Recommendation to Authorize the City Manager to Execute a 60-Year Lease Agreement with the Alameda Unified School District for a City Aquatic Center at the Existing Swim Center Site at Alameda High School. (Recreation and Parks 208)
We had our first community meeting last week, about 50 plus people in attendance, which was great. We have two more community meetings coming up on January 29th and February 12th at 6:00 at the club by excuse me and at those will at the next one on January 28th will actually be looking at potential conceptual designs and then narrowing down on a on a final conceptual plan at the last one, other basic terms of the lease. The district receives up to 735 hours of use annually for their regular season practices and games for their aquatics programs like swimming, water polo, diving, and any other future aquatics programs. It's that is at no cost and at a prioritized use. So that gets the highest priority use for those 735 hours. It's in addition, there is also they get priority and no cost for post-season play. So if one of their teams makes it into the finals and that that is also considered prioritized at no cost and then one is a USD school district hosted tournament per team per season also gets use of the facility. Any additional uses outside of that need to be. All of it needs to be scheduled would need to be scheduled to the city. But any uses outside of that would be an it would be charged per our regular fee schedule and allocated. Our regular LAPD allocation policy. The uses I just described are limited to the competition pool. So far, the design is envisioned to have one competition pool with at least ten lanes and one recreation pool with several lanes, plus what we call fun water recreational components. So the school districts priority use is limited to the pool, competition pool. If there are available lanes, then if their practices only need for five or six of the ten one night, then we can also program those additional lanes for lap swim or other community use like the Gators and other youth organizations. It's also important to note the city would retain all revenue from programs including concession sales, which will help for our cost recovery. And then the last point is, is DSA Division of State Architecture. All school construction is under DSA purview rather than going through, for example, the city's permit center and state code. So this aquatic center would not be built under DSA. There is an exemption under DSA that a recreational facility, a city facility built on a school district property for the public purposes is exempt from from DSA. The lease agreement also includes language that if either entity were to request and require changes to the facility that trigger DSA , that entity would be responsible to pay for those costs. If DSA changes are rules in the future, then it would be renegotiated that time when more is known about the factors at play. I do want to note that currently the the City Aquatic Center construction operations is not funded. The city will be considering funding options. This could include an infrastructure bond. It could include a large capital donation campaign and other potential options. So that concludes my report and I'm open to any questions. Thank you very much. Welcome, counsel. Questions. Looking like none. All right. Are there any speakers on this? No, we have no speakers. Um, so we will move into, uh, council communications. No, no. Sorry. I mean, comment, though. Comments. They both start with CRT. Come on. I didn't mean the agenda. I mean council. Council comments? Yes. So are there any kind of looks like Councilmember de SAC would like to start us off? Well, thank you. Let me just briefly say quickly say as a member of the Alameda Unified School District Dash, Alameda City Council Joint Committee. I'm proud to have seen this come through and then to pass it on to our subcommittee of Mayor Ashcraft and Vice Mayor Knox White and who have brought us to this point now of moving this forward. I think this is something that would be very, very exciting for the city of Alameda. I think from the outset, we all thought of it as, you know, modernizing the swimming pool, making sure that it meets the needs of the swimming community. But I think it's more than that. I think this is really going to be not to overuse the word, another jewel in the assets that that the city of Alameda retains in conjunction with its partners. So I certainly look forward to supporting this and staff's recommendation. Thank you, Councilman Brody. Sure. I want to thank everyone who worked to put this together. I think this is a good deal for the city. The one thing I would just suggest as we move forward and, you know, if there are any issues that still need to be resolved, is that we all remember that even though we're two different legal entities were two different governments, we all work for the same people. So let's try to remember that going forward as as we try to implement this and figure out a way to pay for it and and operate it. Thank you. There were any comments? No Councilmember or Mayor Ashcraft, any comments? I was just going to say thank you to Director Aldridge and also the City Center for the training thought that was involved and utilizing all of this. But it did take a fair amount of communicating that. That's how you come to a decision and hearing from all sides and hearing their concerns. And I think that there's a lot to be excited about going forward, but we need to get started because we need to get that pool up and ready for the season or two that can be in and separate from the new aquatic center. But I'm very pleased that subcommittee was able to come up with the compromises that it did. And so hopefully this council 3000, we move forward. Thank you. Thank you. I will just quickly chime in with my thanks for both city staff and school district staff, as well as the school board members, Harris and Williams, who worked very diligently. We had a couple of meetings here at the end. I would say that every meeting started with us all remaining, her not remaining, but acknowledging that we know we work for the same people and whatnot. And I think some of the language in here actually we decided to leave it a little flexible and vague based on the fact that that we expected that not only can we , but others in the future will be able to work together as as we have around these issues. And that sometimes having having some of that flexibility will be easier and better for us moving forward. So I really appreciate all the work. It was a lot of work. I know that behalf of Dr. Aldridge and and Shahrukh Khan especially, but the rest of the staff. So thank you very much. It doesn't sound like we have any any issues of this. Would somebody like to make a motion to approve. The staff's recommendation? Second, we have a motion to approve by Councilmember Desai and a second by Councilmember Vela. Any comments? See? None. Roll call vote. Please remember Jason. Enthusiastic. Yes, Odie. He has to get enthusiastic. Yes, Knox. Quite very excited. Yes. Here is the. Unanimous. Cynthia. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. And on the list of people who have been here, I just want to thank Dr. Parker for his his voice and just say, I'm really happy to see you here tonight after our conversation. So thank you. Great. So there we go.