4 21-0215 Subject: Amendment To Fiscal Year 2020-2021 Budget
From: Council President Fortunato Bas
Recommendation: Approve A Report And Regarding Amendment Of The Fiscal Year 2020-21 Budget To: (1) Balance The Budget; (2) Appropriate And Allocate The American Rescue Plan Act ("ARPA" ) Dollars In The Estimated Amount Of One Hundred Ninety-Two Million Eighty-Four Thousand One Hundred Five Dollars ($192,084,105) To The ARPA Fund (Fund 2072); (3) Allocate The Ten Million Dollars ($10,000,000) The City Will Receive From The Oakland-Alameda County Joint Powers Authority ("JPA"); (4) Restore Services Affected By Fiscal Year 2020-21 Administrative Reduction Actions; (5) Fund Services That Are Needed To Address The Negative Health, Safety, Welfare, And Fiscal Effects Of The Pandemic; And (6) Make Such Additional Or Alternative Adjustments To The FY 2020-21 Budget As May Be Determined To Be Necessary Or Appropriate By The City Council
The Bridge Association of Realtors supports line item # C2 in FY 2019-21 Council Amendments to Fund 2232 Gas Tax RMRA, found at Exhibit 2 to Agenda item #4 (Vice-Mayor Kaplan’s attachment).
Item # C2, “Start-Up to Launch In-House Sidewalk Repairs,” could begin the process of creating an effective sidewalk repair program that more quickly addresses sidewalk safety and accessibility issues in the city. It is important that these policy goals, and the speed at which they can be achieved, are kept in mind when determining best use of funds for sidewalk maintenance.
Creating a proactive sidewalk repair program will not only enable private property owners to obtain at cost service for such repairs, it could also create an opportunity for the city to cut expenditures on other less effective DOT programs.
Please approve:
- Exhibit 2, item C2, which allocates $272,338 for a “Start-Up to Launch In-House Sidewalk Repairs”
Thank you for your time and attention to this matter.
I live at 8th and Peralta and am writing in to support Agenda item 4. Specifically:
Exhibit 2, item C1, which allocates $800,000 for "High Priority Traffic Calming/Speed Bumps"
Exhibit 2, item D11 which allocates $100,000 for "Staff/funding for neighborhood traffic circle/roundabout placement at 8th and Willow"
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.
Once approved, OakDOT needs to immediately work with neighborhood groups like ours to install physical traffic calming barriers. With dozens of speeding and reckless drivers in front of our homes each and every day, we can no longer afford to wait.
Thank you for your continued engagement - we are grateful the City Council is prioritizing this issue!
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 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.
Please approve:
- Exhibit 2, item C1, which allocates $800,000 for "High Priority Traffic Calming/Speed Bumps"
- Exhibit 2, item D11 which allocates $100,000 for "Staff/funding for neighborhood traffic circle/roundabout placement at 8th and Willow"
I live on 10th street in West Oakland and am a member of the neighborhood group "Safe 8th Street neighbors." I'm writing in support of Agenda item 4 to ensure safer conditions for pedestrians, bicyclists, differently-abled persons, children, and the elderly.
Specifically, I think it is vital that the following comes to pass:
Exhibit 2, item C1, which allocates $800,000 for "High Priority Traffic Calming/Speed Bumps"
Exhibit 2, item D11 which allocates $100,000 for "Staff/funding for neighborhood traffic circle/roundabout placement at 8th and Willow"
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.
Once approved, OakDOT needs to immediately work with neighborhood groups like ours to install physical traffic calming barriers. With dozens of speeding and reckless drivers in front of our homes each and every day, we can no longer afford to wait.
I am a Safe 8th Street neighbor writing to support Agenda item 4. Specifically:
• Exhibit 2, item C1, which allocates $800,000 for "High Priority Traffic Calming/Speed Bumps"
• Exhibit 2, item D11 which allocates $100,000 for "Staff/funding for neighborhood traffic circle/roundabout placement at 8th and Willow"
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. I 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.
Once approved, OakDOT needs to immediately work with neighborhood groups like ours to install physical traffic calming barriers. With dozens of speeding and reckless drivers in front of our homes each and every day, we can no longer afford to wait.
I support making 8th safer. The city should install traffic diverters to completely eliminate speeding and dangerous through traffic. Diverters are cheap and can be installed in a day, and don’t block emergency responders.
