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Adoption of Resolution Commending Trish Herrera Spencer for Four Years of Service to the City of Alameda as Mayor.
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CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. _____
COMMENDING TRISH HERRERA SPENCER FOR FOUR YEARS OF SERVICE
TO THE CITY OF ALAMEDA AS MAYOR
WHEREAS, Trish Herrera Spencer began serving residents of the great City of Alameda twenty years ago as a PTA member and PTA Council President, while raising her four children in Alameda, then served as Trustee to the Alameda Unified School District Board of Education for two terms from 2008-2014, and most recently as the first Hispanic Mayor of Alameda, from 2014-2018; and
WHEREAS, as Mayor, Trish Herrera Spencer represented the City on many important regional agency boards, including the Alameda County Transportation Commission (ACTC), the East Bay Economic Development Alliance, the Alameda County Mayors' Conference, the East Bay Regional Park District Subcommittee, the Alameda Health Systems Subcommittee, the Alameda Unified School District Subcommittee, the Alameda Collaborative for Children, Youth, and their Families, the Airport Noise Management Forum, and previously on the Alameda County Lead Abatement Joint Powers Authority Board and Waste Management Authority Board; and
WHEREAS, Mayor Spencer represented the City on many important national initiatives, including the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the Play Ball program, the Mayor's Climate Protection Agreement, the Mayor's Against LGBT Discrimination, and signed the Amicus Brief in Masterpiece Cakeshop joining Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and other cities across the country in support of LGBTQ rights; and
WHEREAS, under Mayor Spencer's leadership as Alameda's representative on ACTC, ACTC awarded the City approximately $35 million toward Alameda's major priority transportation projects as part of ACTC's 2018 Comprehensive Investment Plan, which was more than any other city in the County with the exception of Oakland.
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