S18 21-0190 Subject: Budget Amendments To Fiscal Year 2020-21 Mid-Cycle Amendments
From: Vice Mayor Kaplan
Recommendation: Approve A Report And Recommendation Amending Resolution 88174, Which Adopted The Fiscal Year 2020-2021 Mid-Cycle Amendments,To Among Other Things, Clarify The Process For Expending Newly Obtained Funds, To Appropriate Federal Funding To Fill The General Purpose Fund Gap, To Allocate $10 Million Obtained From The Coliseum Authority To Fund Public Services Including In The Fire Department And More
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My name is Jean Moses & I live in Nikki's District. It is imperative that the City of Oakland support the Ceasefire program!
The havoc wrecked by COVID has caused despair and violence everywhere in the country. Our Ceasefire program has been proven to be successful by focusing resources on the small number of highly likely perpetrators of gun violence. PLEASE provide Ceasefire with the funds needed to strengthen that program and help us reduce the terrible loss of life.
As the city receives an infusion of federal assistance, Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation supports restoring and augmenting funding for vital public resources and services that support a fair and healthy recovery for all of Oakland. Our most recent citywide survey of Oakland residents shows tremendous support for securing clean and safe parks and park bathrooms, including connecting Measure Q homeless services to park encampments as intended. Because parks are part of the solution for making Oakland healthy, just, safe, and vibrant, our survey also found that Oaklanders recognize recreation centers as community centers, and so we also ask for opening all recreation centers and ensuring wrap-around community care with extended service hours seven days per week, with secure and expanded access to OPRYD's 5 Programs. Parks that are active and cared for are community safety multipliers; please imagine safety ambassadors and safety programing extending to parks so that parks can extend well-being into their communities. We anticipate sharing our ground-breaking report with you at upcoming Council Committee meetings and being in further collaboration as Oakland rebounds from current crises.
I am echoing support for traffic calming and safety measures in West Oakland, especially Frontage Road which basically gets treated as a freeway. Excessive speed not only increases the chance of collisions, it also increases the chances of death and major injury. Street design is one of the best ways to control speed, but unfortunately, when a street is designed like a freeway, people drive on it like a freeway. Frontage Road needs to be redesigned to facilitate safe and neighborhood serving transportation.
I support agenda item 18, Exhibit 2, item D12, for a minimum of $75,000 for traffic calming measures on Frontage Road. The danger that the road poses due to its current design cannot be understated. We have had several fatalities over the past year due to drivers routinely driving at 65mph speeds and thrill seekers driving at 90mph. It’s only a matter of time until our next fatality.
My partner and I are writing in strong support of Agenda item 18. Specifically:
Exhibit 2, item D11 which allocates $100,000 for "Staff/funding for neighborhood traffic circle/roundabout placement at 8th and Willow"
Exhibit 2, item C1, which allocates $800,000 for "High Priority Traffic Calming/Speed Bumps"
As residents at 8th and Wood, we witness the seriousness of the reckless driving epidemic in our neighborhood via both 8th St and Wood St, two streets with some of the most significant speeding problems in the Prescott neighborhood.
We are also in strong support of agenda item 18, Exhibit 2, item D12, for a minimum of $75,000 for traffic calming measures on Frontage Road. Frontage Road is adjacent to some of the highest-density housing in all of West Oakland—as such, it should not be permitted to function as a freeway. Lives are at stake. Lives are already being lost. Please act now.
I support agenda item 18, Exhibit 2, item D12, for a minimum of $75,000 for traffic calming measures on Frontage Road. This action is seriously needed to protect our community and make West Oakland more safe and livable.
I’ve lived in the Prescott neighborhood with my husband for two years and the back of our home is along the Frontage road. Living next to the Frontage road, I've experienced first-hand how scary it is. Cars and even semi-trucks routinely speed down the Frontage road, regularly going 90+ miles an hour. These speeding vehicles produce deafening noise, shake our home, and create a dangerous situation for pedestrians and other drivers. In the last two years, I have seen several fatalities and even more near misses and property damage on the Frontage road due to its poor design and lack of oversight.