Safe 8th Street neighbors are writing in to support Agenda item 4. Specifically:
- Exhibit 2, item C1, which allocates $800,000 for "High Priority Traffic Calming/Speed Bumps"
- Exhibit 2, item D11 which allocates $100,000 for *"Staff/funding for neighborhood traffic circle/roundabout placement at 8th and Willow"*
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.
Once approved, OakDOT needs to immediately work with neighborhood groups like ours to install physical traffic calming barriers. With dozens of speeding and reckless drivers in front of our homes each and every day, we can no longer afford to wait.
The Bridge Association of Realtors supports line item # C2 in FY 2019-21 Council Amendments to Fund 2232 Gas Tax RMRA, found at Exhibit 2 to Agenda item #4 (Vice-Mayor Kaplan’s attachment).
Item # C2, “Start-Up to Launch In-House Sidewalk Repairs,” could begin the process of creating an effective sidewalk repair program that more quickly addresses sidewalk safety and accessibility issues in the city. It is important that these policy goals, and the speed at which they can be achieved, are kept in mind when determining best use of funds for sidewalk maintenance.
Creating a proactive sidewalk repair program will not only enable private property owners to obtain at cost service for such repairs, it could also create an opportunity for the city to cut expenditures on other less effective DOT programs.
Please approve:
- Exhibit 2, item C2, which allocates $272,338 for a “Start-Up to Launch In-House Sidewalk Repairs”
Thank you for your time and attention to this matter.
I live at 8th and Peralta and am writing in to support Agenda item 4. Specifically:
Exhibit 2, item C1, which allocates $800,000 for "High Priority Traffic Calming/Speed Bumps"
Exhibit 2, item D11 which allocates $100,000 for "Staff/funding for neighborhood traffic circle/roundabout placement at 8th and Willow"
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.
Once approved, OakDOT needs to immediately work with neighborhood groups like ours to install physical traffic calming barriers. With dozens of speeding and reckless drivers in front of our homes each and every day, we can no longer afford to wait.
Thank you for your continued engagement - we are grateful the City Council is prioritizing this issue!
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 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.
Please approve:
- Exhibit 2, item C1, which allocates $800,000 for "High Priority Traffic Calming/Speed Bumps"
- Exhibit 2, item D11 which allocates $100,000 for "Staff/funding for neighborhood traffic circle/roundabout placement at 8th and Willow"
Thank you in advance for your time.
I live on 10th street in West Oakland and am a member of the neighborhood group "Safe 8th Street neighbors." I'm writing in support of Agenda item 4 to ensure safer conditions for pedestrians, bicyclists, differently-abled persons, children, and the elderly.
Specifically, I think it is vital that the following comes to pass:
Exhibit 2, item C1, which allocates $800,000 for "High Priority Traffic Calming/Speed Bumps"
Exhibit 2, item D11 which allocates $100,000 for "Staff/funding for neighborhood traffic circle/roundabout placement at 8th and Willow"
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.
Once approved, OakDOT needs to immediately work with neighborhood groups like ours to install physical traffic calming barriers. With dozens of speeding and reckless drivers in front of our homes each and every day, we can no longer afford to wait.
I am a Safe 8th Street neighbor writing to support Agenda item 4. Specifically:
• Exhibit 2, item C1, which allocates $800,000 for "High Priority Traffic Calming/Speed Bumps"
• Exhibit 2, item D11 which allocates $100,000 for "Staff/funding for neighborhood traffic circle/roundabout placement at 8th and Willow"
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. I 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.
Once approved, OakDOT needs to immediately work with neighborhood groups like ours to install physical traffic calming barriers. With dozens of speeding and reckless drivers in front of our homes each and every day, we can no longer afford to wait.
I support making 8th safer. The city should install traffic diverters to completely eliminate speeding and dangerous through traffic. Diverters are cheap and can be installed in a day, and don’t block emergency responders.
Safe 8th Street neighbors are writing in to support Agenda item 4. Specifically:
- Exhibit 2, item C1, which allocates $800,000 for "High Priority Traffic Calming/Speed Bumps"
- Exhibit 2, item D11 which allocates $100,000 for *"Staff/funding for neighborhood traffic circle/roundabout placement at 8th and Willow"*
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.
Once approved, OakDOT needs to immediately work with neighborhood groups like ours to install physical traffic calming barriers. With dozens of speeding and reckless drivers in front of our homes each and every day, we can no longer afford to wait.