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e I MINUTES OCTOBER 11, 1972 HOUSING CONCERNS COMMITTEE 7 : 00 A.M . COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES BUILDING 1400 ROOSEVELT AVENUE REDWOOD CITY MEMBERS PRESENT: Chairman Paul C . Keckley , Melvin C . Kerwin, and Frederick A . Soderer . MEMBERS ABSENT : William Floyd , Mary W . Henderson, Sylvester McGuire , Eugene Moriguchi , and Robert E . Norris . STAFF PRESENT: City Manager Fales , Planning Director Schroeter, Housing Aide Ransom, and Deputy City Attorney Riback. VISITORS : . Kathy Mahaney, 1026 Vera Avenue , . Redwood City Max Rice , P . 0 . Box 295 , Ikedwood City ° • • Mary Davey and Joellyn Murphy , MCFH ' Lacking a quorum, Chairman Keckley convened the meeting as a study session at •7 : 15 A. M. • ANNOUNCEMENTS . . Housing Aide Ransom announced that the City Council had unanimously approved the Housing Concerns Committee ' s statement to the hearings being conducted by the Assembly Judiciary Committee on the "Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act . " He also announced that the Tri-County Apartment Association was holding a public meeting on October 18 at 7 : 30 P. M . at the American Legion Hall , 651 El Camino Real . One topic of the meeting would be fair housing laws . Tri -County had mailed announcements of the meeting and a resume of the Mid- peninsula Citizens for. Fair Housing audit results , along with a pamphlet on the fair housing laws , to all Redwood City apartment owners or managers of three units or more , he said . A SECOND AUDIT City Manager Fales asked if the Committee had taken further action on the suggestions made in his memorandum to the Committee on fair housing . Any action to be taken should be done before next year ' s budget is drawn up , he said . Work on the budget begins in January . He reminded the Committee that one suggestion in the memorandum was that a second audit be done . Chairman Keckley asked if the $2000 estimate for the audit was realistic . The Manager said that the sum would cover the office costs and research of MCFH. The Mayor said that it would probably not be too long before the City had its own audit procedure . That was good , Joellyn Murphy said . MCFH would like nothing better than to be able to go out of business , she said . In fact, it was having a board meeting to decide whether or, not to go on with auditing . MCFH was questioning its utility . A re-audit df Palo Alto had shown that the overall discrimination rate was less than before , she said . But that doesn ' t mean that discrimination has Mf&UTES HOUSING CONCERNS COMMITTEE OCTOBER 11 , 1972 PAGE 1 OF 5