1996-05-01 ARRA Minutes MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE
ALAMEDA REUSE AND REDEVELOPMENT
AUTHORITY
Wednesday, May 1, 1996
The meeting convened at 5:38 p.m. with Chair Appezzato
presiding.
ROLL CALL
Present: 9 - Chair Ralph Appezzato, City of Alameda; Alternate Brooks for
Vice-Chair Sandré Swanson, 9th Congressional District; Vice-Mayor Charles
Mannix, City of Alameda; Alternate Jay Leonhardy for Councilmember Henry
Chang, Jr., City of Oakland (left at 7:22 p.m.); Alternate Tony Daysog for
Councilmember "Lil"Arnerich, City of Alameda; Councilmember Albert
DeWitt, City of Alameda; Alternate Sheila Young for Mayor Ellen Corbett,
City of San Leandro; Alternate Greg Alves for Councilmember Karin Lucas,
City of Alameda; Supervisor Wilma Chan, Alameda County Board of
Supervisors, District 3.
Absent: None.
CONSENT CALENDAR
At the request of Chair Appezzato and Member Chan, items 2-B through 2-E were pulled for a
brief discussion by Kay Miller.
Member Mannix moved approval of the remainder of the Consent Calendar. Alternate
Leonhardy seconded the motion, which carried a unanimous voice vote - 9.
Items so enacted or adopted are indicated by an asterisk.
*2-A. Approval of Minutes - Regular Meeting of March 6, 1996.
2-B. Report from the Executive Director Recommending ARRA Endorse the Selection of a
Consultant Team to Prepare a Market Study, Detailed Development Plans, an Economic
Development Conveyance Business Plan, and a Port Development Conveyance
Application and Authorize the Executive Director to Negotiate and Execute a Contract.
2-C. Report from the Executive Director Recommending ARRA Endorse the Selection of a
Consultant Team to Prepare a Street Improvement Plan for NAS Alameda and the FISC
Sites and Authorize the Executive Director to Negotiate and Execute a Contract.
2-D. Report from the Executive Director Recommending ARRA Endorse the Selection of a
Consultant Team to Prepare Building Improvement Study Specifications and a Building
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Demolition Study and Specifications and Authorize the Executive Director to Negotiate
and Execute a Contract.
2-E. Report from the Executive Director Recommending ARRA Endorse the Selection of a
Consultant Team to Prepare a Housing Feasibility Study and Authorize the Executive
Director to Negotiate and Execute a Contract.
Executive Director Miller discussed staff recommendations on selection of four consultant
teams and the process used for their selection.
Chair Appezzato requested that in the future, the top three respondents for any
contracts/studies should be listed in a report with a brief synopsis of their capabilities and the
rationale used to select the chosen consultant team. Paul Tuttle, Reuse Planner, then
discussed respondents for each study and the reasons specific consultants were chosen.
After discussion and questions from the ARRA governing body, Member Mannix moved that
the recommendations for consultant selections 2-B through 2-E be approved and Executive
Director Miller be authorized to negotiate and execute the contract. There were no speakers
and the vote was taken. The motion passed by a unanimous voice vote - 9.
ACTION ITEMS
3-F. Resolution Commending Lieutenant Commander Michael L. Petouhoff for His
Contribution to the U.S. Navy, the Alameda Reuse and Redevelopment Authority, and the
Community in His Capacity as Director of the Environmental Department for Naval Air
Station Alameda.
The Resolution was read and Member DeWitt moved that the Resolution be approved.
Alternate Brooks seconded the motion and it passed by a unanimous voice vote - 9. LCDR
Petouhoff gave a gracious acceptance speech. Members of the ARRA governing body
expressed their gratitude.
ORAL REPORTS
4-G. Briefing on Secondary Materials: Demolition and Recycling by Joan Holtzman, Center for
Economic Conversion and Coy Smith, Executive Director, Materials for the Future Foundation.
4-H. Briefing by Paul Ammon, Contractor for EBCRC on Workers to Business Owners
Program.
4-I. Briefing by Supervisor Wilma Chan on April 10 and April 26 Financing Workshops.
Supervisor Chan gave an overview of the two workshops; the first had a panel of developers
and a panel of financial experts and the second workshop was on State financing. Supervisor
Chan stated that the good news is the planning process to date has gone well and we are in a
new phase. They all emphasized the need to immediately form a redevelopment area.
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Interesting points included: our goal for the first couple of years is to break even; trying to
leverage whatever resources are on the Base for future financing; using an RFQ process for a
certain part of the Base and perhaps having private developers conduct part of the cleanup and
then be reimbursed by the Navy. Supervisor Chan ended by stating that we need to keep up
these good contacts. Executive Director Miller stated that an RFQ process would be begun
soon, particularly given the possible early conveyance of the FISC property. Member DeWitt
thanked Supervisor Chan for this very valuable set of workshops.
4-J. Oral Report from the Chair of the Base Reuse Advisory Group (BRAG) Updating the
ARRA on BRAG Activities.
Doug DeHaan thanked the BRAG subcommittee chairs for participating in the financing
workshops and voiced BRAG’s appreciation for LCDR Petouhoff’s efforts on base cleanup.
He also announced that self-guided weekend tours for the public at NAS Alameda begin
Saturday, May 4 with a ribbon cutting ceremony.
4-K. Oral Report from the Executive Director Updating the ARRA. Executive Director
thanked Supervisor Wilma Chan and Bruce Kern, Alameda County Economic Development
Advisory Board, for putting together the financing workshops. Ms Miller stated that ARRA
meetings could be televised if they were moved into the Little Theater. Chair Appezzato
directed Ms. Miller to gather more information on whether the Little Theater would is available
for ARRA meeting dates through the remainder of the year and whether or not ARRA can be
guaranteed the meetings will not be bumped by the School District. Ms. Miller then advised that
HUD had approved the homeless component of the Community Reuse Plan and thanked
everyone involved. Chair Appezzato added his thanks to everyone involved.
Alternate Roberta Brooks commended Chair Appezzato, as Mayor of Alameda, on his
articulate and eloquent statement at the last OBRA meeting that set the moral tone at the
meeting and changed a lot of people’s minds in Oakland.
Speaker:
Neil Patrick Sweeney, a concerned citizen, urged ARRA to televise the ARRA meetings and to
announce the date of the next meeting at each ARRA meeting.
ORAL COMMUNICATIONS, NON-AGENDA (PUBLIC COMMENT)
Neil Patrick Sweeney, a concerned citizen, stated that a data base on all proposed projects
should be published on the Internet.
Bill Smith, virtual agile manufacturing, discussed a home page on the Internet and the
necessity of a recycling remediation zone.
The meeting was adjourned at 7:13 p.m. to closed session.
ADJOURNMENT TO CLOSED SESSION TO CONSIDER:
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CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL - PROPOSED LITIGATION
Initiation of Litigation pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 54956.9.
Number of cases proposed: 1.
READJOURNMENT TO PUBLIC SESSION AND ANNOUNCEMENT OF ACTION
TAKEN IN CLOSED SESSION, IF ANY
Chair Appezzato readjourned to public session at 8:00 p.m. He stated that advice had been
given to council and no action had been taken.
COMMUNICATIONS FROM GOVERNING BODY
None
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned by Chair Appezzato at 8:01 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Margaret E. Ensley
Secretary
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