pages: CityCouncil/2006-07-18.pdf, 7
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CityCouncil | 2006-07-18 | 7 | The Public Works Director provided a brief presentation. Steve Castleberry, Water Transit Authority Executive Director, provided a Power Point presentation. The Ferry Services Manager provided a brief presentation. Councilmember Daysog inquired why the specific guarantee period was five to seven years instead of fifteen to twenty years for maintaining current service levels. The Ferry Services Manager responded Council could specify a fifteen or twenty-year period. Councilmember Daysog inquired why the City could not get ferry services and funding back if the WTA reduced service levels. The Ferry Services Manager responded he did not want to commit the City to take back ferry services if grant funding fell short of actual operation expenses during the intervening years. Councilmember Daysog stated the WTA is receiving some core funding ; the City should get back the boats and revenue if the WTA does not perform. Councilmember deHaan stated the condition of the ferries might deteriorate and the City would need to get additional funding to bring the ferries back into operation. Councilmember Matarrese stated the City needs to be protected; the City should have the option to take back the ferry services if trips are reduced below what the City is accustomed to at the end of the guarantee period, rather than the original number of trips at the time of transfer; the City cannot afford to go back to the original service levels because of Alameda Point build out; he would like a real guarantee that the City would get the boats and funding back in order to maintain the service level the City needs in the event reductions are ever proposed. The Ferry Services Manager inquired whether Councilmember Matarrese meant that if there were ten round trips per day at the time of transfer and the WTA increases the trips to fifteen round trips per day, the trigger point would be whether the WTA proposed to reduce the round trips to below fifteen, to which Councilmember Matarrese responded in the affirmative. Vice Mayor Gilmore stated that getting back the same boats with a Regular Meeting Alameda City Council 7 July 18, 2006 | CityCouncil/2006-07-18.pdf |