Resolution 15526CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 15526
INCREASE THE FISCAL YEAR 2018-19 CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND
BUDGET FOR THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN PROJECT BY $50,000
FROM THE TIDELANDS FUND
WHEREAS, on May 2, 2017, the City Council unanimously approved a high-priority
referral directing staff to update Alameda's 2008 Local Action Plan for Climate Protection;
and
WHEREAS, on May 2, 2018, the City entered into contract with Eastern Research
Group (ERG), the firm designated most suitable to meet the City's needs, to develop new
roadmap to reduce greenhouse (GHG) emissions, establish new climate action goals
beyond 2020, identify GHG emission reduction strategies, conduct a climate change
vulnerability assessment, and develop sea level rise and other climate change adaptation
strategies; and
WHEREAS, the City meets the criteria of State Assembly Bill 691 -Proactively
Planning for Sea-Level Rise Impacts -for a local trustee required to prepare and submit
to the State Lands Commission, no later than July 1, 2019, an assessment of how it
proposes to address sea level rise; and
WHEREAS, ERG's original scope of work to develop Alameda's Climate Action
and Resiliency Plan did not specifically include AB691 compliance; and
WHEREAS, the Tidelands fund should pay for services related to AB 691
compliance; and
WHEREAS, on June 19, 2018, the City Council did adopt a Mid-Cycle Budget
representing the financial plan for conducting the affairs of the City of Alameda for the
Fiscal Year beginning July 1, 2018 and ending June 30, 2019; and
WHEREAS, awarding that contract requires allocating an additional $50,000 in
Transfer In and expenditures to the Capital Projects Fund 310, Climate Action and
Resiliency Plan Project (91852) from the Tidelands Fund via Transfer Out (Fund 216) of
$50,000; and
WHEREAS, the Council has considered the report and recommendations of the
City Manager on the budget amendments and has determined that the budget
amendments are both fair and appropriate; and
WHEREAS, this budget ensures that the City of Alameda has exercised prudent
judgment in its fiduciary responsibility as guardian of the public tax dollars.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of
Alameda approve an increase in the Fiscal Year 2018-19 Capital Projects Fund budget
for the Climate Action and Resiliency Plan Project (91852) by increasing the transfer in
by $50,000 and expenditures appropriations by $50,000, and increasing transfer out in
the Tidelands Fund (216) by $50,000.
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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 J1h day of May 2019, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Daysog, Knox White, Oddie, Vella and
Mayor Ezzy Ashcraft-5.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of
said City this sth of May 2019.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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Michael H. Roush, Interim City Attorney
City of Alameda
Lara Weisiger, ity Clerk
City of Alameda