From: Isaac Kos-Read [isaac@kosreadgroup.com] Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 11:47 AM To: Isaac Kos-Read - Oakland Chamber Public Affairs Consultant Subject: Chamber Minimum Wage Survey Importance: High
Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged Dear City of Oakland Leadership:
As you may be aware, the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce is actively st udying the minimum wage increase issue. As part of this process and to ensure th at the position we take is built on a solid foundation, we are conducting a surv ey of Oakland employers. The previous deadline for responses was Tuesday, April 8. We have extended the deadline to the close of business tomorrow, Friday, Apri l 11, to ensure we get as much good input as possible.
Here is the survey link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6BZQHGT.
Please share this with Oakland employers whose voice needs to be mportant policy discussion. We look forward to engaging with the ard, including at the Council hearing on the matter on April 29, the City enacts a solid policy informed by all stakeholders that to the continued economic development of Oakland.
heard in this i City going forw to ensure that will contribute
Respectfully,
Isaac
Isaac Kos-Read Public Affairs Consultant Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce
From: Nikki Fortunato Bas [nikki@workingeastbay.org] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 11:44 AM To: Bolotina, Olga Cc: Gary Jimenez; Terry Sandoval; Andrew Dadko Subject: confirming Tuesday 4/8 meeting Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged
Dear Olga, I'd like to confirm Lift Up Oakland's meeting with Councilmember Kalb on Tuesday , April 8th from 3:30 - 4:30pm. The following people (cc'ed here) will attend: Gary Jimenez, SEIU 1021 Terry Sandoval, SEIU ULTCW Andrew Dadko, EBASE Please send my regrets to Dan that I will not be able to join on Tuesday. Andrew will represent EBASE. Best, Nikki -Nikki Fortunato Bas Executive Director, ext. 322 From: Luby, Oliver Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 10:31 AM To: Nikki Fortunato Bas Cc: Bolotina, Olga Subject: RE: meeting with Lift Up Oakland Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged Hi Nikki,
Thanks so much. I m copying my colleague Olga on this message and she will get in touch with you about setting up the meeting. Councilmember Kalb was hoping our office could meet with you, Gary, and 1 or 2 others in Lift Up Oakland.
Looking forward to it! Oliver
From: Nikki Fortunato Bas [mailto:nikki@workingeastbay.org] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 8:08 AM To: Luby, Oliver Subject: meeting with Lift Up Oakland
Hi Oliver,
Thanks for reaching out to myself and Gary Jimenez. Lift Up Oakland would very m uch like to meet with Councilmember Kalb about our campaign and measure.
Can you email me a couple times that he is available and I'll check our calendar s?
Best, Nikki
-Nikki Fortunato Bas Executive Director, ext. 322
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Image removed by sender. Image remo ved by sender. Image removed by sender. From: Ty Hudson [thudson@unitehere.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 9:30 PM To: Bolotina, Olga Subject: talking points for tomorrow's march Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged Olga, Here are some talking points for Councilmember Kalb for tomorrow s rally. Ideally, we would like it if he can speak at the end of the march, in front of City Hall , around 5:30 or 6:00 (probably closer to 6:00). If for whatever reason he can o nly be there at the beginning and can t stay till the end, we can put him in a dif ferent slot. Just let me know. (The earlier speakers will be around 4:45 at 10th & Broadway.) Also, if you have any questions or concerns about the talking poin ts, please let me know and we can try to make revisions. In any case, we appreci ate the Councilmember s support and look forward to seeing him tomorrow. Thanks! Ty 1. We re experiencing a renaissance in Oakland, but we need to make sure the benef its are shared by all our residents. We can only achieve the Oakland we are stri
ving for if all the new business that is revitalizing our streets provides good jobs that support families. We need to make sure that the people who have called Oakland home for decades can afford to keep living here and enjoying all of wha t makes Oakland great. 2. The members of UNITE HERE Local 2850 have led the way in making service secto r jobs in Oakland into good, family-supporting jobs. We need to make sure you wi n good contracts and continue to raise the standard, and we also need to lift up the rest of Oakland. Fast food workers and Walmart workers deserve the same wag es, benefits, and rights on the job that hotel workers, airport workers, and sta dium workers have been able to win over the years. A big step in making this hap pen will be to increase Oakland s minimum wage to $12.25 this November. 3. In order to make this happen, you re going to need all the support you can get, including the support of Oakland s elected officials. I m here today to let you kno w that you have my support, and I encourage you to keep fighting for what you be lieve in and for a better Oakland.
Ty Hudson Research Analyst UNITE HERE Local 2850 cell: xxx-xxx-xxxx
From: Denis Drew [ddrew2u@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2014 11:44 AM To: Bolotina, Olga Subject: Obama's activism -- "Activism?" Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged Obama's My Brother s Keeper initiative = $350 million programmed = 1/3 of one billio n dollars = 1/48,000 of our $16 trillion GDP. I have critiqued the E.I.T.C. as transferring a mere $55 BILLION dollars = 1/3 of 1% of GDP = not exactly going to turn the world upside down (per person output g rows over 1% a year most years!). A $15 an hour federal minimum wage would transfer $560 billion dollars (average $8000 a year raise X 70 million employees $15 is about the 45 percentile wage, b ut, 5% would get a full 16000 increase) = still only 3.5% of our $16 trillion GD P, but everyone could be earning at least $30,000. PS. Not to worry; 45% of our workforce is not going to be laid off over a 3.5% p rice increase. Consumers will still need what these employees produce. Also, the re are good arguments that this is not a zero-sum game; that a large minimum wag e should actually raise employment (in our demand starved economy) all around. S ee (my stuff, of course :-]): http://ontodayspage.blogspot.com/2014/02/on-bottom-end-of-wage-scale-we-may-find .html http://ontodayspage.blogspot.com/2014/01/raising-minimum-wage-for-45-of.html
Denis Drew Chicago ddrew2u@sbcglobal.net www.ontodayspage.blogspot.com From: Denis Drew [ddrew2u@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 9:52 AM To: Bolotina, Olga Subject: "DISCOUNT" effect stabilizes minimum wage employment Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged On the bottom end of the wage scale we may find a "DISCOUNT wage effect": wherei n weak bargaining power leaves wages below -- in the American labor market proba bly far below -- what consumers would have been willing to pay: meaning that tod ay s consumers are getting a probably hugely serious -- bargain. On the other end of the wage scale we may find examples of a "PREMIUM wage effec t": where consumers are pressured by market conditions to pay much more than the seller would have been willing to accept had there been sufficient competition or whatever: meaning consumers are getting a -- possibly hugely serious -- skinn ing. If a deeply discounted minimum wage is raised to a still deeply discounted level -- in Obama's case ... ... nearly a dollar below LBJ's 1968 minimum wage ... ... almost double the per capita income later (!) ... ... (dragged out over three years; agh!!!) ... ... I think consumers are much more likely to drop some spending on premium wage products (where they are still being skinned) to continue purchasing DISCOUNTED wage products which are still very much comparative bargains. All these fancy words mean that we do not buy more ice cream cones and jeans jus t because the minimum wage is too low neither are we likely to buy less of same should the wage go up within reason: we are likely to spend less at Nordstrom s so we can maintain our level at Target. Even if today's $7.25 federal minimum were doubled to $15, consumers still end u p paying only as much as they would probably have been willing to pay all along leaving minimum wage products still a COMPARATIVE bargain against PREMIUM wage m ade products. Never forget seems de rigueur for all to forget that labor costs represent only a small fraction of ultimate price tag as low as 7% with Wal-Mart even if sales drop a bit, poverty incomes can soar everybody seems to serially forget this. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * When I was a gypsy cab driver in the Bronx, back in the late 1970s, the city s yel low cabs raised their meters and we raised ours in step. Most drivers agreed thi s did not hurt business. I also heard from veteran drivers that the previous met er raise did cost business (I was new having finally gotten my driver s license at age 32). In any market, selling anything, you never know for sure what the customer will pay until you test. Does this chart below look like the federal minimum wage has
been much tested OVER MULTIPLE GENERATIONS!!!? Dbl-index is for inflation and per capita income. yr..per capita real nominal dbl-index %-of 68 15,473 .10.74..(1.60) 10.74 100% 69-70-71-72-73 74 18,284 ..9.43 (2.00) 12.61 75 18,313 ..9.08 (2.10) 12.61 76 18,945 ..9.40 (2.30) 13.04 ..72% 77 78 20,422 ..9.45 (2.65) 14.11 79 20,696 ..9.29 (2.90) 14.32 80 20,236 ..8.75 (3.10) 14.00 81 20,112 ..8.57 (3.35) 13.89 ..62% 82-83-84-85-86-87-88-89 90 24,000 ..6.76 (3.80) 16.56 91 23,540 ..7.26 (4.25) 16.24 ..44% 92-93-94-95 96 25,887 ..7.04 (4.75) 17.85 97 26,884 ..7.46 (5.15) 19.02 ..39% 98-99-00-01-02-03-04-05-06 07 29,075 ..6.56 (5.85) 20.09 08 28,166 ..7.07 (6.55) 19.45 09 27,819 ..7.86 (7.25) 19.42 ..40% 10-11-12 13 29,209 ..7.25 (7.25) 20.20? 36%? * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * I almost forgot: ... :-) ... There is a growing consensus is that the economy may be permanently slowing down (economists dub this "secular stagnation" as opposed to cyclical ). Progressives see DEMAND -- and therefore EMPLOYMENT -- stalled because of too much income squ eezed out of the pockets of Americans who spend a lot more than save ... ... meaning that raising the minimum wage doubling it if we want any noticeable effect on the economy or poverty; not, not quite catching up with 1968 -- should be a sure fire way to bring down unemployment. Denis Drew Chicago ddrew2u@sbcglobal.net www.ontodayspage.blogspot.com From: Kalb, Dan Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 6:58 PM To: Lambert, Dannette Cc: Bolotina, Olga Subject: Fwd: Oakland Minimum Wage Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged FYI -- unfortunately, we missed this one. -Dan Kalb City Councilmember District One
Oakland, CA 510-238-7001
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From: "Nick St. Charles" Date: January 30, 2014 at 6:42:56 PM PST To: "Kalb, Dan" Subject: Re: Oakland Minimum Wage
Thank you for the reply. The story aired yesterday. I will contact you i f there is a follow up story. Nick
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Kalb, Dan wrote: I'd be happy to talk to U about minimum wage efforts. My cell is 510-846-6018 -Dan Kalb City Councilmember District One Oakland, CA 510-238-7001
On Jan 30, 2014, at 3:42 PM, "Lambert, Dannette" wrote:
This was sent to me. Not sure why they would ask me and not you, but wanted to see how you wanted to respond. Dannette Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message:
From: "Nick St. Charles" Date: January 29, 2014 at 11:24:05 AM PST To: dlambert@oaklandnet.com Subject: Oakland Minimum Wage
Good Morning! I'm a reporter with KPFA radio in Berkeley. I'm doing a story on minimum wage in the Bay Area. I have a few questions for you. 1) Will there be a minimum wage ordinance propos ed in Oakland in 2014? 3) What is your position on raising the minimum wage in Oakland? 4) Are you available for comment for this story? I'm looking to get a few sound bites. Many thanks, Nick St. Charles Pacifica Radio, KPFA (510) 848-6767 x.699 Cell: (xxx) xxx-xxxx From: Gerard, Jennie Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 1:56 PM To: DL - City Council Subject: FW: Governor Brown delivers State of the State Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged Jennie Gerard, Chief of Staff Oakland City Council President Patricia Kernighan District 2 Councilmember 510.238.7023 (direct) 510.238.7002 (District Office)
In the office Monday - Thursday
From: Niccolo De Luca [mailto:ndeluca@townsendpa.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 12:24 PM To: Quan, Jean; Everhart, Maisha; Campbell-Washington, Anne; Kernighan, Pat; Ger ard, Jennie; Santana, Deanna; Orologas, Alexandra; Lin, Sarah D2; Blackwell, Fre d
Subject: Governor Brown delivers State of the State
Team Oakland,
This morning Governor Brown delivered the annual State of the State address to a joint session of the Legislature. The theme of the Governor s address this morni ng was the California Comeback.
The Governor spent a good portion of the speech touting the accomplishments of t he last several years, including: · Turning the State budget from severe deficits to multi-billion dollar su rpluses; · · Putting over one million Californians back to work; Increasing the State s minimum wage, and
· The development of the Local Control Funding Formula so students with th e greatest need get the best resources.
While the Governor praised the work that he and the Legislature have accomplishe d, he also cautioned that the State must show restraint and get its fiscal house in order. The Governor explained that while the State is currently projected t o have multi-billion dollar budget surpluses for the foreseeable future, the nat ure of the State s revenues is still a boom and bust cycle. The Governor indicate d that one of his top priorities for the year is to help address that cycle by c reating a stronger rainy day fund for the State budget; one which would appear b efore the voters at this year s November General Election. Additionally, the Gove rnor placed an emphasis on using the budget surpluses to address long-term State liabilities, including existing bond debt and retirement obligations. The Gove rnor indicated that the State s long-term pension liabilities are over $100 billio n and long-term healthcare liabilities are in the tens of billions of dollars (o utside fiscal analysts have indicated that both numbers may be significantly hig her) and that the State needs to start addressing these issues now before they g row out of control.
In addition to the State s fiscal situation, the Governor spent time addressing th e drought that California is currently experiencing. The Governor noted that he has already declared a State of Emergency and convened an Interagency Drought T ask Force in order to deal with the effects of the drought. The Governor called for increased water conservation, as well as investment in the items put forth in the State Water Plan, such as: water recycling, expanded storage, and effecti ve groundwater management.
Ultimately, the Governor did not call for any sweeping new policies or immediate legislative action; instead, he urged the Legislature to help continue the Cali fornia recovery and exercise restraint during this transitional period.
The complete text of the Governor s State of the State address can be found here < http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18373> .
Niccolo De Luca Director of Northern California Townsend Public Affairs, Inc. 300 Frank Ogawa Plaza, Suite 204, Oakland, CA 94610 O: 510-835-9050 M: 510-681-7306 ndeluca@townsendpa.com www.townsendpa.com
From: Denis Drew [ddrew2u@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 11:24 AM To: Bolotina, Olga Subject: Double the minmum wage -- and raise demand -- smoke and mirrors or eighth-grade math? Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged Progressive economists should readily admit -- shout, scream -- that a moderate fe deral wage increase, typically 10% cited in conservative studies, should indeed have little or no effect on poverty rates. Why would an extra 1/4 of one percen t of GDP added to low wage pay checks be expected to clear a broad swath through poverty? That is what a $1 an hour increase in the federal minimum wage equate s to -- about $40 billion out of a $16 trillion economy. (E.I.T.C. shifts $55 b illion.) A $15 an hour minimum wage OTH would send about 3.5% of GDP the way of 45% of Am erican workers -- about $560 billion (much of it to bottom 20 percentile incomes who today take only 2% of overall income). * * * * * * Could raising the wages of 45% of the workforce actually raise demand for the go ods and services they produce? Sounds sensible at some level; raising wages so much ought to add demand somewhere but, is it all smoke and mirrors? Before the 45% -- who would get a wage hike to $15 an hour -- can raise demand anywhere, t hey would need to get the extra cash from somewhere else meaning the 55%. (Bott om 45 percentile incomes not wages currently take 10% of overall income so, at no time are we talking giant chunks of the economy here.)
The 45% can get higher pay even as "numerical" (to coin a phrase?) demand for th eir output declines due to higher prices -- as long as labor gets an bigger enou gh slice of the new price tags. This can be compared to a leveraged buyout or b uying stocks on margin. Products produced by low-wage labor tend to be staples whose demand tends to be inelastic. Demand for food is inelastic maybe even fast food. If the price of yo ur Saturday family jaunt to McDonald's rises from $24 to $30, are you really goi ng to eat at home (the kiddies haven't forgotten the fundamental theorem of econ omics: money grows on trees :-])? And fast food should be the most worrisome exa mple: lowest wages to start with; even so, highest labor costs, 25%. Wal-Mart is the lowest price raising example (surprise) with 7% labor costs. Jum p Wal-Mart pay 50% and its prices go up all of 3.5%. If low wage labor costs average 15% across the board and go up 50%, overall pric es increase only 7.5% -- and that is for low wage made products only; nobody's c ar note, mortgage payment or health premium is affected. If demand drops just en ough for price increases to maintain the same gross receipts (conservative, even without inelasticity), low wage income should improve appreciably. Allow me to cite: from a 1/ll/14, NYT article "The Vicious Circle of Income Ineq uality" by Professor Robert H. Frank of Cornell: higher incomes of top earners have been shifting consumer demand in favor of good s whose value stems from the talents of other top earners. as the rich get riche r, the talented people they patronize get richer, too. Their spending, in turn, increases the incomes of other elite practitioners, and so on. The same species of wheels-within-wheels multiplier ought to work the at both en ds of the income spectrum -- and likely in the middle. A minimum wage raise to $15 an hour is not going to send most low-wage earners in pursuit of upper end a utos, extra bedrooms or gold seal medical plans. Wal-Mart and Mickey D's should do just fine, OTH which in turn should keep Wal-Mart and Mickey D's doing even b etter. * * * * * * Did I forget to mention ? The poverty line that a "moderate" minimum wage could not help anybody cross -- $20,000 for a family of three is only about half as h igh a hurdle as a realistically worked out minimum needs line should be. . A practical line would be more like $40,000 a year. Today s official federal for mula is an early 1960s creation: multiplying the price of an emergency diet by t hree (dried beans only, please; no expensive canned) no current basket of goods . For a reasonable basket of goods consult page, 44, of the, 2001 (2008), MS Fo undation book Raise the Floor. So, a so-called "moderate" increase in the minimum wage will not even clear a h alf-height hurdle. Final thought: Why does everyone obsess so over the "hazards" of raising one pri ce in our economy -- low wage labor's. Nobody shudders when the Teamster Union raises its price. It is not like the price of low wage labor has been habituall y tested against market willingness to pay and been barely holding its own. It is more -- it is exactly -- like the price of low wage labor has sunk further an d further below market willingness -- precisely for lack of testing -- as the ab ility to pay has grown and grown -- for almost half a century now. To see, click my everything-adju sted-for-everything minimum wage history chart .
