Ask the Valley Link Rail Authority Board to postpone certification of the final EIR.Â
The staff will present its preferred alternative project at a Zoom hearing on May 12, starting at 2 pm. The authority staff will also be asking the board to certify the final EIR only released April 30. Unfortunately, the final EIR is too vague and lacking critical data. This new project alternative contains many elements not presented in the draft EIR, including the removal of the Greenville Station in Livermore, replacing the Mountain House Station, and several major rail-line changes.Â
Furthermore, the final EIR fails to adequately explain how the project will fund the $1.2 billion price tag for the extension from Pleasanton to Isabel. So far, only 700 million has been allocated, including the 400 million transferred from Livermore BART to the authority. The financial data does not add up!Â
LIVERMORE â If the East Bay Regional Park Districtâs (EBRPD) recent application for federal grant funding is accepted, the City of Livermore might gain some help in connecting to the Iron Horse Trail.
Following a conversation with EBRPD officials â who announced the application was underway â Livermore Mayor Bob Woerner reported he would like to see his city staff begin the work of identifying high-priority segments of the path and where rights-of-way will need to be acquired.
âLet s proceed to get the rights-of-way for those (segments of land), so that when a funding opportunity comes along, the project is doable, quickly,â he said. âThe Iron Horse Trail goes along an old railroad line, and in order to make connections on it, it may not be all on one railroad line â you might have to go through some private property as well ⦠thatâs my presumption.â
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Business rent help
Livermore city officials are accepting joint applications from eligible commercial landlords and their small business tenants or lessees as part of the city s Commercial Rent Abatement Matching Grant Program.
Open to businesses with gross receipts of no more than $10 million that have experienced financial loss due to the pandemic, the program provides up to $7,500 in matching funds when a commercial landlord has or will permanently waive unpaid rent during the COVID-19 public health emergency.
A group of protesters with a bullhorn converged outside the homes of Livermore Mayor Bob Woerner and Councilmember Trish Munro Saturday in a display of outrage over a perceived threat to privacy and free expression.
At issue was the thin blue line flag â an American flag with a blue stripe intended to honor police officers â that the protesters believed city leaders were targeting as a symbol of hate.
Protestors at the Dec. 20 rally also worried about tax dollars funding a digital dossier created to locate, inventory and identify those who display the flag on private land.
The problem is, none of this was true.