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Meeting Date: December 4, 2013 Location: Doa Tomas 5004 telegraph Time: 5:00 pm Board Members Attending: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Rick Raffanti (President) Julie Stevens Bill Lambert Pat Smith (Secretary) Donald Lowrey Roy Alper (Vice President) John Dobrovich Hans Boerner (at 6:15) Minutes #2013-12

Board Members Absent: 1. Randy Reed 2. Gloria Gee 3. Donna Hurst (Treasurer) Guests: Stephanie Sockel Marc 49 Doreen Moreno CHO Lathan Hodge, Safety First

Consent agenda: a. Approval of October minutes Motion: to approve the October minutes was seconded and passed unanimously 2. Old Business a. Executive Directors Report (Darlene) ORGANIZATION Doreen Moreno of CHO, Dona Savitsky of Doa Tomas, and Stephanie Sockel of Marc 49, have expressed interest in joining the TTBID Board. Rick Raffanti and Darlene are working through those interests as these individuals attend Board meetings and become involved on committees.

DESIGN & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Obelisk at 5225 Shattuck Our budget allows for $14,000 including $10,000 from the property owner and TTBIDs $4,000 contribution. (See 2b) Mosaic Trash Cans Sponsored can at 6211 Telegraph with a varied Bay Bridge theme and a panoramic Bay scene at Jack in the Box at 4425 Telegraph; awaiting Keep Oakland Beautiful $800 grant application. Caldecott Tunnel Settlement - Comments have been prepared for submission to consultant, due 12/6/13 (See attachment).

PROMOTION

Temescal Trick or Treat Thursday, Oct. 31, from 4 to 6, was well attended. Check out pictures on website! Oakland Tech and Oakland Intl High Schools volunteers staged activities along the route. Winter Art Hop is this first Friday, December 6, as our main Holiday event. TTBID has been working with Smokeys Tangle and Suzanne LHeureux for its implementation.. Hope to resuscitate an active Promotion and/or Security Committee in 2014 with merchant support.

SECURITY & CLEANLINESS

Merchant Meeting on 11/14 at Doa Tomas, brought back Councilmember Kalb a second time to share his attention for an enhanced OPD in 2014. Temescal is still on its own though for the time being. Capt. Toribio hopes to assign additional police in 2014 with police academy generating new officers. Effective 10/13, Safety First reduced their sidewalk sweeping schedule to Wed, Fri, & Sun, throughout the district for 4 months for a savings of $5,200 to fund security alternatives. Eddie Simlin, Merchant Watch Coordinator, will offer a morning workshop at the February 12 meeting, to be held once again at Dona Tomas.

b. Temescal Obelisk, what to do? (Bill) The project falls short $6,000, even when accepting the lowest bid. Rick explained that even though every budget dollar is called for, $6,000 could be identified in the budget, by shifting some of those dollars and forgoing other services, even in the event the BID is not renewed. Bill thought it important to be sure the funds are available and earmarked appropriately to complete the project. Motion: Table the Obelisk project for six months until the budget funding source is identified was seconded passed with all attending Board members in support except for Bill Lambert. c. Fourth Bore funds effort (Darlene) Roy shared background of the Fourth Bore mitigation funds. As a result of an RCPC lawsuit responding to the anticipated disruptions to be caused by the 4th bore tunnel, the City of Oakland was awarded $8 million mitigation funds. 2010 meetings to decide how funds should be spent resulted with almost the entire funds being allocated to Rockridge, except for 2%. While that made common sense in 2010 before tunnel construction began, the tunnel is now completed, so that is no longer a relevant consideration. Other issues for consideration:

Of the projects on that initial list, a small part of our lighting project is the only one completed; none of the others has even been started. Our lighting project came in 40% under the projected budget, while all the other projects now have budgets coming in far over what was expected in 2011. Our project is shovel ready and can be installed immediately; the other projects are off in the future. Our project contributes to improved public safety, a vital concern for all Oaklanders with our police force so diminished since 2010; some of the other projects on the list are merely amenities like $1.5 million just to study sound walls along the freeway in Rockridge.

