sorry i was moving to asking whether people thought of a good idea since we only have one waiver to get rid of it right away you want to move it up because the first action item after the elections ok i'm not asking if anyone thought but it's one of the poet that's was really asking if we're going to we will try to do that and in his honor absolutely thank you very much ok approval of the regular november eighteenth regular meeting minutes there's a number of changes i'll just tell you about to start off with  on the motion to convey the following recommendation to counsel on the soft story which is the bottom of page two on the third line from the bottom there's a word missing which is whether and instead of we would say and said we have asked our legislative act advocate in there and then the misspelling of there in the previous sentence should be corrected  text in the italics which it should be following instead of flowing and stevens and now it's that in the lower case session the board rather than we agreed so those are my typo changes i didn't think anybody will argue and thank you for saving me the trouble for that would have any trouble with that that said i wanted to mention that i thought the committee minutes were particularly detailed and thanks seconds that's especially where it's a last chance and the others just wasn't one yet some people i look at i say i'm just looking to see if there's anybody who's going to say anything ok commissioner kelly yes missioner webster yes mr stevens yes russian carries unanimously i happily turn the meeting back over to you changes they want now we'll put it on the agenda for next time to have a question committee assignments for what term for the whole four years or you know generally we redo them as needed been sometimes it's been every year definitely when there is an election and then i make a formal a this is in my practice to make a formal attempt to see what people want to do but a lot of it happens informally throughout the year mean you're always free to say i no longer want to serve on a committee and ask if there is room to serve if they're on one that you're not concealing at any time like almost all administer of things judy it's just up to i don't have actually have anything did you have something hundred item c i'd like to hear from the chairperson a vice chair person if there's anything to say i was just going to say i don't have anything in particular i would like to say except for this last year on my board on this board you know i would really like us to focus on see if we can make some movement on done overall habitability issues and it's one of the reasons that i ran for office and in the eight years there hasn't been significant movement within our counterparts here who sit here on tuesday nights to actually address this issue in a comprehensive way so that's what i would like to have happen this year particular judy i think that you know i hadn't actually  thought much about this but i really just wanted to say that this year being vice chair for the first time i become aware about the extraordinary amount of work they chair stevens puts in and the really long hours and you know for the public  chairs and the vice chair stu not receive additional compensation and i have to say that lisa puts in practically a full time job on this and i just want to thank you for being willing to serve another year ok action items will go on to item six a one which is that recommendation to amend regulation one thousand four hundred didn't remove the waiver of i'm sorry waivers i didn't write it down you're correct so for is the proposal to approve staff recommendations on the following request for a waiver a waiver of late registration penalties and this is two eleven byron this is one that was held over and i just was going to point out you know the addresses to eleven byron yes but it actually was held over a bleed from the september meeting september i would like to move the approval of the waiver as specified i will second that i just wanted to comment that i had asked for this to be held over because there was a discrepancy with the rental tracking system as viewable online and that's been cleared up and the waivers committee also took a close look at this waiver and i see no reason not to approve this african  so shelton seconded any discussion all those in favor please say i post great all right the next one is hopefully easiest discussion and possible action regarding our two thousand and fourteen calendar and just on the item on the it's printed in two places here in the report and then on the actual calendar there's a typo which is it should say monday september fifteenth that's  monday that was actually my fault because when i originally sent it to amy i had the wrong date and even even though you look at the calendar over and over again sometimes the third in the fourth monday seem to be what did you manage so monday it would be monday september fifteenth which is are actually the third monday and the changes are that twenty seventh is because of martin luther king holiday in january february twenty fourth is because of both lincoln's birthday and presidents day and then in may we need to change it for malcolm x s birthday and  memorial day so you have i put the monday may twelfth as our default but if that seems too soon we could go to the thursdays well ok i'll start at the end and questions no question ok can i ask why you chose the twenty second as opposed to the twenty sixth of may like thursday as opposed to consistent monday that's moral day oh yeah that's got to be two mondays in a row and i only put in the  i wanted to comment that i want to be able to be here on monday february twenty fourth but i took a pretty good look at this at home and i don't see any other time that the board could schedule the meeting i would have talked to the chair ahead of time so i think you should just go ahead and meet without me on monday february twenty fourth i also wanted to suggest that we perhaps consider meeting on a thursday in