Approaching, certainly one of the most sacred days in our nation throughout the year. And this weeks alaskan of the week, sharon long, its a day that is a particularly profound day. Sharon long is a gold star mother, lives in anchorage, and she remembers her son grant frazer every day of the year. But for her and her family and for so many people who knew grant, who served with grant, memorial day is a day when his memory is particularly honored. Mr. President , before i get into sharon longs story as well as the remarkable story of her son grant, let me talk a little bit about whats going on in alaska right now, as we and our country continue to face the challenges of this pandemic. Were doing pretty we will in our state medically, certainly. Things could of course change quickly. But the number of people infected by the virus is very slow. Businesses are starting to reopen. Life by no means is back to normal. And theres much that were going to need to do to recover from this virus an
Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 65, the nays are 28. The motion is agreed to. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i move to proceed to legislative session. The presiding officer question is on the motion. All those in favor, say aye. Those opposed, say no. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes do have it. The motion is agreed to. Mr. Mcconnell i move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 655. The presiding officer question is on the motion. All those in favor, say aye. Those opposed, say no. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes do have it. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the nomination. The clerk nomination, department of defense, victor g. Mercado of california to be an assistant secretary. Mr. Mcconnell i send a cloture motion to the desk. The presiding officer the clerk will report the cloture motion.
Stay longer than than the shortterm rentals that have past 90 days the option is still vail with a 90 day cap we have the Planning Department Ann Marie Rogers who is here to talk about how we currently apply the cu for folks who want to have a bedandbreakfast type of business in their home how often we actually approve and what are the rare instances we dont sea the types of conditions where the Planning Department didnt approve the cued. Thank you skoopz Planning Department currently before the Residential District other than the rh1 d you can seek the authorizations to become a hotel this is subject to the requirement the dwelling the process can take time but the quickest the is probably about 4 months with the anytime fee for a conditional use authorization is less than 2,000 despite the complaints weve received for shortterm rentals informing people the process most people dont choose to pursue that that i abate the violation we had one that was approved at the Planning Commission
Wide universe of Small Business owners who have not evicted anyone at all so thats where the southern i have in terms of the Hotel Conversion ordinance the sros see those sros as i understand are typically opposed their Large Properties typically those are significant Property Owners those are Business People this applies to any building of 3 units or more in other words, a lot of smopdz that live at that tha in their building to subject the homeowners to hire an attorney and potentially pay the oddss foes and subjecting the sros to that kind of liability and in terms of litigation and i you know, i before being elected to the board i spent 15 years as a litter our doing trillion work for almost a decade as the City Attorneys Office and prior practice so i spent a lot of time in court and dealing with the attorneys fees two things number one there are it is not uncommon at all for courts to award Attorney Fees bans small judgements and violations of the law that were not extraordinaril
By the way, this is not going to happen this amendment will not architectural gate that further but provide the opportunity for a narrow group of both targeted xochlt and also nonprofit organizations and i know that the amendment to make sure it the nonprofit in existence for six years helped to secure the universe of actors that will be able to take advantage of this amendment and i think we know who a lot of those actors are and we have seen very responsible litigation that goes against our worse actors and finally, i would say that you know, i really struggled a lot with this legislation not because i didnt want to legalize shortterm rentals but everyone agrees that legalizing shortterm rentals is the right direction for the city and if i dont i think as supervisor wiener said the jean i didnt say out of the bottle we have to regulate this my concern is also been about b be the cities enforcement of the legislation to make sure were supporting the positive activity out of shortterm