Denis Drew Chicago ddrew2u@sbcglobal.net www.ontodayspage.blogspot.com From: Maher, Sean Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 12:28 PM Subject: Media Statement: Mayor Quan applauds California minimum wage inc rease Attachments: 2013.09.25 Minimum wage increase.pdf Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged Mayor Quan applauds California minimum wage increase
OAKLAND Mayor Jean Quan cheered the signing Wednesday of legislation raising Cal ifornia s minimum wage.
The new law, AB 10, was authored by Assemblyman Luis Alejo, D-Salinas, passed by the state legislature and signed on Wednesday by Governor Jerry Brown. It will raise California s current minimum wage of $8 per hour by one-dollar increments:
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To $9 per hour effective July 1, 2014; and To $10 per hour, effective January 1, 2016.
The state minimum hourly wage has been $8 since January 1, 2008.
Oakland, much like California itself, has an incredibly diverse workforce and pop ulation, Mayor Quan said. Many of our residents and workers are new immigrants and low-income families living below the poverty level. For them this modest increa se can make a critical, life-changing difference. I m proud of the Oakland communi ty s work for this cause, and I m grateful to the legislature and Governor Brown for taking this important step forward.
-Sean Maher
Communications Director Office of the Mayor of Oakland Desk: 510-238-7439 Cell: 510-473-2610 E-mail: smaher@oaklandnet.com
From: Nikki Fortunato Bas [nikki@workingeastbay.org] Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 3:08 PM To: Kalb, Dan Cc: Bolotina, Olga Subject: Fwd: invitation to Aug 29 fast food workers strike in Oakland Attachments: Aug 29 Living Wage Action Flyer.pdf; Fast-food workers call for nationwide walkout Wash Post 8-19-13.pdf; Fast-Food Fight - NYTimes 8-7-13.pdf Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged Dear Councilmember Kalb,
Thank you for your continued leadership in Oakland in support of working familie s. As you have seen across the country, low-wage fast food workers are blazing a tr ail for a robust public debate about the struggle of low-wage workers and the ne eds to address the problems of stagnate wages for working people, while the 1% c ontinue to make more and more. In Monday's Washington Post (attached), Shonda Roberts, 38, a mother of three wh o works at a KFC in Oakland said, I personally think a $15-an-hour wage is very o btainable...As hard as we work, are we not worth $15 an hour? I certainly believ e I am. Just last night Oakland workers like Shonda voted to walk off the job nex t week to take action for a living wage. On Thursday, August 29th, workers in Oakland and other East bay cities from Frem ont to Richmond will be standing up for fair wages and the right to join a union along with workers in 40 other cities. I would like to invite you to stand with the workers on this day - to meet with them and show your support. On Thursday, August 29th, you can join us at:
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6am in the Fruitvale 11am in Grand Lake 4pm in East Oakland where we will hold the day's largest rally at the AF
L-CIO Labor Temple at 8400 Enterprise Way If you are not able to join us on the 29th, you can also support workers by (1) setting aside an hour on the 30th to accompany workers as they walk back to the job and (2) signing a letter of support. Please see the attached flyer and articles for additional information. I look fo rward to speaking with you soon about how you can stand with workers on the crit ical issue of living wages. Sincerely, Nikki Fortunato Bas Executive Director, ext. 322
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From: Luby, Oliver Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 11:23 AM To: 'gabriel haaland' Cc: Chris Daly Subject: RE: Oakland's $10.20 min wage proposal Very interesting. Thanks. From: gabriel haaland [mailto:gabriel.haaland@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 8:00 PM To: Luby, Oliver Cc: Chris Daly Subject: Re: Oakland's $10.20 min wage proposal This is interesting. Does a great job of showing that we aren't raising the min imum wage enough in Oakland. http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2014/03/27/how-much-to-afford-a-1-bedroom-apartmen t-in-sanfrancisco/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=FBKQED2931 On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Luby, Oliver wrote: I thought you might like to know that Vice Mayor Reid s proposal to enact an Oakla nd min. wage of $10.20/hour is currently on the pending list for the Council s Community & Economic
Development committee. It is currently anticipated to be on the agenda for the committee s April 29th meeting. Materials for the item should be online by the evening of A pril 17. Oliver Luby Policy Manager Office of District 1 City Council Member Dan Kalb City of Oakland 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Suite 230· Oakland, CA 94612 (o) 510-238-7001 · (d) 510-238-7013 · (e) oluby@oaklandnet.com Click this link to subscribe to Council Member Kalb's newsletter. From: Luby, Oliver Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 1:18 PM To: 'Chris Daly' Cc: gabriel haaland Subject: RE: Oakland's $10.20 min wage proposal Happy to help. I won t have access to it until the 17th or 18th, and will definitely send it to y ou by then. If you want it earlier than that, you d have to contact CM Reid s office. From: Chris Daly [mailto:chris.daly@seiu1021.org] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 11:47 AM To: Luby, Oliver Cc: gabriel haaland Subject: Re: Oakland's $10.20 min wage proposal Hi Oliver. Thanks for the heads up! Can we get the language he's introducing? Chris Daly Political Director SEIU Local 1021 xxx-xxx-xxxx (cell) On Mar 28, 2014, at 11:09 AM, "Luby, Oliver" wrote: I thought you might like to know that Vice Mayor Reid s proposal to enact an Oakland min. wage of $10.20/hour is currently on the pending list for the Council s Community & Economic Development committee. It is currently anticipated to be on the agenda for the committee s April 29th meeting. Materials for the item should be online by the evening of April 17. Oliver Luby Policy Manager Office of District 1 City Council Member Dan Kalb City of Oakland 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Suite 230· Oakland, CA 94612 (o) 510-238-7001 · (d) 510-238-7013 · (e) oluby@oaklandnet.com
Click this link to subscribe to Council Member Kalb's newsletter. From: gabriel haaland [gabriel.haaland@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 11:11 AM To: Luby, Oliver Cc: Chris Daly Subject: Re: Oakland's $10.20 min wage proposal Thanks, Oliver. Appreciate you giving us the head's up. On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Luby, Oliver wrote: I thought you might like to know that Vice Mayor Reid s proposal to enact an Oakla nd min. wage of $10.20/hour is currently on the pending list for the Council s Community & Economic Development committee. It is currently anticipated to be on the agenda for the committee s April 29th meeting. Materials for the item should be online by the evening of A pril 17. Oliver Luby Policy Manager Office of District 1 City Council Member Dan Kalb City of Oakland 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Suite 230· Oakland, CA 94612 (o) 510-238-7001 · (d) 510-238-7013 · (e) oluby@oaklandnet.com Click this link to subscribe to Council Member Kalb's newsletter. From: Luby, Oliver Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 3:31 PM To: 'Chris Daly' Subject: link Here you go; scheduled for March 11 CED committee; Item 4-15 on today s Rules: https://oakland.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=296382&GUID=9245A07F-F413-48C 7-824CAF6DE0D7B80B&Options=info|&Search= Oliver Luby Policy Manager Office of District 1 City Council Member Dan Kalb City of Oakland 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Suite 230· Oakland, CA 94612 (o) 510-238-7001 · (d) 510-238-7013 · (e) oluby@oaklandnet.com Click this link to subscribe to Council Member Kalb's newsletter. From: Sent: To: Denis Drew [ddrew2u@sbcglobal.net] Tuesday, March 05, 2013 10:11 AM Kalb, Dan
Subject:
$15/hr minimum wage: who's it gonna hurt -- who ya gonna call?
$15/hr minimum wage: who's it gonna hurt -- get ready to do your eighth-grade math. If the federal minimum wage had not shrunk 30 percent (figures rounded) -- from $10.50/hr to $7.25/hr -- between 1968 and 2013, then, Wal-Mart prices would be only 1 1/2% higher today and Wal-Mart workers would be earning 17% more (wages 10% of costs), McDonald's prices would be about 15% higher but McDonald's employees would be earning 45% more (wages 33% of costs), and overall prices today would be 1 1/2% higher for the kind of folks who read this message (by the minimum wage alone -- and not counting rippling push-ups which might not amount to much). Who would be hurt; who would be helped if we had maintained a $10.50/hr minimum wage -- as per capita income happened to grow 100%?! If the federal minimum wage had grown 43% instead -- from $10.50/hr to $$15/hr -- Wal-Mart prices would now be about 5% higher than if the minimum stayed stuck in 1968 (6.5% prices higher than today) but Wal-Mart employees would be earning 43% more (66% more than today), McDonald's prices would be about 15% higher than in 1968 (35% higher than today) but McDonald's workers would be earning 43% more than in 1968 (107% more than today). Overall prices up 2% (3 1/2% higher than today). Who would be hurt; who would be helped? ********** The problem with progressive economists analyzing minimum wage effects -- or anything else in the labor market -- is that they have completely lost track of how much the market might happily pay workers (twice as much!?) for their current level of productivity -- they and seemingly everybody else (except this washed u p taxi driver ) The old story of boiling a frog comes to mind: put a frog into boiling water and it jumps right out -- put it into cool water and gradually raise the temperature to boiling and the frog wont notice. Not sure if this is true for frogs but the eig hthgrade math above proves something very much like this seems to have happened to Americans across the board. Denis Drew Chicago ddrew2u@sbcglobal.net www.ontodayspage.blogspot.com From: Mayor Jean Quan [jean@mayorjeanquan.ccsend.com] on behalf of Mayor Jean Quan [jean@jeanquan4council.org] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 2:29 PM To: Kalb, Dan Subject: Busy Weekend: Play-off Games, First Friday, Oaktoberfest, Black Cowboys, Free Financial Counseling Having trouble viewing this email? Click here
October 3, 2013 Vol 3, Issue 40
Take A Fresh Look at Oakland News from Mayor Jean Quan & Friends
Dear Dan: Assistant Chief Paul Figueroa greets the 168th Police Academy, the third of the year. Continuous Police Recruitment Thanks to the improving economy and the passage of my public safety budget, this is our third academy this year and we are recruiting continuously for the next three academies. This week I joined Assistant Chief Paul Figueroa in welcoming 57 new police trainees to the 168th Academy, just a week after the 167th hit the streets. Please help us share this information. We are especially seeking Oakland residents, currently only about 11% of our applicants are Oaklanders: http://www.opdjobs.com/
An SF officer (left) and graduates of the 167th Academy last month. The increased number of officers on the street has helped the Oakland Police Department (OPD) to complete the reorganization of the Bratton Plan -- the division of the city into smaller geographic areas where officers are assigned to and are responsible for specific areas. New graduates also allow each area to have Crime Reduction Teams (CRT) that can be reassigned to "hot spots" or emerging issues. The recent rapid arrests of robbery suspects in the case where commuters were held up in a carpool line were possible because the Captain was able to assign CRT officers and investigators to follow up immediately. In their recent report on the first 4 months of the reorganization, the five area Captains reported on crime trends in their areas and what they have been doing in response. Since the reorganization, citywide crime has started to trend down -fewer shootings, 13% fewer murders, and 18% fewer home burglaries. Robbery/Burglary Prevention Workshop As in most big cities, the robbery rate is still up, although slowly declining. Cell phones and electronics are still the main target. Apple phone owners can now download new operation systems with improved security software. New Apple phones will have "kill switches" which allow owners to to make their phones inoperable. We are continuing to lobby all phone manufacturers to put kill switches into phones. We have asked the OPD to increase the Burglary/Prevention
workshops for citizens, here is one this week: * Oakland Asian Community Safety & Awareness Fair, Saturday, October 5, 10am - 2pm: Safety exhibits and safety presentations. Enjoy a free lunch. Explore a fire truck, SWAT armored vehicle and OPD's moblie command post. Meet the K-9 unit. Presented by the Oakland Asian Advisory Committee on Crime, Oakland Asian Police Officers Association and Asian Youth Services Committee. Alaysha Carradine Arrests Some crimes touch the hearts of the community in a way that unites us and breaks our hearts. Alaysha Carradine's relatives came to one of our Peace in the Parks events in East Oakland; they gave me one of her photos and it sits on my desk. When the 8-year-old was shot and killed, law enforcement agencies quickly focused efforts to find the killers and community groups organized to urge residents to step up with information. During the last months we have kept silent while a far reaching investigation and search for the location of murderers was underway. Police knew early that the shooting was not random and the family had been targeted callously by the murderers in a gang retaliation. Assistant Chief Paul Figueroa, Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley, California Department of Justice Chief of the Bureau of Investigations Kent Shaw, and I broke the news that members of a gang operating in Berkeley and Oakland had been arrested. Some of the individuals were also charged with an additional Berkeley murder. Oakland Police Department (OPD) Homicide investigators partnered with the OPD Gang Unit, the Berkeley Police Department, the California Department of Justice, and the District Attorney's Office to conduct a long-term investigation into this case. During the course of the investigation, OPD developed information that several related suspects were conspiring to commit an additional murder, which OPD was able to prevent. I am proud of the work of the Police Department and grateful for the growing partnership of law enforcement of agencies at all levels. I take every shooting in this City personally. Every family touched by violence in this city is owed the same effort. Over the last year, the additional resources from county, state, and federal agencies has helped Oakland take on our most violent criminals. Just as important, the stepped-up cooperation of the people of Oakland has helped us solve more and more violent crimes. The message is: if you kill anyone -particularly a child -- we'll do everything we can to find you. When we work together, we can start reducing crime and violence. This investigation is ongoing and anyone with information is asked to contact the Oakland Police Department Homicide Section at 238-3821. A's Oaktober Rally -- Let's Make a Wall of Sound!
