Adoption of Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Negotiate and Execute a Grant Agreement Between the State of California Department of Parks and Recreation Division of Boating and Waterways and the City of  Alameda By and Through the Alameda Police Department and By Motion Amend the Fiscal Year 2016-17 Revenue Estimate by $40,700 and Expenditures Budget by $44,770. (Police 3112)
Adoption of resolution authorizing the city manager to negotiate and execute a grant agreement between the State of California, Department of Parks, Recreation, Division of Boating and Waterways, and the City of Alameda by and through the Army to police department by motion amend the fiscal year 20 1617 revenue estimate by 40,000 and expenditures budget by 44,007 seven. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor Spencer. So I pulled this item because once in a while we need to hear good news. And this is good news. This has to do with a a grant award that the city just received in excess of $40,000 to do some important cleanup work. And I did give Chief Larry a heads up that I was going to pull this. So do you want to just tell us really quickly what great things you're going to be able to do with this money? Sure. I hear Spencer councilmembers Paul Larry, chief of police. Not officer, chief. Offender, covered tonight. Those you can see. So in a nutshell, what this grant is going to let us do is it will allow us to abate and remove privately owned. Derelict vessels from the estuary. If they're out there, it will also give some boat owners the opportunity to surrender them before they wind up going into the water, which would be even better. It will cost us a lot less to get rid of the boats. It is not for commercial vessels. So if there is a commercial vessel, this grant money would not apply to that. But typically that hasn't been our problem. Our problem has been privately owned ones at about $10,000 a pop. It's not going to get us very many boats. But I think over the last few years we've been on top of it enough that I think, you know, we should be able to to do it within the within the grant funds. And then also we had $50,000 allocated by the council, and that's a parking lot item last year, which I still have to work that out with the finance director to see if we can use that as a. As a cushion just in case we go over for next year. But at any rate, that's what it is. So thank you very much. Then the vote is that we have this grant from the State of California, Department of Parks and Recreation, Division of Boating and Waterways to do this cleanup. But I know some of the folks here in the audience are homeowners on the estuary. So you know what I'm talking about, right. Anyway, so with that, ready for the vote. Sure. So I move that we adopt a resolution authorizing the city manager to negotiate and execute a grant agreement between the state of California, Department of Parks and Recreation, Division of Boating and Waterways, and the City of Alameda by and through the Alameda Police Department and by motion amend the fiscal year 20 1617 revenue estimate by $40,700 and the expenditures budget by $44,770 because there is a 10% local match that we will make again. And I wanted to add, I really appreciate the chief you're of all the officers that have been involved in this. I think this started maybe one or two years ago when I was first mayor there, some community activists, if you will, that really wanted this and they organized some meetings and you all showed up. And to have you apply and go through the process and now have this happen is actually a really good thing. So thank you very, very much. All those in. Favor. I thank you. Motion carries unanimously. Thank you. Okay. Moving on in. Right. Five An adoption resolution supporting the 2016 Alameda County affordable housing bond measure.