Board meeting, Oct 10, 2023

Board meeting, called to order 10:10, adjourned 13:10. Records we hold: agenda, draft minutes, transcript.

Dispositions heard: 3 approved, 1 no decision, 2 tabled.

Who was there

From the minutes' roll call, and from the transcript where it records someone leaving. These are counts and names of what happened; the record does not say why anyone was absent.

Present at the start (7 of 11): Alexander Balloon, Andrew Goodman, Maria Gonzalez, Rebecca Lopez-Kriss, Michael Koonce, Majeedah Rashid, Rick Sauer
Not at roll call: Richard DeMarco, Anne Fadullon
Arrived after roll call: Michael Johns
Left early (where a transcript says so): Andrew Goodman, Maria Gonzalez, Michael Koonce, Michael Johns

A vote fell short of six approvals.

Agenda items

Every item in the minutes, with the outcome and the vote as recorded. Dispositions link to their project. Fewer than six approvals is no decision, not a denial.

Item	What	Outcome	Vote	Speakers / letters
I	Roll call; executive session held before public session (Rodriguez reviewed agenda and quorum process)
II	Minutes of September 12, 2023 meeting	Approved		1 / 0
III	Executive Director's Report
IV.A	Transfer of 2342-48 N. 27th St a/k/a 2748 N. 27th St (assessed as 2342, 2344, 2346, 2348 N. 27th St; 2704, 2706, 2708 W. York St; 2709 W. Arizona St) to Philadelphia Housing Authority for community open space, $1.00	Approved	unanimous	1 / 0
IV.B	Amendment to approved disposition, 1736 N. 22nd St (Holloman, LLC): item on original agenda but tabled before meeting	Tabled
IV.C	Resale of affordable home subject to Declaration of Restrictive Covenants: 2641 Reed St to Hien Long Cung and Tam Kinh Ho, $265,000; Land Bank exercised purchase option Sept 2022 after original buyer could not sell at restricted price; new…		unanimous	4 / 0
V.A	5232 Chester Ave to Chester Avenue Community Garden (nonprofit) to rebuild beds; $1.00 plus 30-year mortgage of $94,999; permanent open-space restriction; no EOP	Approved	unanimous	2 / 0
V.B	Development - Business Expansion (unsolicited): item on original agenda but tabled before meeting; no property or applicant named in minutes	Tabled
V.C	1511-17 S. 55th St to African Cultural Alliance of North America, Inc. (ACANA) for new headquarters: four-story, 33,000 SF mixed-use community-benefiting building (ground-floor restaurant and dry cleaner, community center with childcare an…	Approved	unanimous	1 / 1
V.D	75 lots in 7th Council District (Norris Square area) to BMK Properties, LLC for 75 mixed-income single-family homeownership units: 8 at <=60% AMI (max $199,990), 13 at <=80% (max $249,990), 17 at <=100% (max $279,990), 37 market rate; affo…	No decision (fewer than six approvals)	3-4 (neither adopted nor rejected); 7 voting after Gonzalez recusal, 8 present; 6 votes required	18 / 5
VI	Public comment (old and new business)
VII	Adjournment

Documents

Certified transcript in the meeting package

Meeting package (PDF, 135 pages; coming online soon)

Executive session topics: Review of agenda and process for the meeting if there is no quorum