Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 13

tJhe Oribunc 1 School attorney soop Well-known officials top candidates for district counsel D-2 Section Thursday July 15 1993 City will pump millions into 14th and Broadway neighborhood STAFF WIVTBI 1 1 with Its development plans think the city desperately needs to show some leadership ln ln vesting In the moat Important corner In the City of Hertz said For the city the pressure Is on to find new quarters for Its workers' Even" when City Hall reopens next year Oakland will need additional office space For now the city Is being reimbursed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for its lease payments but that federal assistance runs out And with--out It lease payments will become a $5 mllllon-a-year drain on the general 1 fund city administrative building In the area That building coukl be used to house city offices which have been scattered among five downtown locations since the 19B9 Loma Prleta earthquake The price of the properties has not been disclosed City Council members acting In their capacity as Redevelopment Agency directors authorized officials to acqulre the Pardee Building at 16th Street and San Pablo Avenue: the distinctive Broadway Budding at 14 th and Broadway and adjoining properties In each' IdOCk' "This gives us control of two full blocks" said Deputy City Manager Ezra help the artists and booksellers relocate during the estimated years it would take to build a new city complex The agreement alab would help the tenants move back Into the complex Each tenant trould receive at least 1 5000 compensation for the double mdve and subsidized rents too 1 The artists would return to the Plaza Bulldlngon 15th Street across from Cjty Hall and the booksellers to new or reho- vated storefronts on San Pablo Avenue Rapport said Frederick- Hertz the attorney who represented the Pardee tenants said the timing of any relocation will depend on how quickly the can proceed Rapport One idea Is to retain the Broadway building's facade gut Its Interior and then connect It to the Rotunda budding which the city already owns City officials attempted to move earlier this year on the Pardee Building purchase but ran Into resistance from artists and booksellers who are tenants In the budding Tj Since then however city officials have reached a tentative agreement with the tenants that would provide them with relocation assistance if they are displaced Rapport sakl the agreement was In Its stage Sources say the agreement would Oakland city officials got the go-ahead this week to purchase two downtown buildings setting the stage for a multi mllllon-dollar land deal that could breathe Ufe Into the decrepit owner OF 14th Street and Broadway The city doesn't yet' have specific plans for the land But the purchases the way for the city to develop a i service has Decline in receipts blamed on recession bad year for jg By Scott Reeves STAFF WfFTER The budget ax chopped 13 Jobs at the Oakland AleCouhtyCpllseum Wednesday Collseiundbrastookthcartlbn iiianeffortto close's: $500000 budget deficit the first since the complex opened in 1966 Coliseum President George Vukasin blamed the decline In gate receipts on the slack economy an off year for the Oakland Athletics and fewer corn certs than anticipated "'--V- "We see any Immediate relief In sight" Vukasin said "The continuing recession la having an effect on the sports and entertainment Industry as people are bring very careful about how they spend their money" Competing with Sail Jose arena "It will get tougher when the new arena In San Jose opens In October he added "Obviously we'll be drawing from the same pool of fans" Ten coliseum workers were laid off and three vacant positions will not be filled Vukasin said the layoffs will save about $120000 by the end of the fiscal year on Oct 31 By I Jot Pleven staff wwrai The San Leandro chief who championed the merging of Alameda County firefighting to cut1 costa was nanfed Wednesday to head the newly united county fire department Chief William McCammon ji longtime member of the San Ltpndro Tire-Department who assumed the top Job theft in October was chosen by the Board of Supervisors over two other fl-' nallsta from outside the county He will assume his new post on Aug 23 had agreat grasp of where we want to said Ed Campbell the president of the Board of and a farmer Fre 1 mont firefighter "He can hit the Around running because he unj deretands all the Issues" McCammon 40 quickly endorsed the main thrust of-the firefighting blueprint a consolidation that took effect on July 1 His appointment also helps assure that San Leandro will soon merge with the county fire department Job is to come in and continue the Job that's been: he said Wednesday' McCammon will earn 6106368 In his new Job a raise from his San Leandro salary of $91632 Before Jhe county department was united there were three different fire commandersreach presiding over a separate