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ix MAJOR INITIATIVES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS In its role of providing policy direction and general oversight, the City Council establishes major goals for City service delivery. These goals are identified and quantified in the City’s annual budget. The City can boast of an impressive list of major initiatives and accomplishments during 2011-12 that helped achieve the City’s mission of serving the public and enhancing the quality of life in San Leandro. Some of these major initiatives and accomplishments include: Capital Improvements Lit San Leandro Fiber Loop The City is working with OSIsoft, a local software company, to license a 10 mile loop of City conduit to stall fiber optic cable. The loop will provide high-speed internet connectivity data communications for businesses that opt to tie in to the system. The City applied for and received a $2 million EDA grant to augment this project during the past year. Water Pollution Control Plant A $50 million expansion is underway to upgrade the Plant, which was constructed in 1939. Scheduled date of completion is July 2014. Streets and Road Projects As part of the City’s overall Pavement Management strategy, the rehabilitation of city streets through the construction of overlay, pothole repairs, and various street resurfacing treatments, continue to improve the streets and roads that enhances the City’s road quality and durability. Downtown Parking Garage Key to development plans for the downtown is a four story parking garage. A November grand opening in November culminated the construction of the 384 space, LEED certified, four-story parking garage. The new garage will replace an outdated Estudillo garage and is scheduled to install a parking revenue system in early 2013. The garage, which is funded with redevelopment tax increment dollars and constructed by Webcor Builders, is a critical component of the City’s award winning Transit Oriented Development (TOD) strategy. Centralized parking encourages downtown retail patrons to park once, walk to multiple destinations and promotes the downtown. The added capacity from the new garage will also facilitate additional mixed use development. San Leandro Kaiser Medical Center, Phase I The initial phase of development consists of a replacement for the existing Kaiser Permanente Hayward hospital with a new San Leandro Kaiser Medical Center. Phase 1 of the Medical Center is under construction and includes a 436,000 square foot, six-story hospital containing up to 264 licensed beds, a 275,000 square foot support building, a central utility plant, and 2,100 surface parking. Construction of the new hospital began in 2010 and will generate 3,000 new construction jobs. The hospital is expected to open in 2014. When complete, the state-of the art hospital will include ten operating rooms, 24-hour emergency services with forty treatment rooms, and a newborn intensive care nursery. A medical office building will house 116 offices for primary care and specialty physicians, an outpatient procedure suite with six rooms, a pharmacy, a laboratory, and radiology services. This is the largest development project in San Leandro’s history.