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As a result, Mahan wrote that the balancing plan “avoids virtually all layoffs,” and adds five new positions to the city workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget plan also sets aside $27 million in reserves, in anticipation of a larger $52.9 million deficit in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The balanced budget this year was largely achieved by using revenue raised from a tax on property sales of $2 million or more — approved by voters through Measure E in 2020 — to pay for the interim housing the city uses to shelter people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An interim housing site is built near an unhoused community along the Guadalupe River in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By default, three-quarters of the money raised through Measure E goes to build new permanently affordable housing. 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"content": "\u003cp>More than 1,000 labor and community organizers flooded the steps of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s City Hall on Wednesday to protest Mayor Daniel Lurie’s proposed budget, which city workers and activists have said insufficiently protects public services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This proposed budget completely misses the mark,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, the executive director of the city’s Coalition on Homelessness. “It’s really a politics-first budget that really deprioritizes the poorest and most vulnerable San Franciscans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest was described as “the biggest budget rally in about 20 years in San Francisco history” by Anya Worley-Ziegmann of the People’s Budget Coalition, a collective of nonprofits and activists that organized the rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie proposed steep cuts to address the looming $782 million budget shortfall, as well as to bolster the city against the Trump administration’s threat to gut federal funding. That includes eliminating 1,400 city jobs — the vast majority of which currently sit vacant — and around $100 million in grants and other contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While dozens of union members with SEIU Local 1021 and IFPTE Local 21 received layoff notices, not all city departments will see job cuts. Advocates noted that the proposal maintained funding for the city’s police, sheriff, fire, district attorney, public defender and emergency management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042747\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An individual holds a sign reading “protect public services, no cuts no layoffs” at a rally in front of City Hall, where thousands of labor unions and community organizations are demanding an alternative to Mayor Lurie’s proposed budget cuts, on June 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Some departments are getting increases, those are the SFPD and the sheriff’s office,” Worley-Ziegmann said. “Daniel Lurie has marked them out as essential services, completely ignoring the fact that people need to eat, people need housing, they do not need mass arrests and jails.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judy Sorros is a member of SEIU Local 1021 and has spent more than 19 years working for the city. But she was among those who received a layoff notice as a result of Lurie’s budget proposal, just weeks after she celebrated 20 years of the CityBuild program with the mayor and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the mayor: please, you celebrated us, please continue celebrating us by not cutting our program,” Sorros said. “In fact, we could probably use a little boost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other organizers say the cuts could have “devastating” impacts on programs that address food and housing security, such as\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026600/sfs-black-social-equity-program-mired-in-scandal-being-revived-rebranded\"> All My Usos\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that provides community resources to San Francisco’s Pacific Islander community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027265\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Program coordinator Jessica Ponce sits in the office of All My Usos in San Francisco on Feb. 14, 2025. Ponce keeps stuffed animals in her office to help create a welcoming space, especially for the children in the community. All My Usos supports marginalized communities, especially Pacific Islander families in the Bay Area, through programs that build relationships and foster leadership. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You’re cutting the lifeline of many community members,” said Jessica Ponce, a program coordinator with All My Usos. “With these budget cuts, you’re cutting essential services and direct services, especially to families, and limiting their access to a better life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Lurie’s proposed budget includes an additional $2.2 million to the Citywide Food Access Team, organizers say cuts elsewhere will trickle down and impact community-based organizations that partner with the city.[aside postID=news_12042515 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-45-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']The budget also proposes a restructuring of funding from Proposition C, a ballot measure that voters passed in 2018 to fund housing and homelessness services. The existing language specifies which funding can be used where, leaving millions of dollars unspent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s proposal would reallocate that unused funding to plug holes elsewhere in the budget, sparking fierce opposition from homelessness advocacy groups for prioritizing adult shelter beds over housing for children and families. Friedenbach described the move as a way to create a “big slush fund.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the most part, it would be moving [the money] from kids to grown-ups and from housing to shelter. That is something that we are vehemently opposed to,” she said. “We specifically structured Prop. C because we wanted to see efficient use of resources and that’s what the voters supported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s office, however, describes the reallocation as a way to unlock funding that may otherwise never be used to address homelessness in the city. In his proposal, that amounts to $90 million over the next three years from the proposition’s revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042748\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042748\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bianca Polovina, President of IFPTE Local 21, speaks to thousands of labor, community and human rights advocates rallying in front of City Hall, demanding an alternative to Mayor Lurie’s proposed budget cuts, on June 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rally organizers also pointed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">an ongoing lawsuit filed by Airbnb\u003c/a> against the city: the company is seeking $120 million from San Francisco, claiming they were forced to overpay taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California democrats have called on Lurie to take a stand against Airbnb and other companies seeking to claw back money on business taxes, Lurie has instead tried to play ball with big business, to lure their tax base back to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This hasn’t sat well with organizers, who accused Lurie’s proposal of capitulating to “the billionaires and well-connected corporations refusing to pay their fair taxes and suing the City for half of its projected deficit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of protesters filled a budget hearing later in the afternoon with chants and public comments opposing the cuts. The Board of Supervisors has until the end of the month to approve the budget and can request amendments in the meantime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:09 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> plans to eliminate about 1,400 city jobs and strip about $100 million in grants and other contracts to balance the city’s budget, according to his nearly $16 billion spending proposal released Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts were anticipated as the city had projected a $782 million shortfall for the next two-year budget cycle, along with other looming \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997068/sf-planned-to-improve-treasure-islands-transit-trump-took-back-the-funds\">funding threats from the White House\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A crisis of this magnitude means we cannot avoid painful decisions, and I’m prepared to make them,” Lurie said in his address on Friday. “Here’s the bottom line: We have to stop spending more than we can afford. The era of soaring city budgets and deteriorating street conditions is over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the jobs on the chopping block are currently vacant, according to the mayor’s office. Only about 100 positions are currently filled, and those include positions where employees are slated for retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not exactly clear which positions will be eliminated, but officials said vacant job cuts are spread across 40 departments, while filled positions to be cut will affect 17 departments\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most grant-making departments will face some level of reduction over the next two years, mayor’s office officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions have already fired back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Layoffs are totally unnecessary. 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None of these job cuts should be on the table, but the mayor has decided that tax breaks for Airbnb are more important than public services,” Sarah Perez, a city employee and San Francisco vice president for the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers Local 21, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez added that “cutting public jobs often means handing over important work to for-profit companies, increasing costs and inviting corruption.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many departments will see their overall budgets shrink, the mayor’s office will see an increase. Officials said that’s due to previously negotiated wage hikes, not new positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are deeply disappointed that the mayor has chosen to cut crucial public services that San Francisco residents and small businesses rely on, rather than working with city workers on the pathway forward that we laid out five months ago,” SEIU 1021 President Theresa Rutherford said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie, a moderate Democrat, acknowledged that there would be tough budget decisions ahead in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020613/daniel-lurie-hope-for-san-francisco-first-day-celebration\">his inaugural address\u003c/a> in January. Earlier this year, he directed each department to find up to 15% in spending reductions.