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' Y Y Mmt'lES MAY 10, 1972 HOUSING CONCERNS COMMITTEE 7 : 00 A. M . CITY MANAGER ' S OFFICE CITY HAIL =WOOD CITY MEMBERS PRESENT : Chairman Paul C . Keckley , William Floyd , Tony Gonzales , Eugene Moriguchi , Robert E . Norris , and Frederick A. Soderer . MEMBERS ABSENT : Mary W . Henderson, Sylvester McGuire , and Martin F . Mohr . STAFF PRESENT : Assistant City Manager Smith, Planning Director Schroeter , and Housing Aide Ransom. VISITORS : Maxim K . Rice , P . 0 . Box 295 , Redwood City Louis Knowles , P . 0 . Box 295 , Redwood City Chairman Keckley called the meeting to order at 7 : 05 A . M . and turned it over to Housing Aide Ransom . Mr . Ransom told Committee members that the County Planning Commission would that afternoon set a date for the public hearing on the proposed County Housing Element . (The Planning Commission set June 28 as the date . ) Mr . Floyd said that he wanted to correct a couple of mistakes in the Minutes of the previous Housing Concerns Committee meeting . He s ^ id that the price of the parcel of land on Hancock Street discussed by contractor Jim Harris was $35 , 000, not $30 , 000 as the Minutes read . He said that Harris also had not been "born and raised " but merely raised in Redwood City . • • The Committee began a page-by-page review of the draft Housing Report . (All quoted material hereafter is from the draft Report . ) On Page One , "Introduction, " Mr . Norris asked what sort of "additional housing studies " the Planning Depart- ment "anticipates making" and what relation they would have to the Housing Element . Mr . Ransom said that the Department had made no concrete plans for further studies , but that a study of the condition of the housing stock (parti - cularly in the Poverty Target Area ) had been discussed . He said that the Housing Report as it stands should suffice as background for the Housing Element . Planning Director Ken Schroeter said that the Planning Department is always updating existing studies as new information comes available and that it will do this with housing, too . Mr . Norris asked if any order of magnitude could be given to the 1970 Census undercounting of the community ' s "Spanish-speaking , black, poor , and transient residents . " Planning Director Schroeter said that the racial breakdown of the 1969 Special Census could be used , but that it had counted families , not persons , so to get a count of persons the IBM cards would have to be run through again with a different program--a costly process . Mr . Soderer said that the amount of undercounting shouldn ' t be left up in the air . Mr . Gonzales said that he had discovered that there were more Spanish surname children enrolled in County schools than the number used by the County Planning Department for the County ' s total Spanish- surname population . The Committee decided it would rather the Report read that "the Census undercounted minority ethnic groups and the poor" than that it "may have undercounted , " "probably undercounted , " or " seriously undercounted . " MINUTES HOUSING CONCERNS COMMITTEE MAY 10 , 1972 PAGE 1 OF 3