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Early on, she dealt with major challenges, including the February 2023 cyberattack on the city’s IT system, the departure of the city’s last major league sports team after negotiations to keep the A’s in Oakland fell apart and a police misconduct scandal that ultimately led to Thao firing now-former police chief, Leronne Armstrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, one year into her term, two Oakland residents announced they were heading up an effort to recall Thao. Seneca Scott, a former candidate for mayor, and Brenda Harbin-Forte, a former superior court judge and former member of the city’s Police Commission, formed a campaign called Oakland United to Recall Sheng Thao, or OUST.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUST says it was a mistake to fire Armstrong and they blame Thao for a rise in crime in the city in 2023. Crime rates are now declining, according to data reporting by the Oakland Police Department. OUST also says Thao has violated city and state ethics rules and points to three open Public Ethics Commission complaints alleging Thao misbehaved during her campaign for the 2022 mayoral election and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991242/fbi-agents-raid-home-of-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\">FBI raid of her home\u003c/a> last June. PEC told KQED that two of the complaints are on hold, and one has progressed to an investigation. PEC staff places matters on hold when there is insufficient evidence or staffing to pursue it or when the issue raised is considered of lesser public interest. No criminal charges have been filed against Thao in relation to the FBI raid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of Thao say Oakland’s public safety challenges are decades old and not the fault of a mayor who’s been in office for less than two years. They say the recall is the work of people bitter that their preferred candidate didn’t win the 2022 mayoral election. \u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">A wealthy Piedmont hedge-fund manager has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998651/a-hedge-fund-manager-is-funding-bid-to-oust-oaklands-mayor-and-its-not-his-first-recall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">predominantly funded the recall effort\u003c/a>\u003c/span>, and Thao supporters say OUST doesn’t reflect the interests or the will of the majority of Oakland voters. 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"content": "\u003cp>An anti-recall movement is gaining steam in Alameda County, where District Attorney Pamela Price and Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao face recall elections in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recalls are two of four in Alameda County that qualified to go before voters this year. Residents recalled two Sunol Glen school board members\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992811/how-a-controversial-flag-policy-ignited-a-recall-in-the-town-of-sunol\"> in July\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bubbling up of new energy countering the remaining recalls arrives after months of headlines dominated by recall supporters. As the county counts down the days to the election, anti-recall organizers say they plan to defend those who voted for Thao and Price in 2022. They want the candidates to serve full terms in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hold them to the same standard: high crimes and misdemeanors,” East Oakland Pastor Billy Dixon said at an anti-recall event on Saturday, referring to the standard for presidential impeachment. “Neither one committed high crimes and misdemeanors. So until that takes place, I don’t think a recall should take place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last weekend, the campaign to keep Thao in office — Oaklanders Defending Democracy, Oppose the Recall of Mayor Thao — collected its first major donation: a $10,000 check from Quinn Delaney, a Piedmont progressive philanthropist and the founder and board president of Akonadi Foundation, a racial justice organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The renewed push against the recalls comes as the pro-recall campaigns appear to be running out of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001118\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001118\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recall opponents gathered at Thy Word Ministries in East Oakland on Aug. 17, 2024, for the Launch of the Respect Our Vote — No Recalls Coalition. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The latest campaign finance filings show the two pro-recall campaigns are in debt. According to filings from April 1 through the end of June, the campaign to recall Price, Save Alameda For Everyone, is more than half a million dollars in debt. Most of the money is owed to PCI Consultants, a Calabasas-based signature-gathering company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of the end of June, the campaign to recall Thao, Oakland United to Recall Sheng Thao, was $21,205 in debt, mostly to Philip Dreyfuss, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998651/a-hedge-fund-manager-is-funding-bid-to-oust-oaklands-mayor-and-its-not-his-first-recall\">the Piedmont hedge fund manager who has provided nearly 80% of the campaign’s funding\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donations to SAFE during the most recent reporting period were less than $7,000, a notable decrease from the three previous disclosures — $20,000, $240,000 and $160,000, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An OUST press conference last week announcing that recall leader Brenda Harbin-Forte, a former Superior Court of Alameda County judge, was stepping away to focus on running for Oakland City Attorney, drew only a handful of attendees. A photo of the event, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DarwinBondGraha/status/1824515570454368404\">posted on X by \u003cem>The Oaklandside’s\u003c/em> Darwin BondGraham,\u003c/a> was mocked in the comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=news_11998651 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20230909-DAPROTEST-44-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, at the launch event of a new anti-recall coalition on Saturday, hosted by Dixon at his church, Thy Word Ministries, had a crowd of around 100 people at its peak. Civil rights attorney Walter Riley and Pamela Drake, an Oakland political activist and Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club member, organized the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition, Respect Our Vote — No Recalls, includes the Oakland-based Latino Task Force, Oakland Rising Action and Asian Americans for a Progressive Alameda, among other members. Speakers described the recalls as an attempt by billionaires to remove the county’s elected leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to expose that the vehicle of recalls — that is really a people’s device against entrenched power — has been co-opted by billionaires,” said Pastor BK Woodson Sr., a recall opponent, referring to major donations from Dreyfuss and \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/03/06/ron-conway-top-funder-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-recall-campaign/\">tech investor Ron Conway.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jess Inson, an Oakland Rising Action organizer, estimated the coalition needs to recruit 500 volunteers to knock on doors and talk with county voters. If the coalition can reach 10,000 voters, Inson said it can defeat the recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mariano Contreras of the Latino Task Force said the age and ethnic diversity of event attendees was a reflection of the years of progressive organizing that helped elect Thao and Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is why there’s a recall,” Contreras said. “This is why that dark money is uncomfortable with our elected officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of donating directly to the recall campaigns, Dreyfuss donated through two fundraising committees — Foundational Oakland Unites and Supporters of Recall Pamela Price. The latter was initially named Reviving the Bay Area but rebranded after a Price campaign attorney complained to election officials that the original name illegally obscured the purpose of the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001119\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001119\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Oakland Mayor Jean Quan spoke to the audience during a Q&A following the planned series of speakers and reflected on the unsuccessful effort to recall her when she was mayor. “What’s clear since then is it’s a tactic,” she said. “It’s an organized tactic of conservative people to take back our elections, and we have to fight to make sure that they respect our votes.” \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An investigation by the Oakland Public Ethics Commission into allegations that Foundational Oakland Unites was illegally coordinating its donations with OUST faced a setback last month when an Alameda County Superior Court Judge \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/07/26/oakland-judge-recall-sheng-thao-campaign-ethics-investigation-recuses/\">recused herself from a key hearing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Oakland Mayor Jean Quan said she believes the recalls are part of a bigger political backlash to recent progressive electoral wins in the Bay Area. She said the movement found success with the recall of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin. Conway and Dreyfuss donated to the 2022 recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dreyfuss did not respond to requests for comment regarding his recall donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We in the East Bay, which is a liberal bastion, is probably a nice target,” Quan said at the event. “If they can take down and divide our community, they don’t have to worry so much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quan continued: “This is not just about the recalls. It’s about the control of the [Oakland] city council. It’s about the policies that we’ve led the nation in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She noted Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/01/17/what-is-ceasefire-oakland-gun-violence-prevention-program/\">cease-fire program\u003c/a>, which attempts to stop homicides before they happen by offering resources to young people most likely to commit homicides, and the decision by Oakland and Berkeley to give \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000395/how-teen-voters-in-berkeley-oakland-can-shape-upcoming-school-board-elections\">16- and 17-year-olds a vote in school board elections\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claims that the recalls are part of a billionaire-funded political plot have frustrated some Alameda County recall supporters who say they just want safety. They blame Thao and Price for the surge in violent crime in Oakland since the pandemic. But recently, the number of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000598/oakland-police-say-violent-crime-is-down-but-guns-are-an-issue-in-west-oakland\">homicides, robberies and rapes\u003c/a> in the city has declined, according to Oakland police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a fundraising email last week, OUST defended itself against the claim that billionaires are running the recall. “Newsflash: people with resources invest in political causes,” the email read. “When those causes align with the will of the people, it can be a beautiful thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last weekend, the campaign to keep Thao in office — Oaklanders Defending Democracy, Oppose the Recall of Mayor Thao — collected its first major donation: a $10,000 check from Quinn Delaney, a Piedmont progressive philanthropist and the founder and board president of Akonadi Foundation, a racial justice organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The renewed push against the recalls comes as the pro-recall campaigns appear to be running out of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001118\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001118\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recall opponents gathered at Thy Word Ministries in East Oakland on Aug. 17, 2024, for the Launch of the Respect Our Vote — No Recalls Coalition. