The Alameda City Council convened on October 7, 2025, for a meeting that included closed session actions, public testimony, and deliberations on infrastructure needs, code updates, and community facility districts. Key highlights included a workshop on critical facility upgrades, adoption of new building codes, and financing mechanisms for development at Alameda Point.
Ready in the balcony. Thumbs up. Okay, is staff ready? Well, if staff in the balcony are ready and we've got a quorum, we're going. And we are about to uh go into closed session. We're going to start first with the roll call, and I'll ask City Clerk, Laura Weissaker, to please call the roll. Council members Daisy. Jensen. Prior here. Mayor Ezy Ashraf. Here. Five present. Hopefully, Councilmember Baller will be here. Okay, great. Um, so we have um two consent items. Yes, I think we just take one motion to our own. Okay, these are reaching motions that will um be approved by one. Uh motion unless routine items that will be approved by one motion unless uh removed by a council member. But again, this is just consent calendar for the closed session. Madam Clerk, would you introduce those two items, please? Yes, they're both related to uh 4A, which is the um real property negotiations for um 1501 Viking Street, which is building 166 in Pier 1, and um one is designating negotiators and then one is to declaring surplus lands uh for that and various other lands. Perfect and um let's see. Do we vote on the consent calendar before we take con before we take public comment? Yes, there's there's no public comment on the consent calendar. I would let you know if there was public comment on the consent calendar, but there's nothing. Okay. Well, with that, I'm looking for a motion in a second on the closed session consent calendar. So move for it. So move uh move by council member uh day subsequent by council member Jensen. All those in favor signify by stating aye. Aye, aye. That motion passes unanimously. Madam Clerk, will you uh introduce the items that we're about to consider in closed session? Yes, um, for A is conference with real property negotiators pursuant to government code section five four nine five six point eight. The property is fifteen oh one biking street building one sixty six and thirteen ninety nine Fairy Point Pier 1 at Alameda Point. Uh, the city negotiators are the city manager, base for use and economic development director, base reuse manager, assistant city attorney, and Cushman and Wakefield Managing Director. Uh the negotiating parties are the City of Alameda and Power Engineering Construction under negotiation are price and terms. 4B is Conference of Labor negotiators pursuant to government code section five four nine five seven point six. The city negotiators are the city manager, human resources director, and Jack Hughes of Liebert Cassidy Whitmore and C deputy city attorney. The city employee organizations are International Association of Firefighters Local 689 and Alameda Fire Chiefs Association and a negotiation are salaries, employee benefits in terms of employment. For CS conference with legal counsel existing litigation pursuant to government code section five four six point nine. Uh the case name is County of Santa Clara et al. versus Christy Noam et al. Uh court is United State District Court of for Northern California District of California. Case number is 25830, and then another existing litigation. Court is United State District Court for the Northern California District of California. The case number is 25 C V07070 R S. Thank you, Madam Clerk. All right, with that, the council and all the staff involved with item 4A are going to adjourn into closed session. And for members of the public who may be watching, we intend to be back before you at 7 p.m.