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ANNOTATED AGENDA
BERKELEY CITY COUNCI L SPECIAL MEETING
Thursday, January 27, 2022
6:00 PM
JESSE ARREGUIN, MAYOR
Councilmembers:
DISTRICT 1 – RASHI KESARWANI DISTRICT 5 – SOPHIE HAHN
DISTRICT 2 – TERRY TAPLIN DISTRICT 6 – SUSAN WENGRAF
DISTRICT 3 – BEN BARTLETT DISTRICT 7 – RIGEL ROBINSON
DISTRICT 4 – KATE HARRISON DISTRICT 8 – LORI DROSTE
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Preliminary Matters
Roll Call: 6:02 p.m.
Present: Kesarwani, Taplin, Harrison, Hahn, Wengraf, Robinson, Droste, Arreguin
Absent: Bartlett
Councilmember Bartlett present at 6:15 p.m.
Worksession
1. Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act, Adding B.M.C. Chapter 13.89 From: Mayor Arreguin
Contact: Jesse Arreguin, Mayor, (510) 981-7100
Action: 78 speakers. Presentation made and discussion held.
Adjournment
Action: M/S/C (Arreguin/Robinson) to adjourn the meeting.
Vote: All Ayes
Adjourned at 10:49 p.m.
Communications
• None
Supplemental Communications and Reports 1
• None
Supplemental Communications and Reports 2
Item 1: Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act, Adding B.M.C Chapter 13.89
1. Similarly-worded form letters (44)
2. Christine Crane
3. Bhima Sheridan
4. Ross Simkover
5. Llona Clark
6. Ceceilia Lunaparra, on behalf of Cal Berkeley Democrats
7. Diana Bohn
8. Olivia Kehoe, on behalf of Berkeley Student Cooperative
9. Llaf Esuf, on behalf of United Way Bay Area
10. Bee Coleman, on behalf of East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative
11. Wilhelmenia Wilson, on behalf of Healthy Black Families, Inc.
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12. Samantha Warren, on behalf of Associated Students of the University of California
13. Louise Rosenkratz
14. Emily Wheeler, on behalf of Public Advocates
15. Rosina
16. Alex Sharenko
18. Sophia
Supplemental Communications and Reports 3
Item 1: Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act, Adding B.M.C Chapter 13.89
19. Presentation, submitted by Mayor Arreguin
20. 31 similarly-worded form letters (Yes)
21. 7 similarly-worded form letters (Benefit lawyers)
22. 8 similarly-worded form letters (Hurt)
23. Chris Schildt
24. Kim Markison
25. Jayson Collard
26. Alameda County Democratic Party
27. Andrea Mullarkey
28. Darryl Ross-Ragland
29. Emma Heinichen, on behalf of Zacks, Freedman & Patterson, PC
30. Obaid Khan
31. Susan Knight
32. Dale Smith
33. Jeffrey Melcher
34. Sasha Futran
35. Bushra Khan
36. Barbara Schick
37. Sierra Club Northern Alameda County Group
38. Sylvia Young
39. Nico Calavita
40. Roger Hallsten
41. Andrea Gordon
42. Pamela Drake
43. Ken Berland
44. Todd Andrew
45. CADEM Renters Council
46. Ruben Hernandez Story, on behalf of East Bay Young Democrats
47. Charles Clarke
48. Yingying Wei
49. Greg Jan
50. Erik Dreher
51. Berkeley Tenants Union
52. Keith Sjoholm
53. Mechelle
54. Chris Cohn
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55. Mary Weissman
56. Keith Ray
57. Andrew Jeffries and Ellen McDonald
58. Betsy Morris, on behalf of the Berkeley-East Bay Gray Panthers
59. Dale Rose
60. Robert Zucker
61. Cassandra Adams
62. Elsa Ramos
63. Sophia DeWitt, on behalf of East Bay Housing Organization
64. Evita Chavez, on behalf of the Partnership for the Bay’s Future
65. taptango@
66. Kiran Shenoy
67. Michael Trujillo, on behalf of the East Bay Community Law Center
68. Steve Pelly
69. North Berkeley Cottage
70. Celia Karian
71. Rasheedah Phillips, on behalf of PolicyLink
72. Eleanor Muhlstein
73. Paul Mathew
74. Geoff Lomax
75. Toni Mester
76. Richard Buss
77. Henry DeMarco
78. Barbara Gilbert (2)
79. Renee Good
80. Sarah Davis
81. Fran Haselsteiner