Service Impacts

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Mayor

The Mayor's office is maintaining its current budget with no changes. As such, there are no anticipated service impacts. No equity analysis needed.

City Council

Enhancements 

Trustworthy and Responsible Government

1. Create 1.0 FTE Principal Budget & Management Analyst to support the City Council by providing comprehensive and complex data analysis for the City’s budget.
   • Equity Consideration: This is a council amendment approved at budget adoption and an equity statement was not developed for this item.

City Administrator

Enhancements 

Trustworthy and Responsible Government

1. Adds $100,000 in funding to support ongoing forward progress on the website through the end of the fiscal year and take advantage of the significant momentum and improvements that have been made over the past 18 months without interrupting or stalling that progress. Funding will improve delivery of digital services on the City’s website (oaklandca.gov), enhance the availability of services and information online, ensure searchability and accessibility of content, and support the ongoing development of a modern, accessible, user-centric, and mobile-responsive website that can be easily updated with content in multiple languages.
   • Equity Consideration: Ongoing website improvements that work towards the goal of "all Oaklanders can interact with the City and find reliable & current information and services on the first try, regardless of device or language". Ongoing support will help remove barriers to accessing City government by providing City services online through an accessible, multi-lingual, easy to understand website that is available to people whenever they need to access it. 
2. Adds 1.0 FTE Equal Opportunity Specialist to increase the division’s capacity to meet reporting requirements, improve compliance with state and federal mandates, provide additional training, and help shift operations towards a proactive model of engagement.
   • Equity Consideration: Adding another Equal Opportunity Specialist position would help the division reach full staffing and enable staff to get in front of the work and engage more proactively, decreasing the wait time to receive information.
3. Adds $90,000 of one-time funds for a professional services agreement for an as-needed Hearing Officer, to hear appeals of enforcement actions pertaining to any and all building, housing, fire, property, zoning codes, special business permits and public nuisance cases.
   • Equity Consideration: Hearing Officers perform an essential service to the City by serving as an independent and administrative adjudicator over all enforcement hearings pertaining to any and all building, housing, fire, property, zoning codes, special business permits and public nuisance cases in a public forum. Execution of the as-needed Hearing Officer contract ensures Oakland residents and business and property owners are guaranteed an impartial, independent enforcement appeals process in a timelier manner that could save time and money for residents.
4. Adds 1.0 FTE Human Services Manager (Accountability Officer) in accordance with the Children’s Initiative Act of 2018 (Measure AA) language to oversee the programs funded by the measure, and 1.0 FTE Administrative Analyst for administrative support.
   • Equity Consideration: Effective oversight of early childcare and preschool programs, funding for college readiness programs, and tuition assistance will advance efforts to lessen racial inequities in access to higher education.
5. Adds 1.0 FTE Project Manager II to serve as the Citywide Ombudsperson who will support customer service enhancements and process improvements across all City departments that issue permits.
   • Equity Consideration: The Ombudsperson position will advance the City’s racial equity objectives by having a point of contact the public can turn to to address issues that may arise with a specific project, and to proactively assess the department’s forms, procedures, and services to make them more accessible and transparent.
6. Adds $40,000 for outreach and education efforts on Redistricting.
   • Equity Consideration: The City of Oakland is an ethnically and culturally diverse City, which underscores the need for culturally relevant and multi-lingual public outreach and communications throughout the City. This funding will support more proactive, meaningful, and inclusive engagement with communities in high priority neighborhoods that have historically been excluded from public outreach efforts because they are lacking resources to go out of their way to seek engagement opportunities.
7. Adds one-time funding for Two (2) Fuse Fellows to support the Climate/Sustainability program.
   • Equity Consideration: This is a council amendment approved at budget adoption and an equity statement was not developed for this item.
8. Adds $100,000 of one-time funds for portable air filtration units (Climate Equity Fund).
   • Equity Consideration: This is a council amendment approved at budget adoption and an equity statement was not developed for this item.
9. Adds $100,000 of one-time funds for workflow assessment research in the Homelessness Program.
   • Equity Consideration: This is a council amendment approved at budget adoption and an equity statement was not developed for this item.
10. Adds $100,000 of one-time funds to expand the feasibility study to create a Department of Children, Youth and Families within the City of Oakland.
    • Equity Consideration: This is a council amendment approved at budget adoption and an equity statement was not developed for this item.

Other Impacts & Changes 

1. Use of salary savings to unfreeze 1.0 FTE City Administrator Analyst position for Inclusive Community Engagement in response to a request from the Citywide Inclusive Community Engagement working group to facilitate and standardize the City’s equitable and inclusive community engagement practices across departments.
   • Equity Consideration: The Inclusive Community Engagement Officer will collaborate with departments to adopt a consistent engagement strategy that not only informs residents about resources and services, but also establishes accessible channels of communication/participation specifically designed to include and elevate the voices of residents who historically have been excluded from government processes and decision making.
2. Allocates salary savings, as well as freezing 2.0 vacant Neighborhood Services Coordinator positions for 6 months.
3. Deletes 1.0 FTE Public Information Officer II (PIO II) and adds 1.0 FTE Public Information Officer III (PIO III). The PIO III classification is more appropriate for a role focused on managing communications related to complex, high-profile, interdepartmental issues and initiatives, and providing strategic consultation to PIOs and staff in City departments.
   • Equity Consideration: Upgrading the PIO II to a PIO III position is consistent with the Communications & Media Division’s broader capacity-building effort to establish Citywide engagement strategies and standards designed to increase equitable access to information, programs and services.
4. Deletes temporary part-time positions and replaces them with permanent full-time positions in the OAK311 Call Center to address the ongoing challenge of attracting and retaining long-term staff to assist OAK311 in managing the volume of complaints received.
   • Equity Consideration: Converting the temporary part-time positions to permanent full-time positions will help OAK311 to stabilize operations and provide more consistent intake support and management of resident complaints and reports to the Call Center. Adding 2.0 FTE Public Service Representatives will increase the capacity of OAK311 to intake, track and follow-up on the large volume of service requests received. This in turn will benefit the City departments that respond to service requests, as well as residents who submit the requests or complaints to the City.
5. Allocates $20,000 from salary savings to Neighborhood Services Division’s (NSD) O&M to support outreach, promotion, supplies and other miscellaneous services related to National Night Out (NNO).
   • Equity Consideration: The proposed increase to NSD’s O&M for NNO will help the division to conduct more targeted outreach and engage directly with underserved neighborhoods in Oakland to ensure these neighborhoods have the resources and support needed to organize NNO block parties and encourage resident participation.
6. Transfers the ADA Programs Division from the Department of Transportation to the City Administrator’s Office on the recommendation of the Mayor’s Commission on Person with Disabilities (MPCD) to become more autonomous within the City organization hierarchy, to be effective at coordinating physical and programmatic access compliance in all City programs, activities, and services citywide per State and Federal requirements.
   • Equity Consideration: Improved coordination will help to address the lack of ADA accessibility to City programs and services for communities of color who live in areas with poorer infrastructure and who may have limited access to information and services.
7. Transfers the Sustainability Unit from Oakland Public Works to the City Administrators Office to become a more independent office to be effective at collaboration with staff across all City Departments and with community leaders and experts on equitable climate change mitigation and adaptation.
   • Equity Consideration: Advances the City’s racial equity goals through improved coordination to focus the City’s sustainability efforts towards equitable distribution of resources to people who are predominantly from neighborhoods that are majority Black, Indigenous and people of color.
8. Allocates $10,000 of salary savings to the Employment Investigations and Civil Rights Compliance’s (EICRC’s) O&M budget to be used for vendor support with the federally mandated utilization study, education at the Cal Perla annual conference, and contract investigator fees.
   • Equity Consideration: EICRC is responsible for preparing comprehensive investigative reports documenting investigations, including fact-finding, applying facts to policies, drawing conclusions as to whether policies have been violated, and ensuring alignment with federal and state laws and City policies and procedures. The requested increase in O&M will support the division’s ongoing training and operational needs to prepare and submit mandated Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) statistical reports; conduct discrimination and sexual harassment prevention training programs and monitor hiring practices for EEO compliance. This work proactively reduces discrimination against protected groups and supports those who have been discriminated against, often the least advantaged.