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The latest campaign finance filings show the two pro-recall campaigns are in debt. According to filings from April 1 through the end of June, the campaign to recall Price, Save Alameda For Everyone, is more than half a million dollars in debt. Most of the money is owed to PCI Consultants, a Calabasas-based signature-gathering company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of the end of June, the campaign to recall Thao, Oakland United to Recall Sheng Thao, was $21,205 in debt, mostly to Philip Dreyfuss, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998651/a-hedge-fund-manager-is-funding-bid-to-oust-oaklands-mayor-and-its-not-his-first-recall\">the Piedmont hedge fund manager who has provided nearly 80% of the campaign’s funding\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donations to SAFE during the most recent reporting period were less than $7,000, a notable decrease from the three previous disclosures — $20,000, $240,000 and $160,000, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An OUST press conference last week announcing that recall leader Brenda Harbin-Forte, a former Superior Court of Alameda County judge, was stepping away to focus on running for Oakland City Attorney, drew only a handful of attendees. A photo of the event, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DarwinBondGraha/status/1824515570454368404\">posted on X by \u003cem>The Oaklandside’s\u003c/em> Darwin BondGraham,\u003c/a> was mocked in the comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, at the launch event of a new anti-recall coalition on Saturday, hosted by Dixon at his church, Thy Word Ministries, had a crowd of around 100 people at its peak. Civil rights attorney Walter Riley and Pamela Drake, an Oakland political activist and Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club member, organized the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition, Respect Our Vote — No Recalls, includes the Oakland-based Latino Task Force, Oakland Rising Action and Asian Americans for a Progressive Alameda, among other members. Speakers described the recalls as an attempt by billionaires to remove the county’s elected leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to expose that the vehicle of recalls — that is really a people’s device against entrenched power — has been co-opted by billionaires,” said Pastor BK Woodson Sr., a recall opponent, referring to major donations from Dreyfuss and \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/03/06/ron-conway-top-funder-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-recall-campaign/\">tech investor Ron Conway.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jess Inson, an Oakland Rising Action organizer, estimated the coalition needs to recruit 500 volunteers to knock on doors and talk with county voters. If the coalition can reach 10,000 voters, Inson said it can defeat the recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mariano Contreras of the Latino Task Force said the age and ethnic diversity of event attendees was a reflection of the years of progressive organizing that helped elect Thao and Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is why there’s a recall,” Contreras said. “This is why that dark money is uncomfortable with our elected officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of donating directly to the recall campaigns, Dreyfuss donated through two fundraising committees — Foundational Oakland Unites and Supporters of Recall Pamela Price. The latter was initially named Reviving the Bay Area but rebranded after a Price campaign attorney complained to election officials that the original name illegally obscured the purpose of the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001119\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001119\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Oakland Mayor Jean Quan spoke to the audience during a Q&A following the planned series of speakers and reflected on the unsuccessful effort to recall her when she was mayor. “What’s clear since then is it’s a tactic,” she said. “It’s an organized tactic of conservative people to take back our elections, and we have to fight to make sure that they respect our votes.” \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An investigation by the Oakland Public Ethics Commission into allegations that Foundational Oakland Unites was illegally coordinating its donations with OUST faced a setback last month when an Alameda County Superior Court Judge \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/07/26/oakland-judge-recall-sheng-thao-campaign-ethics-investigation-recuses/\">recused herself from a key hearing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Oakland Mayor Jean Quan said she believes the recalls are part of a bigger political backlash to recent progressive electoral wins in the Bay Area. She said the movement found success with the recall of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin. Conway and Dreyfuss donated to the 2022 recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dreyfuss did not respond to requests for comment regarding his recall donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We in the East Bay, which is a liberal bastion, is probably a nice target,” Quan said at the event. “If they can take down and divide our community, they don’t have to worry so much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quan continued: “This is not just about the recalls. It’s about the control of the [Oakland] city council. It’s about the policies that we’ve led the nation in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She