OPEN BOARD MEETING

Tuesday,  October 6, 2009 – 6:30-8:30 P.M. 

Charles Sumner Museum School  - 17^th & M Streets, NW (Farragut North red line; L Street exit)

MEETING AGENDA:

Greetings to TENAC Board Members and Guests - Jim McGrath, Chairman

Marbury Plaza Tenants' Association, April Goggans, President (Tentative): Update on Marbury and How to Successfully Wage a tenants' rights campaign

Tenant Summit Recap & Upcoming Tenant Legislation: Office of Tenants Advocate's Johanna Shreve, Chief Tenant Advocate, Joel Cohn, Esq., Dennis Taylor, Esq., Andy Gibbs, Esq.

AFL-CIO Efforts on Behalf of Tenants, Strategy on upcoming legislation: Rick Powell, Political Director, Ms. Alya Mbamba, Legislative Director, and Teachers' Union representative

Jobs with Justice, Empower DC: (Tentative): Ruth Castel-Blanco, Mackenzie Baris, Richard Newell: Fenty's privatization drive including child care, Peoples' Property Campaign

Submetering & Individual Metering: Landlords' Current Assault on Rent Control, Tactics and Purpose, by Dorchester House's Petropoulos, Campbell Johnson, & Benoit Brookens

Hardship Increases (Tentative): The Rodney Apts., Patrick McNelis, Rod Mercer, David Reuben

Federal discrimination suit on closing of Franklin Shelter: Update, Jane Zara, Esq., and George Rickman, Esq.

UPDATES:  Norwood Apts. the New Capital Park Towers Tenants' Associations, 4000 Massachusetts Avenue, Kennedy-Warren Apts.

Robin Diener, Library Renaissance Project (Tentative) - Update on current state of D.C. Libraries and Nader's D.C. library initiative 

ANC Decision, Ramifications re: Bender properties on N Street: ANC Phil Carney, Dave Mallof of Empower DC

Whatever else is on your mind!

ANNOUNCEMENTS & ADJOURNMENT

Next TENAC Board Meeting – December 3, 2009.  *Note:  If you are not on the agenda and wish to speak, we will accommodate you to the maximum extent possible. Anyone wishing to speak not heard at this meeting will be scheduled at the top of next meeting's agenda