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<br /> MINUTES JULY 26 , 1972
<br /> HOUSING CONCERNS COIcWIITTEE 7 : 00. 00 A . M .
<br /> COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES BUILDING 1.400 ROOSEVELT AVENUE WOOD CITY
<br /> • Ivta BERS PRESENT: Chairman Paul C . Keckley , William Floyd , Melvin C . Kerwin ,
<br /> Eugene Moriguchi , Robert E . Norris , and Frederick A . Soderer .
<br /> MEMBERS ABSENT: Mary W . Henderson and Sylvester McGuire .
<br /> STAFF PRESENT : City Manager Fales , Assistant City Manager Smith , Building
<br /> Official Gyselbrecht , Planning Director Schroeter , Housing
<br /> Aide Ransom, Deputy City Attorney Riback, and Gene Gutierrez ,
<br /> City Manager ' s staff .
<br /> VISITORS : Kathleen Mahany , 1026 Vera Avenue , Redwood City
<br /> Joellyn Murphy , 618 Homer Avenue , Palo Alto
<br /> Myron Filene , 410 Park Street , Redwood City
<br /> Bill Shilstone , Redwood City Tribune
<br /> Wai-Yin Syn , Human Relations Commission , 234 Marshall , R. C .
<br /> Helen Proctor , 1122 Hudson Street , Redwood City
<br /> Chairman Keckley called the meeting to order at 7 : 10 A.M. He announced that
<br /> Planning Commissioner Melvin Kerwin was replacing Commissioner Marty Mohr on
<br /> the Housing Concerns Committee .
<br /> Chairman Keckley announced that a large group of people had written him requesting
<br /> to be heard on housing problems in the evening , not the morning , since they were
<br /> working people, many of them with young children . The Committee decided to meet
<br /> at 8 : 00 P .M. , Wednesday, August 2 , 1972 , in the Community Activities Building .
<br /> Chairman Keckley announced that he had mailed out letters of concern about
<br /> racial discrimination in Redwood City rentals and the City ' s intention to do
<br /> something about it to the owners of the 1+00 duplex and apartment structures in
<br /> the City . He had had several calls commending the letter , other Councilmen had
<br /> heard adverse criticism, but all in all there had been very little response so
<br /> far to the letters , he said .
<br /> Housing Aide Ransom reported that the County Planning Commission would get the
<br /> staff report on the Housing Element at its meeting that morning and would
<br /> presumably make a decision about it . From what he heard , he said , the staff
<br /> report recommended accepting the major changes that Redwood City had urged .
<br /> ( Subsequently , the County Planning Commission accepted the staff report and
<br /> passed the Housing Element on to the Board of Supervisors with the recommendation
<br /> that it be adopted , with those changes . )
<br /> Housing Aide Ransom introduced Wai -yin Syn, staff member of the San Mateo County
<br /> Human Relations Commission (HRC ) , who explained what the HRC could do to follow
<br /> up the Midpeninsula Citizens for Fair Housing NCFH) audit of discrimination in
<br /> Redwood City . The HRC would be happy to participate , he said , but he was the
<br /> only HRC staff assigned to housing and would , of course , have other tasks . He
<br /> said he would go out and confront the 53 discriminating owners or managers ,
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