According to the posted agenda found at City of Oakland Legislative Calendar, the Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 Agenda, for the Special Concurrent Meeting of the Oakland Redevelopment Agency/City Council is not another ho hum yawner of a meeting. This one could easily go beyond the 10:30 pm time.Among the items the Council will be voting on with a direct impact on the Prescott Oakland Point Neighborhood include the 7th Street Streetscape Phase 1 Project put on the agenda as Supplemental Item S-10.11-CC, titled “West Oakland Transit Village - Gallagher & Burk, Inc.” which awards a construction contract to Gallagher & Burk, Inc. Not To Exceed Three Million Two Hundred Seventeen Thousand Four Hundred Twenty Six Dollars ($3,217,426.00) from the West Oakland Redevelopment Project ($650,000.00) Redevelopment Agency Funds ($650,000.00), and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) Grant Funds ($1,300,000.00).
At the December 1, 2009 Public Works Committee, members (Brooks, Kaplan, Kernighan, Nadel) approved recommendations and directed staff to submit a report on: 1) the bus shelter’s Real-Time display options (i.e. does the bus shelter have electricity etc.; 2) how to handle bike parking in the West Oakland Transit Village Streetscape Improvement Project area; and 3) return to a future committee meeting with a report on the city-wide bike parking.
Click here for the December 8th, 2009 meeting agenda as posted 12.04.09
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