A's fans have chants, dances, and/or music for every player. This is the Balfour Rage for our closer Grant Balfour, demonstrated at the City Hall rally. The City of Oakland and my office -- in partnership with the Oakland Athletics and many fan organizations -- hosted an "A's Oaktober Rally" this week for the 2013 MLB American League West Champions as they head into the playoffs here at home on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. All the tarps are off and all 62,000 seats are sold out! We want to thank Athletics hostess Kara Tsuboi, Stomper, and the entire Athletics organization for partnering with us to make the rally a success. The hero of the day was Right Fielder Josh Reddick, the mascot of the Right Hand Bleacher fans. Not only did he come on his own time and answer questions from the fans, but he wore the Oaklandish "A's Dynasty T-Shirt" ! Josh was American League Right field Gold Glove Award Winner last year and finished 2012 with 32 home runs and 85 RBIs. The Playoff tickets are SOLD OUT, but if you don't have tickets many of the sports bars and restaurants around town are going to have the game on big screens, so you still can get out and cheer on our team! The Oakland A's have, bar none, the greatest fans in baseball. The dedication and excitement that A's fans showed the team in their astonishing season last year is on full display again this year. I can't wait to help celebrate the team, the fans and the great city they call home! Let's go Oakland! Coliseum City Investor Makes It Real When I became Mayor, I faced many issues that had languished for years or decades and we were in the midst of a deep recession. Sports facility deadlines all landed on my watch. Saving our teams is not just an issue of city pride, but is part of our city economy. There are at least 5,000 direct jobs associated with professional sports and there are large multipliers in our tourism, hotel, and entertainment economies. An architectural rendering of one of many possible plans for Coliseum City. I am the first Mayor to take on the issue of building new sports facilities. We need to accomplish these projects in a way that doesn't require public general fund revenues and that builds more than stadiums. Over a year ago we announced a plan for Coliseum City -- development of the entire 300-plus acre Coliseum area and possible development across the freeway of another 200-plus acres. We envisioned a hotel near the BART/Airport Connector and new stadiums built to also host convention and other entertainment venues, retail, restaurants, and housing. Over the last year we moved ahead with economic and environmental studies that were necessary. We focused on
working with the Raiders who made it clear they wanted to stay. As the numbers became clearer, we knew we needed to have a private partner to fill the funding gap for an NFL stadium. This week we announced that we have a partner; the Bay Investment Group is composed of the Colony Capital and Dubai investor Rashid Al Malik. Colony, which is estimated to have $40-60 billion in assets, owns the Fairmont & Raffles Hotels, Miramax Films, entertainment venues, and previously owned the Paris Saint-Germain soccer team and the Fukuoka Hawks baseball team Japan. Next week we will take to the Council a proposal to add the investors into the Coliseum team and to give the staff up to one year to finalize negotiations on the project. Our goal is to have the main deal points on a Raider stadium complete by spring. MAYOR'S MONTHLY WALK AND AN AMAZING WEEKEND OF ACTIVITIES This weekend is so packed full of exciting events; everyone needs to get out. Tonight is First Friday. We have A's baseball playoffs and a Raiders game. I will be leading a monthly walk in West Oakland in honor of the Black Cowboy Parade. President Carter will speak at a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity. There are several amazing neighborhood festivals: Oaktoberfest in the Dimond (which I helped start as a Council member), the Arts Festival in Montclair, Out and About in Rockridge. And there is so much more in Section #1 below. This is a great weekend to show off our City's diversity and assets! California Minimum Wage Increase Coming Next Year I was very happy to see that legislation to increase California's minimum wage has been enacted. The new law, AB 10, was authored by Assemblyman Luis Alejo, D-Salinas, passed by the state legislature and signed last Wednesday by Governor Jerry Brown. It will raise California's current minimum wage of $8 per hour by one-dollar increments: * To $9 per hour effective July 1, 2014; and * To $10 per hour, effective January 1, 2016. The state minimum hourly wage has been $8 since January 1, 2008. Oakland, much like California itself, has an incredibly diverse workforce and population. Many of our residents and workers are new immigrants and low-income families living below the poverty level. For them this modest increase can make a critical, life-changing difference. I'm proud of the Oakland community's work for this cause, and I'm grateful to the legislature and Governor Brown for taking this important step forward. Mayor Jean Quan
CHECK THESE ITEMS OUT RIGHT AWAY: - Some cool upcoming events - How Health Care Reform Will Affect You - CeaseFire Walk -- Friday evening - Free Financial Planning Day -- Saturday - OPC Parks Survey -- Saturday - AC Transit Line 51 Public Meetings -- next week - Disaster Preparedness Safety Tips #3 - OPD now has a FaceBook page! ...and don't forget to check out the items in the sidebar at right! BACK TO TOP
FREE Financial Planning Day -- THIS WEEKEND 6th Annual Mind Your Money Free Financial Planning Day Saturday, October 5, 9am-4pm City Hall, 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza www.FinancialPlanningDays.org/Oakland Participants can meet with certified financial planners and experts to learn how to plan for a successful financial future. Information is free and tailored to your needs. The volunteer financial planners are not allowed to sell products and services or hand out business cards or marketing materials. In other words, there are no strings attached. The objective of the Financial Planning Day is to help people experience first-hand how financial planning can improve their lives and bring the expertise of professional financial planners to people who may not normally have access to reliable and ethical financial planning information. Any attendee who wishes to follow-up with a volunteer financial planner will have access to the volunteer's name and contact information in the information package provided at registration. Information will be provided on a pro-bono basis by experts from the Financial Planning Association and highly qualified CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER professionals.
You'll able to seek information and advice on a wide range of topics, including: GENERAL FINANCIAL PLANNING - Buying a Home - Debt Management - Building a College Fund - Savings Goals SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES - Job Loss and Job Change - Foreclosure Assistance - Change in Marital Status INVESTMENT PLANNING - Investment Strategies - Asset Accumulation - Generating Investment Income Mayor Quan & Deputy Mayor Swanson at last year's Financial Planning Day RETIREMENT PLANNING - Building a Retirement Fund - 401(k) and 403(b) Plans I- RA Accounts - Social Security INCOME TAX PLANNING - Tax Reduction Strategies - Charitable Contributions - Small Business Taxation ESTATE PLANNING - Building an Inheritance - Wills and Trusts - Estate Tax Strategies INSURANCE PLANNING - Life Insurance Coverage - Disability Insurance - Long-term Care Planning EMPLOYEE BENEFITS - Managing Health Insurance - Health Savings Accounts - Pension Benefits In addition to personalized advice, Oakland Financial Planning Day will also feature a series of classroom-style educational workshops addressing popular personal finance topics. For more info and to register: 877-861-7826 or info@financialplanningdays.org or www.FinancialPlanningDays.org/Oakland BACK TO TOP NEWS from the NEW SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER New District 4 School Board member Anne Campbell Washington has just launched her new newsletter for parents, grandparents, teachers, principals, and others concerned about our schools. She will be publishing the newsletter twice a month -- prior to school board meetings so you can keep abreast of upcoming items that impact your schools. She will also provide details about specific issues that affect your students and schools -- and provide links to
useful resources should you seek additional information. Many of you know that Anne is my chief of been assigned to many school coordination holds my former school board seat, chosen talents and love of children when my long Yee became interim superintendent. staff and she has projects. She for her many time colleague Gary
To sign up for the twice monthly newsletter, click here. To receive this week's newsletter, click here. BACK TO TOP SUNDAY FUN SOLD OUT Sundays in the Redwoods Concerts Continue This Sunday Sundays thru October 13 Woodminster Amphitheater 3300 Joaquin Miller Rd. Doors open at 1pm; concerts begin at 2pm FOR MORE INFORMATION: SUNDAYS IN THE REDWOODS I've been proud to partner with the Office of Parks & Recreation to bring you this annual celebration of Oakland and the Bay Area's rich musical heritage in one of our most beautiful open spaces. Over the years, Sundays in the Redwoods has grown to be one of the most highly acclaimed Fall musical events in the East Bay, drawing thousands of firsttime visitors to Joaquin Miller Park's shaded trails through the Redwoods. We have been amazed at the response to our website; the last two concerts were SOLD OUT quickly. If you have tickets to the last two concerts and cannot come, please pass them onto friends because there are many who wanted to come. Sunday, Oct 6 -- The Rhythm Section, Featuring: Eric Benet SOLD OUT Sunday, Oct 13 -- Talking All That Jazz, Featuring: Lalah Hathaway and Kindred & the Family Soul SOLD OUT BACK TO TOP This publication is not produced at public expense. Want to follow events as they happen? During the week, I also post to my Facebook page: Facebook.com/mayorjeanquan. Send This To A Friend
In This Issue 1. Discover Oakland This Week 2. CITY NEWS 3. Community Policing 4. The TECH Side of Oakland 5. Safe & Healthy Oakland 6. VOLUNTEER Opportunities 7. JOBS, Business, & Training 8. GREENING Oakland 9. KIDS & SCHOOLS 10. UPCOMING Events 11. RECURRING Events Quick Links * Submit items for the newsletter * Official Mayor's Website * Official Oakland Website * Mayor's YouTube Library * Constituent Problem Solving Follow the Mayor
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Listen to the Mayor Tuesday mornings at 8:05 am on KGO 810 AM radio IN THE NEWS CITY Arrests in Sleep Over Killing of Girl Henry Lee, SF Chronicle October 1, 2013 Oakland's Fields of Dreams Bob Gammon, East Bay Express October 2, 2013 Deep Pocketed Investors Sign Up for Coliseum City Matt Artz, Oakland Tribune September 30, 2013 Oakland redistricting talk: 45 proposed maps now circulating
Barbara Grady, Oakland Local Sept. 22, 2013 Much needed help on its way for Oakland police KTVU Sept. 20, 2013 In the face of criticism, OPD's Ceasefire strives to move forward Max Levenson and Susan Cohen, Oakland North Sept. 20, 2013 Oakland passes ban on "tools of violence" at protests Becca Andrews, Oakland North Sept. 19, 2013
GENERAL INTEREST Mattress surcharge: Statewide plan has roots in Oakland dumping Matthew Artz, Oakland Tribune Sept. 16, 2013 Oakland Military Institute Receives $100,000 Project Connect Donation from Sprint to Help Youth Succeed in Digital World Green Technology World Sept. 24, 2013 Local East Bay Programs That Support the Working Poor Receive Over $22,000 from Strive for Change Foundation Business Wire Sept. 25, 2013 Crematorium project likely to move forward Shelby Carpernter, Oakland North Sept. 25, 2013 TECH & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Conference Recognizes the Demographic Shifts in 2013 As an Opportunity for "Building a More Inclusive Economy" Darlene Crane, Oakland Local Sept. 19, 2013 Proposal calls for overhauling
Rockridge Shopping Center Maggie Sharpe, Oakland Tribune Sept. 19, 2013 The Latino Coalition Announces 2013 West Coast Economic Summit (coming to Oakland Oct. 8 & 9) Hola-Arkansas.com Sept. 19, 2013 Revolution Foods' Quest to Pack More Nutrition Into Kids' Lunchboxes Nick Leiber, Bloomberg Businessweek Sept. 19, 2013 ART & LEISURE Oakland end of the line for 'Station to Station' Lyndsey Ellis, SF Chronicle Sept. 19, 2013 FOOD New on College Ave: Bourbon and Beef Jonathan Darr, Oakland Local Sept. 25, 2013 Home Cooking Elevated to High Art Luke Tsai, East Bay Express Sept. 25, 2013 Sausage Is the New Bacon Elly Schmidt-Hopper, East Bay Express Sept. 25, 2013 Oakland Social: Couyon brings Cajun to Eli's Mile High Club Bonnie Chan, Oakland Local Sept. 19, 2013 BACK TO TOP JUST FOR KIDS
Million Book Event Saturday, October 12, 1-4pm Mosswood Park 3612 Webster Street
Join us for a free, family-friendly event sponsored by Oakland Parks & Recreation and the East Bay Children's Book Project. We will be giving away our millionth book! Entertainment will be provided by the Prescott Circus, Stephanie Pepatone, Team Leap, and Mykah Montgomery. Featured guests at the event will include local children's book authors and illustrators. The artists will read to children and be available to talk about their work and demonstrate their art. The celebration will include literacybased activities, clowns from Prescott Circus, and the rock band Ariel. Families with children are invited to attend. Each child attending will be able to earn books and a book bag. A special gift will be given to the child receiving the one-millionth book in the book give-away. For more info, click here. BACK TO TOP PET SPOTLIGHT Meet Sweet Miso
Miso is a medium-sized, 1-year-old pit-bull mix with a wiggly, warm and playful personality. She's mostly white with chocolate-brown ears and a smattering of freckles near her nose (translation: ADORABLE!). She loves other dogs and walks well on lead. And the good news continues: This sweet girl is sponsored, which means that her adoption fees are covered. The only thing missing at this point? YOU! Please take a look at her photos and videos and then come to visit and see for yourself. Like OAS on Facebook. Oakland Animal Services
1101 29th Ave. 535-5602 oaklandanimalservices.org Click here to jump to info about how to volunteer for OAS. BACK TO TOP VOLUNTEER Opportunity
OPC Needs Your Help to Survey Parks Saturday, October 5 8:30am-12noon Start at the Garden Center in Lakeside Park (666 Bellevue Ave.) www.oaklandparkscoalition.org Oakland Parks Coalition is conducting its 8th annual Love Your Parks Day survey Saturday, October 5, 8:30am-12noon and we need the help of citizens concerned about the viability of their parks. This survey of park conditions is used in the OPC annual report to City Council to assess budgeting for park needs. We need team drivers but will be glad to team you up if you don't have a car so please join us at the Garden Center in Lakeside Park (666 Bellevue) where we will train you before assigning your team 3-6 Oakland Parks to survey. If you have a smart phone or a camera, please bring them with you. High school students are especially welcome and will receive community service credit. Visit our website to see last year's report. Send us your questions and RSVP to let us know you are coming. For more info and to RSVP, click here. BACK TO TOP Here's to Your Health
The Affordable Care Act is Coming -- Are You Ready? The Affordable Care Act (ACA) goes into effect in January 2014, with open enrollment beginning October 1. Whether you are an employee or an employer, the law is sure to affect you, and the Oakland Public Library, along with many other public service agencies, is offering free assistance and informative programs to help you navigate the changes. Affordable Health Care ActYour Questions Answered! Wednesdays, 1pm, Main Library, Computer Lab, 125 14th St. Every Wednesday, a certified enollment counselor is available to answer your questions and assist with the application process. This program will continue through the end of the year.
Grow Your Business Series: The Impact of Healthcare Reform on Your Business Tuesday, October 22, 5pm, Dimond Branch, 3565 Fruitvale Ave. Presented by the Alameda County Small Business Development Center, this is the second seminar in a sixpart series. This seminar provides a general overview of the Affordable Care Act and how it impacts small businesses. During this session you will learn about key provisions of the Act, individual mandates, employer shared responsibility, reporting requirements, penalties, costs, taxes and fees, and state exchanges. For more information or to register: Rebekah Eppley, 482-7844 The Library's website also has information and resources: www.oaklandlibrary.org/coveredca BACK TO TOP YOUR VOICE Please Take the OPD Survey
The Oakland Police Department is dedicated to enhancing public safety through community policing strategies. We believe that an active and invested community is essential to the success of our mission, which is to provide the people of Oakland an environment where they can live, work, play and thrive free from crime and the fear of crime. We believe that our dedication to community policing should be evident both in our everyday interactions with the public and in the crime strategies and police policies we create, develop and use. Creating policies and strategies that are citizen-informed and building relationships of trust between officers and community members are priorities for us. The heart of community policing is collaboration. To know whether our efforts are successful, we need to hear from you. Please take a moment to take a brief survey regarding your personal satisfaction with the Oakland Police Department. BACK TO TOP 1. DISCOVER OAKLAND -- Activities this week Editor's Note: Remember to check both the UPCOMING and the RECURRINGsections, wa y down at the bottom, for additional events. ART ANTICS: IT IS FIRST FRIDAY! The Art Murmur Every First Friday year-round, 5-10pm: Various art galleries in Uptown. www.oak landartmurmur.org For today's gallery talks, exhibits, etc. Try exploring Oakland Art Murmur exhibition details - download this new free ph one app and use it to explore the galleries and gallery districts on First Friday. http://www.fieldtripper.com
Saturday Stroll Every Saturday, 1-5pm: Uptown Art Galleries: www.oaklandartmurmur.org/calendar/saturday-stroll
First Thursday Art Walk, Every First Thursday of the Month, 6-9pm, Grand Avenue from LakePark to Piedmon t border. The Grand Avenue Business District hosts a monthly art event with special discou nts from merchants and galleries. For more info, click here.
Friday Nights at the Oakland Museum with Off the Grid Food Trucks, every Friday, 59pm, Oakland Museum, 1000 Oak St. Join OMCA and Off the Grid Food trucks on 10th Street every Friday for a familyfriendly take on a festive night market. Savor California beer, wine and non-alcoholic beverages ar ound the Koi Pond at the Blue Oak café pop-up. Bring the whole family to OMCA for a sampling of the bes t in Bay Area curbside cuisine! * DJ Aware spinning hits from 5 to 6:30 pm * Family-friendly drop-in workshop doing animal printing on bandannas from 5 to 8 pm * Makers & Tasters Series ranging from beer brewing and coffee roasting to reci pe sharing and gardening how-tos from 6 to 8 pm * Hooping class with Nicole Wong in the amphitheater from 6:30 to 7 pm * OMCA Pub Trivia with Senior Curator of Natural Sciences, Douglas Long, from 7 to 8:30 pm * Rock and roll band Hot Einsten performing live from 7 to 9 pm COST: Half-price gallery admission for adults; ages 18 and under are free. Admis sion for Members is always free. Cash bar. Prices vary for Off the Grid food trucks. Event parking i s available at the Museum for a $5 flat fee after 5 pm. For more info, click here. SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE 39th Annual Black Cowboy Parade and Heritage Festival, Saturday, October 5, 10am-5pm, deFremery Park, 1651 Adeline Street. Highlighting the contributions made by African American cowboys in the West, the parade and festival provides a day of fun and a taste of the Old West with cowboys, trick riders, fo od, entertainment, line dancing, pony rides and fun activities for the entire family. For more info:www.blackcowboyassociation.org 6th Annual Oaktoberfest in the Dimond, Saturday, October 5, 11am-6pm. 4 blocks of fun branching out from the intersection of Fruitvale Ave. and MacArthur Blvd. Oaktoberfest in the Dimond returns for its 6th year of fun, community-building, and festivities. This
event is FREE to the public. Oakland Mayor Jean Quan taps the first keg at 10:45 am in a traditional Munich style Oktoberfest kick off. Highlights include: * the Bill Brand Biergarten (at Fruitvale Ave. and MacArthur Blvd.) with 2 0 local craft breweries; * the Mad Zymurgist Homebrew Competition hosted in the HopTech Homebrewers ' Alley; * the Family-Friendly Rootbier Garten; * the Wells Fargo Bank Family Stage filled with fun for the entire family; * and * plenty of food and vendor booths in-between, including beer-food pairing s, German inspired artisan entrees, cooking demos, alongside traditional favorites to satisfy every one. Plan your weekend around this great Community Festival - with all proceeds benef iting neighborhood improvement. Tickets on sale at www.Oaktoberfest.org Volunteers always welcome! For more info, to volunteer, sponsor, vend, or advertise: www.Oaktoberfest.org or 452-7392 the Main Stage with traditional German and modern Oakland entertainment;
61st Annual Armenian Bazaar & Food Festival, Friday, October 4, 5:30pm-12midnigh t & Saturday, October 5, 12noon-12midnight, St. Vartan Armenian Church 650 Spruce St reet (off MacArthur). Friday night features DJ Raffy Senekeremian (starting at 9pm) Saturday night live music features Khatchig Jingirian (starting at 9pm) Authentic Armenian cuisine, music and dancing! Games for kids, cultural displays, church tours, live music Saturday afternoon F ull meals available until 8:00pm; authentic Armenian food served all night Cost: Adults $3; Kids Under 14 $1; Kids under 6 free For more info: www.stvartanoakland.org
Bites Off Broadway -- Mobile Food and Family Fun, Fridays, now thru October 11, 5:30-8:30pm, in front of Studio One Art Center, 365 45th Street. Featuring affordable and delicious food from rotating trucks, such as Fist of Fl our, Tina Tamale, Taco Evangelist, Roderick's BBQ, Annakoot, Suzie Q's Lunch Box, Sanguchon, Go Streate ry, Doc's of the Bay, Two Mammas Vegan Kitchen, Blue Saigon, Sunrise Deli and more. Lawn seating : bring a chair or a blanket plus your friends, family and neighbors. Hula-hooping, ping pong, live music and movies at dusk. For more info: www.bitesoffbroadway.com
MOCHA Grand Opening, Saturday, October 5. 1625 Clay Street. More details to come. Check here for updates.
