Gallo barely hanging on to to the margin with 2.2k additional votes since yesterday. Total as of today 17k votes. Keep in mind, the RCV number % is higher because of the way that's calculated vs this. I can't imagine there's more than 1k votes left to count, but could be enough
As I said, the RCV percentages are calculated differently, and so Gallo actually has a bit more padding in what's suggested in the Registrar site's numbers. With a running average of 10-12% blank Council ballots, also an open question about how many votes are left
The calculations are all being made with a very logical assumption that LM's votes would go to Raya in an RCV runoff. But if Gallo never gets below 50%, we'll actually never know that.
That means its a bummer for candidates going forward trying to strategically deploy RCV to win, because in D5, we'll never how close that came to working.
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Reposting my #oakmtg 11/10/2020 tweets as one thread.
James Vann points out that no homeless people are on Schaaf's appointee list for the Homelessness Commission, on the agenda today for Council approval. Joey Harris, however, is formerly homeless, but also an employee of the Temescal Business Improvement District #oakmtg
Ty Hudson of Unite Here complains that service workers at the Coliseum are about to be fired as the food services contractor is replaced. #oakmtg
The City's Reimagining Taskforce Meeting is about to begin. Last one was introductory, so this will be first for actual business. Looks like they'll be walking members thru police budget, and bodies/agreements that affect that cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/Reim…#Oakmtg
The City's been releasing data. One that's interesting, the place of residence of OPD's current 740 residents. While Oakland is single-lived in City, only 10% of OPD officers live here. Other big ones, Castro Valley, Hayward, Oakley, Tracy, Brentwood & [checks notes] SF? #oakmtg
As they begin the meeting, Loren Taylor mentions last night's late meeting [of joint bodies/Reimagining] and also notes that there are 27 participants in the Zoom meeting. #oakmtg
BCDC, the state body with power over City/County coastal water-way adjacent land, is finally issuing a long-threatened cease & desist order on Union Point Park encampment, which would obligate City to close it by February 2021 #oakmtg
City had tried to stay ahead of an C&D Order by following a closure plan for UPP last year, relocating camp to an end of UPP, w/a planned closure by April, 2020. Covid postponed that. BCDC now plans to make good on the Order at next mtg--compelling City to close camp by Feb, 2021
The City still opposes the 2/21 date and hopes to push it back until after County and City Covid orders are lifted, but it appears that BCDC likely won't agree. For the moment, the date of order remains to be determined, tho. Mtg is 10/1 at 9:30am bcdc.ca.gov/enforcement/20…
The special council meeting introducing the Reimagining Public Safety Taskforce to CPAB, SSOC and Police Commission has begun. oakland.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.…
The Special Meeting is having video glitches and failures, Kaplan and Clerk Landingham observe that this has happened before during Zoom meetings with a large number of participants [vs attendees] #oakmtg
Second call about OPD failures to enforce "basic laws" around Lake Merritt to this meeting. This caller is concerned about Reimagining will lead to "more problems", and wants to "building up new capabilities", suggesting police need to back those as well #oakmtg
One thing running through my mind yesterday while I was involved in a community effort to help an injured person in a mental health crisis on an International corner is like, this is awesome, we are almost certainly being recorded by a Tempo platform camera the whole time
I thought about all the contentious difficult things people in these neighborhoods, corners in ESO, have to deal with everyday, and yep, we now dealing with those things under 24/7 ALCO Sheriff accessible video surveillance! Whooop!
It was either get into a difficult situation on camera or not do anything. What a great feeling.
I broke this in April '19 before PEC investigated. Per PEC, Haydel "self-reported" violation after a news story revealed it. I'm the originator of either story, revelation or both. But what this doesn't say is Haydel's lawyer Wasserman was McElhaney's Defense Fund manager
After reviewing the facts, PEC actually voted to more than double the fine. Unclear if its because Haydel's lawyer was also McE's legal defense fund mgr. McElhaney voted yes to sell City's land to Lane to build Kaiser's new HQ [the deal later collapsed due to Covid].
I did the only reporting on this. For more than a year, I was the only reporter dedicated to covering City Hall, and this is the evidence of that. hyphenatedrepublic.com/2019/07/10/oak…