noted Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/01/17/what-is-ceasefire-oakland-gun-violence-prevention-program/\">cease-fire program\u003c/a>, which attempts to stop homicides before they happen by offering resources to young people most likely to commit homicides, and the decision by Oakland and Berkeley to give \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000395/how-teen-voters-in-berkeley-oakland-can-shape-upcoming-school-board-elections\">16- and 17-year-olds a vote in school board elections\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claims that the recalls are part of a billionaire-funded political plot have frustrated some Alameda County recall supporters who say they just want safety. They blame Thao and Price for the surge in violent crime in Oakland since the pandemic. But recently, the number of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000598/oakland-police-say-violent-crime-is-down-but-guns-are-an-issue-in-west-oakland\">homicides, robberies and rapes\u003c/a> in the city has declined, according to Oakland police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a fundraising email last week, OUST defended itself against the claim that billionaires are running the recall. “Newsflash: people with resources invest in political causes,” the email read. “When those causes align with the will of the people, it can be a beautiful thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The budget passed by the City Council early this month included $63 million in expected one-time revenue from the Coliseum sale to help close the shortfall without laying off workers or making massive cuts, including to public safety departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao’s plan to use the funds, which were pending at the time, to subsidize this year’s budget proved controversial during negotiations. Councilmember Janani Ramachandran said that a deal was “nowhere near” being signed at the time, and therefore, a budget utilizing its funds should be a “nonstarter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 2, the council voted 5–3 to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992883/oakland-city-council-passes-budget-amid-concerns-over-pending-coliseum-sale\">pass Thao’s budget\u003c/a>, with a contingency plan should the first funds from the Coliseum sale not be available by the September deadline, which city budget administrator Bradley Johnson said would require pulling the funding “emergency brake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Payments for the sale of Oakland’s 50% stake in the Coliseum site to AASEG will be made in installments over the next several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao said the first payment of $5 million will be available within a week of the deal signing, which is set to happen no later than Aug. 23. A second $10 million payment will be available Sept. 1, and the remaining $90 million will be paid in three more installments before June 2026.[aside postID=news_11987568 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1491550733-1020x670.jpg']The Oakland Police Officers Association said it was “doubtful the sale of the Oakland Coliseum will solve the mayor’s and city council’s epic mismanagement,” according to a statement from Sgt. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 1:20 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has agreed on the terms for the sale of its share of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-coliseum\">Coliseum\u003c/a> complex to a private developer, city officials announced Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Sheng Thao said officials signed the term sheet outlining the $105 million sale of the city’s half of the Coliseum, where the Oakland Athletics are playing their last season, to the African American Sports and Entertainment Group. The deal allows Oakland to avoid city employee layoffs as it deals with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992883/oakland-city-council-passes-budget-amid-concerns-over-pending-coliseum-sale\">a budget shortfall\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’ve done today is we’ve changed Oakland for the better because what we’re doing is we’re investing not in just today, but we are investing in Oakland for tomorrow,” Thao said during a press conference on Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987568/oakland-coliseum-sale-expected-to-help-city-avoid-drastic-budget-cuts\">Thao announced\u003c/a> that revenue from the sale to AASEG would be used to close part of the city’s massive budget deficit — $117 million this fiscal year and $175 million next year. The budget passed by the City Council early this month included $63 million in expected one-time revenue from the Coliseum sale to help close the shortfall without laying off workers or making massive cuts, including to public safety departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao’s plan to use the funds, which were pending at the time, to subsidize this year’s budget proved controversial during negotiations. Councilmember Janani Ramachandran said that a deal was “nowhere near” being signed at the time, and therefore, a budget utilizing its funds should be a “nonstarter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 2, the council voted 5–3 to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992883/oakland-city-council-passes-budget-amid-concerns-over-pending-coliseum-sale\">pass Thao’s budget\u003c/a>, with a contingency plan should the first funds from the Coliseum sale not be available by the September deadline, which city budget administrator Bradley Johnson said would require pulling the funding “emergency brake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Payments for the sale of Oakland’s 50% stake in the Coliseum site to AASEG will be made in installments over the next several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao said the first payment of $5 million will be available within a week of the deal signing, which is set to happen no later than Aug. 23. A second $10 million payment will be available Sept. 1, and the remaining $90 million will be paid in three more installments before June 2026.