Recommendation to Authorize the City Manager, or Designee, to Execute a One Year License with Greenway Golf Associates, Inc. for the “Grandview Pavilion” Located at 300 Island Drive, including an Option to Extend the Term of the License for One Additional Year. (Community Development 216)
We do not. No one has raised their hand on Zoom and no one has submitted anything. Okay, well, in that case, do. Okay. The city attorney has his hand up. All right, Mr. Chan. I have a question. Thank you. I have a quick question for Councilmember Vella. Just clarify. Her question. Is her intent for card technicality for the. Construction workers. Or for the staff that will be working there, like waiters and waitresses. Or both? Well, I think card check would be for the I think there's two parts. So one card check would be typically for the staff that would work there. On the construction side, I think we typically require certain projects under certain thresholds to fall under our project stabilization agreement. But that that that is I believe that's been discussed. But is it also does that need to be in the license agreement? So I don't see me as you can. Correct me if I'm wrong. The threshold. For the project stabilization agreement is quite high, so. I doubt that if they're engaging in any work in there that it would meet those thresholds. And so unless the council. Specifically direct us to put it in the. License agreement, it is plausible and perhaps likely. That construction workers would not be covered. So what I do know is that yes the card check and neutrality that they were agreeable to the I never had the discussion on the construction because I'm not sure there be any major construction there. But as far as the other part, the service workers, that was the part that they were agreeable to. So where does that leave your question? Councilmember Vella, did did you have it fully answered? Yes, I did. Okay. I'm I'm happy to do comment. Okay. Let's see. Do we? So we get a motion and then do discussion or when do more comment. Because this is now council comment. We didn't have any public speakers. Do you want to continue in this film? Yeah, I just I think and I discussed. This with the city manager. My concern was kind of the long term use of this space. There's quite a large parking lot there in the building. It's it's right next to a couple main roads. I think, you know, we're going to be having various conversations coming up relative to other needs of the city. These we've talked about, you know, our different priorities. So I just wanted to make sure that, you know, at least from my perspective, that whatever we're doing here is is confined to a shorter period of time. I don't know that this is and I hope we'll have a larger conversation in the future about what the long term vision is for this property. I don't know that the event space concept is necessarily, you know, where where it will stay. So I'm glad that the it's one that it's a license agreement and two, that it's for a relatively short period of time so that we can have that or a future council can have that deliberation about the future usage. I, I also would like to see the card check neutrality language added. I agree with the Mayor about adding specific language relative to COVID 19. It's a weird time to be approving a license agreement for an event space with all things happening. So I don't want it to be interpreted as us entering into this and somehow condoning the, you know, the space to be used in a way that would not be in line with what the direction is from the state or the county, and that the the stricter of the two orders would would apply. And I think that's important as well. This is a city owned parcel. And so while this is a license, I want to make sure that we're responsible landlords. Thank you. I saw counts on Brody with his hand up. Yes, Counselor. Thank you. And I will agree with everything my. My colleague said. And I just wanted to point out on the under health orders, you he's going to need to comply. But I could see somebody making an argument that, well, an emergency order by the county or a governor's emergency order. You know, maybe we can skate on that, but if people need to comply. So, you know, when one of us goes there, you know, and asks about it and, you know, we're kind of brushed off, it doesn't give me any confidence that they're going to comply. So I need to make sure it's explicit in there. So. Okay. Further comments before we go for a motion, Councilmember Daisuke. Are you muted? Yeah. Just to confirm. So, City Manager Levitt. Is it your understanding that if the entity is asked to do car check or whatever, that they are okay with that? Yes, I had a discussion with them and I said that that likely would be a provision. So it's my mistake that it didn't get put in the license agreement, but they did understand. And it's card check neutrality, right? That's the way I yeah, that's the way I put it. