The Plan Trustees, who serve without pay and must be active
participants in the Plan, are listed below with information on the
Administrators of the Plan:
Wayne East - Chair of the HART
Board of Trustees. Wayne has served as Executive Director of the
Greater Gadsden Housing Authority, Gadsden, Alabama since December 1991.
Prior to his employment with the Gadsden Housing Authority, Wayne
worked for the Department of Housing and Urban Development for 19
years as an Operational Accountant and in his last position served
as the Georgia Director of Public Housing. He has served on the
HART Board since February 1992.
Jim Coleman - Vice Chair of the
HART Board of Trustees. Jim has served as Executive Director of
the Camden Housing Authority, Camden, Arkansas for over 30 years. He has
served as President of the Arkansas Chapter of NAHRO, President of
Southwest NAHRO and on the NAHRO Board of Governors. He has served
on the HART Board since June 1998.
Wavid C. Wray - Chief Financial
Officer for the Louisville Metro Housing Authority, Louisville,
Kentucky. Has served as Chief Financial Officer over 30 years, and
prior to employment with the Louisville Housing Authority, worked
in Corporate Finance for Chevron USA. He has served on
the HART Board since August 1990.
Daniel W. Tiller - Senior Vice
President/Chief Development Officer for the Knoxville Community
Development Corporation (formerly Knoxville Housing Authority).
He has been employed by the Corporation for more than 34 years, and held a
number of different positions including Finance Officer for Urban
Renewal, Redevelopment Director, Program Administrator, etc. He
has served on numerous NAHRO committees, and is currently serving
on the NAHRO Board of Governors. He has also held numerous offices
within SERC-NAHRO, including president. He has served
on the HART Board since September 2000.
Richard J. Franco - Executive
Secretary of the Housing Authority of the City of Corpus Christi,
Texas. He has served as Executive Director for over five years, and was
formerly CEO of multi-entities – Denton, Frisco and Bridge
Port Housing Authorities. He retired from the Senior Executive Service
with HUD and is currently serving on the Board of Directors, including president, for
the State of Texas National Association of Housing and Redevelopment
Officials. He has served on the HART Board since April 2002.
Frank L. Wilcox - Executive Director
of the Monroe Housing Authority, Monroe, Louisiana. He has served as
Executive of the Authority since 1976, and, prior to becoming
Executive Director of the Authority, Frank was employed as the Director
of the Monroe Redevelopment Agency. He has served as President of the
Louisiana Housing Council, was a charter member of the Louisiana Housing
Finance Agency and is currently the Chairman and Trustee of the Louisiana
Housing Council Insurance Program. He has served on the HART Board since June 2004.
Tina Akers Brown - Executive Director
of the Greensboro Housing Authority, Greensboro, North Carolina. Tina also
served as Executive Director of the Fairmont Morgantown, West Virginia Housing
Authority and as President of the West Virginia Association of Housing Agencies. Tina has
been in the affordable housing industry for over 23 years. She has held numerous
offices within SERC-NAHRO, including president, served on the NAHRO Board of
Governors and has served on numerous NAHRO committees. She has served on the
HART Board since March 2005.
Mark S. Ulfers - Executive Director of
the Dakota County Community Development Agency (CDA). He has served as
Executive Director of the agency for over 21 years and has been active in
the housing industry for over 30 years. Mark has served on numerous local
and national boards, including NAHRO Transpire and is a past president
of the National Association of Local Housing Finance Agencies (NALHFA)
and Minnesota NAHRO. He has served on the HART Board since March 2007.
Executive Secretary
David L. Smotherman - Executive
Secretary of the Housing Agency Retirement Trust (HART).
He has served as Executive Secretary since August 1998, and was formerly
the Executive Director of the Decatur-DeKalb Housing Authorities,
Decatur, Georgia for 32 years. He worked in housing and redevelopment
for 37 years. He served as President of the Georgia Association
of Housing and Redevelopment Officials, President of SERC-NAHRO,
as Vice President of NAHRO Member Services and on the NAHRO Board
for eight years. He served on the HART Board for 16 years.
Administrators
Mercer - The Plan Administrator
is Mercer. Mercer is the world's largest
employee benefits, compensation and human resources consulting firm. Their
sister company, Mercer Investment Consulting, Inc. is one of the largest
and most respected purveyors of investment consulting services in the world.
Mercer Investment Consulting provides consulting services to the Trustees
relative to the fixed income investments. Since inception of the Plan,
Mercer or one of their merging partners has served as the Plan Administrator
and provided investment consulting services to HART. Mercer is a wholly
owned subsidiary of Marsh and McLennan Companies, Inc., which was founded in 1887.
ADP Retirement Services - ADP
was founded in 1949 as a payroll processing business. ADP has evolved
into the leader in payroll processing, and, a multifaceted corporation,
including global currency and securities trading. William M. Mercer
and ADP formed an alliance over eight years ago, at which time ADP assumed
the responsibilities of record keeping for HART and other benefit
plans. The ADP employees that administer HART's plan have been
involved in the record keeping for HART for 24+ years, and, are
known for the personal service that is provided to HART's participants.
Clients on 6 continents now use ADP services. ADP Broker-Dealer,
Inc. provides guidance and service to the Trustees as an Investment
Consultant and in accordance with the adopted “Statement of
Policy.” They review the effectiveness of the current investment
structure; provide a report semiannually as to the (1) performance
for each investment fund, (2) narrative detailing how that performance
was achieved; and (3) suggested action plans, as appropriate. The
investment consultant conducts a search to (1) add an additional
option to the portfolio, and/or (2) terminate one or more of the
current investment options from use by HART. The consultant is
also charged with bringing all pertinent investment-oriented information
to the Trustees as it gains access to such information.
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