Jaime Omar Yassin

East Oakland Residents Celebrate Coliseum Sale to Black-Owned Development, While Questions Remain About Fast-Tracked Sale, CBA and Affordable Housing Oakland’s City Council took the first steps in approving the terms and negotiating the sale of the City’s 50% interest in the Coliseum property last Tuesday. Public comment and

Coliseum Sale Would Guarantee 25% Affordable Housing, Community Benefits–but Proceeds Unavailable Until 24-25 According to Legislative Document Legislation to be deliberated this Wednesday that would greenlight the final negotiation to sell the City’s 50% Coliseum interest reveals a worrisome fact—sale proceeds the City and Council were counting

“It Was Going to be Catastrophic”: City Departments Outline Budget Balancing Actions... and How Much Worse They Would Have Been At a Special City Council meeting on Wednesday to introduce Mayor Sheng Thao’s mid-cycle budget amendments and discuss current fiscal year budget balancing, City Department heads for the first

In every biennial budget, the revenues and expenditures for two consecutive fiscal years are passed as a single biennial budget. Changes must always be made to the baseline estimates for the second year of the budget through the mid-cycle process because projected revenues and expenditures usually shift and change as

With Bare Quorum, ALCO BOS Votes to Schedule Recall in November General Election A long-expected decision by Alameda County Board of Supervisors [ALCO BOS] about when to schedule the recall for DA Pamela Price came to a quick conclusion on Tuesday, though only a bare BOS quorum remained to make