Second in a series
Re “Meeting at a Meeting to Decide if a Meeting Is Feasible”
[img]1307|right|Meghan Sahli-Wells||no_popup[/img]The City Council is convening in three weeks, on Monday, Dec. 8 at 7 o’clock. Subject: Questionable. They will be meeting not to decide on rent control and availability of affordable – the main headline of the day. Rather, the four gentlemen and a lady will debate whether it is advisable to call another meeting on this identical topic.
This feels like bureaucracy wrapped in a maze of well-worn rubber bands.
It was Mayor Meghan Sahli-Wells’s idea for the Council to talk over those two touchier-than-most topics. Her preference was a town hall setting.
But there are hoops to stumble or leap through first, she found out. This clumsy path “seems sill, doesn’t it?” she asked rhetorically.
Her Honor is a career-long advocate for the poor and underserved, and she, possibly more than any of her Councilmates, worries over the state of those who desperately need stable rent and affordable housing.
Question: Couldn’t the Council go directly to a town hall meeting instead of making this unwanted, stop?
“That is an excellent question,” Ms. Sahli-Wells said. “I wish I had an answer. I am inclined to move forward.
“The bottom line is: It never should happen in Culver City that a rent is raised 100 percent, and tenants only have 60 days to pay up or move out.
”The problem is that it can happen, and it has,” Ms. Sahli-Wells said. “We need to address it. But this is not an easy discussion to have because there are a lot of competing interests.”
(To be continued)