january because today was a very warm day in berkeley yet it's really freezing in here and we're all wearing coats and some people are well most people rain coats and some people are crazy and i just thought the maybe if we met on a thursday it might be warmer and to that end i was looking at the  it might be an interesting experiment the orange depending on which side they're on i don't advise anyone to wear orange one hundred come on here just for discussion purposes because i know we don't have that big of an agenda and i like to work on stuff that we do it says in  item six eight two that we should have regular meetings on monday unless the monday falls on a city holiday or major religious holiday which i'm an atheist so that doesn't apply therefore we should move on without decide to people who have calendars and for the owners among us makes it easy if you keep it according to the simple schedule the real problem is that members of the public who watch us are not going to really peer over the schedule and so they have a right to see it when it's expected unless we really can't do it so we should even make some sacrifices if we have to in order to keep to it straight schedule if we can and it was curious and pardon me if i missed this about something like thursdays that would be warmer because it takes them so long heat up the building i was willing to let it go because i do i am concerned that the public have adequate notice and also what i don't really have any guarantee the critters they would be warmer although it does seem warmer when other folks are meeting in here like this it's not like this has huge crowds or anything but if i may yes i would i would not despite the fact it is very cold in here recommend that you make that consideration because hard for me to project twelve years in and told months in advance as to what exactly is happening so you know like a family vacation isn't typically scheduled twelve months in advance and then i'm wondering like if we sever this into six month periods and i feel like having scheduling them to the very meeting before seems and we could schedule a couple months before the next you know the six month period that will start in a few months i don't did like real clear value because i don't think people generally like i don't think someone's scheduling to go to the berkeley one board meeting in twelve months so dave i would say that again we should try to stick to the normal time no matter what and it's best to do it but at any time of the year unless i'm mistaken j or map tell me we can amend the schedule as long as it's with thirty days notice is not t e it has to be proper notice that a couple of issues here that the resolution until it's change is still inform the policy and the resolution says that it's a third monday of each month and last monday falls on  the brown act requires that legislative bodies make a yearly schedule for their meetings so i mean i i would imagine i need to look at the wording of that particular section of brown act but i would imagine that you could do two six month ones but but that's not the way it's been done to pass right under and when they do when we do have a holiday in the way then the second monday is a policy so can we move on this  please and i've noted and well it will be noted for the public records that kathy has a conflict with the february date ace is already formed as well in advance that the other two dates the july and august excuse me august july and august meetings are for one minute and just double triple checking already moot point we've scheduled board meetings on days that aren't second mondays to work with people schedules before i have a suggestion that we approve this tonight and that since july and august are out there a bit we can we can come back again if we want to amend it and i'm happy to talk about it with people like dave the only thing that matter pointed out is that the brand i require is to make a schedule and that we have a policy about what that schedule should look like we're doing our best to follow that policy but the most important thing is that we probably get some schedule and so whenever it does a conflict that's the time since that's the normal time that everyone in our lives has tried to set apart for the purpose of making this meeting that's the time that we try to fit into people's schedules so everything we've done before has been totally on or in line with that policy the only important thing is that we make a schedule now a later time can change their schedule so yeah and i'm i'm not going to let it go i'll get in touch with ace and we'll try and figure out if we can do it because i want everybody to be able to attend if they can so it's doing to a vote all those in favor  quite happy that you recognize for all your work and they did pass it as as is all right i'll move on to the update on the tobacco free multi unit housing ordinates this did  not go as well as we had all hoped that's because i was in charge and for our side no i think dave you're off the hook for it the two most important things to take away from this other than we all knew that they were changing the enforcement mechanism from the one of private action which was tenant vs tenant to city in force mint and that had a lot of cascading fallout within the ordinance but the two things to take away from this is smoking will be illegal in all multi unit housing starting may first two thousand and fourteen i'm sorry would you just spell it out for anyone watching the smoking in all multi unit housing uncontrolled or not it doesn't matter to everything if it's multi unit housing it will be illegal to smoke inside starting may first two thousand and fourteen the second part of this is the burden will be on the property owners to see that the ordinance is implemented that means notification of tenants as the city has proposed right now will be done by individual property owners about the new law and overt and that there will be city enforcement and over time property owners will have to enforce this through