Summer, 2008

Dear HMOA, Inc. Team,

With considerable reluctance, State Senator Ellen Corbett has decided to have SB 900 held in the Assembly Housing and Transportation Committee as some municipalities and some homeowners associations voiced strong objections that the bill, in its amended form, did not include provisions which would have restored to local governments the authority to oversee park owner initiated condo-conversions as was the original intent of SB 900. Senator Corbett also stated that she was extremely concerned that to proceed with the bill might jeopardize pending legislation between local governments attempting to protect homeowners from park owner iniated codo-conversions. In her statement to the Committee, Senator Corbett stated that she is not done with the issue and that the fight should continue to determine if there are opportunities to provide rent protections to residnets facing condo-conversions. Please access www.sen.ca.gov/corbett. Click on current news and then click on audio/video to hear the Senator's testimony.

As amended, the bill, if passed into law, would implement the HCD income guidelines to determine eligibility for non-purchasing/low income residents and would prevent post conversion pass-through costs from being imposed upon these residents. Additionally, the amended bill would have extended rent protections to non-purchasing residents classified as "moderate" by HCD guidelines. Also, rent protections would have been extended to mobilehome residents whose incomes levels exceed HCD guidelines for "moderate" income levels from four to six years.

HMOA wishes to extend our sincere appreciation to Senator Corbett and her staff for their continued diligence in working through the myriad of concerns they encountered throughout this long and tedious process of attempting to reach a viable reconciliation. It is our hope that with the help of our state legislators, we will achieve success in the immediate future in enacting inferential legislation which will make all the difference in the the lives of thousands of residents in California's mobilehome community.

Kathy

Our next meeting will be held on Saturday, September 20, 2008, at 10:00 A. M. at Eden Gardens. Hope you all have a great Summer and we look forward to seeing you in the Fall.

By working together we CAN and ARE making a difference.