The Albany Oversight Board provides oversight to the Successor Agency to the Albany Community Reinvestment Agency (ACRA) as required by ABx1-26. The ACRA, along with all of the other Redevelopment Agencies in the State of California, were dissolved as of February 1, 2012. The City is the "successor agency" to the ACRA. The Albany Oversight Board was sworn in on April 9, 2012.
Per legislative requirement the Oversight Board of the Successor Agency consists of seven members, appointed by/representing the following: County Board of Supervisors (2), Mayor (1), County Superintendent of Education (1), Chancellor of California Community Colleges (1), Largest Special District taxing entity (1), former RDA employee appointed by the Mayor (1).
Appointees are:
AC TRansit: H.E. Christian Peeples
Alameda County (2): Keith Carson, Jewel Okawachi
City of Albany: Robert Lieber
AUSD: Marla Stephenson
Former ACRA staff: Beth Pollard
Peralta Community College District: Ronald Gerhard