the lease clause enforcement so it will be if it will be in the leas say that because of our participation and collaboration with the health commission and some of the interest groups like the lung association the ordinance that they did they passed is more fair and it is a good framework for an ordinance but unfortunately there's there was a lack of understanding i think by those making the recommendations and those approving them about the complexity of the landlord tenant relationships and their no understanding of the real value of trying to reduce conflict you know when we change the law as significantly as we're doing in this case so the things that that may be problematic about what they did is that there will be as it stands now there will not be one consistent message issued by the city to all the affected parties it'll go to the property owners and then disseminated out that there's no mandatory mediation tenants do not have the ability to get out of their lease agreements if the owner  hasn't done what's legally required by informing them so you move in and there's a smoker next door or you smoke and you don't know when you move in that you weren't allowed to you can't get out of your lease for that and we will not have a registry so we don't know we will not no how well whether this is actually working to have one hundred percent smoke free housing in berkeley or how quickly so there is a just a few other things i want to tell you guys about that  they did not a any of jesse era gains amendments but the other thing that's important to know is that this what they did say there was that the enforcement which is one of the things in the memos that if you looked at they say they will enforce it is a citation first not an infraction which is criminal implications except an egregious cases and they did not define egregious cases so it's an open book and enforcement will be by health housing and community services using that language would be illegal because it would be a unilateral change the staff made absolutely no comment on during the council meeting about what whether they were going to put that forward or not however the city will be providing suggested language for lisa denims but there was no explicit agreement that owners have to use the language provided by the city and they did also agree that for written complaints they will have an under penalty of perjury clause although that is not written into the ordinance either i said there's still no registry we're setting up our ts the rent tracking system to allow for a registry anyway whether we want to go ahead and do that or not is you know that that's a decision about staffing in time and the outreach the city is planning to do outreach for at  least two years beginning in january they had expressed an interest in coordinating with us but at this point and wait the way things have been written we have no idea whether they will have the same message whether you know we're going to be doing a mailing to all of everybody in february anyway and i'm i'm hoping that the staff will still work with us on that and so that we have one message going out so that we can minimize the confusion and conflict when this goes into  t ok that's all i have to say and i'll just say and then judy quick question can you clarify this so if i am in my unit and i have a lease it does prohibit smoking in other words i'm currently legally able to smoke within my building for resolving violation when you get a citation it's like it's like not having your building up to code or something you have cited not being in the zoning ordinance it's on that level if at the city attorney's discretion it is a grievous i think word knows exactly what it means he can issue an infraction if you and once he starts issue infractions for subsequent violations you can assume it will be also infractions once he issues the third infraction it is in his discretion to declare it a criminal violation and there are other repercussions including potentially eviction because of illegal criminal interactions can lead to a criminal difficult to anticipate the way that that citation and violation and misdemeanor might be interpreted by somebody who desires to use this for  and whether the court will accept that argument so i mean i think you've done a good job of laying that are setting for the worst case it was meant to be a worse case setting forth the potential but hypothesizing about i any way is very difficult well i want people to have some idea of what what could happen to them if they want to protect their lease and i'd like i said i think you put did a very good job of setting forth the ways that it could happen the way that it will well we receive a copy of the ordinance how is will property owners receive a copy of the ordinance how it's written and question answer format additional information will that be mailed out to property o something will be announced laszlo and something will be sent to property owners right now it's the city doing it they haven't told us we don't know what their how they're going to do it or what it's going to say at this point again can i respond briefly sure the outreach comm which was are going to meet this month is going to meet this month so i can begin to work preparing something for tenants and landlords so everybody knows as soon as possible what their rights and responsibilities are very good the reason why i ask is because some landlords property owners wanted to know wording what they should say how to say it in an amendment to a rental agreement so that they would encounter problems right now we do on the rent board website we do have language right now for the for a voluntary lease attend and so that's available to anybody who wants it right now but i'm assuming that in the outreach that we will do we will explain again the ordinance will not require certain language just suggested  understand i mean this is not one of the things that you can be a victim for according to the rahm you know good cause for eviction so could you explain