Other than the densely populated residences along the road, the road honestly feels like an unsupervised freeway - there are five lanes, no intersections, a ramp near Grand to accelerate on, limited police presence, and little signage. The road is not treated as the 35MPH street that it is. Thank you for your help!
The plan for Frontage Road may have been developed prior to the densely populated developments of the last 10 years. We need traffic calming measures to make the neighborhood safer for the 1,000+ families in the immediate vicinity. The stretch of road along Frontage from 7th to Grand is about 3 times as densely populated as a regular city block because of the nature of town homes/condos. Traffic calming measures would also decrease truck/port traffic thereby reducing diesel related pollution.
I live by 13th. & Wood and often use Frontage Road on a daily basis. I don’t have to even see the reckless speeding and total disregard for traffic laws. You can hear it on a daily basis from blocks away in my house. But yes I also see how bad and reckless drivers our on this road. People have died on this road and more will if you don’t put measures in to slow down vehicles and enforce traffic laws.
Christopher J. Hagenmeier
West Oakland resident.
My name is Jared, a resident of the Prescott neighborhood next to Frontage Road.
I am writing in support of Agenda item 18, Exhibit 2, item D12, for a minimum of $75,000 for traffic calming measures on Frontage Road.
Frontage road is plagued by speeding by both personal and commercial vehicles. The reckless driving is concerning and not suitable for a now very residential neighborhood.
This road may have once served a purpose for transportation means but now needs better funding to make it safe and match the communities needs.
Fully support common sense traffic reform on Frontage Road. I've lived in Prescott for 5 years and it's been progressively worse. Drag races, sideshows, gun wars, encampment fires, pedestrian deaths, the list goes on and on. Not sure how many more (inevitable) deaths until the city treats the issue with more urgency.
Too many vehicles treat Frontage Road like a racetrack, speeding at 90 mph and instilling fear in the families and residents like myself, who live in the neighboring Prescott community. I hear the screeching of drifting vehicles on a daily basis, and my heart sinks every time--fearing that yet another Oakland resident will lose their life to Frontage Road. Enough is enough. Oakland must protect its residents who live in daily fear that their families, children, or pets will be the next victim of Frontage Road. I support a minimum of $75,000 in funding for traffic calming measures on Frontage Road (Agenda Item 18, Exhibit 2, Item D12) because I believe in Oakland and I know it can do better.
I echo Paul Sousa. I also live in D3 Prescott neighborhood with my husband on Pullman Way, which abuts Frontage Road. I am also writing in support of Agenda item 18, Exhibit 2, item D12, for a minimum of $75,000 for traffic calming measures on Frontage Road.
Traffic safety is necessary for Frontage Road. It’s a poorly designed 5-lane, 35 MPH street that’s treated like a highway next to the most densely populated area of West Oakland. Vehicles regularly speed over 90 MPH, and several traffic fatalities have occurred in the past year alone. Please pass funding for Frontage Road traffic safety, which is badly needed. Our community also looks forward to the decision on the CIP request that OakDOT submitted in support of additional traffic calming measures for Frontage Road.
Hello, I live in the Prescott Neighborhood and my house directly faces Frontage Road so we can hear and see everything that happens. I am writing in support of Agenda item 18, Exhibit 2, item D12, which is for a minimum of $75,000 for traffic calming measures on Frontage Road. Almost every night, there are car races along the road with spectators and it’s extremely dangerous. Car always go over 80-90 miles on a road 35 miles speed limit road. It is essential that something be done to make the road safer as people often mistake it for the freeway which is right next to it. Aside of car races, this road should not be a truck routes anymore since it is now the most densely populated neighborhood in West Oakland with families and children. There has also been multiple deaths and accidents in the past year alone caused by the trucks and race cars. Thank you so much for looking into making our neighborhood safer.