City Attorney

Enhancements 

Affordable Housing & Homelessness Solutions

1. Add 1.0 FTE Deputy City Attorney IV - Interdepartmental Homelessness Counsel. This position will allow us to coordinate and provide comprehensive services instead of our current structure which involves several attorneys who already have full time equivalent work on other projects, matters and cases. This will make service delivery more efficient, effective and timely as we grapple with many challenges on a daily basis and support the Homeless Services Manager, assist with implementation of the Encampment Management Policy and address risk management issues in real time.
   • Equity Consideration: The Deputy City Attorney IV will serve as interdepartmental counsel on issues that directly impact unhoused individuals and family members. Homeless individuals are disproportionately Black and other persons of color.
2. Upgrade the vacant Office Assistant I to an Administrative Analyst I. The Office Assistant classification does not provide our office with the level of expertise in the areas of report development, database maintenance, and general data analysis that is required for day-to-day administration operations. Upgrading the position to an Administrative Analyst I will improve efficiency and enable us to perform services more quickly.
   • Equity Consideration: Not applicable

City Auditor

Enhancements 

Trustworthy and Responsible Government

1. Add 1.0 FTE Performance Auditor Senior for increased mandated responsibilities and to assist with the Whistleblower Program.
   • Equity Consideration: This will allow for the expansion of the Office’s capacity to address current workload, including mandated audit work, and audit the highest risk areas of the City. The office of the City Auditor will also be able to stabilize and continue to grow the Whistleblower program, including adding additional resources.
2. Add $125,000 to assist the City Auditor’s Office in completing an audit in alignment with City Council’s top performance concerns related to City operations.
   • Equity Consideration: Additional audits will increase our capacity to conduct more risk-based performance audits and identify issues and make recommendations about topics such as homelessness, illegal dumping, service responsiveness, public safety, and affordable housing. These topics are of particular concern to Oaklanders of color. In addition, our ability to conduct more audits increases the opportunity to identify and report on possible disparities in the delivery of services across Oakland's diverse communities, and the disparate impacts suboptimal service delivery has on Oakland residents and merchants of color.
3. Add $35,000 to supplement Office capacity by issuing small contracts to support auditing work.
   • Equity Consideration: Supplementing audit work will provide additional public accountability and transparency regarding the range of municipal services the City provides. Additional resources will increase our capacity to more timely conduct our risk-based performance audits in a more timely manner which ultimately increases the opportunity to identify and report on possible disparities in the delivery of services across Oakland's diverse communities, and the disparate impacts suboptimal service delivery has on Oakland residents and merchants of color.
4. Delete 1.0 FTE Administrative Assistant II to upgrade the position and better align the department.
   • Equity Consideration: This is a Council Amendment added and approved during budget adoption an equity statement was not developed for this item.
5. Add 1.0 FTE Administrative Services Manager I upgraded position to better align the department.
   • Equity Consideration: This is a Council Amendment added and approved during budget adoption an equity statement was not developed for this item.

City Clerk

Enhancements 

Trustworthy and Responsible Government

1. Add $60,000 in funding to update the City of Oakland retention schedule. The current retention schedule is severely out of date and has not been updated since 2003. The existing schedule applies only to hardcopy records and does not include any of the increasing variations of electronic documents.
   • Equity Consideration: Updating the retention schedule will increase public access to public information which will be beneficial to Oakland residents and City of Oakland staff. This update will also ensure access for English as a Second Language (ESL) residents, and Black, Indigenous, Latino, Asian, immigrant and refugee communities in Oakland.
2. Add $213,000 for meeting translation services (Spanish, Cantonese, and Mandarin).
   • Equity Consideration: The Office of the City Clerk has been effective in encouraging open and transparent government access. Oakland residents deserve access to clear and up to date policy. This funding supports continued work to encourage and support civic engagement. This funding will also ensure access for ESL residents, and Indigenous, Latino, Asian, immigrant and refugee communities in Oakland to be able to participate in meetings in real time in their native languages. Providing continuous language services will increase public access to public information, which will be beneficial to Oakland residents.
3. Add $1.6M for November ballot measures
   • Equity Consideration: This is a Council Amendment added and approved during budget adoption an equity statement was not developed for this item.

Police Commission

Enhancements

Trustworthy and Responsible Government

1. Adds 1.0 FTE Administrative Assistant II and $6,000 in One-Time equipment costs to support the Police Commission with the challenge of increased demand for service and information. It is anticipated that this position would directly assist the Commission’s Chief of Staff with Police Commission meeting preparation and like business.
   • Equity Consideration: The Police Commission oversees the Police Department (including approval of the policies of the Police Department), Community Police Review Agency (CPRA) and – most recently – the Inspector General’s office. The activities of the Oakland Police Department (OPD) disproportionately effect Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC) communities, especially Black people, and impact the investigations conducted by the CPRA. Furthermore, responsibility for the newly formed IG’s office also sits under the Police Commission, with potential to critically effect and impact rebuilding public trust between community members and the systems and authorities that make up the public safety space. The work of the Oakland Police Commission to oversee the policies of the Police Department, the investigations of CPRA and the IG’s audits therefore directly addresses a core inequity in existing City performance.
2. Adds 1.0 FTE Administrative Analyst II position and adds $6,000 in O&M in One-Time equipment costs to improve data collection and reporting of data to increase transparency to impacted communities. This is an equity issue because BIPOC communities are disproportionately represented in police misconduct complaints. It also facilitates improving collection and reporting of data about equity and race, e.g., the demographics of complainants. This would help CPRA dive deeper into the race and equity impacts of its own work.
   • Equity Consideration: CPRA investigations exclusively assess the work of OPD police officers. The activities of those officers disproportionately effect BIPOC communities, especially Black people. The work of CPRA therefore directly addresses a core inequity in existing City performance. The proposed new staff member will free up Intake Technicians and Complaint Investigators to better identify police misconduct, and thus serve our equity goal of reducing police misconduct against BIPOC persons.
3. Adds 1.0 FTE Complaint Investigator II position and adds $6,000 in O&M in One-Time equipment costs. Measure S1 went into effect January 2021, which included a new deadline for completion of CPRA cases of 250 days, instead of the prior one-year deadline set by state law. This reduces the time for any given case to be completed by 30%. Our experience in the last year has been that CPRA investigative staffing is not adequate to keep up with this much earlier deadline. In order to meet this deadline consistently, we are proposing one additional permanent Complaint Investigator II position on an ongoing basis. Completion of cases within these deadlines will require additional staffing, hence the proposal to add a Complaint Investigator II position.
   • Equity Consideration: CPRA investigations exclusively assess the work of OPD police officers. The activities of those officers disproportionately effect BIPOC communities, especially Black people. The work of CPRA therefore directly addresses a core inequity in existing City performance. Officer involved shootings, the specific sort of cases addressed here, have historically disproportionately affected Black Oaklanders more than any other community, as is also the case nationally.
4. Adds 3.0 FTE an Administrate Analyst II, Police Performance Auditor, and Project Manager III and adds $71,000 in O&M for supplies, equipment, utilities, tuition and conferences. Measure S1 requires the Oakland Police Commission’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) to monitor, audit and evaluate the OPD for compliance in accordance with the National Security Agency (NSA) tasks. The OIG may also review and evaluate CPRA to monitor the integrity of investigations. The OIG also has jurisdiction to inspect, review and evaluate the operational functions of OPD and CPRA to determine if professional best practices are being adhered to and implemented, and operations are in accordance with the City Charter and City Ordinances.
   • Equity Consideration: The OIG has overarching jurisdiction to review use of force complaints, complaints of racial discrimination by sworn police officers, and other complaints per City Charter. The review and evaluations of those complaints and investigations and/or investigative methods will directly or indirectly effect the communities impacted by racial disparities and protected classes according to the federal government. Fully staffing the new OIG office is critical to advancing racial equity outcomes.

Public Ethics

Enhancements

Trustworthy and Responsible Government

1. Add $40,000 for contracting and Administrative Hearing officers.
   • Equity Consideration: Administrative hearings are an important stage of the Commission’s enforcement process in which Oaklanders – many of whom lack power in our political system – can submit complaints of potential ethics or campaign finance violations to the Commission which then investigates and can hold violators accountable. Often these matters proceed all the way through an administrative hearing, like a trial, to assess the factual evidence, determine whether a violation occurred, and assign a proposed penalty.

Race & Equity

Enhancements 

Trustworthy and Responsible Government

1. Adds 1.0 FTE Data Analyst III and O&M to support data collection, analysis, and reporting to meet need across all departments for technical support to complete racial equity impact analyses, establish meaningful performance metrics, and assist the department with developing the data infrastructure to identify disparities and determine steps to advance equity.
   • Equity Consideration: To assure the success of City efforts to advance racial equity the City is focusing on reducing racial disparities in our impacted communities. This additional technical capacity will address the existing gap in expertise in this area, and accelerate progress toward improving conditions for Black, Indigenous, Latina/o, and Asian residents of Oakland who are burdened by inequity.