how that works if the city  ordinance that conflicts with our regulations because that to me seems like a conflict well put another way of thinking about it is that it's not necessarily a conflict it's just it's just categorizing potentially and i a gain i'm i want to i want to be very careful of my words here it's potentially categorizing something as criminal behavior and leases generally have something written into them that say criminal activity in this unit is and jade sort of whispered something after i responded to commissioner blake's question was a good point is there i don't want to create a doomsday sort of scenario here there are defenses that tenants will have and we won't really know how successful those defenses will be until we're able to see how this would play out in court but that is the reason why why i as a legal department am nervous yeah about an ordinance like this that's not doesn't clearly define what the consequences of those citations are violations or potential misdemeanors are yeah and it's one of those things  would would be able to defend it have defenses to it were judge ultimately for the eviction would be determining whether doing something that does not materially violate your lease it's grounds for eviction or not once it goes from a citation to an infraction the before it even gets to an eviction action the tenant the smoking tenant would also be allowed to that's much i checked on this i guess not with you i remember when i talked to and it seemed to me that the ordinance carries a provision for appeal of the administer a citation either that or administered a set ations are always appealable there's a special board set up i believe for that purpose alone yeah i can look at into that and report back if you'd like but i don't have the answer off the top of my head for the other thing is that the first citation is a warning not even a citation that's as i understand first order first complaint yes the first complaint is that someone will go out contact the offending party and warn them and then if there are additional complaints within a six month period by more than one resident in different units so two people in two different units will have to complain in writing and my response to commissioner shelton earlier that i mentioned that there was a way to evict for substantial violation material term however if something is deemed illegal there is even other ways to  to make sure that that the commissioners understand that it's not just a violation of lease term that might get you a victim it might be illegal activity in and of itself that might allow somebody to get be evicted even if there's not a provision in the lease agreement which switch sites that are rather which has that restriction great thank you and just briefly since you need two people from two different units then in effect this only affects buildings with three or more units  if there's any other discussion on this i'm hoping that in six months we might be able to fix some things but there really was no interest in doing it now and i i'm not i'm hopeful but not confident let's ignored on our behalf anyway next one is the seventy five update on december third two thousand and thirteen council action item on supporting the city of richmond home loan principal reduction program really compelling presentation to the eviction section eight foreclosure committee come in and do a presentation for the board with the idea that we might move forward with requesting council to take some action in support of richmond it seems to me that our committee should continue to monitor what's going on in richmond and we may want to take some of that some kind of action or have a presentation in the future but since the council has discussed this already and made a sort of symbolic gesture of support i think that's pretty much what we're going to get from them right now and so the committee will continue to keep an eye on this but unless other board members feel strongly about having a presentation sooner i think we should wait until something changes judy and alondra i appreciate your comments catherine however i would like to underline i think it would be helpful for this commission to have the presentation by patrick lynch i found it very helpful very informative and i thought he did an excellent job so i think this commission would benefit so that we are all on the same page in terms of knowledge base so i would encourage you as chair of the committee to look at our calendar dates and see if and when it's possible of inviting mr lynch to come because i'm sure there will be updates as richmond goes through their process other people think we should have men i see  longer not i just think that besides us benefiting from it as a commission it becomes something that is more the public's going to hear more about and i think yet i was pretty well read on the issue and i had no idea what was really committee level will identify a couple more dates and present them mr lynch and see what he can come great thank you ok a one hundred and then just seen them i just want to chime in and say yes we should have mr lynch here but i also want to think again for putting this forward wherever you are tonight i am very disappointed in the council's action by all the striking that they did on the side of we were just just see council member out again was just  asking the city manager to examine the feasibility of entering a joint powers agreement does not mean that they would do such an act but rather just study it it's unfortunate the council does not want to city manager to do much these days including such an important act and my other question was i missed this actual vote and i'm looking down at the votes in their eyes except for didn't say as far as i could hear i did not hear anything like i didn't hear him say anything at all yeah jesse ventura one reason you have a presentation for mr lynch is because this is a an ongoing you know news story and whether it's next month or three months down the line there may be developments