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Cohn, one of the landlord representatives, said Healy governs the choice of a new board member. "The rest of us," he said, "have very little to do with...
Assembled by City Council order in 1971, the board normally has five members: two landlord representatives, two tenant representatives and a neutral chairperson who falls into neither category...
Healy said the absence of a second tenant representative did not really affect the rent control board because the members do not neccesarily vote according to their constituencies. Ellen Semonoff, the board's chair, is neither a tenant nor a landlord and thus has no constituency, Healy said. "She will protect the interests of the right side of the issues...
...Even if I can persuade Ellen Semonoff to vote my way," Connor said, "the best the tenants can ever do is a tie vote." In order to resolve most cases, he added, Semonoff "must make deals with the landlord representatives...
Asked why a new member has not been picked after a four-month vacancy, the other landlord representative, Ackerman, said she assumes Healy has "been very, very busy" with other issues. She said some of the applicants had introduced themselves to the board and met with its executive director, but the final decision is "at Healy's discretion...