The City of Alameda is set to pay a consultant $195/hour, plus expenses, for about 100 hours of work, or, roughly, $19,500, to conduct what the City has previously characterized as an “independent review” of the events leading to Raymond Zack’s death on Robert Crown Memorial Beach on May 30th, 2011.
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Opening last night’s Alameda City Council discussion on the 2011-2012 budget, Assistant City Manager Lisa Goldman told Council, “We are facing $7 million to $9 million deficits for the next 5 years, absent corrective actions…These cuts [in the 2011-12 budget] will not be enough to sustain us indefinitely…Our updated forecast which you’ll see this evening shows that we will continue to spend more than we take in for the next 5 years.” As a consequence, one of the staff recommendations was to poll Alameda residents to gauge their support local tax ballot measures to help clear the projected deficits. In addition to tonight’s regular meeting of the Alameda Unified School District Board of Trustees, there will be an Board of Trustees special meeting tonight at 5:31 p.m. At a City Council meeting tomorrow night at City Hall, Alameda City Council members will vote on a resolution adopting a capital and operating budget for the City of Alameda for the fiscal year (FY) 2011 to 2012, which begins July 1st, 2011. Documents supporting the resolution project annual budget deficits as high as $5.3 million every year from FY2011-12 through FY2015-16. The City of Alameda announced yesterday that it has secured a $6.2 million allocation of low-income housing tax credits to help convert the Islander Motel into a low-income housing site. Located two blocks from the corner of Park and Central, the converted hotel will serve one and two-individual households with incomes ranging from 20% to 50% of area median income. Telephone recordings from the Alameda County Fire dispatch center during the Raymond Zack incident paint a picture of confusion and equipment failures among first responders and responding agencies. Action Alameda News obtained a copy of the recordings from Alameda County on Tuesday, pursuant to a public records request. The City of Alameda posted a copy of the recordings to its website on Wednesday, the day after Action Alameda News received a copy. Prior to that, the City of Alameda had posted a copy of only radio transmission recordings, not telephone recordings. Last night, in a 4-1 vote, Alameda City Council approved a three-year contract between the City and the International Association of Firefighters Local 689. The contract begins retroactively effective January 3, 2010 and runs until June 29, 2013. Yesterday, the Alameda Police Department announced that the City of Alameda has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Friends of the Alameda Animal Shelter and the Humane Society of Alameda that would allow the two groups to transfer operation of the Alameda Animal Shelter to a non-profit. Alameda City Council is set to vote tonight on a new 3-year agreement with the firefighters union, IAFF Local 689. The item is #5-N on the Alameda City Council Regular Meeting agenda. Late last Friday, the City of Alameda announced that it had settled a claim with Alameda City Councilmember Lena Tam for some $47,000 in legal expenses she incurred last year to defend against charges of official misconduct. |
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