in the story which will make it much more timely and bring it to the forefront i also  pointed comments about the city council i see us as often our city government has been a brave one in the forefront and i've seen it more and more behind other cities including richmond san francisco oakland in many areas and this is just one of many soft stories another one thankfully fix that mostly know i just i had already said that i think it would it i'm glad we're going to be bringing us so the public live another chance you hear about this and jesse's comment just reminded me i saw this on p b s bill moyer show one of his guests was peter dreier i think it was actually called out richmond as a city where the get the government is taking action and standing up to the banks and how these little movements and that's why i too will share the disappointment that berkeley and our reputation as a being on the cutting edge of democracy did not take this opportunity to support richmond thank you guys all right update on the remodelling rent stabilization program offices if you haven't been there it's quite exciting all starting right now out of the fame he wants to jump in she's probably too we talked about learned the board that we would be doing in and we did our lease negotiations so we're in the process of completely remodeling the lobby area we also will be  repainting and basically upgrading the downstairs we'll be adding employees some are problematic as there was no break room so while we don't have a separate break we will have a small kitchen downstairs  the best part of it is throughout all this we're not in any way changing our normal normal hours that we keep in december so we usually shorten the hours we don't use usually do as the holiday season approaches we usually don't stay late the wednesday night so we're our normal hours during the remainder of the month until the first week in january will be from nine o'clock in the morning we're over for counseling to four forty five so maintain that except for the obvious days ahead of schedule but we hope to remain on that schedule and that we actually might be able to reopen downstairs ideally january third that's maybe overly optimistic we hope to get everything put back in place for a smooth reopening the downstairs on january sixth original schedule was we thought we'd be installing the new workstations on the sixth in the seventh and reopening on the eighth so if you haven't  probably not safe to come by the next few days that's some pictures happy to answer any questions or him if you have anything dad please do public this does not add to the budget no not at all actually saving money yes that i thank you we are rent all of the cost for all of the remodel was part of the renegotiated rent which is roughly fifteen thousand dollars less than it would have been had we not renegotiated the lease thank you for pointing that out in fact even one thing that we discussed the incur incurring we found that just to break down store and reassemble the twenty one year old workstations would cost roughly died thousand dollars and many of exceeded their useful life it was roughly fifteen thousand dollars to just under fifteen thousand dollars to purchase the new pieces so we felt with the to keep the same thing and at some point in the next few years we'd be having to replace them anyway it's been one thousand dollars it made sense to record and since we did have the money set aside from the savings from renegotiating lease we decide to move for that thank you questions these units under rent control not just with a chart but wait a minute all these units are under where control on the charts year the data these are only rent control or does this include  involves units that are exempt from the control portions of the ordinance can't do these include any in public housing now because you know as i look at it as i look at this chart i'm looking at three bedroom units are those because most all do you know it's a home has three bedroom apartments there's still some out there my my apartment is actually technically a three bedroom that's why it's listed in r t s even though functionally it's not students from there's a handful of single at this point the only single family homes that would be included in there would be single family homes that have not turned over since one thousand nine hundred six so there's a handful in there yeah because when i read this i was a bit confused simply because skews me if you have a rent control unit and how many of these are long term because just looking at this as a glance it seems like rents go up quite a bit but that isn't true particularly if you have a units that are covered by rent control every time somebody moves out landlord said we have to look at that because how often do those units turn over you see that that's a key question and where those unit because if you look at units near the university you might say well those units may be turned over every year every two years every four years with student movement but in the rest of the city those units don't turn over that night not quite as quickly and one of the ways to look at the all these variables are not i'm sorry i don't mean to prolong it but all of these variables are not addressed in the charts as i read the chart look at the where shows broken down by market and that gives you a little bit of an idea of the differences it's not exact but if i could and then so you if you look at that map it has a five different then if you look at the back page of the item seventy seven which is the first page in the whole item it breaks it down by new tendencies by each of those five areas so that's a place we can start to draw out what types of units are turning over and being reprinted by definition at market rate  not when you look at west berkeley west berkeley doesn't turnovers very stable and if you look at where my north berkeley is well right but north berkeley has  commissioner hunt as far as the vacancy decontrol in costa hawke and on average when i see turnover