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Oakland Police Officers Association said it was “doubtful the sale of the Oakland Coliseum will solve the mayor’s and city council’s epic mismanagement,” according to a statement from Sgt. Tim Dolan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are deeply concerned for the safety of residents, businesses, and our police officers,” Dolan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Thao said the deal was not a short-term solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a deal that will lead to a multi-billion-dollar investment in East Oakland,” she wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/MayorShengThao/status/1818079165150798269\">post on X\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao said in May that the city would be working with AASEG to create housing, along with an entertainment, retail and sports destination at the site of the Coliseum. A spokesperson for the mayor also said that future property taxes from the Coliseum would be used to help the city address its larger structural deficit and create jobs for residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The owner of the Black-owned firm, which also signed the deal on Monday, said the sale presents a new opportunity to revitalize East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see it as an incredible opportunity, but more we see it as a profound responsibility,” Ray Bobbitt, a founder and managing member of AASEG, said during Tuesday’s press conference. “The fact that we are local, we’re here, we were all born and raised here, I’m a direct product of the Oakland public school system — that’s one of the reasons why we believe we were selected. We engage the community at a high level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AASEG is also in talks to purchase the portion of the Coliseum owned by the A’s, who are still paying off the team’s 2019 purchase of Alameda County’s share of the site, and the two groups remain in “constant communication” negotiating, Bobbitt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal comes as the A’s filed official layoff notices for 415 employees. The team plans to finish the season at the Coliseum before moving to Sacramento for at least the next three seasons. Their long-term plan remains to build a stadium in Las Vegas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Ever since a series of early morning FBI raids last month exposed the existence of a federal criminal investigation involving Oakland elected officials, each week seems to bring a trickle of public updates. The latest: City officials were given until Thursday morning to turn over records in response to a grand jury subpoena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An assistant U.S. attorney signed the order seeking a far-reaching collection of records a few days after Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s home and three properties related to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991426/oakland-fbi-raids-also-targeted-this-powerful-family-heres-what-we-know\">the politically connected Duong family\u003c/a> were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991242/fbi-agents-raid-home-of-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\">searched by federal law enforcement\u003c/a>. The \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/oakland-staff-told-retain-files-federal-subpoena-19556993.php\">first reported\u003c/a> the subpoena last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s city attorney did not respond to a request for comment Thursday on whether the city met the deadline set forth in the subpoena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far no indictments related to the federal law enforcement searches have been made public. Thao said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991658/oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-to-make-first-public-comments-since-fbi-raids\">in an address\u003c/a> that she has not committed any crime, and a spokesperson for California Waste Solutions, a business run by the Duong family, told KQED “we have not engaged in or committed any illegal activities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a breakdown of what \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-d940LcXr_T65z6QWwXQyEyIyTgWwYyV/view?usp=sharing\">the subpoena (PDF)\u003c/a> requires and what to expect next from the government investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The order\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The subpoena orders Oakland to turn over records from the start of 2022 to the present, including all city communications with two companies related to the Duongs: California Waste Solutions, the city’s curbside recycling contractor, and Evolutionary Homes LLC. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knI-R4vOaLo\">2023 YouTube interview\u003c/a> with business co-owner Mario Juarez, the business designs and builds modular homes for people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The subpoena also seeks all records related to the 2022 mayoral election, all records related to development at the former Oakland Army Base, all communications with waste management companies, any plans to declare a local state of emergency related to homelessness, and appointments to official positions within the Oakland government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, the order targets all communications with Thao’s partner, Andre Jones, as well as any records of meetings involving Jones or Thao.