City of Mountain View

Minutes

Rental Housing Committee

Thursday, July 25, 2024

7:00 PM

Council Chambers and Video Conference, 500

Castro St., Mountain View, CA 94041

Special Meeting

This meeting is being conducted with a virtual component. Anyone wishing to address the

Committee virtually may join the meeting online at: https://mountainview.zoom.us/j/93773068363 or

by dialing (669) 900-9128 and entering Webinar ID: 937 7306 8363. When the Chair announces the

item on which you wish to speak, click the “raise hand” feature in Zoom or dial *9 on your phone.

When the Chair calls your name to provide public comment, if you are participating via phone,

please press *6 to unmute yourself.

CALL TO ORDER

ROLL CALL

Chair Alexander Brown, Vice-Chair Kevin Ma, Committee Members Robert Cox, Edie Keating, Guadalupe

Rosas, and Alternate Mark Balch.

CONSENT CALENDAR

Minutes for the June 27, 2024, RHC Meeting

3.1

MOTION - MS - Cox/ Keating - To: Approve the Rental Housing Committee meeting minutes. Copies of

the minutes for the above noted meeting have been delivered to Committee Members and copies are

available online.The motion carried by the following vote:

ORAL COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE PUBLIC

APPEAL HEARINGS

Appeal of Hearing Officer's Decision Re: Petition No. C23240032

5.1

MOTION - MS - Cox/ Ma - To: To consider the Tentative Appeal Decision and either accept the Tentative

Appeal Decision or modify the Tentative Appeal Decision with instructions to staff citing appropriate

evidence in the record to support the changes.The motion carried by the following vote:

STUDY SESSION

Proposed Amendments to Chapter 7: Procedures for Annual General

Adjustments of the Community Stabilization and Fair Rent Act

Regulations and Chapter 8: Procedures for Annual General Adjustments

for Mobile Home Rent Stabilization Ordinance Regulations

6.1

NEW BUSINESS

Fiscal Year 2024-25 Rental Housing Committee Meeting Schedule

7.1

MOTION - MS - Ma/ Keating - To: To adopt a Resolution of the Rental Housing Committee of the City of

Mountain View to modify the Meeting Schedule from a Calendar Year basis to a Fiscal Year basis and set

the dates for Rental Housing Committee Meetings for Fiscal Year 2024-2025 with the amendment to June

19, 2025 to June 12, 2025. The motion carried by the following vote:

Fiscal Year 2024-25 Rental Housing Committee Workplan

7.2

COMMITTEE/STAFF ANNOUNCEMENTS, UPDATES, REQUESTS, AND COMMITTEE REPORTS

Upcoming Workshops and Housing Help Center Dates

Expected Future Agenda Items for RHC Meetings

8.1

8.2

ADJOURNMENT - At 8:54 p.m., Chair Brown adjourned the meeting to the next RHC meeting to

be held on Thursday, August 22, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers and Video

Conference.

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

The agenda, reports, and any writings or documents provided to a majority of the Rental Housing Committee regarding any item on this

agenda are posted at https://mountainview.legistar.com under the meeting details for the date of this meeting. The agenda may also be

viewed at City Hall, 500 Castro Street, the City Clerk's Office, 500 Castro Street, Third Floor and at the Mountain View Library, 585 Franklin

Street, beginning Thursday, prior to Monday Rental Housing Committee meetings. Printed copies of the agenda, reports, and any writings or

documents already provided to a majority of the Committee regarding any item on this agenda may be requested at the Rent Stabilization

Program during normal business hours.

The Committee may consider and act on items listed on the agenda in any order and thus those interested in an item listed on the agenda are

advised to be present throughout the meeting. In the event it appears that the entire agenda cannot be completed by the time of adjournment

the Committee may take up and act upon the more pressing agenda items. All agenda items not considered at the meeting shall be on the

agenda of the next regular, special, or adjourned regular meeting unless the Committee directs otherwise.

Pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), if you need special assistance in this meeting, please contact the Rent Stabilization

Program at (650) 903-6136 or by email at mvrent@mountainview.gov 48 hours prior to the meeting so the City can make reasonable

arrangements to ensure accessibility to this meeting. (28 CFR 35.160 (b) (1)). If you have a hearing or speech disability, please use the

California Relay System at 711, TDD 650-967-0158 or 800-735-2929.

The City of Mountain View does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, age, source of income,

gender, gender expression or identity, or any other State or Federal protected class in any of its policies, procedures or practices. This

nondiscrimination policy covers admission and access to, or treatment or employment in, the City of Mountain View programs and activities.

For inquiries regarding the nondiscrimination policy, please contact the City's Section 504 Coordinator at laurel.james@mountainview.gov or

650-903-6397.

Computer-generated captioning of the Rental Housing Committee meeting is unedited and should neither be relied upon for complete

accuracy nor used as a verbatim transcript.

ADDRESSING THE COMMITTEE:

Email comments to RHC@mountainview.gov by 4:30 p.m. on the meeting date. Emails will be received directly by the Rental Housing

Committee. Please identify the Agenda item number in the subject line of your email. Requests to show an audio or video presentation during

a Committee meeting should be directed to mvrent@mountainview.gov by 4:30 p.m. on the meeting date.

Anyone wishing to address the Committee in person must complete a speaker card indicating the name you would like to be called by when it

is your turn to speak and the item number on which you wish to speak. Please complete one speaker card for each item on which you wish to

speak. Virtual and in-person speakers will be called in order as determined by the Chair.

Pursuant to Regulation Chapter 3, an individual speaker shall have up to 3 minutes to address the Committee. For any agenda item or for

Oral Communications on nonagenda items, if there appears to be a large number of speakers, the Chair may reduce speaking time to no less

than 2 minutes per speaker unless there is an objection from the Committee by majority vote.

If requested in advance of the public input portion of the agenda item to the Committee, a speaker who represents five or more members of

the public in attendance may have up to 10 minutes to address the Committee, if the Chair determines that such extension will reduce the

total number of speakers who planned to speak.

The presiding officer may remove or cause the removal of any individual(s) for disrupting a meeting in accordance with California Governmen

Code section 54957.95, as may be amended from time to time. In accordance with California Government Code section 54957.9, as may be

amended from time to time, the Committee may order a meeting room cleared and continue in session in the event a meeting is willfully

interrupted by a group or groups of persons so as to render the orderly conduct of the meeting impossible, and order cannot be restored by

the removal of individuals who are disrupting the meeting.

Pursuant to Government Code Section 54954.3(b)(1), at least twice the allotted speaking time will be provided to a member of the public who

utilizes a translator.