and i see it often now four to five to six hundred dollars more per month of rent increases from the prior tenet a landlord told me and it's near here and i actually near my neighborhood my rent is fourteen hundred a month i'm a wreck controlled tenet a neighbor nearby is going up to two thousand nine hundred and forty dollars a month for a two bedroom and that was based on an appraisal that he received from other partners and appraisers in the rental market in berkeley so the rents have literally shot up from eight hundred to twenty three hundred twenty five hundred twenty seven hundred not just by the campus but further in this direction i appreciate your two thousand something what two thousand nine hundred forty i was trying to get a friend in the building and i said no one i know could afford that rent but the appraisers are coming in at twenty nine hundred for a two bedroom apartment in an older building room under rent control and it's common and that's in the downtown area and yeah near downtown further south to south southwest so i see a very common and i see it every day twenty three twenty four twenty five twenty six twenty seven hundred dollars is not uncommon and it's not right near the campus and often it's three or four people they are packing and sometimes students and professionals who can afford it but working class people are being priced out families are being priced out y hawkins that's permitted and we just plug it into our system and it's put into rent tracking system and then it's controlled by the way as you stated they can only increase the rent during that tenancy person moves out they can reset it again specific periods so i think that you know if you look at that way it's sort of in controvert of all how much rents are rising and in rent controlled apartment buildings there's the i mean you can't really look at this data and say that they're not rising really quickly a very briefly what it would it be happy to do with any board member is go through there's a lot of material here and we try to cut the information a number of ways that just might not be obvious so for example citywide in those those units there's a really close to eleven hundred one bedroom and then the average rent in those for the bedroom units in that situation is just about seven hundred five dollars for one bedroom units citywide that at some point between one thousand nine hundred eight and and  and end of september two thousand and thirteen the average rent is for one bedrooms is about thirteen hundred roughly thirteen hundred twelve dollars and if you go to the two pages earlier just to see compared to what the trend is more recently through three quarters in two thousand and thirteen for one bedroom the average rent for the year was fourteen fifty so the so the ways of looking at the information and so you're able to see to see what long stare long term or control units are what's overall based upon the control over all city wide when you compare the whole mix as well as what's been happening recently so i think there's a lot of good information here and to be happy to sit there with anybody to see the best way of culling that information out to people to have an understand great thank you kathy and then just i just want to point out since i live in west berkeley has as does commissioner hunt that i find it's really helpful to take that last page with the map and the data about both controlled and uncontrolled units and compare and the first chart and those are the things that i use the most in so for example if you look at the first chart it does say that only forty five units churned over a market for west berkeley but if you look at the last chart west berkeley only accounts for four percent of the total rental housing  so it seems like forty five units if it's only four percent of the housing is about the same pace as all the other markets although i didn't do the math i got my calculator out to do it that it became my turn but i would just suggest ignoring all these zillions of charts and just looking at the last page in the first page and i'm kind of working on some statistics that i want to share with the board but i'm going to run them by steve barton first and share with the board some time in the spring jesse and i was just curious about how the labeling comes about zeros a studio right and i just looked like to be enough space to write studio in there and i might make it more transparent for the public and i was kind curious about the same thing with market one two three and four it's about enough space to north central kansas descriptors i feel like it would make it more transparent for everyone is also material thank can do that i think all right i'm moving on to the next item was the the housing advisory commission memo on the recommendations on a two thousand and fourteen draft local hazard mitigation  yes i'd like to think christine chimera boring who is an in turn in our office for drafting the first round of this thank you and secondly i want to thank the housing visor commission for a forward looking  commissioner you are trade who for his additions thank you for the next one is  similar seventeenth city council action item referring to the city manager the exemption of fire damaged buildings from the affordable housing mitigation feet this is something we've been we've talked around about here commissioner game has submitted this  going to morrow so i don't know that since it's just a referral the city manager i don't think there's any controversy but we'll see i j did you want to say so we'll keep an eye on that one and if anyone wants thinks we should weigh in and kathy i just i want to say i'm hoping that the four by four might talk about the fact that fire damaged buildings are also exempt from relocation apparently sometimes but not all the time much similar to this situation and so hopefully if the city council members still like to talk to us we can talk about that the four by four yeah i know when i did talk to jesse about this it was his intention to ask that