A full slate of city government meetings kicks off on Monday with the City Council meeting.
A couple of items to watch here.
The first one is an action that would sunset the city’s rent moratorium. If the moratorium ends, the clock starts ticking on back rent for some folks.
Tenants would have six months to get caught up on rent.
If you haven’t paid rent since March 2020.
Let’s see two grand a month or more times 24 months equals … carry the one .. solve for Y .. and we get a lot of back rent.
Turns out I am good at math after all.
A lot of the folks that were struggling with the rent have filed for bankruptcy, stopped paying rent, and/or have moved out, according to a city staff report.
One local realtor told me last he has a tenant that straight up told him he is not paying rent, simply because he does not have to.
That’s a dangerous game.
The conspiracy theory folks will scream this is in response to the rent control campaign.
Either way, I hope people can either catch up on their rent or cut somes deals and screaming retaliation won’t get either of those things done.
Stay tuned.
Remember the kerfuffle over moving public comments on matters not on the agenda to the end of the meeting?
Well it turns out locals wanting to comment on the pending administrative review in the officer-involved shooting of Anthony McClain will have to wait till the end of the meeting to be heard on Monday.
On March 31, DA George Gascón cleared the police officer who fired the fatal shot according to a report released last week.
The locals who had been calling for an end to the investigation weren’t happy with the ending.
Mayor Gordo agendized the next step in the process which is a pending administrative review.
Guess where it falls on the agenda.
That’s right, it’s the last item. That means no one can comment on the incident during the initial 20-minute commenting period.
Come to think of it, nothing is stopping the mayor from agendizing an update on the administrative review and placing it at the end of the agenda every week, which forces the comments to that item to the end of the meeting.
Alright here is the part the activists will ignore.
This review is a look at the officers’ adherence to policy.
It is not a criminal probe. Of course people will still call on the City Council to fire the police officers.
I’ll have a shot of Jack Daniel on standby waiting for someone to insinuate or outright claim Gascón did not do a thorough job or rushed the report.
Nothing unusual there, I usually have to drop a shot of JD during the first 20 minutes of the meeting.
Yeah, the same report that the activist crowd claimed took too long.
As for the review. Yes, one of them did not activate his body-worn camera.
Pretty sure that’s a violation.
But nobody is getting fired.
Yes, it’s a tragedy, but you just have to accept the handwriting on the wall. This is pretty much coming to an end.
Expect the Office of Independent Review and the admin review to find several policy violations. They always do in these shootings. The department will institute some recommendations, and not others because they have similar policies already on the books.
That also happens every time.
Read the report if you have not.
The two most interesting parts of the report in my opinion. The officer’s interpretation of McClain’s actions. The officer felt like he was being targeted and about to be shot.
The other one that stayed with me, was the driver’s testimony on McClain’s reaction once he realized the car was about to be pulled over.
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