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CITY OF ALAMEDA •CALIFORNIA
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 25, 2010 9 :00 A.M.
SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Location: 2200 central Avenue, 3rd Floor conference Room
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1 ROLL CALL City Council
2. AGENDA ITEMS
2 -A. Recommendation to Support Alameda Unified School District Special Legislation.
2 -B. Policy Discussion on Joint Use Agreement, including Capital Improvement to
Alameda Unified School District (AUSD) High School Fields. RECOMMENDATION:
Direct staff to finalize a joint use agreement between City of Alameda and AUSD
with respect to joint use of Encinal and /or Thompson athletic fields, including an
evaluation and recommendation for installation of artificial turf (all- weather /multi-
purpose) fields at these sites.
2 -C. Evaluation of City Assistance to AUSD in Order to Offset Some or All of the Costs in
Operating the Toddler and Before /After School Program, Presently Operated by
AUSD. RECOMMENDATION: Direct staff to analyze any potential funding and/or
operational solutions that the City can offer in order to continue service delivery of
one or both of these programs.
3. ADJOURNMENT —City Council
Beverly Jo so ay
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CITE' OF ALAMEDA
Memorandum
To: Honorable Mayor and
Members of the city council
Honorable chair and Members of the
Community Improvement Commission
From: Ann Marie Gallant
Interim city Manager
Date: September 25, 2010
Re: Alameda Unified School District Special Legislation
BACKGROUND
In 1991, Section 33401 of the Health and Safety code provided that pursuant to an
agreement between a redevelopment agency and an affected taxing agency, the
redevelopment agency could make payments to any affected taxing agency to. alleviate
any financial burden or detriment caused by a redevelopment project area Existing air
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no longer provides for these payments or agreement previously authorized under this
Section.
Sections 33334.2 and 33334.3 of the Health and Safety code provide that net less than
20% of all taxes that are allocated to the agency .pursuant to. Section 33670 shall be
deposited into a Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund and used for the purpose of
increasing, improving and preserving the community's supply of low -and moderate-
income housing.
In 1991, the city of Alameda's redevelopment agency and.the.Alameda Unified School
District entered into an agreement pursuant to Section 33401, w.hereb .the agency
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agreed to pay the district a portion of the taxes it received pursuant to Section 33070, in
order to alleviate the financial burden and detriment. caused by adoption of the
Community Improvement Plan for the Business and Waterfront: Improver ent Project.
One of the provisions of the agreement requires the agency .to deposit a :portion of. its
Lour and Moderate Income Housing Fund monies in a special fund for use b y the district
in increasing and improving the supply of low- and moderate income housing.
The Legislature has found and declared in Section 33680(a) of the Health and Safety
Code that the effectuation of the primary purposes of the Community Redevelopment
Law, including the provision and maintenance of love- and moderate income housing, is
dependent upon the existence of an adequate and financially solvent school system.
Agenda Item #2 -A
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Honorable Mayor and September 25, 2010
Members of the city Council Page 2 of 4
Honorable chair and Member of the
Community Improvement Commission
DISCUSSION
Due to the serious economic condition of the Alameda Unified School District, as a
result of the combined. loss of federal funding due to closure of the Alameda Naval Air
Station, and significant reductions in state funding, the bill language recommended
herein would declare that the agency and district agreement, entered into pursuant to
former Section 33401, may be amended to provide that the Low and Moderate Income
Housing Fund monies deposited in this special fund for use by the district, for increasing
and improving the supply of low- and moderate income housing in accordance with the
agreement, may be reallocated for use by the district for any. General. Fund purpose,
including payment of operational expenses, subject to certain conditions. It further
states that notwithstanding any other provision of law, such reallocated funds shall be
deemed to have been expended by the agency pursuant to. Section .33334.2 and,
therefore, the agency shall not be obligated to reimburse the Low and Moderate Income
Housing Fund for such amounts.
The California constitution provides that a local or special statute is invalid in any case
where a general statute can be made applicable. This .bill would declare that, due to the
unique circumstances within the city of Alameda relating to the combined. loss. of federal
school funding due to the closure of the Alameda Naval Air Station to with the
reductions in school state funding, the bill is intended to remedy a.general statute within
the meaning of specified provisions of the California constitution which cannot be made
applicable, and therefore a special statute is necessary.
The proposed bill language staff is recommending follows:
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION I. Section 33693 of the Health and Safety Code is hereby added to read:
"33693. (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(1) It is the intent of the Legislature with the enactment of this section to
provide a means for mitigating the serious economic conditions of the
Alameda Unified School District due to the combined loss of federal
funding due to closure of the Alameda Naval Station together with the
reductions in state funding to the District.
(2) Pursuant to the authority render Health and Safety Code Section 33401,
as it existed in 1991, the city of Alameda's redevelopment agency
entered into an agreement with the Alameda unified School District to
alleviate the financial burden and detriment caused by adoption of the
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Honorable Mayor and
Members of the city council
Honorable chair and Member of the
Community Improvement commission
RECOMMENDATI
September 25, 2010
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Approve DRAFT language and request the Mayor to join with the Alameda Unified
school District President to meet with local State Legislators to incorporate this
language as a rider to a bill by January 30, 2011.
Respectfully submitted,
Ann Mari allant
Interim Ci Manager
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