Resolution 16108 CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 16108
AMENDING THE FISCAL YEAR 2023-24 GENERAL FUND BUDGET
TO APPROPRIATE $100,000 FROM GENERAL FUND RESIDUAL
FUND BALANCE FOR THE TEMPORARY RELOCATION TENANT
ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
WHEREAS, the City has adopted an Ordinance entitled the City of Alameda Rent
Control, Limitations on Evictions, and Relocation Payments to Certain Displaced Tenants
Ordinance ("the Rent Control Ordinance"); and
WHEREAS, the Rent Control Ordinance requires landlords to make Temporary
Relocation Payments to a tenant who, among other reasons, (i) has vacated or is ordered
to vacate a rental unit in compliance with an order from a governmental agency or from a
court of competent jurisdiction, or (ii) vacates a rental unit temporarily due to Health or
Safety Conditions; and
WHEREAS, tenants who are temporarily displaced as provided in the Ordinance
have an immediate need for financial assistance in order to provide for temporary
housing, meals, and the like; and
WHEREAS, requiring landlords to provide such relocation payments helps mitigate
the challenges faced by tenants who must vacate a rental unit through no fault of their
own; and
WHEREAS, when a landlord fails immediately to comply with this requirement, it
creates a financial burden for the tenant and the potential for the tenant to become
unhoused; and
WHEREAS, it is in the public interest to provide assistance and financial stability
to tenants who face temporary displacement where the landlord is unwilling or unable to
provide immediately Temporary Relocation Payments to an affected tenant; and
WHEREAS, it is in the public interest to establish a Temporary Relocation Tenant
Assistance Program to provide tenants with the Temporary Relocation Payments to which
they are entitled and, to the extent such financial assistance is provided, the City will seek
recovery of such funds from the landlord.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF ALAMEDA AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The proposed amendment to the Fiscal Year 2023-24 General Fund
Budget to appropriate $100,000 from the General Fund Residual fund balance to
establish a Temporary Relocation Assistance Program is approved.
Section 2. This Resolution is effective immediately upon adoption.
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly adopted
and passed by the Council of the City of Alameda in a special meeting assembled on the
25th day of October 2023 by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Jensen, Vella and Mayor Ezzy Ashcraft—3.
NOES: Councilmembers Daysog, Herrera Spencer—2.
ABSENT: None.
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said
City this 26th day of October 2023.
Lara Weisiger, City Clerk
City of Alameda
Approved as to form:
Yibin Shen ' Attorney
City of Al 7 da