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The answer to the budget delay reported here days ago arrived yesterday: the City Administrator’s office has spent the last week or so since the amendments were pulled from the agenda preparing a back-up contingency plan. The contingency comes after requests by members of City Council and the public

Mayor Thao Strikes Defiant Tone on FBI Search In a Monday morning press conference, Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao made her first public appearance and comments about a Federal search of her residence last Thursday. Thao declared her innocence of any wrong-doing and clapped back at the recall group, which has

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