WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.031 --> 00:00:14.151 This is Bay Area in 5, from CivicFM: the week at the city halls and county boards we cover. 2 00:00:15.071 --> 00:00:28.046 San Francisco's supervisors gave final approval to two renter protections, San Jose's City Council reworked a loan for housing for foster youth, and an Oakland committee backed selling part of Garfield Park to the school district. 3 00:00:28.046 --> 00:00:35.591 This episode is made with AI from each government's own show, which reports from the public recordings of its meetings. Sources are in the show notes. 4 00:00:38.989 --> 00:00:50.109 Our top story this week: San Francisco's Board of Supervisors on Tuesday gave final approval to two protections for renters. Last week we told you both passed on first reading. 5 00:00:50.109 --> 00:01:07.909 The first will require online rental listings and leases to show the total estimated monthly cost, meaning rent plus any required fees. Tenants who weren't properly told will be able to end their lease early without penalty, and landlords will be restricted from evicting them or charging late penalties over those fees. 6 00:01:07.909 --> 00:01:21.949 Under the second, landlords won't be able to evict a tenant for unpaid rent that totals less than the local fair market rent for a unit that size, a figure set by the federal housing department. Both passed eleven to nothing on the Board's final vote. 7 00:01:25.266 --> 00:01:39.211 Next, to San Jose, where the City Council on Tuesday changed how a city loan for Parkmoor Community Apartments can be spent. The complex is permanent supportive housing for foster and transition-age youth. 8 00:01:39.211 --> 00:01:56.386 The loan will now pay down the project's bank construction loan rather than construction costs. Staff said the developer barely drew on the city's money, the department missed a math error in early 2023, and without the change the building would run at a loss by early 2027. 9 00:01:56.386 --> 00:02:11.026 Vice Mayor Pam Foley objected that this wasn't what the money was approved for, but said she'd reluctantly support it to protect the young residents. It passed unanimously. Staff will bring other struggling affordable housing projects to the council on November tenth. 10 00:02:14.504 --> 00:02:32.079 And in Oakland, the City Council's Life Enrichment Committee on Tuesday backed selling the city's six-tenths of an acre of Garfield Park to the Oakland Unified School District, for five hundred ninety-seven thousand five hundred dollars less closing costs, so the district can rebuild Garfield Elementary. 11 00:02:32.079 --> 00:02:51.444 Staff said the rebuilt campus would have a new turf field the community could use, and that without a sale the district would build up to its current property line, cutting the park in half. The money would go to the city's general fund. A public speaker who opposed the sale said she believed state law may require it to go back to parks, while saying she could be wrong. 12 00:02:51.444 --> 00:02:56.624 The committee voted four to nothing to send it to the full council's special meeting on November tenth. 13 00:03:00.741 --> 00:03:17.026 Now a quick trip around the area. San Francisco's supervisors unanimously backed the Mayor's emergency declaration ahead of severe storms expected from El Niño, which lets some city departments sign emergency contracts without some of the usual contracting rules. 14 00:03:17.026 --> 00:03:29.471 The board also gave final approval, eleven to nothing, to extended contracts with six city employee unions through June 2031, with a pledge of no layoffs of permanent civil service workers through June 2029. 15 00:03:29.471 --> 00:03:45.906 In Oakland, the Finance and Management Committee voted three to one to recommend seventy-five thousand dollars more for one of the city's executive search firms, for searches including the one for City Administrator. Staff had cut the request from three hundred thousand. The full council takes it up November tenth. 16 00:03:45.906 --> 00:03:56.341 And San Jose's City Council unanimously renamed the downtown Plaza de César Chávez as Plaza de San José, after a community survey drew more than ten thousand responses. 17 00:03:59.659 --> 00:04:03.259 That's the week around the Bay Area. See you next time.