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Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council Agenda – Public Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting

24 January, 2023 at 6:30p.m.

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Call to Order

Roll Call: Chair: Aaron M Quantz, co-Chair: Reina Cerros McCaughey, Mark Schwartz, Annemarie Donkin

Public Announcements by city officials and representatives: (3) minutes per speaker

Stakeholder Public Comment Period (on items NOT on the Agenda): (2) minutes per speaker

Stakeholder Public Comment Period (on items listed on this Agenda) (2) minutes per speaker

Approval of Committee Minutes: August 23^rd and October 25^th Committee meeting:
Support Documents:
https://whcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/minutes-agendas-newsletters/HomelessnessMinutes_2022-08-23.pdf

https://whcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/minutes-agendas-newsletters/HomelessnessMinutes_2022-10- 25.pdf

• Items for Discussion and Possible Action:

All comment is limited to 2 minutes per speaker, unless adjusted by the presiding chair of the committee.

Item No. (1) Discussion and possible action:

To provide $1500 to New Friends Homeless Center in support of their Friday evening Hot meals for the needy and homeless.

See Support Documents:

Roll Call Vote

Item No. (2) Discussion and possible action:
Right to Return / Right to Remain / SB 330 and SB 8 Housing Crisis Act Implementation / Occupant Protections Enforced

COUNCIL TRANSMITTAL: LOS ANGELES HOUSING DEPARTMENT REPORT BACK ON IMPLEMENTATION OF THE HOUSING CRISIS ACT (HCA) (SB 330 and SB 8)

SUMMARY:

The General Manager of the Los Angeles Housing Department (LAHD) respectfully submits this report in response to the various motions and amending motions from CF 20-0047/19-0400 and 21-0035 which requested a report back on the enforcement of the occupant protections established by the Housing Crisis Act (HCA). This report specifically focuses on the implementation of the Right to Return and Right to Remain provisions of the Housing Crisis Act. Through this report, the General Manager of LAHD respectfully requests authority to amend the Department’s existing relocation contract to include Right to Return services for displaced tenants. LAHD also requests Council to instruct the City Attorney, in consultation with LAHD, to develop an ordinance that would require Right to Return services to be funded through a fee paid by developers as part of a housing development application. Lastly, the Department seeks approval to revise it land use fee following an internally conducted fee study to support additional staffing for HCA implementation.

RECOMMENDATIONS

I. That the City Council, subject to the approval of the Mayor:

A. AUTHORIZE the General Manager of LAHD, or designee, to execute a contract amendment with Interwest Consulting Group, Inc. (C-138119). This amendment will increase the contract amount by $200,000 from the Foreclosure Registry Trust Fund, Fund No. 56V/43, Account No. 43WC71- SB330/Relocation and Right to Return Services for a new total contract amount of up to $4,700,000, to provide additional relocation and Right to Return services, in substantial conformance with the attached draft

LAHD Report on the Implementation of the Housing Crisis Act pro forma Agreement, subject to contractor’s performance, funding availability, and approval of the City Attorney as to form

B. REQUEST the City Attorney, with the assistance of LAHD, to draft an ordinance within 60 days for Council approval requiring developers to pay for the cost of Right to Return services as part of the development application based on a new fee or cost study conducted by LAHD.

C. REQUEST the City Attorney, with the assistance of LAHD, to amend LAMC Section 19.14 to include an

updated land use fee amount based on a revised fee study conducted by LAHD and to expand its applicability to cover all affordability covenants required by City ordinances, regulations and planning

determinations.

D. AUTHORIZE the Controller to: i. Establish appropriation Account No. 43WC71-SB330/Relocation and Right to Return Services, within the Foreclosure Registry Trust Fund (Penalty sub fund), Fund No. 56V/43. ii. Appropriate from cash balance in the amount of $200,000 within the Foreclosure Registry Trust Fund, Fund No. 56V/43, Appropriation Account No. 43WC71- SB330/Relocation and Right to Return

Services, to fund Interwest Consulting Group, Inc., a contract amendment to be executed for additional relocation and right to return services.
iii. Expend funds not to exceed $200,000 upon proper demand of the LAHD General Manager, or designee.

E. AUTHORIZE the General Manager of LAHD, or designee, to prepare Controller instructions and any necessary technical adjustments consistent with Mayor and City Council actions, subject to the approval

of the City Administrative Officer (CAO), and instruct the Controller to implement the instructions.

BACKGROUND

The HCA, which went into effect January 1, 2020, significantly increased affordable housing replacement requirements and tenant protections throughout the state. In addition to making several changes to the development process, the HCA required the replacement of low-income housing and required displaced tenants to be provided relocation, a Right to Return to the new development, and a Right to Remain in their units until six months prior to start of construction. In 2020, LAHD, City Planning and LADBS provided a report to the PLUM and Housing Committees regarding the provisions and implementation of the HCA. On March 3, 2021, the City Council adopted Council Motion 20-0047/19-0400 instructing the departments to report back in more detail on replacement unit requirements, the HCA’s interactions with other state laws, and procedures to enforce the occupancy protections established under the HCA.

Item No (3) Discussion and possible action: (from last month’s meeting)

The City’s FY 2021-22 Budget included a $1,000,000 pilot program in partnership with the University of Southern California (USC) to deliver medical services to homeless residents.

The program also places individuals into various types of housing and provides hygiene services at high-needs locations throughout the City. The program received an additional $1,000,000 in the FY 2022-23 Budget to continue these needed services. This current service contract is ending on June 30, 2022. At this time, a new contract is required to recognize funding provided to LAHD in the FY 2022-23 Budget Resolution.

It is important that a new contract be properly executed with USC through the Los Angeles Housing Department, administrator for this contract, to ensure continuity of service. I THEREFORE MOVE that the City Council instruct and authorize the General Manager of the Los

Angeles Housing Department (LAHD) or designee to execute a contract with the University of Southern California (USC) to provide street medicine and housing services in the amount of $1,000,000 as approved in the City’s FY 22-23 Budget, and that the contract commence July 1, 2022 for a term of 12 months, with an option to extend for an additional 12 months.

I FURTHER MOVE that the Council find that the services to be performed by the University of Southern California are for the performance of professional, scientific, expert, technical, or other special services of a temporary and occasional character for which competitive bidding is not practicable or advantageous and that the work can be performed more economically or feasibly by independent contractors than by City employees.

I FURTHER MOVE that LAHD be authorized to make any technical corrections or clarifications as necessary to the above instructions in order to effectuate the intent of this Motion.

MOTION 72A: AMEND item #72 (CF: 22-0755) to add the following directions: I FURTHER MOVE that the City Council instruct the Office of the City Administrative Officer (CAO) with the assistance of the Chief Legislative Analyst (CLA), Los Angeles Housing Department (LAHD), Community Investment for Families Department (CIFD), the Mayor’s Office, the Unified Homelessness Response Center (UHRC), and the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), to report in 60 days on the status of the City’s partnership with the USC Street Medicine Program, and funding sources and options for expanding street medicine services across the City.

Items to be placed on the agenda for the next meeting

Adjournment of Meeting:

The next Committee Meeting will be held on 28 February 2023, by teleconference. Please visit the calendar page at whcouncil.org for the complete details and to confirm the date and time.

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