1997-03-05 Special ARRA Minutes APPROVED
MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING OF THE
ALAMEDA REUSE AND REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
Wednesday, March 5, 1997
Carol Korade, City Attorney, clarified that this meeting complied with the Brown
Act, being properly noticed and placed on the agenda. However, to insure the ARRA’s internal rules
and regulations were followed, she wanted to clarify that the Chair concurred with the meeting being
called. The meeting convened at 8:30 p.m. with Chair Appezzato presiding.
1. ROLL CALL
Present: Chair Ralph Appezzato, Mayor, City of Alameda
Roberta Brooks, alternate to Vice-Chair Sandré Swanson, District Director, 9th
Congressional District
Mark Friedman, alternate to Wilma Chan, Alameda County Board of Supv., District 3
Jay Leonhardy, alternate to Henry Chang, Jr./Elihu Harris, Mayor, City of Oakland
Kathleen Ornelas, alternate to Ellen Corbett, Mayor, City of San Leandro
Albert DeWitt, Councilmember, City of Alameda
Greg Alves, alternate to Karin Lucas, Councilmember, City of Alameda
John Abrate, alternate to Barbara Kerr, Councilmember, City of Alameda
Tony Daysog, Councilmember, City of Alameda
Lee Perez, Ex-officio, Base Reuse Advisory Group
Absent: Berresford Bingham, Ex-officio, Alameda Unified School District
2. CONSENT CALENDAR - None.
3. ACTION ITEMS
3-A. Authorizing the Chairman of the Alameda Reuse and Redevelopment Authority (ARRA) to
write a letter indicating the ARRA’s interest in participating in the Coastal Conservancy’s Dredge
Materials Reuse Project.
Chair Appezzato asked that a letter not be written at this point but that he, as Mayor of the
City of Alameda, will attend the Seaport Advisory Committee meeting on March 18 to listen,
discuss, and report back to the ARRA on all discussion. Alternate Leonhardy so moved. The
motion was seconded by Alternate Abrate.
Alternate Brooks stated that this item had been agendized because it is the utmost priority to get the
220-acre designation for a container port lifted. There is a concern that the Seaport Advisory
Committee may not want to lift that designation in order to insure that dredge spoils can be dumped
here. Her intention in advocating participation in the dredge materials reuse study is to separate the
issue of dredge spoils from the port priority designation. Her hope is that this would provide Mayor
Appezzato with ammunition to show BCDC that removing the designation does not preclude
Alameda from accepting dredge materials. Alternate Friedman said that the ARRA should empower
the Mayor to go as their representative to discuss this issue and, if it serves the purpose of getting the
seaport designation removed, to proceed with the study. Chair Appezzato clarified that Alternate
Friedman was saying that if they agree to lift the seaport designation, it is the ARRA’s choice to
allow the study and it will be the sole choice of the City to make a final decision on whether or not to
accept dredge spoils. BRAG Vice-Chair Helen Sause stated that the BRAG heard Mr. Fishman’s
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presentation on the dredge spoils study at its last meeting. Their position is that participating in the
study would provide the information needed to assess whether it would benefit the City. Chair
Appezzato then stated that if BCDC lifts the seaport designation, the decision on whether to proceed
with accepting dredge spoils rests with the City based solely on the benefit to the City. Member
Daysog concurred that the issue of lifting the seaport designation needed to be separated from the
dredge materials issue. Nonetheless, he stated that he is convinced it is the Port of Oakland who
would like to place their dredge spoils on the site as it is in their economic interest to do so. At the
same time, it is in the ARRA’s best interest to negotiate very strenuously with the Port of Oakland in
regard to the airport expansion and the flight overpass.
Chair Appezzato clarified the motion: “If I get a guarantee that they will lift the seaport
designation, you are empowering me to say, ‘study it and let us see how the study comes out’.”
The clarification was accepted by Alternate Leonhardy and Alternate Abrate. The motion
passed unanimously - 9.
4. ORAL REPORTS - None.
5. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS, NON-AGENDA (PUBLIC COMMENT) - None.
6. COMMUNICATIONS FROM GOVERNING BODY - None.
7. ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned by Chair Appezzato at 8:43 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Margaret E. Ensley
ARRA Secretary
The agenda for this meeting was posted in advance in accordance with the Brown Act.
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