I live in the Prescott neighborhood with my husband on Pullman Way, which abuts Frontage Road. I'm writing in support of Agenda item 18, Exhibit 2, item D12, for a minimum of $75,000 for traffic calming measures on Frontage Road.
Traffic safety is necessary for Frontage Road. It’s a poorly designed 5-lane, 35 MPH street that’s treated like a highway next to the most densely populated area of West Oakland. Vehicles regularly speed over 90 MPH, and several traffic fatalities have occurred in the past year alone. Please pass funding for Frontage Road traffic safety, which is badly needed. Our community also looks forward to the decision on the CIP request that OakDOT submitted in support of additional traffic calming measures for Frontage Road.
Safe 8th Street neighbors are writing in to support Agenda item 18. Specifically:
Exhibit 2, item D11 which allocates $100,000 for "Staff/funding for neighborhood traffic circle/roundabout placement at 8th and Willow"
Exhibit 2, item C1, which allocates $800,000 for "High Priority Traffic Calming/Speed Bumps"
We have a proposal to immediately implement a low-cost traffic calming solution on 8th Street between Mandela and Willow. This will offer a temporary, partial solution to the entire Safe 8th Street request for physical traffic calming between Market and Pine. We also eagerly await the decision on our CIP request for permanent traffic calming along the corridor in conjunction with the 8th Street paving project in late 2021.
I wish to note my support for Agenda item 18, specifically:
* Exhibit 2, item D11 which allocates $100,000 for "Staff/funding for neighborhood traffic circle/roundabout placement at 8th and Willow"
* Exhibit 2, item C1, which allocates $800,000 for "High Priority Traffic Calming/Speed Bumps"
As a resident of 8th and Willow, I see firsthand the reckless driving on our streets, including dirt bikes doing wheelies at high rates of speed and cars swerving around double parked vehicles into oncoming traffic. Regularly, collisions take place at the intersection, including a multi-car accident a few weeks ago that knocked out a utility pole and thus our power for several hours.
At any given moment one of three cars on Willow St. is speeding. What's worse is that I often see the same cars, day after day, using Willow St. as a raceway thoroughfare. This suggests to me that people are aware of the lack of traffic calming measures in our neighborhood and thus look to exploit this.
8th and Willow is fortunate to have a variety of diversity in all senses, including but not limited to freestanding homes, Campbell Village, as well as the Morning Star Church of God. Traffic calming measures benefit all of our community, who should not have fear when simply wishing to cross the street or entering the intersection.
I write today representing the Safe 8th Street neighbors, in support of Agenda item 18. Specifically:
Exhibit 2, item D11 which allocates $100,000 for "Staff/funding for neighborhood traffic circle/roundabout placement at 8th and Willow"
Exhibit 2, item C1, which allocates $800,000 for "High Priority Traffic Calming/Speed Bumps"
As you are aware, speeding and reckless driving throughout Oakland is its own epidemic. We must take concrete, immediate steps to curb this behavior to keep our residents safe.
We have a proposal to immediately implement a low-cost traffic calming solution on 8th Street between Mandela and Willow. This will offer a temporary, partial solution to the entire Safe 8th Street request for physical traffic calming between Market and Pine. We also eagerly await the decision on our CIP request for permanent traffic calming along the corridor in conjunction with the 8th Street paving project in late 2021.
Thank you for your consideration.
Tim Courtney
Safe 8th Street
http://bit.ly/safe8th
I have lived on 8th ST for the last 6 years. I am writing in to support Agenda item 18. Specifically:
- Exhibit 2, item D11 which allocates $100,000 for *"Staff/funding for neighborhood traffic circle/roundabout placement at 8th and Willow"*
- Exhibit 2, item C1, which allocates $800,000 for "High Priority Traffic Calming/Speed Bumps"
We have a proposal to immediately implement a low-cost traffic calming solution on 8th Street between Mandela and Willow. This will offer a temporary, partial solution to the entire Safe 8th Street request for physical traffic calming between Market and Pine. We also eagerly await the decision on our CIP request for permanent traffic calming along the corridor in conjunction with the 8th Street paving project in late 2021.
