From: Cordell Hindler
To: City Clerk Dept User
Subject: public comments- Open Session prior to closed session Date: Thursday, February 17, 2022 3:11:16 PM
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Hello Mayor Butt, Council Members and Staff,
I have Some Comments in related to the Closed Session
1. I think that The City Attorney Has Done an Outstanding Job in following the direction of the Council
2. Also I must Commend Mr. Threets for his hard work in reviewing the evidence that is being taken care of.
And I would consider that the Next City Manager Would Display Professionalism and a sense of Elegance Sincerely
Cordell
From: Cordell Hindler
To: City Clerk Dept User
Subject: public comments- Open Forum
Date: Thursday, February 17, 2022 3:15:40 PM
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Good Evening Mayor Butt, council Members and Staff.
I have a couple of Comments for the Record
1. for the March 22nd Agenda, The Council should invite DR Hurst to Provide an Update on the District
2. Also for the 22nd,
The Council should Reinstate the Standing Committees
Sincerely
Cordell
From: David Hanks
To: City Clerk Dept User
Cc: David Hanks
Subject: public comments – Open Forum 2/22/2022 6:30pm
Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2022 11:43:00 AM
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To Mayor Butts and the City Council,
On March 23, 2021, this body passed, adopted and enacted Ordinance No. 02-21 N.S. titled: An urgency ordinance of the Richmond City Council enacting a temporary moratorium on certain evictions of residential tenants in Richmond impacted b the Covid-19 Pandemic through the state of the local emergency and sixty days thereafter.
The City of Richmond has an Owner Move In provision in the “Richmond Fair Rent, Just Cause Eviction, and Homeowner Protection Ordinance” that allows an owner of a property to evict a tenant if the owner intends to occupy or a qualified person intends to occupy the property as their residence and must certify for three years that the property is still occupied by the owner or qualified person. This provision of the Richmond Rent Ordinance has been put on a moratorium as the result of emergency Ordinance No. 02-21 N.S. so I assume that this moratorium can only be modified or eliminated by action of the City Council to reinstate all or part of the provisions of the Rent Ordinance.
I am the administrator of an estate that owns a single-family home in Richmond. This property was rented out when the owner’s dementia progressed to where she required 24/7 care in an assisted living facility. In that facility she contracted Covid and died as a result. Now in settling the estate I have found that because of the Richmond moratorium on their own Rent Ordinance that the only way for a buyer of this property to be able to occupy this property as their own home is to invoke the state Ellis Act provisions for removing a rental property from the market. As a result, I am discovering that many potential buyers of this property are showing no interest in buying this property when they learn that they will have to gain occupancy through the Ellis Act. This has resulted in an impairment of the property value to the estate of over $100,000 vs. similar properties that are selling that are not tenant occupied.
The decedent in my case was not ever able to move back into her home but if she had recovered and been able to move back home, the current environment in Richmond would have enabled the tenant to retain possession of the home and forced the owner to continue living in assisted living or renting a different property. This does not seem to me to be in the public interest. Is it Richmond’s stance that we would rather have a city full of rented properties than a city with a high owner occupancy rate.
This is one unintended consequence of the emergency ordinance and another is the downward pressure on property tax revenues since a property would sell for $100,000+ less than it’s market value and I would think would be a defensible reason for a lower assessed value due to government restrictions on the property. You can choose to continue the eviction moratorium for non-payment of rent or other reasons but we are at the point in this Covid Pandemic where it would seem that enabling a tenant to have a superior right over the owner to occupy a single family residence is not in in the public interest.
I hope this can be discussed at tonight’s City Council Meeting which I will try to join via Zoom.
Sincerely,
David L Hanks
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From: Cordell Hindler
To: City Clerk Dept User
Subject: public comments O-3 Study and Action Session
Date: Thursday, February 17, 2022 3:21:20 PM
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Good Evening Mayor Butt, Council members and Staff,
I had been in Conversation with the Principal at EL Cerrito High, and she Is interested in hearing about the Youth Council
and so I have a Meeting with her on the 28th of Feburary to go into more detail on the Functions of the Youth Council
Sincerely
Cordell
From: Cordell Hindler
To: City Clerk Dept User
Subject: public comments P.1 State of the City
Date: Thursday, February 17, 2022 3:25:16 PM
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Good Evening Mayor Butt, Council Members and Staff
this is the most well put together presentation that I have ever witnessed I commend the Office of the Mayor for the slides
Sincerely
Cordell