By Jonathan Hale for Make Oakland Better Now! For many Oakland residents, the feeling of dread that accompanies walking outside to find the remnants of one’s car window littered in…
Make Oakland Better Now! (MOBN!) is concerned that the actions required to balance the budget will be harmful to essential city services. Therefore, in adopting a budget, we recommend that…
The City of Oakland is facing a very challenging situation for the FY2023-25 budget. The Mayor’s recently released the FY2023-25Proposed Budget . Included is the General Purpose Fund, whichsupports key…
Oakland will need to deal with a number of fiscal uncertainties over the next 6 months leading up to the adoption of the 2023-25 biennial budget. In this post we…
MOBN! has been carefully following the development of the City of Oakland 2021-23 biennial budget. Here is our current update. The City Council is well into the budget process. The…
The City Administration recently submitted a revised budget estimate which projects a 2020-21 fiscal year-end negative balance of -$62.29 million. This is the result of a myriad of factors caused…
OPD and other police agencies use CopLink to share data on arrests, incident reports, calls for service, gun casings found at crime scenes, Shot spotter, etc There is a disagreement…
As we observed in our last blog post, the Task Force members have been appointed. The members, and their appointments, are as follows: Anne Marks (District 1 CM Kalb), David…
After several years of reduced violent crime in Oakland, 2020 has seen as noticeable increase. From our recent review of first eight month of weekly crime data reports published by…
Make Oakland Better Now! is pleased to invite you to an important panel presented by the Oakland Rotary #3 on the effects of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Don't miss this…
