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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION Date: August 24, 2020 Item No.: .d Department Approval City Manager Approval Item Description: Consider next steps in regards to G & G Management’sRental License Revocation at the Marion Street/The Brittany’sapartments 1 B ACKGROUND 2 On November 25, 2019 the City Council adopted Resolution 11653 revoking G & G Management’s 3 rental license for property located at 175, 195, 221 Larpenteur Avenue, 1722, 1725, 1735, 1736 4 Woodbridge Court, and 1720, 1735, 1740, 1745, 1750 Marion Street. Since that action, the following 5 events have occurred: 6 Progress or educational inspections have occurred on 12/20/19, 1/13/2020, 2/14/2020, 7 2/24/2020, 3/12/20, 4/27/20, and 5/26/20. 8 Meetings between G & G and City staff occurred on 12/11/19, 1/9/20, and 1/15/20. 9 A scheduled inspection was cancelled by G & G on 1/24/20. 10 A reinstatement inspection for 1740 Marion Street occurred on 6/19/20. 11 City Council consideration of the license reinstatement for 1740 Marion Street was removed 12 from the July 13, 2020 CC agendaat G & G’s request. The applicant indicated this request 13 was made to provide time to hire a professional property management company. Attachments 14 C and D provide further details. 15 On March 19, 2020G & G Management transferred ownership of all 12 buildings to a new 16 entity and did not seek a new license under City Code Section 908.03.F, which requires 17 submission of a new license within 30 days of the ownership change. G & G’s attorney 18 provided an explanation of the ownership transfer in Attachment F. 19 As aresult of the rental license revocation, existing tenants may remain, however, vacant units 20 may not be re-rented. Based upon information provided by G & G, staff believes there to be 21 approximately 39 vacant units to-date, with vacancies occurring in all 12 buildings. 22 As of August 17, 2020, G & G has hired Core Living Management to provide professional 23 property management services for all 277 units across all 12 buildings. 24 Attachment B provides details about meetings and inspection dates and what buildings and units 25 inspectors gained access to as part of those inspections. Staff would note that less than 10% of the 26 277 units have been inspected, acknowledging some of those inspections were considered progress (or 27 educational) inspections. Exterior inspections have also been conducted, namely the roofs of 9 of the 28 12 buildings. One of the outcomes of the roof inspections was for the applicant to submit a timeline 29 for needed roof repairs to eleven of the twelve buildings by August 13, 2020. The applicant hasmissed Page 1 of 3