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Home My WebLink AboutMINUTES - 02252003 - C127 TMJ: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Contra FROM: JOHN SWEETEN, County Administrator Costa DATE: FEBRUARY 25, 2003 o'u t SUBJECT: REFERRALS TO THE INTERNAL OPERATIONS COMMITTEE REGARDING THE MOBILE HOME ADVISORY COMMITTEE SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION RECOMMENDATION: REFER to the Internal Operations Committee letters received from Freddie H. Oaks, Jr., and the Mobile Home Advisory Committee regarding member qualifications. BACKCROU'ND: Staff received the attached letters regarding membership qualifications for At Large seats on the Mobile Home Advisory Committee. Staff recommends that they be referred to the Internal Operations Committee, which makes nominations to the Board of Supervisors for At Large seats on Beard advisory bodies. CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: ( "'YES SIGNATURE: , ECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR Q RECOMIO& ATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE ❑APPROVE M OTHER i SIGNATURE(S):,_. ACTION OF 8+# ON FLbruar 25, 2003 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED ® OTHER C3 VOTE OF SUPERVISORS: I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN AND UNANIMOUS(ABSENT None ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF AYES: NOES: SUPERVISORS ON THE BATE SHOWN. ABSENT: ABSTAIN: ATTESTED: February 25,2003 Contact: JULIE ENEA(925)335-1077 JOHN SWEETEN,CLERIC OF THE BOARS?OF cc: SUPERVISOR GLOVER SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR L.MOULTON,MHAC STAFF M.MASON, DEPUTY COUNTY COUNSEL € f FREDDIE H.OAKS,JR. By: . _+ Pu 205 Maureen Circle Bay Paint,CA 94665 C% February 1, 2003 L;. Linda C. Moulton Ph.D. Contra Costa County Planner/Demographer Community Development Dept. Administrative Building 651 Pine Street 4 h Floor—North Wing Martinez, CA 94553-1296 Re: Request for the resignation of Ms. Cheryl Hune from the at Large position on the "Contra Costa County Mobile Home Advisory Committee". Dear Ms. Moulton, Since August 20021 have attended meetings held by the "Contra Costa County Mobile Home Advisory Committee". Myself along with other Mobile Home owners and residents of Mobile Home Parks come to this committee thinking it is the appropriate place to go when Mobile Home Park Managers and Owners participate in and promote what I have identified and experienced first hand as an "Institutionalized Culture of Abuse and Neglect". Contra Costa County Mobile Home fawners and Residents are under the impression that this committee is here to listen to our problems. Provide information and guidance in an unbiased manner. Provide correct information and ensure that the information presented to this committee is heard in a safe environment that is beneficial for the person,presenting their issue to you. It is understood that there is equal representation among Park Owners and Mobile Home Owners on the committee. The at large positions on the committee should be just that"AT LARGE". To remind this committee "At Large" means someone that is unaffected and uninvested in any outcome of a situation or issue presented to this committee. The "Contra Costa County Mobile Home Advisory Committee" currently has in the"At Large" position occupied by Cheryl Hune a member who is fully invested in and seeks to affect the outcome of situations presented to this committee in a biased manner. For the following reasons I feel that her presence and vote on this committee is extremely biased., • At the Contra Costa County Mobile Home Advisory Committee meeting that I attended on 1/16/03 Ms. Hune aggressively attempted to discredit nae and the information I presented to the committee that is clearly a violation of California State code as well as Mobile Home Residency Law. • Ms. Hune during that exchange admitted openly to the committee and me; she had a deep personal relationship with the park manager and the park ownership at Emerald Cove where I reside. • By the nature of her livelihood and career aspirations Ms. Hune is fully invested in the outcome of what is heard and voted on in this committee. • Ms. Hune is the sole proprietor of"Five Star Homes" with agents working for her. She sells new and used Mobile Homes in communities that are notorious for perpetuating an "Institutionalized Culture of Abuse and Neglect". Because of this I call for the resignation of Ms. Cheryl Hune as an at large member of this committeel Ms. Hune's presence is not reflective of this committee's function. It undermines the hard work others are doing on this committee who seek to promote the Mobile Home Lifestyle as a profitable, safe and healthy experience for Mobile Home Owners as well as Park Owners. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your time and immediate attention to this matter. I encourage those of you who sit on this committee with honorable intentions to "Do the Right Thing" and rid yourself of any appearance of a "Conflict of Interest" of this magnitude. Please include a copy of this letter in each committee members February 20'h 2003 meeting packets. please agendize my correspondence and reference my letter. I would like an opportunity to speak off the record and a vote taken on this matter at the February 2e 2403 meeting. All My Best, Freddie H. Oaks Jr. 205 Maureen Circle Bay Point, CA 94565 925 458.1370 TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Z 13 FROM: Contra INTERNAL OPERATIONS COMMITTEE Costa DATE: December 5, 1994 � Dula ` SUBJECT: REPORT ON MEETING WITH THE MOBILE HOME ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS THE ROLE, RESPONSIBILITIES, COMPOSITION AND MANNER OF SELEC'T'ING MEMBERS OF THE ADVISORY.C'OMMITTEE SPECIFIC REOU€ST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)R 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. J 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 wham 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 APPROVE SIGNATUR S ACTION OF BOARD ON APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER VOTE OF SUPERVISORS I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE UNANIMOUS(ABSENT } AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN. ATTESTED DEC 13 9 Contact: PHM BATCHELOR,CLERK OF THE BOARD OF cc: See Page 3 SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR BY DEPUTY t ,a I 13 w 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 bent 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. 2 a 13 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 3