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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,April 6, 2015 Page 11 Mr. Gupta referenced G & G Management's responses to staff's list of violations in their bench handout. Mr. Gupta further referenced the environmental steps taken by their firm in reducing water consumption and energy efficiencies as listed in their submittal (page 3), spending considerable money to do so, but not rewarded in the licensing program by the City, which he thought should be included. Mr. Gupta stated that his firm had done anything and everything brought to their atten- tion, and since the inspection report have completed or are in the process of implement- ing and/or correcting them, estimating that 70-80% of them had been completed. Noting those items mentioned earlier that were outside, Mr. Gupta stated that he had asked to as- sist them with landscaping ideas behind the building where children were playing contin- uously. Mr. Gupta noted that this was in part due to the City not providing a place for children to play in this area, therefore, causing them to have to play on their grounds, and anything installed would be strewn all over before long. Mr. Gupta sought guidance for what to do to provide space for children to play so they don't destroy their beautiful lawn. Ms. Joshi reviewed the list of most common violations provided prior to the inspection by staff, and reiterated that most of the violations addressed by staff during the actual in- spection itself were not included on the preliminary list. Ms. Joshi advised that their in- terpretation of this first inspection round was that it would be mostly for educational pur- poses for property owners, and it had been their understanding that they would not be fined due to that educational nature of the inspection, but simply shown how things were found and areas to be improved. Ms. Joshi opined that, personally, she found few viola- tions, and most of the violations mentioned repeatedly and questioned the need to men- tion them more than once. Ms. Joshi reviewed some of the items that were being correct- ed (e.g. flexible drain connectors versus rubber) in each building, but their lack of infor- mation on what the City was counting and what they were not counting, or which items were the most dangerous or needing immediate attention or those that could be corrected over time. Specific to the door locks, Ms. Joshi reported that the back door to their office was inten- tionally left unlocked during business hours for tenants to access the office; and noted that the inspection report mentioned that the door lock was not working, but assured the Board that she locked it before leaving for the day, and the door at the 195 building was fine, and had been left intentionally unlocked for the last ten years, and she did not feel should be listed as a violation. Regarding beds blocking living room windows, Ms. Joshi advised that tenants had been given notice to not block windows; and Mr. Gupta advised that tenants had not been pre- viously aware to not block egress windows. Ms. Joshi reported that those issues had now been corrected and that staff had been ad- vised of that fact after G & G received this letter, again noting that their understanding was that the first round of inspections was only to be educational in nature. Ms. Joshi opined that it seemed that the numerous and repeat violations listed in the inspection re-