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Consider Directing Staff to Present Options to the Council on Increasing Accountability of, and Addressing Potential Conflict of Interest Issues at, the Alameda Housing Authority. (Councilmembers Vella and Oddie)
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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.
3) Take dispositive action 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 requesting referral: Councilmember Oddie
Date of submission to City Clerk (must be submitted before 5:00 p.m. on the Monday two weeks before the Council meeting requested): 9/18/2019
Council Meeting date: 10/15/2019
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:
Consider Directing Staff to Present Options to the Council on Increasing Accountability of, and Addressing Potential Conflict of Interest Issues at, the Alameda Housing Authority to the Residents of Alameda.
A number of residents have expressed concern to members of the City Council during Oral Communications and informally about their alleged mistreatment by the Alameda Housing Authority. In this current housing crisis, it is critical that some of our most vulnerable residents are treated with dignity and respect and provided housing.
Because the Housing Authority was separated from the City in 2012, there is no accountability to an elected body and/or the City Manager for residents who have been aggrieved by actions of the Housing Authority. City Council considered, but did not move forward, a referral by then-Councilmember Frank Matarrese in April 2017 to allow the City to return to its role as Board of Commissioners for the Housing Authority - the referral and minutes o...
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