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RESOLUTION NO. 94-106
RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SAN BERNARDINO OPPOSING THE "RENTAL ASSISTANCE" INITIATIVE.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF SAN BERNARDINO. AS FOLLOWS:
WHEREAS, mobilehome owners in the City of San Bernardino are
overwhelmingly senior citizens and low-income families living on
fixed retirement or severely-limited incomes; and
WHEREAS, nearly 100 California counties, cities and towns,
including the City of San Bernardino, have passed some form of
mobilehome rent protection ordinance to safeguard these vulnerable
elderly and low-income families from excessive rent increases; and
WHEREAS, mobilehome owners are essentially captive due to
the shortage of available mobilehome park rental spaces, and the
high cost of moving mobilehomes; and
WHEREAS, this body opposes any statewide pre-emption of
local control relative to the crisis in mobilehome park space
rents and availability; and,
WHEREAS, mobilehome owners often forfeit their only asset,
their homes, when they cannot pay excessive rents; and,
WHEREAS, an initiative now in circulation, misleadingly
titled the "Rental Assistance" initiative would void the
meaningful protections in those 100 ordinances; and
WHEREAS, that initiative is being misrepresented as one
which would assist mobilehome owners in meeting their rents,
rather than one which would allow mobilehome park landlords to
raise rents without restriction;
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the Mayor and Common
Council of the City of San Bernardino hereby opposes the "Rental
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Assistance" initiative currently in circulation and directs that
such opposition be communicated to our local legislators and the
Governor.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was duly
adopted by the Mayor and Common Council of the City of
San Bernardino at a
2nd
day of
May
ABSENT
Council Members:
NEGRETE
CURLIN
HERNANDEZ
OBERHELMAN
DEVLIN
POPE-LUDLAM
MILLER
The foregoing
of Mav
Approved as to form
and legal content:
JAMES F. PENMAN,
City Attorney
DAB/js [Mobilehome.Res]
regular
meeting thereof, held on the
, 1994, by the following vote, to-wit:
AYES
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Resolut~ s hereby approved th~~
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Tom Minot', Mayor
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April 19. 1994