Oakland City Budget Meeting - April 27th - Summary
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Thank you Michael for pulling this together.
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Hi All,
For those who (knowingly) did not attend the third and the last in a series of community style town hall meetings on the FY 2009-11 Budget, held April 27th at the Lakeside Garden Center, below is a rundown of the meeting written by Casey Miner, a freelance journalist with the Graduate School of Journalism, U.C. Berkeley. The link is to OaklandNorth.net, a news project of U.C. Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.
http://oaklandnorth.net/2009/04/28/budget-showdown-final-installment-third-time%E2%80%99s-the-charm/
The tenor of the meeting was captured by the Agenda:
!. Welcome and Introductions
2. Brief Overview of Budget Shortfall abd Upcoming Process
3 Questions, Suggestions, Comments from Public
4. Open Public Comment
From my perspective, very little of substance was discussed, and there were several real reasons for this. As explained by City Administrator Dan Lindheim, (sensitive) negotiations/discussions about cost sharing were in progress with all the unions. There was also another consideration. The City Council, joint and severally, appears to have reached the position where the Budget from the Office of the Mayor needed to be on table for view and this is slated for next week.
for those who do have such an inclination, please try the blog: Today in Montclair 94611. The is the blog of Debby Richman and the Challenge is framed quite well in this blog.
http://montclairoak.com/2009/04/19/play-with-oakland-budget-challenge/
Also in this blog, one might want to look at the discussion (Nick Vigilante of Montclair Safety Improvement Council) surrounding attempts to retain some aspects of the CORE program, a harbinger of what is coming.
One of the things that I heard from City Administrator Dan Lindheim was his repeated use of the word, arithmetically. What I think that I heard (and I am paraphrasing) was his usage of the word in this context: "With a $83m deficit, arithmetically, unless we are prepared to cut one half of the general government budget, we must have major cost sharing from the public safety (Fire and Police) side."
Not good...
Thanks.
Michael Kilian
Greenwood Ave.
For those who (knowingly) did not attend the third and the last in a series of community style town hall meetings on the FY 2009-11 Budget, held April 27th at the Lakeside Garden Center, below is a rundown of the meeting written by Casey Miner, a freelance journalist with the Graduate School of Journalism, U.C. Berkeley. The link is to OaklandNorth.net, a news project of U.C. Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.
http://oaklandnorth.net/2009/04/28/budget-showdown-final-installment-third-time%E2%80%99s-the-charm/
The tenor of the meeting was captured by the Agenda:
!. Welcome and Introductions
2. Brief Overview of Budget Shortfall abd Upcoming Process
3 Questions, Suggestions, Comments from Public
4. Open Public Comment
From my perspective, very little of substance was discussed, and there were several real reasons for this. As explained by City Administrator Dan Lindheim, (sensitive) negotiations/discussions about cost sharing were in progress with all the unions. There was also another consideration. The City Council, joint and severally, appears to have reached the position where the Budget from the Office of the Mayor needed to be on table for view and this is slated for next week.
for those who do have such an inclination, please try the blog: Today in Montclair 94611. The is the blog of Debby Richman and the Challenge is framed quite well in this blog.
http://montclairoak.com/2009/04/19/play-with-oakland-budget-challenge/
Also in this blog, one might want to look at the discussion (Nick Vigilante of Montclair Safety Improvement Council) surrounding attempts to retain some aspects of the CORE program, a harbinger of what is coming.
One of the things that I heard from City Administrator Dan Lindheim was his repeated use of the word, arithmetically. What I think that I heard (and I am paraphrasing) was his usage of the word in this context: "With a $83m deficit, arithmetically, unless we are prepared to cut one half of the general government budget, we must have major cost sharing from the public safety (Fire and Police) side."
Not good...
Thanks.
Michael Kilian
Greenwood Ave.
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