{"id":26068,"date":"2026-03-13T01:27:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=26068"},"modified":"2026-03-13T01:27:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:27:55","slug":"former-brick-councilwoman-reappointed-to-housing-authority-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2026\/03\/former-brick-councilwoman-reappointed-to-housing-authority-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Brick Councilwoman Reappointed to Housing Authority Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1606\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/housing_auth.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"Brick Township Housing Authority (File Photo)\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"Brick Township Housing Authority (File Photo)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1606\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1606\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/housing_auth.jpg\" alt=\"Brick Township Housing Authority (File Photo)\" width=\"700\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/housing_auth.jpg 700w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/housing_auth-400x226.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/housing_auth-600x339.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brick Township Housing Authority (File Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick officials this week approved the reappointment of a former township councilwoman to the board of the Brick Township Housing Authority.<\/p>\n<p>Kathy Russell, a Democrat, was appointed to serve a five-year term running from March 15, 2026 to March 14, 2031, an extension of her previous five-year term. Russell served as a township council members from 1998 to 2009, and has long been one of the most prominent voices in town as well as the Democratic party. She has also served a stint on the Board of Adjustment.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/brickha.org\/about.aspx\">housing authority<\/a> is funded by the federal government, though its board of commissioners is appointed by the Brick Township mayor and council, who hire an executive director \u2013 currently Jacob Naszimento \u2013 to oversee day-to-day operations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2026\/03\/former-brick-councilwoman-reappointed-to-housing-authority-board\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick officials this week approved the reappointment of a former township councilwoman to the board of the Brick Township Housing Authority. Kathy Russell, a Democrat, was appointed to serve a five-year term running from March 15, 2026 to March 14, 2031, an extension of her previous five-year term. Russell served as a township council members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,455,4484,4305],"class_list":["post-26068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-brick-township-housing-authority","tag-featured","tag-kathy-russell"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/housing_auth.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-6Ms","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26072,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26068\/revisions\/26072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}