[aside postID=news_12041112 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/IMG_6619_qed-1020x599.jpg']“As we get our fiscal house in order, we are revisiting contracts across city government and bringing grants back in line with pre-pandemic levels,” Lurie said. “These are the steps we must take to responsibly manage our budget, not just this year but for years to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the Board of Supervisors are now contending with the cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are no good options, especially given the attacks and draconian cuts coming from the Trump administration, [which] certainly impact San Francisco,” said Supervisor Connie Chan, chair of the city’s Budget Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some departments were spared, including the district attorney’s and public defender’s offices. The Police Department, Fire Department and Sheriff’s Department will also not face dramatic cuts, along with 911 dispatchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s proposal also sets aside $400 million in reserves to prepare for potential federal funding clawbacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the event that when we face federal cuts, particularly Medicaid, which we were anticipating, we can use that money to offset some of these cuts so that people can continue to have care,” Chan said. “This is really critical. People can die if they do not receive care. Now, will that be enough? No.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reserve includes $1 million for city attorney litigation efforts “as uncertainty around the federal and state budget processes threatens to undermine San Francisco’s communities and undo the city’s progress,” a budget memo reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco receives billions in federal funding in the two-year budget for programs including homeless services, housing and human services. The Trump administration has threatened to pull money from so-called sanctuary cities such as San Francisco, and the city is now on the hook to pay back $141 million in COVID-era federal disaster funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s budget also allocates about $132 million in public facility maintenance, such as repairs for potholes, playground equipment, homeless shelters and fire stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly two dozen technology improvement projects would get about $50 million earmarked, including efforts to upgrade the city’s street outreach client management tool, tax systems and a citywide data management system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next, the Budget and Legislative Analyst’s Office will review the budget, and the Board of Supervisors will hold hearings with city departments about the proposed cuts and can request amendments. The final budget is due at the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated at 3:24 pm Thursday \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s schools might not be able to offer at least half of their after-school programs next year after a set of budget solutions meant to keep cuts away from students appears to have backfired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School Board President Jennifer Brouhard said Wednesday that it was shocking to see the proposal to cut funding for aftercare, but emails show that the board was warned by its fiscal adviser more than a month ago that the resolution could endanger the programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Merely adding the Expanded Learning Opportunity Program and After School Education and Safety grants to the list of unavoidable expenses, the cap is exceeded,” the letter from fiscal adviser Luz Cázares on April 8 said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cázares sent the letter warning that the programs would be at risk after she lifted a stay on a board resolution capping spending on the district’s outside contracts, among other expenses, earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, local organizations that facilitate campuses’ after-school care and enrichment programs said they were informed that 50%-80% funding cuts could now leave at least 3,000 students without somewhere to go after class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039974\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-6_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039974\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-6_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-6_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-6_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-6_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-6_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-6_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-6_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">During an Oakland Unified School District board meeting at Metwest High School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These cuts would displace more than half of all students currently served by OUSD after-school programs, eliminating a critical support system for families, violating core requirements of state and federal education grants, and the legal mandate to provide after-school services,” the groups said in a joint letter addressed to board members asking them to rescind the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029001/oakland-school-board-approves-over-100-layoffs-a-day-after-similar-vote-in-sf\">amid approvals for layoffs\u003c/a> and bickering between board members, a slim majority voted to approve a set of “alternative budget solutions” brought forward by Board President Jennifer Brouhard and Vice President Valarie Bachelor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five-item list capped spending on outside contracts, books and supplies and some employee salaries, along with cutting travel spending. It served as a supplement to a larger package of budget-balancing solutions the board approved in December to patch a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017719/oaklands-school-merger-plan-stalled-districts-huge-deficit-remains\">$95 million deficit\u003c/a>. That deficit has since shrunk to $70 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12039972 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/DSC06624_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Brouhard said that she stands by the spirit of the proposal, which aimed to “reduce consultant and contract spending and ensure every dollar directly supports students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She blamed the district’s staff for the way it interpreted the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was angry to see after-school programs and field trips cut — programs essential to student learning, safety and well-being,” she said. “These cuts deeply harmed students. This was never our intent, and district leadership knew that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, chief business officer Lisa Grant-Dawson said in an email to Brouhard that she was told prior to voting on the resolution, and again in April, about the “massive changes” it would mean, including to after-school program funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts were intended to reallocate some funding back to campuses that were facing budget cuts, Brouhard said at the time. But the district’s plan to slash after-school spending won’t free up any money that’s usable elsewhere, according to the nonprofits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All OUSD funding for after-school comes from the state and federal government and can only be used during out-of-school hours,” the nonprofits’ letter to the board said. “The funding reductions will result in OUSD returning funds it otherwise could have spent on students and staff, and it will lose tens of millions of dollars now and into the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lukas Brekke-Miesner, the executive director of Oakland Kids First, which runs Castlemont High School’s after-school enrichment, said these programs are a lifeline for families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I work full time, my partner works full time, and my kids have a safe place to be and someone who they really love looking after them,” he said. “A lot of families — working class, low income, et cetera — just don’t have the necessary support systems to function any other way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said these programs often provide food, homework help and, for younger kids, fun activities like crafts or arts performances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the high school level, Oakland Kids First has “leadership development and enrichment programs, we have on-campus and off-campus internships, we run a one-acre farm on campus that young folks also work on” at Castlemont, Brekke-Miesner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These programs keep them safe and engaged in their communities — a tall order for many teenagers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12039737 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/OaklandSchoolChildren-1020x696.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oftentimes, there’s a certain distance that young people feel, a certain frustration, …and having caring adult allies that are able to connect with them and do programs that are in alignment with their interests — those are things that are pretty unique to after-school,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drastically reducing after-school services could also threaten the district’s compliance with state law and decrease student attendance, the nonprofit partners’ letter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board members Mike Hutchinson and Clifford Thompson, both of whom opposed the alternative budget solutions proposal, plan to introduce legislation on Wednesday that would rescind it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson said on social media that the policy sent “shockwaves” through the district last week, when schools found out about the total of $29 million of frozen funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the district he represents, schools have between $100,000 and $200,000 cut from their budgets. Separately, the district is considering centralizing some services and reducing school site funding allocations to reduce spending next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danielle Davis, the principal of McClymonds High School, wrote on Facebook that her campus was losing funding for college advisers and mentorship and summer internship stipends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Brekke-Miesner believes the school board members’ proposal was well-intentioned, he said they should be deliberate about what its impact will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Electeds need to be really wary of running afoul of families in this district and voters in this district,” he said. “Ultimately, we have to make decisions in this district that are oriented towards our students and our families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated at 3:24 pm Thursday \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s schools might not be able to offer at least half of their after-school programs next year after a set of budget solutions meant to keep cuts away from students appears to have backfired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School Board President Jennifer Brouhard said Wednesday that it was shocking to see the proposal to cut funding for aftercare, but emails show that the board was warned by its fiscal adviser more than a month ago that the resolution could endanger the programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Merely adding the Expanded Learning Opportunity Program and After School Education and Safety grants to the list of unavoidable expenses, the cap is exceeded,” the letter from fiscal adviser Luz Cázares on April 8 said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cázares sent the letter warning that the programs would be at risk after she lifted a stay on a board resolution capping spending on the district’s outside contracts, among other expenses, earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, local organizations that facilitate campuses’ after-school care and enrichment programs said they were informed that 50%-80% funding cuts could now leave at least 3,000 students without somewhere to go after