Plant-Powered Health & Fitness Expo, Saturday, r RooftopGarden, 300 Lakeside Drive. Come to Oakland's first and only plant-powered om leading experts in rapid weight loss, Cross-Fit, yoga and posture that doesn't taste healthy. This event is ideal for those who are and those who already live active healthy lifestyles. For more info:vegfoodevents.com/health
October 5, 11am-5pm, Kaiser Cente health and fitness expo. Learn fr and enjoy delicious healthy food curious about becoming healthier
8th Annual Love Your Parks Day Survey, Saturday, October 5, 8:30am-12noon, Start s at Lakeside Park Garden Center, 666 Bellevue Ave. The Oakland Parks Coalition (OPC) is seeking volunteers for its annual survey. R esults from the survey of park conditions are used in the OPC annual report to City Council to assess b udgeting for park needs. Each team will survey between three and six parks. High school students a re especially welcome and will receive community service credit. For more info:www.oaklandparkscoalition.org 19th Annual Sidewalk Fine Art & Crafts Fall Fest, Saturday, October 5, 10am-6pm & Sunday, October 6, 10am-5pm, Montclair Village, Mountain Boulevard at LaSalle. This fine art festival will feature paintings, drawings, photography, sculpture, ceramics, graphics, and jewelry. For more info: www.montclairvillage.com
Rockridge Out & About Street Festival, Sunday, Oct 6, 12-6pm, on College Avenue between Alcatraz and Kales. Zydeco Flames at Rockridge BART Plaza 2:30-5:30 Sponsored by the Rockridge District Association, the event will feature gourmet food and drink from local restaurants and food trucks, live music, wellness activities, kids' activi ties, and a chef stage. Beer and wine will also be sold and folks can eat comfortably at tables and chai rs at four food courts. The event will feature 3 mostly jazz stages, including 57th St Gallery jazz stag e, Toast Jazz stage and Musically Minded Academy stage. Other highlights include Kinetic Arts Center (ci rcus arts) Zydeco
Flames performing from 2:30-5:30 at the Rockridge BART Plaza and Soja Martial Ar ts and Drumming Crew. Find comfort and beauty in the Wellness Area, or shop local craft artists and retail booths by local merchants. Fun and festive for the entire family. Children will have a blast with a Claremo nt Middle School kid's stage, Climbing Wall, face-painting, pumpkin carving, bicycle stunts, Berkeley c hess club and hula hooping. Valet bike parking by the East Bay Bicycle Coalition. For more info: www.rockridgeoutandabout.com or 604-3125. Rockridge Market Hall Annual Picnic in the Street, Sunday, October 6, 12-6pm, Co llege Avenue at Rockridge BART. Market Hall merchants take to the street, offering succulent foods, comparative tastings, demos, a pop-up pantry, and a cookbook exchange. Bring a used cookbook and take another. Children's activities include a prize wheel and pumpkin painting. The fair coincides with the Rockridge Out & About street festival, where the chef state alternates live music with demos and tastings. Enjoy dancing and live music throughout the day. No charge, except for purchases. Jack's Glow and Fire Show, Wednesdays, October 9 to 23, 6:30-7:30pm, Jack London Square, Pavilion Stage, fo ot of Broadway. Experience a fusion of fire dance and flow art with fire hoopers, fire spinners and fire jugglers. For more info: 645-9292
BACK TO TOP FOR SENIORS Board Game Days, Every Wednesday, 11am-4:30pm, Hall 2, Downtown Oakland Senior Center, 200 Grand Ave. Join others in rousing board games including Monopoly, Scrabble, Boggle and many more. For more info: Jennifer King, Senior Center Director, jking@oaklandnet.com or 23 8-3284
FOR ADULTS En Vogue Concert to Benefit Habitat for Humanity Sunday, October 6, 6:30pm, The Paramount Theatre, 2025 Broadway
This Sunday Habitat for Humanity is hosting a special performance at the Paramou nt Theatre to kick off the 2013 Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project. The event will feature: * President Carter * En Vogue * Miko Marks * Tajai (of Hieroglyphics) * Iron Triangle Urban Ballet * Emcees Renel Brooks-Moon and Mark Curry Doors open at 6:30 p.m. The Carters take the stage at 7:30pm. Tickets start at $35. All proceeds benefit Habitat for Humanity East Bay/Silico n Valley. Purchase tickets at: Ticketmaster or the Paramount Box office (no convenience fe es). For more info about Habitat: www.habitatebsv.org For more info about the show: www.HabitatEBSV.org/CWP/Opening-Ceremony
FOR KIDS Basketball Skills Training for kids, Saturdays & Sundays, thru October 20, East Oakland Sports & Fitness Training Academy, 9161 Edes Ave. Kids will learn the basics of basketball including fundamentals, conditioning, a nd sports-specific training. Players: be sure to bring athletic wear, including shoes, shorts/sweat s to exercise in, as well as a towel and drinking water. They have classes for kids ages 5 to 17. For more info: Bryant Bacon, Fitness Program Director, 615-5838 or bbacon@oaklan dnet.com
Soccer Skills Training for kids, Saturdays & Sundays, thru October 20, East Oakland Sports & Fitness Training Aca demy, 9161 Edes Ave. Kids will learn the basics of soccer including fundamentals, conditioning, and s ports-specific training. Players: be sure to bring athletic wear, including shoes, shorts/sweats to exerc ise in, as well as a towel and drinking water. They have classes for kids ages 5 to 17. For more info: Bryant Bacon, Fitness Program Director, 615-5838 or bbacon@oaklan dnet.com BACK TO TOP DANCING Chicago Steppin' classes,
Thursdays, 8-10pm, Ira Jinkins Rec Center, 9175 Edes Ave. The classes will be held every Thursday through August. Participants will enjoy great music, dancing and conversation while learning the art of the "Chicago Step." For more info and to register: Donte Watson, Recreation Center Director, dwatson @oaklandnet.com or 615-5959
Dancing Under the Stars, Friday evenings, 8:30-10pm, Jack London Square, foot of Broadway. The incredibly popular dancing event returns to Oakland's waterfront. Kick up yo ur heels and enjoy a free dance lesson provided by the Linden Street Dance Studio. Each week will fea ture a different type of dance followed by a dance party to practice what was learned. For more info: 645-9292.
MUSIC Piedmont Piano Company Concert Series, 1728 San Pablo Ave. Located in the Uptown, half a block from the Fox Theater, Piedmont Piano Company doesn't just sell beautiful, high-end pianos. Every month, they present music from local and inter national musicians. Here's a list of some upcoming concerts: Saturday, 10/5 -- Mon David & Socorro de Castro, presented in association with t he SF Fil-Am Jazz Festival Thursday, 10/9 -- Bria Skonberg Quintet Costs vary, but typically range from $15 to $25 For more info: www.piedmontpiano.com
MOVIES Sing-along Cinema, Friday, October 4, Sundown, Ferry Lawn, Jack London Square, f oot of Clay Street. Come out and join in the fun with an outdoor sing-along movie. Enjoy the movie " Little Shop of Horrors." Come dressed as the theme of the movie and be prepared to sing with yo ur favorite songs. Costume contest, games, prizes and more. For more info: www.jacklondonsquare.com
Movie Night at Redwood Heights Rec Center, Friday, October 4, at dusk, Redwood Hts Rec Center, 3883 Aliso Ave. A great way to spend a Friday night is to come over to Redwood Heights Rec Cente r, bring a small lawn chair and/or blanket, some warm clothes, and watch a fun movie under the ev
ening sky. Movies start at dusk, which changes as the days get longer. There will be popcorn, hot chocolate, drinks & hotdogs this year. No alcohol, drugs or dogs allowed. All of the money goes towards scholarship fund for summer day camp and after school Rockets program. Free screening of "Goonies" For more info: Breht Clark, Recreation Center Director, bclark@oaklandnet.com or 482-7827 For the summer schedule, click here.
$5 Movie Day Every Sunday & Tuesday, Regal Cinema Jack London 100 Washington St. Tired of shelling out $10 - $12 for movies in a theater? Then take advantage of the Regal, Jack London's all day $5 movie deal! For more info: www.regmovies.com The New Parkway, 474 24th Street 658-7900 or www.thenewparkway.com If you haven't yet been to this movie theater, you really must go. Comfy (clean) couches, good food, and all sorts of themes. Check the website for all the specifics. BACK TO TOP
AT FAIRYLAND fairyland.org Special Events -- Friday 12:30pm -3pm: Pollinator Party: Come celebrate the butterflies, the bees and our new pollinator garden with us! At noon we will have an educational speaker discuss butterflies and their lifecycles, followed by fun hands-on activities from 12:30 to 3pm. Also, learn more about wh at you can do in your backyard to help our local pollinator friends! Regular Events -- Saturday & Sunday 11am, 2pm, & 4pm: Puppet Show: Tashi, A Boy From Tibet. This is a tale about he lping each other and caring for animals. Tashi doesn't want to be a hunter, because it hurts his animal friends. In order to learn the lessons of life, his father sends him out into the world. On the wa y he meets a magical monk, and saves a village from a wicked demon, all through the help of friends. 12pm-2pm: The Marilynn O'Hare Arts & Crafts Center is open with activities gear ed toward children and their families. 12:30pm & 3pm: Children's Theatre Presents: Nesruddin's Donkey. From Turkey to C hina to Africa to America, people tell stories of the Mullah Nesruddin, or Nesruddin Hoja, as h
e is commonly known. A wise fool who triumphantly bumbles his way through life, Nesruddin stands with other tricky heroes from Anansi to Coyote to the Baal Shem Tov. In our story, he has all sorts of ad ventures and misadventures on his way to the market, and his donkey more often than not has t he last laugh. 1pm-1:20pm: Animal of the Day! Come up close and learn about one of our animal friends. Which one of Fairyland' s feathered, furry or wooly creatures will it be today? Find out at the Humpty Dumpty wall. 1:30pm & 2:30pm: Owen Baker Flynn with his "World Premiere," a lively show featu ring juggling, fire eating and a multitude of surprises.
AT THE ZOO 9777 Golf Links Rd For more info: www.oaklandzoo.org Animal Encounters, Sundays, 11:30am and 12:15pm (for about 20 minutes) Docent led live animal presentation: Wild animals need your help, come find out what you can do. Learn about and meet some of our amazing animals close up. Our Program Animals a re presented with fun facts and important messages; spend 20 minutes with us in the WildLife Theat er! This program is free with regular Zoo Admission. Peanut Shells & Primates - Ugandan Wildlife and Oakland Zoo, Sunday, October 13, 6:30-9pm. Rebecca Goldstone and Michael Stern speak on how farm waste can save Uganda's wildlife. The New Nature Foundation has been working to protect Uganda's Kibale National Park in various capacities since 2002. With long-standing support from Oakland Zoo, the Kibale Fuel Wood Project and Kibale Eco Char Initiative focus on the fuel wood crisis, the larges t threat to Uganda's wildlife. Click here for more info.
AT CHABOT SPACE & SCIENCE CENTER 10000 Skyline Blvd. For more info, click here. Let's Talk About Space, Baby!, Saturday, October 5, 6:30-9:30pm Begin your evening with a live planetarium show from the Cosmos 360 series, The Story of H. After the show, join the discussion in the Saturday Night Space Talks. This session so
ars into the innerworkings of a Boeing 747 in A Monkey on Your Back! including the extraordinary s kills of the crew. This iconic airplane and the Space Shuttle were meant for each other (just like you and your date!). After the talk enjoy a private cocktail hour in one of Chabot's engaging exhibit ion spaces and explore the rest of the museum, including Chabot's historic telescopes on your own. Dinn er can be purchased in the Space Café. Includes admission for two to the museum. The Story of H begins promptly at 6:30 and runs about 35 minutes with 10 minutes of Q&A. A Monkey on Your Back! is a 45 minute discussion. Click here for more info. Dinner, a Movie, and the Universe, Friday & Saturday evenings. The perfect date night experience is back! By popular demand, our unique after-d ark offering has returned. Join us for a full-course dinner in our Skyline Bistro, enjoy our live -narrated Planetarium show Cosmos 360, and view the night sky through our telescopes (weather permitti ng). Reservations are not required, but strongly encouraged. Costs (includes Admission, Dinner, and Planetarium Show) Guests: $23 Adults / $16 Children Members: $15 Adults / $11 Children *Dinner only walk-ins welcome: $17 Adults / $13 Children *Price does not include admission to the Center For more info, click here. BACK TO TOP OAKLAND MUSEUM At the Oakland Museum, 1000 Oak Street For more info: museumca.org The Tree of Life and Death: Dias de Los Muertos 2013, Wednesday, October 9 throu gh Sunday, December 8, Various Hours. The museum's 19th annual Days of the Dead exhibition features installations by g uest artists fusing the themes of life, death and remembrance with ecology. Topics explored include empathy, knowledge and habitat and species loss, conservation and restoration. Showcase Series: Days of the Dead, Saturday, October 12, 1-2:30pm This exciting new series features artists from the 19th Annual Days of the Dead exhibition, The Tree of Life and Death: Dias de los Muertos 2013, presenting their work in the brief and illuminating format known as a lightning talk. Artists will share examples of their work and discuss the fusion of Mesoamerican traditions with themes in the Gallery of California Natural Science s including indigenous
knowledge, empathy, habitat and species loss, and accountability for preventing such losses through conservation and action. The showcase lecture will be followed by a brief artist - and curator-led tour. Click here for more info. Peter Stackpole: Bridging the Bay, now thru Jan. 26, 2014 Featuring stunning black-and-white photographs chronicling the original San Fran cisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge construction in the 1930s by American photographer Peter Stackpole, the exhibition continues OMCA's ongoing series exploring contemporary topics in California through photography. On view in the Gallery of California Art during the opening of the new San Franc isco-Oakland Bay Bridge in fall 2013, the exhibition of 22 of Stackpole's works from OMCA's colle ction connects visitors back in time to the bridge's first iteration and serves as a complement to the M useum's major exhibition on the San Francisco Bay, opening in concert with the new bridge and America's Cup. Click here for more info.
ART Warehouse 416 & Refined Arts present Town Business State of the Art Hustle. A group exhibition exploring the current state of the Oakland Art Market, as rep resented by creative entrepreneurship of emerging artists. Learn more about this exhibition at oaktow n.biz. The Opening reception was last Saturday, but there is also a First Friday recept ion: Friday, October 4th 6-10pm, featuring Scrivani Productions Handcrafted Cocktail Bar. Gallery Hours: Saturday, 1-5pm Artists: Ralph Carlile Browne, Nancy Cato, Erin Crawford, Lauren Crew, Gregorio de Masi, Unity Lewis, Andy Littlefield, Adam Mitchell, Dough Rhodes, Danielle Schnur, Dominic Treatuni ce Villeda
ART Exhibit at Oakland City Hall Speak Beauty to Power Hannah Woebkenberg and Karen Balos will have an exhibit on display on the 3rd fl oor Rotunda of Oakland City Hall from October 22 - November 22. The opening will be on Thursda y, October 24 from 5:00-8:30pm.
