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Measure H Information Meeting How Will It Effect Commercial Property Owners? How Will It Effect Business Owners? Higher Property Taxes (up to $9,500 per parcel) ? Higher Rents ? HigherPrices ? THURSDAY, MAY 22 6:00 P.M. IMMANUEL LUTHERN CHURCH -COMMUNITY ROOM 1910 SANTA CLARA AVE. ALAMEDA, CA.  The legislative analyst’s report on the Governor’s proposal to issue bonds backed by future California state lottery funds illustrates the need for us locally in Alameda to set up our own “rainy day” fund for our schools. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Legislative analyst Elizabeth Hill suggested that the Governor’s scheme might actually take lottery money away from schools in the future, should lottery revenues not grow enough to pay back the bonds. Continue reading Let’s Create a City of Alameda Rainy-Day Fund Alameda Unified School District Superintendent Ardella Daily, under pressure from Action Alameda, has reluctantly agreed to track and report on redevelopment money set aside for the school district by the City of Alameda. According to a 1991 agreement between Alameda Unified School District and the Community Improvement Commission of the City of Alameda, the Community Improvement Commission sets aside money for the school district in a District Housing Fund and a District Capital Outlay Fund, which are to be used to build low-income housing primarily for district employees and for school building and facilities upgrades, respectively. The funds are held by the City of Alameda and not currently reported individually on the City’s books. Through public record requests, Action Alameda learned that the current collective balance of the two funds is roughly $4 million. In a week that saw the East Bay Municipal Utility District Board of Directors vote to implement water rationing, the Wall Street Journal published a story about Southern California cities treating wastewater with reverse osmosis and ultraviolet light and ultimately returning it back – over time – to the drinking water supply. Action Alameda [...] Alameda City Council likes to repeatedly insist there is no connection between the City of Alameda finances and Alameda Unified School District’s finances. But as we found out in the issue over the District Housing Fund and the District Capital Outlay funds – two AUSD funds kept on the City of Alameda’s books – [...] At the April 28th Alameda Public Utilities Board Meeting, Alameda Power and Telecom General Manager Girish Balachandran gave an update to the PUB board on the sale and re-financing options for the telecom division of AP and T. Continue reading Alameda Power and Telecom – Sale in Progress The law firm of Myers Nave provides a straightforward review, and a little history, of the California Density Bonus Law here. The law has been on the books since 1979 but never exercised in Alameda. That’s odd, because use of the density bonus law would probably provide a reasonable compromise between the pro-Measure A [...] Alameda residents living in the north Park Street district would do well to pay close attention to a clause in the City of Alameda’s Strategies for North of Lincoln Strategic Plan. Although City Design Collective, the authors of the plan talk in the report about giving Park Street north of Lincoln a make-over and [...] The Oakland Tribune political blog is reporting that State Senator Don Perata has withdrawn his endorsement for Wilma Chan in favor of Loni Hancock for the 9th State Senate District Seat. Like one of Pavlov’s dogs salivating on command, Alameda Mayor Beverly Johnson immediately responded to Perata ringing the bell by also withdrawing her [...] The City of Alameda Planning Board suddenly “got religion” tonight and started talking about the need to draw businesses and jobs to Alameda, and that was part of the reason they denied Harbor Bay Isle Associates (HBIA) application to re-zone 12 acres of land on Bay Farm Island from commercial to residential. Action Alameda [...] |
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