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Recommendation to Provide Direction to Staff to Explore the Feasibility of Placing a Revenue Measure on a Future Ballot for Potential Infrastructure Funding or Other Possible Revenue Measures, including the City Manager Entering into Agreements with: (1) Clifford Moss for an Initial Feasibility Assessment in an Amount Not-To-Exceed $30,000; and (2) Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates (FM3) for Survey Development, Implementation, and Associated Analysis in an Amount Not-to-Exceed $40,750.
These actions are not subject to further environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), Section 15378 (b)(4), CEQA Guidelines. (City Manager 10021030)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Jennifer Ott, City Manager
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Staff is seeking City Council direction on whether the City of Alameda (City) should explore the feasibility of a future revenue measure to address significant deferred maintenance of existing Citywide infrastructure and new infrastructure needs. The workplan in the draft Strategic Plan also includes a project to explore the feasibility of a potential vacancy tax measure, which is underway. If the City Council directs staff to conduct a feasibility study of potential revenue measures, staff recommends engaging a consultant team that has experience assisting the City on previous successful ballot measures, which includes Clifford Moss and Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates (FM3). Clifford Moss supported the City on its successful Utility User Tax (UUT) measure in 2016 and FM3 assisted the City most recently in 2022 with the successful Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) measure, in 2019 and 2020 when the City last considered the potential for an infrastructure bond; and in 2018 with the successful Sales Tax measure. This consultant team would conduct initial polling before the end of the year and staff would bring the results and analysis on the feasibility of an infra...
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