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At last week’s City Council meeting, council heard how parking enforcement revenues are making up for a shortfall in parking fee revenues at the Alameda Civic Center Parking Structure.  Putting David Copperfield to shame, last week SunCal hired-gun planning guru Peter Calthorpe, before a live audience in Alameda City Council chambers and dozens watching at home on TV and the Internet, waved his hand and made 2,000 homes at Alameda Point just disappear. SunCal’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) has resigned, The Bakersfield Californian has reported. SunCal is the master developer for Alameda Point. Continue reading SunCal Chief Financial Officer Resigns The Governor is proposing to appropriate more local redevelopment money to fund the state’s schools. That’s a good thing. “Even with the passage of Measure P, the Fire Chief and City Manager are moving forward with the idea of ‘browning out’ a first line piece of emergency apparatus. Hold City officials accountable for their promise to ‘Preserve Vital City Services.‘ “ SunCal’s problems are slowly creeping north to Oakland. Is the collapse of SunCal at Alameda Point next? These pictures from the recent fires in Southern California illustrate why public safety is so important. Alameda has no sea-water fire pumping systems, and in the event of a serious earthquake, the water mains from Oakland are likely to be cut-off and there would be no water in Alameda to fight fires with. Yet [...] Release: IMMEDIATE, November 19, 2008 CITY COUNCIL AUTHORIZES SALE OF ALAMEDA P&T TELECOM BUSINESS We wrote previously that we had reports of infighting and money squabbles within the Alameda Education Foundation (AEF.) Today we got a tip that the website seems to be down – we went and looked and indeed, the website was gone, replaced by the default “this website coming soon” page from their hosting service. [...] Last week, Alameda Power & Telecom announced a deal to sell their Telecom division to Comcast for a nominal offer price of $17 million. They also announced that the City of Alameda is in litigation with holdout bondholders who refused to assent to the sale. $20 million hangs in the balance. |
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