File #: 2024-4099   
Type: Council Referral
Body: City Council
On agenda: 6/18/2024
Title: Consider Directing Staff to Prepare a Charter Amendment Measure for the November 5, 2024 Ballot to Amend Section 3-10 Pertaining to Sale of Property and Leases. (Councilmember Jensen) [Not heard on June 4, 2024]

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Consider Directing Staff to Prepare a Charter Amendment Measure for the November 5, 2024 Ballot to Amend Section 3-10 Pertaining to Sale of Property and Leases.  (Councilmember Jensen)  [Not heard on June 4, 2024]

 

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COUNCIL REFERRAL FORM

 

The Council can take any of the following actions:

1) Take no action.

2) Refer the matter to staff to schedule as a future City Council agenda item.  Concurrence that staff time will be devoted to the item does not signify approval.

3) Take dispositive action only on time sensitive legislative matters if sufficiently noticed such that the public and Council have been provided sufficient information by the published agenda, and no formal published notice of a public hearing is required.

 

Name of Councilmember(s) requesting referral: Tracy Jensen

 

Date of submission to City Clerk (must be submitted before 5:00 p.m. on the Monday two weeks before the Council meeting requested):

 

Council Meeting date: June 4, 2024

 

Brief description of the subject to be printed on the agenda, sufficient to inform the City Council and public of the nature of the referral:

Alternative 1: Direct staff to return to Council with a recommendation to place a charter amendment measure on the ballot, in time for the November 2024 election, to establish that sales of city owned property will be approved by a simple council majority by amending section 3-10 of the Alameda City Charter.

Alternative 2:  Direct staff to return to Council with a recommendation to place a charter amendment measure on the ballot, in time for the November 2024 election, to amend section 3-10 of the Alameda City Charter to delete the supermajority requirement for approval of leases and sales of city owned property.

The City Council approved a Strategic Plan on November 21, 2023, which established the following 5 priorities:

A. Enhance Community Safety & Services

B. Build Resilience to Climate Change & Water Level Rise

C. Invest in Transportation, Infrastructure, Economic Opportunities & Historic Resources

D. House All Alamedans & End Homelessness

E. Practice Fiscal Responsible, Equitable & Inclusive Governance

 

If applicable, briefly describe which Council priority the subject falls under and how it relates:

Priority Area: Invest in Transportation, Infrastructure, Economic Opportunities & Historic Resources

TIE25 Implement the City’s Alameda Point Disposition Strategy - renting and leasing City properties

TIE35: Protect Historic Resources

TIE35a: Reuse and renovate buildings in NAS Alameda Historic District Consistent with the Secretary of Interior Standards, with consultation and approval by the Historic Advisory Board, as feasible