class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039974\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-6_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039974\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-6_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-6_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-6_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-6_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-6_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-6_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-6_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">During an Oakland Unified School District board meeting at Metwest High School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These cuts would displace more than half of all students currently served by OUSD after-school programs, eliminating a critical support system for families, violating core requirements of state and federal education grants, and the legal mandate to provide after-school services,” the groups said in a joint letter addressed to board members asking them to rescind the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029001/oakland-school-board-approves-over-100-layoffs-a-day-after-similar-vote-in-sf\">amid approvals for layoffs\u003c/a> and bickering between board members, a slim majority voted to approve a set of “alternative budget solutions” brought forward by Board President Jennifer Brouhard and Vice President Valarie Bachelor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five-item list capped spending on outside contracts, books and supplies and some employee salaries, along with cutting travel spending. It served as a supplement to a larger package of budget-balancing solutions the board approved in December to patch a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017719/oaklands-school-merger-plan-stalled-districts-huge-deficit-remains\">$95 million deficit\u003c/a>. That deficit has since shrunk to $70 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oftentimes, there’s a certain distance that young people feel, a certain frustration, …and having caring adult allies that are able to connect with them and do programs that are in alignment with their interests — those are things that are pretty unique to after-school,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drastically reducing after-school services could also threaten the district’s compliance with state law and decrease student attendance, the nonprofit partners’ letter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board members Mike Hutchinson and Clifford Thompson, both of whom opposed the alternative budget solutions proposal, plan to introduce legislation on Wednesday that would rescind it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson said on social media that the policy sent “shockwaves” through the district last week, when schools found out about the total of $29 million of frozen funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the district he represents, schools have between $100,000 and $200,000 cut from their budgets. Separately, the district is considering centralizing some services and reducing school site funding allocations to reduce spending next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danielle Davis, the principal of McClymonds High School, wrote on Facebook that her campus was losing funding for college advisers and mentorship and summer internship stipends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Brekke-Miesner believes the school board members’ proposal was well-intentioned, he said they should be deliberate about what its impact will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Electeds need to be really wary of running afoul of families in this district and voters in this district,” he said. “Ultimately, we have to make decisions in this district that are oriented towards our students and our families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Two months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a>’s city auditor identified over $1.6 million in excess overtime, the city has continued the payments as it attempts to locate documents that show they are authorized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028114/audit-finds-overtime-waste-in-oakland-suggesting-a-widespread-spending-problem\">city auditor\u003c/a>’s investigation, which was prompted by a July 2023 anonymous whistleblower complaint, found the city overpaid dozens of employees in the departments of transportation and public works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandauditor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/20250202_FLSA-Investigation-Report_FINAL.pdf\">a report released Feb. 20\u003c/a>, the investigation reviewed payroll records dating back to 2018 and found the city used formulas for calculating overtime that exceeded federal guidelines established by the Fair Labor Standards Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report cited one example of an employee whose annual salary was $127,691.20, and who received $3,885.16 in payment for a one-week period as opposed to the $538.32 required by the FLSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an April 22 meeting of the Oakland City Council’s Finance and Management Committee, city officials responded to the auditor’s investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’ve programmed does not align with the federal standard, but it is not illegal and it’s not inappropriate as long as it’s been duly authorized,” Oakland Finance Director Erin Roseman told the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10920662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10920662 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/oakland1920a.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland aerial view.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/oakland1920a.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/oakland1920a-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/oakland1920a-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/oakland1920a-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/oakland1920a-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of Oakland. \u003ccite>(James Daisa/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roseman said city officials were attempting to review a multitude of documents, including legal settlements, side letters and MOUs with labor unions, to ensure the payments comply with city agreements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff are going through paper files and emails because the 2023 ransomware attack on the city’s computer systems had cut off access to certain documents, Roseman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the auditor’s review of MOUs, Oakland’s city charter, municipal code and city ordinances did not find justification for the payments, the report states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody is arguing that cities can’t be more generous than what the law requires,” Michael Houston, Oakland’s City Auditor, told KQED in an interview. “The problem is that — well, one problem is that there’s no basis on which they are paying in such excess of what the law requires.”[aside postID=news_12037649 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-02_qed-1020x680.jpg']“It would need to be approved. Any kind of overtime pay would have had to have been approved by the City Council or part of the labor negotiations,” he added. “You can’t just decide; a process needs to be followed. Otherwise, it’s a gift of public funds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houston said his office consulted the city attorney’s office throughout the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We investigated this matter for over a year and requested authorizing documents, and didn’t receive any. If there were such documents, I would have hoped that they would have found them over the course of the year,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city auditor’s office plans to present the findings of its investigation to the full city council on May 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the city is facing an $87 million shortfall in this year’s budget and a $265 million deficit projected over the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins was expected to release a proposed FY 2025-27 budget today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a press release Wednesday evening, the city announced it was pushing the date back four days to, “allow for the briefing and input of incoming elected officials and other key stakeholders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is legally required to pass a balanced budget by June 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Administrator Jestin Johnson said at the April 22 meeting that Oakland pays city employees more than the minimum required, and that rates are driven by the city’s agreements with labor unions. He said the city was consulting an outside expert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When this item first came up, we worked very closely with the office of the city attorney, who identified an external resource that can actually help us parse through the real answer to the question, is if, whether or not the calculations are correct,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the city attorney’s office confirmed that it is contracting with the employment and labor relations law firm Liebert Cassidy Whitmore to advise the city on the auditor’s report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038313\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/001_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/001_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/001_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/001_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/001_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/001_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/001_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Council Member Janani Ramachandran in Oakland on June 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The spokesperson declined to describe exactly what the firm is looking into, citing attorney-client privilege and the city administrator’s ability to act in the best interest of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how much the city is paying the law firm. Oakland’s city administrator has the authority to spend under $250,000 without approval from the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know why we would need to verify information from an independent auditor that the city already has and pays for and that voters elect,” City Councilmember Janani Ramachandran, who chairs the Finance and Management Committee, said in an interview. “It’s like questioning the independence and veracity of what he’s doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran and Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan asked during the meeting whether the city was still using the same formulas two months after the city auditor identified them as unauthorized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roseman said the city is waiting to hear from the outside law firm before making any changes.[aside postID=news_12038227 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“My jaw dropped,” Ramachandran said. “Why on Earth are we not moving forward with rectifying the problem immediately? That just blew my mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the auditor’s report, the city made the payments to 158 employees in the city’s Department of Transportation and 368 employees in the Public Works Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houston said his office had no reason to believe the problem was limited to just the two departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s what we were able to absolutely confirm,” but he noted, “The calculation applies citywide, and it could be a much bigger number.