UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

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Started: 9:36 AM (AST)  

Ended:  12:48 PM (AST)

MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS

BEFORE JUDGE LAURA TAYLOR SWAIN DATE: December 14, 2022

MAGISTRATE JUDGE JUDITH G. DEIN

COURTROOM DEPUTY: Marian Ramirez

COURT REPORTER (SDNY): Amy Walker

In re:

The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto

Rico

as representative of

3:17‐BK‐3283 (LTS)

PROMESA Title III

(Jointly Administered)

The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico et al.,

Debtors.

__________________________________________________

In re:

  Puerto Rico Public Finance Corporation

Applicant

          PROMESA  

           

         TITLE VI

         No. 22‐cv‐1517 (LTS)

 

   

Omnibus Hearing held.

Agenda filed at Case No. 17‐3283, ECF No. 23055.

I. STATUS REPORT

1. Report from the Oversight Board. [Case No. 17‐3283, ECF No. 23056]

2. Report from AFAAF. [Case No. 17‐3283, ECF No. 23054]

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II. FEE APPLICATIONS RELATED MATTERS

1. Tenth Interim Fee Application of Fee Examiner and Counsel to the Fee Examiner.

[Case No. 17‐3283, ECF No. 22847]

 Order was filed prior to this Hearing granting in part and adjourning in

part the application.

III. UNCONTESTED MATTERS

1. FOMB Motion to Amend ADR Procedures. [Case No. 17‐3283, ECF No. 22936]

 Order will be issued with amendments and suggested language to be

incorporated in revised ADR procedures.

IV. CONTESTED MATTERS

1. Bonistas Del Patio Administrative Expense Claim Motion. [Case No. 17‐3283, ECF

No. 22578]

 Matter taken under advisement.

 Supplemental submissions due by December 28, 2022.    Responses to

Oversight Board’s statement due by January 4, 2023.

2. Four Hundred Fifty‐Third Omnibus Objection to Claims.  [Case No. 17‐3283, ECF

No. 20784]

 Claim No. 17981‐1 filed by Maria C. Figueroa Torres, is sustained.

 The Oversight Board shall submit a proposed order.

3. Five Hundred Fourteenth Omnibus Objection to Claims. [Case No. 17‐3283, ECF

No. 22251]

 Due to ICPR’s unavailability, FOMB requested to adjourn this matter to

the next hearing.

 The request was granted.

V. QUALIFYING MODIFICATION APPROVAL HEARING

1. Puerto Rico Public Finance Corporation Qualifying Modification. [Case No. 22‐cv‐

01517, ECF No. 1]

 Exhibits submitted by FOMB in Case No. 22‐cv‐1517 at ECF No. 38 were

admitted as exhibits 1‐19.

 Pro se Yusif Mafuz Blanco Heard. Objection filed at ECF No. 23 was

overruled.

 The Application for Approval of Qualifying Modification for PFC is

approved. An Order will be issued after issues with paragraphs 35 and 51  

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of the revised proposed order are resolved. The FOMB and DRA Parties

shall meet and confer and file a revised order or joint status report by

6:00 p.m. (Atlantic Standard Time) on Monday, December 19, 2022.

VI. ADJOURNED MATTERS

1. Objection of Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corporation to Proofs of Claim of

the United States Department of the Treasury/Internal Revenue Service. (Claim

Nos. 168648 and 16885) [Case No. 17‐3283, ECF No. 7419; Case No. 17‐3284, ECF

No. 643]

2. PREPA’s Omnibus Motion for Order Approving Its Rejection of Certain Power

Purchase and Operating Agreements. [Case No. 17‐3283, ECF No. 15178; Case

No. 17‐4780, ECF No. 2296]

3. Community Health Foundation’s Administrative Claim Motion. [Case No. 17‐

3283, ECF No. 18602]

4. Ramhil Developers Inc.’s Objection to Cure Amount. [Case No. 17‐ 3283, ECF No.

19807]

5. Evertec’s Administrative Expense Claim Motion. [Case No. 17‐3283, ECF No.

21187]

6. Ricoh Puerto Rico, Inc.’s Administrative Expense Claim Motion. [Case No. 17‐

3283, ECF No. 21191]

7. COSEY’s Administrative Expense Claim Motion. [Case No. 17‐3283, ECF No.

21209]

8. Blanca Iris Marrero’s Administrative Expense Claim Motion.  [Case No. 17‐3283,

ECF No. 21192]

9. Four Hundred Eighty‐Eighth Omnibus Objection to Claims[Case No. 17‐3283, ECF

No. 21738]

10. Five Hundred Thirty‐First Omnibus Objection to Claims. [Case No. 17‐3283, ECF

No. 22265]

11. Debtors’ Omnibus Objections to Claims. [Case No. 17‐3283, ECF No. 22625]

The next Omnibus Hearing will be held on February 1, 2023, before Judge Laura Taylor

Swain.

s/Marian B. Ramirez‐Rivera  

Marian B. Ramirez‐Rivera

Relief Courtroom Deputy

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