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CityCouncil | 2009-06-02 | 18 | next thing to worry about is plastic bottles. COUNCIL REFERRALS None. COUNCIL COMMUNICATIONS ( 09 -229 - ) Consideration of Mayor's nominations for appointment to the Civil Service Board, Commission on Disability Issues, Historical Advisory Board, Housing and Building Code Hearing and Appeals Board, Planning Board, Public Utilities Board, Social Service Human Relations Board, and Youth Advisory Commission. Mayor Johnson nominated Avonnet M. Peeler, Civil Service Board; Paulina Kirola, Adrienne Longley-Cook and Jody Moore, Commission on Disability Issues; Donna Talbot, Historical Advisory Board; Ronald Khan, Housing and Building Code Hearing and Appeals Board; Rebecca Kohlstrand Parsons, Planning Board; John McCahan, Public Utilities Board; and Jonathan Soglin and Cynthia Wasko, Social Service Human Relations Board. (09-230) Councilmember Tam stated that she attended the League of California Cities Executive Forum last week; the League formed a coalition with a number of local government authorities to aggressively campaign against borrowing and takeaways; 150 cities have already passed Fiscal Hardship Resolutions the session got sidetracked because of an impromptu press conference with the Mayor of San Diego on the SaveYourCity.net campaign; the League of California Cities' Finance Director is very cautiously pessimistic about the State borrowing $2 billion, which translates to $2. 4 million from Alameda; the In-Home Care Program is being taken away ; defunding 80% of the State parks will have ancillary impacts on cities; voter sentiment is one of anger with the State Legislature and elected officials in general; passing a taxing measure will be very hard in the near term; projections offered by the League are slightly different from the Fiscal Sustainability Report; projections are that the economic downturn will bottom out at the end of 2009, but the overall recovery will be very lack luster and not terribly robust; many cities are moving toward a two-tiered pension system, particularly with the 3% at 50 formula; many are considering 2.7% as one way to fund the OPEB unfunded liability; there is some expectation that CalPERs will be requesting additional contributions from cities by the end of 2010; the City's additional contribution could be $2.3 million. The Interim City Manager stated CalPERS would send a report in the spring of 2010 addressing what can be recovered in the market Regular Meeting Alameda City Council 18 June 2, 2009 | CityCouncil/2009-06-02.pdf |