Another great article. It's my understanding that measure Z ends this year. Oaklanderstogether is working on a replacement measure that would also make it hard to fire police, but the millions OPD currently gets from Z goes away. The replacement measure increases the funding for police, fire, and other safety programs. It needs 28,000 si…
Another great article. It's my understanding that measure Z ends this year. Oaklanderstogether is working on a replacement measure that would also make it hard to fire police, but the millions OPD currently gets from Z goes away. The replacement measure increases the funding for police, fire, and other safety programs. It needs 28,000 signatures by tomorrow. We were at 22000 last weekend.
I edited for clarity as my initial comment was confusing.
Measure Z does end this year. It currently sends $2M of the ~$30M to Fire, then splits the rest 60/40 between OPD (~$17M) and DVP (~$11M). The replacement maintains most of the provisions but also requires that 75% of the portion for violence prevention must be granted to ‘Community Based Organizations’. I.e., to the organizations the drafted the measure. It also changes the oversight structure and authority of the SSOC—giving it more power, if I recall correctly from their original presentation.
Another great article. It's my understanding that measure Z ends this year. Oaklanderstogether is working on a replacement measure that would also make it hard to fire police, but the millions OPD currently gets from Z goes away. The replacement measure increases the funding for police, fire, and other safety programs. It needs 28,000 signatures by tomorrow. We were at 22000 last weekend.
I edited for clarity as my initial comment was confusing.
Measure Z does end this year. It currently sends $2M of the ~$30M to Fire, then splits the rest 60/40 between OPD (~$17M) and DVP (~$11M). The replacement maintains most of the provisions but also requires that 75% of the portion for violence prevention must be granted to ‘Community Based Organizations’. I.e., to the organizations the drafted the measure. It also changes the oversight structure and authority of the SSOC—giving it more power, if I recall correctly from their original presentation.