Hearing on Ordinances Amending County Code, Title 8 - Consumer
Protection, Business and Wage Regulations
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Revised 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 Habitability 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 provides for a determination of rent
reductions for rental housing properties that do not timely correct violations of
habitability standards, with an administrative fee of $137 per rental housing until
per month placed into REAP; 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.
(Departments of Public Health and Consumer and Business Affairs)
(Continued from the meeting of 3-12-24) (24-0831)
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