prut of the unincorporated territory The three patrol areas were Castro Valley San Lorenzo and environs and the Livermore Valley covering more than 400 square miles The department has roughly 130 firefighters waking out cf eight stations Jhe transition to a single department la ongoing and one of mat Jobs will be to designate a formal "We're looking at other alternatives (to save y) but that's all I can say at this time'' Vukasin said Those laid off Included four maintenance work- ere who dean up after events two stagehands who maintain the seats In the stadium one engineer who handles plumbing and maintains vehicles a clerk who Issues uniforms to workers af events a switchboard operator and a press relations officer said spokeswoman Judy Van Austen None of the workers coukl be reached for comment Services wH not be affected Vukasin said the layoffs will not result decline In services or cleanliness at the Coliseum average fan wont notice any difference" he said "We don't want and the tenants don't want to see any deterioration In services" He said the final six games for the National BasketbalTAaaodation Warriors were sellouts but there were about 3000 no-shows fa each game cutting Into parking and concession revenue The winners In recent years but struggling this season have seen attendance drop more than 260000 from lad year expect things will Improve In the future but not sure when" Vukasln said MARY CALVERT Staff Oakland's national honor as an All America City will be displayed in a billboard campaign that got underway Wednesday Slaters Jamaalah ana Aaliyah Hodge pass a billboard in the 5300 block of College Avenue oneofjBO that have bean donated by Gannett Outdoor and Patrick Media Group r-t 5 fPP' vote rgected 1 Council orders refinements of map -Si- return phone Hm But In a letter written last month to the city de Jauregul argued Omni has become a scapegoat fa larger problems that have long plagued the Temescal neighborhood nas always been a rough neighborhood of Oakland and regardless of what happens at the club will likely continue to be a rough de Jauregul wrote "If anything thla dub has lent a great deal of safety ana security" by bringing pedestrians and business to a blighted atrip of Shattuck Eight-seven arrests and more than 200 police calls related to the club and Its patrons have been made since 1987 Carroll said But It was a videotaped Incident the night of June 12 when a police vice squad was called In to control crowds City shuts down popular Omni Club after months of complaints from Temescal neighbors By DtanaWBBama -i: staff wnm A videotape of nightclub patrons hurling bottles at police and littering sidewalks has prompted dty officials to dose a North Oakland establishment once voted beat East Bay chib The Omni Club's entertainment permit was revoked Wednesday by an administrative hearing officer who ruled the business la responsible fa unruly behavior from patrons many of whom are young devotees of hip-hop music "People who live nearby fed the quality of their lives Is being hampered by the dub and wrshare that view" hearing officer Larry Carroll aakLJhe question holla down to: 1 lived there would I want to deal with this every Friday and Saturday answer la no" His conclusion Is exactly what residents near the 48th Street and Shattuck Avenue club have wanted fa months It was their challenge of Omnl'a permit that led to Carroll's review and revocation The company that runs Omni California Concerts Inc declined to comment Wednesday on whether It would appeal the decision to the Oakland city CoundL The dub's attorney Richard de Jauregul did not v4- Vi 1 I wh 'fwt By Craig Stasis staff vwnm Despite a plea to delay action until mktSeptember Oakland city leaders will try again nqft week to approve a redlstrlcting inan that would dramatically re- shape two of the seven City Council districts The two council members most affected Mary Mooie and Natalie Bayton asked! their colleagues to go back to the drawing baud But the council rejected their request fa a two- month delay on a 6-3 vote Instead the council directed redlstrlcting consultant Bruo4 Cain to return next week with a moftx und- that finally convinced Carroll to pull the dub's permit "Theft were hundreds of patrons young adults making a lot of hostile and derogatory comments to police and throwing bottles" Carroll said Omni has attracted dancers and music-lovers since It opened In 1986 but It has also attracted neighborhood conplalnts Incidents of tire-aqueal- tog profanity and loitering have been key targets of Temescal residents moved here three years ago to get out of East Oakland and Its problems" said Mary Victorian who has led the move to shut Omni "I'm not going to let anyone run me out of where I live again Au we have to do Is come together as a neighborhood and be a Strong face" Oakland's RONRESTEHa Staff Tbs Omni Club at 48th and Shattuck has bean the aha of 87 arrests sines 1987 Please see Map B-2.