Alameda City Council
Second Council Candidate Demands That City Manager Go
Alameda City Council candidate Jeff Mitchell and Alameda resident John Knox White are calling on the city to put Interim City Manager Ann Marie Gallant and City Attorney Teresa Highsmith on immediate paid administrative leave.
The two Alamedans and their supporters are meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, September 7, at Alameda City Hall, just eight hours [...]
As DA Drops Charges, Tam Asks Gallant to Resign
Speaking outside Alameda City Hall on Tuesday, September, 7, City Councilwoman Lena Tam said that prosecutors had dropped their investigation into whether she violated the Brown Act by leaking confidential city information, and they will not refer the case to the grand jury.
In addition, Tam called for the resignation of Interim City Manager Ann Marie [...]
Mayor, council races set
Updated 12:59 p.m. Monday, August 9 Alameda voters can expect a crowded ballot this November, with five candidates in the mayor’s race and eight running for two open City Council seats. The council race includes a last-minute entry from Jean Sweeney, a local park and open space advocate who worked to make the former Belt [...]
JOHNSON PULLS PAPERS FOR COUNCIL RUN
Mayor Beverly Johnson has pulled candidacy papers for a City Council run, Board of Education vice president Mike McMahon is reporting on his website. Johnson, who is termed out after nearly eight years as mayor, served just one term on the council before moving into the mayor’s chair, making her eligible for another term. Johnson [...]
Alameda council holds off on new Point direction, charter changes; OKs budget
City staff will begin work on a list of options for redevelopment Alameda Point to present to the City Council in the fall.
The council asked staff to get cracking on the list at the tail end of an action-packed, seven-hour meeting Tuesday night, the council’s last schedule meeting until September. The request came in lieu [...]
Alameda City Council: The agenda
The City Council is getting set to take its customary August recess – but not before holding a special meeting tonight to discuss a dizzying array of business. We’ve already talked about Councilman Frank Matarrese’s request to explore the formation of a nonprofit, local development corporation to manage the redevelopment of Alameda Point and consideration [...]
Tam’s attorney asks DA to drop investigation
City Councilwoman Lena Tam’s attorney has asked the Alameda County District Attorney to close its inquiry into allegations that Tam leaked confidential information to SunCal and Alameda’s firefighters union and violated the state’s open meeting law without taking action against the city leader.
Tam’s attorney, John Keker, said another lawyer hired by the city to help [...]
Matarrese: ‘We can control our own destiny’
City Councilman Frank Matarrese said the city should set up its own nonprofit development corporation to handle the redevelopment of Alameda Point, and he plans to ask his dais-mates at a council meeting next Tuesday whether they’ll agree to explore the idea.
Matarrese, who offered the idea on his campaign blog Wednesday and at a town [...]
SunCal vote highlights council, community division
Tuesday’s council meeting exposed a bitter divide over SunCal and their proposed development at Alameda Point.
Some opponents heckled SunCal’s reps and supporters throughout the six-hour hearing on denying the developer’s project, as Mayor Beverly Johnson announced that some community members wanted people who spoke to say whether they had been paid by SunCal. But others [...]
COUNCIL BIDS SUNCAL ADIEU ON 4-0 VOTE
Early this morning, the City Council voted to deny SunCal’s development proposal for Alameda Point on a 4-0 vote, effectively sending the developer packing an hour after the expiration of their three-year exclusive agreement to negotiate a deal to develop the former Naval Air Station.
The six-hour hearing leading up to the decision followed more than [...]
