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Highland Park rent board re-elects chair, approves 2025 schedule and certifies 3.55% rent increase
Summary
At its Jan. 21 meeting the Highland Park Rent Control Board re-elected Heather Pierce as chair, chose Lucinda as vice chair, approved the 2025 meeting schedule and unanimously certified a 3.55% annual rent increase (Resolution 2025-1).
Heather Pierce, chair of the Highland Park Rent Control Board, was re-elected and the board on Jan. 21 unanimously certified a 3.55% annual rent increase for 2025 and approved its calendar for the year.
The chair and vice chair elections and the schedule vote were routine housekeeping taken at the start of the board’s meeting at Burrell Hall. Heather Pierce nominated herself and accepted the chair position; the board then moved and approved Lucinda as vice chair. The board also approved minutes from the Sept. 26 meeting and adopted the 2025 meeting schedule.
Board members then moved to formally certify the annual rent increase for February 2025. The board’s staff and members described the certification as a formalization of a rate already reflected in the borough’s rent-control ordinance. The board recorded the action as Resolution 2025-1 and voted to adopt it; the chair announced, “Motion carries. 2025 meeting schedule is approved,” after the votes were taken.
The written resolution ties the board’s prior decision into a formal document and records the certified increase as 3.55%. Board members noted on the record that they lacked discretion to change the figure at this meeting because the adjustment had already been set in prior action and in the ordinance.
Votes at a glance
- Election of chair: Heather Pierce — nominated and elected (motion/second recorded). Outcome: approved (unanimous voice vote). - Election of vice chair: Lucinda — nominated and elected (motion/second recorded). Outcome: approved (unanimous voice vote). - Approval of minutes (Sept. 26): Outcome: approved (voice vote). - Approval of 2025 meeting schedule: Outcome: approved (unanimous voice vote). - Resolution 2025-1 — Certification of the annual rent increase for 02/2025 (3.55%): Outcome: adopted (motion and second; roll-call/voice indicated unanimous approval). Notes: board described certification as formalizing an increase already set in ordinance.
The board moved next to a discussion of possible ordinance changes but did not take those up at this meeting; that item was postponed to the next meeting for additional review and executive-session consideration.
The board closed the meeting after a public-comment period that included renters and graduate students urging clearer protections on vacancy decontrol.
