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Oakland’s City Council passed Interim Mayor Jenkins’ FY 25-27 budget along with amendments from a Council budget team led by CMs Janani Ramachandran and Rowena Brown Wednesday morning at a little advertised meeting that began at 9am. The budget session set a record for brevity, amid a historically small

The Council’s Budget team published proposed amendments to Interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins’ proposed biennial budget this week, with a centerpiece that includes an efficiency-focused reduction of OPD academies, and an effort to civilianize [or re-civilianize] duties currently carried out by OPD. The Committee* is led by CMs Rowena Brown

Here's the PDF documents of live reporting threads for Tuesday's meeting. In an unusual structure, there were two separate meetings. The first, at noon, was in the Special classification, which requires little notice and does not operate under the same council rules as a regular meeting.

Non-Consent Calendar and Consent Calendar Divided in Two Separate Meetings There will be a novel structure for Tuesday’s Council deliberations, two meetings scheduled back to back. A Special Meeting at 12pm and a regular Concurrent meeting of the City Council and Geologic Hazard Abatement District Board at 3:30