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• Minutes - City of San Leandro City Council and Page - 2 - Redevelopment Agency Meeting - August 5, 1996 Council Member Polvorosa said he will certainly miss Alice. This lady has an expertise as a City Clerk. Alice is the first person that candidates and Council Members contact, and she guides you through the process. She quickly works out problems. When you have to make out all your reports, she is right there to help walk you through it. We are certainly going to miss you, Alice. And the community is going to miss you here in San Leandro. Council Member Glaze will truly miss Alice. He remembers when she was at the Public Works Service Center. I think people have forgotten about Community Standards, Alice was the person who set that division. That was an important project. Alice used to sit directly across from Council Member Glaze, we had eye contact lots of nights. When Alice first became City Clerk she was quiet the first couple of weeks, it really seemed like she had tamed. At one of the subsequent meetings Mayor Karp went over an item and said it should be this way, but Alice said, "No, Mr. Mayor, it is supposed to be this way. If you like I can read it for you." If it was the right thing to say, Alice said it. We'll miss that. There are few people that you can count on to do what is right all the time. Council Member Loeffler said ditto, ditto, ditto to all the previous comments. He went on to say that, for anyone who has considered running for office, Alice will be the first one you have contact with. You confide in Alice everything, even your finances and information regarding Fair Political Practices. You build a sense of trust in Alice. It is a high commendation, we have the utmost trust in her guidance. There are wonderful things about Alice, like her sense of humor, she always has a smile, and she has a genuine enjoyment in what she does. Even at 12:30 in the morning she can bring life back when our batteries are almost dead. We have given Alice trust and she has carried that trust forward. San Leandro's loss is Livermore's gain. Thank you Alice. Council Member Lothrop said she hasn't had the opportunity to share all the history that some of the others share. But, she does share the trustworthiness. Livermore is lucky. Assistant City Manager Grycz has two roles, one as a supervisor and the other is on behalf of the City Manager, who is not here tonight. Ms. Grycz has been asked by Mike Oliver to personally express his sincere thanks for all that Alice has done for this City and for all that she has done for the community. Ms. Grycz can't speak to the memories, but she can speak to the mutual respect that Mike feels towards you. .(Ms. Grycz presented Alice with a bonsai grown by Mike Oliver.) Ms. Grycz, speaking on her own behalf, said that, during the last eight years, it has been an absolute pleasure working with Alice. What she has come to appreciate is Alice's poise, grace under fire, and her ability to instill in others that high standard of excellence. Alice gives a commitment toward projects anyone asks her