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problems and that it had taken the time to use the Census data to help under- stand the problem . He wondered if. the City would be wilJ.Ing to testify as to its belief that it should get involved in the problem . He had needed to know within a few days , Ransom said , and in the absence of the Manager , the Mayor had decided that it was premature to say that the City would make a statement at the hearings . But , the committee counsel had indicated that if the City got in touch on the 10th or 11th , it might still be able to testify , Ransom said . Jim Fales pointed out that there were other ways to get on the record , too , including a written statement . IIe said that the Landlord and Tenant Act was part of a slow , ongoing legislative process of providing a general umbrella of consumer protection . Cities , he said , have not been involved in this before . But it would be beneficial even if Redwood City said nothing more than : " the City is concerned with landlord- tenant relations , that they are a real problem in our case , and that we don ' t know how much we ' re going to get involved . " Currently , he said , there is no amalgamation of groups at the state level that speak for tenants , and the League of California Cities has said nothing on the subject . Saying nothing more than that Redwood City is looking at this would be saying something that many State legislators haven ' t heard before , he said . Had the cities been strongly interested in the Rumford Act , there wouldn ' t have been State pre- emption in that area , he said . Bob Norris said that he was impressed by the Act, but that he thought it might be difficult for the Committee to go through it line-by—line . He said he thought the Committee might say it favored that sort of thing . Mel Kerwin suggested that the Committee say , instead , that as a City , we are concerned i•. i.th the general area of landlord-tenant relations . Fred Soder. er asked whether the Act was a compilation of various ordinances from here and there or had begun from Ground Zero . Dave Ransom said that the Commissioners had drawn up a tentative draft and circulated it , holding hearings in some major cities , San Francisco among them , and then had significantly rewritten the Act . Jim Pales said that this was the first time the elements had been put together , that it was a new thing . Ransom said that he thought 'the Committee ' s alternatives were to write a state - ment on the Act and recommend it to the Council , to make a detailed criticism of the Act and recommend it to the Council , or to recommend nothing to the Council . Bob Norris asked the Committee ' s pleasure . Mel Kerwin suggested the Committee go ahead with a statement on the lines suggested by the Manager : that the City was concerned with the area and looking into it seriously . Gene Moriguchi agreed . When there was no further debate , Bob Norris observed that it was the concensus of the Committee that that be done . He instructed staff to write a statement and circulate it to Committee members for their review before putting it before the Council on October 9 . Jim Fales suggested that the Council might be interested in bringing the matter before the League of California Cities to have it discussed by all cities in MINUTES HOUSING CONCERNS COMMITTEE SEPTEMBER 27 , 1972 PAGE 3 of