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Residents and advocates urge Sonoma County to strengthen mobile-home protections; retirees press for COLA and health premium relief
Summary
Multiple mobile-home park residents, tenant advocates and retired county employees used the public-comment period to press the Board of Supervisors for stronger closure/conversion rules, protection from harassment by corporate owners and relief for retirees facing rising health premiums and reduced county medical contributions.
Mobile-home residents, legal-aid advocates and retirees filled the Board of Supervisors' public-comment period Tuesday to demand stronger county protections against park closures, conversion schemes and owner intimidation, and to press the board on retiree cost-of-living adjustments and rising health premiums.
Jody Johnson, introduced in testimony as the GSMOL vice president for Zone A, told the board that "closure conversion ordinances... are being weaponized in every city in our entire state" and urged Sonoma County to align its ordinances with state law (she referenced "AB 27 82" in testimony) to protect seniors, veterans and low-income mobile-home…
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