SR-08-25-2015-13C 13.C
August 25, 2015
Council Meeting: August 25, 2015 Santa Monica, California
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CITY CLERK’S OFFICE - MEMORANDUM
To: Mayor and City Council
From: Sarah Gorman, City Clerk, Records & Elections Services Department
Date: August 25, 2015
13.C Request of Mayor McKeown, Mayor Pro Tem Vazquez, and Councilmember
Winterer that the Council support both a state moratorium on Ellis Act
evictions, as suggested in the August 5th letter from Congressional
Representatives Maxine Waters and Karen Bass, and the related concept of
a state moratorium on Costa-Hawkins Act decontrolled rent increases; and
direct staff and our Sacramento lobbyists to convey the City’s position to
state legislators and the Governor.