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Any further discussion? Do I have emotion too? This is a relief for a recommendation to authorize the city manager, his designee, to execute a one year license with Greenway. Did you want to say something first, Councilmember Vela, or make the motion? When make the motion. I was going to make the motion to grant that authority to the city manager, provided that the two provisions discussed the COVID 19 language and the card check neutrality language be added. All right, we have a motion. Do we have a second chance on the data? Mm hmm. Yes. Second. Second. All right. It's been moved by Councilmember Vela, second by Councilmember De. So any further discussion seeing then? Maybe we have a roll call vote, please, Madam Clerk. Councilmember de Thug? Yes. Not quite. All right. Odie. Hi. Bella. Mayor. As the Ashcraft. High. That carries by five eyes. So you still have to a on this item on this agenda. So it has to be recess to go back to 60. So one more recess on this one. We are recessing this special meeting going back to regular item six. E, correct? Correct. Isn't Edward or as a year or whatever. Okay, friend. And who's. I see Miss Potter on this. Oh, I see Miss McConnell. Okay. And I'll quickly read the ordinance title and introduction. The ordinance authorizing the city manager or designee to execute an amendment to the lease with Williams-Sonoma, Inc. For a Delaware corporation acting for and on behalf of Williams-Sonoma Stores Inc, a California corporation for Building 169 Suite one or two located at 1680 Viking Street at Alameda Point, extending the term for an additional 12 months with 112 month extension option, removing overflow parking from the leased premises and providing one month upfront payment of. All right, so who is this Mercado? You're starting on this one. Okay. And I'll leave. I'll be quick about it. So I'm Williams-Sonoma has been our tenant for they've been under they were initially under a license for one year and then they have had a lease for several years. And we're renewing this agreement and we're a little late in renewing because we got caught by COVID, but we're going to do a one year lease with an option to renew for one year and the rent is remaining flat mostly because of COVID and and they are getting a one month rent abatement. And that and that also is because of Novell and they have not been able to operate. So I'm sorry, my dog is driving me crazy. So we love dogs. Tompkins Day was on the table. Oh, well. So we have our limits. I know there's kids in the meeting, dogs and. Everything. Together. To get. Where were we. Anyway? So. So there are there are. This is a renewal one. In addition to the rent that they generate, they generate a sizable amount of sales tax revenue that Alameda has been put as the point of sale for their sales in the warehouse. And so yeah, so they are they generate a lot of sales tax revenue over the last few years. So we hope that you'll consider renewing this right now. They have I'm just going to give them a little bit of a marketing push right now. They have a very good sale with like 50% off everything. It might be worth a visit if you're out there watching. But they're doing the socially distance only allowing so many people in at a time. They have to. And it's such a huge hanger, they're lucky that they get to allow quite a few people in at one time. Nice. And keep the keep the doors open for ventilation. And just to remind everyone who's watching, whenever you leave your house, you need to be wearing your mask. I'll pull my and demonstrate later. But that includes when you're inside shopping and retail. But, you know, to your point, Ms.. Mcconney Williams-Sonoma is a California corporation based in our state and has been a tough time for for retailers all over. So with that and Ms.. Potter, were you going to add anything to the presentation now? Nice to see you. So, counsel and I just got word from the city clerk that we still have no public comment. Is that correct? Ms. WEISBERGER. Correct. No one has raised their hand or submitted a comment. Okay. So counsel, clarifying questions are motion or what would you like? Councilman Brody. Just a quick question. So we're building this this rent abatement into this lease. Does that mean they're not going to be eligible to any for any other rent abatement, like we discussed a few months back on our commercial commercial tenants? So they they had all the tenants have been notified of programs that were offering as a city and what they really wanted. And initially they were kind of difficult, I would like to say, but at the end of the day it just boiled down to them wanting just this one month rent abatement. And so it's it's fine. And so that's why we're recommending it. Okay. I mean, I can move approvals. Sure. Okay. We have a motion. All right. We have a motion from Councilmember. Do we have a second? It's okay. And it's been seconded by Councilmember de SA. Do we have any further discussion? Not seeing any. So may we take a roll call? Vote on the motion? Councilmember de SAG? Yes. Not quite. I. Ody I. Vella. I may or as the Ashcroft I. That carries my five eyes. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Mercado. Nice to see you and your dog. Thank you, Miss Potter. All right. We are moving on to item six F. Introduction of an unqualified ordinance amending and codified ordinance number 3275 to extend the time that tenants must pay deferred rent from 210 days to 395 days following the city council's rescission of the local emergency. This would be Miss Potter's item, correct? Yes, absolutely. I'm going to be presenting this item in April of this year. The city council adopted as part of its urgency ordinance regarding an eviction moratorium for commercial as well as residential tenants. The council also approved as part of that ordinance a essentially a seven month time frame in which tenants could read pay rent that was either not paid in full or in part during the declaration of the state of emergency. At that time, staff was recommending that the repayment period should be, which should commence 30 days after the local emergency was lifted and then continued for six months. So seven months in total. And at that time, some council members had expressed interest in considering that perhaps more time should be allowed for tenants to repay rent. And there was some direction to to go back and check with stakeholders as we have as the months of carried on, as we have continued to have a shelter in