13 16-1140 Subject: Fiscal Year (FY) 2017-19 Budget Adoption
From: Office Of The City Administrator
Recommendation: Adopt The Following Pieces Of Legislation:
1) A Resolution Authorizing The Fiscal Year (FY) 2017-2019 Biennial Budget And Appropriating Certain Funds To Provide For The Expenditures Proposed By Said Budget; And
I support the Vegetation Management appropriations to provide 5 full time inspectors plus admin support plus one supervisor. 1.2 million dollars each year for two years for roadside clearance and goat grazing. We do not seek funding during the next two years to create a new wildfire prevention district. our area is unanimous in their insistence that a new wildfire district not be considered until the vegetation management plan and subsequent EIR be completed. Only then can we put a price on the work to be done and contemplate the structure of a new wildfire prevention district.
These funds would be much better spent on education, after-school, family wellness, mental health, drug addiction treatment & prevention program, and AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Invest in community building not community policing
No more money for Oakland Police! They are only harming our community. Invest in ways to uplift and support our community- outreach services for youth, for homeless folks, are far more valuable.
The community spoke out last Monday -- we want housing for our unsheltered or house lacking, we want to prevent illegal dumping in our neighborhoods, we want job opportunities, we want to invest in the arts. The OPD budget has doubled in 12 years, and with the report that just came out on their handling of the sex trafficking case the people don't want yet another increase.
As a director of the Health Academy at Oakland Technical High School, I see first hand how mental health professionals are needed in the community. I urge the council to prioritize mental health response teams in the community in lieu of more police and particularly more militarized police. We need solutions to the problems that drive people to live on the streets and engage in illegal commerce instead of just tracking and busting these people. Counseling, housing, training, addiction treatment, these would all serve the community better than more police who are engaged, often through little or no fault of their own, in an inherently racist enterprise.
Defund OPD and invest those millions into the real drivers of public safety. The department is a massive liability on many levels and there are SO MANY tangible, community-driven ways to improve quality of life in Oakland that don't involve people with guns who don't respect Black people and think it's OK to bury criminal investigations if the perps are cops.
References:
-OPD financial facts & figures: https://www.defundopd.org/opd-facts-and-figures
-The study WE PAID FOR to tell us what we already know about OPD attitudes toward Black people: http://news.stanford.edu/2016/06/15/stanford-big-data-study-finds-racial-disparities-oakland-calif-police-behavior-offers-solutions/
-Libby, Sabrina and Anne managing the "frat house" by promoting the worst offenders: https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/oakland-police-commanders-who-buried-sex-crime-scandal-investigation-were-later-promoted/Content?oid=7533267
I support the Vegetation Management appropriations to provide 5 full time inspectors plus admin support plus one supervisor. 1.2 million dollars each year for two years for roadside clearance and goat grazing. We do not seek funding during the next two years to create a new wildfire prevention district. our area is unanimous in their insistence that a new wildfire district not be considered until the vegetation management plan and subsequent EIR be completed. Only then can we put a price on the work to be done and contemplate the structure of a new wildfire prevention district.
These funds would be much better spent on education, after-school, family wellness, mental health, drug addiction treatment & prevention program, and AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Invest in community building not community policing
No more money for Oakland Police! They are only harming our community. Invest in ways to uplift and support our community- outreach services for youth, for homeless folks, are far more valuable.
Please do not increase funding for the OPD. We need to invest in our community instead, especially with mental health resources/training.
The community spoke out last Monday -- we want housing for our unsheltered or house lacking, we want to prevent illegal dumping in our neighborhoods, we want job opportunities, we want to invest in the arts. The OPD budget has doubled in 12 years, and with the report that just came out on their handling of the sex trafficking case the people don't want yet another increase.
As a director of the Health Academy at Oakland Technical High School, I see first hand how mental health professionals are needed in the community. I urge the council to prioritize mental health response teams in the community in lieu of more police and particularly more militarized police. We need solutions to the problems that drive people to live on the streets and engage in illegal commerce instead of just tracking and busting these people. Counseling, housing, training, addiction treatment, these would all serve the community better than more police who are engaged, often through little or no fault of their own, in an inherently racist enterprise.
Defund OPD and invest those millions into the real drivers of public safety. The department is a massive liability on many levels and there are SO MANY tangible, community-driven ways to improve quality of life in Oakland that don't involve people with guns who don't respect Black people and think it's OK to bury criminal investigations if the perps are cops.
References:
-OPD financial facts & figures: https://www.defundopd.org/opd-facts-and-figures
-The study WE PAID FOR to tell us what we already know about OPD attitudes toward Black people: http://news.stanford.edu/2016/06/15/stanford-big-data-study-finds-racial-disparities-oakland-calif-police-behavior-offers-solutions/
-Libby, Sabrina and Anne managing the "frat house" by promoting the worst offenders: https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/oakland-police-commanders-who-buried-sex-crime-scandal-investigation-were-later-promoted/Content?oid=7533267
Defund OPD in favor of literally anything else.