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MINUTES <br />Eugene City Council <br />McNutt Room - --City Hall <br />777 Pearl Street — Eugene, Oregon <br />April 18, 2012 <br />Noon <br />COUNCILORS PRESENT: George Brown, Pat Farr, Betty Taylor, Andrea Ortiz, George Poling, <br />Chris Pryor, Alan Zelenka. <br />COUNCILORS ABSENT: Mike Clark. <br />In the absence of Her Honor Mayor Kitty Piercy, Council President George Brown called the April 18, <br />2012, work session of the Eugene City Council to order. <br />A. WORK SESSION: <br />Rental Housing Code <br />Building Official Stuart Ramsing led the council through a PowerPoint presentation titled Rental Housing <br />Code. The presentation provided information about the work of the advisory committee established by <br />the Housing Policy Board to review the Rental Housing Code. He shared the committee's <br />recommendations: <br />a) Reduce the annual unit fee to draw down the reserves <br />b) Explore further development of online accounts and billing <br />c) Provide public access to complaints and staff work online <br />d) Develop online resources to answer frequently asked questions for both tenants and owners <br />e) Explore more effective outreach regarding the program's availability, purpose and process <br />J) Explore other ways of billing, both in -house and outsourcing <br />g) Explore multi year billing option (requires an ordinance change to implement) <br />h) Work with a committee of the Housing Policy Board for policy -level review and input <br />i) Explore changing the late fee to proportionally relate to size of a past -due payment <br />j) Explore contracting with community organizations for portions of the program <br />Mr. Ramsing highlighted the City Manager's recommendation to extend the Rental Housing Code for <br />four years to fall 2016. <br />Councilors asked questions clarifying the details of the presentation. <br />Mr. Zelenka supported the manager's recommendation. He requested information about how many <br />billings were sent to collections. He was not very interested in privatizing the billing. Mr. Zelenka <br />expressed interest in adding appliances, air infiltration, and dry wall conditions to the code's habitability <br />standards. He also wanted to reduce the times for notice and action for conditions requiring immediate <br />attention. <br />MINUTES— Eugene City Council April 18, 2012 Page 1 <br />Work Session <br />