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What we know\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Although federal authorities have not disclosed most details about the investigation, local journalism is turning up lots of potential hints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court records reviewed by KQED show the assistant U.S. attorney who signed off on the subpoena also requested two search warrants in Alameda County on the day of the searches in Oakland. Those applications say the search warrants are needed to investigate allegations of witness tampering and fraud, among other unspecified charges. It is not confirmed these warrants are the same warrants used to search Thao’s home or the Duongs’ properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the Duong family are currently under investigation by state and local elections officials for illegally passing donations through other people to political candidates in Oakland. Oakland elected officials are barred from receiving donations from city contractors, like the Duongs, who run the city’s recycling service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The business has been planning to build a new facility at the former Oakland Army Base for years — they are currently in the process of getting permits from the city, according to a report by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/former-oakland-army-base-emerges-target-sprawling-19561676.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Duongs and Juarez, their business partner in Evolutionary Homes LLC, may have had a violent falling out prior to the searches, according to reporting by \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/06/28/duong-andy-david-mario-juarez-evolutionary-homes-thao-fbu-raid/\">The Oaklandside\u003c/a>. Earlier in June, Juarez was shot outside of his Oakland home. He told police he was being targeted because of his involvement in an “investigation,” according to reporting by \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/07/10/when-assassins-came-to-his-home-oakland-political-operative-fired-back-then-told-police-hed-been-targeted-over-criminal-probe/\">\u003cem>The Mercury News\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Juarez, who’s been involved in local politics for decades, currently faces felony charges in Alameda County for allegedly passing bad checks while printing political mailers targeting 2022 mayoral candidate Loren Taylor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Jones, Thao’s partner who was also named in the subpoena, has been accused by a former Thao staffer of offering political appointments in a pay-to-play scheme, according to \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/post/oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-former-chief-staff-fbi-meeting-raid/14986285/\">reporting by ABC 7\u003c/a>. In the interview, the staffer said she had spoken with the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991721\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-03-KQED-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-03-KQED-3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-03-KQED-3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-03-KQED-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-03-KQED-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-03-KQED-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-03-KQED-3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao holds a press conference at Oakland City Hall on June 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What’s next?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Federal investigations rarely follow a set playbook, but according to UC Law San Francisco Professor Jonathan Abel, more public moves such as the searches and the subpoena likely mean the initial steps of the FBI’s investigation are done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would guess that at the beginning of the investigation they did as much as they could kind of under the radar,” Abel said. “You wouldn’t want to tip everyone off to what you’re doing because you want to get evidence without it being disturbed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the city turns over all of the records requested, it could still take investigators a while to bring charges, says Stanford Law professor Robert Weisberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just analyzing the documentation which the subpoena will produce is itself a complicated matter,” Weisberg said. “The prosecutor has to look through it all and see what dots look connectable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the FBI and federal prosecutors end up with what they think is enough proof of a crime, they will present their case to a federal grand jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grand juries are not open to the public. They involve a group of randomly selected citizens who will listen to the prosecutor’s case, often look at physical evidence and hear witness testimony, then decide whether there is probable cause to indict anyone. The people being accused are not present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a low bar for the government to clear, Abel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Probable cause means a reasonable probability,” he said. “It doesn’t even mean 50% or more [likely]. It’s kind of this free-floating standard where a reasonably prudent person would think that a crime has been committed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grand jury indictments are sometimes kept secret while the investigators work to bring indictments against people connected to the crime being prosecuted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In total, Weisberg said it could be months before federal authorities publicly share what they’ve been working on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Thao said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991658/oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-to-make-first-public-comments-since-fbi-raids\">in an address\u003c/a> that she has not committed any crime, and a spokesperson for California Waste Solutions, a business run by the Duong family, told KQED “we have not engaged in or committed any illegal activities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a breakdown of what \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-d940LcXr_T65z6QWwXQyEyIyTgWwYyV/view?usp=sharing\">the subpoena (PDF)\u003c/a> requires and what to expect next from the government investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The order\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The subpoena orders Oakland to turn over records from the start of 2022 to the present, including all city communications with two companies related to the Duongs: California Waste Solutions, the city’s curbside recycling contractor, and Evolutionary Homes LLC. