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Reports were presented to you, in 2010, the public Advisory Community there was unanimous support for the program. This program, the south story ordinance actually was brought to you first four years ago today. You wonder why it has taken many of us wonder that as well. It was actually four years ago today that the report hear today hear tomorrow was brought forth to you. There is caps has evolved into esop the Earthquake Implementation Program which is a 40, excuse me, 30year program. The soft ...

I strongly support and urge action on this to support the mandatory retrofit. The category of great risk at hand is the earthquake, but more importantly is the risk of not taking action. Timely action, because what we have here is a land mine. What we will have when that land mine goes off is going to be great damage. The damage to both social, cultural and economic, the categories of our neighborhoods are the most vulnerable within this spector of disaster and it is not just what basically will...

Urgency there is, i fully support this program. And this mechanism which we have wrestled with for a long, long period of time. So i wonder if you could talk about any kind of movement that we have in helping the building owners with these up grades in a way that does not negatively effect the affordable and the pass through to tenants. Absolutely. One of the things that the commissioner requested of me that we do out reach in a few areas. Out reach to the tenant community to figure out what the...

Now the banks have agreed to come forward to create the mechanism to refinance their property to be able to pull out the additional funds for construction because of the loan to value ratio that is a problem and there is also the availability of doing a secondary loan to access these funds and a gamut of other options some of these buildings are considered historic and so we are working to access the funds to be able to stream line that process as well as our Public Financing component which wil...

Again, a lot of thanks is due to the people in our code advising committee and a lot of people who have worked on this for many, many years and for some of us on the commission as long as we have been on the commission we have been talking about it. It is overdue and i am support of it as well. I am just concerned with a couple of things maybe that some of the legislators have not discussed and if they have, maybe they could let us know about it. One was we know that a lot of the buildings the m...

Businesses and chain stores the opportunity to come in and swoop up the business that it has lost. So we are doing extensive out reach to that community sxauls it is important to note that we have put those businesses and buildings, in tier four, so we give them the longest amount to comply because we know that there are issues surrounding that so we want to make sure that they have enough time to act accordingly. Commissioner melgar. Thanks for being back here. So back to the question about the...

Are considered historic and so we are working to access the funds to be able to stream line that process as well as our Public Financing component which will be a discontinuing inaudible district and it is similar to the Green Financing in the city it allows the loans to not only be associated with the individual but with the property. If the property changes hands, the length of the loan stays with the property. Whereas it stays with the individual. The idea is that there are other options the ...

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In a milestone for earthquake safety, more than half the 2,000 buildings that Santa Monica deemed as vulnerable have been retrofitted since a historic 2017 city law went into effect.

In a milestone for earthquake safety, more than half the 2,000 buildings that Santa Monica deemed as vulnerable have been retrofitted since a historic 2017 city law went into effect.