Workplace and Employment Standards

Enhancements

Trustworthy and Responsible Government

1. Adds 1.0 FTE Administrative Analyst I to provide support to the Certification Unit to increase capacity to shorten the processing time for local and small local business certifications and allow for greater efficiencies in increasing the availability of local and small local businesses in the certification database.
   • Equity Consideration: The Certification Unit provides the vehicle through which local and small local businesses can be identified and included in the City’s procurement process. The Local and Small Local Business Enterprise Program serves to advance equity in City procurement by providing greater opportunities for small local minority and women owned businesses to gain a share of City procurement contracts.
2. Adds $250,000 in O&M to fund a disparities study in Oakland's contracting process for small businesses that have BIPOC and/or women owners. This study will evaluate the barriers that these businesses face in complying with the City's contracting policies and present recommendations for how to improve outcomes for these businesses that align with racial equity objectives.
   • Equity Consideration: Small businesses with BIPOC and/or women owners are a vital part of the local economy, however, they may not have the resources available to successfully navigate the City's contracting process to win and implement contracts. The DWES functions to monitor and enforce policies and programs to ensure equity in City procurement and employment for Oakland residents, particularly BIPOC in underserved and unserved communities. This study will support the Department of Workplace and Employment Standards (DWES) to address the barriers they face to support the City's objective to award more contracts to BIPOC and women-owned small local businesses.
3. Adds $60,000 in O&M to purchase computer workstations to replace outdated and malfunctioning equipment and provide workstations for new staff. This is essential to powering the software upgrades being implemented and allow staff to more efficiently utilize resources.
   • Equity Consideration: The DWES functions to monitor and enforce policies and programs to ensure equity in City procurement and employment for Oakland residents, particularly BIPOC in underserved and unserved communities. Equipment to run software and capacity to report on goals and objectives is essential to our success.
4. Adds $20,500 in O&M for software subscriptions to enhance data collection methodologies for programmatic tracking, monitoring, and reporting requirements.
   • Equity Consideration: The DWES functions to monitor and enforce policies and programs to ensure equity in City procurement and employment for Oakland residents, particularly BIPOC in underserved and unserved communities. Software that increases the capacity to report on goals and objectives is essential to our success.
5. Adds $50,000 in O&M to create, develop, and implement a strategy for outreach to local, small local, and very small local businesses to inform them of the mechanics to successfully do business with the City of Oakland. The strategy will incorporate and include workshops, audio visual aids that can be uploaded to our website for viewing on an as needed basis, development of hard copy manuals, and development of promotional materials to use at community events to inform the public of assistance available through DWES.
   • Equity Consideration: The DWES functions to monitor and enforce policies and programs to ensure equity in City procurement and employment for Oakland residents, particularly BIPOC in underserved and unserved communities.
6. Transfers 3.0 FTE Administrative Analyst II in the Contacts Unit from the Department of Workforce and Employment Standards to the Finance Department in order to facilitate greater efficiencies in the contract and grant service procurement process.
   • Equity Consideration: Timelier and more efficient contracting and procurement will improve service delivery for Oakland residents and may speed payment to City vendors and non-profit partners including minority and women owned businesses and non-profits serving BIPOC communities.

Finance  

Enhancements 

Trustworthy and Responsible Government

1. Create 2.0 FTE Principal Budget & Management Analyst to support the Budget Bureau in its elevated role of providing comprehensive and complex data analysis to the general public on the City’s budget and operations that includes both equity and fiscal data. The Budget Bureau is responsible for the development and creation of the City’s budget, which directs and impacts the entire City’s ongoing operations. Staff are also responsible for managing this process for all involved City departments. With racial equity analysis and interactive online budget books becoming the standard for the City’s budget work, the complexity of this work as well as volume of workload necessitates additional staff. These 2 positions will enable the Bureau to re-align workload and staffing, provide the Bureau with greater capacity to take on complicated financial analysis and special projects, and provide an additional level of supervision to executing this work.
   • Equity Consideration: The City’s Budget is one of the most important public policy documents for all Oakland residents because it determines the allocations of staffing and resources. It is also one of the most important public processes in which Oakland residents participate in deciding what services the City will provide to its residents. As such, the Budget Bureau plays a very significant role in supporting racial equity through the information collected in the process and provided to City elected officials and the general public. This role has become elevated with the Budget Bureau’s commitment to operationalize racial equity in all stages of budget development, which has also increased the workload of the Budget Bureau. With the addition of these 2 FTEs, the Budget Bureau will get needed staff to perform the fiscal and equity analysis both City leadership and the public demands for the budget cycle.
2. Delete 1.0 FTE Financial Analyst and Add 1.0 FTE Principal Financial Analyst to support the Controller’s Office in providing more sophisticated analysis in key areas of equity, including contracting and redevelopment funds. This vacant position has been updated to a higher level of skillset because it will perform a unique role in the Controller’s office through supporting in-depth sophisticated financial analysis. This position will be responsible for doing high level analysis on contracts reporting, negative funds analysis reporting, and Oakland Redevelopment Successor Agency (ORSA) redevelopment agency fund reporting. At present, the City does not have a dedicated FTE to do analysis and provide leadership around auditing redevelopment funds to ensure there is enough funding for debt service payments as well as development projects.
   • Equity Consideration: Recruiting a person with the skillset commensurate with this job classification will enhance the Controller’s ability to provide more oversight and analysis to the public about City finances in key areas of equity concern: contracting and redevelopment funds.
3. Delete 1.0 FTE Principal Financial Analyst and add 1.0 FTE Business Analyst III in Finance Administration Payroll. The Principal Financial Analyst position duties are being performed by a Payroll Manager. The new classification of Business Analyst III will perform the much-needed duties of documenting business practices in the payroll unit and performing analysis on ways to improve processes.
   • Equity Consideration: Ensuring that payroll operations continue with proper documented processes will ensure equitable treatment for all City employees and that they are paid accurately and on time.
4. Add $150,000 in O&M to examine historical disparities between City employees based on demographic characteristics.
   • Equity Consideration: Information regarding past disparities including racial disparities may help in developing solutions to mitigate or eliminate the recurrence of those disparities.
5. Add 2.0 FTE Treasury Analyst III, 1.0 FTE Financial Analyst and unfreeze 1.0 FTE Treasury Analyst III in the Treasury Bureau. This is the ideal staffing level to allow an even workload and manage City fiscal resources more efficiently.
   • Equity Consideration: Preserve City revenues and City investments, which results in the City having more overall resources to service the public.
6. Add 1.0 FTE Administrative Analyst I in Treasury Retirement to assist City of Oakland retirees and disabled safety officers.
   • Equity Consideration: City retirees and disabled safety employees will receive more efficient and effective customer service and faster processing times for critical medical reimbursement and disability payments. The goal is to make sure all retirees receive their pay in an efficient and equitable manner. Timely payments are critical for lower paid pensioners, who are less likely to be able to cover payments for medical coverage until they are reimbursed.
7. Adds $250,000 in O&M to conduct a disparity study to identify barriers to Oakland’s contracting process.
   • Equity Consideration: Information from the study will help the City assess its current efforts and identify remedies to ensure equitable opportunities and participation of businesses in local contracts, helping to inform future modifications that might be needed to the City’s current program.
8. Adds 3.0 FTE Administrative Analyst II in the Contacts Unit from the Department of Workforce and Employment Standards to the Finance Department to facilitate greater efficiencies in the contract and grant service procurement processes.
   • Equity Consideration: More timely and efficient contracting and procurement processes will improve service delivery for Oakland residents and may speed payment to City vendors and non-profit partners including minority and women owned businesses and non-profits serving BIPOC communities.
9. Adds $1.3M in funds to Revenue Management for additional costs to implement Business Tax Measure.
   • Equity Consideration: None.

Information Technology

Enhancements 

Trustworthy and Responsible Government

1. Add O&M to support Oracle Migration to Cloud (OCI) and Phase 1 of a migration of all on-premise infrastructure located at 150 Frank Ogawa Plaza to Amazon (AWS). OCI will incorporate new features and brings the City to the most current software releases for safety and compliance requirements. Also added, is funding for a one-year engagement with a professional service organization (consultant) to manage the cloud environment and passing on that knowledge to ITD staff for future years. Phase 1 of the AWS migration is a “lift and shift” and will require a second phase to “modernize” the platforms and applications.
   • Equity consideration: Not applicable.
2. Adds O&M for CAD/RMS dedicated post-go live support for 6 months.
   • Equity consideration: This is a council amendment approved at budget adoption and an equity statement was not developed for this item.

