The City Council is heading into contract negotiations with the Police and Fire Unions….trouble ahead?
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Sales Tax Attack (In color!)
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Sales tax collection is down, as are the city’s other revenue streams. A quick guide to the state of the city’s finances.
Prime Minister, it’s for you….
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Alameda Sun chooses to run with a letter to the editor that begins with a call to line up the city council and school board against the wall and shoot them.
Old Faithful
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At tonight’s Alameda Reuse and Redevelopment Authority (ARRA) meeting, the council, excuse me, ARRA Board, will decide whether to spend $200,000 to remove The Faithful, a 293 foot vessel and a barge that has recently been moored to it at…
Our House
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It’s a big week for transportation related items at the Council, CIC, and Housing Authority. Things get pretty wonky, pretty quickly, and so I’ll skip the Economic Development Strategic Plan (at the CIC for Approval Tuesday), the awarding of a…
Thin Line Between Love and Hate
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Last Thursday, I mentioned a report card issued by Action Alameda on redevelopment in Alameda. Report cards are great organizing tools, done well, they can crystallize a set of complex information into a short, easy to read format. Done well.
Birds Fly
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Tonight, the Alameda Reuse and Redevelopment Authority (ARRA) will hear a presentation by the Veterans Administration (VA) for their plan to build a 53 acre Columbrium/Masauleum, 250,000 sf Hospital, 240,000 Administration building, and 80,000 sf clinic at Alameda Point. The…
Theme from Jaws
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Just when you thought is was safe to go back into the council chambers…. Tonight, at a joint meeting of the City Council, Alameda Reuse and Redevelopment Authority (ARRA) and Community Improvement Commission (CIC), which of course are three separate…
Money
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Tomorrow night, the council will receive (and likely accept) the 2nd quarter sales tax Collection report. I’ve been meaning/trying to put together a quarter by quarter sales tax spreadsheet for the last few years, but other things keep cropping up…
Wonderful World
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Tonight, the city council will be discussing what to do about the Carnegie Library building. There are two proposals being brought forward. Proposal 1) Staff’s proposal to use the building as a one-stop permit center, moving the permit department in…