Speaker 0: Thank you. And do we have a councilmember day so you can get your hand up? Yes, sir. Yes.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Madam Mayor. You know, in the past, I have recuse myself on anything related to the Pacific Pinball machine, even though this is something on the base, they do. I think their headquarters is Webster Street near my place. So I'll maybe just to be consistent, I'll recuse myself from this thing.
Speaker 0: Or did you want an opinion for from the city attorney or. Oh.
Speaker 4: Sure, sure. That's fine.
Speaker 0: Yes, Mr. Chan.
Speaker 1: I think in.
Speaker 2: Previous conversations with Mr. De Keyser, he he is indicated to me that because of the proximity of his home to the headquarters of this particular business, that recusal is appropriate. And I have no objections. And I appreciate Mr. de Thor.
Speaker 1: Informing me of his living location. Okay.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 0: Okay, then. So, Councilmember Desai, we will excuse and recuse for this time. Excuse you as you recuse yourself. All right. And so who from city staff is presenting, huh? Like magic. There's Ms.. Mchunu. Good evening. We say. See her name and Lisa maxwell. Good evening. And I expect that we'll see their lovely faces. So there's one now. Coming.
Speaker 5: I'm coming.
Speaker 1: Sorry.
Speaker 5: That's all right.
Speaker 0: Good evening. There you are. Hi.
Speaker 5: All right. Good evening. Sorry. Sorry. We were having technical difficulty.
Speaker 0: As we worked him out. No worries. It's all good. So I'm just. Whoever I'd like to start, please start.
Speaker 5: I'll start. This is the almost exact same staff report that the council considered at the time of the council meeting. I'm presenting it to tenants who would like to participate in the rent relief program that the council approved in October. These are applicants for the the program that's specific to non-profits in Spirit's Alley.
Speaker 3: These are Spirit's Alley tenants.
Speaker 5: And and while the Civic Pinball Museum is a nonprofit. Just to quickly recap, this is the.
Speaker 0: 933 program.
Speaker 5: Which is the tenant is able to defer red for nine months and repay the rent over a.
Speaker 0: Three.
Speaker 5: Year period of time. If they repay early, they could have up to three months of rent abated. So what you're considered what you see in front of you is what three.
Speaker 3: Months rent would be for each of these tenants, the maximum amount, which is $42,225.
Speaker 5: Which I was.
Speaker 0: Doing the math.
Speaker 5: Which would mean that of the $400,000 that the council has allotted for this program, if you approve these tenants tonight, you will have allocated or we we could conceivably abate up to 156,357. And so it's less than half of what you've appropriated. And it would, as you will have, as did ten tenants.
Speaker 0: And I believe that you also noted in the staff report that this money would come from the base reuse fund and that revenues are actually doing better than anticipated. Is that correct?
Speaker 5: Yes. Okay. I think what I say what I'm saying is that a fund balance is pretty healthy and it could absorb this program as well as the loan conversion program that the council approved in October. So the appropriation that you made for both programs are definitely we're able to handle those and keep operations at the same level . Okay.
Speaker 0: Um, okay. Great. Any any clarifying questions from council? This next one that you want to. Oh, I think I see the city manager's hand to doing. Mr. LEVITT. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I just want to add a little bit to what Nanette said. Yes. I think we have a healthy fine balance now, obviously, with the stress on the businesses out there. We are concerned about future lease revenue, or at least I'm concerned about future lease revenue, although I think these programs are to help to try to stabilize the businesses will help, which will hopefully help the city in the long term. But we are keeping an eye on the lease revenue as we move forward into the future.
Speaker 0: Thank you. And Ms.. Maxwell, did you want to add anything?
Speaker 5: The only thing.
Speaker 1: I'd add if there were any concerns.
Speaker 4: About know we had added.
Speaker 5: Some language.
Speaker 1: With respect to Koven.
Speaker 4: Compliance and if anyone had any particular concerns about that and wanted to raise them.
Speaker 1: We have some thoughts on how we can address those concerns if there were those.
Speaker 0: Well, that was my request and I feel pretty firmly about it. Okay. I because, you know, the reason that our businesses and our residents are many of them are suffering so much financially, psychologically is because of COVID 19. And certainly we've had some great news on the horizon recently with the vaccinations arriving and starting and more on the way. But it's going to take a while before we get enough people vaccinated to to really make a difference. And so in the intervening time, we have to adhere to the public health officer's guidelines. And I was certainly satisfied with the language in the in the amendment because it would take an actual violation, which which is something that comes after education after warning. So it's not like the first time out of the gate that I just think we have to be really consistent with our messaging and we want to help our businesses out, but they have to help themselves and others in the community. My feeling is thank you. And so if council same you clarify questions at this time. Madam, do we have any public speakers?
Speaker 3: Do not have any speakers.
Speaker 0: Okay. Counsel, let's open the discussion.
Speaker 1: I'd be happy to move approval if there's if for their approval.
Speaker 5: But I'd like to second that. We I thought we had a this is very much related to the conversation that we had at the last meeting. We just re agenda this to add the additional tenet. So, yes, I'd like this, actually.
Speaker 0: All right. We've had a motion by Vice Mayor Knox White, seconded by Councilmember Vela. Any further discussion being.
Speaker 5: Held.
Speaker 0: Here? Did you want to add anything? Your favorite thing then? May we have a roll call vote, please?
Speaker 3: Vice Mayor Knox. Right.
Speaker 1: I.
Speaker 3: Councilmember Odie. I vela. I may or as the Ashcraft high that carries by four eyes one absent and Councilmember De is on his way back in.
Speaker 0: All right. Excellent. Thank you. Thank you so much, Miss Maxwell.
Speaker 5: Thank you. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Very staysafe. Yeah. This is our last council meeting of the year, so. Yeah, but a year. Yeah. All right. Yeah, he's back with this. Okay, so then we are going to move on to item four, be.
Speaker 3: Adoption of urgency and codified ordinance amending in part on codified ordinance number 3 to 7 five and imposing and extending within the city of Alameda a temporary moratorium on rent increases for fully regulated residential units until June 30th, 2021. This ordinance requires for 50 votes and a recommendation to production to staff to explore additional opportunities to further provide assistance to landlords, especially small operators impacted by COVID 19.
Speaker 0: Thank you. This way, I figure. So I see that Lisa Phipps has joined us, as has Michael Roush. Good evening. So go ahead. Whoever is starting, please, and yourself, have we look forward to your report.
Speaker 5: I'll start. I actually have a presentation.
Speaker 3: We are getting it up.
Speaker 5: Thank you. So, Madam Mayor, members of the City Council and staff. My name is Lisa Fitz. I'm a program manager with the Community Development Department. Thank you. Tonight, we're going to talk about the rent increase moratorium and landlord assistance. Can I go to the next slide? Thanks. So the purpose tonight is to speak specifically about the proposed moratorium on residential rent increases and exploring additional opportunities for landlord assistance. Next slide, please. By way of background. Several events in September 19, September 2019 have led us to this point from the implementation of rent control to the growing
Introduction of Ordinance Authorizing the City Manager to Execute Lease Amendments for Rent Relief Program with Pacific Pinball Museum and Wonky Kitchen via the Non-Profit Spirits Alley Program for Rent Relief in Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic. (Community Development 858)