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran said she was interested in expanding the investigation of overtime pay formulas to the city’s other departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Oakland Mayor-elect Barbara Lee said she was alarmed by the findings of the city auditor’s investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under no circumstances should taxpayer dollars be spent improperly, without oversight, or in a manner that lacks transparency and accountability,” Lee said. “As Mayor, I will work closely with City administration and other City leaders to strengthen oversight, and push for the formal adoption of an authoritative overtime pay calculation — and make City payroll, spending systems, and formulas more transparent to the public across all departments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036986\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor-elect Barbara Lee holds a press conference in Oakland on April 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The report recommends a citywide review of overtime formulas, but Houston said his office does not have the capacity to conduct such a review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Zac Unger requested that Johnson ask the law firm to look into overtime formulas for sworn employees, such as police and fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city attorney’s office spokesperson declined to say whether or not that was a possibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very concerned because we don’t have a single penny to waste,” Ramachandran said. “And every dollar means something, regardless of how much it is. This is an example of mismanagement of taxpayer dollars, and it needs to be rectified as soon as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Oakland City Administrator Dan Lindheim said any potential waste is likely to be a political issue rather than a financial one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If people believe you’re wasting public money, they’re not going to vote for a sales tax or a parcel tax,” he said. “So it’s really an issue of trust rather than the actual dollar amount in this particular case. But if this goes much further. If there’s miscalculations of overtime in [Oakland Police Department], then that could be a big number.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report cited one example of an employee whose annual salary was $127,691.20, and who received $3,885.16 in payment for a one-week period as opposed to the $538.32 required by the FLSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an April 22 meeting of the Oakland City Council’s Finance and Management Committee, city officials responded to the auditor’s investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’ve programmed does not align with the federal standard, but it is not illegal and it’s not inappropriate as long as it’s been duly authorized,” Oakland Finance Director Erin Roseman told the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10920662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10920662 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/oakland1920a.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland aerial view.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/oakland1920a.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/oakland1920a-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/oakland1920a-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/oakland1920a-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/oakland1920a-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of Oakland. \u003ccite>(James Daisa/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roseman said city officials were attempting to review a multitude of documents, including legal settlements, side letters and MOUs with labor unions, to ensure the payments comply with city agreements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff are going through paper files and emails because the 2023 ransomware attack on the city’s computer systems had cut off access to certain documents, Roseman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the auditor’s review of MOUs, Oakland’s city charter, municipal code and city ordinances did not find justification for the payments, the report states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody is arguing that cities can’t be more generous than what the law requires,” Michael Houston, Oakland’s City Auditor, told KQED in an interview. “The problem is that — well, one problem is that there’s no basis on which they are paying in such excess of what the law requires.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It would need to be approved. Any kind of overtime pay would have had to have been approved by the City Council or part of the labor negotiations,” he added. “You can’t just decide; a process needs to be followed. Otherwise, it’s a gift of public funds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houston said his office consulted the city attorney’s office throughout the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We investigated this matter for over a year and requested authorizing documents, and didn’t receive any. If there were such documents, I would have hoped that they would have found them over the course of the year,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city auditor’s office plans to present the findings of its investigation to the full city council on May 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the city is facing an $87 million shortfall in this year’s budget and a $265 million deficit projected over the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins was expected to release a proposed FY 2025-27 budget today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a press release Wednesday evening, the city announced it was pushing the date back four days to, “allow for the briefing and input of incoming elected officials and other key stakeholders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is legally required to pass a balanced budget by June 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Administrator Jestin Johnson said at the April 22 meeting that Oakland pays city employees more than the minimum required, and that rates are driven by the city’s agreements with labor unions. He said the city was consulting an outside expert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When this item first came up, we worked very closely with the office of the city attorney, who identified an external resource that can actually help us parse through the real answer to the question, is if, whether or not the calculations are correct,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the city attorney’s office confirmed that it is contracting with the employment and labor relations law firm Liebert Cassidy Whitmore to advise the city on the auditor’s report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038313\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/001_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/001_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/001_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/001_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/001_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/001_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/001_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Council Member Janani Ramachandran in Oakland on June 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The spokesperson declined to describe exactly what the firm is looking into, citing attorney-client privilege and the city administrator’s ability to act in the best interest of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how much the city is paying the law firm. Oakland’s city administrator has the authority to spend under $250,000 without approval from the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know why we would need to verify information from an independent auditor that the city already has and pays for and that voters elect,” City Councilmember Janani Ramachandran, who chairs the Finance and Management Committee, said in an interview. “It’s like questioning the independence and veracity of what he’s doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran and Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan asked during the meeting whether the city was still using the same formulas two months after the city auditor identified them as unauthorized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roseman said the city is waiting to hear from the outside law firm before making any changes.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“My jaw dropped,” Ramachandran said. “Why on Earth are we not moving forward with rectifying the problem immediately? That just blew my mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the auditor’s report, the city made the payments to 158 employees in the city’s Department of Transportation and 368 employees in the Public Works Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houston said his office had no reason to believe the problem was limited to just the two departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s what we were able to absolutely confirm,” but he noted, “The calculation applies citywide, and it could be a much bigger number.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran said she was interested in expanding the investigation of overtime pay formulas to the city’s other departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Oakland Mayor-elect Barbara Lee said she was alarmed by the findings of the city auditor’s investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under no circumstances should taxpayer dollars be spent improperly, without oversight, or in a manner that lacks transparency and accountability,” Lee said. “As Mayor, I will work closely with City administration and other City leaders to strengthen oversight, and push for the formal adoption of an authoritative overtime pay calculation — and make City payroll, spending systems, and formulas more transparent to the public across all departments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036986\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor-elect Barbara Lee holds a press conference in Oakland on April 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The report recommends a citywide review of overtime formulas, but Houston said his office does not have the capacity to conduct such a review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Zac Unger requested that Johnson ask the law firm to look into overtime formulas for sworn employees, such as police and fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city attorney’s office spokesperson declined to say whether or not that was a possibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very concerned because we don’t have a single penny to waste,” Ramachandran said. “And every dollar means something, regardless of how much it is. This is an example of mismanagement of taxpayer dollars, and it needs to be rectified as soon as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Oakland City Administrator Dan Lindheim said any potential waste is likely to be a political issue rather than a financial one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If people believe you’re wasting public money, they’re not going to vote for a sales tax or a parcel tax,” he said. “So it’s really an issue of trust rather than the actual dollar amount in this particular case. But if this goes much further. If there’s miscalculations of overtime in [Oakland Police Department], then that could be a big number.