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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:43 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former staffer of recalled Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao said Thursday that she testified before a federal grand jury about her ex-boss, who has reportedly been indicted following \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018120/family-center-oakland-fbi-raid-backed-thao-secure-lucrative-contracts-da-says\">an FBI investigation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>, citing an unnamed source familiar with the investigation, reported Thursday afternoon that Thao had been \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/oakland-sheng-thao-indicted-20038739.php\">indicted by the grand jury\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renia Webb, who was Thao’s chief of staff when she was a member of the City Council and aided in her transition to the mayor’s office, told KQED she believed charges were forthcoming after she was subpoenaed to testify last month but added that she hadn’t been notified by the U.S. attorney’s office about what they might be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, I feel like Oakland is going to be able to move forward,” said Webb, who is running in this year’s special election to replace Thao. “We’re walking into a brighter future and I feel that way, like we’re taking a turn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew it was coming, but it’s just — yeah, a blessing. A blessing for Oakland,” she continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991627\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991627\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FBI agents raid the Maiden Lane home of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The U.S. attorney’s office for the Northern District of California declined to comment on the report of an indictment, but it had announced earlier that it would reveal an unspecified “significant law enforcement action” on Friday morning in a press conference with representatives from the FBI, U.S. Postal Inspection Service and IRS Criminal Investigation’s Oakland field office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao has been one of the central figures in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018120/family-center-oakland-fbi-raid-backed-thao-secure-lucrative-contracts-da-says\">ongoing federal corruption investigation\u003c/a> in Oakland, which has also ensnared the politically connected Duong family, who own the city’s curbside recycling contractor, California Waste Solutions. A spokesperson for Cal Waste said the company had not heard from the federal government about possible indictments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former mayor has said repeatedly that she is not the target of the investigation, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009615/oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-makes-her-case-against-a-recall\">telling KQED’s Political Breakdown\u003c/a> in October, “I am innocent, I have done nothing wrong.” She did not reply to a request for comment by the time of publication Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11991242 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01-1020x765.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Councilmember Loren Taylor, who is also running in this year’s special election and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11931400/sheng-thao-oaklands-next-mayor\">finished second to Thao\u003c/a> in 2022, called it “unfortunate that Oakland is in the news, the national news, again for political corruption, for things that are negative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also have to make sure that our elected officials are focused on the things that matter most to everyday Oaklanders’ lives and not distracted by things like political scandals or doing returning favors for others who have supported them,” Taylor told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses owned by the Duong family and a trip they sponsored for East Bay politicians to Vietnam in 2023 are believed to be connected to the probe, but the FBI and U.S. attorney’s office have so far offered no insight into possible charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report of Thao’s indictment comes a day after the FBI raided the home of Bryan Azevedo, a San Leandro City Council member who traveled to Vietnam with the Duongs and Thao. Three locations associated with David Duong and his son Andy, including Cal Waste’s headquarters, were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993390/oaklands-federal-subpoena-deadline-is-here-whats-next-in-the-investigation\">raided by federal agents\u003c/a> in June, along with Thao’s home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days after the June raids, a federal grand jury subpoenaed city records referencing Cal Waste, the 2022 mayoral election that Thao won, her long-term partner Andre Jones, and a few other people and businesses. In July, it issued a second subpoena asking for much of the same information, as well as some Oakland police records, including reports made against the Duongs since April 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the federal investigation, the Duong family and Cal Waste have been the subject of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992073/oakland-fbi-raids-and-straw-donor-probe-spur-allegations-of-corruption\">straw donation probe\u003c/a> by the Oakland Public Ethics Commission and the California Fair Political Practices Commission since at least 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state political watchdog agency has said there is probable cause to believe Andy Duong and Cal Waste used other peoples’ names to illegally donate to local campaigns between 2016 and 2018. A probable cause report from the FPPC and Oakland PEC filed in 2021 cites at least 93 donations, totaling over $76,000, to Thao, Oakland City Council members and other local politicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991432\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. postal inspectors check documents at a home tied to David Duong, one of the multiple properties searched by law enforcement that included residences to members of a politically connected family who run the city-contracted recycling company, California Waste Solutions, in Oakland on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Andy Duong made at least one donation to Azevedo’s political campaign in his 2022 bid for San Leandro mayor, which he said in a letter to the \u003cem>San Leandro Times\u003c/em> in June was properly reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days after the June raids, Azevedo distanced himself from the Oakland figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been a lot of rumors recently tying me to Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s alleged corruption scandal and I want to set the record straight,” he wrote in the weekly paper’s June 27 edition. “I don’t know anything about this alleged corruption nor do I believe that we should assume that corruption has happened until the facts come out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Leandro spokesperson Paul Saftner told KQED that the city was not involved in Azevedo’s attendance on the Vietnam trip, which was co-sponsored by the Vietnamese American Business Association, led by David Duong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the city’s understanding that it did not pay for Councilmember Bryan Azevedo’s travel expenses to attend the 2023 Vietnam trip,” Saftner said in an email. “The only expense incurred by the City was for City-branded giveaway merchandise, which cost approximately $350, which Council Member Azevedo could gift to whoever he wished during the trip.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Leandro Mayor Juan Gonzalez told KQED on Thursday that he did not know whether the FBI was investigating Azevedo specifically and did not believe it had requested any documents from the city at this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will be obviously interested in information that they reveal so that, based on what we hear, if there’s a need for us to take action, certainly we will take action,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this time, there’s just a fair amount of uncertainty … we’re not prepared to speculate,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azevedo did not respond to KQED’s request for comment on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ahall\">\u003cem>Alex Hall\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \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",
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Three locations associated with David Duong and his son Andy, including Cal Waste’s headquarters, were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993390/oaklands-federal-subpoena-deadline-is-here-whats-next-in-the-investigation\">raided by federal agents\u003c/a> in June, along with Thao’s home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days after the June raids, a federal grand jury subpoenaed city records referencing Cal Waste, the 2022 mayoral election that Thao won, her long-term partner Andre Jones, and a few other people and businesses. In July, it issued a second subpoena asking for much of the same information, as well as some Oakland police records, including reports made against the Duongs since April 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the federal investigation, the Duong family and Cal Waste have been the subject of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992073/oakland-fbi-raids-and-straw-donor-probe-spur-allegations-of-corruption\">straw donation probe\u003c/a> by the Oakland Public Ethics Commission and the California Fair Political Practices Commission since at least 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state political watchdog agency has said there is probable cause to believe Andy Duong and Cal Waste used other peoples’ names to illegally donate to local campaigns between 2016 and 2018. A probable cause report from the FPPC and Oakland PEC filed in 2021 cites at least 93 donations, totaling over $76,000, to Thao, Oakland City Council members and other local politicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991432\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. postal inspectors check documents at a home tied to David Duong, one of the multiple properties searched by law enforcement that included residences to members of a politically connected family who run the city-contracted recycling company, California Waste Solutions, in Oakland on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Andy Duong made at least one donation to Azevedo’s political campaign in his 2022 bid for San Leandro mayor, which he said in a letter to the \u003cem>San Leandro Times\u003c/em> in June was properly reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days after the June raids, Azevedo distanced himself from the Oakland figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been a lot of rumors recently tying me to Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s alleged corruption scandal and I want to set the record straight,” he wrote in the weekly paper’s June 27 edition. “I don’t know anything about this alleged corruption nor do I believe that we should assume that corruption has happened until the facts come out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Leandro spokesperson Paul Saftner told KQED that the city was not involved in Azevedo’s attendance on the Vietnam trip, which was co-sponsored by the Vietnamese American Business Association, led by David Duong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the city’s understanding that it did not pay for Councilmember Bryan Azevedo’s travel expenses to attend the 2023 Vietnam trip,” Saftner said in an email. “The only expense incurred by the City was for City-branded giveaway merchandise, which cost approximately $350, which Council Member Azevedo could gift to whoever he wished during the trip.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Leandro Mayor Juan Gonzalez told KQED on Thursday that he did not know whether the FBI was investigating Azevedo specifically and did not believe it had requested any documents from the city at this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will be obviously interested in information that they reveal so that, based on what we hear, if there’s a need for us to take action, certainly we will take action,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this time, there’s just a fair amount of uncertainty … we’re not prepared to speculate,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azevedo did not respond to KQED’s request for comment on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ahall\">\u003cem>Alex Hall\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \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\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Alameda County Board of Supervisors this week will announce the shortlist for a new district attorney, two months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pamela-price\">Pamela Price\u003c/a> was ousted from the office less than two years into her term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, the board will select at least three finalists from the \u003ca href=\"https://acgov.org/documents/Applications-for-District-Attorney-Redacted-for-Online-Posting-Redacted-1825.pdf\">pool of 15 candidates \u003c/a>who applied for the role. Once the selections are made, the finalists seeking to replace Price will be publicly interviewed during a special meeting on Jan. 