Duncan Announces Three Appointments to Housing Opportunities Commission

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Contact: David Weaver, 301-217-6530
For Immediate Release (January 27, 1999)

Duncan Announces Three Appointments to
Housing Opportunities Commission

Montgomery County Executive Douglas M. Duncan today announced the appointment of Robbie Callaway of Damascus, Warren Lasko of Chevy Chase and Marjorie Harris of Gaithersburg to fill three vacancies on the Housing Opportunities Commission. All three appointments are subject to County Council confirmation.

"I am pleased to name these three individuals to the commission," said Duncan. All three applicants have tremendous talents and diverse backgrounds, which will serve our residents well."

The seven-member commission is responsible for building, managing and financing housing for low and moderate income people. Callaway is reappointed to the Commission, where he will serve his first full five-year term. Lasko is appointed to a five-year term, and Harris is appointed to a four-year term.

Calloway is senior vice president of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. A graduate of the University of Maryland, Calloway has served on numerous boards and committees including the Montgomery County Community Development Advisory Committee and the National Crime Prevention Coalition. He also served as a member of the Montgomery County Juvenile Court Committee and the National Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse. He holds a bachelor's degree in psychology, criminal justice, from the University of Maryland.

Lasko recently retired from a career that included seventeen years in the public sector and another fourteen in the private, non-profit sector, all relating to housing policy and housing finance. He currently teaches a graduate course on housing policy at the University of Maryland. He has served on various boards, including the Mortgage Electronic Registry System and the American Homeownership Education and Counseling Institute. A graduate of Columbia College in New York City, Lasko holds a master's degree in economics.

Harris is a Family Support Worker with Early Head Start in Montgomery County, and she also serves as the Residents Association President in her community. Harris, who attended Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania, is the first public housing representative ever appointed to the Housing Opportunities Commission. In October 1999, recently-enacted federal law will mandate that all public housing agencies include at least one public housing representative member.

All three appointments are subject to confirmation by the County Council.

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