City Council - Regular Meeting

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

The Alameda City Council met to consider the appointment or hiring of a City Manager in a closed session. Following the closed session, the Council reported that they voted to provide direction on the matter with three in favor, one abstention, and one absent.

About this meeting

Government Body: City Council
Meeting Type: City Council
Location: Alameda, CA
Meeting Date: April 29, 2026

11 sections (from 18 segments)

0:07 – 0:21•Speaker 1

Are you ready for us? All right, thumbs up. Thank you, gentlemen, persons. Okay, we good evening, everyone. I did see Counselor Jensen.

0:21•Speaker 2

There we go.

0:22 – 0:57•Speaker 1

I knew I saw her. Now you see her, now you Okay, all right. Good evening, everyone. I'm going to call this meeting to order. This is the City Council of the City of Alameda. Tonight is 04/29/2026. And we are about to go into a closed session. And I would like to ask the city clerk Laura Weisinger to please introduce no, first I want to ask her to please call the roll.

0:58•Speaker 2

Councilmembers Bohler? Here. Daseong? Here. Jensen? Here. Pryor? Here. Mayor Ezzy Ashcroft? Here. Five present.

1:05 – 1:38•Speaker 1

And then we will go to the consent calendar. These are wait, this Darn it. No wonder that didn't look right. Okay, I got it. Well, if it comes up. Okay, it is. It is. Man. Okay, now I will take public comment on closed session items only. We have no public comments. We will close that. We are about to adjourn to closed session to consider one item. And I will ask the clerk to please introduce that item now.

1:38•Speaker 2

3A's public employee appointment hiring pursuant to government code five four nine five seven. The title description of position to be filled is city manager.

1:46•Speaker 1

Alright. Thank you. And to the public who may be watching, we have no idea when we'll be back. We will. Alright. Thank you. Okay, everyone. Back to three ninety one. Thank you. Bye.

1:57•Speaker 2

We'll see you after.

3:32 – 3:59•Speaker 1

All right. Oh, the poor balcony is still here. We're keeping everybody up. Hi. Okay, so the city council has just returned from our closed session and I would like to report out that by a vote of three in favor, one abstention, and one absent, the city council voted to provide direction.

4:03•Speaker 2

Got it. That's it.

4:04 – 4:15•Speaker 1

The end. Alright. Thank you so much. Thank you colleagues. Good job this Thank you. Not easy, but good job. Thank you. Thank you, staff and Laura so much for listening.

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