City staff will begin work on a list of options for redevelopment Alameda Point to present to the City Council in the fall.
The council asked staff to get cracking on the list at the tail …

The numbers that crossed the screen looming over the dais in City Council chambers Tuesday night were staggering: Unfunded pension costs of $176.5 million and climbing, driven by investment losses of 24 percent in 2009 …

The Alameda Fire Department is a finalist for a federal grant that could pay the full salaries and benefits of six fire department personnel for the next two years.
The Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency …

Interim City Manager Ann Marie Gallant is asking the City Council to pay for a master plan for the Island’s parks that would guide the city’s efforts to find money to pay for badly needed …

Alameda’s city manager has joined city managers across the East Bay in endorsing a white paper that lays out plans to reduce public employee pension benefits. The proposal seeks to reduce pension benefits for new …

Members of the City Council are set to get an update on the city’s finances at a special! meeting Tuesday night, and it sounds like the news isn’t all bad: The city actually ended the …

The City Council is set to consider a resolution Tuesday night that could effectively curb medical and dental benefits for all new public safety hires.
If the resolution is approved, medical and dental benefits for retirees …

Our little Island has gotten its fair share of bad budget news, and been subject to the hard knocks of the state’s fiscal crisis. But it looks like we’ve managed so far to dodge one …

The City Council may have passed a balanced budget this year, but we’re apparently not out of the woods yet, fiscally speaking. “Now what?” you may ask. How’s about multi-million-dollar increases in the city’s pension …

Early this morning, the City Council approved a $68.7 million general fund budget balanced on $6.5 million in layoffs (and $4.4 million in prior midyear cuts).
The budget, which was $7.2 million less than last year’s, …

All right, I’m just gonna come out and state the obvious: This Island’s got more than its fair share of compelling political drama. But for my (tax) money, one of the hottest ones running right …

The state Legislature has passed a budget sans an anticipated takeaway of more than $1 billion in locals’ gas tax funds (the Assembly balked at the last minute). Which means the county’s threats to leave …