File #: 2017-4352 (90 minutes)   
Type: Regular Agenda Item
Body: City Council
On agenda: 6/6/2017
Title: Recommendation to Receive the Rent Program Regulatory Fee Study; Adoption of Resolution Adopting a Program Fee to Implement and Administer the City's Rent Review, Rent Stabilization and Limitations on Evictions Ordinance, as Amended, and Implementing Policies; and Final Passage of Ordinance Amending the Alameda Municipal Code by Amending Various Sections of Article XV of Chapter VI Concerning (1) Review of Rent Increases Applicable to All Rental Units and Rent Stabilization Applicable to Certain Rental Units and (2) Limitations on Evictions and the Payment of Relocation Assistance Applicable to all Rental Units (eliminating "no cause" ground for eviction). (Rent Stabilization 265).
Attachments: 1. Exhibit 1 - Redline version of Ordinance, 2. Exhibit 2 - Rent Program Regulatory Fee Study, June 2017, 3. Resolution, 4. Ordinance, 5. Correspondence, 6. Correspondence 2
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Recommendation to Receive the Rent Program Regulatory Fee Study;

Adoption of Resolution Adopting a Program Fee to Implement and Administer the City's Rent Review, Rent Stabilization and Limitations on Evictions Ordinance, as Amended, and Implementing Policies; and

Final Passage of Ordinance Amending the Alameda Municipal Code by Amending Various Sections of Article XV of Chapter VI Concerning (1) Review of Rent Increases Applicable to All Rental Units and Rent Stabilization Applicable to Certain Rental Units and (2) Limitations on Evictions and the Payment of Relocation Assistance Applicable to all Rental Units (eliminating "no cause" ground for eviction). (Rent Stabilization 265).
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council

From: Jill Keimach, City Manager

Re: Recommendation to: 1) Receive the Rent Program Regulatory Fee Study; 2) Adoption of Resolution Adopting a Program Fee to implement and administer the City's Rent Review, Rent Stabilization and Limitations on Evictions Ordinance, as amended, and Implementing Policies; and 3) Final Passage of Ordinance Amending the Alameda Municipal Code by Amending Various Sections of Article XV of Chapter VI Concerning (1) Review of Rent Increases Applicable to All Rental Units and Rent Stabilization Applicable to Certain Rental Units and (2) Limitations on Evictions and the Payment of Relocation Assistance Applicable to all Rental Units

BACKGROUND

Following the City Council's adoption of the Rent Review, Rent Stabilization and Limitations on Evictions Ordinance (Ordinance) in March 2016, the City contracted with SCI Consulting Group (SCI) to determine the costs of administering the Ordinance and any related policies, such as the Capital Improvement Plan Policy, and to develop an appropriate fee that would cover the cost of the rent program. SCI is a public finance consulting firm with over 30 years of experience in helping public agencies in California with planning, justifying and establis...

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