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From there, the Board of Supervisors will deliberate before announcing its decision on Jan. 28. The newly appointed district attorney is set to be sworn in by Feb. 4 and, according to the county charter, will serve until the next general election, which is scheduled for June 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters will then have the opportunity to select a new district attorney to serve out the remainder of Price’s term, which was set irregularly for six years due to a \u003ca href=\"https://casetext.com/statute/california-codes/california-elections-code/division-1-established-election-dates/chapter-4-local-elections/section-1300-election-to-select-district-attorney-and-sheriff\">state law\u003c/a> that aligned district attorney elections with the presidential primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017506/these-maps-show-where-pamela-price-lost-the-most-support-from-voters-in-the-recall-election\">Price was recalled\u003c/a>, Chief Assistant District Attorney Royl Roberts took over as interim district attorney while the Board of Supervisors conducted its search. Interestingly, Roberts was not among the 15 people who applied, although he had previously begun the process of filling out paperwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candidates being considered include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Miiko Anderson\u003c/strong>, former senior deputy district attorney in Fresno County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Annie Esposito\u003c/strong>, assistant district attorney in Contra Costa County and former senior assistant DA in Alameda County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Simona Farrise Best\u003c/strong>, senior assistant district attorney in Alameda County’s Consumer Justice Bureau\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Amilcar Ford\u003c/strong>, assistant district attorney in San Francisco and former deputy district attorney in Alameda County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Venus Johnson\u003c/strong>, chief deputy attorney general in the California Department of Justice and former director of public safety in Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Ursula Jones Dickson\u003c/strong>, Alameda County Superior Court judge and former deputy district attorney in Alameda County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>LaTricia Louis\u003c/strong>, deputy county counsel in Alameda County and former assistant district attorney in Alameda County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Elgin Lowe\u003c/strong>, senior deputy district attorney in Alameda County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Kwixuan Maloof\u003c/strong>, assistant district attorney in Alameda County and former San Francisco deputy public defender\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Ocean Mottley\u003c/strong>, a private attorney in San Francisco and senior staff attorney with the nonprofit Bay Area Legal Aid\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Arvon Perteet\u003c/strong>, deputy attorney general in the California Department of Justice and former federal prosecutor\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Yibin Shen\u003c/strong>, city attorney in the city of Alameda\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Ian Seth Steward\u003c/strong>, executive director of the nonprofit Crucible in Oakland and former assistant district attorney in San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Scott Tsui\u003c/strong>, former assistant district attorney in Santa Clara County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Wilson\u003c/strong>, deputy district attorney in Alameda County\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The search for a new district attorney stems from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013442/alameda-county-voters-recall-district-attorney-pamela-price\">campaign to recall\u003c/a> Price, which started only six months after she took office in 2023. Headed by the group Save Alameda For Everyone, or SAFE, the recall effort gained traction as some voters became frustrated with the office’s progressive bent and Oakland’s rising crime rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other criticisms included Price’s mismanagement of old cases — misfilings in the case of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-gonzalez\">Mario Gonzalez\u003c/a>’s death allowed the statute of limitations to pass for two of the officers involved — and allegations that her office had failed to prosecute misdemeanor cases and to support victims’ families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12020556 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250106-BarbaraLeeExitInterview-10-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recall campaign was endorsed by all of the county’s law enforcement unions and the union representing Alameda County prosecutors. Price’s predecessor, Nancy O’Malley, also supported the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price “created her own directives that were not in the best interests of the citizens of Alameda County as a whole,” said Brenda Grisham, one of the recall’s organizers and principal officer of SAFE. “Not just the families of the murdered victims. The business owners, anyone who had been the victim of crime, her directives just were not in their best interest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After leading the recall effort, SAFE and a coalition of law enforcement groups and community organizers are recommending three candidates to lead the district attorney’s office. In a letter to the Board of Supervisors on Friday, the group listed Alameda County Superior Court Judge Jones Dickson, Contra Costa County Assistant District Attorney Esposito and former Alameda County Deputy District Attorney Ford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They need to be balanced,” Grisham said of whoever is appointed to the role. “It’s not about what you want to see. It’s about what the county needs as a whole. That’s what we’re looking for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Grisham, the next district attorney should be familiar with the role and should also be prepared to run again in 2026 with the experience they gain over the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She continued: “I’m hoping that they can go in and sort out the things that need to be sorted out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Weeks before the devastating fires \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021203/widespread-scope-southern-california-fires-shown-satellite-images\">ravaging Los Angeles\u003c/a>, the city’s fire chief warned that funding cuts would hurt the department’s wildfire response. It’s a message that echoes in Oakland, where the Fire Department is facing massive budget reductions — and some city leaders are hoping the disaster in L.A. will be a wake-up call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Palisades and Eaton fires erupted Tuesday, overwhelming firefighters and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020808/as-la-fires-rage-harrowing-evacuations-play-out-on-traffic-choked-roads\">burning thousands of homes\u003c/a>, reports of fire budget cuts flooded online discourse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Los Angeles cut $17.6 million from the Fire Department, according to records from the city controller’s office. Mayor Karen Bass referred to the elimination of some vacant positions as a “reset” and said she didn’t believe it affected the Fire Department’s response this week, and L.A. Councilmember Bob Blumenfield’s office noted that a union contract passed in November belatedly boosted the budget, going to wage increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, as recently as December, Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley warned in a memo to the board of fire commissioners that the cuts would “limit the Department’s capacity to prepare for, train for, and respond to large-scale emergencies, including wildfires.” The reductions included $7 million for overtime training hours, she said, and funding for 61 civilian positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, where many are familiar with the devastation that fire can wreak in densely populated hills, severe budget cuts forced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020393/2-oakland-fire-stations-close-amid-budget-crisis-more-could-follow\">the closure of two fire stations\u003c/a> this week, in addition to one already closed for repairs. Four more could shutter next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020360\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020360\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00097.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00097.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00097-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00097-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00097-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00097-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00097-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Fire Department Station 28 on Jan. 5, 2025, is one of two stations scheduled to close until June. \u003ccite>(David M. 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Councilmember Janani Ramachandran, whose district includes one of the shuttered fire stations, said officials hoped to keep the closures “as brief as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12021125 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/IMG_7960-1020x764.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the final decision isn’t the council’s to make. When it approved then-Mayor Sheng Thao’s budget in July, the council gave budget administrator Bradley Johnson permission to select from a menu of cuts under \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018688/oakland-broad-cuts-public-safety-city-agencies-amid-massive-deficit\">a contingency plan triggered in December\u003c/a> by the stalled sale of Oakland’s stake in the Coliseum. Johnson moved forward with $5.5 million in fire cuts. The second phase, expected to save $7 million more, could begin in February, and station closures could last the remainder of the fiscal year, which ends in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stations shuttered Monday are two of the closest to the hills, where many residents are still terrified by memories of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11893199/the-oakland-hills-fire-transformed-firefighting-along-a-citys-edge-in-california\">1991 Oakland Hills firestorm\u003c/a>. The Tunnel Fire, as it was officially known, was one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/about-us/stories/oakland-hills-firestorm-forward\">most destructive\u003c/a> in California’s history. After a small fire broke out on private land, 70 mph winds caused flames to rip through the hills, burning houses and cars. More than 4,500 firefighters from across Northern California responded to the fire, which destroyed nearly 3,500 homes and killed 25 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seth Olyer, president of the Oakland firefighters union, had a dire message this week for residents around shuttered Fire Stations 25 and 28, near Joaquin Miller Park and the Lake Chabot golf course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chabot Park, Sequoia, Noland Park, Joaquin Miller, Oakmoor, Skyline, Grass Valley, Woodminster, Lincoln Highlands and Crestmont — hear this clearly: if you live in any of those neighborhoods, be aware that you’ll be waiting a very long time for help,” Olyer said Monday on the steps of City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You will not quickly have firefighter paramedics to help you or your family, and what could have been a small blaze or a small fire near your house will become a conflagration, leaving tragedy in its wake,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olyer said that if all of the cuts go through, closing nearly 30% of the city’s 28 stations, firefighters wouldn’t be able to respond to a fire like October’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010151/oakland-fire-spreads-to-nearby-homes-amid-dry-windy-conditions\">Keller Fire\u003c/a> as effectively as they did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020359\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020359\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Fire Department Station 28 on Jan. 5, 2025, located on Grass Valley Road in the East Oakland Hills. In 2023, Fire Station 28 responded to 405 calls. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Engines 25 and 28 were amongst the first engines on scene on the Keller Fire,” he told KQED. “The boots on the ground right away made the difference between houses on Campus Drive becoming foundations only, kind of like all this stuff happening down in L.A. The sooner you get resources there, the better the outcome is across the board.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the calls that engines from Station 28 answer are almost to the end of the county. If farther stations have to respond to emergencies in its zone, response times could climb, Olyer said — from the usual four minutes up to 15 in some cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire crews also have expertise in the topography in their districts, an important factor when navigating the windy, narrow roads of the Oakland Hills. Some of the stations closest to the Oakland Hills also have slightly shorter fire trucks to move through the neighborhood more easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now you have an engine that’s made for driving around on International Boulevard or Telegraph or something trying to wind its way up these hill areas,” Olyer said. “It’s very difficult to maneuver just on a good day, even the smaller engines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Weeks before the devastating fires \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021203/widespread-scope-southern-california-fires-shown-satellite-images\">ravaging Los Angeles\u003c/a>, the city’s fire chief warned that funding cuts would hurt the department’s wildfire response. It’s a message that echoes in Oakland, where the Fire Department is facing massive budget reductions — and some city leaders are hoping the disaster in L.A. will be a wake-up call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Palisades and Eaton fires erupted Tuesday, overwhelming firefighters and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020808/as-la-fires-rage-harrowing-evacuations-play-out-on-traffic-choked-roads\">burning thousands of homes\u003c/a>, reports of fire budget cuts flooded online discourse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Los Angeles cut $17.6 million from the Fire Department, according to records from the city controller’s office. Mayor Karen Bass referred to the elimination of some vacant positions as a “reset” and said she didn’t believe it affected the Fire Department’s response this week, and L.A. Councilmember Bob Blumenfield’s office noted that a union contract passed in November belatedly boosted the budget, going to wage increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, as recently as December, Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley warned in a memo to the board of fire commissioners that the cuts would “limit the Department’s capacity to prepare for, train for, and respond to large-scale emergencies, including wildfires.” The reductions included $7 million for overtime training hours, she said, and funding for 61 civilian positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, where many are familiar with the devastation that fire can wreak in densely populated hills, severe budget cuts forced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020393/2-oakland-fire-stations-close-amid-budget-crisis-more-could-follow\">the closure of two fire stations\u003c/a> this week, in addition to one already closed for repairs. Four more could shutter next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020360\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020360\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00097.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00097.