SIBILA SAVAGE/COURTESY SFMOMA Acoustic Sound Art Installation Hosted in Frank Ogawa Plaza through Sunda y, November 17, Frank H. Ogawa Plaza will host "Occasional Music," a sound installa tion by Oakland-based Zarouhie Abdalian. Beginning in early September, brass bells are programmed to ring simultaneously at a specified time each day from rooftops in and around Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. For several minutes, each bell will play a randomized rhythmic structure of accelerandi and ritardandos that will sound dif ferent each time. The installation is part of SFMOMA On The Go program that has the San Francisco Muse um of Modern Art hosting exhibitions at various locations throughout the Bay Area while the museu m is closed for construction.The time of the once-a-day pealing of the bells will vary. The comp lete schedule will be posted here and available in Oakland City Hall shortly. The installation was dev eloped in coordination with the Oakland Public Art Program. For more info: Steven Huss, Cultural Arts Manager, shuss@oaklandnet.com or 238-4 949 or Kristen Zaremba, Senior Public Art Project Manager, kzaremba@oaklandnet.com or 238-2155 or www.sfmoma.org/secaaward ART Exhibits at Oakland Public Libraries Rockridge Group Photography Show, October 1 - 31, Rockridge Branch, 5366 College Ave. The Rockridge Community Photography Group takes "safaris" through the neighborho od, capturing images of our place and time. This exhibit includes photographs by Martha Snider , Robert Hofmann, Jamie Pillers, Chuck Fisher, Charles Lucke, Robert Firehock, L. Tipler Ubbelohde , and Irving S. Wiltshire. Haiti: I Will Keep Standing, October 2 - 30, Lakeview Branch, 550 El Embarcadero . Opal Palmer Adisa exhibits her photos of Haiti, taken one year after the devasta ting earthquake. She has captured the immense resilience, love, and determination of a people who wil l never be destroyed. Join us for an artist's reception on October 12. Oakland! 100 Years of Boosterism and Image-making, through October 31, Main Libr ary, Oakland History Room, 125 14th St. A great variety of historic photos, news articles, publicity brochures, and ephe mera illustrates how Oakland civic and business leaders have marketed the city throughout the years. Learn the amazing story of how Oakland has gone from boom to bust to boom again. BACK TO TOP
AT OUR PUBLIC LIBRARIES Many library events are recurring. Some are highlighted here temporarily, but be sure to check the last section (RECURRING EVENTS) for items no longer listed in this section and click here for a link to all library events. Library events page: www.oaklandlibrary.org/events
Library Introduces Free Online Magazines The Oakland Public Library recently began providing Zinio, a digital magazine se rvice, to patrons through its website. With this service, Library patrons can browse from a long l ist of popular and specialized magazines - Newsweek, Dwell, the Utne Reader, Esquire, Juxtapoz, Low rider, Mother Jones, O, Yoga Journal and dozens more. To use the service, go to their web page here and click on "Zinio for Libraries" under "Magazine & Journal Articles." For more info: Tamar Kirschner, Collection Development Librarian, tkirschner@oak landlibrary.org or 238-4704 A SAMPLE OF THIS WEEK's EVENTS Editor's Note: In the interest of space, we're removing the regular, recurring i tems we usually have below this section. There are so many events the libraries offer -- best that you just go check out their website for all the details: www.oaklandlibrary.org/events. Affordable Health Care Act: Your Questions Answered, every Wednesday through 2013, 1-4pm, Main Library, 125 14th Street. Come and learn about the Affordable Health Care Act. A certified enrollment coun selor will be available to answer your questions and assist with the application process in the Main Lib rary computer lab. For more info: Mana Tominaga, Supervising Librarian, mtominaga@oaklandlibrary.or g or 238-6611 Mural Workshop, Thursdays, 3:30-5pm, 81st Avenue Branch, 1021 81st Ave. Join acclaimed muralist Lisa Nowlain in creating a mural for the branch's TeenZo ne. For more info: 615-5812 Zumba!, Saturdays, 2:15-3:15pm, 81st Ave Branch Classroom, 1021 81st Avenue (at Rudsdale). Join the library for Zumba, dance, and other exercises! Each class is led by an instructor and a video, making it easy to follow along. Classes are for Teens and Adults, or join for F amily Dance Classes at 1pm. Click here for more info. Do the Write Thing and Publish!, Saturday, October 5, 1:30pm, Main Library, 125 14th St.
Join local authors Denise Michelle Harris and Alicia Young for a dynamic worksho p packed with tips for the aspiring writer. They will share insights from the worlds of fiction and nonfiction writing as well as traditional and independent publishing. In the workshop, you will get an over view of the process, tactics for defining your writing project, coaching in the writing and editing p rocess, ideas about getting your work published and marketed, and a chance to meet authors who have successfully navigated the process. Elmhurst Book Club, 2nd Tuesdays, 6pm, Elmhurst Branch, 1427 88th Ave. Call ahead to find out what book will be discussed this month. Click here for mo re info. ¡Conozca sus derechos! / Know Your Rights! Training, Tuesday, October 8, 6-7:30pm, César E. Chávez Branch, 3301 East 12th St. Aprenda sobre los derechos de emigrantes, como defenderlos, y los servicios lega les y sociales que están disponibles a la comunidad emigrante. / Learn about immigrant rights, how to defend them, and the legal and social services available to the immigrant community. Haz clic aqui para obtener mas informacion. / Click here for more info. Halloween Costume Exchange, Thursday, October 10, 11:30am, Dimond Branch, 3565 Fruitvale Ave. BACK TO TOP 2. CITY NEWS For Information About City Council Meetings CITY NEWS Latham Square Grand Opening Saturday, October 12, 2pm, Latham Square, Broadway at Telegraph Avenue. The City of Oakland, in partnership with the Downtown Oakland Association and Po puphood, will host a grand opening for the new Latham Square. Enjoy the new plaza, listen to music and shop at several small-scale mobile vending stations. The plaza is a temporary pilot project desi gned to increase foot traffic and walkability at the intersection of Telegraph and Broadway, and will remain in place for six months to one year. The success of the pilot project will inform permanent impro vements to the intersection by the City to create a new public space. In addition, the plaza de sign incorporates space for mobile vending, offering a chance to pilot retail and complementary event pr ogramming to activate the heart of Oakland's downtown. For more info: www.oaklandnet.com/LathamSquare
City Launches New Public Records Request Application: RecordTrac This week the City's Code for America fellows unveiled a project designed for th
e City that will be available to other jurisdictions, designed to help users track the progress o f their requests and help the city satisfy the requests more efficiently. Information provided in response to requests will be stored in a searchable archive for users seeking similar data. The new system can be found at http://records.oaklandnet.com.
40th Street/MacArthur BART Bicycle Access ProjectTo improve east-west bicycle access between MacArthur BART, the Piedmont Ave neighborhood, Kaiser Hospital an d Emeryville, and connect to the bicycle and pedestrian path across the new easter n span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge (which opened in September 2013). Since 2009, the follo wing projects have been constructed: * 40th Street (Adeline Street to Martin Luther King Jr Way and Telegraph A venue to Webster St): An experimental bikeway featuring green pavement and shared roadway bicycle markings (sharrows) was installed in September 2013. See Discussion below for details. * 41st Street (Webster St to Piedmont Avenue): bikeway striping (sharrows and bike lanes) was installed in March 2012. * W. MacArthur Boulevard, Telegraph Avenue to Broadway): bike lanes were i nstalled in September 2012. * 40th/41st Streets (Adeline Street to Piedmont Avenue): bike wayfinding s igns were installed in May 2010, in collaboration with BART. * 40th Street (Martin Luther King Jr Way to Telegraph Ave): bike lanes wer e installed in April 2009. Needed width was provided by narrowing the center median. Discussion: At MacArthur BART, the number of bicyclists increased by 123% from 1 998 to 2008, making it the fourth busiest for bicyclists out of the 43 stations in the BART s ystem. Another big increase in bicyclists is anticipated with the completion of the MacArthur Trans it Village - now under construction - which includes a new bicycle parking facility. To address the exi sting and projected demand, the 40th Street/MacArthur BART Bicycle Access Project has been under development sin ce 2006, when the City studied the feasibility of installing bike lanes on 40th Street by removing a travel lane in each direction. Input from transit operators led the City to conduct more detailed st udy. A recommendation to narrow the planted median on 40th Street to create the necessary width for bi ke lanes was opposed by some in the local community who had invested time and energy caring for the p lanted medians. With the road diet and median narrowing found infeasible, the City is now conduc ting an experiment
with shared roadway bicycle markings (sharrows) highlighted by green color locat ed in the travel lane. While green color is now approved for standard use in dedicated bike lanes, the 40th Street project is innovative for using green color in a lane shared by both motorists and bicyclis ts. Such experiments require approval by state and federal regulators. Oakland Public Works is conduc ting the experiment with the Federal Highway Administration and California Traffic Control Devices C ommittee. The goal of the experiment is to enhance safety by addressing common problems wh ere bicyclists and motorists share lanes. Bicyclists often ride in the "door zone": the area im mediately adjacent to curbside parking into which car doors open. Motorists often squeeze by bicyclist s, passing too closely. The California Vehicle Code allows bicyclists to use the full travel la ne where the lane is too narrow for a bicycle and a vehicle to travel safely side by side. The 'green' tr eatment will assist bicyclists and motorists in sharing the road. Here are suggestions for both: * Bicyclists: Ride in the middle of the travel lane so you are visible, pr edictable and clear of the door zone. * Motorists: Be considerate of bicyclists riding in the lane - they are do ing so legally and for their own safety. When passing, change lanes, leaving at least three feet of spa ce between your vehicle and the bicyclist, and merge back into the lane only when you have safely cleared the cyclist (you can see the cyclist in your rear view mirror). For more information visit our website. FOR KIDS -- Hacker Scouts To Open Headquarters in Oakland On September 19, Hacker Scouts signed a new lease for its headquarters at Telegr aph Avenue and 61st Street. The company will offer the Bay Area's first independent Maker space dedicated to children. Its innovative program focuses on STEAM (science, technology, engineer ing, art and math) education, skill building and community engagement. Founded less than a year ago by local residents, Hacker Scouts has expanded across the country and quickly outgrown its temporary shared space in Oakland. To help fund the new space, the company has also launched a Kickstarter campaign . Their efforts are part of the broader Maker movement that seeks to foster a technology-infused DIY culture. The new headquarters will serve both as the hosting location for multiple groups as well as the prototyping lab for its nationwide curriculum. The lease cements the company's ties to Oakland, which is becoming a hub of the Maker movement. To learn more about Oakland's industrial arts and Maker movement, please view re cent articles here
and here. For more info: Margot Lederer Prado, Senior Economic Specialist, mprado@oaklandn et.com or 2386766.
City Seeks Citizen Input on Council Redistricting On Thursday, October 3, the Rules and Legislation Committee of the Oakland City Council reviewed the staff report on the Council Redistricting process which began in June. The O akland City Charter mandates the review of City Council District boundaries every 10 years to equali ze each district's population according to U.S. Census data. To view the reports, resolution and video of the Oakland City Council meeting on June 4 where the Council established the criteria to be used, click here. In July and September, a series of seven Redistricting Town Hall Meetings were h eld throughout Oakland. The three meetings in July educated the public about Redistricting whil e the four meetings in September presented 13 proposed maps, including 10 submitted by the public. Publ ic input is encouraged and can be provided by: * Using the interactive mapping software here * Emailing suggestions and comments to strategicplanning@oaklandnet.com * Leaving a voice message on the redistricting hotline at 238-3079 * Visiting the City's newly launched open data platform, http://data.oakla ndnet.com , to explore and visualize population data * Engaging in the discussion online at http://www.EngageOakland.com Later in October, the City Council will begin holding public hearings to deliber ate on the proposed redistricting maps. The Council is expected to make a final selection of the Cou ncil District boundaries in November. Do you know what Council District you live in? Districts and locator tool. Click here for a map of Council
For more information on Oakland's redistricting process including a map of curre nt Council Districts, redistricting-related legislation, upcoming Council meeting dates and more: Devan Reiff, AICP, Planner II, dreiff@oaklandnet.com or 238-3550 and www.oaklandnet.co m/redistricting
BACK TO TOP TRANSPORTATION NEWS & MEETINGS
Public Meetings -- AC Transit Line 51 Corridor Delay Reduction and Sustainabili ty Project Tuesday, October 8, 6-8pm, City Hall (Hearing Room 4) 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza Thursday, October 10, 6-8pm, Rockridge Public Library (Meeting Room 2) 5366 Col lege Ave AC Transit, in coordination with the City of Oakland Public Works Department, in vites the public to community meetings to discuss potential improvements to the AC Transit Line 51 B us Corridor. Lines 51A & 51B are two of the most heavily used bus routes in the East Bay, car rying a combined 19,000 passengers a day to Berkeley, Oakland, and Alameda. Service has been unre liable due to bus bunching, late vehicle arrivals and overcrowded buses. AC Transit has received a $10 million grant to design and implement infrastructure modifications along the route that would inc rease reliability and on-time performance, decrease travel time, and improve safety for AC Transit rid ers and pedestrians. Improvements being considered include: * Bus stops improvements (lengthening, improved landing areas) * Bus stop relocation or elimination * Intersection and traffic signal improvements * Transit priority signal timing improvements * Shared Bus/Queue Jump Lanes * Left Turn Pockets * Bus Bulbs Community members who are unable to attend a meeting may submit written comments by Friday, October 25 to Tammy Kyllo, Administrative Coordinator, AC Transit, 1600 Franklin Street, Oakland, CA 94612 or by email at planning@actransit.org. For more info, click here. Parking Lot and Plaza Changes at MacArthur BART Station On Thursday, September 19, construction began on Phase 2 of the MacArthur Transi t Village at the MacArthur BART Station. Phase 2 is a new 90-unit affordable housing community de veloped by BRIDGE Housing. The project is located in the southeastern section of the existi ng parking lot. Completion is planned for spring 2015. Construction of the new housing structure and new streets will close a large section of the existing parking lot. BART riders should use other means to reach the MacArthur BART Station rather than driving, such as free shuttles or AC Transit A brochure with information on alternatives is available at the MacArthur BART S tation or get it here. In late October, a portion of the BART Plaza will close for reconstruction. The reconstruction will include a new bike storage facility and additional security features. The closed area will not block access to or from the BART Station.
For more info, click here. BACK TO TOP
CITY BOARDS and COMMISSIONS Boards and Commissions are a wonderful way for residents to participate in city government, and currently we are recruiting for several openings. * The Emeryville-Berkeley-Oakland Transit Study Advisory Committee has a v acancy for a West Oakland resident to join its newly forming committee. The purpose of the st udy is to examine the establishment of a multi-city transit corridor to supplement and enh ance existing public transportation for the support of residents and new job-producing commerc ial enterprise in Wes t Oakland, West Berkeley and Emeryville. For more info: www.ci.emeryville.ca.us/index.aspx?NID=944 * If your interest is in arts and culture, there are vacancies on the Publ ic Art Advisory Committee. * The Commission on Persons with Disabilities has some vacancies, looking for someone who wants to make a difference in Oakland. This hardy group of volunteers advis es the city on its compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). It works har d to advocate on behalf of the community to the mayor, council members, city staff, and affili ated agencies and organizations. If you are a resident of Oakland and are interested, visit www.OaklandMCPD.org to apply. * The Citizen's Police Review Board has two vacancies for alternate positi ons and one is specifically for a youth candidate. The Citizens' Police Review Board is committ ed to ensuring that Oakland has a professional police department whose members behave with inte grity and justice. * The Civil Service Board has a vacancy for someone who has interest in pa rticipating in the enforcement of the City's personnel system. * The Measure Z - Cannabis Regulatory Committee has an opening. * The Violence Prevention and Public Safety Oversight Committees are looki ng for one or two excellent candidates. Due to the term limits that pertain to most Boards and Commissions, vacancies in nearly all of them are continuously occurring. If you are interested in being considered for any o f these Boards and Commissions, please send a letter of interest and your resume to Hatzune Aguilar Sanchez at haguilar@oaklandnet.com . BACK TO TOP 3. Community Policing
OPD Robbery and Burglary Prevention Workshops The City is hosting a series of workshops to help residents learn how to protect yourself and your home from crime. You will hear from experts on personal safety and home securit y and your area police. for more information contact Jacqueline Long, jlong@oaklandnet.com, 23 8-7750 >>Captain Toribio addresses workshop for Area 2 at the Garden Center.
