Council to discuss street tree plan
By Ani Dimusheva
It’s round three for the Master Street Tree Plan at the City Council meeting tonight. After two presentations to the Planning Board and several working sessions with interested citizens, Public Works is moving for final approval and adoption of the plan by council.
The Master Street Tree Plan, a comprehensive, two-volume document created by [...]
Mif closure back on council agenda
Alameda golfers are teed off about a fresh proposal to close the Mif Albright nine-hole golf course at the end of the month, which was announced on New Year’s Eve and will be considered by the City Council at a special meeting Wednesday night at City Hall.
City staff is saying the course is a money-loser [...]
Council, School Board hold joint meet on Point
The City Council and the School Board are holding a special joint meeting at 7 p.m. this Tuesday, January 5 to talk about development at Alameda Point. And important note: They’ll be at Mastick Senior Center, 1155 Santa Clara Avenue.
The two groups – and interested members of the public – will receive a joint presentation [...]
City Council in brief
Okay, now that I’ve (almost) recovered from Tuesday night’s six-hour council marathon, let me catch you up on a few other, non-fire-related things that happened.
Boys and Girls Club: The council decided Tuesday night to make a decision on whether they’ll add the Boys and Girls Club’s new West End facility to its list of projects [...]
Boys and Girls Club request on council agenda
Tuesday night marks another chapter in the page-turning saga that is the Boys and Girls Club’s $2 million WW request, with Councilwoman Marie Gilmore asking her fellow dais-mates to push the club’s request for money to help build its new facility forward without assurances they’d sought that the bond money can be used for the [...]
A City Council curtain raiser
The City Council has got a lot of biggish things on its plate this coming Tuesday – so much that I couldn’t pick just one to talk about. (Well, I could. You’ll hear about that on Tuesday.) Here’s a quick rundown:
Density bonus: The City Council, sitting as the Community Improvement Commission, will consider an ordinance [...]
Miracle on Santa Clara Avenue
Ah, there are precious few things that this writer truly enjoys in life. A dinner with friends. A perfectly brewed cup of coffee. A crisp fall day. And a City Council meeting that ends before the clock winds into the double digits, then back into the single digits again.
Yes, it’s true: The council chamber, which [...]
Staff recommends parks cash for Boys & Girls Club
The City Council is set tonight to consider a staff recommendation that they spend $2 million of their Measure WW regional park bond money to help build a new Boys & Girls Club facility on the city’s West End. But the recommendation comes with a surprise twist: The club has to pay back half the [...]
About last night …
The saga over the Boys & Girls Club’s request for $2 million in park bond money they say they need to get started on a new facility continued apace Tuesday night, with proponents and opponents not-so-merrily hijacking what was already going to be a very long City Council meeting.
The night’s unfestivities included presentations from folks [...]
FIRE MEASURE PUSHED TO 2011
The battle over the firefighters’ minimum staffing initiative took another twist Monday night when the City Council voted, 4-1, to wait until November 2011 to put it on the ballot – the last possible date it could choose to put the measure before voters.
Council members – some of whom stated unequivocally that they disagree with [...]
Council okays budget
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, included more money for police and fire and a handful of additional staff (including replacement of an assistant city attorney [...]