Human Resources Management

Enhancements 

Good Jobs & Vibrant Economy

1. Add 1.0 FTE Human Resources Manager, 1.0 FTE Human Resource Analyst, Senior, 3.0 FTE Human Resource Analyst (CONF), 1.0 FTE Human Resource Technician, Senior and 2.0 FTE Human Resource Technician to the Recruitment, Classification & Benefits Bureau. Addition of the above positions will great enhance HRM’s ability to attract and retain qualified candidates. While their time will be needed to hire and train these positions, the future capacity of HRM will match the growth of the City as an organization.
   • Equity Consideration: Filling positions throughout City departments will enhance services which are often most impacted in the most vulnerable communities of color in Oakland.
2. Add $250,000 to initiate a comprehensive process to reimagine the public employee recruitment and retention.
   • Equity Consideration: This is a council amendment approved at budget adoption and an equity statement was not developed for this item.

Violence Prevention

Enhancements 

Public Safety & Violence Prevention

1. The deletion of 1.0 FTE Case Manager I position and the addition of 1.0 FTE Program Analyst III position will provide a dedicated staff member to coordinate direct service work across the three focus areas of gender-based violence, group and gun violence, and community healing.
   • Equity Consideration: The Program Analyst III will identify and implement coordinated approaches to direct service delivery across the department’s strategies of group/gun violence, gender-based violence, and community healing. There is extensive overlap between these categories of work in the communities served by the Department of Violence Prevention (DVP) and thus prevention and intervention activities must be integrated to achieve maximum impact. The 12 OPD police beats primarily served by the DVP’s three categories of work are overwhelmingly composed of residents of color and low-income residents.
2. Adds 1.0 FTE Health & Human Services Program Planner - The addition of a Health and Human Services Program (HHS) Planner will ensure that the department’s life coaching and employment models are well designed and implemented by internal staff and contracted providers.
   • Equity Consideration: The addition of an HHS Program Planner will allow the department to more consistently implement life coaching and employment services with fidelity to designed models. The department’s life coaching and employment services primarily engage residents of color, all of whom have been impacted by violence.
3. Adds $75,000 in O&M for support for victims and families of violent crime assistance offering healing education advocacy and training.
   • Equity Consideration: In 2021, Black residents in Oakland represented 59% of homicide victims and Latino residents represented 24% of homicide victims, far above their representation in the Oakland population. Funding will directly support black and Latino families who are disproportionately killed in Oakland.
4. Adds $510,000 in O&M for youth development, mentorship and violence prevention.
   • Equity Consideration: In 2021, Black residents in Oakland represented 41% of shooting victims and 59% of homicide victims, as well as an estimated 49% of rape victims and 53% of domestic violence victims and Latino residents in Oakland represented 36% of shooting victims and 24% of homicide victims, as well as an estimated 23% of rape victims and 28% of domestic violence victims, far above their representation in the Oakland population. Funding will directly support black and Latino youth who are disproportionately impacted by violence in Oakland.

Police Department

Enhancements 

Public Safety & Violence Prevention

1. Adds $696,000 in O&M for FY 2022-23 for the following: in one-time expenditures: $250,000 to renewed contract with Quartech, which is a company that provides application support services for the OPD VISION system, $75,000 to update Crime Lab equipment, and $36,000 for Police evidence equipment & testing kits. In ongoing expenditures: $170,000 for software to enhance audio for body worn cameras, $49,500 for Zencity software which allows OPD to survey a representative portion of the community through the use of online targeted ads via social media, $49,500 for Culture Amp software which allows OPD to anonymously survey employees and provide 360 feedback to managers/commanders, $46,000 for language line services, and $20,000 for CrimeView subscription and maintenance as this software connects OPD with incident data to provide useful geographical data visualizations and crime pattern analysis.
   • Equity Consideration: These items enable OPD to have efficient, transparent, and culturally responsive communication and accountability within the department and with the community. BIPOC communities in Oakland are disproportionately impacted by violent crimes and are affected most when communication and methods of accountability are hindered due to lack of resources in the department. These items will also help OPD maintain effective public safety.
2. Maintain 1.0 FTE Victim’s Assistance Liaison to run the Victims Assistance Program. The Victim’s Assistance Liaison informs crime victims of the services which are available to them, including funding. OPD maintains a tenet of fair and equitable treatment for all victims. The current Victim’s Assistance Liaison has also been an integral subject matter expert in the development of a trauma-informed policing plan. Without this funding, OPD would be in violation of Cal. Gov. Code § 13962(c) and 2 CCR § 649.36 and the City’s own general orders.
   • Equity Consideration: Implementation of the Victims Assistance Program and trauma-informed policing plan help ensure the improved treatment of victims. Black residents and people of color are significantly more likely to be victims of crime.
3. OPD recognized the disparities of violent crime and calls for service which were occurring in a section of Oakland. This necessitated in the creation of what is now designated as Area 6. The implementation of District Area 6 deploys resources which directly address violent crime and priority calls. In order to fully staff and fund patrol operations in Area 6, non-patrol positions will continue to remain frozen. This does not impact the current status quo operations/functions of the department as of May 2022.
   • Equity Consideration: Its critical to align OPD's functions to available resources. If expected services dramatically exceed the personnel resources available, OPD will be unable to focus on reformed functions and providing core services to vulnerable residents.
4. Unfreezes 3.0 FTE positions in Criminal Investigations to improve the bandwidth in the Criminal Investigations Division (CID) to process evidence and solve violent crimes.
   • Equity Consideration: OPD’s solve rate for violent crime is currently below desired levels. Black residents and people of color are significantly more likely to be victims of crime. Faster evidence process should improve the ability of sworn officers to solve crimes.
5. Police Commission recommendation of $700,000 one-time O&M for OPD Wellness/Mental Health unit. Add 1.0 FTE Program Analyst III (SC204) to oversee the Wellness Unit.
   • Equity Consideration: Officers frequently endure stressful situations and experience vicarious trauma as a result of 1) being affected by violent crime and 2) assisting victims of violent crime. These funds would hire a Program Analyst III who would help officers connect to wellness and mental health resources to help them deal with the trauma. The funding would also include building out a wellness program which would include contracted wellness coaches for officers. Access to mental health and wellness resources enable officers to be better equipped to serve the communities which are impacted most by violent crime.
6. Adds $250,000 in O&M for a criminal case management system which will provide efficient case investigations, supervision, and public accountability. The criminal case management system will help investigators track and link criminal elements and solve fresh and cold cases. The case management system will provide public accessible data showing case closure rates.
   • Equity Consideration: Many victims of violent crime in Oakland come from disadvantaged communities. Efforts to better support crime investigations and make data publicly available support the City’s goals of greater race and social equity.

Fire Department

Enhancements

Public Safety & Violence Prevention

1. Adds O&M funding for radio equipment replacement. Firefighters and other Emergency First Responders use portable radio systems when navigating through the neighborhoods and hazardous area conditions caused by fire or other emergency incidents. Having the proper up to date forms of communication and the advanced signal connection can be a life-saving tool for a Firefighter on duty.
   • Equity Consideration: Every second counts when responding to major emergencies but especially when the individual or group already is subject to diminished life expectancies, greater health disparities, and who often live in substandard housing conditions. Responding crews stay in continuous contact with Dispatchers while in route, and Radio communication is a key factor in how responding units know what type of event or medical incident they are arriving to in real time.
2. Adds 1.0 FTE Spatial Data Analyst III and 1.0 FTE Data Analyst II to the Fire Prevention Bureau to improve spatial analysis and non-spatial data analysis to enable fire prevention to effectively solve problems and make better decisions.
   • Equity Consideration: The effective analysis of spatial and demographic data is a key part of Oakland Fire Department (OFD’s) Community Risk Reduction (CRR) efforts – which is the identification and prioritization of risks, threats, and hazards followed by the implementation and evaluation of strategies to lessen their impact. Assessing demographic and risk data will ensure that our most vulnerable populations are prioritized in hope of mitigating risk and hazards in those communities.
3. The Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland (MACRO) Program is a community response program for non-violent, non-emergency 911 calls. The purpose of hiring MACRO staff is to meet the needs of the community with a compassionate care first response model grounded in empathy, service, and community. The program deletes 1.0 FTE Administrative Services Manager II and adds 1.0 FTE MACRO Program Manager, 2.0 FTE Fire Communications Dispatchers, 6.0 FTE Emergency Medical Technician (MACRO), 6.0 FTE Community Intervention Specialist (MACRO), 1.0 FTE Account Clerk III, 1.0 FTE Management Assistant, 0.5 FTE Program Analyst I, and 1.0 FTE Administrative Assistant I.
   • Equity Consideration: These MACRO positions are designed to support MACRO efforts to reduce responses by police, resulting in fewer arrests and negative interactions, and increased access to community-based services and resources for impacted individuals and families, and most especially for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC).
4. The permanent reopening of Station 2 will enhance OFD’s overall span of control and expand the department’s response capacity for incidents at the Port, in the estuary, downtown and for areas below the train tracks, such as Jack London Square, West Oakland, Howard Terminal and the growing Brooklyn Basin neighborhood.
   • Equity Consideration: When opened, Station 2 would become a first due (1st assigned) engine company for several neighborhoods that have historically suffered severe health disparities.
5. Add 29.0 FTE Fire Fighter Paramedics and funding for associated overtime and deletes 1.0 FTE Battalion Chief (104 Hr), 8.0 FTE Lieutenant of Fire Department, and 20.0 FTE Engineer of Fire Department (104 Hr). This is a budget neutral change.
   • Equity Consideration: This is a council amendment approved at budget adoption and an equity statement was not developed for this item.
6. Adds $125,000 for Fire Safe Council grant.
   • Equity Consideration: This is a council amendment approved at budget adoption and an equity statement was not developed for this item.

