Jaime Omar Yassin

Due to the elections Tuesday, the meeting was rescheduled as a special meeting for Monday. —City Administrator Gives Cautious Support for Bringing Measure U Bonds to Market in Fall in Council Report Council, OakDOT and Housing and Community Development have been anxious to receive news about whether or not the

Five shadowy Independent Expenditure Committees have raised and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars supporting Loren Taylor for Oakland Mayor and D2-linked candidates ahead of the April 15 Special Election, public records show. Empower Oakland [EO]; Revitalize the East Bay [REB]; Better Bay Area [BBA]; Responsible Leadership for Oakland [Responsible]

OakDOT and HCD Describe Disastrous Outcomes for City Infrastructure and Affordable Housing Without Measure U Bond Sales This Year During fraught budget deliberations last Summer, officials suggested that one outcome of budgeting with future Coliseum sale revenue could be a downgrading of City bond ratings that could reduce their potential

Oakland’s election landscape has been unusual in the last several years— the impact of a mayoral recall has mixed with races for vacated offices with visible presence of large amounts of tech, finance and real estate/landlord money from outside of the city. Candidates have ranged from a fired

One of the last major steps in AASEG’s now Sisyphean negotiations with Alameda County [ALCO] to finalize the purchase of the Oakland Coliseum site looked like it was just days away from being finalized last Thursday, according to Supervisors and an agendized City negotiator report back. But on Tuesday