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00097-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00097-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00097-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00097-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00097-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Fire Department Station 28 on Jan. 5, 2025, is one of two stations scheduled to close until June. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fire officials in the city say the cuts would decimate Oakland’s ability to protect itself from future blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Closing four more firehouses would be the end of fire protection as we know it in Oakland,” said Councilmember Zac Unger, who worked as a city firefighter until retiring from the role 10 days ago to take his council seat. “There is no way to close seven firehouses and not have devastating impacts on both the citizens and on firefighter safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unger, along with Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan, said the City Council was working to restore fire services. Councilmember Janani Ramachandran, whose district includes one of the shuttered fire stations, said officials hoped to keep the closures “as brief as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the final decision isn’t the council’s to make. When it approved then-Mayor Sheng Thao’s budget in July, the council gave budget administrator Bradley Johnson permission to select from a menu of cuts under \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018688/oakland-broad-cuts-public-safety-city-agencies-amid-massive-deficit\">a contingency plan triggered in December\u003c/a> by the stalled sale of Oakland’s stake in the Coliseum. Johnson moved forward with $5.5 million in fire cuts. The second phase, expected to save $7 million more, could begin in February, and station closures could last the remainder of the fiscal year, which ends in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stations shuttered Monday are two of the closest to the hills, where many residents are still terrified by memories of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11893199/the-oakland-hills-fire-transformed-firefighting-along-a-citys-edge-in-california\">1991 Oakland Hills firestorm\u003c/a>. The Tunnel Fire, as it was officially known, was one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/about-us/stories/oakland-hills-firestorm-forward\">most destructive\u003c/a> in California’s history. After a small fire broke out on private land, 70 mph winds caused flames to rip through the hills, burning houses and cars. More than 4,500 firefighters from across Northern California responded to the fire, which destroyed nearly 3,500 homes and killed 25 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seth Olyer, president of the Oakland firefighters union, had a dire message this week for residents around shuttered Fire Stations 25 and 28, near Joaquin Miller Park and the Lake Chabot golf course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chabot Park, Sequoia, Noland Park, Joaquin Miller, Oakmoor, Skyline, Grass Valley, Woodminster, Lincoln Highlands and Crestmont — hear this clearly: if you live in any of those neighborhoods, be aware that you’ll be waiting a very long time for help,” Olyer said Monday on the steps of City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You will not quickly have firefighter paramedics to help you or your family, and what could have been a small blaze or a small fire near your house will become a conflagration, leaving tragedy in its wake,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olyer said that if all of the cuts go through, closing nearly 30% of the city’s 28 stations, firefighters wouldn’t be able to respond to a fire like October’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010151/oakland-fire-spreads-to-nearby-homes-amid-dry-windy-conditions\">Keller Fire\u003c/a> as effectively as they did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020359\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020359\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Fire Department Station 28 on Jan. 5, 2025, located on Grass Valley Road in the East Oakland Hills. In 2023, Fire Station 28 responded to 405 calls. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Engines 25 and 28 were amongst the first engines on scene on the Keller Fire,” he told KQED. “The boots on the ground right away made the difference between houses on Campus Drive becoming foundations only, kind of like all this stuff happening down in L.A. The sooner you get resources there, the better the outcome is across the board.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the calls that engines from Station 28 answer are almost to the end of the county. If farther stations have to respond to emergencies in its zone, response times could climb, Olyer said — from the usual four minutes up to 15 in some cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire crews also have expertise in the topography in their districts, an important factor when navigating the windy, narrow roads of the Oakland Hills. 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"content": "\u003cp>Its fluffy body stays low to the ground, silently stalking its prey. While the small rodent remains unaware, the predator goes in for the kill, pouncing quickly, pinning the animal to the ground before brutally decapitating it and starting to feast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s all light work for this unlikely predator: the California ground squirrel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I could barely believe my eyes,” said Sonja Wild, a postdoctoral research fellow at UC Davis. “Once we started looking, we saw it everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time, researchers at UC Davis and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire captured squirrels in Contra Costa County hunting and killing voles, small rodents related to hamsters that typically weigh less than two ounces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvul3dkzDrk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wild worked on the study with lead author Jennifer Smith, an associate professor of biology at UW-Eau Claire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was undergraduates on their team that first discovered the behavior, Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was very excited to hear about it and also a little bit taken aback about how these cute squirrels that we’ve been studying for over a decade were engaging in this carnivorous behavior,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers — affectionately dubbed “Team Squirrel” — have been observing the creatures in \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/briones\">Briones Regional Park\u003c/a> for 12 years as part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.jenniferelainesmith.com/research.html\">Long-term Behavioral Ecology of California Ground Squirrels Project\u003c/a>, which Wild and Smith co-lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018934\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018934\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Tia-Ravara-UW-EauClaire-and-Ryann-Su-UC-Davis-watch-squirrel-c-Sonja-Wild-UC-Davis-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Tia-Ravara-UW-EauClaire-and-Ryann-Su-UC-Davis-watch-squirrel-c-Sonja-Wild-UC-Davis-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Tia-Ravara-UW-EauClaire-and-Ryann-Su-UC-Davis-watch-squirrel-c-Sonja-Wild-UC-Davis-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Tia-Ravara-UW-EauClaire-and-Ryann-Su-UC-Davis-watch-squirrel-c-Sonja-Wild-UC-Davis-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Tia-Ravara-UW-EauClaire-and-Ryann-Su-UC-Davis-watch-squirrel-c-Sonja-Wild-UC-Davis-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Tia-Ravara-UW-EauClaire-and-Ryann-Su-UC-Davis-watch-squirrel-c-Sonja-Wild-UC-Davis-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Tia-Ravara-UW-EauClaire-and-Ryann-Su-UC-Davis-watch-squirrel-c-Sonja-Wild-UC-Davis-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Tia-Ravara-UW-EauClaire-and-Ryann-Su-UC-Davis-watch-squirrel-c-Sonja-Wild-UC-Davis-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tia Ravara (left), a University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire student researcher, and Ryann Su of UC Davis, are approached by a squirrel at Briones Regional Park. \u003ccite>(Sonja Wild/UC Davis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This summer was the first time they observed widespread carnivorous behavior among the ground squirrel population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really helps to have the study subjects habituated to us,” Smith said. “There are humans in the park all of the time, but the squirrels respond differently to members of Team Squirrel. We walk differently. We are very, very cautious. We observe at a distance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their findings turn the common understanding of squirrel foraging behavior on its head. Previously, the consensus was that ground squirrels primarily ate seeds and other vegetation — only occasionally scavenging for lizards, birds, eggs and bugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='animals' label='More Animal News']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve known for a long time that they are omnivores, and they can eat meat, and they can scavenge all of these things,” Smith said. “But the missing link was: do these squirrels actively target and pursue prey in their natural habitat?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A peak in the carnivorous behavior coincided with an explosion of the vole population in the park at the beginning of July, suggesting that it may have been in response to the prey being more available than usual, the authors wrote in the \u003ca href=\"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10164-024-00832-6#Sec11\">study published in the Journal of Ethology\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides hunting and killing voles, researchers also observed the squirrels competing over their prey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Squirrels are also social mammals, so researchers are interested in further understanding how the hunting behavior became so widespread throughout the population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said another potential area of future research is the impact of hunting voles on the survival of ground squirrels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers expect the vole population to crash next summer due to population cycles, so Smith said it will be interesting to see how the squirrels respond and pivot their eating habits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re incredibly behaviorally flexible,” Smith said, “and my guess is they’ll just take advantage of whatever foods are around.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Kwixuan Maloof, the senior assistant district attorney listed on the filing, alleges that Juarez moved money around to avoid paying for the fliers, which targeted Thao’s two biggest opponents, Loren Taylor and Ignacio De La Fuente, in the days before the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new filing alleges that days before Juarez commissioned the fliers, he received $125,000 from Cal Waste and ABC Security Services, which provides security to City Hall and other city buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11992169\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A California Waste Solutions worker empties recycling bins in the Rockridge neighborhood on April 22, 2020, in Oakland. 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Cal Waste’s headquarters and the home of the company’s founder, David Duong, and his son Andy, were raided by the FBI in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also wrote two checks totaling $7,500 to Thao’s longtime partner, Andre Jones, immediately following the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These companies have valuable contracts with the city of Oakland and an interest in the election of then-candidate for mayor, Sheng Thao,” the filing says. “Mr. Juarez’s subsequent use and distribution of these funds suggests Defendant Juarez was essentially a conduit for these companies to help the mayor win and preserve and enhance the companies’ access to tax-payer funded contracts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another connection made in the new filing is to Attorney General Rob Bonta, who Maloof says would be reassigned the case if the judge were to find a conflict of interest in the DA’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maloof says Bonta should be disqualified from prosecuting the case based on conflict of interest law because of his close political ties to Juarez. Juarez donated to Bonta’s 2014 and 2018 assembly campaigns, and Bonta helped a now-defunct energy company Juarez co-owned secure a $3.4 million grant from the California Energy Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Monday’s filing connected some dots, there is still a web of other allegations swirling in the ongoing FBI probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Here’s a timeline of what’s happened so far:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Questions exploded about the Duongs after three locations they’re affiliated with were targeted in June’s FBI raid. They had already been under investigation by California’s Fair Political Practices Commission and the Oakland Public Ethics Commission since 2019 for an alleged straw donation scheme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andy Duong and Cal Waste are believed to have used other peoples’ names to illegally donate to local campaigns between 2016 and 2018, according to a probable cause report from the FPPC and Oakland PEC filed in 2021. It cites at least 93 donations, totaling over $76,000, to Thao, Oakland City Councilmembers Rebecca Kaplan and Dan Kalb, and other Oakland politicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629977\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11629977\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27957_IMG_8020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27957_IMG_8020-qut.