My name is Jean Moses & I live in Nikki's District. It is imperative that the City of Oakland support the Ceasefire program!
The havoc wrecked by COVID has caused despair and violence everywhere in the country. Our Ceasefire program has been proven to be successful by focusing resources on the small number of highly likely perpetrators of gun violence. PLEASE provide Ceasefire with the funds needed to strengthen that program and help us reduce the terrible loss of life.
Thank you for your work.
As the city receives an infusion of federal assistance, Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation supports restoring and augmenting funding for vital public resources and services that support a fair and healthy recovery for all of Oakland. Our most recent citywide survey of Oakland residents shows tremendous support for securing clean and safe parks and park bathrooms, including connecting Measure Q homeless services to park encampments as intended. Because parks are part of the solution for making Oakland healthy, just, safe, and vibrant, our survey also found that Oaklanders recognize recreation centers as community centers, and so we also ask for opening all recreation centers and ensuring wrap-around community care with extended service hours seven days per week, with secure and expanded access to OPRYD's 5 Programs. Parks that are active and cared for are community safety multipliers; please imagine safety ambassadors and safety programing extending to parks so that parks can extend well-being into their communities. We anticipate sharing our ground-breaking report with you at upcoming Council Committee meetings and being in further collaboration as Oakland rebounds from current crises.
I am echoing support for traffic calming and safety measures in West Oakland, especially Frontage Road which basically gets treated as a freeway. Excessive speed not only increases the chance of collisions, it also increases the chances of death and major injury. Street design is one of the best ways to control speed, but unfortunately, when a street is designed like a freeway, people drive on it like a freeway. Frontage Road needs to be redesigned to facilitate safe and neighborhood serving transportation.
Tony Henderson, Prescott Resident
I support agenda item 18, Exhibit 2, item D12, for a minimum of $75,000 for traffic calming measures on Frontage Road. The danger that the road poses due to its current design cannot be understated. We have had several fatalities over the past year due to drivers routinely driving at 65mph speeds and thrill seekers driving at 90mph. It’s only a matter of time until our next fatality.
My partner and I are writing in strong support of Agenda item 18. Specifically:
Exhibit 2, item D11 which allocates $100,000 for "Staff/funding for neighborhood traffic circle/roundabout placement at 8th and Willow"
Exhibit 2, item C1, which allocates $800,000 for "High Priority Traffic Calming/Speed Bumps"
As residents at 8th and Wood, we witness the seriousness of the reckless driving epidemic in our neighborhood via both 8th St and Wood St, two streets with some of the most significant speeding problems in the Prescott neighborhood.
We are also in strong support of agenda item 18, Exhibit 2, item D12, for a minimum of $75,000 for traffic calming measures on Frontage Road. Frontage Road is adjacent to some of the highest-density housing in all of West Oakland—as such, it should not be permitted to function as a freeway. Lives are at stake. Lives are already being lost. Please act now.
6 fatalities in 11 months... I support this initiative
I support agenda item 18, Exhibit 2, item D12, for a minimum of $75,000 for traffic calming measures on Frontage Road. This action is seriously needed to protect our community and make West Oakland more safe and livable.
I’ve lived in the Prescott neighborhood with my husband for two years and the back of our home is along the Frontage road. Living next to the Frontage road, I've experienced first-hand how scary it is. Cars and even semi-trucks routinely speed down the Frontage road, regularly going 90+ miles an hour. These speeding vehicles produce deafening noise, shake our home, and create a dangerous situation for pedestrians and other drivers. In the last two years, I have seen several fatalities and even more near misses and property damage on the Frontage road due to its poor design and lack of oversight.
Other than the densely populated residences along the road, the road honestly feels like an unsupervised freeway - there are five lanes, no intersections, a ramp near Grand to accelerate on, limited police presence, and little signage. The road is not treated as the 35MPH street that it is. Thank you for your help!
