Adoption of Resolutions Reappointing Lynn Jones and Norman Sanchez as Members of the Historical Advisory Board; Reappointing Xiomara Cisneros and Alan Teague as Members of the Planning Board; and Appointing Christina McKenna as a Member of the Public Utilities Board.
. And in particular we want to promote transparency. Transparency relative to all the decisions are being made, in particular relative to all of the homelessness, housing considerations that are going forward tonight. So I just wanted to say that. Yeah, you could. Bakery's out bakeries. I'm sorry. You are referring to an item that will come before us in just a little while. Right now, we're just trying to confirm the reappointment to the Housing Authority Historic Advisory Board and the Planning Commission. And so that is not related to that, the items you've raised and the Public Utilities Board. But Madam Sheraton, when we're going to consider a. Item six a coming up very quickly. All right. So are there any other speakers who wish to speak on these resolutions reappointing some members of the historic advisory board and planning board and appointing a new member to the public utility board? Okay. Additional speakers. With that, I made a closed public comment. Go back to Councilor Knox White. Thank you. So with my stated great appreciation for Commissioner Shabazz, who brought forward the idea of doing a survey of our boards and commissions and also a great appreciation for our mayor, who I believe has done a fabulous job of looking at the issue of equity and representation on our boards and commissions in the three years we've worked together. I would like to move approval of the nominated individuals. Thank you. Do I have a second vice mayor of seconds. Any comments saying then may we have a roll call vote please, Madam Clerk. From a rotation. High. Or a center? I'm not quite high. Villa Vice Mayor as the Ashcraft I that carries by five eyes. And we will be promoting those people present. Thank you. And I do want to say it has been an absolute pleasure to get to interview the many applicants for our boards and commissions. We have an amazingly talented population, not only talented, but generous of their time and and their talent and their commission, their their commitment to this community. And you all help make it a better place. And so I am just looking as they come up, we've got L.A. from the planning board, new public utilities board member Christina McKenna, Norman Sanchez returning to their historical advisory boards. Tamara Cisneros being reappointed to the planning board. And by the way, when I say reappointment, not all of these individuals have actually served full terms. It's just that the term that they may have been appointed to fill is now coming to an end and they are reappointed. And I am not seeing Lynn Jones offer. Also from the historic advisory board, but we may have baby news in the near future and we can always arrange that so you can arrange to administer the oath of office. So thank you all for agreeing to to continue serving the city in your capacities. And all of these boards and commissions that you represent have been doing a lot of heavy lifting lately, and we're really grateful. And at this time, I would love to have the city clerk and take it away for the administering the oath of office. Thank you. If you'll all raise your right hand, do you solemnly swear to uphold the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California, and that you will faithfully discharge the duties upon which you are about to enter? I do. Great day. Thank you so much. And I'm going to go through and give you each like 30 seconds. Yes. Thank you. Counterterrorism, as we do applaud you. And if I can just start and just ask you to give us a little 32nd overview of who you are, what you do, why you're passionate about where you're serving. Alan Teague, I'm going to start with you. May I guess thank you for I'm time. I've been on the planning board now for four years and it has been a great privilege to be able to help guide the city forward in figuring out how we can optimize the use of land for housing and maintain our quality of life. And I look forward to working on the housing element and the general plan so that we can move forward in improving the equity and being able to support our people on arrival. Thank you, Alan. And let's start with the planning board for Mara Cisneros. May we go to you next? Tell us. Your your. Passion for planning or. Whatever you'd like. Sure. Thank you so much, mayor and council members, for this opportunity. And my fellow board member president Alan Teague said it really well. I just was appointed to the board in October, so in my little matter of time I really enjoyed the experience and getting to know my fellow board members. I do feel like we're really great group and it's I'm fairly, relatively a newbie to Alameda. I have lived here for a few years, but I'm just