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27957_IMG_8020-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27957_IMG_8020-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27957_IMG_8020-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27957_IMG_8020-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Duong is the founder and CEO of California Waste Solutions and Vietnam Waste Solutions. \u003ccite>(Brian Watt/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Juarez, who has a long history of somewhat shady business dealings, including 12 notices of state and federal tax liens against him since 2008, also quickly became a key player in the probe because of his public falling out with the Duongs — his former business partners — and the grand theft case against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 11, the owner of Butterfly Direct Marketing filed a police report accusing Juarez of failing to pay for the product. The DA’s office filed grand theft charges against Juarez in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juarez\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong> who has been a longtime political opponent of Price, pleaded not guilty in April, and his lawyers filed a motion to dismiss the case in October. He alleges that Price’s prosecution was retaliatory after he declined to donate to her anti-recall campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His attorney says that in early January, Juarez, members of the Duong family and Price gathered at the address associated with Cal Waste after the funeral of a slain Oakland police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She explained that as the district attorney for Alameda County, she could help Mr. Juarez, but that to get her help, he would ‘need to show love and support to her,’” the motion says. “Specifically, she wanted $25,000.00 in cash from him to support her campaign against the ongoing recall effort against her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maloof’s response this week disputes that conversation took place and claims that Price’s office actually decided to charge Juarez in August 2023 after receiving the police report in May, but that the case had “somehow fallen through the cracks.” After the victim called to inquire about their progress in January, the office located the file and began the prosecution process, according to Maloof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He further asserts that Juarez’s bank records, which show him moving money between two accounts for days following his payment to Butterfly Direct Marketing, and his financial dealings with Cal Waste, ABC Security, and Thao’s partner Jones, indicate his “intent to defraud the victim in this check fraud case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12016605 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-24-BL-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Duongs and Juarez spearheaded a business venture together in 2022, but they appear to have had a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993390/oaklands-federal-subpoena-deadline-is-here-whats-next-in-the-investigation\">falling out\u003c/a> amidst the FBI probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Duong’s daughter, Kristina, registered a company in 2022 called Evolutionary Homes, which was designed to build homes out of shipping containers for unhoused people. Juarez is named as the organizer of the company, which later sought Oakland city contracts and shared an address with Cal Waste in state records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2024, though, Juarez fell off the Evolutionary Homes’ filings, and things between the business partners appear to sour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Juarez and the Duongs filed police reports telling very different stories about an encounter at the Cal Waste office. Juarez says he was robbed, while the Duongs assert Juarez threatened them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks later, police responded to a shooting at Juarez’s home, which his lawyer told the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> was an \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-fbi-mario-juarez-19545382.php\">attempt on his life\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case against Juarez, and his relationship with Thao and the Duongs, is thought to be related to the federal probe into Oakland, which drew public attention following June’s FBI raids. 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Kwixuan Maloof, the senior assistant district attorney listed on the filing, alleges that Juarez moved money around to avoid paying for the fliers, which targeted Thao’s two biggest opponents, Loren Taylor and Ignacio De La Fuente, in the days before the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new filing alleges that days before Juarez commissioned the fliers, he received $125,000 from Cal Waste and ABC Security Services, which provides security to City Hall and other city buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11992169\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A California Waste Solutions worker empties recycling bins in the Rockridge neighborhood on April 22, 2020, in Oakland. A campaign finance investigation into the city’s curbside recycling contractor has received renewed attention since the FBI raids. \u003ccite>(Yalonda M. James/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 17, 2022, Juarez received a $75,000 check from Cal Waste and another for $50,000 from ABC Security on Oct. 20, according to Maloof. Both were deposited into the same bank account that he used to write checks to Butterfly Direct Marketing days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days after Thao’s win, the district attorney’s office alleges that Juarez received another $170,000 from ABC Security, Cal Waste and members of the politically connected Duong family that own it. Cal Waste’s headquarters and the home of the company’s founder, David Duong, and his son Andy, were raided by the FBI in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also wrote two checks totaling $7,500 to Thao’s longtime partner, Andre Jones, immediately following the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These companies have valuable contracts with the city of Oakland and an interest in the election of then-candidate for mayor, Sheng Thao,” the filing says. “Mr. Juarez’s subsequent use and distribution of these funds suggests Defendant Juarez was essentially a conduit for these companies to help the mayor win and preserve and enhance the companies’ access to tax-payer funded contracts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another connection made in the new filing is to Attorney General Rob Bonta, who Maloof says would be reassigned the case if the judge were to find a conflict of interest in the DA’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maloof says Bonta should be disqualified from prosecuting the case based on conflict of interest law because of his close political ties to Juarez. Juarez donated to Bonta’s 2014 and 2018 assembly campaigns, and Bonta helped a now-defunct energy company Juarez co-owned secure a $3.4 million grant from the California Energy Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Monday’s filing connected some dots, there is still a web of other allegations swirling in the ongoing FBI probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Here’s a timeline of what’s happened so far:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Questions exploded about the Duongs after three locations they’re affiliated with were targeted in June’s FBI raid. They had already been under investigation by California’s Fair Political Practices Commission and the Oakland Public Ethics Commission since 2019 for an alleged straw donation scheme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andy Duong and Cal Waste are believed to have used other peoples’ names to illegally donate to local campaigns between 2016 and 2018, according to a probable cause report from the FPPC and Oakland PEC filed in 2021. It cites at least 93 donations, totaling over $76,000, to Thao, Oakland City Councilmembers Rebecca Kaplan and Dan Kalb, and other Oakland politicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629977\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11629977\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27957_IMG_8020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27957_IMG_8020-qut.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27957_IMG_8020-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27957_IMG_8020-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27957_IMG_8020-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27957_IMG_8020-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Duong is the founder and CEO of California Waste Solutions and Vietnam Waste Solutions. \u003ccite>(Brian Watt/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Juarez, who has a long history of somewhat shady business dealings, including 12 notices of state and federal tax liens against him since 2008, also quickly became a key player in the probe because of his public falling out with the Duongs — his former business partners — and the grand theft case against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 11, the owner of Butterfly Direct Marketing filed a police report accusing Juarez of failing to pay for the product. 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"content": "\u003cp>Body camera footage released by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bart\">BART\u003c/a> police on Friday showed an officer shooting at a woman three times last month at the Union City station parking lot. Just over five minutes before the shooting, the traffic stop nearly ended without incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jasmine Gao, 32, survived the shooting. The officer was identified as Nicholas Poblete, who has been with BART for over six years and is currently assigned to its Operations Bureau, the department’s release said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers responded to the station on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014947/bart-police-shoot-injure-person-at-union-city-station\">the night of Nov. 18\u003c/a> for a report of reckless driving, according to BART’s release, but the body camera footage shows that they determined Gao wasn’t responsible. After the officers began to question her over expired registration, Gao “displayed erratic behavior,” did not comply when officers asked her to get out of her car, then rolled up her window and accelerated forward when an officer reached into the car, the department said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSGnU9yxT-w&rco=1\">The video\u003c/a> shows Gao express several times how fearful she was when police accused her of doing donuts while she was parked in a parking lot. She becomes increasingly agitated as Poblete grows more stern and demands she get out of her car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gao was treated at a hospital and later discharged. BART’s announcement didn’t say how many times Gao had been shot and where other than “in the upper torso.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with all police shootings, the case has been referred to the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office to determine whether Poblete, Gao or an unnamed second officer at the scene should face criminal charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Due to the seriousness of this incident, we have retained an experienced third-party investigator to conduct the internal administrative investigation to ensure an unbiased and objective review,” BART Police Chief Kevin Franklin said in a statement. “BART remains committed to continuous improvement and ensuring the actions of our police officers meet the highest of standards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018301\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018301\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/BartVideo_0005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1124\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/BartVideo_0005.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/BartVideo_0005-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/BartVideo_0005-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/BartVideo_0005-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/BartVideo_0005-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/BartVideo_0005-1920x1079.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A still from BART Police body-worn camera footage released on Dec. 13, 2024, where an officer fired a gun at an individual before detaining them on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024, in the Union City Station parking lot. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of BART)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Russell Bloom, BART’s independent police auditor, said his office responded to the scene of the shooting to monitor BART’s investigation, but as of Friday, his office has not received any complaint of misconduct in connection with the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bloom said he’s working with Franklin to ensure the independent auditor’s office has the same access as the third-party investigators that BART police brought in, as it’s “a departure from our standard approach to monitoring investigations conducted by the BPD Internal Affairs Unit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal is to ensure that any investigation of this shooting is objective, thorough, fair, and timely,” Bloom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poblete has been placed on administrative leave during the investigation, BART said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What the body camera shows\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The time code on the body camera when the footage starts reads 9:24 p.m. on Nov. 18 as Poblete stops his SUV behind a dark-colored sedan with tinted windows. An unnamed officer stops his SUV off to the front of the sedan. The parking lot is largely empty, but Poblete leaves his emergency lights flashing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Roll down your back windows, please,” Poblete yells as he walks toward the car and shines a flashlight into the driver’s side window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sorry, no,” Gao responds, her head poking out of the window. “There’s no one here,” she says as she rolls down the window, saying she was parked because she was talking to a friend on the phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poblete tells her they are investigating a complaint of a car matching hers doing donuts in the parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know how to do donuts,” she says. “I’m not that good at driving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a few minutes of back-and-forth — during which the woman says her name is Raisa Gao — the other officer touches Gao’s front driver’s side tire. “Yeah, it’s not hot,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All right. Have a good night, ma’am,” Poblete says as he turns away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sorry,” the other officer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poblete takes a few steps away and then turns back, telling Gao that his dispatcher says her registration expired. “I do have to address that,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, no, I just went to the DMV,” Gao says, immediately becoming defensive and flustered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Poblete tries to tell her about her registration being invalid, she repeatedly interrupts and asks whether she can go home nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12014947 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20161217_144416_qed-1020x765.