The plan for Frontage Road may have been developed prior to the densely populated developments of the last 10 years. We need traffic calming measures to make the neighborhood safer for the 1,000+ families in the immediate vicinity. The stretch of road along Frontage from 7th to Grand is about 3 times as densely populated as a regular city block because of the nature of town homes/condos. Traffic calming measures would also decrease truck/port traffic thereby reducing diesel related pollution.
In support of Agenda item 18, Exhibit 2, item D12
I live by 13th. & Wood and often use Frontage Road on a daily basis. I don’t have to even see the reckless speeding and total disregard for traffic laws. You can hear it on a daily basis from blocks away in my house. But yes I also see how bad and reckless drivers our on this road. People have died on this road and more will if you don’t put measures in to slow down vehicles and enforce traffic laws.
Christopher J. Hagenmeier
West Oakland resident.
Hello,
My name is Jared, a resident of the Prescott neighborhood next to Frontage Road.
I am writing in support of Agenda item 18, Exhibit 2, item D12, for a minimum of $75,000 for traffic calming measures on Frontage Road.
Frontage road is plagued by speeding by both personal and commercial vehicles. The reckless driving is concerning and not suitable for a now very residential neighborhood.
This road may have once served a purpose for transportation means but now needs better funding to make it safe and match the communities needs.
Thank you!
Jared S
Fully support common sense traffic reform on Frontage Road. I've lived in Prescott for 5 years and it's been progressively worse. Drag races, sideshows, gun wars, encampment fires, pedestrian deaths, the list goes on and on. Not sure how many more (inevitable) deaths until the city treats the issue with more urgency.
Too many vehicles treat Frontage Road like a racetrack, speeding at 90 mph and instilling fear in the families and residents like myself, who live in the neighboring Prescott community. I hear the screeching of drifting vehicles on a daily basis, and my heart sinks every time--fearing that yet another Oakland resident will lose their life to Frontage Road. Enough is enough. Oakland must protect its residents who live in daily fear that their families, children, or pets will be the next victim of Frontage Road. I support a minimum of $75,000 in funding for traffic calming measures on Frontage Road (Agenda Item 18, Exhibit 2, Item D12) because I believe in Oakland and I know it can do better.
I echo Paul Sousa. I also live in D3 Prescott neighborhood with my husband on Pullman Way, which abuts Frontage Road. I am also writing in support of Agenda item 18, Exhibit 2, item D12, for a minimum of $75,000 for traffic calming measures on Frontage Road.
Traffic safety is necessary for Frontage Road. It’s a poorly designed 5-lane, 35 MPH street that’s treated like a highway next to the most densely populated area of West Oakland. Vehicles regularly speed over 90 MPH, and several traffic fatalities have occurred in the past year alone. Please pass funding for Frontage Road traffic safety, which is badly needed. Our community also looks forward to the decision on the CIP request that OakDOT submitted in support of additional traffic calming measures for Frontage Road.
Hello, I live in the Prescott Neighborhood and my house directly faces Frontage Road so we can hear and see everything that happens. I am writing in support of Agenda item 18, Exhibit 2, item D12, which is for a minimum of $75,000 for traffic calming measures on Frontage Road. Almost every night, there are car races along the road with spectators and it’s extremely dangerous. Car always go over 80-90 miles on a road 35 miles speed limit road. It is essential that something be done to make the road safer as people often mistake it for the freeway which is right next to it. Aside of car races, this road should not be a truck routes anymore since it is now the most densely populated neighborhood in West Oakland with families and children. There has also been multiple deaths and accidents in the past year alone caused by the trucks and race cars. Thank you so much for looking into making our neighborhood safer.
Safety improvements are needed on Frontage between West Grand and 7th.
Councilmembers,
I live in the Prescott neighborhood with my husband on Pullman Way, which abuts Frontage Road. I'm writing in support of Agenda item 18, Exhibit 2, item D12, for a minimum of $75,000 for traffic calming measures on Frontage Road.
