2020-01-21 CC CS MinutesSpecial Meeting
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MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING
TUESDAY- -JANUARY 21, 2020- -5:15 P.M.
Acting Mayor Knox White convened the meeting at 5:15 p.m.
Roll Call – Present: Councilmembers Daysog, Knox White, Oddie, Vella and
Mayor Ezzy Ashcraft – 5.
[Note: Mayor Ezzy Ashcraft was present via teleconference from The
Capital Hilton, 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036.]
Absent: None.
Consent Calendar
Councilmember Oddie moved approval of the Consent Calendar.
Councilmember Vella seconded the motion, which carried by the following roll call vote:
Councilmembers Daysog: Aye; Oddie: Aye; Vella: Aye; Knox White: Aye and Chair
Ezzy Ashcraft: Aye. Ayes – 5. [Items so enacted or adopted are indicated by an
asterisk preceding the paragraph number.]
(*20-029) Recommendation to Approve Eric Levitt, City Manager, Lisa Maxwell,
Assistant City Attorney, Debbie Potter, Community Development Director, and Nanette
Mocanu, Assistant Community Development Director, as Real Property Negotiators for
the Potential Lease of Building 169 at 1680 Viking. Accepted.
Closed Session
The meeting was adjourned to Closed Session to consider:
(20-030) Conference with Real Property Negotiators (Pursuant to Government Code
Section 54956.8); Property: Building 169, approximately 43,355 rent able square feet,
located at 1680 Viking Street on Alameda Point; City Negotiators: Eric Levitt, City
Manager, Lisa Maxwell, Assistant City Attorney, Debbie Potter, Community
Development Director, and Nanette Mocanu, Assistant Community Development
Director; Negotiating Parties: City of Alameda and Pacific Pinball Museum; Under
Negotiations: Price and terms
(20-031) Conference with Legal Counsel – Workers’ Compensation Claim (Pursuant to
Government Code Section 54956.95); Claimant: Brian Clark; Agency Claimed Against:
City of Alameda
(20-032) Conference with Legal Counsel – Workers’ Compensation Claim (Pursuant to
Government Code Section 54956.95); Claimant: Joseph Couch; Agency Claimed
Against: City of Alameda
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(20-033) Conference with Legal Counsel – Workers’ Compensation Claim (Pursuant to
Government Code Section 54956.95); Claimant: Robin Haines; Agency Claimed
Against: City of Alameda
(20-034) Conference with Legal Counsel – Workers’ Compensation Claim (Pursuant to
Government Code Section 54956.95); Claimant: Jill Ottaviano; Agency Claimed
Against: City of Alameda
(20-035) Conference with Legal Counsel – Existing Litigation (Pursuant to Government
Code Section 54956.9); Case Name: Boatworks v City of Alameda, et al.; Court:
Superior Court of the State of California, County of Alameda; Case Numbers:
RG16823346, RG16841240 RG19041531. Not heard.
Following the Closed Session, the meeting was reconvened and the City Clerk
announced that regarding Real Property, staff provided information and Council
provided direction with no vote taken; regarding Clark, the case involves a workers’
compensation claim by Applicant Brian Clark, a former Police Officer who joined the
City on August 14, 2012; the Applicant sustained injuries during a Police response on
September 25, 2017; the Applicant had total temporary psychiatric disability from the
date of the incident, September 25, 2017, and retired via industrial disability retirement
on July 20, 2019; the Council voted unanimously, via roll call vote, to authorize the Cit y
Attorney to settle the pending workers’ compensation claim in an amount not to exceed
$73,344.17; regarding Couch, he case involves a workers’ compensation claim by
Applicant Joseph Couch, a former Police Officer who joined the City on September 23,
2014; the Applicant’s injury occurred on April 18, 2015 at the UCSF Benioff Children’s
Hospital, where the Officer was involved with a combative subject; the Applicant was
unable to ever return to full duty and retired via industrial disability retirement on
September 17, 2017; the Council voted unanimously, via roll call vote, to authorize the
City Attorney to settle the pending workers’ compensation claim in an amount not to
exceed $32,249.50; regarding Haines, the case involves a workers’ compensation claim
by Applicant Robin Haines, a former Firefighter who joined the City on August 3, 1998;
the Applicant’s injury occurred on May 24, 2016 while responding to a significant house
fire and was in full personal protective equipment while coming down from the fir st story
roof; the Applicant was unable to return to full duty and retired on December 16, 2016
via industrial disability retirement; the Council voted unanimously, via roll call vote, to
authorize the City Attorney to settle the pending workers’ compensat ion claim in an
amount not to exceed $62,770.78 ; and regarding Ottaviano, the case involves a
workers’ compensation claim by Applicant Jill Ottaviano, a former Police Officer who
joined the City on May 23, 1997; the Applicant’s injury occurred on October 8, 2014
when she sustained a cumulative injury after 17 years of service performing customary
Police duties and wearing a duty belt/vest; the Applicant was unable to return to full duty
and retired via industrial disability retirement on March 31, 2019; the Council voted
unanimously, via roll call vote, to authorize the City Attorney to settle the pending
workers’ compensation claim in an amount not to exceed $63,177.75.
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Adjournment
There being no further business, Mayor Ezzy Ashcraft adjourned the meeting at 5:57
p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Lara Weisiger
City Clerk
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