OPD Launches Official Facebook Page Last Monday, September 23, the Oakland Police Department (OPD) launched an offic ial Facebook page, which focuses on community relationship building. The page highlights the department's men and women who serve Oakland residents, provides information on upcoming OPD-rela ted events and documents celebrations, such as the recent 167th Police Academy graduation, with photographs. To access the official page, authorized by the Oakland Police Department, go to Fac ebook.com and "friend" Oakland Police Department, Oakland CA. For more info: Sgt. Holly Joshi, OPD Chief of Staff, hjoshi@oaklandnet.com or 2 38-3131 BACK TO TOP COMMUNITY MEETINGS & EVENTS CeaseFire Oakland/LifeLines to Healing -- Walk our neighborhoods The City of Oakland and local faith-based organizations are continuing their nei ghborhood Night Walks on Fridays from 6:30 to 9pm -- just one of the ways that community members can get involved in Operation Ceasefire. These walks are organized by residents and faith leaders in areas where Ceasefire is focused. I join the walks at least once a month. Volunteers are tr ained in advance of the Night Walk and are accompanied by other volunteers for the duration of the walk. The purpose of the Night Walk is to reach out to communities affected by violence and to take back the streets. I joined last Friday's walk, this was our orientation meeting. The next walks start from these locations: * October 4: Allen Temple, 8501 International Blvd * October 11: First Mt. Sinai, 1970 86th Avenue * October 18: Cosmopolitan, 988 85th Avenue * October 25: At Thy Word, 8915 International Blvd For more info: 639-1440 or fridaycommunitynightwalks@gmail.com
BACK TO TOP OPD NEWS Do you know which Community Policing Area you live in? Area Area Area Area Area 1 2 3 4 5 Capt. Capt. Capt. Capt. Capt. Eric Lewis - 238-6911 - elewis@oaklandnet.com Anthony Toribio - 238-3958 - atoribio@oaklandnet.com Ricardo Orozco - 238-3330 - rorozco@oaklandnet.com Steven Tull - 777-8561 - stull@oaklandnet.com Kirk Coleman - 777-8543 - kcoleman@oaklandnet.com
A PDF version of the map showing the 5 areas is available here.
Area-Specific Crime Stats Posted to OPD Website The Oakland Police Department (OPD) updated the web pages for the five Bureau of Field Operations Areas by adding area-specific crime stats. A citywide weekly crime report, avail able on the Crime Statistics page, has been available since the website was created. The new crime stat pages are tailored to each Area, making information on local crime conditions easily avail able to neighborhood residents. The five Area webpages are accessible through the Bureau of Field Ope rations page here. For more info: Sgt. Holly Joshi, OPD Chief of Staff, hjoshi@oaklandnet.com or 238-3131 BACK TO TOP GOOD TO KNOW The Alameda County District Attorney's Office publishes "Did You Know" -- a recu rring email newsletter that keeps you updated on the recent verdicts and news from the their office. Subscribe at www.alcoda.org/news/newsletters Updates from the DA on Twitter: http://twitter.com/AlamedaCountyDA Facebook: www.facebook.com/AlamedaCountyDA HOW YOU CAN HELP OPD Many Arrests Are Made Each Week Because Citizens Report Suspicious Activity Please remember to be alert and report suspicious activity to the police: 777-3333 OPD non-emergency number This number should be used to report any suspicious behavior and suspicious vehi cles parked or driving in your neighborhood or area of business. Callers can opt not to provide their name and number and remain anonymous. Please include any descriptive details that could b e helpful. Jot down the date, time and location you saw the vehicle or suspicious person. Each time
this information is reported, it is used in the investigative process. 911 for life threatening emergencies 777-3211 emergency when calling from your cell phone Use Nixle Tip Watch to send an anonymous tip in 1 of 3 ways: 1. Text TIP OAKLANDPD to 888777 from your cell phone 2. Call the toll-free tip hotline at 855-TIPS-247 (855-847-7247) 3. Respond to OPD's Nixle messages To view the Nixle message, click here. Nixle -- stay informed of events, news, and announcements If you have not already done so, please sign up for NIXLE to receive OPD alerts, advisories, and community messages. You can sign up for your beat to receive updates from OPD. * Nixle Alerts - Register at www.nixle.com * Web updates - www.oaklandnet.com * OPD Twitter - Follow @oaklandpoliceca * Telephone 511 or www.511.org for traffic & transit information BACK TO TOP 4. The TECH Side of Oakland City of Oakland and Code for America Launch "RecordTrac" City of Oakland officials and representatives from Code for America are launchin g "RecordTrac," a new web application to help the City manage and track incoming public record req uests. The new system will: * Improve transparency of City government * Allow users to track the progress of their requests * Save staff time through more efficient request handling * Provide easier access to public information Users of the new system are able to search prior requests and the City's respons es. This saves users time since they do not have to wait for documents to be uploaded and saves City staff from having to process duplicate requests. "RecordTrac" was built by the City of Oakland's 2013 Code for America fellows wh o have been working with the City since February. This application is the latest in a series of recent efforts to engage citizens and provide increased access to information and more transparency.
Oakland Digital Kicks Up Efforts to Bridge The Digital Literacy Divide. Takes Leadership Role in Nationwide Campaign, "ItsEasierThanYouThink". Urges Digital Citizens to Sign Obama Administration Petition. The United States faces a Digital Literacy education and skills gap that leaves over 60 Million Americans from utilizing the Internet in their daily lives. Oakland Digital, alo ng with co-organizers launch Awareness and Petition Campaign Designed to Improve Digital Literacy Skills in t
he U.S. - from Students to Small Businesses. Oakland Digital Arts & Literacy Center (Oakland Digital), non-profit organizatio n delivering volunteerbased classes and on-site labs for young adults and local businesses, recently a nnounced, in concert with TRAIL and other campaign partners, the launch of a national campaign and Wh ite House targeted petition designed to raise awareness, and reduce the plight of millions of Ameri cans disconnected from the digital economy. Oakland Digital, formed in 2009, serves as a successful community supported mode l working with local governments and technology leaders to bridge the digital literacy divide. "Nearly 25,000 new Oakland businesses were launched in 2012. In every case digital technologies off ered significant value", says Oakland Mayor Jean Quan. "Unfortunately, not all are proficient or have the know-how to harness its application. On-the-ground Digital Literacy programs led by Oakland Digital, and their work within the small business community plays a vital role in providing the boost in dividuals need to bridge the gap." The United States faces a digital divide, a skills gap that prevents over 60 mil lion Americans from utilizing the Internet in their daily lives. 1 in 5 Americans say they do not kn ow enough about technology to start using the Internet on their own. Online skills are not only necessary for seeking, applying for and getting today's jobs, but also to take advantage of the growing educational, civic and health-care advances spurred by broadband. "ItsEasierThanYouThink," a new national digital literacy awareness campaign, off icially kicked off Monday, September 2, with a White House petition and several public service anno uncement (PSA) videos addressing the education factors that contribute to the online education and skills gap in America. The Goals of the "ItsEasierThanYouThink" Digital Literacy Campaign: * Raise awareness with the public about the issue of digital literacy; * Urge the Obama Administration to adopt a national digital literacy polic y; * Empower non-Internet users with the tools they need to get online; and * Providing the online community with resources to take action on this imp ortant issue "Most of us in the tech world take the ability to open a browser, conduct a sear ch, or make a post on a social network, for granted", says Shaun Tai, Executive Director of Oakland Di gital. "But to some, it's a fear right up there with public speaking. The digitally underserved requi re the tools and assistance needed to become active participants in the information economy."
Your Voice Matters - Get Involved: Sign and circulate the White House Petition t o adopt a national #DigitalLiteracy policy with your friends and constituents at http://www.itseasi erthanyouthink.org/ BACK TO TOP 5. Safe & Healthy Oakland: Fire House Open House Events Wildfire Prevention District Requests Renewal This Fall Ten years ago I was a new Council Member and the federal funding that had helped Oakland with vegetation control after the Firestorm of 1991 had ended. I had gotten used to the goats grazing the hills, but it was clear that if we were going to continue these and other servic es we would have to find funding. Eventually we calculated that if every home/property within the tree l ine of the Oakland hills would pay $65 per year we could cover the basics with about $1.7 million -- incl uding the goats! In 2003, I helped the residents of the Oakland hills establish and pass the Wild fire Prevention Assessment District (WPAD) to provide annual funding to assist home and property owners in preventing urban wildfires through vegetation management and education. Since th en other areas of the state have considered setting up their own districts. For the past 10 years, the WPAD has successfully reduced the risk of wildfires i n our fire-prone Oakland Hills through: * Goat grazing to clear excess brush and weeds * Maintaining firebreaks so fire cannot spread * Fire patrols on high fire danger days * Roadside mowing * Dead tree removal * Brush cutting to clear emergency escape routes * Free chipping/removal of branches and brush debris for residents in the Wildfire Prevention District Keep Oakland Firesafe 2013 is a grassroots campaign to renew Oakland's Wildfire Prevention Assessment District (WPAD) before it sunsets in 2014. If anyone questions the va lue of this district, please consider the videos on this website. Or ask the neighbors on Castle Road about the July 4th fire in Joaquin Miller Park. When the sparks from the Girl Scout Cabin ignited a nearby hill, only a meadow separated the fire from nearby eucalyptus trees and homes. Luckily the g oats had just been in that meadow and the fire was contained. In 1991 the fire moved from the top of the North Hills across Hwy 13 in less than 25 minutes; vegetation management helps us slow down fires and contain them. It can be a matter of life or death. We anticipate the actual mail-in ballot for the Wildfire Prevention District wil l occur in November 2013. Meanwhile, there is a lot we have to do between now and then and we could use yo ur support.
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Oakland Asian Community Safety & Awareness Fair, Saturday, October 5, 10am-2pm, Lincoln Neighborhood Center and Park, 250 Tenth S t. FREE. See and explore OFD fire truck, SWAT armored vehicle, OPD command post, OPD k-9 unit. Schedule: 10am-2pm: Safety fair exhibits 10:30-11:30am: Basic safety presentations from the Oakland Asian Police Officers Asso. 12-1pm: Announcements free lunch For more info: Officer Ouseng Saeparn, 773-0986, osaeparn@oaklandnet.com Learn, Lead, Lift: Community Emergency Preparedness Fair Saturday, October 19, 10am-2pm, Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, 1203 Willow Street. The Oakland Fire Department's Emergency Management Services Division is partneri ng with Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church to host a community event featuring fire safety exhibi ts, emergency preparedness training, games and prizes. Oakland residents are welcomed to enjoy the fun. For more info and to RSVP: 238-7044 For more info generally: Genevieve Pastor-Cohen, Senior Emergency Planning Coord inator, gpastorcohen@oaklandnet.com or 238-2326
The Great California ShakeOut -- Annual statewide earthquake drill Thursday, October 17 ShakeOut is now eight weeks away and more than 10.8 million people worldwide are already registered. More than 40 U.S. states and territories, along with several other c ountries, are participating in 2013! Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drills are a chance to practice how to protect ourselv es during big earthquakes, and also how to get prepared. Check out the following links: * How to participate * How to protect yourself * CA participation totals * the ShakeOut Shop 3rd in the Series of Safety Tips Step 3: Organize Disaster Supplies * Organize disaster supplies in a few convenient locations - your home, ca r, school and at work. Routes away from home may be blocked, and help may not get to you for a wh
ile. Think about what your family will need if you have to shelter at home for up to three weeks, possibly without water or electricity. * Keep an emergency backpack near the door to "grab-and-go" in case you ca n't stay in your home. This is especially important if you live or work in a tsunami zone. Place copies of important documents/cash in a plastic bag in the backpack. Include medication an d extra glasses that anyone in your family may need. Other items: water, snacks, baby fo rmula, cell phone chargers, etc. * Store emergency supplies in a dry area at home including food and water for your family and pets, clothing, blankets, work gloves, tools, personal care items and anythi ng you will need on a daily basis. * Store water for everyone in your family. The recommended amount is one g allon per person or pet per day for at least three days and ideally up to two weeks (even longer if you live in desert or remote areas). * Create a kit for your pets that includes dry pet food and any medication s they might need. Keep a photo of you with your pet in the kit in case your pet gets lost. Conside r implanting an ID "chip" so that your pet can be linked back to you even if you are separated. * Buy a NOAA weather radio with the Public Alert feature. For more about how to organize disaster supplies, go to EarthquakeCountry.org/st ep3 . BACK TO TOP 6. VOLUNTEER Opportunities Volunteer for Oakland Animal Services Volunteers are essential to Oakland Animal Services (OAS). Not only do OAS volun teers benefit from a fun and rewarding experience, but they also significantly improve the lives of the shelter animals. Spending time with the animals, increasing adoptions by helping citizens find th e right animal to join their family, and making new friends along the way, volunteers are a driving for ce behind OAS. Volunteers can train to work with: * Cats * Dogs * Rabbits * The staff to assist with administrative tasks Volunteers learn skills for handling each type of animal and techniques for talk ing with the public about adoptions of them. Learn more about volunteering here. Also, if you're interested in the animals themselves, click here to jump to our spotlight on this week's pet.
California Health Insurance Exchange needs your help California's new health care program will start enrolling residents on October 1 st. Volunteers are needed to inform residents about enrollment dates, where to go for information a nd sign-up. Invited presenters will include: Health Services, NAACP, La Clinica and Organizi ng for Action, Volunteering for Oakland. For more info: aca4eastbay@gmail.com Success depends on a proactive, prepared volunteer outreach. Learn more about th e California Health Insurance Exchange atwww.coveredca.com .
Become a Volunteer Health Navigator Allen Temple Health and Social Services and the Robert C. Scott Wellness Center are seeking persons to join the Volunteer Health Navigation Team. The navigators will provide educa tion on the Affordable Care Act (also known as 'Obamacare'), healthcare coverage options, as well as as sist in healthcare enrollment. Volunteers will receive training and a certificate of completion. A six-month commitment is requested. For more info: Raquel Cummings 544-975 or rcummings@allen-temple.org
Have time on your hands? Interested in helping Oakland teens succeed? WriterCoach Connection takes teams of trained community volunteers into public s chool English classes to work with students on their classroom writing assignments. We believe one-on-one feedback from caring adults helps students develop their ideas and become confid ent and competent writers. Our two-part volunteer trainings provide strategies and practice to wor k effectively with students at all levels of achievement and all stages of the writing process. In Oakland we coach at Fremont High School in the Fruitvale and have recently ex panded to Oakland School for the Arts. We have a great need for coaches, especially at Fremont Hig h. The commitment is just 1-2 hours per week, 2-4 weeks each month during the school year. For more info: www.writercoachconnection.com or Camille Graves, Oakland Voluntee r Coordinator,oakwcc@gmail.com or 306-1792
BACK TO TOP 7. JOBS, BUSINESS & TRAINING Opportunities Grow Your Business Workshop Fall Series, some Tuesdays & Thursdays, all 5-8pm, D imond Branch and Mail Library. The Alameda County Small Business Development Center, in partnership with Oaklan d Public Library, presents a series of workshops to help you start and grow your business. Six wo rkshops will be offered at two OPL locations. At Dimond Library, 3565 Fruitvale Avenue * Tuesday, October 15, 5-8pm -- Website Development for Your Business * Tuesday, October 22, 5-8pm -- The Impact of Healthcare Reform on Your Bu siness * Tuesday, December 3, 5-8pm -- Understanding Intellectual Property At the Main Library, 125 14th Street * Thursday, November 7, 5-8pm -- Accessing Capital for Your Business * Thursday, November 14, 5-8pm -- Finding and Engaging Your Core Customer * Thursday, November 21, 5-8pm -- Successful Business Plans For more info or to register: Rebekah Eppley, 482-7844 or reppley@oaklandlibrary .org
Reentry and Reintegration Forum, Thursday, October 3, 8:30am-4:30pm, Elihu Harri s State Building Auditorium, 1515 Clay St. Senator Loni Hancock and Assemblymember Bill Quirk host this forum where speaker s will discuss best practices for ending the cycle of incarceration and policy perspectives for developing evidencebased strategies for successful transition, reentry and reintegration. Morning a nd afternoon sessions. For more info: 286-1333 or 583-8818 BACK TO TOP 9. GREENING Oakland EVENTS THIS WEEK Friends of Sausal Creek Events Click here for a full calendar of events and directions to each event.
Shepherd Canyon Eco-Pullers, Saturday, October 5, 9-11am, Shepherd Canyon Park. Help restore an area of Shepherd Canyon Park once used as a dump. Clear non-nat ive plants and replace with native plants and maintain trails. Meet at Escher Gate. Wear stur dy shoes and bring gloves and small tools if you have them.
For more info, click here.
UPCOMING EVENTS Native Plant Sale Extravaganza, Sunday, October 20, 10am-4pm. Shop at 5 different locations for those hard-to-find natives at the right time o f year to plant them. (Natives will be sold in Alameda, Berkeley, Concord, Oakland, and Richmond.) For more info: Kathy Kramer, Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour Coordinator, 2369558, kathy@kathykramerconsulting.net , and www.bringingbackthenatives.net
BACK TO TOP 9. Kids' Programs & School News EDITOR's NOTE: News about the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) and the loc al education community appears in a lot of different places: print, radio, television and onl ine media. OUSD has started collecting the highlights in one easy place: https://www.rebelmouse.com/ OUSD/ Check the link regularly.
