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FEBRUARY28, 2023
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From: Reena sekhon
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2023 5:10 PM
To: List-Mayor-Council <[email protected]> Subject: Tenant abusing covid protections while buying real estate.
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Mayor Salinas and Hayward City Council,
We have been proud property owners @ 442 Ranker Pl Hayward Ca for 12 years. We have worked with the Hayward PD Task for hand in hand to remove a precarious gang issue in our neighborhood. The Pandemic has created various challenges of being a landlord in this new era.
We had a two tenants that couldn't pay rent in the early days of the pandemic. We made arrangements with them to forgo their rent so that they can buy groceries over rent until the job market stabilized. Our baker who worked in the financial district in San Francisco eventually went back to work after 2 months and paid their back rent on a monthly plan. Our other tenant who worked out for Bart was laid off and gave notice January 1, 2021 that he was going to leave. We asked him where he was planning on living and he didn't have a plan and told him to not move out and that in good conscience we couldn't allow him to live in his car and we gave him 6 months free rent until he was able to relocate to columbia with his family.
We now have a tenant that has been excessively subletting their unit resulting in excess wear and tear on the unit. After vaccines became available we were able to find someone who was willing to remodel the bathroom while the tenants lived there. We discovered all the excess mold in the bedrooms thery were illegally subletting. We made a commitment to fix the interior bedroom walls to remove the mold after a few months when we saved enough money to do the work.
We made several attempts to schedule work to be done but the tenants Armando and Maria refused our calls and refused access. Instead wento the City of Hayward and complained about the issues that we were already trying to fix.
In compliance with what code enforcement has specified, we have been diligently trying to fix the unit while the tenant lives there. We discovered that the mold issues were so extensive and the repairs ARE so severe to rehab the until that we could only do the work with them no longer living there. I asked them why they would continued to live in a unit that has mold that they claim is causing their child breathing issues. They indicated they couldn't afford to move because they did not have enough money deposit or first last month's rent.
They asked for $25,000.00 to move out...I told them I could not do that because I couldn't afford that as my husband has lost his job we are single income house and we too are experiencing financial challenges due to covid, but rather I could give them 2 months free rent and $11,000.00 if they moved out April 1st and everyday beyond that they would incur a deduction of $77.00 from their $11,000.00.
When following up we noticed that they are making no effort to vacate the premises on 4/1/23. They told our handyman that they plan to finish out the summer at the unit and do not plan on leaving. When we asked that they then continue to pay rent they said we can deduct it from the $11,000.00 move out fee and that because of the covids eviction memoritoriam we can not do anything to evict them.
While investigating them we discovered that they have purchased 3 homes in Modesto, Madera & Oakland. I feel upset and taken advantage that I believed them when they said they had financial hardship but instead they were gaming the system for their own financial gain. The irony is not lost on me that they are collecting rent from a subletter but not paying their own rent.
When opening up the walls our handman discovered mold that has the potential to spread to the other unit. We are desperate to remove them and save our property from complete disarray.
I hope the City of Hayward does not plan to extend the eviction moratorium as it would make an already difficult situation impossible. I would like to have a sit down meeting with the members of the city council and also a tour of our unit so you can see the type of challenges we face and if any tenant protections are to be implemented that protections for landlords from these type of dishonest tenants be put in place too.
Thank you,
Reena
CONSENTITEM
CONS23-090
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DATE: February 28, 2023
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Director of Library Services
THROUGH: City Manager
SUBJECT: Adopt Resolutions Authorizing the City Manager to Execute MOUsand Accepting and Appropriating up to $101,000 for the Operation of Family Education Program Services for Hayward Unified School District ( HUSD) Schools (CONS23-090)
RECOMMENDATION
That the Council move CONS23-090 from the February 28, 2023, consent calendar to the March 21, 2023, consent calendar to allow for additions to the consent item.
Recommendedby: Jayanti Addleman, Director of Library Services Approved by:
Kelly McAdoo, City Manager
CONSENTITEM
CONS23-103
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DATE: February 28, 2023
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Director of Maintenance Services
THROUGH: City Manager
SUBJECT: Adopt a Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Negotiate and Execute a Landscape Maintenance Contract for the Hayward Medians with Brightview Landscape in an Annual Amount of $122,406, for a Total Not-to-Exceed Amount of $489,624, and Appropriate $ 30,000 from the General Fund to Fund the Annual Contingency ( CONS 23 103)
RECOMMENDATION
That the Council accepts an amendment to CONS23-103, regarding an inadvertent calculation error. This error was discovered after the documents were published but not yet approved by Council. In the Background and Discussion section of the staff report, the yearly amount for New Image Landscape was mistakenly written as “$156,000” when the received bid proposal was $260,100. It is the opinion of the Maintenance Services Department that the correct amount of $260,100 should be referenced, as shown in the following table. Furthermore, neither the incorrect or correct amounts impact the contract award.
VENDOR WEEKLY
HOURS
MONTHLY
AMOUNT
YEARLY
AMOUNT
BRIGHTVIEW LANDSCAPE 40 7,700.50 92,406
LOSLOZA INC. 93 24,200 290,400
NEW IMAGE LANDSCAPE 120 21,675 260,100
Recommendedby: Todd Rullman, Director of Maintenance Services Approved by:
Kelly McAdoo, City Manager