League of Women Voters of California Education Fund
	Los Angeles County, CA November 6, 2012 Election
	Measure F El Monte Fairness For Mobilehome Owners Ordinance City of El Monte Ordinance - Majority Approval Required Pass: 8,710 / 50.20% Yes votes ...... 8,639 / 49.80% No votes See Also: Index of all Measures

Arguments For Measure F

Arguments Against Measure F

Some mobile home park slumlords are running amok in EI Monte. They are taking advantage of seniors and minorities, bullying them into paying outrageously high space rents in mobile home parks that are poorly maintained and in disrepair. That's why your YES vote on Measure F is so important. It will ensure that mobile home park residents are treated fairly and the slumlords are held to account for abusing existing law. In 1990, a well-funded super PAC waged a deceptive campaign that tricked well-meaning EI Monte voters into approving an ordinance that gave mobile home park owners an unfair advantage over renters. Your YES vote on Measure F repeals this self-serving, flawed mobile home park owner-sponsored measure. Loopholes in this 22 year-old law are being exploited by some opportunistic slumlords to increase rents unfairly. And the City Council and EI Monte Police can do nothing to stop this price gouging by heartless park owners - unless you vote YES on Measure F! The slumlord's price gouging is wreaking havoc on the lives of many mobile home park renters - especially those on fixed incomes. Your YES vote on Measure F can fIx this! Without your YES vote on Measure F, victims choosing to stand up to their slumlord's abuses will continue to be punished with even higher space rent hikes -- as much as $1,482 per month. That's nearly three times the space rent charged in comparable mobile home parks! Ruthless owners have even tried to blame EI Monte City Council Members for the rent hikes - threatening costly legal action against the City and its taxpayers just because Council Members are working to protect their constituents. Don't let some out-of-town slumlords and their high-paid sleazy lawyers intimidate our community. Stop this injustice. Ensure that seniors and minorities are treated fairly. Vote YES on Measure F! ANDRE QUINTERO EI Monte Mayor NORMA MACIAS EI Monte City Council Member SANDI L. WITT Resident Brookside Mobile Country Club DANIEL BELTRAN Former Resident Brookside Mobile Country Club SANTOS HERNANDEZ Captain, EL Monte Police Department Rebuttal to Arguments For Measure F Hurts El Monte Seniors and will Waste Tax Dollars Shame on the Mayor for calling our communities "slums". We are proud of our homes and lifestyle choice. Shame on the Mayor for trying to waste your tax dollars by ignoring the privately funded Mobilehome Tenant Rent Assistance Program as approved by the voters in 1990. The program works at no cost to taxpayers! Shame on the Mayor and City Council for using false and misleading surveys to spend your tax dollars. Rents in El Monte's mobilehome parks are affordable, ranging from $200 to $1,400. There are no loopholes in the existing Mobilehome Rent Assistance ordinance. Check for yourself at www.SaveSeniorRentSubsidiesNoMeasureF. Your No vote on F will save El Monte taxpayers what could be Millions of dollars in unnecessary administration and litigation costs. Legal action has already been filed against the City for violating the voter adopted Rent Assistance Program and thwarting the will of the voters by putting Measure F on the ballot. We represent scores of low-income mobilehome owners receiving subsidies and the Park Owners who fund the low-income rent subsidies for our residents. We stand together with El Monte taxpayers to urge voters to send a clear message to City Hall to "Get out of our daily lives!" We do not need new expensive programs that regulate what businesses charge for rent or sweetened drinks! Don't be fooled! Stop The City From Wasting Your Tax Dollars! Vote No on Measure F! RALPH R. DESSY Daleview Resident Mobilehome Owner NADINE MCKEOWN Daleview Resident Mobilehome Owner KAREN KURIHARA LOUCKS El Monte Mobilehome Park Owner GEORGE C. LEDERER El Monte Senior Mobilehome Owner MIRIAM KNIGHT El Monte Senior Mobilehome Owner

In 1990 the voters of EI Monte wisely repealed an expensive Mobilehome Park Rent Review Commission and replaced it with The Mobilehome Tenant Rent Assistance Program. This vote resulted in saving taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars in litigation and staffing expenses while helping low-income mobile home park tenants. Hundreds of mobile home owners have been helped in the 22 years since the voters mandated that the Park Owners create a tenant assistance program. This removed the burden from the taxpayers to care for the poor and needy senior citizen tenants and placed it on the mobilehome park landlords. The City Council now wants to repeal the privately funded rent subsidies for seniors and replace it with a taxpayer-funded bureaucracy that would "investigate the rent charged to mobilehome owners". Is the Council out of touch at a time when the City is experiencing a $2.3 million budget short fall? To add insult to injury the Council is also asking voters to approve a new sweet drink tax on already overburdened taxpayers. As EI Monte senior citizen mobilehome owners who are receiving rent assistance from this valuable program and as a mobile home park owner who supports the continuance of a privately funded rental assistance program for needy seniors, we urge you to please VOTE NO on this measure so that we may continue to receive and to provide rent subsidies to needy low-income senior citizens. Please Vote No to Save Senior Rent Subsidies in EI Monte Mobilehome Parks! Please Vote No to Stop more senseless spending by the City! RALPH R. DESSY EI Monte Senior Mobilehome Owner NADINE MCKEOWN EI Monte Senior Mobilehome Owner GEORGE C. LEDERER EI Monte Senior Mobilehome Owner MIRIAM R. KNIGHT EI Monte Senior Mobilehome Owner KAREN KURIHARA LOUCKS EI Monte Mobilehome Park Owner