CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS Council Chamber 455 North Rexford Drive Beverly Hills, CA MINUTES. October 18, :00 am.

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1 F 5 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS Council Chamber 455 North Rexford Drive Beverly Hills, CA MINUTES CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING 10:00 am. The City Council Special Meeting was called to order by Mayor Gold in the Council Chamber at 10:00am. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE led by Charitable Solicitations Commissioner Richard E. Sch rei ber Management Analyst Meena Janmohamed made an announcement regarding the annual Great Shakeout drill that will occur today at 10:18am. A. ROLL CALL Present: Councilmember Wunderlich, Councilmember Friedman, Councilmember Absent: None B. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS 1. TELEPHONE CALL-IN ( ) (Members of the public are invited to place telephone calls to comment on issues that do not appear on the evening s agenda. The City Council will take up to three telephone calls per meeting. Comments on the evening s agenda must be made in person as the item comes before the City Council.) None 2. AUDIENCE COMMENTS. Any person wishing to address the City Council on any matter not on the agenda may do so at this time. However, the State open meetings law (Government Code Section et seq.) prohibits the City Council from providing a detailed response or acting upon any item not contained on the agenda posted 72 hours before a regular meeting and 24 hours before a special meeting. If you wish to address the City Council at this time, please complete a speaker s card and give it to the City Clerk prior to the commencement of the meeting. Please use the microphone provided, clearly stating your name for the official record and courteously limiting your remarks to three (3) minutes so others may have the opportunity to speak as well. 1. David Gingold

2 Page2of5 C. CONTINUED AND NEW BUSINESS 1. PRESENTATION OF FINAL HR&A ADVISORS, INC. REPORT; FEEDBACK RECEIVED AT FACILITATED DIALOGUE SESSIONS; AND DISCUSSION OF POSSIBLE AMENDMENTS TO THE RENT STABILIZATION ORDINANCE. Comment: Staff recommends that City Council receive and review the final issue papers and policy packages from consultant HR&A Advisors, Inc. (HR&A), the habitability final issue paper, and public comments from the facilitated sessions. Staff requests direction from City Council on possible amendment changes to the Rent Stabilization Ordinance (RSO) as well as consideration of the fee study for costs associated with the implementation and administration of the RSO and the other outstanding RSO issues. Mayor Gold set the expectations and goal to have a discussion about the structure of a rent ordinance. He encouraged residents to come forward with new comments. HR&A Advisors, Inc. Vice President Paul Silvern presented the summary of the updates made to the final data brief document, and updates to the final issue papers containing the seven issue papers. The meeting paused at 10:18am for the Great Shakeout earthquake drill and resumed at 10:19am. Mr. Silvern continued his discussion regarding new policy options added to the final issue papers resulting from the 2018 facilitated dialogues, and provided an overview on the cross-cutting policy packages and administrative cost implications of the four packages. Speaking: 1. Mark Elliot 2. David Berke Vice Mayor Mirisch asked City Manager Mahdi Aluzri to look into the matter that Mr. Berke reported and asked for a City Council discussion on increasing penalties to avoid these situations. Councilmember Bosse asked City Manager Aluzri what the City currently has in place when the City gets complaints regarding landlords and look for a solution until an ordinance is in place. 3. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Nieman Councilmember Bosse asked City Manager Aluzri to address the problem reported by the Niemans today. Vice Mayor Mirisch asked City Attorney Laurence Wiener if the City has grounds for an urgency ordinance, and indicated he would like to increase the punitive penalties for violations.

3 Page3of5 4. Karl Anderson Councilmember Friedman asked to see the video where Dr. Stephen Copen spoke at the previous City Council Special meeting. 5. Basil Starr 6. Michael Newmann 7. Elia Weinbach Councilmember Bosse asked Mr. Weinbach about his concerns regarding owneroccupied duplex exemptions 8. Janet Gagnon, Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles 9, Kevin Davis, Chair of Committee on Rent Control/Beverly Hills Property Owners Association 10. Steve Mayer 11. Susan Collins 12. Sashah Askari 13. Frances Millet 14. Grant Spangler 15. Rosalie Lu tie 16. Ramin Zar 17. James Killian Councilmember Wunderlich asked Mr. Killian questions about seismic retrofit information. 18. Farhad Eshaghpour 19. Chuck Moffitt 20. Earl Goldstein Councilmember Bosse asked Director of Community Development Susan Healy Keene regarding enforcement of family-occupied units. 21. Tom Thompson 22. John D. Luca 23. David Finkelstein 24. Mayor Gold read a letter from Sonia Berman into the record Director of Community Development Susan Healy Keene and Deputy Director of Rent Stabilization Helen Morales presented an abbreviated summary of Councilmember Wunderlich s comments at the October City Council Special Meeting coveting the various rent stabilization ordinance topics arranged in logical order that the Council can use as a guideline for discussion today. The various discussion framework items include exemptions, relocation fees, no-cause eviction, banking, habitability, special qualified subset, and maximum allowable rent increase (annual allowable increase, pass-throughs, and habitability). The Councilmembers provided their comments on each of the discussion framework items and agreed on what they wanted included in the ordinance that will be drafted by the City Attorney. Mr. Silvern answered questions and provided additional information requested by the City Council at the previous meeting. Vice Mayor Mirisch suggested that an urgency ordinance be crafted today to eliminate no-cause eviction. City

4 Page 4 of 5 Attorney Laurence Wiener suggested recessing for a few hours so that he can quickly draft the urgency ordinance and bring back later tonight for Council adoption. The meeting recessed at 1:37pm and reconvened at 6:44pm with all Councilmembers present. City Attorney Wiener distributed copies and discussed the various sections of the proposed urgency ordinance eliminating no cause eviction that he advised can be adopted tonight with a 4/5 vote. MOVED by Ayes: Noes: Vice Mayor Mirisch, seconded by Councilmember Bosse, to add the urgency ordinance to the agenda for adoption Councilmember Wunderlich, Councilmember Friedman, Councilmember None. CARRI ED ITEM C-I: URGENCY ORDINANCE ADDED TO THE A GENDA Councilmember Friedman pointed out an error on the ordinance number, which City Attorney Wiener said will be amended. MOVED by Councilmember Bosse, seconded by Vice Mayor Mirisch, to adopt as amended, an urgency ordinance as follows: AN URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS AMENDING THE BEVERLY HILLS MUNICIPAL CODE TO ELIMINATE NO CAUSE EVICTION FROM CHAPTER 6 OF TITLE 4 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE AND DECLARING THE URGENCY THEREOF Ayes: Noes: Councilmember Wunderlich, Councilmember Friedman, Councilmember None. CARRIED ITEM C-I: ADOPTED AS AMENDED; ORD# D. ADJOURNMENT There being no further business, Mayor Gold, with the consent of the City Council, adjourned the meeting at 7:04pm.

5 Page 5 of 5 PASSED, Approved and Adopted this 6th day of November, 2018 LOURDES S DGU sistant City Clerk JULIAN A. GOLD, M.D., MAYOR This meeting was broadcast on live television, on City of Beverly Hills municipal government television access Channel BHTVIO Spectrum Cable.