Library

Enhancements

Other Impacts And Changes

1. Oakland Public Library requests authorization to add: 2.0 FTE Library Assistant, Senior, 1.0 FTE Library Assistant, 1.0 FTE CIP Coordinator, Assistant, 2.0 FTE Custodian, 1.0 FTE Librarian II, 2.0 FTE Library Aide, 0.6 FTE Librarian II, PPT, 1.0 FTE Program Analyst II, and 1.0 FTE Program Analyst III, Unfreeze 4.0 FTE Library Aide PPT; And requests authorization to delete 1.0 FTE Librarian I, 2.0 FTE Museum Guard,1.0 FTE Literacy Assistant, Senior, 1.0 FTE Office Assistant, 1.7 FTE Library Aide, PT, 0.6 FTE Librarian I, PPT, 1.0 FTE Public Information Officer II, and 1.4 FTE Library Aide, PPT. Which will result in providing more community outreach in East Oakland, improve facilities, and increase grant funding.
   • Equity Consideration: These changes increase services in East Oakland which is disproportionally harmed by social injustice. Specifically, positions will be added to our East Oakland Engagement Team who partner with community organizations to develop spaces and programs around bicycle culture and repair. They have also developed programs such as the Wash and Read program to provide Storytime activities at laundromats; they guide mentorship opportunities at The Bike Fix and facilitate the Father Circle, a bi-weekly dinner, conversation and resource for black and brown fathers. This will also increase our capacity to write and monitor large-scale grants becoming available through the State and Federal government. The additional grants will fund repairs to aging library infrastructure as well as new facilities located in the Hoover Durant and San Antonio neighborhoods, which are in red-lined neighborhoods and serve historically marginalized populations. The CIP Coordinator, Assistant will ensure completion of facility projects funded by the grant writer.
2. Add funding for safety and security improvements at the Oakland Public Libraries.
   • Equity Consideration: This is a council amendment approved at budget adoption and an equity statement was not developed for this item.

Parks, Recreation & Youth Development

Enhancements

Other Impacts And Changes

1. Contract for $450,000 for transporting children throughout Oakland to OPRYD programs. Programs would include Town Camp, Town Afterschool Programs, Sports, Aquatics, Cultural Arts, and Nature & Science. Contract would include leasing vehicles with drivers.
   • Equity Consideration: Oakland communities with low household income and communities of color historically have less access to transportation options and experience greater impact of transportation costs. In addition, Oakland's communities of color are more likely to be killed or severely injured in a traffic crash of any type and traffic crashes are the second most common of cause of death for our young population. The additional allocation of funding will allow OPYRD to provide a service enhancement to participants and families, while also reducing barriers to access through safe transportation services. Adding transportation will provide increased exposure, especially for our BIPOC youth coming from underserved Oakland communities. This transportation service will open access to transformative experiences to a broader base of youth in Oakland, with the intentional engagement of youth living in areas deemed by the City's Equity Map as being "Medium" to "Highest" need, with hands-on learning at City pools, boating programs, art centers, athletic facilities, golf course, Natural Environment/Open Space, City Stables, Oakland Zoo, Chabot Space Science Center, and STEM/Discovery Center.

Human Services

Enhancements

Clean, Healthy, & Sustainable Neighborhoods

1. Add 1.0 FTE Housing Deputy Director to focused on system performance and programmatic outcomes. Increasing Human Services Department (HSD) leadership capacity will create the ability for departmental oversight to move past only being able to do the transactional and grant driven compliance and strengthen the department’s ability and capacity to monitor and design system improvements that can more directly address racial equity issues in HSD operations, policymaking and service delivery.
   • Equity Consideration: HSD provides program services to community members who are largely BIPOC and live in neighborhoods experiencing the highest levels of racial disparities in social and health outcomes. This investment will provide capacity for the department to develop and implement strategies to advance racial equity and to assess their outcomes.
2. Add $9M to sustain operations of the Lake Merritt Lodge as a Roomkey/ Covid Hotel for 12 months. Sustains housing and wrap around supports including housing navigation for 92 households (115 individuals) who are formerly unsheltered and at risk of death or serious health consequences of Covid due to age and/or chronic conditions.
   • Equity Consideration: The focus community – unsheltered individuals who are elderly, and/or with health conditions living on the street– are predominately Black/African American (70+%) having been disproportionately impacted by policies related to economic, housing and health car access. Approximately 72% of clients served are Black/African American.
3. Add $500,000 in O&M for an equity focused evaluation revealing best human services strategies for eliminating racial disparities and support for HSD to drive policies and services using a Results Based Accountability framework. Improve data collection, quality, and analysis to drive better service and policy decision making to address racial disparities in outcomes. Having strong program evaluations can help us identify our best investments as well as determine how to establish and sustain them as optimal practice.
   • Equity Consideration: Without robust evaluation resources and data analytics, Human Services cannot adequately measure the impact of program services on closing racial disparities in outcomes and inform funding / policy changes needed to improve/change outcomes.
4. Add 1.5 FTE Office Assistant I, PT and 2.0 FTE Recreation Specialist I, PT in Aging & Adult Services. Add 1.0 FTE Program Analyst I in Early Childhood & Family Services. Add 1.0 FTE Administrative Services Manager I and 1.0 FTE Administrative Analyst I in Community Housing Services.
   • Equity Consideration: These positions will allow HSD to implement and manage programing across multiple divisions, which all serve people of color who have a history of being underserved, and experiencing income disparity, health issues, or technology access challenges. The addition of these positions will streamline service and communication with the public and partner agencies.
5. Adds $1M in food cards for families to use with small grocery stores in flatlands neighborhoods including East, Central and West Oakland. These cards will provide 2,500 families with $75 for 12 months to buy their groceries from local stores.
   • Equity Consideration: Oakland's low-income BIPOC communities have experienced the highest rates of COVID-19 and other disparate outcomes which have destabilized household incomes. Providing food security to the community can support economic stability and support health outcomes through good nutrition. These cards also support local small businesses largely owned and staffed by BIPOC residents.
6. Council Amendments add $3.2M in funding for various grants supporting food programs, employment & training, homelessness.
   • Equity consideration: This is a council amendment approved at budget adoption and an equity statement was not developed for this item.

Animal Services

Enhancements 

Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Neighborhoods 

1. Adds funding for a robust database to track equity indicators. Oakland Animal Services (OAS) currently utilizes a database for animal shelters that was designed only to track data related to shelter intake and outcomes and lacks the ability to track community serving programs (e.g. access to veterinary care) as well as Animal Control activity, to measure whether case outcomes are consistent and equitable for clients who are predominantly Black, Indigenous and people of color.
   • Equity Consideration: Improving OAS’s overall customer service, and ability to track data related to access to and utilization of community serving programs, as well as Animal Control activities, advances the City’s racial equity through adding robust capacity to measure whether there is an equitable distribution of resources and whether Animal Control cases are handled in a manner that is consistent and fair to people who are predominantly from neighborhoods that are majority Black, Indigenous and people of color so that staff can make changes to provide more equitable service.

Economic & Workforce Development

Enhancements 

Affordable Housing & Homelessness Solutions

1. Adds 1.0 FTE Real Property Asset Manager (Development) with the use of fund balance. This new position is part of succession planning for the Public/Private Development (PPD) team and will begin the process to consolidate the two current Redevelopment Area Teams to reflect expected reductions in staffing due to retirement. This new position will eventually replace two (2) Redevelopment Area Manager positions resulting in reduced costs and contributing to the reduction in expenditure of Redevelopment Bond Funds over time.
   • Equity Consideration: Consolidating multiple Redevelopment Area Manager positions and staffing into a single team will streamline operations and allow staff to better focus on delivering services across all of Oakland, expediting the delivery of affordable housing.

