TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: David Morrison, Director-Planning, Building & Environmental Services
REPORT BY: Barb Ruffino, Staff Services Manager
SUBJECT: Approval of Agreement No. 220310B with Granicus for Short-Term Rental
Enforcement
RECOMMENDATION
title
Director of Planning, Building and Environmental Services requests approval of and authorization for the Chair to sign Agreement No. 220310B with Granicus, for a maximum of $3,695 for Fiscal Year 2021/2022 and a maximum of $22,166 for each fiscal year thereafter, beginning November 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022 with an automatic rollover of two (2) additional years to assist with detection, investigation and management of short-term rentals in the unincorporated area of Napa County.
body
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Director of Planning, Building and Environmental Services requests approval for a continuation of the subscription contract services provided by Granicus for the enforcement of short-term rentals. As indicated in the Board of Supervisors' response to the Grand Jury report published on September 7, 2019, staff is proposing to continue our contract with a consultant to assist Code Compliance staff with the identification, data gathering, and preliminary noticing of short-term rental violations. Granicus has developed a set of proprietary technologies, methodologies, and processes to quickly and cost-effectively monitor specific geographies for short-term vacation rental listings and to precisely identify the addresses and contact information of the associated properties. These software tools and algorithms are deployed continuously across the world's 54 largest vacation rental websites ensuring a complete database of short-term vacation rental properties. For Napa County, Granicus reviews vacation rental websites to identify properties that rent less than 30 consecutive days and may be in violation of Section 18.104.410 of the County's Transient Commercial Occupancie...
Click here for full text