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hopefully getting them to agree to remedy the situation , and after three months or so he would go back and take a look at their rental records to see whether they had accepted any minority tenants who had applied . • IYr . Syn gave HCC members a copy of a draft proposal for a landlord-tenant mediation board to deal with non-discriminatory housing problems . He said that setting up this board was his major project presently . Bob Norris suggested that to save time the HCC might schedule a meeting to which it would invite all 53 of the landlords . The names of those that didn ' t come could be given to the HRC , he suggested . Joellyn Murphy said that when Menlo Park had tried such a meeting , no landlords had come . Fred Soderer said that he thought that the HCC wouldn ' t get much input at a mass meeting with the landlords and that it would be poor psychology to make it one large group . Chairman Keckley said that he didn ' t want to sit up night after night , but that he thought it was worth going over individual cases in a one-to-one situation . He said he thought a lot of people discriminate and don ' t know it . Joellyn Murphy said that in Menlo Park a hundred percent of those owners or managers who made appointments had kept them. The groups that met with them were composed of two MOPH members (one white and one black) , a member of the City staff, and a member of their Housing Advisory Board . City Manager Fales said that , if the Committee wanted to, the staff could set up meetings on the model used in Palo Alto andIenlohPafk. Joellyn hour in Murphy arp Alto , said that the meetings had taken fifteen minutes half an hour in Menlo Park. She said that she thought 35 to 40 owners of the 53 would be likely to voluntarily come to such a meeting in Redwood City . Gene Moriguchi asked if licensing apartments might be a way for the City to have sanctions against owners who disregard the Mayor ' s letter and continue to discriminate . City Manager Fales said that apartments will be licensed under the City business license if the City Council accepts his recommendation . But the Redwood City business license is revenue producing , not regulatory , he said , and it can ' t be both. If the business license was dropped , he said , the City would lose $65 , 000 a year in revenues . Gene Gutierrez pointed out that the State has already pre-empted the fair housing field . City Manager Pales said that , rather than going around or through State pre-emption , it was best for city governments to try to get the State pre-emption dropped . He suggested that if AB 1878 doesn ' t get at the heart of the pre-emption matter , the City might want to propose its own bill . MINUTES HOUSING CONCERNS COMMITTEE JULY 26 , 1972 PAGE 2 OF 5