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036576/oaklands-public-watchdog-starved-of-resources-loses-yet-another-top-official\">anti-corruption watchdog agency\u003c/a> is considering a parcel tax to fund its investigations and its stalled public campaign financing program rather than fall victim to the woes of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036060/oakland-pushes-coliseum-sale-next-year-delaying-funds-again\">city’s fiscal crisis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Public Ethics Commission, which investigates allegations against high-profile government officials such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022612/ex-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-3-others-charged-with-bribery-sprawling-corruption-probe\">former Mayor Sheng Thao\u003c/a>, also oversees the Democracy Dollars program. Although voters overwhelmingly passed the program into law in 2022, it has yet to be implemented in any election due to Oakland’s ongoing budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democracy Dollars promised to \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/RESO-89316-Campaign-Reform-filed-materials_2022-07-30-033124_scna.pdf&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1745530836557143&usg=AOvVaw3jo9C3Dyg8F0ZcQSkAMkbn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">refresh Oakland’s public financing program\u003c/a>, inspired by a similar initiative in Seattle, Commission Chair Francis Upton IV said. It would distribute $100 vouchers to Oakland residents, who could then use the vouchers to donate to participating campaigns for public office, such as mayoral and City Council candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea is to increase the number and diversity of the donors,” Upton said. “One of the problems that Oakland has is a lot of the money for the elections comes from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036921/lee-takes-the-flats-taylor-wins-the-hills-but-labor-unions-deliver-the-city\">rich people in the hills\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program costs around $2 million per year, but the ballot measure that created it requires funding to come from the city’s general fund — leaving it vulnerable to the city’s budget crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the city declares a fiscal emergency, which it has, then they have the right to cut anything they want from the general fund,” Upton said. “Democracy Dollars was one of the programs they decided to cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015107\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12015107 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1123\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-800x449.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-1536x862.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-1920x1078.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Public Ethics Commission, known for investigating high-profile officials like former Mayor Sheng Thao, also oversees Oakland’s Democracy Dollars program—approved by voters in 2022 but still unlaunched due to the city’s persistent budget shortfall. \u003ccite>(Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ethics commissioners remained hopeful that they could secure the funding for Democracy Dollars in time for 2024, but that election came and went. Now, commissioners say 2026 is likely off the table as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of 2024, Upton said the city made do by temporarily reimplementing its previous public campaign financing program, which for 20 years had reimbursed candidates for certain campaign expenses. The pot of money was small in 2024, though — just $155,000 for eligible candidates to split, Upton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s 2025-2027 budget will be adopted in June, but Upton and Public Ethics Commission executive director Nicolas Heidorn said it is unlikely that city officials will be able to carve out the money to fund Democracy Dollars. In that case, the commission intends to go forward with the plan to put a parcel tax on the ballot for the 2026 primary election.[aside postID=news_12036576 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-07_qed-1020x680.jpg']Heidorn, who will be the commission’s second top official to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006538/oaklands-top-ethics-investigator-is-resigning-citing-a-chronic-lack-of-resources\">resign in the last year\u003c/a> when he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036576/oaklands-public-watchdog-starved-of-resources-loses-yet-another-top-official\">steps down in July\u003c/a>, said the agency does not have the resources to carry out its work investigating corruption in Oakland. It has just one investigator and a chief tasked with over 170 open cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having a dedicated and stable funding source for the ethics commission is important to ensure that we can perform our role as an ethics watchdog agency,” Heidorn said. “And it’s also important for our independence. The commission’s budget should not be controlled by the same officials that the commission regulates from an ethics perspective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://cao-94612.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/documents/PEC-Item-10-PEC-Ballot-Measure-Revenue-Options-03-19-2025.pdf&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1745530756367943&usg=AOvVaw34JxYD0VCy_eHfF2qbjpnp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">staff report to the commission\u003c/a>, Heidorn outlined three different options for the parcel tax: one that funds just Democracy Dollars, a second that also funds the enforcement unit of the commission, and a third to fully fund Democracy Dollars and the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost of those ranges from around $3.8 million to fund just Democracy Dollars, to around $7.2 million for the fully funded option. That translates to a parcel tax between $18.10 and $34.10 per parcel, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process to get a parcel tax on the ballot is not dissimilar from the ballot measure that created Democracy Dollars, Upton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the voters approved the parcel tax, which would include the Democracy Dollars, then it would certainly be implemented by 2028,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea is to increase the number and diversity of the donors,” Upton said. “One of the problems that Oakland has is a lot of the money for the elections comes from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036921/lee-takes-the-flats-taylor-wins-the-hills-but-labor-unions-deliver-the-city\">rich people in the hills\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program costs around $2 million per year, but the ballot measure that created it requires funding to come from the city’s general fund — leaving it vulnerable to the city’s budget crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the city declares a fiscal emergency, which it has, then they have the right to cut anything they want from the general fund,” Upton said. “Democracy Dollars was one of the programs they decided to cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015107\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12015107 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1123\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-800x449.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-1536x862.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-1920x1078.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Public Ethics Commission, known for investigating high-profile officials like former Mayor Sheng Thao, also oversees Oakland’s Democracy Dollars program—approved by voters in 2022 but still unlaunched due to the city’s persistent budget shortfall. \u003ccite>(Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ethics commissioners remained hopeful that they could secure the funding for Democracy Dollars in time for 2024, but that election came and went. Now, commissioners say 2026 is likely off the table as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of 2024, Upton said the city made do by temporarily reimplementing its previous public campaign financing program, which for 20 years had reimbursed candidates for certain campaign expenses. The pot of money was small in 2024, though — just $155,000 for eligible candidates to split, Upton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s 2025-2027 budget will be adopted in June, but Upton and Public Ethics Commission executive director Nicolas Heidorn said it is unlikely that city officials will be able to carve out the money to fund Democracy Dollars. In that case, the commission intends to go forward with the plan to put a parcel tax on the ballot for the 2026 primary election.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Heidorn, who will be the commission’s second top official to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006538/oaklands-top-ethics-investigator-is-resigning-citing-a-chronic-lack-of-resources\">resign in the last year\u003c/a> when he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036576/oaklands-public-watchdog-starved-of-resources-loses-yet-another-top-official\">steps down in July\u003c/a>, said the agency does not have the resources to carry out its work investigating corruption in Oakland. It has just one investigator and a chief tasked with over 170 open cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having a dedicated and stable funding source for the ethics commission is important to ensure that we can perform our role as an ethics watchdog agency,” Heidorn said. “And it’s also important for our independence. The commission’s budget should not be controlled by the same officials that the commission regulates from an ethics perspective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://cao-94612.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/documents/PEC-Item-10-PEC-Ballot-Measure-Revenue-Options-03-19-2025.pdf&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1745530756367943&usg=AOvVaw34JxYD0VCy_eHfF2qbjpnp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">staff report to the commission\u003c/a>, Heidorn outlined three different options for the parcel tax: one that funds just Democracy Dollars, a second that also funds the enforcement unit of the commission, and a third to fully fund Democracy Dollars and the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost of those ranges from around $3.8 million to fund just Democracy Dollars, to around $7.2 million for the fully funded option. That translates to a parcel tax between $18.10 and $34.10 per parcel, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process to get a parcel tax on the ballot is not dissimilar from the ballot measure that created Democracy Dollars, Upton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the voters approved the parcel tax, which would include the Democracy Dollars, then it would certainly be implemented by 2028,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Whoever becomes Oakland’s new mayor after Tuesday’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035862/oaklands-mayoral-hopefuls-make-final-push-as-special-election-turnout-lags\">special election\u003c/a> will inherit the deal that keeps getting delayed: the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-coliseum\">Coliseum sale\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After earlier revisions to the deal pushed back payments and triggered a trimmed-down city budget, the Oakland City Council voted Monday to postpone closing on the sale to a developers’ group until 2026. The latest delay was an effort to align the timeline with a separate Alameda County deal for the other 50% stake in the site, city officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county sold its stake to the A’s in 2019, but the deal has been paid in installments, and the title doesn’t officially transfer until next spring, when long-standing bonds tied to the site will be defeased or paid off. That means Alameda County has to sign off on the team’s sale of its stake to the African American Sports and Entertainment Group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group of Oakland-based investors has agreed to pay $125 million for each 50% stake in the Coliseum site, with plans to develop the space into homes, jobs and retail and revitalize East Oakland — a welcome prospect in the area after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008909/100-million-is-coming-to-deep-east-oakland\">decades of disinvestment\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006211/sad-devastated-bittersweet-oakland-as-fans-process-feelings-during-teams-final-week-of-home-games\">loss of the A’s\u003c/a> last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Alameda County’s talks to replace the A’s with AASEG as the new title holders come next spring \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030157/supervisors-aim-to-finalize-coliseum-sale-offering-hope-for-oaklands-budget-woes\">have been protracted\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000665\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000665\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-51_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A young kid stands with back to camera with an green Oakland jacket. The green of the baseball field can be seen in the background.