Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alfred Cohn sits in a unique position on the rent board as the only member who has served since the agency's creation...
...questions the board deals with should be no surprise." Cohn says in answer to a question about tenants' confusion at board meetings. "There really are no surprise, if a tenant is paying attention, he will understand procedures." But only a few minutes later Cohn says. "It we can be faulted, it is because we sometimes do not give a layman's explanation" of the reasoning behind decisions. "Somebody who hasn't been there [at the rent board] before or doesn't understand the issues might be surprised, but then it's the job of those with experience to explain what...
...Cohn says he doubts that the lack of a record of case precedent is a handicap for landlords, tenants, or other board members. "I don't think I've ever flim-flammed anyone" with a recollection of precedent or through one of technical expense, Cohn says. He does admit, however, that the board's handbook of procedural and substantive regulations causes confusion. "These is one puzzle," he says. "If you try to real the board's regulations, you can't figure out what's going on. But Cohn says he does not favor a less complicated, more descriptive version...
Denying that the board members are hostile" to anyone who appears at meetings, Cohn says. "I think that's simply a misunderstanding...
...member of the rent board has ever been removed" by a city manager, Sullivan says. "It's as if they were appointed for life Noting--that Cohn has served more than 10 years. Sullivan says that Cohn's seniority "creates tremendous problems because that precedent is not written down anywhere. It's an amazing situation" that is fundamentally unfair" to those with little or no rent control experience, he says...