Victory for Oakland: Army Base resolution supports good jobs (Community Voices)
Blog entry by Kate O'Hara.
Last updated at Sat, 11 Feb at 5:35am.

by Kate O'Hara

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Tracking the money in Oakland (Community Voices)
Blog entry by Karen Ivy.
Last updated at Fri, 10 Feb at 12:41am.

The city of Oakland is facing the loss of $28,000,000 from its general fund, caused by two outside events: 1) Gov. Jerry Brown eliminated redevelopment agencies in this year's state budget; and 2) the state Supreme Court ruled that the "give-back" the Legislature crafted, which would have let cities and states "buy" their redevelopment agencies back, was unconstitutional. 

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C.J. Hirschfield to City Council: Rescind Fairyland's Cuts
Blog entry by C.J. Hirschfield.
Last updated at Thu, 26 Jan at 3:17pm.

Shared at the Tuesday night City Council meeting:

First of all, as someone who lives and works in Oakland, I appreciate the good work you all are doing to try to balance our city’s budget—I know it can’t be easy.

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Mayor Quan Press conference on budget and redevelopment 2012I (VIDEO)
Blog entry by Oakland Local edi....
Last updated at Wed, 25 Jan at 10:50am.

Did you see the video of Quan's announcements on city-wide cuts and planning around the 2012 budget? Here's a video about the reorg

and the intention, as described by Mayor Quan: (video by Zennie62):

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City of Oakland plans re-org, City Council to vote on cuts: See original documents here
Article by Susan Mernit.
Last updated at Tue, 24 Jan at 1:57pm.

It looks like only 105 heads may roll as a result of the loss of redevelopment agency funds for the city of Oakland, but funding for Children’s Fairyland and the Oakland Zoo hit the chopping block as part of the new plan. 

The most exciting part? A reorg!

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No on Measure I (Opinion)
Blog entry by Len Raphael.
Last updated at Sun, 28 Aug at 2:24pm.

The $80/year parcel tax has been assigned Proposition I. It will be a vote by mail going out to all registered voters.

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Oakland City Council votes for Nov. 15 special election for parcel tax - Price tag: $700K
Blog entry by Susan Mernit.
Last updated at Tue, 5 Jul at 9:40pm.

The Oakland City Council had a short meeting tonight. OL will have a longer story, but here's the social media take on the meeting:

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Mayor Quan on the budget: "It is critical to pass a parcel tax" (Community Voices)
Blog entry by Jean Quan.
Last updated at Fri, 1 Jul at 4:41pm.

Last night, I cast the decisive vote to break a tie at City Council that avoided an all cuts budget at the start of the new fiscal year today, and moved us closer to a fair share budget that will keep Oakland moving forward. The next step is to ask our residents to approve additional temporary emergency revenues in the Fall election.

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