City of Pomona
Special Meeting Minutes
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Vice Mayor Elizabeth Ontiveros-Cole
Councilmember Steve Lustro
Councilmember Robert S. Torre:
VISION STATEMENT
Pomona will be recognized as a vibrant, safe, beautiful community that is a fun and exciting destination and the home of arts and artists, students and scholars, business and industry.
Tuesday, July 26, 2022 5:30 PM Council Chambers
5:30 P.M. Council Chambers
CALL TO ORDER
Mayor Sandoval called the City Council Meeting to order at 5:30 p.m.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Mayor Sandoval led the Pledge of Allegiance.
ROLL CALL
Present: Mayor Tim Sandoval
Councilmember John Nolte
Councilmember Victor Preciado
Councilmember Nora Garcia
Vice Mayor Elizabeth Ontiveros-Cole
Councilmember Steve Lustro
Absent: Councilmember Robert Torres
STAFF PRESENT
James Makshanoff, City Manager
Sonia Carvalho, City Attorney
Karla Shipman, Deputy City Clerk I|
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PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
At the direction of the City Council Emergency Sub Committee, beginning with the July 18, 2022 Council meeting, emailed comments will no longer be read into the record during Council meetings. However, they will be included as part of the record/meeting minutes and names will be read into the record with respect to members of the public being in favor or in opposition of a particular agenda item.
Comments were taken only for the Discussion Item after the staff presentation.
DISCUSSION
• Discussion of Draft Rent Stabilization Ordinance
City Attorney Carvalho gave the staff presentation.
Live comments were as follows:
The following spoke in support of the item:
Raul Pulido
Yesenia Miranda Meza
Darren Allen Knowles
Evelia Rocha
Benjamin Wood
Maria Rangel (in Spanish through interpreter from the public) Sofia Arroyo (in Spanish through interpreter from the public) Sergio Marmalejo (in Spanish through interpreter from the public) Debra Mendez
The following spoke in opposition to the item:
Beth Brooks
John Defalco
Rheannon Arciniega
Kevin Curry
Cathy Tessier
Gregory Estel
The following submitted speaker cards but did not wish to speak:
Daryl Beans (opposed)
Dennis Querio (opposed)
Michael Simonds (opposed)
Jeff Rowan (opposed)
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Gloria Salazar (support)
Mario Lopez Moreno (support)
Jose Calderon (support-card turned in too late to speak) Councilmembers asked questions and made comments regarding the item. Issues raised included: enforcement within the ordinance, staff resources to carry out enforcement, how this would align with the current mobile home ordinance, revenue needed for more personnel to enforce the ordinance, the need for a rental unit inspection ordinance to also protect tenants, the intent of the urgency due to a rent emergency situation, more opportunities to help with home ownership, and a request for more legal services to be offered by the City to help tenants fight landlords that violate that law.
The Mayor asked that the ordinance look more like the Culver City ordinance as to the format. He also asked the City Manager to bring back some funding options for providing legal services.
This item was for discussion only so there was no council action.
ADJOURNMENT
The City Council Meeting adjourned at 7:29 p.m. on July 26, 2022.
Respectfully submitted, ATTEST:
ROSALIA A. BUTLER, MMC TIM SANDOVAL
City Clerk/Secretary of the Pomona Mayor/Chair of the Pomona Housing Authority/Successor Agency to the Housing Authority/Successor Agency to the Redevelopment Agency Redevelopment Agency
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