The meeting began with a closed session at 8:15 PM, followed by a special joint meeting of the city council and successor agency, a comprehensive budget workshop, and the regular city council meeting. The meeting adjourned at 12:33 AM on May 7, 2026. Key topics included the fiscal year 2026-27 mid-cycle budget update, an appeal of the Planning Board's decision regarding outdoor amplified music at Park Station, endorsement of a bike share pilot program, and approval of a lease amendment for electric vehicle storage at NCNL Terminals.
Fiscal Year 2026-27 Mid-Cycle Budget Update (Item 3B):
Appeal of Planning Board Decision on Park Station (Item 7A):
Bike Share Pilot Program (Item 7C):
Lease Amendment for EV Storage at NCNL Terminals (Item 7D):
Okay, everyone, are we ready? We've got a quorum and I am going to call this meeting to order. Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the city council meeting. This is the City of Alameda City Council meeting. And we are about to go into closed session, but I'm going to ask our city clerk, Lara Weissinger to please call the role first. Council members bowler. Prior. Here. Mayor Azyashka. I'm here. And hopefully council members Daysog and Jensen will be here. Yeah, we've got two more on the way, I'm sure. Right. And so um next we go to the consent calendar. This is just one item is a routine item that will be approved by one motion unless removed by council members. Um Madam Clerk, would you introduce the um consent calendar item? Yes, this item is designating negotiators for um building 11 at uh 1190 West Tower Avenue, which is related to item uh four C the closed session. All right. So um there is um, so that's the consent calendar, and we can go ahead and vote on the consent calendar, just the um the negotiators for um for that item. So do I have a motion and a second? Oh, sorry. Moved by the vice mayor, seconded by council member bowler, all those in favor signify by stating aye. Aye. Okay, that motion passes with three um approved and two absent. And we're gonna go to public comment on the closed session item next. And I'm just gonna read the um the rules of conduct for um for conducting um public comment, which is to say that um you're all welcome. This is a business meeting. We're here to conduct the business of the city of Alameda. It is not a sporting event, it is not theater. So what we do is we listen quietly and respectfully while other people speak, and we do not clap, cheer, boo, hiss, do the wave. We don't do any of that. This is a business meeting, but we do listen respectfully, and when it's our turn to speak, we get up, we go to the microphone, make it, I always say make it yours, whatever level is um parallel to your mouth and we can hear you. When the timer goes off, please stop speaking because everybody gets the same amount of speaker time, which the clerk will tell you. You're welcome to hold up signs. That's your first amendment, right? We just ask that you not hold them up over your head unless you're in the last row, so you don't block anyone else's view. It is that simple. And the reason that I laid down the ground rules at the beginning of a meeting is that for some people public speaking is one of the most stressful things they can do. And I never want someone to not get up and speak because somebody booed or jeered at the previous speaker and they're afraid that will happen to them. This is a safe space. This is like your town hall, and I want everybody to have that same um opportunity. And also because and literally today we often have young people in the audience and we want to set that good civic example for them. You can certainly look around the greater community, state, nation, what have you, and see less than civil examples of governance. That's not how we do it in Alameda. So we just ask everybody to please um respect those rules, and we will have a nice orderly meeting and hear from everyone. So with that, um, Madam Clerk, do we have public comment on closed session items? We do. Um we have in-person and remote. Um, they will we have over the limit, so they'll each get two minutes. Um, and we will I'll call the first three so the other two can be ready to go.