Our calculations indicate as much as 39% ($3.16 million) could be attributable to Temescal (see attachment 1). Attachment I will be submitted during the open comment period to the consultants: victoria@eisenletunic.com by the 12/6/13 deadline. We will also conduct outreach to spread the document to Councilmember Kalb, Mayor Quan, Councilmember Kaplan, Temescal families and Next Door, so they may weigh in regarding the fate of the unused funds. d. Renewal Effort Status (Rick) With consultants help, committee prepared and mailed a survey to current property owners to weigh in on their renewal priorities, particularly security. The assessments are being revisited to provide equitable services taking the three zones into consideration. Zone 1 includes the new expansion area (40th Street between Broadway and MacArthur BART and Telegraph Avenue to MacArthur). Zone 2 and Zone 3 will remain as previously, covering upper Telegraph and Childrens Hospital respectively. Budget is being reviewed for inclusion in the draft Management District Plan to be ready in mid January. e. Security Pilot Projects Status (Darlene) TTBID has disbursed $1,680 of the $2,600 to the temporary security patrol fund. Remainder will likely be spent in December. Lauren Wolf, from Esqueleto, who is leading the merchants on this project, shared with Darlene, they will evaluate future needs. She awaits to see how OPD deploys its resources in 2014, once there are new police academy graduates. The merchants also will need to determine particular times security is preferred. Temescal Plaza installed two security cameras 9/9/13. They were able to reduce guards from two to one as a result. They will install two additional high definition (HD) cameras in another part of the parking lot within two weeks, with the $2,600 matching grant theyll receive from TTBID. HD cameras will be able to read license plates. 3. New Business a. Complete Street investigation (Roy) Roy discussed DE/ED Committee meeting with Committee met with Jamie Parks, Complete Streets Program Manager and Jason Patton, City of Oakland Bicycle program on 11/21. DE/ED committee members shared their consensus opinion that Telegraph Avenue should not be considered the main thoroughfare for bicycles (i.e. dedicate a bike lane) due to statistics of the numerous accidents that take place on Telegraph. Instead, Webster or Shafter would more safely accommodate a bicycle lane. A subsequent email from Mr. Parks

thanking us for the meeting includes a definitive comment: how best to accommodate bikes on Telegraph Avenue in Temescal, recognizing that Telegraph will remain a major bike route in the future. This blindsided the committee since in the discussion Jamie and Jason did not indicate that it was a far done conclusion that Telegraph Avenue is a major bike route. The email also invited interested parties to visit the project website: www.oaklandnet.com/TelegraphAvenue) and to complete survey: http://ow.ly/rnTzr) Action: Approach East Bay Bicycle Coalition and/or Robert Raeburn to gauge their receptiveness to a dedicated bike line on a parallel street to Telegraph. It was not decided who would conduct said outreach. Submitted respectfully,

Darlene Drapkin Staff

ATTACHMENT I Dear Ms. Eisen: The Temescal Telegraph Business Improvement District (TTBID) submits this statement in response to your request dated November 6, 2013, for comments regarding the Caldecott Tunnel Fourth Bore Settlement funds. TTBID understands the guiding principle in the 2010 community prioritization process for the settlement funds was to prioritize the projects that would lessen the impact of the tunnel construction to those affected. While that made imminent sense in 2010 before tunnel construction began, the tunnel is now completed, so that is no longer a relevant consideration. Relevant considerations today, to quote directly from the City Council/Caltrans settlement agreement, are: the projects primary purpose is the improvement of pedestrian, bicycle, transit and local street improvements, noise barriers, including projects that support the use of transit (and the reduction of singleoccupant motorized vehicles, such as transit signal coordination and amenities), to the greater community i n the Highway 24 corridor between I580 and the Caldecott Tunnel The distance from Highway 580 to the Caldecott Tunnel on Highway 24 (the Traffic Impact Zone) is 4.1 miles, of which 1.6 miles, or 39%, are in the Temescal/Telegraph district. Thus, considering the relative area affected by increased traffic on Highway 24, 39% of the funding $3,160,000 - should be devoted to the Temescal/Telegraph district. The Temescal/Telegraph district is also impacted by some of the most heavily traveled on/off ramps to/from Highway 24 in the Traffic Impact Zone: 2 at 52nd St., 2 at 56th/57th St and 2 at Claremont, with the impact of the Claremont ramps shared with Rockridge. By any standard, Temescal/Telegraph is certainly among the most, if not the most, heavily impacted districts in the Traffic Impact Zone. At a minimum, $3,000,000 of the 4th Bore Settlement Funds should be devoted to priority projects in the Temescal/Telegraph district. The revised list, with new cost information, completely eliminates funding for any project in the Temescal/Telegraph district. This cannot be justified on any basis given the changed conditions since its adoption. And much has changed. 1. Tunnel construction has been completed with the result that a primary principal of the original prioritization - to ameliorate the impact of tunnel construction - is no longer present. 2. Design work has taken much longer than envisioned and several projects high on the initial priority list have been found to cost much more than predicted when the initial

