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INTERNAL OPERATIONS COMMITTEE / Costa
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December 5, 1994 County`�' � �
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REPORT ON MEETING WITH THE MOBILE HOME ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO
SUBJECT: DISCUSS THE ROLE, RESPONSIBILITIES, COMPOSITION AND MANNER OF
SELECTING MEMBERS OF THE ADVISORY . COMMITTEE
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATIONS:
1 . DEFINE the role and responsibilities of the Mobile Home
Advisory Committee as follows :
✓ TO ADVISE the Board of Supervisors on policies and issues
relating to mobile home parks in the unincorporated area
of the County.
✓ TO WORK with mobile home park owners and residents to
improve resident/owner communications and resolve
problems and conflicts in mobile home parks .
✓ TO PROVIDE a forum for resident/owner discussion. of
perceived problems in mobile home parks when other means
of communication have broken down.
✓ TO INVESTIGATE problems of park maintenance and work with
residents, park owners, and County staff to resolve
identified problems .
2 . REAFFIRM the size, composition and manner of selection of
members for the Mobile Home Advisory Committee, namely:
The Mobile Home Advisory Committee consists of 11 members,
four of whom are nominated by members of the Board of
Supervisors, representing mobile home park owners or managers
(except for District III , which has no Mobile Home parks in
the unincorporated area of the District) , four of whom are
nominated by members of the Board of Supervisors, representing
mobile home park tenants (except for District III , which has
no Mobile Home parks in the unincorporated area of the
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION CO NT I STRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
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ACTION OF BOARD ON APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED 41, OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
UNANIMOUS(ABSENT ) AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
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ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
ATTESTED bEC 13 1994
Contact: PHIL BATCHELOR,CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
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District) , and three of whom are nominated by the Internal
Operations Committee, representing the public and who are to
be neither mobile home park residents or owners .
3 . REQUEST the Mobile Home Advisory Committee to meet in the
evening at least once each calendar quarter in order to
facilitate attendance by mobile home park residents and
owners . These quarterly evening meetings are to be held in a
mobile home park. These quarterly evening meetings are to be
rotated among the four supervisorial districts ( I, II, IV, and
V) which have mobile home parks in the unincorporated area of
the District so that the Mobile Home Advisory Committee will
have met in each of these four supervisorial districts in the
course of one calendar year.
4 . REQUEST the Supervisor from that District or a member of his
or her staff to attend the meeting of the Mobile Home Advisory
Committee when it is held in the evening in a mobile home park
in that District.
5 . REQUEST the Mobile Home Advisory Committee to report to the
Internal Operations Committee on a semi-annual basis and for
this purpose refer this subject to the 1995 Internal
Operations Committee.
6 . REMOVE this subject as a referral to the 1994 Internal
Operations Committee.
BACKGROUND:
On June 21, 1994 , the Board of Supervisors established a Mobile
Home Task Force of seven members and authorized the members of the
Internal Operations Committee to recruit for, screen, interview and
recommend appointments for the Task Force to the Board of
Supervisors . In connection with the creation of the Task Force,
the Board of Supervisors asked our Committee to meet with the
members of the Mobile Home Advisory Committee to discuss the role
and responsibilities of the Advisory Committee because of criticism
which had been leveled at the Advisory Committee to the effect that
it was controlled by mobile home park owners and generally tended
to take their side in any dispute.
On December- 5, 1994 our Committee met with four members and one
former member of the Mobile Home Advisory Committee. The Advisory
Committee had met separately to consider how to respond to the
referral to our Committee and produced the attached report which
was reviewed with our Committee by Scott Carter, Chair of the
Mobile Home Advisory Committee.
Our Committee believes that the various factions involving mobile
home park residents, owners and others need to communicate in order
to have any reasonable chance to resolve their differences . We
believe that the Mobile Home Advisory Committee can serve as the
forum for this communication, particularly if the at-large members,
who are neither mobile home park residents or owners can be
objective and able to see and balance competing interests . One of
the best ways to do this, we believe, would be for the Mobile Home
Advisory Committee to actually meet in the mobile home parks in the
evening on at least a quarterly basis in order to provide a forum
for airing and hopefully resolving any differences or
misunderstandings which occur between or among the various
factions .
We have, therefore, set forth above in our recommendations the
suggested role and responsibilities of the Mobile Home Advisory
Committee and have asked that the Committee meet on a quarterly
basis in the evening and go to a different mobile home park in a
different supervisorial district each quarter. We are satisfied
with the current size, composition and manner of selecting members
of the Mobile Home Advisory Committee, but are restating the size,
composition and manner of selecting members so there is no question
about our intent.
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We think it would be well for the Mobile Home Advisory Committee to
report to the Internal Operations Committee twice a year so the
Board of Supervisors continues to have appropriate oversight over
the work of the Advisory Committee.
cc: County Administrator
Community Development Director
Jim Kennedy, Deputy Redevelopment Director
Kathleen Hamm, Senior Planner, CDD
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