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Havre de Grace moves to re-establish local housing authority, appoints resident to board

5530786 · August 5, 2025
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Summary

After decades without active local appointments, the city council held a public hearing on an ordinance to reinsert the Havre de Grace Housing Authority into city code and voted 6-0 to appoint Dawn Randall Nowak to the authority’s board.

The Havre de Grace City Council held a public hearing on Ordinance 11-97 to add a new municipal article creating a Havre de Grace Housing Authority and then approved a mayoral appointment to the authority.

The ordinance would amend City Code chapter 25 by adding Article 16 to establish the Havre de Grace Housing Authority; the measure was introduced under the city’s charter authority and state law. Speakers in support said reestablishing the authority corrects a lapse in codification and lets the city fulfill the limited administrative role required by state law: appointment of commissioners to staggered…

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