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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION Date: 02-09-2015 Item No.: 15.a Department Approval City Manager Approval A request by the Community Development Department for Council to Item Description: review and comment on: proposed ordinance revisions to RoseRental License Ordinance (City Code Chapter 908) and a policy regarding Memorandums of Understanding. B ACKGROUND 1 -Family Rental License Ordinance (Chapter 908) was approved by City Council on 2 st October 21, 2013. To date Community Development Department staff have implemented the 3 ordinance and completed the initial inspection/licensing cycle. The first cycle of license renewals will 4 occur in July of 2015 for those properties that had the most violations. 5 In developing administrative procedures, assigning license types and conducting inspections, staff 6 identified certain ordinance and process revisions which will correct minor discrepancies and 7 contradictions in the ordinance, clarify some ordinance wording, allow for the ordinance to be operated 8 more efficiently, and, provide a Council approved policy to guide staff. 9 The following ordinance revisions to Chapter 908 and process changes are proposed: 10 1.908.03: Change the number of individual units inspected at license renewal to 25% of rental 11 dwelling units: 12 While the ordinance identifies 100% of units to be inspected, the Implementation Plan 13 st (an attachment to the October 21 RCA approving the ordinance) called for inspecting 14 33% of all dwelling units in each multi-family building. When the workload scheduling 15 process occurred it was recognized that the 33% inspection level was not possible 16 without adding staff and the program was adjusted to a 25% level for the initial cycle. 17 The proposed text change codifies the practice that was followed and has previously 18 been discussed with the City Council. 19 Inspecting 25% of the total number of dwelling units in a building (units are chosen at 20 random) allows for an adequate representation of the condition of dwelling units in a 21 building. Many other cities with rental licensing programs also inspect a similar 22 percentage of units. 23 2.908.03.A: Rental licenses to expire as per the license type assigned, versus annually or semi- 24 annually: 25 Present ordinance language states that licenses will expire annually or semi-annually. 26 However, both A and B type licenses run longer than annually. This revision clarifies the 27 original intent of the ordinance; that licenses expire as per the License Type Diagram: 28 29 Page 1 of 4