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knI-R4vOaLo\">2023 YouTube interview\u003c/a> with business co-owner Mario Juarez, the business designs and builds modular homes for people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The subpoena also seeks all records related to the 2022 mayoral election, all records related to development at the former Oakland Army Base, all communications with waste management companies, any plans to declare a local state of emergency related to homelessness, and appointments to official positions within the Oakland government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, the order targets all communications with Thao’s partner, Andre Jones, as well as any records of meetings involving Jones or Thao.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What we know\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Although federal authorities have not disclosed most details about the investigation, local journalism is turning up lots of potential hints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court records reviewed by KQED show the assistant U.S. attorney who signed off on the subpoena also requested two search warrants in Alameda County on the day of the searches in Oakland. Those applications say the search warrants are needed to investigate allegations of witness tampering and fraud, among other unspecified charges. It is not confirmed these warrants are the same warrants used to search Thao’s home or the Duongs’ properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the Duong family are currently under investigation by state and local elections officials for illegally passing donations through other people to political candidates in Oakland. Oakland elected officials are barred from receiving donations from city contractors, like the Duongs, who run the city’s recycling service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The business has been planning to build a new facility at the former Oakland Army Base for years — they are currently in the process of getting permits from the city, according to a report by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/former-oakland-army-base-emerges-target-sprawling-19561676.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Duongs and Juarez, their business partner in Evolutionary Homes LLC, may have had a violent falling out prior to the searches, according to reporting by \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/06/28/duong-andy-david-mario-juarez-evolutionary-homes-thao-fbu-raid/\">The Oaklandside\u003c/a>. Earlier in June, Juarez was shot outside of his Oakland home. He told police he was being targeted because of his involvement in an “investigation,” according to reporting by \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/07/10/when-assassins-came-to-his-home-oakland-political-operative-fired-back-then-told-police-hed-been-targeted-over-criminal-probe/\">\u003cem>The Mercury News\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Juarez, who’s been involved in local politics for decades, currently faces felony charges in Alameda County for allegedly passing bad checks while printing political mailers targeting 2022 mayoral candidate Loren Taylor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Jones, Thao’s partner who was also named in the subpoena, has been accused by a former Thao staffer of offering political appointments in a pay-to-play scheme, according to \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/post/oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-former-chief-staff-fbi-meeting-raid/14986285/\">reporting by ABC 7\u003c/a>. In the interview, the staffer said she had spoken with the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991721\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-03-KQED-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-03-KQED-3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-03-KQED-3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-03-KQED-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-03-KQED-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-03-KQED-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-03-KQED-3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao holds a press conference at Oakland City Hall on June 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What’s next?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Federal investigations rarely follow a set playbook, but according to UC Law San Francisco Professor Jonathan Abel, more public moves such as the searches and the subpoena likely mean the initial steps of the FBI’s investigation are done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would guess that at the beginning of the investigation they did as much as they could kind of under the radar,” Abel said. “You wouldn’t want to tip everyone off to what you’re doing because you want to get evidence without it being disturbed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the city turns over all of the records requested, it could still take investigators a while to bring charges, says Stanford Law professor Robert Weisberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just analyzing the documentation which the subpoena will produce is itself a complicated matter,” Weisberg said. “The prosecutor has to look through it all and see what dots look connectable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the FBI and federal prosecutors end up with what they think is enough proof of a crime, they will present their case to a federal grand jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grand juries are not open to the public. They involve a group of randomly selected citizens who will listen to the prosecutor’s case, often look at