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just nervous because of all the lights,” she says, gesturing to the flashing emergency lights around her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poblete again asks for her driver’s license, registration and proof of insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t scare me right now,” she says. “I’m really tired.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poblete’s tone grows more stern as he says that he doesn’t like her interrupting him and that she is required to give him the documents he requested. Gao becomes increasingly flustered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do me a favor, ma’am,” Poblete says. “Because you’re freaking out…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s because you’re cops,” Gao says, “and I’m just in a parking lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Can you turn off your vehicle and then can I see your keys? Please?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No,” Gao says. “That’s illegal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, it’s not,” Poblete says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gao then snatches her ID out of Poblete’s hand, and he reaches into the car and grabs Gao by the arm. “Get out of the vehicle,” he says repeatedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Stop!” The two struggle for about 30 seconds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ma’am, I’m going to pepper spray you,” Poblete says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No! Stop! You’re scaring me!” she says, putting the keys in the ignition as Poblete continues to hold onto her arm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ma’am, I’m going to shoo…” Poblete says as Gao’s window rolls up and she drives away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poblete fires three times at the car. It stops a short distance away in the same parking lot. Poblete calls in “shots fired,” gets into his SUV, drives closer to Gao’s vehicle, then parks and stands with his door open, gun pointed at Gao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gao, bleeding as the two officers approach her open car door, cries, “Oh my God! What did you do to me? I’m just a girl!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They cuff her hands behind her back and attempt to give her medical aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re killing me,” she says. “I didn’t even do anything. Why would you hurt me?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A crowd of people begins to gather as Gao yells out for someone to call her mother and rolls on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Stop!” Poblete yells at her. “We’re trying to help you! You keep on moving. You’re gonna keep on bleeding! We’re trying to save your life!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why did you shoot her?” one onlooker yells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More officers arrive as they try to find Gao’s wounds. 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Artist Leo Villareal designed the project, which Illuminate said was Davis’s “brainchild.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017560\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12017560 size-full\" style=\"font-weight: bold;background-color: transparent;color: #767676\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/5959C8DA-A845-4FA0-AB1E-016075419E62remote25e52a08ddc676a528f12fc93bee31f32f4288ff-1-original-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/5959C8DA-A845-4FA0-AB1E-016075419E62remote25e52a08ddc676a528f12fc93bee31f32f4288ff-1-original-1.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/5959C8DA-A845-4FA0-AB1E-016075419E62remote25e52a08ddc676a528f12fc93bee31f32f4288ff-1-original-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/5959C8DA-A845-4FA0-AB1E-016075419E62remote25e52a08ddc676a528f12fc93bee31f32f4288ff-1-original-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/5959C8DA-A845-4FA0-AB1E-016075419E62remote25e52a08ddc676a528f12fc93bee31f32f4288ff-1-original-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new “Bay Lights 360” will feature bulbs on both sides of the bridge’s cables so that the lights can be seen from the East Bay. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Ben Davis, Illuminate)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The installation became a sensation throughout the Bay Area, attracting locals and visitors to the bridge that has long served as an essential commuter channel but not nearly the most famed way to cross the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The original Bay Lights was comprised of 25,000 bulbs fastened to the sturdy cables that extend down from the Bay Bridge’s arches. At night, lights danced through the sky, creating waves rippling between Oakland to San Francisco and beams falling like rain from the tallest points of the bridge to its road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The optical illusions were the product of a program called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/90202/watch-video-light-sculpture-to-brighten-the-bay-bridge\">Particle Universe\u003c/a>, which Villareal could use to change how the lights’ mass, velocity and gravity appeared to act from a remote desktop computer, he told KQED before the first official lighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s spent a significant amount of time on and around the bridge looking at the patterns of nature and sort of the built environment,” Davis said. “[Villareal] has abstracted those and then cultivated them a way for beauty while they’re still randomized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017559\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017559\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/3F492A8F-D9A3-4771-A12B-22F1A5E532C3remote19f12fde2c8fe5ebbdac18488a238b51ba86246e-1-original-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/3F492A8F-D9A3-4771-A12B-22F1A5E532C3remote19f12fde2c8fe5ebbdac18488a238b51ba86246e-1-original-1.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/3F492A8F-D9A3-4771-A12B-22F1A5E532C3remote19f12fde2c8fe5ebbdac18488a238b51ba86246e-1-original-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/3F492A8F-D9A3-4771-A12B-22F1A5E532C3remote19f12fde2c8fe5ebbdac18488a238b51ba86246e-1-original-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/3F492A8F-D9A3-4771-A12B-22F1A5E532C3remote19f12fde2c8fe5ebbdac18488a238b51ba86246e-1-original-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crews began installing the 50,000 new bulbs this week. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Ben Davis, Illuminate)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The installation went dark in March 2023 after a decade of wear and tear from fog, wind, salt and exhaust over the bay, creating maintenance challenges with some of the bulbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Illuminate had launched a fundraising campaign to renew the installation with stronger lights, but it did not reach its goal by the time Bay Lights was shut off — leaving the project’s future in doubt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12016154 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240111-TransitFile-02-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, the company announced that it had privately fundraised all $11 million needed to revitalize Bay Lights, with custom bulbs designed to withstand harsh weather for years to come. In addition to improving bulb quality with custom LEDs, the nonprofit is attempting to double the number of bulbs, wrapping them around both sides of the western span’s cables to create a wider field of view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the criticisms of Bay Lights was that it points at the penthouses of San Francisco and the North Bay, but it didn’t really shine on Oakland or some of the other communities on the east side of the bay,” Davis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was largely for safety, he said — it wasn’t clear whether it would be unsafe or distracting for drivers to see lights on the inside of the cables as they drove across the bridge. But if the expanded version, Bay Lights 360, passes a safety inspection Davis expects will take place in January, the lights on the inside of the cables will be visible from the East Bay and even to commuters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis said that in this installation, they are going to “see if we can actually, as a matter of aesthetic equity, address that concern by making it available to everyone really in an excited way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:51 a.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials in Contra Costa County are still working on Wednesday to stop an underground wastewater leak that is believed to have spilled about 20 million gallons of sewage into a marsh near the bank of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sacramento-san-joaquin-delta\">Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staffers with the Delta Diablo Sanitation District discovered the leak on Monday afternoon after noticing reduced inflow into their treatment plant weeks ago. The leak, coming from a pipe that carries wastewater from a storage center along its Mouse Trap-like journey to the treatment plant, has deposited nearly 1 million gallons of waste into the nearby marsh between \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13960447/port-chicago-explosion-80-year-anniversary\">Port Chicago\u003c/a> and Pittsburg every day since it started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a location such as this one that’s subterranean, that’s in a marshland area, it was difficult to identify on a visual basis,” said Vince De Lange, the general manager of Delta Diablo Sanitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews temporarily stopped the leak during repair work on Tuesday by diverting wastewater into the Shore Acres pump station’s storage, which has an 800,000-gallon capacity. They also brought in multiple sewer-clearing trucks to remove wastewater through manholes located upstream to lessen the strain on that storage basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by Wednesday morning, the pump station storage was full, and repairs were still ongoing, so “sewer overflow conditions” resumed, De Lange said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016584\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016584\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241203_SewageLeak_GC-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241203_SewageLeak_GC-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241203_SewageLeak_GC-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241203_SewageLeak_GC-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241203_SewageLeak_GC-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241203_SewageLeak_GC-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241203_SewageLeak_GC-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A private road leading to a pump station on Military Ocean Terminal Concord property in Bay Point in Contra Costa County, where a broken pipe caused a massive sewage leak of about 20 million gallons of sewage into a marsh by the Sacramento River and Suisun Bay bank, on Dec. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The trucks do not have the capacity to offset flow completely, according to De Lange, but they helped slow the rate of Wednesday’s leakage. Three additional trucks are also being brought in from neighboring water districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pipe that’s broken is a pressurized tube that carries water from a storage station to a gravity pipe, through which water flows slightly downward thanks to gravitational force. It sits about 5 feet below the grade of the land, which means a contractor has to excavate the surrounding land to reach the pipe and then try to identify where the break occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De Lange said the contractor spent much of Tuesday morning digging down to the pipe and hopes to find the break and begin working on a temporary repair, like installing a cap. He expects that work could be done by the end of Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title aria-label=\"Locator map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-H4Xgg\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/H4Xgg/1/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sanitation district is also setting up about a mile’s worth of above-ground pipe that can bring the water from the storage station to the next gravity pipe. Materials for this fix will begin arriving on Wednesday, and it should be functional before the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there’s a secondary failure event or there’s another location that fails, then we have the bypass pumping,” he said. “Having the bypass pumping system in place lets us better assess the overall condition of the pipe segment … and then, if we do have to do more pronounced repair work beyond the temporary start beyond just that localized repair, if we do find corrosion in other segments, it would give us that ability to take action and make additional repairs on the line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sanitation district is also conducting water tests in the Suisun Bay, which is about a quarter-mile north of the leak and connects with the San Francisco Bay to the southwest and the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers to the east.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016586\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241203_SewageLeak_GC-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241203_SewageLeak_GC-9.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241203_SewageLeak_GC-9-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241203_SewageLeak_GC-9-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241203_SewageLeak_GC-9-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241203_SewageLeak_GC-9-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241203_SewageLeak_GC-9-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The leak near the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, which has spilled about 20 million gallons of sewage, had been temporarily halted during repair work on Dec. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>De Lange said it’s likely that some of the sewage has reached the Suisun Bay, especially since the Port Chicago Highway that runs to the south of the storage center acts as a kind of natural barrier to water passage, presumably pushing it up north. The water district was still waiting for test results late Wednesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11998887 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ShellRefineryMartinez-1020x765.