Good Jobs & Vibrant Economy

1. Adds $1.03M to replenish the Operating Reserve for Scotlan Convention Center and covers the Scotlan Convention Center Operating Deficit. The City is contractually obligated to cover any shortfalls at the Convention Center and must do so to ensure continued operations of the facility as it reopens and recovers from the negative impacts of the pandemic.
   • Equity Consideration: The Scotlan Convention Center serves Oakland and the region and hosts large and small corporate events and trade shows. These events draw thousands of people to downtown Oakland who visit Oakland’s diverse restaurant and entertainment offerings, bringing new customers to Oakland’s restaurants, bars, and other small businesses.
2. Adds one-time funding support for consulting services for development of a 5-Year Economic Development Strategy. This will support the City's equitable economic development policy goals and support continuation of the prior 2017-2020 Economic Strategy and 2021 Economic Recovery Plan.
   • Equity Consideration: For a majority people of color city like Oakland, closing racial disparities in business ownership, business revenues, and income is a core strategy for economic growth. The update of the Economic Development Strategy will be focused on equitable economic development, using the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and building upon the prior strategy, economic recovery efforts, and newly gathered demographic data and neighborhood data. This funding support is necessary to engage a professional services consultant through a competitive process to help develop the 5-year Economic Development Strategy.
3. Increases Revenue in Fund 5999 and adds 1.0 FTE Project Manager III (Coliseum) and 1.0 FTE Project Manager II (Coliseum) and recognizes the rest of the $2.5M in Coliseum Project Expense Payment (PEP). These positions are needed to advance the redevelopment of the Coliseum Complex as part of a public/private partnership approved by City Council. It is the largest development project in Oakland, and requires dedicated, experienced staff to negotiate the transaction and manage the project. Per the authorization in CMS 88922, the City’s development partner will pay all staff costs via Project Expense Payments, including an upfront payment of $2.5M to the City once the Exclusive Negotiating Agreement (ENA) is executed later this Spring. Creating these positions will allow these Project Expense Payments to be received from the development partner.
   • Equity Consideration: Creating these positions will help advance a catalytic project for East Oakland that will include new affordable housing, jobs, open space, and retail and community services. East Oakland has historically been home to a low-income community, with a majority Black and Latinx population that has long experienced social and economic inequities and lacked access to services, which this project will help to correct. In addition, the City’s private partner, the African American Sports and Entertainment Group (AASEG), is an all-Black, Oakland-based development team.
4. Establishes budget in Fund 5505 and add 1.0 FTE Program Analyst II in Cultural Affairs to support public art and authorize the ongoing use of a portion of Public Art Fund 5505 to fund a permanent position to support the Public Art Program. This new position in Cultural Affairs will focus on 1) implementation of the Neighborhood Mural Program, and 2) support for the Public Art Program including community outreach to increase diversity in the applicant pool for public art projects.
   • Equity Consideration: Addition of this position will expand staff capacity in Cultural Affairs to engage in community outreach and analysis work to address structural biases in the field of Public Art. This position will conduct community outreach and engagement, gather data, and analyze public art in capital improvement projects. This position will also support implementation of the Mural Program, which is centered in neighborhood activities and will be grounded in serving underinvested majority-BIPOC communities in the flatlands in East Oakland, Fruitvale, and West Oakland.
5. Adds 1.0 FTE Economic and Workforce Development (EWD) Deputy Director (Special Activities). This position will effectuate the transition of Special Activities to EWDD from the City Administrator’s office by creating a new Deputy Director position to manage the Special Activity Permits Division.
   • Equity Consideration: Creating this position in EWDD will allow the Special Activity Permits division to expand their equity work to support Oakland’s cannabis businesses, street vendors, special events and festivals, and other activities, which benefit the Black, Latinx, immigrant and woman business owners that participate in these sectors.
6. Increases Measure C Transit Occupancy Tax (TOT) Fund 2419 Funding for Fairs & Festivals. The pandemic has decimated TOT funding, which subsidizes the event permitting fees of OPD and OFD, due to decreased travel and tourism activity during COVID. Increasing the share of TOT funds directed to support fairs and festivals will enable events to safely take place, which is critical for the City’s economic recovery.
   • Equity Consideration: Restoring TOT funds to support fairs and festivals will enable lower-income Oakland entrepreneurs and street vendors to generate revenue and provide community expression and social cohesion after two years of limited economic and social opportunities.
7. Adds $350,000 for concert series, performances, and art vendors in City Hall Plaza and Pablo's Alley.
   • Equity Consideration: Equitable special event policies can decrease disparities in business ownership and employment opportunities in marginalized communities of color as well as create a sense of belonging in Oakland. Furthermore, funding to facilitate events that feature vendors and artists from underinvested communities will help realize a more equitable approach to special events as part of the transition of special event permitting to EWDD.
8. Allocate $250,000 in the Cannabis Revolving Loan Fund and an additional $250,000 in Cannabis Workforce Development Program.
   • Equity Consideration: These investments will ensure the City remains competitive for state grants and a hub for equitable cannabis employment and business growth. This local investment will provide workforce programming and business start-up capital for those disproportionately impacted by the War on Drugs to access employment and business ownership opportunities in the regulated cannabis marketplace.
9. Adds $1,250,000 for Job Readiness Programs, $110,500 for Unity Council, $50,000 for Oak PIC, $400,000 for Construction Resource Center, $350,000 for Movement Strategy Center for TAY CTE Hub, and $885,305 to extend Workforce Development Board grants.
   • Equity Consideration: This is a council amendment approved at budget adoption and an equity statement was not developed for this item.

Clean, Healthy, & Sustainable Neighborhoods

1. Unfreeze 0.6 FTE Urban Economic Analyst (UEA) IV PPT in Business Development to support Business Improvement Districts (BIDs)
   • Equity Consideration: The unfreezing of the 0.6 FTE UEA IV would provide staffing resources to a critical commercial neighborhood support program that improves neighborhood conditions. The BID Program Manager would provide the administrative support and guidance for BID formation in new neighborhoods that are currently not represented by BIDs, including in D4, D6, and D7, where City Council has allocated funding for BID formation support for as part of the adopted biennial budget. The restoration of the position would allow staffing to be re-allocated to business and development support programming in East and West Oakland.
2. Increase revenue $40,000 one-time for New Lease
   • Equity Consideration: The West Oakland neighborhood adjacent to the former Army Base is a historically underserved, low-income, majority-Black community that has long experienced social and economic inequities. The new truck parking lease and additional expenditures will have positive health, safety, and quality of life benefits for this community by moving heavy industry and truck activities from this neighborhood to the former Army Base.
3. Purchase vehicles for municipal code enforcement officers. The City’s two municipal code enforcement officers (soon to be reclassified as “special activity permit inspectors”) serve as critical liaisons between the City and lower-income entrepreneurs as well as the broader community. To be effective, they need to work in the field and outside of normal office hours, specifically nights and weekends as that is when most vending, events and cabaret activity take place. Purchasing vehicles dedicated to municipal code enforcement officers will facilitate them carrying out their work outside of traditional office hours. Currently, staff rely on the availability of OPW pool cars and must coordinate any rentals outside of office hours with OPW staff who only work regular office hours. This hinders municipal code enforcement officers’ ability to carry out their work.
   • Equity Consideration: This purchase will support the City’s efforts to legalize low-income mobile food vendors, African-American operated cabarets and special events.
4. Adds $62,000 for West Coast Blues Society.
   • Equity Consideration: This is a council amendment approved at budget adoption and an equity statement was not developed for this item.

Other Impacts And Changes

1. Reduce Recycling Fund Budget 1710 (to be added to Oakland Public Works (OPW) Environmental Services). The fund transfer would reflect current operational capacities and departmental tasks. EWDD historically facilitated the State of California Recycling Market Development Zone Program (RMDZ) and utilized restricted Recycling Fund budget to support marketing and site selection services for businesses purchasing recycled materials for production of products. With rising land costs and changes in the recycled materials market, limited program utilization and spending of the recycling budget has occurred which has been coupled with EWDD staff retirements and shifting of core services. EWDD has underspent the recycling fund allocation over the past two years and operationally would be better suited to be re-absorbed back to OPW for recycling program use. The funds are restricted and can only be used for recycling program support.
   • Equity Consideration: The transfer of funds back to OPW would allow additional funding resources into the recycling program that supports citywide efforts for recycling, litter control, and waste stream reduction.
2. Subsidizes Oakland Fire Department (OFD) Fire Inspectors personnel costs as a part of new Community Event Fee program.
   • Equity Consideration: OFD’s inspection fees can present a barrier to special event applicants and they restrict how far Measure C (Transportation Occupancy Tax) funds can go towards covering the City’s costs at City sponsored special events. Subsidizing a lower fire inspection fee for events that support historically marginalized communities will realize the City’s Cultural Plan of providing equitable opportunities for cultural expression.