this be placed on the four by four agenda just to get our input so we know how those agendas go so we'll see also december seventeenth city council consent item referring to the city manager the establishment of code enforcement p fia just minutes this was from council member worthington and this is also for information i don't have anything really to add we're talking about i don't know ten seven or ten seven eight ten i just want to think council member worthington for doing this there's been so many people in this community who have complained about the code enforcement program and  the fact that it's complete soley discretional on the city's part on who to site and this this proposal of the priority cases is fantastic and i think the city of san francisco i too have been sad since i came to berkeley i always thought of berkeley as a leader and i noticed that he lagged behind other nearby jurisdictions and it's not just about berkeley pride it's about the danger of if other nearby jurisdictions mitigate things like the effect of alice activations and berkeley does not people are going to come here to do the us act instead of san francisco san francisco tightens up their list restrictions it increases the likelihood that our less restrictions will increase so you know addictions in san francisco it says are up by thirty eight point two percent one of the things that it doesn't say but it does talk about a little bit is that that is just the ones that get filed with the rent board in san francisco unlike here the run board in san francisco actually doesn't track all addictions it only tracks no fault of dictions so no fault of actions alice acts owner movements those are up thirty eight point two percent i was noticing when i was looking through some of my notes today that mark jana with the attorney from the east bay community law center came to address us when we had the measure wire report on the agenda in the spring and he specifically said that he felt that owner move ins were under counted because there are so many buyouts one of the things that's talked about in both of these articles particularly by supervisor composts who used to be my supervisor in the mission district is that ellison owner movements are under counted because there are so many buyouts one of the things that san francisco is doing is at least doubling the relocation like to ban them but because it's a state law the ellis act he's working with mark leno who is in the state legislature because the ellis act was originally conceived to allow landlords to go out of the rental business but what we see now is people buying buildings becoming landlords and the very next day going out of the rental business which isn't really what they had in mind when they created the state law it's being abused  in addition san francisco is looking at a number of different things to curb their addiction and that i think that we should be looking at over here because we don't want to be behind them or we're going to get their problems  tenfold one other thing i want to point out not sure fits in here but san francisco is working on a ban on allowing people to buy duplexes and turn them back into single family homes at the same time that berkeley is actually trying to make that easier and the l a times to show that yeah the biggest city california is following suit and that both berkeley and san francisco are under discussion is models and it's only going to take them a year to do their list  need to be proactive i was really happy to see this this article is from the east bay rental housing association magazine these day when a housing association is sort of the east bay  across county organization for landlords and it has all kinds of incredibly useful articles and this article is is making it very clear that property owners are always responsible for past it doesn't matter who bought them property owners have to deal with it and that's why it's really important that landlords work with their tenants one of the things i said in my tenants when they moved in was please if you didn't think there might be a problem don't be afraid to come to me because i will throw everything i have at it because if you have one bed bug you might have one treatment but if you have bed bugs you have four or five treatments and i like it that this article emphasizes that it's the best interest of all owners to act quickly and use integrated cost management to address but bug issues immediately and it's also in the best interest of tenants to come forward because they become bigger and bigger problems th  come more expensive and more painful and so i'm hoping that the rent board can start stepping up on this bed bug you know that the hack is also been talking about bed bugs and i know that we all get a little itchy when we talk about it but it's our job to make sure that everybody knows that this is becoming more and more of a problem that they love to travel there are some really scary things in here about why they love to travel that i won't repeat and make everyone really uncomfortable but i really encourage everyone to read this and to not be afraid to let people  know that bedbugs they only feed on blood so it has nothing to do with being dirty and everybody should come forward if they have any pets but especially bedbugs because they spread like wildfire they actually in new york city they're going from building to building like roaches we've got to stop it before that happens to us something we have a hand out on bed bugs on our website under the habitability section that's also on our facebook page i also counsel landlords and tenants every week about bed bugs and even have an art theater do we have something in writing that we can ok thank you give me since i'll just add that if anybody had heard the n p r quiz show this weekend paula poundstone one of her fake stories with that tenants were adopting  bedbugs as pets courage everybody to listen to because it's hysterical the last one there it is way too high this is a harvard study that found and i