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In a letter to members, Kathy Wagner, the owner of the Mariner Square Athletic Club, wrote that she has discontinued negotiations with Catellus/ProLogis regarding relocation of the club from it’s current location to the Alameda Landing project. Wagner wrote “Due to numerous and repeated delays in the project start dates, in January of [...]  Reportedly, Keep Alameda Schools Excellent is formulating a “Plan B” to execute in the eventuality of Measure H not passing. Such a plan would include lobbying Sacramento for long-term fixes to the education funding problem. Shouldn’t that be Plan A?? Shouldn’t we be doing that anyway? Or do we prefer to have [...] Alameda residents remain on tenterhooks as they await the final provisional and absentee ballots delivered to the polling stations yesterday, June 3rd. Measure H requires a 2/3rds majority to pass and is just shy of that with 9,010 (65.83%) votes in favor, and 4,676 (34.17%) votes against as reported by the Alameda County Registrar of Voters website. Imagine what those 13,686 voters could do if they would pull together to try to fix the structural problems in education funding, rather than simply stumbling from crisis to crisis each year. Alameda Unified School District seems to have a regularly scheduled crisis every year – for that matter, has anyone scheduled the next crisis to debut for 2009 yet? Continue reading Alameda Measure H Results From the Alameda County Registrar of voters website: Measure H – Alameda Unified School District Needs 2/3 majority Yes votes to pass Total Precincts: 51 Precincts Reported: 0 Percent Reported: 0.00 Contest # of Votes % of Total Yes 4718 61.88 No 2906 38.12 As of 2:45pm, the polling station at the main entrance to Washington School on Taylor Ave. had received only 26 votes. A polling volunteer indicated that voters had been “trickling in” and that “things should pick up after 6:30pm” tonight. One voter, who didn’t want to give her name, said that she voted in [...] Despite claims from City Hall that the new Alameda Civic Center Parking Garage and attached cineplex will invigorate the downtown Alameda core and bring in new sales tax revenue, the fact remains that there is no sales tax on movie theatre admissions. Nor is there sales tax on such cineplex staples as popcorn, bottled [...] We wrote here about existing State Senator Don Perata withdrawing his support for Wilma Chan to endorse Loni Hancock. Alameda Mayor and Perata Puppet Mayor Beverly Johnson promptly followed suit. But the Oakland Tribune is now reporting that Perata is endorsing Wilma Chan again. It must come too late for the Alameda mayor to react and issue her own [...] As if being shaken down by the Alameda Education Foundation for five-figure donations wasn’t enough, (as reported to Action Alameda) and as if being intimidated to place “Vote Yes on Measure H” signs in their storefront windows (as reported in the local newspaper) Alameda small businesses that are opposed to the parcel tax face [...] As reported in the local newspaper, Alameda Unified School District Board President Bill Schaff’s comments about the language of the Measure H parcel tax are comical. At a meeting of small Alameda business owners, some of who suggested the $9,500 cap on the parcel tax prevented Alameda’s largest landowners from objecting to the measure, [...] Measure A critics try to blame the housing-density limiting legislation for just about everything that goes wrong in Alameda, including high housing prices. But data from the California Association of Realtors, as reported in the San Francisco Chronicle, shows that housing affordability is up. Continue reading Affordability Increases in East Bay |
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