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• 1 Discussing these! proposals , Joellyn Murphy said that lies using apartment managers at a dollar a unit would give the city some incc rie , and that while licensing at the State level would perhaps be a better arrangement , it might take years to accomplish. She said that among the principal methods of discrimination ir. Redwood City were denial that apartments were available and quoting higher rents to blacks . She pointed out that much of the fair housing area had been pre- empted by the State in the Rumford Fair Housing Act and urged the repeal of its pre-emption clause . She said that AB 1418 this session is aimed at doing so . The Committee proceeded through the recommendations , item by item. Mary Iierderson asked if any had been adopted by, the other three cities to which they have. been put , Palo Alto , I enio Park , and Cupertino . Joellyn Murphy said that some had . Mary Henderson asked if any junior colleges er crentl.y offer the short course for apartment mar•:-zgers ISCFH recommends be a requirement ..for licensing . Joei lyn • NurpL,- said that none (li , though Foothill College was considering it . She said ivCI"H had materials available for use in such a course , and lawyers willing to participate . Mary Henderson asked if she knew of any cities that required the licensing of managers . Joellyn Murphy said that she did not , and that the Rumford Act pre-empted the urea . But discri } i-Aation "is rampant, " she said , and if the State is not doing the job , the cities must . Bob Norris asked if any other state had such c rdinances . Joellyn Murphy &a '-d that she didn ' t know, but would find out . Bob Norris asked if. MCII'H meant Coat even the manager of a duplex should be licensed . Joellyn Murphy said yes ; they did. Mary Henderson said that when the state pre-empts an area it is "tilting e -c windmills " for a city to try to get jurisdiction back . She suggested that taybe the cities ought to get together and force the state to act in the fair housing area . Housing Aide Ransom asked how much area the pre-emption covered . City Manager Fales replied that pre-emption decides which agency is going to regulate an area , as opposed to levying a fee on it . Pre-emption generally covers regulatory business licenses , but not revenue producing ones . Mary Henderson observed that Item IWo , too, would fall under State pre-emption- - that apartment managers be required to maintain a list of all vacancies available and their rental terms . She suggested that repeal of the Rumford Act pre-eirption might be taking "a small step forward , a giant step backward" if Redwood City adopted ordinances that are a step forward , while other cities took a step backward . Joellyn Murphy said that that was true , but that obviously the statewide jurisdiction was not working--they have pre-empted the area but are obviously not going to take care of it . Charles Olivia, of Challenge Developments , said that the local office of the Department of Housing and Urban Development had made available posters advertising that federal fair housing law made it illegal to discriminate . He said that Challenge had laid down policy that anybody caught discriminating would be immediately dismissed . MINUTES HOUSING CONCERNS COMMITTEE JUTVL 28 , 1972 PAGE 2 OF 5