City of Mountain View  
Minutes  
Rental Housing Committee  
Thursday, May 22, 2025  
7:00 PM  
Council Chambers and Video Conference, 500  
Castro St., Mountain View, CA 94041  
1.  
CALL TO ORDER  
The meeting was called to order at 7:00 p.m.  
2.  
ROLL CALL  
6 -  
Present  
Alternate Mark Balch, Member Robert Cox, Member Emily Staats Hislop, Member Edie  
Keating, Vice Chair Kevin Ma, and Chair Alex Brown  
3.  
CONSENT CALENDAR  
SPEAKING FROM THE FLOOR WITH COMMENTS:  
No public comments received.  
MOTION - MS - Brown/ Cox - To approve the consent calendar.  
The motion carried by the following vote:  
Yes:  
5 - Member Cox, Member Hislop, Member Keating, Vice Chair Ma, and Chair Brown  
Minutes for the April 24, 2025 RHC Meeting  
3.1  
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.  
3.2 Community Stabilization and Fair Rent Act and Mobile Home Rent  
Stabilization Ordinance Financial Expenditures for Fiscal Year 2024-25  
through March 31, 2025  
Rent Stabilization Division FY 2024-25 Activity Report through March 2025  
3.3  
3.4 Notification of Minor Clarification in CSFRA Regulations Chapter 13: Utilities  
Charges  
4.  
ORAL COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE PUBLIC  
SPEAKING FROM THE FLOOR WITH COMMENTS:  
No public comments received.  
5.  
NEW BUSINESS  
5.1 Fiscal Year 2025-26 Budgets and Annual Fees for the Community  
Stabilization and Fair Rent Act and Mobile Home Rent Stabilization  
Ordinance  
Adopt a Resolution of the Rental Housing Committee of Mountain View Approving the Fiscal Year 2025-26  
Budgets for the Community Stabilization and Fair Rent Act and the Mobile Home Rent Stabilization  
Ordinance and Establishing the Rental Housing Fee and Space Rental Fee for Fiscal Year 2025-26, to be  
read in title only, further reading waived (Attachment 1 to this memorandum).  
Division Manager van Deursen presented a report and responded to questions.  
SPEAKING FROM THE FLOOR WITH COMMENTS:  
No public comments received.  
MOTION - MS - Cox/ Hislop - To adopt a Resolution of the Rental Housing Committee of Mountain View  
Approving the Fiscal Year 2025-26 Budgets for the Community Stabilization and Fair Rent Act and the  
Mobile Home Rent Stabilization Ordinance and Establishing the Rental Housing Fee and Space Rental Fee  
for Fiscal Year 2025-26.  
The motion carried by the following vote:  
Yes:  
5 - Member Cox, Member Hislop, Member Keating, Vice Chair Ma, and Chair Brown  
Amendments to CSFRA and MHRSO Regulations Chapter 2: Definitions  
5.2  
Nazanin Salehi, Special Counsel, Goldfarb and Lipman, presented an oral report and responded to questio  
SPEAKING FROM THE FLOOR WITH COMMENTS:  
No public comments received.  
MOTION - MS - Cox/ Keating - To approve amendments to Community Stabilization and Fair Rent Act  
(CSFRA) Regulations and Mobile Home Rent Stabilization Ordinance (MHRSO) Regulations Chapter 2:  
Definitions, addressing certain fees charged by landlords for a tenant's requested reporting of their positive  
rental payment information.  
The motion carried by the following vote:  
Yes:  
5 - Member Cox, Member Hislop, Member Keating, Vice Chair Ma, and Chair Brown  
Rental Housing Committee Meeting Schedule for Fiscal Year 2025-26  
5.3  
Division Manager van Deursen presented a report and responded to questions.  
SPEAKING FROM THE FLOOR WITH COMMENTS:  
No public comments received.  
MOTION - MS - Hislop/ Brown - To adopt a Resolution of the Rental Housing Committee of the City of  
Mountain View to set the dates for Rental Housing Committee Meetings for Fiscal Year 2025-2026 and to  
change the meeting start times to 6:00 p.m.  
The motion carried by the following vote:  
Yes:  
5 - Member Cox, Member Hislop, Member Keating, Vice Chair Ma, and Chair Brown  
Rental Housing Committee Workplan for Fiscal Year 2025-26  
5.4  
Division Manager van Deursen presented a report and responded to questions.  
SPEAKING FROM THE FLOOR WITH COMMENTS:  
No public comments received.  
The RHC reviewed and provided input on the Rental Housing Committee workplan for Fiscal Year 2025-26.  
6.  
COMMITTEE/STAFF ANNOUNCEMENTS, UPDATES, REQUESTS, AND COMMITTEE REPORTS  
Upcoming Workshops and Housing Help Center Dates  
6.1  
Senior Management Analyst Kennedy presented a report and responded to questions.  
Expected Future Agenda Items for RHC Meetings:  
Senior Management Analyst Kennedy presented a report and responded to questions.  
6.2  
7.  
ADJOURNMENT - At 7:52 p.m., Chair Brown adjourned the meeting to the next regular RHC  
meeting to be held on Thursday, June 12, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers and via  
Video Conference.