A month ago, the City Council asked staff to slow down on a proposal to limit the memberships of various boards and commissions and to reduce the frequency of meetings for a number of the city’s bodies. At the meeting, the council appointed a subcommittee (Bonta and deHaan) to work on a process for...
Good news from the council meeting last week, the council chose to take a step back from plans to reduce some, but not all, commission memberships, and fold the Public Art Commission and Film Commission into other bodies. The council spoke loudly for wanting to maintain many voices in the public process, while acknowledging...
Tonight, the city council will be discussing moving forward with re-configuring the boards and commissions the serve as points of public input to the city. The way this is moving forward is troubling on a number of fronts. It’s been well known that councilmembers and staff have wanted to do something about the number...
Today at 9:30, there will be a Fire Apparatus Procession in honor of fallen Alameda Fire Captain Scott Carnevale who died of occupational cancer on January 3 at the age of 42. The procession will begin at 9:30 (route is listed below) followed by an 11 am memorial service at the USS Hornet
One of the hallmark's of the last eight years of planning at Alameda Point was a decisive unwillingness on the part of the City Council to get actively involved in any of the planning of decision-making. While this isn't to say that specific council people didn't have ideas, or try and influence what was...
Upon visiting the homepage, a least tern flies across the top of the screen, signaling that this $74,800, no-bid website, which is based on a marketing companies proprietary system, is more flash than substance. From the generic photos the highlight the useless categories, to the lack of people of color featured in almost...
