Alameda City Council Special Closed Session Meeting – May 27, 2026
Discussion Breakdown
Summary
Alameda City Council Special Closed Session Meeting – May 27, 2026
The Alameda City Council convened a special closed session to discuss litigation in the case City of Alameda vs. Greenway Golf Associates Inc. The meeting included a roll call with three members present initially, with two more arriving later, and no public comments were offered. After the closed session, the council reported actions taken.
Closed Session Litigation
- The council entered closed session to confer with legal counsel regarding existing litigation (Government Code section 54956.9(a)): City of Alameda vs. Greenway Golf Associates Inc., Alameda County Superior Court case number 2CV011964.
Key Outcomes
- The council provided direction to the city attorney via two votes:
- First vote: 3 ayes (Councilmembers Bowler and Prior, Mayor Ezzy Ashcraft), 1 no (Councilmember Jensen), 1 abstain (Councilmember Daysog).
- Second vote: Unanimous, 5-0.
- The second vote (described as a substitute or new motion) was the direction adopted for moving forward.
Meeting Transcript
Okay. Well, you know, we're gonna get in and we'll get. I don't have any speakers. They aren't coming in, I guess. Right. Okay. Okay. Are we ready in the balcony? Look at this. Ready in the balcony, folks. Thank you. All right then. Good evening, everyone. I would like to call this special city council meeting of the Alameda City Council to order. Today is Wednesday, May the 27th, 2026. And we are about to go into a special city council uh closed session. And we will start with a roll call, Madam Clerk Laura Weisiger. Would you please call the roll? Council members bowler? Yeah. Jensen. Mayor Ezie Ashcraft. I'm here. Three present. And hopefully, uh Vice Mayor Prior's on our way, and I'm assuming Councilmember Daysog is too. So hopefully, have we texted him? Perhaps someone called. All right. And is there any public comment on closed session items only? There is none. All right. We will close public comment and we will go on to we're about to adjourn into closed session to consider um one item. Madam Clerk, could you introduce that item, please? Yeah, three A is conference with legal counsel existing litigation pursuant to government code section five four nine five six nine A. The case name is City of Alameda versus Greenway Golf Associates Inc. Court uh is Alameda County Superior Court case number is two two C V zero one one nine six four. All right, thank you. And so I would ask that everyone involved in this matter um come on back to closed session. Thank you. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. All right, um, hello again, everyone. Um this is still the um City of Alameda City Council meeting. We have been in a special closed session, which we have just completed. And I would like to call on our city clerk, Laura Weisinger, to please announce any action taken in closed session. Um so the council provided direction to the city attorney by two votes. The first vote was three ayes, um, with uh one absent, I mean one no and one abstain. So it was uh council members, uh uh Bowler and Prior and Mayor Zashcraft who were ayes. The no was Councilmember Jensen and the abstain was Councilmember Desag, and then actually that was Vice Mayor Prior. Oh yes, thank you. And then um the uh second vote.