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-51_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-51_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-51_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-51_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-51_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240818_LastBoB_GC-51_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 4-year-old watches the final Battle of the Bay game, between the A’s and the Giants, at the Oakland Coliseum on August 18, 2024.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Financially, it wouldn’t make sense for AASEG to pay such a steep price for the city’s stake in the land without knowing it would also get the A’s stake, city property asset manager Brendan Moriarty said, since each entity owns half of each square inch of the property — not a lump half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Until you control the whole property, you really can’t manage effectively, activate it and begin development,” Moriarty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the sale delayed again, Oakland will be left without a payout until at least the next fiscal year as a rotating mayor’s office tries to develop a budget that can close a budget gap of more than $200 million over the next two years.[aside postID=news_12035862 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-MD-1020x680.jpg']The delays underscore criticism that the deal drew after it was announced in part as a\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992883/oakland-city-council-passes-budget-amid-concerns-over-pending-coliseum-sale\"> budget remedy\u003c/a> by former Mayor Sheng Thao. Some council members worried that using $60 million in elusive sale revenue to cover some of the city’s expenses could backfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That happened last fall when the deal was revised for the first time, pushing payments into the new year and triggering a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009486/oaklands-finances-significant-risk-report-warns-coliseum-sale-raises-questions\">contingency budget\u003c/a> that required police cuts, layoffs and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026938/oakland-leaders-propose-plan-reopen-fire-stations-budget-crisis-threatens-more-closures\">closure of multiple fire stations\u003c/a> in the Oakland Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Monday’s City Council meeting, Alameda County Board of Supervisors President David Haubert said the county and AASEG were very close to finalizing deal terms but wouldn’t have them complete by May, when the city had planned to close its sale, or by the end of the fiscal year in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t taken any steps backward, but it will take time, and it’s very clear that it will take past the June 2025 timeframe,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray Bobbitt, the managing partner of AASEG, told KQED that the funding and group are still fully committed to developing the site and that the new deal is more standard than the initial one AASEG made with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11359776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11359776\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Bobbitt-e1744749695448.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ray Bobbitt, a managing partner of AASEG, on March 12, 2017. Bobbit told KQED the group and its funding remain fully committed to developing the Coliseum site and that the new deal is more standard than AASEG’s initial agreement with the city. \u003ccite>(Nina Thorsen/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But questions still remain. Chief among them: What happens if May 2026 rolls around and the A’s become the in-name owners of the other half of the land?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who knows what could happen then,” Haubert said to City Council members during Monday’s meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa Riles with the East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy said the tumult that’s surrounded the deal has been hard on Oaklanders, who are left to wonder about their budget and their local leaders’ intentions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My concern is: Where did the county timeline come from? To whom did they express it?” Riles asked. “As far as the whole county of Alameda knows, we’re waiting with bated breath any second for them to decide to vote on the reassignment. So what is actually happening that is causing that delay, and what has caused the city to [say] ‘We’re going to align with you?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said confusion is especially frustrating in East Oakland — where residents were first asked for input on what investment they’d like to see in the neighborhood when the city was working on the Coliseum Area Specific Plan ten years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To this date, none of it has happened,” she said. “The people of East Oakland have been let down over and over and over again. So to continue to delay the potential for development that will involve real community benefits and community engagement feels like a slight against people who have been slighted by their government forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">city of Oakland\u003c/a> program that has long provided free meals to thousands of children during the summer will not be offered this year due to “severe city budget constraints,” officials confirmed this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent letter to \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/documents/LIST-OF-SFSP-SERVICE-SITES-FOR-2024.pdf\">more than 45 community and faith-based sites\u003c/a> throughout Oakland that previously distributed the meals, the city said it would end its Summer Food Service Program due to a lack of funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move follows a vote by the Oakland City Council in December to reallocate funds from its sugar-sweetened beverage tax, amid the city’s struggle to close a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027749/oakland-reverses-several-layoffs-amid-scramble-close-massive-budget-deficit\">nearly $130 million budget shortfall\u003c/a>. Revenue from the tax, \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Oakland,_California,_Sugar-Sweetened_Beverages_Tax,_Measure_HH_(November_2016)\">which voters approved in 2016\u003c/a>, previously supplemented funding for the USDA-sponsored food program and covered its administrative costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without those funds, the City is unable to continue working with community partners and organizations to provide food in the summer of 2025,” Michael Akanji, a city analyst who helped coordinate SSBT funds, wrote in the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The summer food program was slated to begin after the Oakland Unified School District’s final day of classes on May 29. Last year, the program provided more than 100,000 free, hot lunches to children in an effort to “bridge the meal gap throughout the summer months,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/city-of-oakland-to-serve-more-than-100-000-free-meals-to-children-this-summer-2\">according to the city\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize this is a significant loss for the children and families who rely on these meals,” Akanji wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He encouraged partner sites to seek support from food banks and local businesses or apply directly for USDA support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland previously used about $200,000 of sugar tax revenue each year to run the food program and separately paid two full-time employees and several part-time staff to manage it, according to a city spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ctc.ca.gov/docs/default-source/educator-prep/coa-agendas/2021-05/2021-05-item-15.pdf?sfvrsn=d81e2bb1_6#:~:text=Located%20in%20the%20Bay%20Area,receive%20free%20or%20reduced%20meals.\">Nearly 75%\u003c/a> of OUSD students — about 33,000 — qualify for free or reduced lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a very, very critical and important program for us,” said Michael Altfest, a spokesperson for the Alameda County Community Food Bank, which has referred families to summer food distribution sites for the past 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12035005 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-1180x787.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altfest said he heard about the elimination of the food program from a community partner, but his organization had yet to receive any information from the city itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 1 in 4 residents in Alameda County experience some level of food insecurity, he said, noting that children are the single largest group that food banks serve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you think of a low-income family, they often depend on school meals. So when schools are out, that is typically when we will start to see spikes in seasonal need,” Altfest said. “That’s why this program has been so enormously beneficial to the families that we serve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The elimination of the program makes it “almost certain” that the already stretched food bank will see a significant increase in demand this summer, likely forcing it to dip further into reserves, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really is one of the most uncertain, worrisome times that I’ve ever seen [here],” Altfest said, noting the food bank’s steep decline in contributions in recent years, as well as the massive cuts that Congress is currently considering making to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. “Having this happen is like salt in the wound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parks Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, in Oakland’s Pill Hill neighborhood, has been serving lunches to children through the program for the past three summers. Many kids come through their day care centers, said Rev. Dr. Rosalynn Brookins, the church’s senior pastor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was devastated by the news that we would no longer have the opportunity to feed children any meals because of the cuts that we’re now facing,” she said. “This means that our city is going to have thousands of children at risk for hunger based on this cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brookins said she’s praying for the city to reverse its decision and is now looking into other options to continue offering some food services to kids this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m asking for the council to reconsider, and I’m asking everyone in this community to stand up for the voiceless and the marginalized and the oppressed,” she said. “No child should go to bed hungry at night. No children should have to wonder if they’re going to have a decent meal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland residents concerned about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-coliseum\">uncertain