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Recommendation to Determine Council's Interest in Authoring a Ballot Argument Against the Initiative Measure that Proposes to Amend the City Charter by Incorporating into the Charter, Ordinance 3148 Rent Stabilization and Limitations on Evictions, with Certain Modifications on the November 6, 2018 Ballot. (City Clerk 2220)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Lara Weisiger, City Clerk
Re: Recommendation to Determine Council's Interest in Authoring a Ballot Argument Against the Initiative Measure that Proposes to Amend the City Charter by Incorporating into the Charter, Ordinance 3148 Rent Stabilization and Limitations on Evictions, with Certain Modifications on the November 6, 2018 Ballot
BACKGROUND
On October 17, 2017, the City Council accepted the Certificate of Sufficiency for an initiative petition and adopted Resolution No. 15319, "Calling an Election to be Consolidated with the General Municipal and Statewide General Election on November 6, 2018 and Submitting to the Voters at That Election a Measure that Proposes to Amend the City Charter by Incorporating into the Charter Ordinance 3148, with Certain Modifications." The resolution, which contains the full text of the measure, is attached as Exhibit 1.
On March 20, 2018, the City Council subsequently adopted Resolution No. 15363 amending the ballot question to read:
City of Alameda Initiative Measure: Shall the Charter be amended by incorporating the City's Rent Review, Rent Stabilization and Limitations on Evictions law, with the following modifications: (a) preclude City Council from amending the law in response to changing conditions and concerns, and require voter approval instead, and (b) eliminate the December 31, 2019 sunset clause?
When the Council first placed the measure on the ballot on October 17, 2017, the Council did not determine its interest in authoring a ballot argument. The matter of ballot arguments was to be placed on a future agenda to provid...
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