No Meetings Yet on Riverside County Ordinance

Riverside County Courthouse

Rob Field, Riverside County Assistant County Executive Officer/Economic Development Agency’s (EDA) Executive Director has been tasked by the Riverside County Board of Supervisors with both implementing the ordinance and with consulting on the implementation with the UTA.  While there have been no substantive discussions yet, there has been coverage of the matter in the Daily Journal with the United Trustees Association prominently referenced.

On June 7th, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors passed Ordinance No. 906 by a vote of 4-0 (with one Supervisor absent) that will prohibit commercial solicitation on all County Property.  “County property” was very broadly defined and may include leased property and property leased by the county to others.  The ordinance will become effective 30-days after the adoption of the ordinance by the Supervisors on June 7, 2011 and it has a 90-day phase-in period before it will be enforced (i.e. it becomes fully effective after October 5, 2011, unless extended.)

In a letter to Rob Feld, the Executive Director of the EDA, UTA’s Counsel, Phil Adleson, Esq., Adleson, Hess & Kelly wrote:  “It was my understanding from the discussion among the Supervisors present at the board meeting … that the authority to issue exemptions from the non-solicitation ordinance was delegated to the Economic Development Agency (“EDA”) with a goal of creating a temporary exemption for nonjudicial foreclosure sales currently held in front of the Historic Courthouse (so that expensive re-noticing of sales does not have to be done) and to find a permanent solution by making another public square location available for nondisclosure sales.”  The letter concludes by requesting answers to the following:

• Has any new “public square” property  been identified?
  
• Has a temporary location (near the Historic Courthouse steps) been found?
  
• What is the procedure for applying for exemptions?
  
• To whom should requests for exemptions be directed?
  
• What is the “Effective Date” of Ordinance No. 906 from which the 90-day phase-in period runs?

UTA will keep members apprised of the situation.

Read UTA’s letter to the Riverside County Economic Development Agency

Read June 3rd article in Daily Journal (prior to passage of ordinance)

Read June 16th article in Daily Journal (after passage of ordinance)

Read the previous eNews story on the Riverside County Ordinance