Coliseum deal\u003c/a> may finally get some relief next week if Alameda County supervisors follow through on their plan to conclude negotiations with developers on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a special meeting on Thursday afternoon, Board President David Haubert said that he expects the deal with the African American Sports and Entertainment Group to come back before supervisors at its regularly scheduled meeting on March 11, “hopefully done and completed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The project is one that is going to provide economic vitality to an area that needs it,” Haubert said. “I’ve said before, and I’ll say it again: As goes Oakland, so goes all of Alameda County. So this opportunity before us is important, and I remain steadfastly supportive of getting it done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992883/oakland-city-council-passes-budget-amid-concerns-over-pending-coliseum-sale\">elusive development project\u003c/a> from AASEG, a Black-owned development group led by Oakland locals, has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987346/oakland-to-sell-coliseum-to-black-led-developer-group-after-as-depart\">in the works since May\u003c/a>. It hinges on deals with the city of Oakland and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-as\">Oakland A’s\u003c/a> for their respective 50% stakes in the 155-acre property the baseball team vacated last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray Bobbitt, AASEG’s managing partner, has said the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003025/east-oakland-students-share-bold-vision-for-coliseum-revamp-with-new-owners\">group plans to reimagine the parcel\u003c/a> to bring jobs, housing and entertainment to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/east-oakland\">East Oakland\u003c/a>, an area that’s been neglected for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006776\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006776\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Coliseum after the final Oakland A’s game on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city of Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997946/oakland-reaches-deal-on-105-million-coliseum-sale-to-stave-off-budget-cuts\">signed a deal\u003c/a> with the group in July after relying on the $100 million windfall from the real estate transaction to balance its fragile budget. That went south shortly after since the A’s deal with the group stalled at the Alameda County Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AASEG has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007771/new-oakland-coliseum-sale-deal-raises-questions-about-delayed-payment-and-citys-budget\">fallen behind on the payment schedule\u003c/a> outlined in the city deal, saying it was waiting to secure the A’s half of the property before continuing to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County is involved because it owned the A’s half of the land until 2019, and the team’s purchase of the property is still pending. The county must assign that purchase from the A’s to AASEG before the deal is final.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the A’s reached a deal with AASEG in August, supervisors stalled on transferring the sale to the developers in the fall. Pressure increased when Oakland began implementing severe budget cuts in an attempt to address its financial crisis, which worsened without the guaranteed Coliseum fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland implemented a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010521/oaklands-fiscal-crisis-budget-cuts-coming-even-with-coliseum-sale\">contingency budget\u003c/a> last fall after the sale stalled, resulting in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027749/oakland-reverses-several-layoffs-amid-scramble-close-massive-budget-deficit\">layoffs\u003c/a> and public safety cuts, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020393/2-oakland-fire-stations-close-amid-budget-crisis-more-could-follow\">closure of two fire stations\u003c/a>. The city has been able to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029499/oakland-halts-plan-close-4-fire-stations-amid-budget-crisis\">reduce its massive funding shortfall\u003c/a> through cuts to police overtime spending and increased parking enforcement revenue, but it is still struggling to patch a $89 million hole by the end of the fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=arts_13970567 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-51549727.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, Alameda County supervisors gave staff a term sheet and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022106/alameda-county-moves-closer-to-oakland-coliseum-sale-final-vote-expected-in-30-days\">30-day deadline\u003c/a> to finalize the AASEG deal. They blew past the deadline but seem to be honing in on an agreement this week, according to Bobbitt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Thursday’s closed-door meeting with the county’s negotiating team, he told KQED that January’s board resolution gave “30 days for us to kind of get this draft completed. That came and went, we got some extra time, but we really feel like we want to try to come out of this with a definitive timeline today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said of about nine items on the term sheet, there were “a few open items” that still needed to be resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are waiting on two documents from OAC [Oakland Athletic Club] and AASEG to finish negotiations that include the quit claim deed and a release related to litigation,” Kimberly Gasaway, director of Alameda County’s general services agency, said during Thursday’s meeting. “We expect to receive these tomorrow at our next negotiation meeting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday will be a big day for the county — arguably bigger for the city of Oakland — if AASEG can get through one of the final hurdles to becoming the new owners of the historic site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason why we’ve been so steadfast and so committed and had so much perseverance and commitment is because we love Oakland, and we’re from Oakland,” Bobbitt told KQED. “We’re really excited on being part of the resurgence of Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Oakland residents concerned about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-coliseum\">uncertain Coliseum deal\u003c/a> may finally get some relief next week if Alameda County supervisors follow through on their plan to conclude negotiations with developers on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a special meeting on Thursday afternoon, Board President David Haubert said that he expects the deal with the African American Sports and Entertainment Group to come back before supervisors at its regularly scheduled meeting on March 11, “hopefully done and completed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The project is one that is going to provide economic vitality to an area that needs it,” Haubert said. “I’ve said before, and I’ll say it again: As goes Oakland, so goes all of Alameda County. So this opportunity before us is important, and I remain steadfastly supportive of getting it done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Organizers at over a dozen \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a> nonprofits are reeling as they face the impending loss of city funding, raising concerns that the cuts will hurt their ability to continue serving Oakland residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the deadline fast approaching, several of the organizations on the list are also worried that they still haven’t received the money the city owes them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland, which must \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027749/oakland-reverses-several-layoffs-amid-scramble-close-massive-budget-deficit\">close a $130 million budget shortfall\u003c/a>, announced in January that it will be terminating contracts with 13 community organizations at the end of this month. That amounts to $2.6 million in slashed funding for nonprofits that provide the city with important social services such as free meals for seniors and violence prevention programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are going to find a way to keep showing up for them every day,” said Kim Olson, director of advocacy at the nonprofit SOS Meals on Wheels. “But in the long run, it means we’re really living in a state of uncertainty and having to decide how do we keep our programs going, how do we make sure that we can continue to serve at the same level we have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SOS Meals on Wheels provides free meals and wellness checks to over 1,000 senior citizens across Oakland and Alameda County each year. The organization is looking to expand its services, but those goals will be harder to reach with the termination of its two-year contract, Olson said, adding that the organization still hasn’t been paid the $150,000 it’s owed by the city for services rendered last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009716\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009716\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/BOSS2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/BOSS2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/BOSS2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/BOSS2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/BOSS2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/BOSS2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/BOSS2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donald Frazier, the founder of Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS), speaks at a press conference held at the trauma recovery center in Oakland on Wednesday, Oct. 16. 2024. \u003ccite>(Gilare Zada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to an email sent to Oakland officials by City Administrator Jestin Johnson on Jan. 28, the city will pay nonprofits for the work they’ve done up to the point of termination, but no other work is authorized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize these reductions will be difficult for their recipients and for the community members benefitting from the services they help fund,” Johnson said in the email. “Unfortunately, we do anticipate additional reductions remain necessary, including additional grant terminations and impacts on city contracts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson sent termination notices to 13 nonprofits, including Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice, Trybe Inc., Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency, Centro Legal de la Raza and several others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his reassurances that the organizations will still be paid for existing work, Olson said there’s been minimal communication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12027749 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Janani Ramachandran, chair of the city’s finance committee, criticized the decision to end the contracts as one that was made unilaterally by Johnson. The council, however, gave him the authority to take such budget-cutting measures when it approved the city’s current budget and contingency plan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992883/oakland-city-council-passes-budget-amid-concerns-over-pending-coliseum-sale\">in July\u003c/a>; Ramachandran voted against the spending plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While city officials have been looking for ways to mitigate the deficit, Ramachandran said there have been no discussions about ending contracts early. She called it a decision that should not have been made without the input of other city officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been trying to demand answers but have not gotten any information, and it’s very frustrating,” Ramachandran said. “I’m not saying that the city of Oakland has unlimited money to continue funding every program that is important to our community, but ones that we’ve already promised and committed to doing, we should not have terminated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De’Morea Evans, an organizer with Trybe Inc., said at a Tuesday gathering of nonprofit leaders at the Fruitvale Transit Village that the funding nonprofits receive from the city goes directly to the people. