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Hearing on Ordinances Amending County Code, Title 8 - Consumer
Protection, Business and Wage Regulations
Hearing on ordinances for introduction, amending County Code, Title 8 -
Consumer Protection, Business and Wage Regulations Code, by adding
Chapter 8.53 - Rental Housing Inspection Program, which creates a new
systematic inspection program that requires all rental housing properties
within the unincorporated areas of the County to be routinely inspected
once every four years, with an annual program fee amount of $86, per unit
per year, and Chapter 8.55 - Rent Escrow Account Program (REAP), which
establishes an additional method to obtain compliance when a rental
housing property fails to correct violations in a timely manner and allows for
a hearing officer to place a property into REAP, and order rent reductions
based on the severity of the violations, with an administrative fee to be
billed monthly to landlords for every housing until placed in REAP until
REAP is terminated, and both ordinances establish an enforcement and
appeals process, including imposition of fees, fines and penalties for
noncompliance; authorize the Director of Consumer and Business Affairs to
execute one or more, competitively solicited contract(s), at a combined total
amount of $486,000 per year, for the provision of tenant and landlord
outreach, training and education services under the REAP ordinance,
effective upon the date of execution through June 30, 2028, with an option
to extend thereafter for two additional one-year terms; and authorize the
Directors of Public Health and Consumer and Business Affairs to execute
one or more competitively solicited contract(s), or amend existing service
contracts related to the implementation of the ordinances, effective upon
date of execution through June 30, 2025, with contract maximum
obligations not to exceed $300,000 per service contract, funded by program
fees and/or budgeted support for development and start-up costs for the
first year of implementation. (Department of Public Health) NOTE: The
Director of Public Health requests that this item be continued to April
16, 2024. Also, documentation not available at the printing of the
agenda. (24-0831)
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