Speaker 0: Recommendations authorize the mayor to sign a memorandum of agreement regarding the formation and implementation of the sister city. Relations between the city of McKinney, Philippines, and the city of Alameda.
Speaker 3: All right. So I guess you don't know. I don't know if we have a staff recommendation at this point, but for those of you who don't know, we have a sister city to Mcgeady from in the Philippines. And they came out here and we entered into some. What was it at that point? I said to them, were you? I'm not positive. But we entered into a document at that time and there will be a delegation now in November going from here to there. And we have some members in the audience that will be attending. Myself, I'll be going. I have a daughter that will be joining us. And then if you all want to come up and introduce yourselves and speak to this, you're more than welcome to.
Speaker 1: You have a staff recommendation?
Speaker 3: Right with you and.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Mayor. Trish. City Council members. I just am very proud to introduce to you a delegation of 16 that are going to dumaguete in November. That includes, of course, Mayor Trish and her daughter, Elaine. So they're here. We have young people. I'm very proud of that, along with the grown ups. And that's Maya and Mimi Robles Wong. She these two daughters of Michael and Eric GUANZON and myself have been. Well, we created a working group and we've been meeting regularly to come up with a proposal during the sister city conference in this five year , five day trip to Dumaguete there. In terms of what we would like to offer them, in terms of a youth exchange. So we also have members of Peralta Community College. Maria is helping with getting together a proposal that Peralta community colleges will present to Silliman University in terms of what are possible for exchanges. And of course, the the officers of the Alameda Sister City Association are going to be there 100%. The president, Karen Fong, she said, able to be here tonight, but I'm the treasurer, I'll be there and Alex is the secretary and he'll be there. So we're happy to announce that that Alameda Sister City Association will be there, represented completely. And so I would like to just mention everybody else's name. Virginia Harp. Sabella Harper. Flor Ventimiglia. And Alex and her and his wife, Angela Alexis, the other officer of Alameda, a sister city. So in June, we formalized the sister city hood. And this time, we were going to have to sign a memorandum of agreement, which will spell out some of the possible areas that we want to work on together for the coming five years. So I hope that you all approved that. Thank you very much. We're all excited. We will be reporting back. I'm sure.
Speaker 3: So. Thank you. Do we have a motion?
Speaker 1: I would move the motion to authorize the mayor to sign the memorandum of understanding with our sister city in Dumaguete to the Philippines.
Speaker 7: I'd be happy to. Second.
Speaker 3: So that will be happening in Duma. Getty is where I will be signing that up. Any other comments? All those in.
Speaker 5: Favor.
Speaker 3: I wish and passes unanimously. Thank you and have a marvelous trip. Next item. I pulled items five can l.
Speaker 0: You can address them together and read both titles.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm fine for having them address together. It's the same issue.
Speaker 0: Fourth and final passage of Ordinance five K is final passage of ordinance approving at least an option to purchase and authorizing a city manager to execute documents necessary to implement the terms of a ten year lease and option to purchase the 707 West Tower Avenue for Building nine located at 707 West Tower Avenue, Alameda Point and five L is final passage of ordinance approving a lease an option to purchase authorizing the city manager to execute documents necessary to implement the terms of the ten year lease and option to purchase with 651 West Tower Avenue for Building 91 located at 61 West Tower Avenue, Alameda Point.
Recommendation to Authorize the Mayor to Sign a Memorandum of Agreement Regarding the Formulation and Implementation of Sister City Relations Between the City of Dumaguete, Philippines and the City of Alameda. (Community Development 267)