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ORAL COMMUNICATIONS Mayor Britschgi announced that Speakers Cards submitted related to correspondence to Council, and will be considered under the Written Communications category of the agenda. Other oral communications will follow Item 2. -------------------------------------------------------------------- REPORTS OF BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES 2. Housing and Human Concerns Committee Report re Mobilehome Park rent increases (3 -1 -06) Jack Greenalch, 870 Seminole Way, Chairman of the Housing and Human Concerns Committee, reviewed the events relating to deliberations of the Committee, and summarized the subject report, and commented and replied to questions by Council, indicating that he is not aware of any new issues presented that the Council has not already heard at its April 22, 1985, meeting; that the issues of concern to the mobilehome owners, listed in the subject report and relating to the five -year lease, had been heard by the Committee and discussed and voted on by them. M /S: Chandler/ that the Council only hear speakers with new information pertaining to this issue, and not a repetition of what Council has already heard. The motion died for lack of a second. Joyce Pennell, 3015 E. Bayshore, and president of GSMOL, indicated that they would like the Housing and Human Concerns Committee to reconsider the points of the lease because they believed previous discussion regarding it had not been done in a democratic way. Walter Hoque, 1933 E. Bayshore Road, also said he believed that the lease had not been covered in a democratic way, and that it had been their understanding there would be no rent increase until it was settled by the Rent Stabilization Committee, but at the meeting of the park owner and the Committee they were not asked to attend; that the owner of LaMar has notified them in writing that if a mobilehome under ten feet wide and over twenty years old is sold, it may not remain in the park, which would mean substantial loss to the homeowner and thought this was done in reprisal; and that he believes the park owners are unfair, and that for negotiations to be fair, all parties should be represented. Karilyn Duarte, 262 E. Edith Avenue, Los Altos, indicated her concern, having recently discovered that a small number of homeowners continue to foment dissatisfaction; noted that nobody was truly satisfied with the action taken by Council at the April 22 meeting, but that it was a reasonable compromise, and described the efforts to accommodate the various concerns during the process of revising the lease. She said that the position of the park owners is that there is agreement that the lease would be implemented, that the associated documents are workable from the standpoint of handling some of the concerns of the mobilehome owners, and that they are now asking Council to allow them the opportunity to make the proposal work. Reg.Mtg. 6/17/85 Page 2 MINUTE BOOK NO. 45 Page No. 466