Safe Alameda For All
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Beginning in December, 2018, the Alameda City Council took actions to support a 140-bed regional facility for Alameda County’s homeless, ages 18 and over, in Alameda. This facility will be located on McKay Avenue, adjacent to Crown Memorial State Beach and Crab Cove Visitor Center, on the San Francisco Bay and within walking distance to Maya Lin and Paden Elementary Schools, Washington Park, and Webster Street Business District. Each year, over 1.5 million visitors, including from all over the San Francisco Bay area, use Crown Memorial State Beach and the San Francisco Bay Trail and tens of thousands of school children visit Crab Cove.
California has environmental laws to protect our environment for us, our children and generations to come. The broadest is the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”). Unfortunately, we believe that the City of Alameda failed to comply with these requirements. There are serious concerns of toxic contamination of the buildings and ground at the proposed site. We also want to ensure that the nearby parks, beach, and our San Francisco Bay are protected. Thus, soon after the City moved forward with the regional homeless facility, community members filed a lawsuit in the Alameda County Superior Court, Case No. RG18933140, to ensure compliance. (http://www.alameda.courts.ca.gov/Pages.aspx/DomainWeb)
Even though this legal approach has been brought in other cities across California, and is now being considered in San Francisco, in March, 2019, the City of Alameda filed a Motion to Dismiss our case in its entirety. After careful review, in May, the Court denied the City’s motion, agreeing with us that our case should proceed.
This type of action requires that the City of Alameda prepare and submit an Administrative Record of relevant documents so that the Court can make a decision. The City charged us, the petitioners, $33,571.11 for preparation of the Record. We paid that amount directly to the City of Alameda, and the Administrative Record has been submitted to the Court.
Through this effort, we are hoping to continue raising money to pay for court costs and legal fees. The hearing on the Petition for Writ of Mandate will be held in Alameda County Superior Court on August 16, 2019. We appreciate all the donations supporters can offer between now and August 16th to help pay for this litigation.
Please join us in our effort. Your support, of any amount, is greatly appreciated. All monies raised will go first to the costs of our litigation (e.g., the Administrative Record) and then towards our attorney fees on this effort. As of this time, our attorney is Barbara Thomas, Esq., an Alameda resident and former Vice Mayor and City Council Member.
Please note the following details pursuant to a request from GoFundMe.
1. Your personal full name: Liza Gabato Morse
2. You connection: Named Petitioner in the Case.
3. That you will be withdrawing these funds personally: I will be withdrawing the funds to pay for the Administrative Record, court costs and legal fees.
4. How specifically the funds will be delivered: I will withdraw the funds, and deliver them for payment of the Administrative Record , court costs and legal fees.
California has environmental laws to protect our environment for us, our children and generations to come. The broadest is the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”). Unfortunately, we believe that the City of Alameda failed to comply with these requirements. There are serious concerns of toxic contamination of the buildings and ground at the proposed site. We also want to ensure that the nearby parks, beach, and our San Francisco Bay are protected. Thus, soon after the City moved forward with the regional homeless facility, community members filed a lawsuit in the Alameda County Superior Court, Case No. RG18933140, to ensure compliance. (http://www.alameda.courts.ca.gov/Pages.aspx/DomainWeb)
Even though this legal approach has been brought in other cities across California, and is now being considered in San Francisco, in March, 2019, the City of Alameda filed a Motion to Dismiss our case in its entirety. After careful review, in May, the Court denied the City’s motion, agreeing with us that our case should proceed.
This type of action requires that the City of Alameda prepare and submit an Administrative Record of relevant documents so that the Court can make a decision. The City charged us, the petitioners, $33,571.11 for preparation of the Record. We paid that amount directly to the City of Alameda, and the Administrative Record has been submitted to the Court.
Through this effort, we are hoping to continue raising money to pay for court costs and legal fees. The hearing on the Petition for Writ of Mandate will be held in Alameda County Superior Court on August 16, 2019. We appreciate all the donations supporters can offer between now and August 16th to help pay for this litigation.
Please join us in our effort. Your support, of any amount, is greatly appreciated. All monies raised will go first to the costs of our litigation (e.g., the Administrative Record) and then towards our attorney fees on this effort. As of this time, our attorney is Barbara Thomas, Esq., an Alameda resident and former Vice Mayor and City Council Member.
Please note the following details pursuant to a request from GoFundMe.
1. Your personal full name: Liza Gabato Morse
2. You connection: Named Petitioner in the Case.
3. That you will be withdrawing these funds personally: I will be withdrawing the funds to pay for the Administrative Record, court costs and legal fees.
4. How specifically the funds will be delivered: I will withdraw the funds, and deliver them for payment of the Administrative Record , court costs and legal fees.
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