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The marsh is on private, Navy-owned land, but De Lange said the Delta Diablo Sanitation District still plans to post signs alerting people where the affected area is and urging them not to enter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said people should know that “there is a current ongoing release of wastewater, and also that there will be construction activity localized in that area as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We increased signage to warn the public of the potential for wastewater and unsafe conditions, and no body contact with that water if that’s present is advised,” added Dean Eckerson, Delta Diablo’s resource recovery services director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are both hopeful that between the bypass and temporary pipe repair, wastewater flow to the sanitation district’s treatment center will resume as usual in the next few days. 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They also brought in multiple sewer-clearing trucks to remove wastewater through manholes located upstream to lessen the strain on that storage basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by Wednesday morning, the pump station storage was full, and repairs were still ongoing, so “sewer overflow conditions” resumed, De Lange said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016584\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016584\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241203_SewageLeak_GC-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241203_SewageLeak_GC-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241203_SewageLeak_GC-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241203_SewageLeak_GC-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241203_SewageLeak_GC-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241203_SewageLeak_GC-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241203_SewageLeak_GC-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A private road leading to a pump station on Military Ocean Terminal Concord property in Bay Point in Contra Costa County, where a broken pipe caused a massive sewage leak of about 20 million gallons of sewage into a marsh by the Sacramento River and Suisun Bay bank, on Dec. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The trucks do not have the capacity to offset flow completely, according to De Lange, but they helped slow the rate of Wednesday’s leakage. Three additional trucks are also being brought in from neighboring water districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pipe that’s broken is a pressurized tube that carries water from a storage station to a gravity pipe, through which water flows slightly downward thanks to gravitational force. It sits about 5 feet below the grade of the land, which means a contractor has to excavate the surrounding land to reach the pipe and then try to identify where the break occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De Lange said the contractor spent much of Tuesday morning digging down to the pipe and hopes to find the break and begin working on a temporary repair, like installing a cap. He expects that work could be done by the end of Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title aria-label=\"Locator map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-H4Xgg\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/H4Xgg/1/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sanitation district is also setting up about a mile’s worth of above-ground pipe that can bring the water from the storage station to the next gravity pipe. Materials for this fix will begin arriving on Wednesday, and it should be functional before the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there’s a secondary failure event or there’s another location that fails, then we have the bypass pumping,” he said. “Having the bypass pumping system in place lets us better assess the overall condition of the pipe segment … and then, if we do have to do more pronounced repair work beyond the temporary start beyond just that localized repair, if we do find corrosion in other segments, it would give us that ability to take action and make additional repairs on the line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sanitation district is also conducting water tests in the Suisun Bay, which is about a quarter-mile north of the leak and connects with the San Francisco Bay to the southwest and the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers to the east.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016586\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241203_SewageLeak_GC-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241203_SewageLeak_GC-9.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241203_SewageLeak_GC-9-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241203_SewageLeak_GC-9-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241203_SewageLeak_GC-9-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241203_SewageLeak_GC-9-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241203_SewageLeak_GC-9-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The leak near the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, which has spilled about 20 million gallons of sewage, had been temporarily halted during repair work on Dec. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>De Lange said it’s likely that some of the sewage has reached the Suisun Bay, especially since the Port Chicago Highway that runs to the south of the storage center acts as a kind of natural barrier to water passage, presumably pushing it up north. 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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland is at risk of financial insolvency if it does not significantly slash its spending by the end of the calendar year, a top city official warned this week, raising the stakes of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010521/oaklands-fiscal-crisis-budget-cuts-coming-even-with-coliseum-sale\">a budget crisis that has threatened major cuts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dire warning came at a special City Council meeting on Tuesday, where council members were told that Oakland is looking at a $93 million budget shortfall for the fiscal year that ends in June if the city continues to spend at its current rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a significant preexisting structural issue as an organization…. Now is the time that we have to take action to solve it,” City Administrator Jestin Johnson said. “We must take action over the course of the next month and a half to preserve our solvency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a few days, the fiscal crisis raised the specter of bankruptcy after a draft of the city’s latest financial report was erroneously posted Friday, mentioning the Chapter 9 process as a possibility. Oakland officials now say the city is not discussing bankruptcy, and the city has removed the language from its report — and clarified that the discussion is “premature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009486/oaklands-finances-significant-risk-report-warns-coliseum-sale-raises-questions\">Oakland’s money problems are real\u003c/a> and must be addressed quickly. Here’s what that could look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where does Oakland stand?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During the 2023–24 fiscal year, the city overspent by more than $27.5 million and had to dip into emergency reserves to pay its bills. City policy requires that these reserves stay above 7.5% of the city’s general purpose fund. If it isn’t restored by the end of this fiscal year, Oakland will have to declare a fiscal emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a resolution adopted in 2023 on the use of one-time revenues to plug budget holes, Oakland defines a fiscal emergency as the “last and most severe stage of a government entity’s financial solvency problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An unusual, unanticipated and seemingly insurmountable event or hardship of the city, one such as a natural disaster, ‘acts of god’ or war, public emergency or other unforeseen catastrophic event requiring the use of Emergency Reserves to sustain the most basic operations,” the definition continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Finance Director Erin Roseman said the City Council will need to identify roughly $115 million in cuts to balance this year’s budget and replenish the emergency fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To avoid an irrecoverable financial state, the council will need to make these decisions before the end of December, according to Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\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=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What’s going on with the Coliseum sale?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oakland already triggered a contingency budget plan that made some fairly drastic cuts in September after the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007771/new-oakland-coliseum-sale-deal-raises-questions-about-delayed-payment-and-citys-budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amended its deal to sell its share of the Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a>. Revenue from that sale to the African American Sports and Entertainment Group was budgeted to fill this year’s shortfall, but now, the funds won’t be available until May at the earliest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the contingency, which Johnson previously described as pulling the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009486/oaklands-finances-significant-risk-report-warns-coliseum-sale-raises-questions\">emergency brake\u003c/a>” on spending, Oakland has implemented a hiring freeze, delayed a police academy class, halted unfinalized contracts and grant agreements and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has not made the significant public safety cuts included in the contingency plan yet, but Johnson said that since the police and fire departments are the city’s biggest spenders, that will become unavoidable. The Fire Department is expected to exceed its budget by $34 million this fiscal year, and the Police Department is on track to overspend by $52 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also a question of whether that sale could fall through altogether. AASEG sent the city a first payment of $5 million upon signing the deal in July but has missed originally scheduled payments since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007771/new-oakland-coliseum-sale-deal-raises-questions-about-delayed-payment-and-citys-budget\">revised sale agreement\u003c/a> with AASEG pushed back the payment schedule and consolidated it so that the deal would close within the fiscal year, but it also delayed a payment expected in September, triggering the contingency. Under the new schedule, the second payment was due Nov. 7. That $10 million still has not been received by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland said this is because AASEG is also buying the Oakland A’s 50% stake in the Coliseum, which can only be sold with the Alameda County Board of Supervisors’ approval. That body has delayed setting a time to vote on approving the deal, and it is unclear if it will happen before the end of the year. Supervisor David Haubert told ABC 7 News on Nov. 12 that he is pushing for the \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/post/alameda-county-board-supervisors-delay-approval-oakland-coliseum-sale/15541600/\">vote within weeks\u003c/a>, not months.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So why are people talking about bankruptcy?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The draft of Oakland’s first-quarter fiscal report that the city posted Friday said the quarter’s spending indicated that immediate action was needed to “avoid the Chapter 9 process,” referring to filing for bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Failure to take dramatic and immediate steps to reduce expenditures will almost certainly result in insolvency,” it continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the report was quickly replaced by a new version without mention of Chapter 9, Johnson very clearly told council members on Tuesday that they needed to take swift and strong budget action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also noted looming federal changes under the second \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Donald Trump\u003c/a> administration that could hurt Oakland’s budget, including a potential reduction of federal funds for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009791/california-congressman-fights-to-protect-head-start-amid-project-2025-concerns\">programs like Head Start\u003c/a> and Community Development Block Grants, as well as impacts to the local economy and the city’s spending costs if President-elect Trump’s tariff plan is executed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Trump carries out planned mass deportations, it could have even more dire consequences, Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The economic impacts of a tenth of that action will make the other things I mentioned look small,” he said. “None of that is factored in. There are downside impacts that we have to consider as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98178\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98178\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/vallejo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1978\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Georgia Street in downtown Vallejo, which filed for bankruptcy in 2008. (Justin Sulivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Is this precedented?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If Oakland were to file for bankruptcy, it would be the fourth major California city to do so and the third in Northern California. In the throes of the Great Recession, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101864150/forum-on-the-road-vallejos-bankruptcy-10-years-later\">Vallejo filed for bankruptcy in 2008\u003c/a>, and Stockton wasn’t far behind in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of those cities have worked their way back to fiscal health, and now Stockton’s budget is larger than Oakland’s. But according to former Stockton Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/michael-tubbs\">Michael Tubbs\u003c/a>, it has been a long road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to work together and make really hard, painful, difficult decisions that the city is still recovering from,” said Tubbs, who joined the City Council in 2013 and served as mayor while the city was exiting bankruptcy, from 2017 to 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing that’s for certain is that those would be painful cuts, and there will be sort of a baseline level of service delivery that will be very meager,” he continued. “And that is not what the citizens deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens in a municipal bankruptcy?