Resolution 14704Approved as to Form
CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 14704
SUPPORTING RENAMING THE EASTSHORE STATE PARK
TO McLAUGHLIN EASTSHORE STATE PARK
WHEREAS, the Eastshore State Park spans the East Bay shoreline from the
Oakland Bay Bridge, north across Emeryville, Berkeley, across the City of Albany's
waterfront, and into Richmond, and serves as a recreational amenity for the entire
region; and
WHEREAS, creating the Eastshore State Park required a monumental effort,
involving decision makers, waterfront users, and the entire community; and
WHEREAS, Sylvia McLaughlin has served as a community leader throughout
her life, demonstrating the integrity of citizen action, co- founding Citizens for East
Shore Parks in 1985, and inspiring thousands of volunteers to help forge the
Eastshore State Park along 8.5 miles of shoreline across five cities; and
WHEREAS, in 1961 Sylvia McLaughlin co- founded the Save San Francisco
Bay Association (Save the Bay) to prevent the filling of the Bay and to protect its
habitats and magnificent recreational opportunities, spawning similar efforts and
groups around the world; and
WHEREAS, renaming the Eastshore State Park to the McLaughlin Eastshore
State Park will not only honor Sylvia McLaughlin but all the many thousands of
volunteers who labored so long and hard along with Sylvia to protect the San
Francisco Bay and to create the Eastshore State Park; and
WHEREAS, the State Park and Recreation Commission's statement of Policy
11.2, #3 states "A unit may be named by the Commission in honor of a person living
or deceased, or a group, organization, or other entity which has rendered services of
statewide significance to the State Park System;" and
WHEREAS, Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 55, Chapter 80, as
authored by Assemblymember Nancy Skinner, was filed by the Secretary of State on
September 6, 2011, requesting that the Department of Parks and Recreation
rename the Eastshore State Park as the McLaughlin Eastshore State Park, noting
McLaughlin's extensive environmental activism spanning over the course of the last
four decades.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of
Alameda does hereby express its support for the renaming of the Eastshore State
Park to McLaughlin Eastshore State Park.
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and
regularly adopted and passed by the Council of the City of Alameda in a regular
meeting assembled on the 19th day of June, 2012, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Bon a, deHaan, Johnson, Tam and
Mayor Gilmore — 5.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
official seal of said City this 20th day of June, 2012.
Lara Weisiger, City CI
City of Alameda
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