physical evidence and hear witness testimony, then decide whether there is probable cause to indict anyone. The people being accused are not present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a low bar for the government to clear, Abel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Probable cause means a reasonable probability,” he said. “It doesn’t even mean 50% or more [likely]. It’s kind of this free-floating standard where a reasonably prudent person would think that a crime has been committed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grand jury indictments are sometimes kept secret while the investigators work to bring indictments against people connected to the crime being prosecuted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In total, Weisberg said it could be months before federal authorities publicly share what they’ve been working on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After a marathon special hearing ended without a budget deal last week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-city-council\">Oakland City Council\u003c/a> members will meet on Tuesday hoping to pass one of two proposals as concerns about the city’s future financial state and ability to deliver public safety services loom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process has been complicated by a massive deficit, the city’s pending sale of its half of the Oakland Coliseum site and last-minute changes to the spending plan, which the council usually passes before July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the nearly eight-hour hearing on Friday, council members were presented with two proposals. The first, introduced by Mayor Sheng Thao’s office on May 24, includes $63 million in one-time funds that could \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987568/oakland-coliseum-sale-expected-to-help-city-avoid-drastic-budget-cuts\">come from the Coliseum sale\u003c/a> as well as a contingency plan in the event those funds aren’t available by September. The second proposal, requested by some council members, cuts those funds from the outset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the speedy sale of the Coliseum, both proposals outline broad spending reductions and significant cuts to public safety departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should the sale not go through, council members will have to choose between “stepping on the brake pedal versus pulling the emergency brake,” budget administrator Bradley Johnson said during the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mayor Sheng Thao’s contingency plan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The proposal introduced by Thao’s office uses one-time funds from the Coliseum, helping reduce Oakland’s existing budget deficit, which is more than $100 million. But if the money doesn’t become available this fall, a contingency plan will go into effect with severe cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest would come from public safety departments, including brownouts, or rotating shutdowns, of five fire engine companies, allowing the number of sworn police officers to shrink from 709 to about 600 through attrition and freeze or eliminate violence prevention positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is going to have a major impact on my ability to cover patrol shifts and provide basic response services to the citizens of Oakland,” Police Chief Floyd Mitchell told council members on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contingency plan would also trigger a citywide halt of hiring, contracting and travel and could lead to a multi-year delay or cancellation of $200 million in planned bond-funded infrastructure, affordable housing, and other projects planned for the coming fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should the funds from the Coliseum sale begin to be available by September, though, these cuts would not be implemented. On Friday, Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas said she was confident that negotiations on the Coliseum sale were on track.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The alternative budget\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The council’s other budget option forgoes using Coliseum sale funds from the get-go \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">— \u003c/span>with the opportunity to add back services if the funds become available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would allow for a “smoother and slightly more flexible” reduction in services than the contingency budget, Johnson said, but it involves similar \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—\u003c/span> though slightly fewer \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—\u003c/span> cuts to public safety resources. One fewer fire engine company would be browned out. and Oakland PD would be able to maintain 10 more sworn officers. Hiring violence prevention positions would be delayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This budget plan would also assure that the bond-funded capital investment projects could progress, Johnson said in his presentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where the council stands\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before Friday’s meeting, Councilmember Dan Kalb called the cuts that would have to be made without Coliseum sale funds “horribly draconian.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are making some tough decisions,” he told KQED. “The $63 million allows us to spread that out instead of having to do all of those things now, which would be a huge impact, a huge punch in the gut to the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Councilmember Janani Ramachandran believes that using those funds would be irresponsible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The money that would be sale proceeds from the Coliseum is non-existent at this point,” she told KQED. “We don’t have a deal signed, and we’re nowhere near having a deal signed. 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