I'm Sarina Baldwin from the Budget and Finance Agency and I work in the Business Tax Section. The City must make it priority to settle the open contracts to insure all City workers are treated fairly.
Also, you must insure that Oakland is staffed up immediately to insure all constituents are delivered quality city services in a efficient manner.
Through this whole pandemic We in Budget and Finance have made sure that the public had received quality services, while working safely trying to protect them. In addition, making sure NOT to leave revenues uncollected and processed, which are deposited into the general fund.
In closing please make this request your priority and support City workers.
Time to end the moratorium. Streets and restaurants are packed with people without masks going on about their business as before. It's been more than 2 years. That is no longer an emergency. We are at regular status quo at this stage with the new normal. The State of CA has long since ended its state of emergency and Oakland should follow suit now.
What are the criteria for ending the eviction moratorium? If the city believes in a free housing policy then the city should pay for it. Many mom and pops have not received rent for months or years and yet have to pay mortgages, taxes and city fees. Many housing providers also live in a duplex or triplex that they rent out and are now in danger of losing their homes when they have done nothing wrong. This is extremely unfair. People are suffering -- the unjust city taking needs to end.
SEIU 1021 is meeting with the City this afternoon and we fully expect to see significant movement towards an agreement. We want to get this deal done before July 1 so we can go to work with the security of a new contract and feel respected by the City we dedicate ourselves to.
-Staff Up Oakland now, to be able to deliver quality city services.
-The recruitment and retention crisis demands a COLA and maintained health benefits that keep Oakland workers from falling further behind
-The hiring crisis that everyone agrees exists is driven by understaffed and incompetent HR and its inability to work with departments
- Huge numbers of well-qualified internal candidates are being passed up for promotion
- Job specs are frequently incorrectly designed, which makes hiring harder, and we have repeatedly come to the City with proposals to fix this to make things better, and nothing happens
-HR claims that promoting from within "doesn't change the number of vacancies", but it's obviously easier to recruit and hire for lower-level positions, so this claim doesn't make any sense
- We are eager to partner with the city to solve these problems and we always have been, because the problems need to be solved without gutting civil service rules
- The vacancies are hurting services -- residents are SUFFERING without Parks & Rec, Libraries, etc.
When will the Eviction Moratorium end? Many other Bay Area cities have ended their moratoriums and have healthier economies than Oakland, though small businesses are doing well in Oakland. Also, the Sunshine Ordinance and Brown Act have been greatly affected by the city council meetings in NOT making TIMELY announcements and scheduling of discussions for important issues, leaving little time for the public to receive, review and provide input. Let's get back to a semblence of "Normal" shall we?
The city needs objective measurable indicators to base ending eviction moratorium on and clear criteria for ending emergency Council operating procedures. Emergency Council procedures short change the community input process. There will never be a politically convenient time to end the moratorium or return to normal operations, but eventually you will have to.
Hello City Clerk and Council,
I'm Sarina Baldwin from the Budget and Finance Agency and I work in the Business Tax Section. The City must make it priority to settle the open contracts to insure all City workers are treated fairly.
Also, you must insure that Oakland is staffed up immediately to insure all constituents are delivered quality city services in a efficient manner.
Through this whole pandemic We in Budget and Finance have made sure that the public had received quality services, while working safely trying to protect them. In addition, making sure NOT to leave revenues uncollected and processed, which are deposited into the general fund.
In closing please make this request your priority and support City workers.
Best regards,
Sarina Baldwin Seiu 1021 member
Time to end the moratorium. Streets and restaurants are packed with people without masks going on about their business as before. It's been more than 2 years. That is no longer an emergency. We are at regular status quo at this stage with the new normal. The State of CA has long since ended its state of emergency and Oakland should follow suit now.
What are the criteria for ending the eviction moratorium? If the city believes in a free housing policy then the city should pay for it. Many mom and pops have not received rent for months or years and yet have to pay mortgages, taxes and city fees. Many housing providers also live in a duplex or triplex that they rent out and are now in danger of losing their homes when they have done nothing wrong. This is extremely unfair. People are suffering -- the unjust city taking needs to end.
SEIU 1021 is meeting with the City this afternoon and we fully expect to see significant movement towards an agreement. We want to get this deal done before July 1 so we can go to work with the security of a new contract and feel respected by the City we dedicate ourselves to.
-Staff Up Oakland now, to be able to deliver quality city services.
-The recruitment and retention crisis demands a COLA and maintained health benefits that keep Oakland workers from falling further behind
-The hiring crisis that everyone agrees exists is driven by understaffed and incompetent HR and its inability to work with departments
- Huge numbers of well-qualified internal candidates are being passed up for promotion
- Job specs are frequently incorrectly designed, which makes hiring harder, and we have repeatedly come to the City with proposals to fix this to make things better, and nothing happens
-HR claims that promoting from within "doesn't change the number of vacancies", but it's obviously easier to recruit and hire for lower-level positions, so this claim doesn't make any sense
- We are eager to partner with the city to solve these problems and we always have been, because the problems need to be solved without gutting civil service rules
- The vacancies are hurting services -- residents are SUFFERING without Parks & Rec, Libraries, etc.
When will the Eviction Moratorium end? Many other Bay Area cities have ended their moratoriums and have healthier economies than Oakland, though small businesses are doing well in Oakland. Also, the Sunshine Ordinance and Brown Act have been greatly affected by the city council meetings in NOT making TIMELY announcements and scheduling of discussions for important issues, leaving little time for the public to receive, review and provide input. Let's get back to a semblence of "Normal" shall we?
The city needs objective measurable indicators to base ending eviction moratorium on and clear criteria for ending emergency Council operating procedures. Emergency Council procedures short change the community input process. There will never be a politically convenient time to end the moratorium or return to normal operations, but eventually you will have to.