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When a city files for bankruptcy, it has to enter into a settlement agreement with all of its claimants — the people or entities to whom the city owes or pays money. These include bondholders, bargaining units, individuals or companies who have pending litigation with the city and capital market creditors, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bankruptcy judge must approve all of the settlements as part of the city’s plan of adjustment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Tubbs said, city officials have to make significant budget reductions, which he called “draconian.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11777793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11777793\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs, 29, stands in front of City Hall. Soon his staff will move out to make way for new lofts and other downtown developments. Tubbs says the key to revitalizing the city is lifting people out of poverty.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Tubbs, then Stockton’s mayor, in front of City Hall. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/California Dream)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What could get cut?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This includes service reductions pretty much across the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to close down libraries, cut parks and recreation programs, we weren’t able to do maintenance,” Tubbs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stockton also had to lay off city staff, including roughly a third of public safety officers, Tubbs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw longer response times. We saw a triage situation where officers weren’t able to respond to all crimes and had to really prioritize violent crimes,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Vallejo declared bankruptcy, it had to close three of its eight fire stations, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2012/07/11/156621232/what-happens-when-a-city-declares-bankruptcy#:~:text=For%20example%2C%20when%20the%20city,medical%20emergency%20or%20a%20fire.\">interview\u003c/a> with then-City Manager Phil Batchelor on NPR’s \u003cem>Talk of the Nation\u003c/em> in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oaklanders are especially concerned with cuts to the fire and police departments. The city already has a struggling \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003276/oaklands-beleaguered-911-dispatch-still-far-behind-state-standards-but-improving\">911 dispatch system\u003c/a>, and multiple council members pointed out that a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010151/oakland-fire-spreads-to-nearby-homes-amid-dry-windy-conditions\">five-alarm fire in the Oakland Hills\u003c/a> last month would have been nearly impossible to fight with the contingency budget’s cuts in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Other side effects?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tubbs said bankruptcy also carries a stigma. Fewer businesses want to come into the city, and residents are less trusting of the government — and, therefore, less likely to pass tax measures that would increase its revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Stockton, he said, “Every time there’s a tax measure, it’s a fight. The tax measure we ran to fund our bankruptcy [recovery] didn’t get 90% of the vote. I think it passed like 53% to 52%. It becomes very difficult to earn back trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recovery is possible, though. Stockton now has one of the most solvent budgets in the state and has instituted policies that protect it from dipping into dangerous spending again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tubbs said the keys are not spending one-time funds on long-term costs — one of the largest criticisms of the Coliseum deal — along with having a reserve equal to a third of the city’s budget and creating a tool that provides a long-range forecast of how new spending would affect cash flow long term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010225\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010225\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao (left) and Oakland Fire Chief Damon Covington address the press at the Keller Fire in Oakland on Oct. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What will happen in Oakland?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are lots of unknowns surrounding what the next few make-or-break weeks will look like for Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tuesday’s meeting, Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan set an agenda item for December to consider moving up to $30 million from the city’s self-insurance liability fund to its general purpose fund reserve to patch the leftover deficit and avoid a fiscal emergency. Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas seemed to show support for the move, but Councilmember Dan Kalb said he wouldn’t feel comfortable moving a full $30 million for that purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will also be big leadership changes before the end of the year. After Mayor Sheng Thao was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012357/sheng-thao-accepts-defeat-in-contentious-oakland-mayoral-recall\">recalled by voters\u003c/a> this month, Bas is set to take over as interim mayor until a special election is held. This could be thrown into question, though, since she is awaiting final results in a race for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014241/what-happens-now-oaklands-mayor-recalled-could-get-messy\">Alameda County Board of Supervisors\u003c/a> that is still too close to call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she is elected supervisor, she could theoretically serve as interim mayor for a few weeks, but once sworn onto the board in January, the city will have to appoint a different interim leader at this critical time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Oakland officials and Tubbs expressed that there’s still time for the city to back off of its fiscal cliff — if it navigates the situation urgently and carefully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland is too important of a city for California to be left bankrupt,” Tubbs said. “We have to get this right in Oakland…. It’s a place of culture. It’s a place of activism. It’s a place where justice is found. It’s a place of creativity. It’s a place of diversity. It’s a place that is so important, particularly at this moment. So we have to make sure that it works.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Oakland is at risk of financial insolvency if it does not significantly slash its spending by the end of the calendar year, a top city official warned this week, raising the stakes of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010521/oaklands-fiscal-crisis-budget-cuts-coming-even-with-coliseum-sale\">a budget crisis that has threatened major cuts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dire warning came at a special City Council meeting on Tuesday, where council members were told that Oakland is looking at a $93 million budget shortfall for the fiscal year that ends in June if the city continues to spend at its current rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a significant preexisting structural issue as an organization…. Now is the time that we have to take action to solve it,” City Administrator Jestin Johnson said. “We must take action over the course of the next month and a half to preserve our solvency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a few days, the fiscal crisis raised the specter of bankruptcy after a draft of the city’s latest financial report was erroneously posted Friday, mentioning the Chapter 9 process as a possibility. Oakland officials now say the city is not discussing bankruptcy, and the city has removed the language from its report — and clarified that the discussion is “premature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009486/oaklands-finances-significant-risk-report-warns-coliseum-sale-raises-questions\">Oakland’s money problems are real\u003c/a> and must be addressed quickly. Here’s what that could look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where does Oakland stand?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During the 2023–24 fiscal year, the city overspent by more than $27.5 million and had to dip into emergency reserves to pay its bills. City policy requires that these reserves stay above 7.5% of the city’s general purpose fund. If it isn’t restored by the end of this fiscal year, Oakland will have to declare a fiscal emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a resolution adopted in 2023 on the use of one-time revenues to plug budget holes, Oakland defines a fiscal emergency as the “last and most severe stage of a government entity’s financial solvency problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An unusual, unanticipated and seemingly insurmountable event or hardship of the city, one such as a natural disaster, ‘acts of god’ or war, public emergency or other unforeseen catastrophic event requiring the use of Emergency Reserves to sustain the most basic operations,” the definition continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Finance Director Erin Roseman said the City Council will need to identify roughly $115 million in cuts to balance this year’s budget and replenish the emergency fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To avoid an irrecoverable financial state, the council will need to make these decisions before the end of December, according to Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\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=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What’s going on with the Coliseum sale?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oakland already triggered a contingency budget plan that made some fairly drastic cuts in September after the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007771/new-oakland-coliseum-sale-deal-raises-questions-about-delayed-payment-and-citys-budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amended its deal to sell its share of the Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a>. Revenue from that sale to the African American Sports and Entertainment Group was budgeted to fill this year’s shortfall, but now, the funds won’t be available until May at the earliest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the contingency, which Johnson previously described as pulling the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009486/oaklands-finances-significant-risk-report-warns-coliseum-sale-raises-questions\">emergency brake\u003c/a>” on spending, Oakland has implemented a hiring freeze, delayed a police academy class, halted unfinalized contracts and grant agreements and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has not made the significant public safety cuts included in the contingency plan yet, but Johnson said that since the police and fire departments are the city’s biggest spenders, that will become unavoidable. The Fire Department is expected to exceed its budget by $34 million this fiscal year, and the Police Department is on track to overspend by $52 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also a question of whether that sale could fall through altogether. AASEG sent the city a first payment of $5 million upon signing the deal in July but has missed originally scheduled payments since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007771/new-oakland-coliseum-sale-deal-raises-questions-about-delayed-payment-and-citys-budget\">revised sale agreement\u003c/a> with AASEG pushed back the payment schedule and consolidated it so that the deal would close within the fiscal year, but it also delayed a payment expected in September, triggering the contingency. Under the new schedule, the second payment was due Nov. 7. That $10 million still has not been received by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland said this is because AASEG is also buying the Oakland A’s 50% stake in the Coliseum, which can only be sold with the Alameda County Board of Supervisors’ approval. That body has delayed setting a time to vote on approving the deal, and it is unclear if it will happen before the end of the year. Supervisor David Haubert told ABC 7 News on Nov. 12 that he is pushing for the \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/post/alameda-county-board-supervisors-delay-approval-oakland-coliseum-sale/15541600/\">vote within weeks\u003c/a>, not months.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So why are people talking about bankruptcy?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The draft of Oakland’s first-quarter fiscal report that the city posted Friday said the quarter’s spending indicated that immediate action was needed to “avoid the Chapter 9 process,” referring to filing for bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Failure to take dramatic and immediate steps to reduce expenditures will almost certainly result in insolvency,” it continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the report was quickly replaced by a new version without mention of Chapter 9, Johnson very clearly told council members on Tuesday that they needed to take swift and strong budget action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also noted looming federal changes under the second \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Donald Trump\u003c/a> administration that could hurt Oakland’s budget, including a potential reduction of federal funds for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009791/california-congressman-fights-to-protect-head-start-amid-project-2025-concerns\">programs like Head Start\u003c/a> and Community Development Block Grants, as well as impacts to the local economy and the city’s spending costs if President-elect Trump’s tariff plan is executed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Trump carries out planned mass deportations, it could have even more dire consequences, Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The economic impacts of a tenth of that action will make the other things I mentioned look small,” he said. “None of that is factored in. There are downside impacts that we have to consider as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98178\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98178\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/vallejo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1978\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Georgia Street in downtown Vallejo, which filed for bankruptcy in 2008. (Justin Sulivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Is this precedented?