HAP Appointments on Agenda Tonight

A Plainfield Municipal Utilities Authority.official and a former school board member are nominees for seats on the Housing Authority of Plainfield.

PMUA Purchasing Agent Dollie Hamlin, who formerly worked in the City Clerk's office and ran for the school board in November 2012, is nominated for an unexpired five-year  term ending July 1, 2016. Joylette Mills-Ransome, a former Plainfield school board member  and retired Director of Science for the Newark Public Schools is nominated for a five-year term ending July 1, 2018.

The packet for tonight's meeting unfortunately has identical resolutions for the two, saying both are replacing Hattie Williams, whose term expired this year. However, the roster on the city web site lists a vacancy caused by the resignation of Owen Fletcher, which appears to be the unexpired term for Hamlin to fill, leaving Mills-Ransome in line to replace Williams.

Both are direct council appointees.The Housing Authority is empowered to have seven members, five appointed by the council, one by the mayor and one by the Commissioner of Community Affairs.

Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs has previously offered the name of Rickey Williams to succeed himself as the mayoral appointment, but the resolution has never been moved to the agenda. Rickey Williams was appointed in March 2006 to a term that expired July 1, 2006 and has remained on as a "holdover" ever since.

--Bernice