2019-11-05 500 PM CC CS MinutesSpecial Meeting
Alameda City Council
November 5, 2019
MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING
TUESDAY- -NOVEMBER 5, 2019- -5:00 P.M.
Mayor Ezzy Ashcraft convened the meeting at 5:00 p.m.
Roll Call – Present: Councilmembers Daysog, Knox White, Oddie, Vella and
Mayor Ezzy Ashcraft – 5.
[Note: Councilmember Vella arrived at 5:02 p.m.]
Absent: None.
The meeting was adjourned to Closed Session to consider:
(19-586) Public Employee Performance Evaluation Pursuant to Government Code §
54957; Position Evaluated: City Attorney – Yibin Shen
(19-587) Conference with Real Property Negotiators (Government Code section
54956.8); Property: Ballena Isle Upland Parcel APN 74 1025 3; City Negotiators: Eric
Levitt, City Manager; Debbie Potter, Community Development Director; Lois Butler,
Economic Development Manager; Lisa Maxwell, Assistant City Attorney; Maurice
Robinson, Maurice Robinson & Associates LLC; Potential Tenant: West River, Inc.;
Current Tenant: SHM Ballena Isle, LLC; Issue Under Negotiation: Real Property
Negotiations Price and Terms
(19-588) Conference with Labor Negotiators (Government Code Section 54957.6); City
Negotiators: Nancy Bronstein, Human Resources Director; Employee Organization:
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 1245 (IBEW); Under Negotiation:
Salaries and Terms of Employment. Not heard.
(19-589) Conference with Legal Counsel – Potential Litigation; Consideration of whether
to initiate litigation pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9(d)(4); Number of
cases: One (City As Plaintiff – PG&E as potential Defendant)
Following the Closed Session, the meeting was reconvened and the City Clerk
announced that regarding the Performance Evaluation, the position was evaluated and
no reportable action was taken, with no vote taken; regarding Real Property, staff
provided information and Council provided direction to staff with no vote taken; and
regarding Potential Litigation, staff provided information and Council unanimously voted
with the following report out: this case involves a potential legal challenged against
Pacific Gas and Electric’s (PG&E's) Oakland Clean Energy Initiative (OCEI) at the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC); the OCEI is an experimental plan to
address electric transmission reliability in the East Bay; this plan relies on Alameda
Municipal Power (AMP) to perform transmission switching under certain contingency
situations, and involves the decommissioning of a power plant in the City of Oakland,
installation of 20 to 30 Megavolts (MV) of energy storage, and aggressive local energy
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efficiency and solar; the OCEI disproportionately and discriminatorily relies upon AMP's
capabilities to perform critical switching activities in real-time to ensure system reliability,
and AMP and Alameda utility customers bear the risk if the experiment does not work;
the Council reaffirmed its February 19. 2019 decision authorizing the City Attorney to
engage necessary Outside Legal Counsel to file and prosecute an administrative
complaint with FERC regarding OCEI's impacts on the City of Alameda .
Adjournment
There being no further business, Mayor Ezzy Ashcraft adjourned the meeting at 6:58
p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Lara Weisiger
City Clerk
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