think that sort of speaks for itself  boston is expensive you know yeah so all right jay did you want to say we're going to get a copy but i think i think i was also a national study of it but yes much of massachusetts boston area is is but i think it was a national study but will try getting a copy of excellent right we're going to committee reports a budget and personnel we are meeting this thursday so i have nothing new to report reach him do anything will be meeting on friday we haven't met since our last general commission meeting ok i or a j and habitability committee we did not we made a conscious decision not to meet because of all of the disruption in construction and various things going on we plan on periodically looking at the the waivers but there isn't a real consensus to have waivers prevented there but just as a process to kind of look at how they're going and more look at the procedural stuff what can be changed at the next meeting walsall work more clearly on what is our work plan and it looks more like the kind of committee that could probably function with four meetings a year just following up on when the board wants to have direction on letters to the public to individuals and stuff like that i just wanted to add the waivers committee hadn't met for quite some time and i just wanted to make it clear to everyone we are waiting because we thought that the new r t s system is going to substantially act the way that waivers are presented because it's going to be much more automated and we've been waiting for that new system to come online and change the way that the board we've seen waivers so that we could could weigh in on that but we decided that it had been much too long we should have a meeting but would definitely be talking about that in the near future but that's kind of what we were waiting for that didn't happen so we decided have a meeting tell me what you think we're told lacquers so also we were looking at how the waiver form was presented and it seemed like it came out of procedural history and was reworked at some point and if there's any more with a narrative and then focus in on the specific things as i understand the procedural format it's in now is because commissioners didn't want to feel like they were being led by the narrative i find the facts hard to integrate without understanding this cont happen right away but anyway think about it anyway as of may first if you've got them don't smoke unless you're friends with all but one person and you're more than two unit building ok good friends  that's four by four city council and rent stabilization board housing committee we are tentatively scheduled to meet january ninth so i think that's that's what we agreed on whether that actually happens is a totally different issue  no future special meeting scheduled concerned any time the legal women voters has something to say or give us some positive or constructive criticism i would like to have them come here to potentially potentially have them come here to talk about their issues i work with the city of berkeley on top of being a report commissioner i just don't understand some of the questions they had that were directly related to the city of berkeley even further than the rent board would i think it might be healthy for all of us to meet with the league of women voters and maybe a representative maybe a human resource person from the city to talk about what the city is doing and how we are potentially in we are an offshoot of the city and how why would they criticize a rent board to such extent if the city of berkeley is doing what they're saying even far beyond what the rent was so i mean for example they talked about the valuation of the executive director and i don't think the city manager has gotten an evaluation i know there's a committee and it's been going on for six months now for the city of berkeley so i'm concerned about that love to have them here so i can ask them why haven't you looked at the city of berkeley moreover there are several departments that have less employees than the rent board and the the head of those departments make pretty much the same as j or just want to clarify things that they had questions on ok what we are going this is actually on the budget and personal committee agenda for this thursday which is the action we took last time was to was to refer their letter to them for response so we'll i'll add all that in to the discussion another possibility for the committee to consider is sending a representative from this board to one of their meetings to give a presentation in response to their criticisms thank you ok i know what i did was i went in i was interviewed by them and i don't i don't do the interview anybody else on the board to anyone else that's just the executive officers that did this so no it wasn't their executive nancy pickle was not there it was just members so so when they interviewed you did they ask questions about the city or did they know it was just it was completely focused on on the board and its function and at the outset i said well is this about the grand jury report because we've received an responded and said oh no no this is about government we just want to talk to you so it was very spin a lot of the things in it as i said last time and we should stop because this is not on the agenda right now but you know one of the things that they were very specific questions like the whole issue about the cadillac plan or why don't we race why wouldn't i raise fees to whatever i thought so a lot of those things when we  discuss it in the committee we will actually address that and if you know i doubt we'll put that on his future agenda item i'm not sure the value of having them come back but we can certainly talk about it ok at this point we are scheduled to move into closed session yes part i'll give that to you in a minute yeah so pursuant to california government code of five four nine five seven b we will be entering close session where the public employee performance evaluation of the executive director