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Consider Directing Staff to Temporarily Lease a Private Parking Lot Bounded by the Former US Bank on the North and the Crolls Building on the South for Public Free Parking for the Month of December, 2025. (Councilmember Daysog)
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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: Tony Daysog
Date of submission to City Clerk (must be submitted before 5:00 p.m. on the Monday two weeks before the Council meeting requested): Monday, October 27, 2025 (1:30 PM)
Council Meeting date: November 18, 2025
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: Have City Staff Enter Into Negotiations To Seek To Temporarily Lease For the Month of December 2025 Private Parking Area Bounded on the North by Former US Bank on Webster Street and on the South By the Crolls Building, For Use By the Public As Free Parking Area (Short: "Enter into A Lease For the Month of December 2025 With Owner of US Bank Parking Lot for Free Parking")
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 pri...
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