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47th Annual…Sand Castle& Sculpture CONTEST

Saturday, June 1 | 9:00AM – 1:30PM

Robert Crown Memorial State Beach(Westline Drive & Otis Drive in Alameda)

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The library will not waive any accrued collection or lost mate-rial fees. Stop by any branch of the library to see a list of acceptable food items or visit www.alamedafree.org. Alameda Library Director Jane Chisaki says she is proud and

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Fines: waived with food

Sunday, May 19Emergency medical responses:

12:28 a.m. Central Avenue; 4:12 a.m. Barbers Point Road; 8:41 a.m. Park Street; 9:03 a.m. Union

Street; 9:43 a.m. Encinal Avenue; 9:57 a.m. Webster Street; 12:19 p.m. Main Street; 12:59 p.m. Pearl Street; 2:13 p.m. Otis Drive; 2:29 p.m. Central; 3:20 p.m. Webster; 3:40 p.m. Monarch Street; 4:16 p.m. Versailles Avenue; 6:55 p.m. Buena

Vista Avenue; 7:32 p.m. Central; 8:38 p.m. Santa Clara Avenue; 11:35 p.m. Webster.

Fire response: 4:05 p.m. 400 block of Melrose Avenue, residen-tial fire alarm.

More Fire Wire next week.

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businesses, that would be a good year. In government these days, that’s a great year.

Alamedans are encouraged to join the City Council at 7 p.m. on June 11 to again review the next two fiscal years budgets. We understand that evening meetings are not always convenient, so emails are welcome, as are phone calls or simply stop-ping by. Input is not considered an inconvenience. It’s Alameda’s money and there is no monopoly on good ideas. Please join us if you can and let your opinions be heard.

Elizabeth Warmerdam is the Assistant City Manager for City of Alameda.

Budget: Time again

staffers about how they intend to proceed. Connelly questioned the city’s failure to put a plan in place ahead of the eviction.

“The city organization has known for, what, six months or more that they’ve been working on getting Nelson’s out of there,” he said. “Nobody stopped and thought, ‘What happens when Nelson leaves?’”

A sign on the gates instructs people with property on the site to call a number belonging to the city’s outside attorney, Kevin Montee. But both Hines and Connelly said this week they haven’t been able to get answers from the attorney.

The eviction notice on Nelson’s gate says property owners have 15 days to retrieve their things — a deadline that will be reached on Saturday. But Connelly said almost no one has been allowed on the property.

He and Hines said some of the boats on the yard are almost fully restored, while other owners will need to find a new place to work on their vessels. And Connelly said there are very few of them left in the Bay Area.

Mocanu conceded the city has had to learn a lot about boats since

evicting Nelson’s, a job she said the local marine community has stepped in to help with.

The city has had to ensure boats have a clear, lien-free title before they can consider releasing them to owners, she said, and they want to make sure any derelict vessels aren’t pushed into local waterways. They also needed to figure out how to move boats in a way that they won’t be damaged, and to develop protocols for han-dling hazardous materials on the site, she said.

“We don’t want people to come and move their property and all of a sudden a fire starts. We want to make it so people can access the property safely,” Mocanu said.

The city has also been working since December to figure out what other businesses set up shop at the Nelson’s Marine site; she said the city’s leasing agent for the Point, PM Realty, didn’t have lease agreements for other businesses there.

“Some of those companies are good start-ups. And we’re trying to accommodate them,” Mocanu said.

She said boat owners will be given a chance to retrieve their vessels.

“The city will not dispose of anything without giving people proper notification and reasonable time to collect their items,” said Mocanu, who said the notice was posted to make it clear the city is in possession of the property and to keep trespassers away.

She said the city’s plan is to send notices to everyone on the list provided by Hines and to oth-ers who have contacted the city. “Our message will be ... come and get your stuff,” she said.

The episode has led some to question the city’s commitment to the marine community. Hines said Nelson, who was one of the Point’s earliest tenants after two decades on Clement Avenue, put $1 million into the space he was leas-ing and had been paying his rent (the city sued Nelson’s in 2011 for non-payment of rent but the suit was dismissed). Mocanu said that city leaders would like to extend the area at Alameda Point where maritime businesses will operate. Nelson’s former customers said they are eager to see the situation addressed.

“It’s just a bad situation,” Connelly said.

