COUNCIL OKAYS BOYS AND GIRLS REQUEST ON 3-2 VOTE
The City Council decided Tuesday night to ask the East Bay Regional Park District to allow the city to spend $2 million of its regional park bond money to help build the club, even as park district management expressed doubts that the request would be approved.
Rick Sherratt, who sits on the club’s board of directors, [...]
This is it
Tonight’s the night, folks: The City Council is slated to decide tonight whether to give $2 million of Alameda’s $3.4 million share of Measure WW regional park bond money toward the Boys & Girls Club of Alameda’s planned West End facility.
The council had been waiting for a letter from the East Bay Regional Park District’s [...]
Controversy brewed: Bond funds and Alameda’s Boys & Girls Club
Perhaps – or perhaps not, given the busy pace of most of our lives – you’ve heard about the proposal before the City Council to green light $2 million of East Bay Regional Park District funds (dollars raised from WW, a bond sale, that voters approved last November) to help build a new Boys & [...]
Council to explore park bond gift to Boys and Girls Club
After a lengthy debate that pitted park and open space advocates against club boosters, the City Council decided Tuesday night to explore the possibility of giving the Boys and Girls Club of Alameda $2 million in park bond money to help the club build its new facility.
The club had hoped to have the council’s commitment [...]