really honored to serve my community in this way and is a great opportunity experience. So thank you so much. And Norman Sanchez, may I go to you next from the historic advisory board? And yes, good evening, Mayor. So I'm Norman Sanchez, the local architect here in Alameda. This will be the start of my second full term. I had the honor of filling in for Vice Mayor Abella for to complete her term on HIV. So this will be the start of my second full term. And yeah, I guess I'm looking forward to continuing to support staff in our community and in the goals of historic preservation for our city. Thanks so much. And Christina McKenna. I'm not a newcomer to Alameda. She's been involved in the community in other ways. But tell us a little bit about the awesome skills you bring to the Public Utilities Board. You're still muted, Christina. Maybe it's a double mute. Oh. Do we need volume up or. Well, we aren't hearing you, and I'm not sure. Oh, yeah. Is there a switch? That. That's okay. I can I can just tell you that she and she does bring a lot to bear, a lot of skills to the public utility board. And I most recently enjoyed reading a very informative article she wrote about electric vehicles. And so we look forward to to your participation with that very important board. And so thank you all so much again for for serving your community in this way. Good evening. Bye bye. Okay. So then we will move on to council communications where council members can speak up to 9 minutes to address any item not on the agenda, including reporting on conferences or meetings. This is a carryover from. Well, this is here so that you can make your nominations in the league. Of course. Thank you and thank you to it at the end. We need to do it now. Thank you. I do need reminders. Thank you so much. So this evening, we're going to go then to item three A because council communications comes at the end of the regular agenda. So three eight is my nominations to the Public Art Commission and I have three nominations. And they are for terms of varying lengths. And I always leave it to staff to determine because I work with staff when I'm choosing board and commission members. And so I'm in alphabetical order. My nominees are Robert Ferguson, Jennifer Huffaker and Peter Plotz Gummer. They are all working artists of one kind or another, and sometimes across several different medium. Robert Ferguson has had public art installations around the U.S., Lake Tahoe, Telluride, Santa Fe. It he met his wife at Burning Man. He does things in in large format. He is also a I has 50 years of experience in metal fabrication and welding and we are very excited to welcome him to the Public Art Commission. He's he has, you know, lots of ideas about public spaces and the all the things that public art can bring to a community. Jennifer Halfaker is recently retired, but she is a former professor of art at the University of Texas in Austin, and she's a former art director. She also is a filmmaker and a sculptor, and she has also has had art installations and and paints as well and drive multi-talented. But she's also worked in community housing as the director of marketing for a Community Housing Affordable Housing Group in San Francisco. And she has volunteered her time here in Alameda with the Alameda Ballet. Peter Flats Kummer is a native of Sweden. He has a really interesting background a Ph.D. in public administration from Switzerland, moving, measuring the effectiveness of public programs. But he has also done a lot of building on large scale, like large architecture. Murals. And thinks that we really can do so much to bring the community together, and especially in the aftermath of the pandemic, by the kinds of communications that public art can contribute to a community. So again, this was one of those commissions where we just had a plethora of very talented individuals. I am just in awe of all of you. And so they will these individuals will come back to us in September at our first September meeting for the vote to approve their nominations and then their swearing in. So with that, we move on to item three. Be Madam. Clerk. It's designation of voting delegates, an alternate for the League of California Cities Annual Conference. And the league requires this the council vote on this, which is why it comes before you and the current delegate is the mayor with the alternate as the vice mayor. So we just seen a council that. Okay. Councilmember Knox, wait. I move that we maintain the same voting membership. Okay. Do I have a second? Faith Council over days. I've seconds. Okay. Any further comment? Okay. Maybe we have a roll call vote, please, Madam Clerk. Councilmember de SAG. Hi, Herrera. Spencer, I. I'm not quite. Hi. Valley. Hi, Mayor. As the. Ashcraft High. That carries by. Five eyes. Okay. Thank you. And so that was a special city council meeting that we needed to take to dispense those items. I'm sorry, Councilmember Desai.