Resolution 16254 CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 16254
AUTHORIZING THE FILING OF AN APPLICATION FOR THE
CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF BOATING AND WATERWAYS PUBLIC
BEACH RESTORATION PROGRAM FUNDING FOR THE SAND
REPLENISHMENT OF SOUTH SHORE BEACH TOTALING
$6,282,535 AND COMMITTING A CITY OF ALAMEDA LOCAL
REQUIRED MATCH IN THE AMOUNT OF $471,190
WHEREAS, Alameda's South Shore Beach is an engineered beach, designed by
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps) to protect the City of Alameda (City). The
City is the trustee owner of the South Shore Beach between Westline Drive and
Broadway. East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) maintains the beach in partnership
with the City since the establishment of a 1967 memorandum of understanding; and
WHEREAS, South Shore Beach has no natural source of sand replenishment such
as deposition from a creek or river. The current loss of sand and future erosion threatens
to damage valuable infrastructure, the San Francisco Bay Trail (Bay Trail), Shoreline
Drive and private property in the City; and
WHEREAS, the California Division of Boating and Waterways (DBW) has been
delegated the responsibility for the administration of the Public Beach Restoration
Program, setting up necessary procedures governing the application; and
WHEREAS, said procedures established by DBW require the City to certify by
resolution the approval of the application; and
WHEREAS, the City has the authority to construct, operate, and maintain South
Shore Beach in partnership with EBRPD; and
WHEREAS, the City is requesting $6,282,535 from DBW's Public Beach
Restoration Program, which includes $5,340,155 of DBW funds requested and $942,380
in local match; and
WHEREAS, the City and EBRPD desire to enhance and protect South Shore
Beach with sand replenishment, and the two agencies will evenly split the local match;
and
WHEREAS, the City and EBRPD agree that the City is responsible for fiscal and
grant management and EBRPD is responsible for project management including design,
permitting and construction; and
WHEREAS, the grant application for planning and feasibility studies to address
erosion of the South Shore Beach, where the specific project scope and actions are yet
to be defined and approved, is exempt from CEQA review under CEQA Guidelines
section 15262 — Feasibility and Planning Studies. Further environmental review will be
conducted for the Project upon development of the design work.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Alameda
that, pursuant and subject to all of the terms and provisions of the Public Beach
Restoration Program, the application be filed with DBW for funding; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Manager or designee is hereby
authorized and directed to cause the application be filed with DBW.
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 18th day of March 2025, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Boller, Daysog, Jensen, Pryor 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 19th day of March 2025.
Lara Weisiger, City C k
City of Alameda
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Yibin Sh n, ''Attorney
City of Al eda