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Mobile-home resident urges council to use $1.67 fee for outreach, criticizes revised ordinance as favoring park owners
Summary
During public comment, resident Larry Fraker urged the council to use the $1.67 per-resident fee to recruit mobile-home park board members and criticized a recent ordinance as written in favor of park owners; no council action was taken on the suggestion.
Larry Fraker addressed the council during public comment and urged the city to use the $1.67 fee collected from residents (and the same amount from park owners) to fund outreach to mobile-home parks and recruit members for a rent-control board.
Fraker said the flyer would be preferable to an unspecified expenditure and argued the charge was originally intended “because the city council was standing up for the average park mobile home owner.” He criticized a revised ordinance that he said was “in effect a lobbyist for the park owners,” and said the revision made the ordinance more complex and more favorable to owners than the original language.
Fraker recounted a prior legal dispute in which a suit against the city “was dropped” after the city supported the rent-control board in a prior conflict, and he urged the council to return to an ordinance approach “almost identical to before.”
The remarks were made during the public comment period; the council did not take formal action on Fraker’s suggestions during the meeting.
