Last year, AUSD Superintendent Kirsten Vital paid an Oakland political consulting firm $14,000 for “design and programming of AUSD website redesign.” The same firm worked on AUSD’s Measure H in 2008, and the two principals of the firm were put on AUSD’s Master Plan Advisory Group last year by Ms. Vital.
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On February 18th, 2010, Alameda residents Kerry Cook and Serena Dietrich filed suit in Alameda County Superior Court, claiming that the Alameda Unified School District Board of Trustees violated the state’s open meeting laws in the course of their actions surrounding a new anti-bullying curriculum and the controversial “Lesson 9″ plan at the December 8th, 2009, AUSD Board of Trustees meeting. Here is the full text of the lawsuit. When we released our “Why did you vote ‘no’ on Measure B” poll on November 19th, we posted it in a static page, and never in an article in the main newsfeed. Now’s the time to correct that, and here it is. Black Diamond Video, a local video technology firm, announced earlier this week that they have deployed their Integrated Digital Surgical Suites solution in 12 operating rooms at the Shands Cancer Hospital at the University of Florida. Sources tell Action Alameda News that there is no non-compete clause with Comcast over the sale of Alameda Power & Telecom’s cable division that would preclude the City from submitting an application to Google for their broadband offer. Ever wanted to learn the hula? Now’s your chance, and you can do it in Alameda with the Tahitian and Hula Dance Company and the Poe ‘Ura Ori Tahiti Cultural Exchange. Updated March 1, 2010: The proposed parcel tax would raise $14 million per year, for a total of $112 million over eight years. Previously, this story read “$14 million over eight years…” At tonight’s Alameda Unified School District Board Meeting, AUSD Superintendent of Schools Kirsten Vital is expected to recommend that the board place a “split-roll” parcel tax on the ballot, which would replace the taxes levied by past school measures A and H, and raise approximately $14 million per year, each year, over eight years. The base parcel tax levy would be $659 per parcel per year for single family homes, duplexes and multifamily units with up to 4 units. A participant in a cross-country child custody battle over an Alameda child is going public with details of his fight, giving Alameda residents a glimpse of the Mayor of Alameda’s practice as a family law attorney. What they see may not be pretty. The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that Fleet Management Ltd. was ordered to pay $10 million for its role in causing the Cosco Busan oil spill in the San Francisco Bay. Crews from NRC at Alameda Point responded to the spill in November, 2007. The “Keep the Mif Coalition” chalked up a success earlier this week when Alameda City Council voted 5-0 to direct the City Manager to dig deeper into the idea of handing over operation of the 9-hole Mif Albright golf course to a citizen-run non-profit. |
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