Traffic safety is necessary for Frontage Road. It’s a poorly designed 5-lane, 35 MPH street that’s treated like a highway next to the most densely populated area of West Oakland. Vehicles regularly speed over 90 MPH, and several traffic fatalities have occurred in the past year alone. Please pass funding for Frontage Road traffic safety, which is badly needed. Our community also looks forward to the decision on the CIP request that OakDOT submitted in support of additional traffic calming measures for Frontage Road.
Thank you for your consideration.
Best,
Paul
Safe 8th Street neighbors are writing in to support Agenda item 18. Specifically:
Exhibit 2, item D11 which allocates $100,000 for "Staff/funding for neighborhood traffic circle/roundabout placement at 8th and Willow"
Exhibit 2, item C1, which allocates $800,000 for "High Priority Traffic Calming/Speed Bumps"
We have a proposal to immediately implement a low-cost traffic calming solution on 8th Street between Mandela and Willow. This will offer a temporary, partial solution to the entire Safe 8th Street request for physical traffic calming between Market and Pine. We also eagerly await the decision on our CIP request for permanent traffic calming along the corridor in conjunction with the 8th Street paving project in late 2021.
Councilmembers,
I wish to note my support for Agenda item 18, specifically:
* Exhibit 2, item D11 which allocates $100,000 for "Staff/funding for neighborhood traffic circle/roundabout placement at 8th and Willow"
* Exhibit 2, item C1, which allocates $800,000 for "High Priority Traffic Calming/Speed Bumps"
As a resident of 8th and Willow, I see firsthand the reckless driving on our streets, including dirt bikes doing wheelies at high rates of speed and cars swerving around double parked vehicles into oncoming traffic. Regularly, collisions take place at the intersection, including a multi-car accident a few weeks ago that knocked out a utility pole and thus our power for several hours.
At any given moment one of three cars on Willow St. is speeding. What's worse is that I often see the same cars, day after day, using Willow St. as a raceway thoroughfare. This suggests to me that people are aware of the lack of traffic calming measures in our neighborhood and thus look to exploit this.
8th and Willow is fortunate to have a variety of diversity in all senses, including but not limited to freestanding homes, Campbell Village, as well as the Morning Star Church of God. Traffic calming measures benefit all of our community, who should not have fear when simply wishing to cross the street or entering the intersection.
Thank you in advance for your time.
Dear Councilmembers,
I write today representing the Safe 8th Street neighbors, in support of Agenda item 18. Specifically:
Exhibit 2, item D11 which allocates $100,000 for "Staff/funding for neighborhood traffic circle/roundabout placement at 8th and Willow"
Exhibit 2, item C1, which allocates $800,000 for "High Priority Traffic Calming/Speed Bumps"
As you are aware, speeding and reckless driving throughout Oakland is its own epidemic. We must take concrete, immediate steps to curb this behavior to keep our residents safe.
We have a proposal to immediately implement a low-cost traffic calming solution on 8th Street between Mandela and Willow. This will offer a temporary, partial solution to the entire Safe 8th Street request for physical traffic calming between Market and Pine. We also eagerly await the decision on our CIP request for permanent traffic calming along the corridor in conjunction with the 8th Street paving project in late 2021.
Thank you for your consideration.
Tim Courtney
Safe 8th Street
http://bit.ly/safe8th
I have lived on 8th ST for the last 6 years. I am writing in to support Agenda item 18. Specifically:
- Exhibit 2, item D11 which allocates $100,000 for *"Staff/funding for neighborhood traffic circle/roundabout placement at 8th and Willow"*
- Exhibit 2, item C1, which allocates $800,000 for "High Priority Traffic Calming/Speed Bumps"
We have a proposal to immediately implement a low-cost traffic calming solution on 8th Street between Mandela and Willow. This will offer a temporary, partial solution to the entire Safe 8th Street request for physical traffic calming between Market and Pine. We also eagerly await the decision on our CIP request for permanent traffic calming along the corridor in conjunction with the 8th Street paving project in late 2021.