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the faces in the wonderful victory photograph were male. My ques-tion to the College of Engineering, to our Alameda community, to Nea Charter School staff and students is this: what are we doing to ensure that female students are drawn to such competitions in the future? They, too, need to have such com-petative experiences and victories on their college applications.

In Sheryl Sandberg’s recent book, Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, particularly in chap-ters 10 and 11, the author offers insights and suggestions on how we might draw women into leadership roles.

I suggest that making changes at the primary and secondary levels of education can begin this process for our female students. “It takes a village” to raise our children — all of our children. It takes change of perspective to change how we all think about the future of our country and the people — female and male — whom we are sending forward to lead it.

What can Alameda do to help our young women succeed in the future? How can Alameda set a tone for change and new direction for all of our children having the opportu-nity to be included in our competi-tive victories in the future?

— Laureen H. MoyerPresident,

California Chapter MU PEO

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excited to offer this win/win oppor-tunity. “I hope the Alameda com-munity takes advantage of this rare opportunity. Library patrons will be able to enjoy using their library cards free of fines and the Alameda Food Bank will have a fresh, well stocked supply of food,”” she said.

AHS has been nominated in nine categories for its production of All Shook Up.

Best leading actress: Macken-zie Cala for her roles as Natalie and Ed

Best featured actress: Rachel Menendez as Lorraine

Best supporting actress: Mac-ey Mae Hosick as Sylvia

Best supporting actor: Joseph Ruck as Dennis

Scenic design: Fred Chacon, Darrell Burston and Simon Liu

Direction: Fred Chacon Choreography: Christina Lazo Student Orchestra Overall Production

The stage company will an-nounce the winners of this year’s awards at a ceremony that gets underway at 7 p.m., next Monday, June 3, at the California Theatre in downtown San Jose.

For more information and to buy tickets visit www.thestage.org.

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said that the murky water made the search difficult.

A spokesperson for the Contra Costa Water District said that the water was flowing at a rate of nine to 12 miles per hour and was some eight to 10 feet deep.

Rolleri Named Interim ChiefCity Manager John Russo made

it official on Tuesday that he was appointing Al-ameda Police D e p a r t m e n t (APD) Capt.Paul Rolleri, 49, as interim po-lice chief effec-tive this Friday, June 1.

C u r r e n t APD Chief Mike Noonan announced on March 6 that he would retire on June 1. APD an-nounced then that Rolleri would step in as interim chief.

Rolleri is a 21-year veteran of the force. He joined the department in 1992. He has worked as a patrol of-ficer, a field training officer and an investigator. He wears the depart-ment’s Medal of Merit for his role in capturing two of three suspects in a 1997 bank robbery at South Shore Center. He was promoted to ser-geant in 2002, to lieutenant in 2009 and to captain in 2011.

Rolleri attended Otis Elementary School and St. Philip Neri Catholic School He graduated from Alam-eda High School in 1981. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in crimi-nal justice administration from Cal State Hayward.

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Title I, Part A, of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 is intended to provide supplemental funding to schools that may be used to provide additional instructional staff, professional development, pa-rental involvement, extended-time programs and other support, accord-ing to the California Department of Education (CDE) website. This fund is only allocated to schools where at least 35 percent of its student body lives in low-income households — based on if they qualify for free or reduced lunch.

WMS qualifies for the fund be-cause 65.74 percent of its student body lives in low-income house-holds, according to the Consolidated Application and Reporting System, the form used by CDE to distribute categorical funds. Other schools that qualify include Ruby Bridges El-ementary (66.88 percent), Haight El-ementary (59.18 percent), Maya Lin (57.81 percent) and Paden Elemen-tary (50 percent). Island, Encinal and Alameda Science and Technology high schools do not qualify because the fund only supports elementary and secondary education.

Driven by her suspicions, the parent contacted a rep from CDE. The rep, who chose to remain anonymous, emailed the parent CDE’s 2012-13 Title I, Part A school allocation distribution document on March 7. According to the docu-ment, WMS was supposed to receive $245,176.33 from the fund, $686.61 for every student they have that lives in a low-income household (353) plus an additional $2,803 for a Public School Parental Involve-ment fund, which adds up to the $245,176.33 figure.

If AUSD allocated just over $80,000 to WMS it would violate the state’s education code, which requires agencies to spend no less than 85 percent of funds received from specific programs, including Title I, Part A, at school sites for di-rect services to students.

AUSD responded to our inqui-ry, but could not provide timely in-formation by deadline. The story will continue next week.