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If Oakland were to file for bankruptcy, it would be the fourth major California city to do so and the third in Northern California. In the throes of the Great Recession, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101864150/forum-on-the-road-vallejos-bankruptcy-10-years-later\">Vallejo filed for bankruptcy in 2008\u003c/a>, and Stockton wasn’t far behind in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of those cities have worked their way back to fiscal health, and now Stockton’s budget is larger than Oakland’s. But according to former Stockton Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/michael-tubbs\">Michael Tubbs\u003c/a>, it has been a long road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to work together and make really hard, painful, difficult decisions that the city is still recovering from,” said Tubbs, who joined the City Council in 2013 and served as mayor while the city was exiting bankruptcy, from 2017 to 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing that’s for certain is that those would be painful cuts, and there will be sort of a baseline level of service delivery that will be very meager,” he continued. “And that is not what the citizens deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens in a municipal bankruptcy?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When a city files for bankruptcy, it has to enter into a settlement agreement with all of its claimants — the people or entities to whom the city owes or pays money. These include bondholders, bargaining units, individuals or companies who have pending litigation with the city and capital market creditors, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bankruptcy judge must approve all of the settlements as part of the city’s plan of adjustment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Tubbs said, city officials have to make significant budget reductions, which he called “draconian.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11777793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11777793\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs, 29, stands in front of City Hall. Soon his staff will move out to make way for new lofts and other downtown developments. Tubbs says the key to revitalizing the city is lifting people out of poverty.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Tubbs, then Stockton’s mayor, in front of City Hall. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/California Dream)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What could get cut?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This includes service reductions pretty much across the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to close down libraries, cut parks and recreation programs, we weren’t able to do maintenance,” Tubbs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stockton also had to lay off city staff, including roughly a third of public safety officers, Tubbs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw longer response times. We saw a triage situation where officers weren’t able to respond to all crimes and had to really prioritize violent crimes,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Vallejo declared bankruptcy, it had to close three of its eight fire stations, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2012/07/11/156621232/what-happens-when-a-city-declares-bankruptcy#:~:text=For%20example%2C%20when%20the%20city,medical%20emergency%20or%20a%20fire.\">interview\u003c/a> with then-City Manager Phil Batchelor on NPR’s \u003cem>Talk of the Nation\u003c/em> in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oaklanders are especially concerned with cuts to the fire and police departments. The city already has a struggling \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003276/oaklands-beleaguered-911-dispatch-still-far-behind-state-standards-but-improving\">911 dispatch system\u003c/a>, and multiple council members pointed out that a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010151/oakland-fire-spreads-to-nearby-homes-amid-dry-windy-conditions\">five-alarm fire in the Oakland Hills\u003c/a> last month would have been nearly impossible to fight with the contingency budget’s cuts in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Other side effects?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tubbs said bankruptcy also carries a stigma. Fewer businesses want to come into the city, and residents are less trusting of the government — and, therefore, less likely to pass tax measures that would increase its revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Stockton, he said, “Every time there’s a tax measure, it’s a fight. The tax measure we ran to fund our bankruptcy [recovery] didn’t get 90% of the vote. I think it passed like 53% to 52%. It becomes very difficult to earn back trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recovery is possible, though. Stockton now has one of the most solvent budgets in the state and has instituted policies that protect it from dipping into dangerous spending again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tubbs said the keys are not spending one-time funds on long-term costs — one of the largest criticisms of the Coliseum deal — along with having a reserve equal to a third of the city’s budget and creating a tool that provides a long-range forecast of how new spending would affect cash flow long term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010225\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010225\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao (left) and Oakland Fire Chief Damon Covington address the press at the Keller Fire in Oakland on Oct. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What will happen in Oakland?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are lots of unknowns surrounding what the next few make-or-break weeks will look like for Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tuesday’s meeting, Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan set an agenda item for December to consider moving up to $30 million from the city’s self-insurance liability fund to its general purpose fund reserve to patch the leftover deficit and avoid a fiscal emergency. Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas seemed to show support for the move, but Councilmember Dan Kalb said he wouldn’t feel comfortable moving a full $30 million for that purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will also be big leadership changes before the end of the year. After Mayor Sheng Thao was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012357/sheng-thao-accepts-defeat-in-contentious-oakland-mayoral-recall\">recalled by voters\u003c/a> this month, Bas is set to take over as interim mayor until a special election is held. This could be thrown into question, though, since she is awaiting final results in a race for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014241/what-happens-now-oaklands-mayor-recalled-could-get-messy\">Alameda County Board of Supervisors\u003c/a> that is still too close to call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she is elected supervisor, she could theoretically serve as interim mayor for a few weeks, but once sworn onto the board in January, the city will have to appoint a different interim leader at this critical time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Oakland officials and Tubbs expressed that there’s still time for the city to back off of its fiscal cliff — if it navigates the situation urgently and carefully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland is too important of a city for California to be left bankrupt,” Tubbs said. “We have to get this right in Oakland…. It’s a place of culture. It’s a place of activism. It’s a place where justice is found. It’s a place of creativity. It’s a place of diversity. It’s a place that is so important, particularly at this moment. So we have to make sure that it works.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The federal agency responsible for investigating chemical accidents at industrial facilities, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oil-refineries\">oil refineries\u003c/a> like those in the Bay Area, is at risk of being shut down under the second Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, then-President Donald Trump tried and failed to use the budget process \u003ca href=\"https://publicintegrity.org/politics/system-failure/agency-industrial-chemical-safety-board-disasters-life-support-trump-deregulation/\">to shut down the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board\u003c/a>, better known as the CSB. He could try it again, as he’s repeatedly said he plans to increase oil and gas production with a deregulatory agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Starting on Day 1, I will approve new drilling, new pipelines, new refiners, new power plants, new reactors, and we will slash the red tape,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/11/13/nx-s1-5181963/trump-promises-more-drilling-in-the-u-s-to-boost-fossil-fuel-production\">Trump said in early September\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CSB has investigated major disasters like the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling explosion and leak that lasted for several months in 2010 and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.csb.gov/bio-lab-inc-conyers-fire-and-chemical-release-/\">Bio-Lab explosion and fire\u003c/a> in Georgia earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, it investigated the explosion and fire at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/94930/how-the-chevron-richmond-fire-happened-feds-release-blow-by-blow-animation-of-accident\">Chevron’s Richmond refinery in 2012\u003c/a> that sent 15,000 people to hospitals, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665999/chevron-richmond-move-to-settle-lawsuit-over-2012-refinery-fire-that-sickened-thousands\">most of them with breathing problems\u003c/a>. More recently, it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988025/marathons-martinez-refinery-hit-with-state-fines-over-fire-that-burned-worker\">investigated safety violations\u003c/a> that resulted in a fire that injured a worker last year at \u003ca href=\"https://www.csb.gov/martinez-renewable-fuels-fire-/\">Marathon Petroleum’s Martinez Renewable Fuels refinery\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re the folks who show up and just get to the facts and get to the root cause, hold people accountable,” said Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (D-Concord), who was a Contra Costa County supervisor when his predecessor, George Miller, helped create the CSB in the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12014671\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA) speaks during a House Rules Committee hearing on the impeachment against President Donald Trump on Dec. 17, 2019 in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Patrick Semansky-Pool/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While local agencies like the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and the California Air Resources Board keep tabs on refineries, the CSB’s reports often offer more detail and are released faster than those from other agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeSaulnier — who also supported many environmental protections when he served on the California Air Resources Board and BAAQMD — said the CSB is vital to the health of the nation, as its findings have helped usher in regulations that have made it safer for workers, the environment and human health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should Trump attempt to get rid of the CSB a second time, DeSaulnier said he’ll fight back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s basically taking the police officer off the beat at the federal level for polluters. He’s saying, ‘Go ahead and pollute. Go ahead and risk your employees’ and your neighbors’ lives. That’s fine with us. Nobody’s going to be watching,’” DeSaulnier said. “I will. I will fight that tooth and nail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should the CSB be terminated, “the likelihood of somebody dying goes up in our case” because there will be a push to lower regulations to compete with places with lower environmental standards, DeSaulnier said, using Louisiana and Thailand as examples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the Environmental Protection Agency or the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the CSB’s investigatory functioning is free of typical rulemaking, which allows it to investigate multiple facets of an industrial accident, including workplace safety issues and chemical releases that may have harmed the outside community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12013686 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress also gave it autonomy so that it isn’t beholden to any other agency or the executive branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the president appoints the CSB’s members. It is a five-member board, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.csb.gov/about-the-csb/board-members/\">two seats are vacant\u003c/a> — and the current three members of the board all have terms that expire before the end of Trump’s second term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Trump has yet to formally call for the end of the CSB, he has already told one of his Cabinet appointments, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — a former environmental lawyer tapped to lead the Department of Health and Human Services — “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/11/06/nx-s1-5181891/trump-win-climate-change-fossil-fuels-clean-energy\">to stay away from the liquid gold\u003c/a>,” alluding to oil and gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeSaulnier said that the “real gold” is renewable energy and that more oil refineries are turning greener, evidenced by two of the four refineries in Contra Costa County — the Marathon refinery in Martinez and the Phillips 66 refinery in Rodeo — announcing last year that they were switching to processing plant-based diesel fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the economic model is very compelling,” DeSaulnier said, adding that if the U.S. doesn’t continue to transition to renewable energy, it’ll be far behind other countries already doing so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/12/exxon-ceo-says-trump-should-keep-us-involved-in-global-effort-to-address-climate-change.html\">Exxon Mobil’s CEO pushed back\u003c/a> against Trump’s reliance on fossil fuels as the company attempts to transition to other forms of energy because “investors know where the future is, and they know where the return on investment is,” DeSaulnier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Trump to gut or cut the CSB and continue to push for less regulation on the fossil fuel industry “is just perfect madness,” DeSaulnier said. “But I think he will do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Nov. 18: A previous version of this story misstated one of the two Contra Costa County refineries that announced switches to processing plant-based diesel fuels last year. 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