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By Erica Madison “Think about what you’re doing before you pass out those red pens,” a representative from the Alameda Library told Alameda City Council at last Tuesday’s budget session. By Erica Madison On September 6th, 2011 Alameda City Manager John Russo announced a few upcoming special city council meetings including the long awaited Ruben Grijalva report on the Raymond Zack drowning. 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. 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. By Erica Madison and Staff Reports Eliminating nine police officer positions or outsourcing the animal shelter. This is just one of the many choices and alternatives acting City Manager Lisa Goldman provided the City Council with at last week’s special joint meeting of the Alameda City Council, Alameda Reuse and Redevelopment Authority and Community Improvement Commission. By Erica Madison Fire, Police, Public Works, Libraries, Parks and Administrative services in City Hall, will all receive a budget cut. By Erica Madison In a telephone interview with Alameda’s acting Deputy Fire Chief Daren Olson, the Deputy Chief said the Fire department’s budget cuts in no way impacted their decision to watch 52-year-old Raymond Zack drown. In a press release yesterday, the Alameda Firefighters Association decried the decision last week by City Council to schedule the vote on SunCal’s Alameda Point Development Initiative for February 2, 2010, after having earlier this year delayed a firefighters minimum staffing initiative until November 2011. A salary study conducted on behalf of the City of Vallejo in 2008, and acquired by Action Alameda News, shows that Alameda firefighters monthly pay is pretty much on par with the regional average. Readers sent us this notice of a League of Women Voters meeting tonight about the City of Alameda’s financial health, and the question of whether or not the City is headed in the same direction as Vallejo (bankruptcy.) REMINDER: League general meeting open to the public o Is Alameda headed down the same path as Vallejo?? o What lies ahead for our City’s financial health? |
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