Housing & Community Development

Enhancements 

Affordable Housing & Homelessness Solutions

1. Add $10M of Local Housing Trust Fund awards from CA Housing and Community Development (HCD), 5% of which are expected to be the City’s allocations for administration and staffing costs associated with project delivery and oversight. The non-administrative portion of the CA HCD funding award will be used to bolster funding available to fund restricted new construction affordable housing developments via the City’s Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) process. With this increased funding, approximately 60-75 additional affordable housing rental units with long-term affordability restrictions will be funded.
   • Equity Consideration: HCD’s NOFA process for funding affordable housing construction advances the City’s racial equity by facilitating the development of housing units serving low, very low, and extremely low-income households, many of whom are comprised of BIPOC household members who have disproportionately high rent burdens and are subject to displacement pressures. These affordable housing units have long-term affordability restrictions that keep them available as a community resource for fighting displacement pressures for a minimum of 55 years.
2. Add 1.0 FTE Legal Administrative Assistant and 1.0 FTE Management Assistant to provide legal and administrative support that are critical to the daily operations of the Rent Adjustment Program. Both positions are needed to provide better support to communities that have been negatively impacted by racial disparities. The addition of these positions ensures that the division will be able to continue to provide high level critical services to Landlords and Tenants to the City of Oakland.
   • Equity Consideration: Black residents are disproportionately affected by the pandemic and housing crisis and 8.14 times more likely to receive eviction notices than other renter-occupied housing units. Black residents also spend more than 30% of their annual income for rent, 1.67 more rent burden than white households. The services that the Rent Adjustment Program provide are critically important to the City's anti-displacement efforts.
3. Adds $1.75M to support legal services and/or anti-displacement interventions ($250,000 of which is to be used for direct rental assistance) for Oakland tenants, especially those at 30% and below the Area Median Income (AMI).
   • Equity Consideration: The majority of Oakland residents are tenants, and Oakland’s BIPOC communities are disproportionately tenants who are rent-burdened where more than 30% of their monthly income is spent on housing. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed great housing instability among tenants, with an estimated 30,000 tenants at risk of eviction. This money will support efforts to keep at-risk tenants housed beyond the federal Emergency Rental Assistance program that is expected to end summer 2022.
4. Add $425K for Legal Services for Prisoners with Children.
   • Equity Consideration: This is a council amendment approved at budget adoption and an equity statement was not developed for this item.
5. Adds $9.5M Homekey Round 3 grant funding for Permanent Local Housing Allocation (PLHA) Units for Oakland residents experiencing homelessness.
   • Equity Consideration: This is a council amendment approved at budget adoption and an equity statement was not developed for this item.

Planning & Building

Enhancements 

Good Jobs & Vibrant Economy

1. Replaces 2.0 FTE Planner I positions with 2.0 FTE Planner II positions via add/delete process and adds a 1.0 FTE Planner III position within the Bureau of Planning. Reclassifies 1.0 FTE Planner I to a Planner II to ensure there is sufficient staff capacity to complete the update of the General Plan and be able to continue working on the other Strategic Planning projects already in the pipeline (as well as any new projects from Council or other sources that will need to be worked on in the coming years). Reclassifies 1.0 FTE Planner I to a Planner II and adds one FTE Planner III to allow the division to meet the demand for processing zoning approvals and entitlements.
   • Equity Consideration: The Bureau of Planning advances the City’s racial equity objectives by prioritizing the review of affordable housing projects, providing the regulatory basis for impact fees, using Racial Equity Impact Assessments to assess proposed Planning Building Department (PBD) policies, and by offering increased opportunities for community engagement.
2. Adds a 1.0 FTE Management Assistant to serve as the Ombudsperson for the Planning and Building Department. The Management Assistant - Ombudsperson will support enhancements to PBDs customer service and support process improvement within PBD and across other City departments that issue permits.
   • Equity Consideration: The Ombudsperson position will advance the City’s racial equity objectives by having a point of contact the public can turn to address issues that may arise with a specific project, or to proactively assess the department’s forms, procedures, and services to see how they may become more accessible and transparent.
3. Adds 1.0 FTE Management Intern to the Development Planning Division. This position will be used to offset some of the administrative tasks performed by planners, which in turn will allow them to focus on more technical aspects of the planning application review. In addition, Historic Preservation is also within this Division, so this position will also support the Historic Preservation Planners who help to preserves the City’s multicultural history. Examples include the Oak Center Historic District and 7th Street Commercial Districts in West Oakland.
   • Equity Consideration: This new position will help provide administrative support throughout the division, including for new major affordable housing projects which are seeking Planning entitlements. Getting affordable housing projects through the development pipeline will increase available affordable housing for Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) residents who are disproportionately displaced.
4. Adds 3.0 FTE Office Assistant II positions and increases funding for temporary professional services by $15,000 for the Administrative Inspections Division. These additional resources are needed to increase PBD’s capacity to respond to blight and habitability complaints and to support the inspection of new construction in the City of Oakland.
   • Equity Consideration: The three Office Assistant IIs and additional $15,000 for temporary professional services will increase PBDs capacity to respond to housing habitability complaints which are occur more often in low-income and BIPOC communities in Oakland.
5. Adds 2.0 FTE Business Analyst II positions to the Digital Services Division. These additional staff will enable PBD to extend Accela software to other regulatory agencies within the City of Oakland, enhance the functionality of Accela and the Online Permit Center and to support the use of Matic software. This position will help to improve PBD’s data collection and reporting. In addition, this position will support the development of performance management systems in PBD so that PBD leadership can better assess the impact and delivery of its services.
   • Equity Consideration: PBD collects and manages most of its service-related data through the Accela database. The Accela system is not used to collect demographic information, but it can be used to map development activities, and therefore trends across the City. Data from Accela is used to prepare a number of reports that provide a snapshot of the City’s construction activities, these include the Mayor’s Housing Pipeline report, Housing Element Annual Progress Report (APR), Annual Impact Fee Report, and Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER). PBD also uses data maintained in Accela to produce periodic reports on its code enforcement activities. Additionally, PBD uses Census data combined with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analysis to understand where development is occurring and to begin to infer impacts from that development activity.
6. Adds 1.0 FTE Public Service Representative. This additional Public Service Representative provides customer service for the recently re-opened One Stop Permit Center.
   • Equity Consideration: The Public Service Representative will enhance customer service and service delivery as the City rebounds from the COVID-19 Pandemic and construction and development activity gradually increases. Walk-in services support people who have less access to on-line services and/or language barriers.
7. Adds funding for Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) development support staff to support Oakland homeowners through development and legalization of units.
   • Equity Consideration: This is a council amendment approved at budget adoption and an equity statement was not developed for this item.