2nd Annual St. Vincent de Paul of Alameda County Broadcasting Justice Media Contest The media contest is open to all high school students in Alameda County, and ask s them to answer the question, "What does social justice mean to you?" through video and photogra phy. The first place prize is $500, and second place is $250. The deadline to submit media is October 18. For more info: 877-9252, volunteer@svdp-alameda.org or click here.
OUSD - Parents Raising the B.A.R. (Behavior, Attendance, Reading) -- Orientation Meeting Thursday, October 3, 5:30-7:30pm, 746 Grand Ave. FREE. This is an orientation meeting about the 8-week training series, which is design ed to present a compelling vision of the need to engage OUSD parents as leaders in improving stu dent outcomes in "Behavior, Attendance and Reading." This training series is for parents of OUSD students who are already Parent Leaders or would like to become Parent Leaders at their child's s chool. If you cannot attend, the orientation please contact us for more info. For more info and to RSVP: Raquel Jiminez, raquel.jimenez@ousd.k12.ca.us
Teach Tomorrow in Oakland (TTO) Recruitment Series, 2 Thursdays, October 10 & November 14, 6-7:30pm, McClymonds High School, 2607 Myrtle Street, Oakland, Room 107. In its continued effort to diversify Oakland's teaching workforce, TTO will host teacher recruitment fairs on October 10 and November 14. TTO's model is dedicated to recruiting diverse hi gh-quality, prospective teachers who are committed to 3 key principles: ensuring that all st udents achieve at high levels, professional development, and long-term employment within OUSD. Additionally, TTO creates multiple, customized pathways for Oakland's youth and adults to become teachers in OUSD, while continuously evaluating teacher development and effectiv eness. For more info: ttoraza.eventbrite.com
FREE College Information Day, Saturday, October 12, 8:30am-1pm, UC Berkeley, Whe eler Hall, Berkeley. A free College Fair (over 60 college reps) open to middle school, high school, a nd college students. Workshops in both English and Spanish will cover all college systems in Californ ia, HBCU's, Financial Aid, support for undocumented students, as well as NCAA requirements. Parents a nd families welcome. Pre-register here: www.eastbayconsortium.org BACK TO TOP 10. UPCOMING EVENTS OCTOBER Fireside Lounge: Curation, Friday, October 11, 6:30-9:30pm, Crucible, 1260 7th S t. In our third 2013 Fireside Lounge, The Crucible examines curation, and how art i s exhibited. We examine the function of public spaces, galleries, and museums, how art influence s each of these spaces, and how do these spaces influence art. What is the value of museum colle ctions to the artists, and what is the responsibility to the artists and community? Also featuring fir e performances and live demonstrations in our glass, neon, light & enameling studios. Executive Director Steven Young will moderate a panel discussion with esteemed m embers of several galleries in Oakland & Alameda: Aggregate Space, Autobody Fine Art, and Joyce G ordon Gallery. Circus arts collective Cirquedelic and the bellydancers of Rockabelly will perf orm firey and aerial tricks on our main stage. Beer from Stone Brewing Co. and wine from Breggo Cella rs, as well as treats from Oakland LOAKal food cart Ippo Ramen will be available for purchase. Cost: $10 / free for members of The Crucible
For more info, click here.
Friends of the Oakland Public Library Fall Book Sale, Friday thru Sunday, Octobe r 11-13, 10:30am-5:30pm, 721 Washington St. (in Old Oakland, near 12th Street BART Statio n). The Friends of the Oakland Public Library's Bookmark Bookstore is having its sem i-annual sale event. Most of the store's 17,000 quality used books, donated by individuals and estate s, are regularly priced at $3-$6. With these great discounts customers will save even more while supporting the Oakland Public Library. * 30% off - Friday, October 11 * 40% off - Saturday, October 12 * 50% off - Sunday, October 13 FOPL members receive 50% off on "Members' First Choice" Sale Day, Thursday, Octo ber 10. Anyone may join FOPL on the day of the sale and receive the discount. Annual membershi p starts at $25 ($15 for full-time student/senior 65+). For more info: www.fopl.org and www.thebookmarkbookstore.org Congolese Dance & Drum Festival 2013, Friday, October 11 - Sunday, October 13, V arious Performance Times, Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, 1428 Alice St. Enjoy Central African dance and music from the Congo plus drum and dance worksho ps at this threeday event. For more info: 368-2475
9th Annual Pride Run & Walk, Saturday, October 12, 9am, Lakeside Park, 568 Belle vue Ave. Enjoy the view around the recently renovated and beautiful Lake Merritt for a 10 K run, 5K run or 5K walk. Stay afterwards and take in the community spirit and camaraderie of the Ea st Bay's only pride race. Every registered participant will receive a pair of rainbow-colored East B ay Front Runners and Walkers running socks. For more info: www.eastbayfrontrunners.org
Million Book Event, Saturday, October 12, 1-4pm, Mosswood Park, 3612 Webster Str eet. Join us for a free, family-friendly event sponsored by Oakland Parks & Recreatio n and the East Bay Children's Book Project. We will be giving away our millionth book! Entertainment will be provided by the Prescott Circus, Stephanie Pepatone, Mykah
Montgomery , and Team Leap. Featured guests at the event will include local children's book authors and illu strators. The artists will read to children and be available to talk about their work and demonstrate their art. The celebration will include literacy-based activities, clowns from Prescott Cir cus, and the rock band Ariel. Families with children are invited to attend. Each child attending will b e able to earn books and a book bag. A special gift will be given to the child receiving the one-millionth book in the book giveaway. For more info: www.eastbaychildrensbookproject.org
Autumn Lights Festival, Friday, October 18 & Saturday, October 19, 6-10pm, the G ardens at Lake Merritt, 666 Bellevue Ave. The Gardens at Lake Merritt will be transformed with several acres of garden ill uminated with enchanting art installations created by local Bay Area artists. A fundraiser for Oakland's hidden jewel, recently named one of California's Top 5 Gardens by VIA Magazine. Proceeds will be used for garden improvements for the enjoyment of the entire co mmunity. Save $10 by purchasing your general admission tickets in advance here. VIP Tickets for adults (21 and over) include free wine and beer tastings and ill umination toys in the VIP lounge. For more info: Victoria Rocha, Park Supervisor I, vrocha@oaklandnet.com or 238-3 208
Classic Car Show, Saturday, October 19, 10am-4pm, Jack London Square, foot of Br oadway. Enjoy more than 60 vintage vehicles from the 1920s to 1960s. From car buffs to c asual enthusiasts, the waterfront will transform into an auto mecca showcasing rare Model A cars, r oadsters, Thunderbirds and more. The Pavilion Stage will also host live music throughout t he day. For more info: 645-9292
Oakland Makers' East Bay Mini Maker Fair, Sunday, October 20, 10am-5pm, Park Day School, 360 42nd St. and Studio One Art Center, 365 45th St.
Featuring both established and emerging local "makers," the East Bay Mini Maker Faire is a familyfriendly celebration coming to Oakland for its third year on Sunday, October 20, 2012. It will feature rockets and robots, digital fabrication, DIY science and technology, urban farmi ng and sustainability, alternative energy, bicycles, unique hand-made crafts, music and local food, and educational workshops and installations. Click here for more info.
Flourish Oakland - An evening of food, wine, and art to benefit the Art Murmur, Sunday, October 20, 6-9pm, Mua Restaurant, 2442 Webster St. Bid in the silent auction, watch artists in action, win prizes in the raffle, en joy food and wine. Tickets: $125 - $150 each Click here for tickets and more info.
The Artists Are Present Fundraiser for Pro Arts,Friday, October 25, 6-9pm, 150 F rank H. Ogawa Plaza. This event sets the stage for interactions with artists. Let us introduce you to some of the Bay Area's most esteemed and audacious artists who will be "present" at tables and waiting to meet you. Engage in light, fun conversation with established and emerging artists and gain insigh t into the creative process at this first of its kind fundraiser event at Pro Arts. Participating artists include: Chris Fraser, Mildred Howard, Ernest Jolly, Hung Liu, Jim Melchert, Lordy Rodriguez, and more. As an organization committed to sustaining artists present at the center of our community, Pro Arts is hosting this intimate event to encourage a fun and mutually valuable exchange be tween artists and art fans. Enjoy an open bar, tasty treats, music by DJ Eric Rukis, and mix'n'mingle with the artists present. All proceeds directly support our visual arts, artist services and youth arts pr ograms. We are extremely grateful to participating artists for generously donating their time in being pr esent. Tickets: $30 each, $100 sponsorship For more info and tickets, click here.
Champions for Children 2013 5K Walk & Run, Saturday, October 26, Register starti ng 8am for 9am start. Lake Merritt. Start at the Edoff Memorial Bandstand in Lakeside P ark (behind Fairyland). Register online at http://5k.faith-network.com or call 836-5100. To raise funds and awareness for programs that serve students at under-resourced schools in Oakland, Faith Network of the East Bay will host its third annual 5K Walk/Run. T he kick off program will feature the Skyline High School Jazz Band plus calls to action from OUSD sc hool officials, community leaders and volunteers. Prizes will be awarded for top fundraisers, and best runner times. NOVEMBER Salem Lutheran Home Annual Fabulous Boutique, Saturday, November 2, 10am-2pm, Sa lem Lutheran Home, 2361 E. 29th St at 23rd Avenue. Just in time for the holidays. Nearly new items, collectibles, books, linens, je welry, gifts, baked goods. Pump House Thrift Shop will also be open. All proceeds benefit residents of Salem Lutheran Home. For more info: Nancy Taylor, ngtaylor94619@yahoo.com , 534-3637 BACK TO TOP 11. RECURRING Events QUICK REFERENCE Oakland Public Libraries sponsor a multitude of events all over the city. Go to this link -- now and often -- for upcoming events of all kinds: www.oaklandlibrary.org/events Fairyland has events every weekend for children: fairyland.org Oakland Museum has weekday and weekend events and hands-on activities. First Sun days of the month are free. museumca.org Oakland Zoo -- Need we say more? www.oaklandzoo.org ART ANTICS The Art Murmur, Every First Friday year-round, 5-10pm: Various art galleries in Uptown. www.oaklandartmurmur.org Saturday Stroll, Every Saturday, 1-5pm: Uptown Art Galleries: www.oaklandartmurmur.org/calendar/saturday-stroll
First Thursday Art Walk, Every First Thursday of the Month, 6-9pm, Grand Avenue from LakePark to Piedmont border. The Grand Avenue Business District hosts a monthly art event with special discou nts from merchants and galleries. For more info, click here.
EMBRACE the Dimond District, every 3rd Thursday, 5pm, corner of Dimond & MacArth ur Blvd. Join your friends, family and neighbors to EMBRACE the Dimond District every 3rd Thursday of the month. Starting at 5pm, come out to the Dimond to have a bite to eat, a cup of c offee, or to just stroll around! This monthly event is organized by the Dimond Business and Professional Association (DB&PA), and has a different theme each month. The "PREMIRE" August 15th will b e all about art: Sidewalk Art Contest for ALL! * Many featured local artist and craftsmen * A fantastically fun kids' zone * Get the super secret "WORD" for 3rd Thursday merchant specials! * Community organizers will also be present to answer all your questions Piedmont Art Walk, Piedmont Avenue, every 3rd Thursday, 6-9pm. Enjoy Piedmont Avenue's rich and diverse collection of art of all stripes: culin ary, music, design, photography, fashion, recycled design and upcycled style, among others. For more info: www.piedmontavenue.org/avenue-art-walk MOVIES Waterfront Flicks some Thursdays, at sundown, Market Lawn at Jack London Square. Enjoy a free screening on the beautiful waterfront. Moviegoers should arrive ear ly with blankets in-hand for pre-film festivities including small eats, beer, trivia and giveaways. For more info: www.jacklondonsquare.com Movies at Studio One, Fridays, 8:15 pm, Studio One Art Center, 365 45th Street. Enjoy a free screening of recent movies. For more info: 597-5027 Movie Night at Redwood Heights Rec Center, some Fridays at dusk, Redwood Hts Rec Center, 3883 Aliso Ave. A great way to spend a Friday night is to come over to Redwood Heights Rec Cente r, bring a small lawn chair and/or blanket, some warm clothes, and watch a fun movie under the ev
ening sky. Movies start at dusk, which changes as the days get longer. There will be popcorn, hot chocolate, drinks & hotdogs this year. No alcohol, drugs or dogs allowed. All of the money goes towa rds scholarship fund for summer day camp and after school Rockets program. For more info: Breht Clark, Recreation Center Director, bclark@oaklandnet.com or 482-7827 For the summer schedule, click here. Laurel Outdoor Movie Series Last Saturday of the month, June thru October, 8pm Bring your lawn chairs, blankets and warm clothes, held in the Ace Hardware Park ing Lot (4024 MacArthur Blvd). Sponsored by Movement Ink, Ace Hardware, the LDA and various La urel merchants each month. September 28 -- Wall-E (PG) October 26 -- Nightmare Before Christmas (PG) and Shaun of the Dead (R for adult s only) BACK TO TOP JUST FOR KIDS Tyke Explorers Workshop at Chabot Space & Science Center,Tuesdays, 10am, 12:30pm , or 3pm. Chabot Space & Science Center, 10000 Skyline Blvd. For ages 2.5-5 years . Expand your preschooler's universe by enrolling in our Tyke Explorers Program. Kids get to b ring a special grownup to share in the excitement of science and space. Classes are a combination of instructor-led lessons and self-guided, hands-on experimentation and exploration. For more info and monthly workshop listings, click here. JUST FOR GIRLS Girls' Sports Days at Oakland Parks & Rec For more info: Coach Love, 535-5608 or girlssports@oaklandnet.com FOR ADULTS League of Women Voters Monthly Hot Topics Roundtable Discussion LWV of Oakland sponsors monthly HOT TOPICS roundtable discussions to inform memb ers and the public and to seek ways everyone can come together to address important issues f acing our community. For more info: www.lwvoakland.org/calendar.html
Tuesday Toastmasters with Warehouse416 artists and friends, Tuesdays, 7-8am, and NEW TIME: 6:30pm, 416-26th St.
Plenty of parking is available. Anyone who needs a parking place can get one her e, enjoy an hour of fun, then walk to work. All you need is a job in the area. You are welcome to vi sit, just to see what it is like. For more info: Ron Scrivani, scrivanir@aol.com or warehouse416.com Saturday morning bike ride with Warehouse416 artists and friends, every (dry) Sa turday, 8:45am (doors open at 8am), 416 26th St. This is a flat, short ride designed to provide new or returning riders with a wa y of getting started. We will guide you back to the start early, based on your needs. Our full ride is 30 miles and returns to 416 26th by 12:30pm. For more info: Ron Scrivani, scrivanir@aol.com or warehouse416 .com Vintage Porcelain Show, Wednesdays, 10:30am & every 2nd Saturday, 10:30am, & eve ry 2nd Sunday, 2pm, Pardee Home and Museum, 672 11th St. If you love vintage china, you won't want to miss Mrs. Helen Pardee's collection of exquisite demitasse cups, teacups, and tea pots. Included with cost of tour ($5) or tour w ith high tea ($25). Reservations required for tea or private tour (min 4). For more info: 444-2187, www.pardeehome.org The Listening Horse designed by our nationally known architect Walter Hood has a magical impact as visitors listen to stories FOR EVERYONE What I Hear, I Keep: Stories From Oakland's Griots, Wednesday-Saturday until Feb ruary 2014, 2:30-5:30pm, Peralta House Museum, 2465 34th Ave. A visual and audio art installation based on African American stories of modernday Oakland, with local residents telling about their lives and exploring their identities. Hear v oices speak about the pluses and minuses of segregation, rituals commemorating the Black Holocaust, co mbating racism in major league baseball, The De Fermery Recreation Center community, the Black Pan thers, the heyday of KJAZ, the Black Native community, and many other iconic contemporary Oakland themes. Cost: $5; free for Fruitvale Community members and children 10 & under For more info: Peraltahacienda.org Mexica Dance, every Monday evening, 6-8pm, sponsored by Peralta Hacienda, Center for History and Community, 2488 Coolidge Ave. All are welcome to discover Mexica culture during ceremony and dance classes ope n to the public.
