Comments on: Council calls emergency meeting to discuss Kids, cops http://futureoaklandblog.com/2008/07/council-calls-emergency-meeting-to-discuss-kids-cops/ Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:03:16 +0000 hourly 1 By: East Bay Conservative » Crystal Ball Says: Higher Taxes For Oakland http://futureoaklandblog.com/2008/07/council-calls-emergency-meeting-to-discuss-kids-cops/#comment-448 East Bay Conservative » Crystal Ball Says: Higher Taxes For Oakland Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:46:53 +0000 http://futureoakland.wordpress.com/?p=181#comment-448 [...] to form, the city council hastily called an emergency meeting for last Wednesday to discuss taxing us [...] [...] to form, the city council hastily called an emergency meeting for last Wednesday to discuss taxing us [...]

]]> By: dto510 http://futureoaklandblog.com/2008/07/council-calls-emergency-meeting-to-discuss-kids-cops/#comment-447 dto510 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:39:04 +0000 http://futureoakland.wordpress.com/?p=181#comment-447 Thanks for the update, Mr. Pine. Thanks for the update, Mr. Pine.

]]> By: Charles Pine http://futureoaklandblog.com/2008/07/council-calls-emergency-meeting-to-discuss-kids-cops/#comment-446 Charles Pine Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:31:37 +0000 http://futureoakland.wordpress.com/?p=181#comment-446 On KTOP I saw only Quan, Nadel, and Kernighan. Quan announced that Brooks had been expected but had just called in ill. There was not a quorum. The council will try again Monday, Aug. 4, at 9:30 a.m. Meanwhile, the council has not addressed its faulty declaration that the LLAD tax increase passed. Latest discovery is that Dellums and Edgerly called Peralta Colleges and apparently OUSD, telling them they could help pass the LLAD but would not have to pay an assessment! See ORPN.org On KTOP I saw only Quan, Nadel, and Kernighan. Quan announced that Brooks had been expected but had just called in ill. There was not a quorum. The council will try again Monday, Aug. 4, at 9:30 a.m.

Meanwhile, the council has not addressed its faulty declaration that the LLAD tax increase passed. Latest discovery is that Dellums and Edgerly called Peralta Colleges and apparently OUSD, telling them they could help pass the LLAD but would not have to pay an assessment! See ORPN.org

]]> By: V Smoothe http://futureoaklandblog.com/2008/07/council-calls-emergency-meeting-to-discuss-kids-cops/#comment-445 V Smoothe Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:36:20 +0000 http://futureoakland.wordpress.com/?p=181#comment-445 The current version of the police parcel tax proposed by Dellums is, consistent with virtually everything else that's come out of that office since he began his term as Mayor, clearly hastily prepared and almost frighteningly sloppily written. If Pat Kernighan is adding the issue to the agenda to fix some of the inherent vagueness in the tax as currently written, that's commendable. Still, if Dellums was a competent leader, or had any interest in keeping his campaign pledge of transparency in government, this issue would have had a fair public discussion on a reasonable timetable, and Councilmembers wouldn't have to be fixing his tax increase at last-minute emergency meetings. The current version of the police parcel tax proposed by Dellums is, consistent with virtually everything else that’s come out of that office since he began his term as Mayor, clearly hastily prepared and almost frighteningly sloppily written. If Pat Kernighan is adding the issue to the agenda to fix some of the inherent vagueness in the tax as currently written, that’s commendable.

Still, if Dellums was a competent leader, or had any interest in keeping his campaign pledge of transparency in government, this issue would have had a fair public discussion on a reasonable timetable, and Councilmembers wouldn’t have to be fixing his tax increase at last-minute emergency meetings.

]]> By: dto510 http://futureoaklandblog.com/2008/07/council-calls-emergency-meeting-to-discuss-kids-cops/#comment-444 dto510 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:09:55 +0000 http://futureoakland.wordpress.com/?p=181#comment-444 Well, in their defense, I think it's been a long time since anyone collected signatures for a ballot initiative (the Inclusionary Zoning people tried and failed in 2006). Perhaps officials expected that Kids First wouldn't have its signatures verified? But it does seem that someone at some point should have said that the Council will have to vote on KF2 whether they compromise or not. My problem is with how last-minute all of this is. That's not very transparent to the public. Why did it take so many months for Jean Quan to bring Kids First to Council? Why did the police tax have to be pushed through so fast that now they need to modify it? It's like Dellums' sloppy administration is infecting the Council. Well, in their defense, I think it’s been a long time since anyone collected signatures for a ballot initiative (the Inclusionary Zoning people tried and failed in 2006). Perhaps officials expected that Kids First wouldn’t have its signatures verified? But it does seem that someone at some point should have said that the Council will have to vote on KF2 whether they compromise or not.

My problem is with how last-minute all of this is. That’s not very transparent to the public. Why did it take so many months for Jean Quan to bring Kids First to Council? Why did the police tax have to be pushed through so fast that now they need to modify it? It’s like Dellums’ sloppy administration is infecting the Council.

]]> By: Robert http://futureoaklandblog.com/2008/07/council-calls-emergency-meeting-to-discuss-kids-cops/#comment-443 Robert Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:01:24 +0000 http://futureoakland.wordpress.com/?p=181#comment-443 Nobody realized!!! The city does this every couple of years, how can they forget? The incompetence seems to be broader than just the administrators office. Nobody realized!!! The city does this every couple of years, how can they forget? The incompetence seems to be broader than just the administrators office.

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