The Alameda City Council held its final meeting of 2025 on Tuesday, December 16, 2025. The meeting began with a closed session covering labor negotiations, potential litigation, and three real property items (Building 525, Alameda Theater, Building 22). The regular meeting followed at approximately 7:10 PM, featuring two council referrals, oral communications, consent calendar approval, and council member reports. The council returned to closed session after the regular agenda to complete the remaining property items.
How do we give us a hug As we say, if the balcony's ready, we're all ready. Um good evening, everyone, and welcome to the City of Alameda City Council meeting tonight is Tuesday, December 16, 2025, last council meeting of the year. And um we are um about to go into a closed session, but first I want to call this meeting to order. We're going to start with a special city council and successor agency to the community improvement commission that used to be known as a redevelopment agency meeting. And I would like to ask the city clerk, Lara Weisinger to please call the role. Council Member Smaller. Day Sag. Here. Jensen. Here. Prior. Here, Mayor Ezie Ashcraft. Here. Thank you. And then Madam Clerk, will you please introduce the um consent calendar for and this is just for the closed session? Yes, so you're just designating um negotiators for um the building five twenty-five and the um adding the interim city manager as a negotiator for the um labor negotiations. Do we perhaps have an item 2A? Yeah, that's that's what that was. Oh, it's okay. It's negotiators. Yes, yes, okay. In fact, so um before we take that vote, let me just make an introduction. Um there's a new face up here um for our last meeting of the year, but he'll be back in the new year. The city council recently selected unanimously selected Mr. Adam Pollitzer to be our interim city manager while we conduct the search for a permanent city manager, and he'll have a chance to make his comments later. He comes to us with lots of experience, and um I know you'll all enjoy getting to meet him. Um and so anyway, that's that new name that you might not have heard before. Okay, so we have the the um closed session, the consent calendar for the closed session. And uh this is a routine item that can be approved by one motion, so I'm looking for a motion and a second. It's moved by council member bowler, seconded by Vice Mayor Pryor. All those in favor, please signify by stating I. Aye, all right. That must motion passes unanimously. So Madam Clerk, do we have um public comment on closed session items? We do. Evan Philippi. Welcome, Speaker Philip. Philippi. Okay. Come on up when you hear your name called and just make that microphone the height you need it, gently. And um, welcome. Cool. Thank you so much for the time, uh, honored city council. I am here representing the Pacific Pinball Museum on item four C, which is regarding building five twenty-five out on the Naval Air Station. I just want to talk a little bit, uh, appreciate the time and opportunity even to be in contest for that building. Um we've been in Alameda for twenty-three years. We're rolling into our 23rd year as a successful nonprofit operating here in Alameda. And our museum, but truly is a museum of all ages, from kind of five and ten up to ninety and a hundred plus. So we're really excited to handle multiple generations of folks. Um we do have dreams of opening the largest pinball museum in the world.