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www. oakla ndnet .com | City Hall | Oakla nd | CA | 9461 2 From: Lin, Sarah D2 Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 4:40 PM To: DL - Council Members; DL Council Staff Subject: FW: State Legislative Matrices 9.13.13 Attachments: OAK Economic Development Legislative Matrix 9.13.13.pdf; OAK Environment, Energy and Sustainability Legislative Matrix 9.13.13.pdf; OAK Infrastructure Legislative Matrix 9.13.13.pdf; OAK Planning, Housing & Land Use Legislative Matrix 9.13.13.pdf; OAK Public Safety Legislative Matrix 9.13.13.pdf; OAK Taxation and Miscellaneous Legislative Matrix 9.13.13.pdf; OAK Youth Legislative Matrix 9.13.13.pdf
From: Niccolo De Luca [mailto:ndeluca@townsendpa.com] Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 4:36 PM To: Everhart, Maisha; Santana, Deanna; Gerard, Jennie; Mendoza, Mandalyn; Kernig han, Pat; Orologas, Alexandra; Blackwell, Fred; Johnson, Scott; Lin, Sarah D2; Quan, Jean; CampbellWashington, Anne Cc: Sophia Sadaat Subject: State Legislative Matrices 9.13.13 Team Oakland, The Legislature wrapped up their work for the year just after midnight. Due to the Yom Kippur holiday that starts today, the Legislature worked to finish up last night a day ea rly. In addition to the legislative action, the Governor has been active with bills o n his desk and sending messages about his position on bills being considered. Since Monday, Br own has signed over 50 bills and vetoed one. One of the bills signed late yesterday is the compromise on the prison housing situation. By signing the bill right away, it allows the Adm inistration to move forward with asking the courts for flexibility in implementing solutions to reso lve the overcrowding. Unfortunately there was some spill over from the battle between th e House and the Senate over the prison debate which had an impact on some of our priority le gislation. Governor Brown also made several statements over the final 24 hours of Session r elative to
legislation being debated normally governors are relatively quiet about whether th ey will sign or veto bills before they reach their desk. Brown s actions came during debate on a couple of bills, likely influencing the final votes on those bills. These included bills raising the minimum wage to 10 dollars per hour (AB 10), establishing a regulatory structure for hydraulic f racturing in the State (SB 4), and driver s licenses for undocumented immigrants (AB 60). Attached is the final set of legislative matrices. In addition, we are working w ith the Mayor and Council President to send letters to the Governor urging either his signature or his veto on our priority legislation. I will provide a list of our bills that are with the Gover nor and our action items. We are happy to answer questions or provide more information on some of these to pics. In addition, next week I will be out of the office but Casey or Richard in our o ffice are here to help. Thanks! Niccolo De Luca Director of Northern California Townsend Public Affairs, Inc. 300 Frank Ogawa Plaza, Suite 204, Oakland, CA 94610 O: 510-835-9050 M: 510-681-7306 ndeluca@townsendpa.com www.townsendpa.com From: OaklandCTChamber@aol.com Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 4:42 PM To: OaklandCTChamber@aol.com Subject: Fwd: FW: Oakland Minimum Wage Survey - Respond for a chance to win! Dear Chamber Member: In order to get a wider response on the debate about the increase in the minimum wage in Oakland, the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce would like our members to complete the below Oa kland Minimum Wage survey. Thank you, Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce From: Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, Public Policy [mailto:isaac@kosreadgroup.com] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2014 8:03 AM To: Dan Quigley Subject: Oakland Minimum Wage Survey - Respond for a chance to win!
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Dear Oakland Chamber & Business Community Member: To better inform its public policy position around the issue of the minimum wage , the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce is doing a survey of members and other Oakland businesses. Your input is critical. Please take 5-10 minutes to re spond and encourage other businesses to do the same (please only one representative pe r business). This is a major public policy issue that will see action this year. Click here or cut and paste the following link in your browser to access the sur vey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6BZQHGT. Please respond by next Tuesday, April 8, 2014. As an incentive for your response and provision of contact information, thanks to Starbucks for offering a $50 gif t certificate that will be awarded to a randomly selected respondent. Thank you in advance for your input and we look forward to working together to ensure the best public policy is enacted for our community. Respectfully, Isaac Kos-Read Public Affairs Consultant Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce
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This email was sent to dquigley@oaklandchamber.com by isaac@kosreadgroup.com | Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe | Privacy Pol icy. Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce | 475 14th Street | Oakland | CA | 9461 2 From: Dan Kalb [dank1@well.com] Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 8:24 PM To: Kalb, Dan Subject: Fwd: It's time to lift the minimum wage in Oakland to $12.25!
--- --Dan Kalb Oakland, CA On Mon Feb 10 17:00:20 CST 2014, "Adelante, ACCE" wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Friend us on Facebook [ https://www.facebook.com/CalOrganize ] | Follow @calorganize [ http://twitter.com/#!/CalOrganize ] Dear Daniel- Join community members, workers, small business owners, students, and faith leaders who are uniting to lift up our City with a voter ballot initiative to *raise the minimum wage to $12.25* and provide workers with paid sick days! Be apart of the action, and come show some "love" for Oakland workers as we launch our Lift Up Oakland campaign! *Show your support this Saturday, February 15th @ 9:30 at the Fruitvale Village* as ACCE members join our allies, low wage workers and other supporters to launch this critical campaign and begin collecting signatures to get this initiative on the November, 2014 Ballot. Click here to RSVP [ mailto:fochoa@acceaction.org?subject=Event%20RSVP ] and find out more details! Lift Up Oakland is a coalition of community and labor organizations including ACCE, EBASE, Raise the Wage East Bay, ROC the Bay, SEIU 1021, SEIU ULTCW, UFCW Local 5, and UNITE HERE 2850, who've come together to win big at the ballot this November for working families. Here's how you can plug into this exciting movement this week: * *Thursday February 13, 6:00-8:00PM Signature Gathering Training and Sign Making Party!* If you plan on collecting signatures to qualify the voter ballot initiative, we will be training people on the nuts and bolts of signature gathering. Every signature counts and we have to make sure we do it right! After the training we'll be making signs and other visuals for the launch! Join us this *Thursday 2/13* at the ACCE office at *6:00PM*. * *Saturday February 15, 9:30-3:00PM Lift Up Oakland Campaign Launch Rally and Signature Gathering!*The Lift Up Oakland Coalition will be launching this campaign on *Saturday February 15th!* We will be gathering at *Fruitvale Village at 9:30AM* for a rally then dispatching volunteers for signature gathering. Please confirm if you will be able to attend any of the above planned activity! For more information about the launch check out our Facebook event page [ https://www.facebook.com/events/687854754586585/ ], or email Fabiana at fochoa@acceaction.org [ mailto:fochoa@acceaction.org?subject=Even%20RSVP ]. Adelante, ACCE
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From: Denis Drew [ddrew2u@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 9:18 AM To: Kalb, Dan Subject: In search of "killer arguments" for doubling the mimimum wage Could it plausibly cause such a small economic hiccup, to more than double the federal minimum wage, in just one, single year -- in, say, three quick jumps -- from $7.25/hr to $15/hr ... ... 70 million workers (half our work force -- $15/hr being today's median wage) X average raise $8,000 (half the full $16,000 minimum wage jump) = a mere $560 billion increase in the cost of $15.6 trillion GDP output: yielding a piddling 3.6% direct inflation ... ... as to be barely noticeable? Now, imagine instead that starting from an even higher minimum wage (say, $10.50/hr -- just to pick a number "out of a hat"), we had spread the same raise to $15/hr over a whole 45 years (say, from 1968 to 2013 -- just to pick "arbitrary dates") -- and, that, per capita income grew 100% in the same 45 years to further cushion the "shock" of 2% direct increase in GDP output costs (2% assuming the minimum wage would never sink back to, say, an "unthinkable" $8.00/hr by late 2007 - or an "impossible" $5.75/hr in early 2007) ... ... would anyone have barely noticed a $30,000/yr minimum wage, today? Denis Drew Chicago ddrew2u@sbcglobal.net www.ontodayspage.blogspot.com MY RESPONSE TO A STATE LEGISLATOR EMAILING THE USUAL QUESTION: WHY NOT A $30/HR MINIMUM WAGE? Why not make it $2//hr? Because it harms nobody being as high as $7.25/hr. If pe r capita income were $100,000 year It could be $15/hr, no? The whole eighth-grade math point of my essay is that if it was alright to $10.50/hr ($1.60 adjusted) w hen per capita was something like $20,000/yr it could harmlessly be $15/hr now that it is more like $40,000/yr. According to Malthusian theory (from before industrialization -- now economic output expands twice as fast as population) if the population grew 50% since 196 8
there should be 33% less per person to go around. Between 1968 and early 2007 the minimum wage dropped almost 50%. Starting to get the idea. Something crazy is going on here -- American labor is getting crazily short-changed. Craziest part is nobody knows it happened. Thanks for actually answering anyway. ************ Next three from a discussion at: http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/02/yes-thou ghtfuleconomists-think-raising-the-minimum-wage-right-now-is-a-good-idea.html#comment6a00e551f080038834017d4152a67e970c: If there were a Teamster Union-tough retail employees union -- able to negotiate one contract with all employers (under a setup called sector-wide labor agreemen ts) couldn't the bottom wage be raised to $15/hr -- simply because the market would bear it? Wal-Mart employee wages would go up about 66% (these are all just rough estimates on my part) while Wal-Mart prices would only go up about 8%. McDonald's wages would double while a Big Mack went up 33%. Top 10 percentile wages would not go up and overall prices they pay would go up a tiny little bit -- is the latter what public policy should be concerned about? In Chicago, CBS-TV News reports that 100,000 gang age minority youth are in street gangs * (mostly selling drugs) out of I estimate 200,000 the same age. Ar e minority males evil or do they just refuse to work for nothing (the super-low minimum wage having effectively out-sourced most such jobs to AmericanMexico)? * http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57451996/gang-wars-at-the-root-ofchicagos-high-murder-rate/ ************ >>>If the minimum wage is of appropriate size, employees must have higher productivity to justify their cost.<<< A measure of productivity that seems to get ignored all around is the doubling o f the economy's overall productivity between 1968 and early 2007 -- during which span the minimum wage dropped almost in half from $10.50/hr (adjusted) to $5.75/hr (adjusted). Barbers in Budapest earn less than barbers in New York (or do they?!) because there are more goodies and services to divvy up in the New York economy. Our minimum wage falling behind productivity growth has gone so far that by early 2007 the minimum wage underperformed Malthus! When population grows 50% as it did between 1968 and early 2007, before industrialization wages shrink only 33% -- not almost 50%! :-) ************ Minimum Wage Would Be $21.72 If It Kept Pace With Increases In Productivity: Study: by Caroline Fairchild The minimum wage should have reached $21.72 an hour in 2012 if it kept up with increases in worker productivity, according to a March study by the Center for Economic and Policy Research. While advancements in technology have increased the amount of goods and services that can be produced in a set amount of time, wages have remained relatively flat, the study points out. Even if the minimum wage kept up with inflation since it peaked in real value in the late 1960s, low-wage workers should be earning a minimum of $10.52 an hour,
according to the study. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/13/minimum-wageproductivity_n_2680639.html From: Pamela Drake [pamelaadrake@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 2:31 PM To: Kalb, Dan Subject: Minimum wage Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged Hi Dan, Sharon Rose and I want to chat with you for a few minutes on the minimum wage ca mpaign. Can you squeeze us in soon? Thanks, Pamela From: Denis Drew [ddrew2u@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 6:19 PM To: Kalb, Dan Subject: Open letter to Oakland mayor Jean Quan -- the only law that can end violence Open letter to Oakland mayor Jean Quan: The only legislation that can realistically end gun violence in and Chicago is a labor law: doubling the minimum Oakland wage to $30,000/yr. The Crips and the Bloods could not whip a decent paying Ronald McDonald. Crackpot? More than doubling the federal minimum wage from $7.25/hr to $15/hr ($600/wk) would cause less than 4% direct inflation: $3.87/hr (half/average raise) X 2080 hours (full work year) = $8,049/yr X 70 million workers (half the workforce -- $15/hr is today s median wage) = $563.4 billion. (3.5 million workers at the minimum wage would get a full $16,020 raise may be left out to simplify eighth-grade math.) Divide $563.4 billion by a $15.8 trillion GDP and we get 3.6% direct inflation (not counting leap frog pushups which may not add up to that much LBJ s median wage was only 25% higher than his minimum high minimum wages often approach median level in other economies). Oakland won t educate its way out of poverty and crime. Catch 22: political scientist Martin Sanchez-Jankowski, from neighboring UC Berkeley -- who spent nine years in five poor New York and Los Angeles neighborhoods (and ten years before that researching street gangs) -- explains in his 2008 book Cracks in the Pavement that ghetto schools don't work mostly because students (and teachers!) don't expect anything decent awaiting for them in the labor market, so think it hopeless to make the effort. In 1956 majority leader LBJ steered an $8.50/hr ($1/hr nominally) minimum wage bill through the US Senate. In 1968
(hourly increments and retail workers added in years between) president LBJ piloted a minimum wage of $10.50/hr ($1.60/hr nominally) into law -- per capita income having expanded 25% in the dozen years intervening. Per capita income has doubled in the two generations since 1968. There would be a dismal gap even between a minimum wage of $15/hr, or $30,000/yr and a reality-based minimum needs (poverty) level for a family of three and even between a median wage 25% higher of $18.75/hr, or $37,500/yr. A realistic poverty line for a family of three is $45,476 in 2012 dollars according to the 2001 Ms. Foundation book Raise the Floor (table 3-2 on p.44 -- includes $8,786 medical insurance cost). Raise totals up from a comprehensive list of expenses, including taxes to get its figure. (Raise provides extensive explanations for its minimum needs parameters in Appendix B, citing Solutions for Progress -- allots $3,000 to yearly medical expenses even if the family has insurance.) $19,090, supposedly covers the minimum needs for a family of three under the 1955 era federal formula. Both the Ms. and government formulas calculate about $6 per person/per day for food the ancient federal methodology multiplies the cost of food three times and leaves it at that. Which is why you won t see the federal measure quoted much anywhere except as a formula multiple (2X, 3X, 4X).A wage even 50% higher than today s median, of $22.75/hr or $45,000/yr, would barely support a family of three. "Since 1973 [note: the last year national income gains were shared across-the-board], productivity has grown roughly 80 percent while median hourly compensation improved by roughly 11 percent. Something more elemental than raising the floor needs to be prescribe. http://stateofworkingamerica.org/fact-sheets/wages/ Anyone can work up a list ruses by which the average American s interests are being hung out to dry these days. I was just going to say the only thing not foisted upon us so far is foreign firms buying up local water rights and charging them back to us triple. Then I remembered Chicago leasing its parking meter system for 75 years for $1.15 billion: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-09/morgan-stanleygroup-s-11-billion-from-chicago-meters-makes-taxpayerscry.html http://www.theatlanticwire.com/business/2010/10/why-doesabu-dhabi-own-all-of-chicago-s-parking-meters/18627/ ****** Up the road from Oakland City Hall up College Avenue on the UC of Berkeley campus labors as progressive a progressive economics faculty as anyone should wish. They could you tell you, Madam Mayor, and tell everyone else at the same time [this essay may hopefully edge them in the latter direction] about a species of labor legislation that can potentially re-write the American social contract front to back, economic to political. Legislation that has been tried and tested over half a century in the first world (Germany, France) moving to the second and third worlds (Argentina, Indonesia) as well as right next door
(French Canada). Legislation bringing to Americans a labor market setup devised not by Karl Marx but by post WW II German and other continental industrialists not to empower labor -- but to stifle union wage races-to-the-top that would divert money from industrial bases rebuilding. (England did not take this path which is why it fell behind which I m pretty sure I read in Berkeley s, Barry Eichengreen s 2008 The European Economy Since 1945.) Europe's fabled welfare state was offered as a compensation for labor price moderation. Magic bullet: legally mandated, sectorwide collective bargaining wherein everyone working the same category of job (e.g., retail clerk) in the same geographic locale (where applicable) works under one common contract with all employers thwarts the race-to-the-bottom just as surely just the right barraging balance. The late David Broder, dean of the Washington press corps, said that, when he came to D.C. 50 years ago, all the lobbyists were union which meant: naturally balanced campaign financing, someone minding the store on the average person s interests, all backed by the majority of voters -- perfect democracy.Your friendly economics faculty up the avenue can tell you all about all of this but you ll have to ask. Denis Drew Chicago (sometimes Berkeley) ddrew2u@sbcglobal.net www.ontodayspage.blogspot.com From: Kalb, Dan Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 6:20 PM To: nickstcharles@gmail.com Subject: Re: Oakland Minimum Wage I'd be happy to talk to U about minimum wage efforts. My cell is 510-xxx-xxxx -Dan Kalb City Councilmember District One Oakland, CA 510-238-7001
On Jan 30, 2014, at 3:42 PM, "Lambert, Dannette" wrote : This was sent to me. Not sure why they would ask me and not you, but wanted to see how you wanted to respond. Dannette Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: "Nick St. Charles" Date: January 29, 2014 at 11:24:05 AM PST To: dlambert@oaklandnet.com
Subject: Oakland Minimum Wage Good Morning! I'm a reporter with KPFA radio in Berkeley. I'm doing a story on minimum wage in the Bay Area. I have a few questions for you. 1) Will there be a minimum wage ordinance proposed in Oakland in 2014? 3) What is your position on raising the minimum wage in Oakland? 4) Are you available for comment for this story? I'm looking to get a few sound bites. Many thanks, Nick St. Charles Pacifica Radio, KPFA (510) 848-6767 x.699 Cell: (xxx) xxx-xxxx