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CityCouncil | 2016-08-08 | 5 | measure; a committee of two needs to be appointed similar to the UMA. Councilmember Ezzy Ashcraft stated Vice Mayor Matarrese voted against the City's ordinance in the beginning. Acting Mayor Matarrese stated he would have liked to have the relocation fees be subject to mediation, but he is supportive of the other measures; the serious flaw is that one standard is applied to the back end of the process; both measures not passing would be an opportunity to open up a discussion and modify the City's ordinance; he suggests placing the City's ordinance on the ballot as one motion and the argument as a second motion. Councilmember Ezzy Ashcraft stated the good thing about an ordinance is that it has the flexibility to add other provisions; inquired if anyone could sign the argument. Mayor Spencer stated she has some proposed changes to the ballot question. The City Clerk responded that the adoption of the resolution includes the ballot question; if Council is adopting the resolution, then they are approving the language of the ballot question; the ballot question is currently 73 words. Mayor Spencer suggested the following changes: "shall the voters adopt the City Council's March 31st " she would like to add the word "Council" to help people understand it; change: "(b) requires mediation review... add the word "review," and change: "(c) restricts reasons for evictions.. " read, "limits and conditions evictions;" said changes do not change the number of words, yet are more forthcoming with what Council is proposing; lastly change to: "(b) including binding decisions on rent increases above 5%;" said changes would make the question more clear. Acting Mayor Matarrese requested clarification about whether the word Council would be added after City to read "adopted by the City Council's," to which Mayor Spencer responded in the affirmative. Acting Mayor Matarrese inquired whether the next change requested by Mayor Spencer is changing to "requires review," instead of "mediation of all residential rent increases above 5%," to which Mayor Spencer responded in the affirmative; stated the wording would be more clear by adding the word review and the second part of the phrase would be: including binding decisions on rent increases above 5%. Acting Mayor Matarrese stated the Council does not have the capability to reconstruct the whole ballot question; inquired whether the last change is "limit and conditions reasons for evictions." Mayor Spencer responded that she believes limits and conditions is more clear about what the Council is doing. Regular Meeting Alameda City Council August 8, 2016 | CityCouncil/2016-08-08.pdf |