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File Number: 15-538 <br />3. Resolution Supporting SB 593 (McGuire) and Continues Local Flexibility for Cities as <br />They Address Neighborhood and Fiscal Impacts of Temporary Rentals of Residential <br />Units <br />Background: The sharing economy has quickly become common place in everyday life, and <br />includes mobile applications that allow for ride -sharing or short-term rentals of residences or <br />apartments. These types of applications have provided benefits to many, but have also <br />raised issues and public safety concerns for the communities in which they operate, including <br />reducing the supply of long-term rental housing, bringing transient renters and their vehicles <br />into residential neighborhoods, and impeding the ability of local agencies from collecting <br />transient occupancy taxes (TOTs). <br />Analysis: Many California cities, including San Leandro, require the owners of rental <br />properties to register with the City and pay a business license tax. At this time, San Leandro <br />has not established a program to collect a TOT on this type of use due to the administrative <br />burden. Additionally, collection of TOTs would likely be underreported because owners must <br />voluntarily report their rental activity. <br />Summary: This Resolution seeks to highlight and increase support for SB 593 (McGuire), <br />which would: 1) Prohibit the operators of short-term residential hosting platforms from <br />advertising residential units for tourist or transient use if such use will violate any local <br />ordinance, regulation, or law, within the applicable city that opts into the bill's provisions; 2) <br />Require short-term rental housing platforms to collect and remit applicable transient <br />occupancy tax (if short-term rentals are allowed in the city and the collection of TOT is <br />required by the city); and 3) Require the confidential quarterly reporting of the address of each <br />residential unit that was occupied for tourist or transient use during the quarterly period, the <br />total number of nights the residential unit was occupied for tourist or transient use, and the <br />amounts paid for the occupancy of the residential unit for tourist or transient use. <br />Staff Recommendation: Support <br />4. Resolution Calling upon the Governor and the Legislature to work with the League of <br />Cities to Enact Legislation or Otherwise Compel Southern California Edison to Create a <br />Program to Automatically Provide Direct Compensation to Its Customers Affected by <br />Prolonged Electrical Power Outages Under Specific Circumstances <br />Background: Southern California Edison (SCE), an investor-owned utility serving 15 million <br />customers in Southern and Central California, experiences frequent and prolonged service <br />disruptions due to both planned and unplanned outages, equipment failures and <br />weather-related events, which adversely affect local governments within its service area. <br />Analysis: This Resolution calls upon the Governor and the Legislature to work with the <br />League of California Cities to enact legislation or to otherwise compel Southern California <br />Edison (SCE) to create a program to automatically provide direct compensation to its <br />customers affected by a prolonged electrical power outage under specified circumstances. <br />Pacific Gas & Electric already provides a similar mechanism for its customers. <br />Summary: The City of San Leandro is situated outside of the service area boundaries of <br />Southern California Edison. Therefore, the City is not directly affected by its actions. As <br />such, staff recommends that the City abstain from taking a position on this resolution. <br />City of San Leandro Page 3 Printed on 9115/2015 <br />