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Janani Ramachandran, chair of the city’s finance committee, criticized the decision to end the contracts as one that was made unilaterally by Johnson. The council, however, gave him the authority to take such budget-cutting measures when it approved the city’s current budget and contingency plan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992883/oakland-city-council-passes-budget-amid-concerns-over-pending-coliseum-sale\">in July\u003c/a>; Ramachandran voted against the spending plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While city officials have been looking for ways to mitigate the deficit, Ramachandran said there have been no discussions about ending contracts early. She called it a decision that should not have been made without the input of other city officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been trying to demand answers but have not gotten any information, and it’s very frustrating,” Ramachandran said. “I’m not saying that the city of Oakland has unlimited money to continue funding every program that is important to our community, but ones that we’ve already promised and committed to doing, we should not have terminated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De’Morea Evans, an organizer with Trybe Inc., said at a Tuesday gathering of nonprofit leaders at the Fruitvale Transit Village that the funding nonprofits receive from the city goes directly to the people. After the termination of its contract, the nonprofit — which is dedicated to supporting families and young people through community events, mentorship programs and violence prevention initiatives — will see its budget slashed by $210,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023542\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-13-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-13-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monique Berlanga, Executive Director for Centro Legal de La Raza, speaks during a press conference with leaders from community groups throughout Alameda County in the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland on Jan. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Community members are the ones who will feel the brunt of the loss if nonprofits are unable to fully function, Evans said. He urged city officials to consider how ending the contracts will affect Oakland, noting that many of the services that nonprofits provide are sorely needed by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Rick Cohen, a spokesperson for the National Council of Nonprofits, the work that nonprofits do in their communities is more critical than ever despite both public and private funding streams continuing to dry up. Without them, government officials will need to find alternative ways to provide services that city community residents need, Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is the return on investment that governments get from working with nonprofits is so much more than the savings that you get from turning off certain programs,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Help us to be able to help them,” Evans said at Tuesday’s event. “We all stand for the same purpose — to help our community be better and to provide hope to people that are hopeless and opportunity to people who feel as if they don’t have a choice. I ask you, Oakland, do what’s right by your people so we can continue to do what’s right in our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shossaini\">\u003cem>Sara Hossaini\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland representatives promised to look under “every couch cushion” for firefighting funds after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020393/2-oakland-fire-stations-close-amid-budget-crisis-more-could-follow\">station closures last month\u003c/a>. Now, three say they’ve found the money and are proposing a plan to prevent more shutdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, Oakland’s city administrator shuttered two firehouses to cut costs, warning that four more would follow this month without new funding. The city faces a $130 million budget deficit, worsened by the stalled Coliseum sale, a key piece of its budget plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Council members have asked finance in the past, help us find every last penny, but ultimately, it’s up to us to really do the digging and find every penny, which has been the case here,” said Councilmember Janani Ramachandran, who represents part of the fire-prone Oakland Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran, along with Councilmembers Rebecca Kaplan and Zac Unger, are asking the whole council to redirect $8.75 million to the fire department. “That would be enough to prevent the closure of four stations and be able to hopefully reopen two more at some point before the end of the fiscal year,” said Ramachandran, noting that there wasn’t a timeline for reopening the stations in Grass Valley and Woodminster yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was one of the harshest critics of Oakland’s July budget, which included a controversial provision that would drastically slash spending and shift most fiscal powers to budget staff if the city’s deal to sell its 50% stake in the Coliseum didn’t go according to plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026399\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026399\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00563.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00563.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00563-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00563-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00563-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00563-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00563-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland councilmember, Janani Ramachandran, right, addresses a crowd, as Representative Barbara Lee looks on at the grand opening of of the Barbara Lee Campaign Headquarters on Broadway in downtown Oakland, California, on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the budget passed, the Coliseum deal quickly — and quietly — shifted. Initially, the local developers, the African American Sports and Entertainment Group, and former Mayor Sheng Thao revised the contract to delay payments and shorten the closing time. But last fall, AASEG fell behind on payments while negotiating a second deal with the Oakland A’s for its stake in the property. That agreement requires a complicated county approval process, which has been slow and unstable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delay triggered the contingency budget, and Budget Administrator Bradley Johnson announced in November that without immediate and drastic changes, the city could run out of money. Since public safety accounts for the bulk of the city’s overspending, police and fire departments had to be part of the budget cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a significant pre-existing structural issue as an organization,” Johnson said at a council meeting. “To maintain our solvency, now is the time that we have to take action to solve it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11893199 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52109_6217605359_e609311dd5_o-qut-1020x670.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021911/oakland-hills-burned-before-la-fires-have-many-terrified-it-will-happen-again\">Residents in the Oakland Hills\u003c/a>, near the two shuttered stations, spent January watching the destructive Los Angeles blazes and worrying about their own city’s ability to respond if a fast-moving fire started in their neighborhoods, which have been ravaged by fire before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire union president Seth Olyer said that without the two stations operating, response times have been longer and resources spread thin. In January, a house fire near a closed station took crews more than 10 minutes to respond to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called the loss of four more stations unsustainable and unprecedented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This would take us from a fire department that prides itself on being able to keep small incidents small and prevent the spread of fire to really almost being spectators as we do our absolute best to try and keep fires contained to the city block they originated,” Olyer told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am definitely singing the praises of Councilmembers Kaplan and Ramachandran for their efforts to try and come together and find these funds,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021175\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021175\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Fire Department Station No. 25 on Jan. 5, 2025, located on Butters Drive in the East Oakland Hills. It’s one of two stations scheduled to close until June. The closure is part of the city’s effort to confront its $129 million budget deficit. In 2023, Fire Station 25 responded to 834 calls. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He previously said that thanks to Kaplan, the city had identified revenue from events at the Oakland Arena and Coliseum to stave off the additional closures for another month. “But, again, the fact remains that there are still miles and miles of the Oakland Hills where Oaklanders are unprotected from fire and [emergency services] needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The councilmembers’ resolution would pull more than $2.5 million in unexpected revenue from events at the Coliseum and Oakland Arena and about the same amount from the city’s self-insurance liability fund. It also proposes using about $1 million in transportation dollars, and some revenue from increased parking enforcement and a toll contract, according to Ramachandran.[aside postID=news_12025747 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00457-1020x680.jpg']The resolution was approved by the Rules and Legislation committee on Thursday morning, though a key aspect — rescinding the city administrator’s expanded fiscal powers — was removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That power we’re expressly trying to take back to council because our powers are budget and legislation,” Ramachandran told KQED before the vote. Some of the staff’s budget decisions, especially around public safety, have been unpopular with public and council representatives. “What we’re seeing is a whole lot of cut, cut, cut to different programs and services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amended resolution, which Ramachandran feels confident will have strong support, is slated to go before the whole board on March 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it doesn’t pass, the four additional closures could take effect as soon as next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The number one thing that we have been hearing from the public every single day since the closure of these fire stations has been, ‘Save our stations, reopen and keep open some of the bread and butter of public safety,’” she told KQED. “It’s been an issue that’s united Oaklanders perhaps more than any other that I’ve seen during my time as a council member so far, and the message is extremely loud and clear that we cannot afford to lose homes, lose lives, lose businesses, lose anything due to fires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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