “planed” should be changed to “planned”
? Page 7, 3rd paragraph, “principle” should be changed to “principal”
? Page 7, last paragraph, 6th line, “Divine” should be changed to “Devine”
? Page 8, 2nd to last paragraph, “they were able to rent the apartment above
Don Miklovich for $1300.” Should be changed to “were they able to rent the apartment
above Don Miklovich for $1300?”
? Page 10, 5th paragraph, “Miklovish” should be changed to “Miklovich”
? Page 10, 6th paragraph, “Mr.” should be inserted before “Miklovich”
? Page 12, 5th paragraph, “said on the bathroom floor there was some concern
about wetness under the toilet” should be changed to “said there was some concern
about wetness under the toilet on the bathroom floor”
? Page 13, 2nd paragraph, 2nd line, “replica” should be changed to “replicate”
? Page 13, 2nd paragraph, last line, “cookie cutter” should be in quotes
? Page 13, 10th paragraph, “woule” should be changed to “would”
? Page 14, last paragraph under Director’s Report, “Mr. Booth should be changed
to “Mr. Bovilsky”
? Page 15, 1st paragraph under Formation of Nomination Committee, 6th line,
“chair” should be capitalized
? Page 15, 3rd paragraph under Formation of Nomination Committee, 1st line,
“Wendel” should be “Wendell”
? Page 15, 3rd paragraph under Formation of Nomination Committee, 4th line,
a period should be inserted after “Ms” and “and” should be inserted after “volunteering”
? Page 15, 2nd to last line from the bottom, “originally” should be deleted
? Pages 16 through 18, the Standards, Findings of Fact and Decision should all
be changed to mirror those published by the Fair Rent Commission
** MR. BERNARD MOVED TO APPROVE THE MINUTES AS CORRECTED.
** MR. SIMMS SECONDED.
** MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.
2. CHAIRMAN’S REPORT
Chairman Booth said that he’d enjoyed being Chairman of the Commission very much but thought it was time for a change. He said he appreciated the effort of the Nominating Committee and said that he’d be pleased to be of as much assistance to the new Chair as was asked of him. He said that he’d enjoyed working with Mr. Bovilsky and Mr. Patterson and appreciated that they’d always considered his input.
3. DIRECTOR’S REPORT
Mr. Bovilsky reviewed his report for the Commission, which had been included in each Commissioner’s agenda packet.
4. OLD BUSINESS
a. Report of Nominating Committee
Ms. Parrigin, who was Chair of the Nominating Committee, said that she, Ms. Geake and Mr. Simms had met to nominate a new Chair and Vice-Chair with the assistance of Mr. Patterson and Mr. Bovilsky. She reported that the Committee had voted unanimously to Nominate Ms. Genuario as the new Chairperson of the Fair Rent Commission and to nominate Mr. Church to be the new Vice-Chair of the Fair Rent Commission.
5. NEW BUSINESS
a. Vote on Chair
There were no nominations from the floor for Chair and so the Committee voted unanimously to elect Ms. Genuario as Chair of the Fair Rent Commission.
b. Vote on Vice Chair
There were no nominations from the floor for Chair and so the Committee voted unanimously to elect Mr. Church as Vice-Chair of the Fair Rent Commission.
Chairperson Genuario thanked the Nominating Committee, Mr. Bovilsky, Mr. Patterson and Mr. Booth.
6. REVIEW, DISCUSSION AND MOTIONS ON OPEN CASES
a. Case # 1555-06
Mr. Patterson stated that the Fair Rent Staff recommended that no action be taken.
** MR. CHURCH MOVED THAT NO ACTION BE TAKEN ON CASE # 1555-06.
** MR. SIMMS SECONDED.
** MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.
b. Case # 1571-07
Mr. Patterson stated that the Fair Rent staff recommended that no action be taken.
** MR. BERNARD MOVED THAT NO ACTION BE TAKEN ON CASE # 1571-07.
** MR. BOOTH SECONDED.
** MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.
c. Case # 1573-07
Mr. Patterson stated that the Fair Rent staff recommended that no action be taken.
** MR. SIMMS MOVED THAT NO ACTION BE TAKEN ON CASE # 1573-07.
** MR. CHURCH SECONDED.
** MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.
d. Case # 1574-07
Mr. Patterson stated that the Fair Rent staff recommended that no action be taken.
** MR. SIMMS MOVED THAT NO ACTION BE TAKEN ON CASE # 1574-07.
** MS. GEAKE SECONDED.
** MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.
e. Case # 1575-07
Mr. Patterson stated that the Fair Rent staff recommended that this case be closed.
** MS. GEAKE MOVED TO CLOSE CASE # 1575-07.
** MR. SIMMS SECONDED.
** MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.
f. Case # 1576-07
Mr. Patterson stated that the Fair Rent staff recommended that this case be closed.
** MR. SIMMS MOVED TO CLOSE CASE # 1576-07.
** MR. CHURCH SECONDED.
** MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.
7. PRESENTATION OF NEW CASES (IF ANY)
There were no new cases.
8. MOTION TO ADJOURN
** MR. SIMMS MOVED TO ADJOURN.
** MR. BERNARD SECONDED.
** MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.
This meeting was adjourned at 8:27 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Jessica Schroder
Telesco Secretarial Services
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