Title
Recommendation to Authorize the City Manager to Execute the First Amendment to Ferry Service Operations Transfer Agreement between the City of Alameda and the San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority. (Transportation 4227287)
Body
To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Staff recommends that the City Council authorize the City Manager to execute an amendment to the Ferry Service Operations Transfer Agreement (Amendment) (Exhibit 1) with the San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) to redefine the rights and responsibilities for day-to-day management, operations, and long-term maintenance of landside assets and improvements at the Main Street Ferry Terminal and Harbor Bay Ferry Terminal.
BACKGROUND
On February 25, 2011, the City of Alameda (City) and WETA executed a Ferry Service Operations Transfer Agreement (Transfer Agreement) (Exhibit 2) applicable to the Main Street Ferry Terminal and Harbor Bay Ferry Terminal and contemplated possible future ferry service at Seaplane Lagoon. The Transfer Agreement identified ongoing obligations of the parties including ownership and maintenance of physical assets, as well as funding and ferry service obligations. Under the Transfer Agreement, WETA was granted ownership of the waterside assets for the existing terminals. The City maintained ownership of the land area of the existing terminals, as well as the landside assets, with WETA responsible for daily operations and maintenance of those landside assets.
In 2014, the City Council adopted the Alameda Point Transportation Demand Management Plan, and in 2018, adopted the Transportation Choices Plan. Both plans call for active management and eventual pricing of ferry terminal parking by the City.
On January 14, 2020, the parties executed the Seaplane Lagoon Ferry Terminal Operating Agreement (Seaplane Agreement). Under the Seaplane Agreement, the City owns and maintains at its...
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