Oakland City Council Committees Preview 3/12/2024

Committees have gone from being fairly low bandwidth in the past weeks to having pretty dense and important reports and resolutions to review this week. It's too much to go through before hand, but I will be doing live reporting on day of as usual. In the meantime, look out for these important resolutions and reports. I'll have more on them in the coming week.

Finance Dept, 9:30am

City Auditor’s Report Of Measure Q Performance Audit: the audit made news a few months ago, but the committee will drill down on the recommendations.

Contract and Expanded Resources for City Abandoned Auto Towing: Expanded resources and third-party IT contractor to facilitate the City's always somewhat underwater abandoned auto work.

Public Works/Transpo, 11:30am

Several Public works contracts worth several million dollars will be discussed, as well as a detail on the vehicle enforcement unit

Community and Economic Development, 1:30pm

Ordinance Prohibiting Discrimination On The Basis Of Family And Relationship Structure: from CM Ramachandran seems to duplicate existing laws, we'll see what the discussion is like.

C.R.I.S.E.S. Grant for Family Bridges for Oakland Chinatown Homeless/Violence Reduction: A state grant that will provide a unification of Family Bridges services with homeless community, centering on Oak Street Community Cabins

Life Enrichment, 4pm

34th/Mandela Homeless Intervention: The legislation by CM Carroll Fife appears to have intention of resurrecting what's become a moribund process to lease a site from Caltrans and put an additional homeless intervention there with specific goal of housing area homeless residents.

Public Safety, 6pm

OPD NSA Status Update: a lot of this info is by now out of date, but it's a good refresher and overview of multiple processes of the last several months.

OPD 2023 Crime Report:

OPD Cellebrite Use Policy: OO focused on OPD's process for a use policy for its long-held phone-cracking tech in this report.