A thread on what's of note at tomorrow's City Council meeting, either the last or second to the last for the year and for the old Council. There's one more scheduled 12/15, but it might just be a placeholder. #oakmtg
The City will report on how its expenditure of CARES Act $. Like an 80s comedy, City must spend the $ by end of year or lose unspent $. A sidenote, CARES funded City WIFI isn't going well, probably owing to fact it was rushed together to pad Equity Budget
Perhaps the City can explain this weird line item in the WIFI budget to the organization behind the not very transparent and corrupt looking Measure AA and Oakland Promise.
Council will consider allowing Kaiser to rename the Civic Auditorium and its public area, hang a marquee and brand performances in a century long agreement that would net only 12 million for the City. That goes right back to Orton to fund rehab
Tho the Travelers Homekey deal failed, the Inn at Temescal deal with DANCO and Operation Dignity did go thru, and received 400k more than initially expected from Homekey funds which now need to be accepted by Council Image
The City wants to accept a DHS grant for OPD to buy this brand new boat [OPD would pay 108k of the 440k cost]. I used to work at the boat shop that serviced OPD's current boat and was told they hardly use that one. #oakmtg ImageImage

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