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Schaaf-Era 9-1-1 Hiring Fail Revealed Months After Resolution A Schaaf administration hiring failure with serious repercussions for Oakland’s 9-1-1 staffing was the focus of a report initially requested by Janani Ramachandran at a December 5th City Council meeting. Ramachandran had requested the report as early as September. The report

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It’s an outlier week for Council. Normally there’d be only a designated required Council meeting with the public safety boards and commissions on Tuesday. But because of a special meeting scheduled to hear a ceasefire resolution and a Special Finance Committee meeting on Monday there’s actually three

Delay on Recall-Changing Ballot Measure as BOS Votes For Alternate Version Which Requires Second Reading Yet another pause has been added to an Alameda County Board of Supervisors [BOS] proposed ballot measure that would, if passed in March by voters, delete the County’s century old archaic text on local