1 2 CITY COUNCIL 3 CITY OF NEW YORK 4 -------------------------------x 5 THE TRANSCRIPT OF THE MINUTES 6 of the 7 SUBCOMMITTEE ON PLANNING, 8 DISPOSITIONS And CONCESSIONS 9 -------------------------------x 10 January 22, 2008 11 Start: 1:09 p.m. Recess: 1:12 p.m. 12 City Hall 13 Committee Room New York, New York 14 15 B E F O R E: 16 DANIEL GARODNICK Chairperson, 17 18 COUNCIL MEMBERS: Inez Dickens Vincent Ignizio 19 20 21 22 23 24 LEGAL-EASE COURT REPORTING SERVICES, INC. 17 Battery Place - Suite 1308 25 New York, New York 10004 (800) 756-3410 2 1 2 A P P E A R A N C E S 3 Carol Clark 4 Assistant Commissioner for Intergovernmental Relations 5 NYC Department of Housing Preservation And Development 6 Victor Hernandez 7 Director of the Tenant Interim Lease Program NYC Department of Housing Preservation 8 And Development 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 3 1 PLANNING, DISPOSITIONS AND CONCESSIONS 2 CHAIRPERSON GARODNICK: Good 3 afternoon, everybody, and welcome to the 4 Subcommittee of Planning, Dispositions and 5 Concessions of the Land Use Committee of the New 6 York City Council. Today's date is January 22nd, and 7 my name is Dan Garodnick. I am the Chair of this 8 Committee. 9 We are joined today by Council 10 Members Inez Dickens and Vinnie Ignizio, and we have 11 a very short agenda today. So, we're going to take 12 it right away, consisting of one item, Land Use No. 13 646. 14 I'd like to invite HPD up to the 15 witness table, and we are going to open the hearing 16 on the subject of Land Use 646, non-ULURP No. 17 20085233 HAX. The address is 2024 Hughes Avenue in 18 the Bronx and it's part of the TIL Program in the 19 district of Joel Rivera. 20 So, Ms. Clark, if you would go ahead 21 and introduce this item, we would appreciate it. 22 ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER CLARK: Yes, 23 I'm Carol Clark. I'm the Assistant Commissioner from 24 HPD for Intergovernmental Relations. 25 I'm joined by Victor Hernandez, who 4 1 PLANNING, DISPOSITIONS AND CONCESSIONS 2 is the Director of the Tenant Interim Lease Program 3 at HPD. 4 LU 646 consists of the proposed 5 disposition of one City-owned building, located, as 6 you noted, at 2024 Hughes Avenue, through HPD's TIL 7 program. 8 As you know, TIL assists organized 9 Tenant Associations in City-owned buildings to 10 purchase and manage low-income cooperatives. 11 This project consists of 29 12 residential units and Council Member Rivera has been 13 briefed and indicated his approval. Thank you. 14 CHAIRPERSON GARODNICK: Thank you very 15 much. 16 Seeing no members of the public 17 wishing to testify on this item, and in that that is 18 our only item on the calendar for today, I am going 19 to ask the counsel to call the roll. 20 We are going to lay over all of the 21 other items on today's calendar at the request of 22 the individual members in whose district these 23 properties sit, and we're going to vote only and 24 exclusively on Land Use No. 646, and we'll close the 25 hearing on that item. We'll call the roll. 5 1 PLANNING, DISPOSITIONS AND CONCESSIONS 2 I recommend an aye vote. Thank you. 3 COUNSEL TO COMMITTEE: Chair 4 Garodnick. 5 CHAIRPERSON GARODNICK: Aye. 6 COUNSEL TO COMMITTEE: Council Member 7 Dickens. 8 COUNCIL MEMBER DICKENS: Aye. 9 COUNSEL TO COMMITTEE: Council Member 10 Ignizio. 11 COUNCIL MEMBER IGNIZIO: At the 12 recommendation of the Chair, I proudly vote aye. 13 COUNSEL TO THE COMMITTEE: By a vote 14 of three in the affirmative, none in the negative 15 and no abstentions, the aforementioned item is 16 approved and referred to the full Committee. 17 CHAIRPERSON GARODNICK: Thank you very 18 much, and I am a very, very persuasive Chair, I do 19 appreciate that, Council Member Ignizio, and with 20 that, we are adjourned. 21 (Hearing concluded at 1:12 p.m.) 22 23 24 25 6 1 2 CERTIFICATION 3 4 5 STATE OF NEW YORK ) 6 COUNTY OF NEW YORK ) 7 8 9 I, CINDY MILLELOT, a Certified 10 Shorthand Reporter, do hereby certify that the 11 foregoing is a true and accurate transcript of the 12 within proceeding. 13 I further certify that I am not 14 related to any of the parties to this action by 15 blood or marriage, and that I am in no way 16 interested in the outcome of this matter. 17 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto 18 set my hand this 22nd day of January 2008. 19 20 21 22 23 --------------------- 24 CINDY MILLELOT, CSR. 25 7 1 2 C E R T I F I C A T I O N 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 I, CINDY MILLELOT, a Certified Shorthand 10 Reporter and a Notary Public in and for the State of 11 New York, do hereby certify the aforesaid to be a 12 true and accurate copy of the transcription of the 13 audio tapes of this hearing. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 ----------------------- CINDY MILLELOT, CSR. 25