list was formulated. There is no doubt that different priorities would have been set had the full cost of these high cost projects been known when the initial list was established. 3. There is no known source of funds to implement two projects that were given high priority in the initial list the sound wall studies. Even if these studies concluded that the sound walls might be beneficial and that most people affected would support them, there is no known funding available to actually build the sound walls given the backlog of critical highway safety and maintenance projects that have been deferred for years. 4. Meanwhile the Temescal/Telegraph B.I.D. has been able to make substantial progress on the project that is most important to our district installation of pedestrian oriented street lighting. We deemed this the most important project consistent with the purposes of the Settlement Agreement because it encourages alternatives to single occupant automobiles by improving public safety of pedestrians and bicyclists on our sidewalks in the Traffic Impact Zone. Limited city funds available for policing in our district have made this project even more important to the Temescal/Telegraph district. Through our diligence, and with important help from City staff, the lights are now installed on Telegraph from 40th St. to 49th St. and on 51st/52nd to Childrens Hospital. Over half of the funding was from our own funds, with some fundings from the former Redevelopment Agency and the 4th Bore Settlement. The part completed with 4th Bore funds was delivered 40% below the original cost estimate of 4th Bore consultants. The remainder of the project - installing pedestrian oriented lights on Telegraph from 49th to 57th Streets and from North St. to the Berkeley border - is shovel ready and can be installed immediately. As of today, the entire Temescal/Telegraph district will have received only 2% of the 4 th Bore funds, despite the fact that our district bears at least 39% of the impact in the Traffic Impact Zone and, we believe, an even greater percentage given the number of Highway 24 on/off ramps. Without a reconsideration of the initial priorities, that will be the end of 4 th Bore Settlement funding in our district. This is clearly an unreasonable outcome by any standard. The pedestrian lighting project on Telegraph is squarely within the primary objectives of the 4 th Bore Settlement Funds - the improvement of pedestrian, bicycle, transit and local street improvementsto the greater community in the Highway 24 corridor between I-580 and the Caldecott Tunnel. As we approach the year 2014, however, we cannot ignore that public safety is at the top of the priority list of both the citizens and elected officials in Oakland. Increased lighting of our sidewalks is critical, not only to meet the 4th Bore criterion to encourage more pedestrian use in our commercial district, but also as the most cost-effective near term measure to improve public safety on our sidewalks until the City has sufficient funds for more robust social programs to reduce crime and for increased police staffing. We do not question the good faith of others who are committed to maintaining projects higher on the original priority list. But in the challenging times our city now faces, we believe it would

be difficult to argue against allocating 4th Bore Settlement funds for the pedestrian lighting project in the Temescal/Telegraph district. The Temescal/Telegraph pedestrian lighting project must be given priority for 4th Bore Settlement funding for the following reasons : Meets the primary purposes of 4th Bore Settlement Fund Meets the additional imperative to improve pedestrian public safety Can achieve both objectives at modest cost in comparison to other listed projects Has been partially implemented already with TTBID, 4th Bore and other funds Has been delivered well below budget on a per light basis while other projects are well above budget 6. Is shovel ready to complete while the others are still being studied 7. Would increase 4th Bore funds being devoted to Temescal/Telegraph to 5%, which is still well below the 39% of the impacts the district has from Highway 24. 8. Costs so little that it would require only minor adjustments to other projects on the list while many other projects on the list are so costly that they completely eliminate funding for other important projects. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. We thank you for your cooperation on this vital matter to the Temescal/Telegraph district and look forward to your positive response. Respectfully Submitted,

Rick Raffanti President, Temescal/Telegraph Business Improvement District