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Consider Reviewing and Updating the Previous City Council’s Priorities at a Regular City Council Meeting. (Councilmember Herrera Spencer) [Not heard on November 2, 16, December 7, 21, 2021, January 4 or 18, 2022]
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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: Trish Herrera Spencer
Date of submission to City Clerk (must be submitted before 5:00 p.m. on the Monday two weeks before the Council meeting requested): October 18, 2021
Council Meeting date: November 2, 2021
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:
Review and update prior Council priorities at a regular City Council meeting.
The City Council, at its July 25, 2020 Priority Setting Workshop, established the following 5 priorities for 2021:
1. Preparing Alameda for the future
2. Encouraging economic development across the Island
3. Supporting enhanced livability and quality of life, including addressing the housing crisis and homelessness
4. Protecting core services
5. Ensuring effective and efficient operations
Briefly describe which Council priority the subject falls under and how it relates:
Just three months prior to the November 3, 2020 election, the City Council held a Priority Setting Workshop to determine "Council priorities” (attached). At the November 3rd election, a Councilmember was unseated and I was elected. It is now almost a year later and some Councilmembers and City staff continue to reference the priorities set by the prior Council and also include them in the Council referral form. I request that Council priorities be scheduled as a regular agenda item ASAP so that the current Council may establish its priorities and that the prior Council's priorities no longer be referenced as current or applicable to this Council in the interim.