Public Works

Enhancements

Clean, Healthy, & Sustainable Neighborhoods

1. Add 2.0 FTE Recycling Specialist to meet demands of new SB 1383 mandates, to review the expected large number of building permits for Construction and Demolition (C&D) debris recycling compliance, and to administer C&D Non-Exclusive Franchise (NEF) contracts.
   • Equity Consideration: Efficient processing of building permit applications for construction and demolition debris recycling facilitates timely completion of construction projects, including those for affordable housing, which would benefit the City’s Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) residents. Similarly, enhanced administration of the C&D NEF program has the potential to reduce illegal hauling and, therefore, dumping that primarily impacts the City’s flatlands and communities of color.
2. Add 1.0 FTE Environmental Enforcement Officer to conduct field inspections of C&D NEF contractors and to conduct enforcement as needed and 1.0 FTE Administrative Assistant II for Environmental Enforcement unit program support.
   • Equity Consideration: Enhanced administration of the C&D NEF program, by adding a field component, is anticipated to help reduce illegal hauling of C&D debris and, therefore, dumping that primarily impacts the City’s flatlands and communities of color, which if left unchecked, has the potential to grow as a problem with new SB 1383 mandates expected to increase the number of projects subject to C&D debris recycling requirements.
3. Add 2.0 FTE Project Manager and CIP Coordinator Assistant for Project & Grant Management Division; PAB & Capital Planning.
   • Equity Consideration: Project & Grant Management Division implements capital projects approved in the Capital Improvement Program approved by Council’s biennial budget and supports 9 City department/divisions in their preparation of projects submitted through the Equitable Capital Improvement Prioritization Process.
4. Allocate $477,382 from Brooklyn Basin budget for maintenance and 25% of capital reserves for Phase 1 of the Brooklyn Basin Community Facility District’s (CFD) (2015-1) newly constructed infrastructure (i.e., Township Commons Park, 9th Avenue Terminal Building, etc.). City to begin maintenance of assets starting January 1, 2023.
   • Equity Consideration: Funding dedicated to the maintenance and capital reserves within the CFD boundaries will benefit all City of Oakland residents. The addition of new open space parks including new trees in a community with 79.43% of people of color (as of January 20th, 2021) in that area, is aligned with the desired equity outcomes identified in the Oakland’s Equitable Climate Action Plan Racial Equity Impact Assessment.
5. Add $985,000 to enhance parks services to ensure parks and open spaces throughout the City are well maintained and safe. Public Works will add surveillance cameras to Joaquin Miller and Lakeside Park Corp Yard, install animal proof garbage cans, purchase a tub grinder to generate mulch, and contractual work for trail/brush clearance in open spaces.
   • Equity Consideration: Regional Parks in the City of Oakland are located in underserved areas. This funding will reduce the cost of lost and theft, improves public health and safety, and enhances the services provided to the community.
6. Add $300,000 for consultant services to plan for future Electric Vehicle (EV) Infrastructure needs and assess compliance for current and upcoming California Air Resource Board regulations beginning in 2024.
   • Equity Consideration: Equitable infrastructure considers the short-and long-term impacts for all City of Oakland residents’ well-being.
7. Adds 4.0 FTE Student Trainee to Facilities division. These are paid trainee positions designed to help Oakland youth interested in learning a skilled trade gain experience to advance their career. When positions are open for recruitment, they will have the skill set needed to competitively apply for positions.
   • Equity Consideration: This investment in Oakland’s diverse communities will increase racial equity for Oakland BIPOC communities by providing more effective engagement and opportunities to gain experience and knowledge by connecting them to a program to change their economic status.
8. Add $400K Peralta Services Corporation re-entry employment and training services.
   • Equity Consideration: This is a Council Amendment for a new grant added and approved during budget adoption an equity statement was not developed for this item.
9. Add $60,820 Lake Merritt Operations
   • Equity Consideration: This is a Council Amendment added and approved during budget adoption an equity statement was not developed for this item.

Transportation  

Enhancements 

Clean, Healthy, & Sustainable Neighborhoods

1. Add ADA Architecture/Physical Access Coordinator to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) team to bring much needed capacity to the City's existing ADA Programs Division, which has been severely understaffed for years (currently has only 2 out of 4 FTEs filled). This additional staff capacity will help bring the City into compliance with ADA regulations, improving access for all Oaklanders, especially Oaklanders with disabilities and/or who are seniors, while helping prevent future ADA lawsuits against the City.
   • Equity Consideration: Adding this position helps bring the City into compliance and will also increase access for people with disabilities and seniors who live, work, or visit Oakland. This position's work will result in tangible positive outcomes for people with disabilities and seniors, especially low-income people, people on fixed incomes with access needs, and those who are homeless or face becoming unhoused. Increasing access for people with disabilities and seniors also increases access for all Oaklanders, especially families with small children, people with temporary access needs, and older adults who wish to age in place in their community and not become displaced from Oakland. This position will help perform important ADA project reviews for physical access and conduct site evaluations to ensure ADA access is in accord with federal, state, and local requirements.
2. Increase staffing in engineering services, survey, and inspections team to address the backlog of plan review, map review, permit review, and inspections (cost recovery positions).
   • Equity Consideration: Increasing the capacity of the engineering services, survey, and inspections team will improve City services, code compliance, and project delivery, while also generating revenue. This will help Oakland Department of Transportation (Oak DOT) more proactively ensure safety within City Right of Way (ROW), which will benefit all Oaklanders, especially those who have more limited mobility options such as Oaklanders who are low-income, have disabilities, and/or are youth/seniors. This proposal also supports timely delivery of capital projects in priority neighborhoods. Revenue generated by this position may be budgeted to support other projects advancing equity throughout the City.
3. Fund a dedicated Public Information Officer (PIO) to serve the Department of Transportation (DOT) as its staffing and responsibilities continue to grow. Currently DOT and Oakland Public Works share one PIO.
   • Equity Consideration: The City of Oakland is an ethnically and culturally diverse City, which underscores the need for culturally relevant and multi-lingual public outreach and communications throughout the City. Doubling OakDOT's staff capacity dedicated to public information could be a tremendous opportunity to support more proactive, meaningful, and inclusive engagement with communities in high priority neighborhoods that have historically been excluded from public outreach efforts, lacking resources to go out of their way to seek engagement opportunities.
4. Add staff, merge Signals and Streets Lights, and integrate into the Safe Streets Division. This provides opportunities for cross training, efficiencies in budget and staffing. Adds 1.0 FTE Engineer, Transportation Supervisor, 1.0 FTE Electrical Engineer III (as Fiber Maintenance Position) and adds $50,000 in funding for on-call fiber support.
   • Equity Consideration: OakDOT's Electrical Division has been understaffed and has had vacancies for years. This has limited the City's ability to maintain, upgrade, and expand lighting assets throughout the City. Improved traffic signals as well as pedestrian-scale street lighting have been identified as priorities for many Oaklanders, especially BIPOC Oaklanders who live in priority neighborhoods, live or travel within the City's High Injury Network, and/or experience community violence. This budget proposal is intended to increase staff capacity to plan and implement new streetlight and signal projects.
5. Add funding for Intersection and Traffic Safety: Violence Prevention.
   • Equity Consideration: This is a council amendment approved at budget adoption and an equity statement was not developed for this item.

Good Jobs & Vibrant Economy

1. Add 1.0 FTE Accountant III to the fiscal team to support the timely processing of contract payments related to the delivery of capital projects, infrastructure improvements and maintenance. Add 1.0 FTE Management Assistant to Human Resource (HR) team to support human resource functions of OakDOT’s growing organization structure by providing comprehensive oversight of established personnel processes to recruit and fill OakDOT vacancies that provide direct service delivery of capital projects, infrastructure improvements and maintenance, equitable parking, mobility, and pedestrian safety programs.
   • Equity Consideration: Without additional support and capacity, the OakDOT HR team (and OakDOT, by extension) will continue to experience negative short- and long-term effects of understaffing. These hires are likely to have a direct positive equity effect since prior OakDOT hiring analyses have shown that the majority of OakDOT employees in HR and Admin-related job classifications identify as BIPOC; and indirectly have a positive equity impact since it supports adding capacity to deliver infrastructure and services to Oaklanders living in priority neighborhoods via capital projects, infrastructure improvements, and maintenance.
2. Unfreeze 1.0 FTE Senior Public Service Representative, 1.0 FTE Public Services Representative, 1.0 FTE Office Assistant II, 1.0 FTE Public Works Maintenance Worker, 1.0 FTE Parking and Mobility Division, and 1.0 FTE Administrative Assistant II. These positions in Parking Citations Assistance Center and Great Streets Maintenance unit were previously frozen due to financial impacts from the COVID-19 Health Emergency.
   • Equity Consideration: Unfreezing positions will increase internal staff capacity in the Parking Citations Assistance Center, Streets and Sidewalks maintenance, and the Parking and Mobility division to better serve Oaklanders, especially BIPOC Oaklanders who live in priority neighborhoods or live or travel within the City's High Injury Network.
3. Implements a realignment of positions to restructure the Parking Management Bureau Organization Chart to better align current needs. Adds 3.0 FTE Police Services Tech II to support Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT’s) at vehicle encampments, 1.0 FTE Parking Meter Repair Worker, 1.0 FTE Program Analyst III and 1.0 FTE Public Service. Unfreezes 1.0 FTE Public Service Representative, Senior Effective January 1, 2023. Deletes 1.0 FTE Cashier, 1.0 FTE Revenue Operations Supervisor, and 1.0 FTE Administrative Assistant. These staffing additions, deletions, and upgrades will support the transfer of traffic, transportation, and vehicle related functions to the Department of Transportation from the Police Department and the Parking Citation Assistance Center from the Finance Department, a recommendation of the Reimagining Public Safety Taskforce. The deletions are in work areas that are redundant and are offset by staff additions. It also adds capacity to the Parking Enforcement team, which will help to monitor new parking meters while generating revenue for the general fund. Additional staff will also be added to help address the growing number of cases of vehicle encampments in a humane manner.
   • Equity Consideration: These staffing changes help fulfill a recommendation of the Reimagining Public Safety Task Force and help to consolidate these related functions within DOT and increase operational efficiency and customer service capacity. Improved customer service will be available to better assist low-income Oaklanders who have a more difficult time paying their citations or must pay in-person due to lack of credit or internet access.

Reductions

Good Jobs & Vibrant Economy

1. Freeze one vacant Parking Meter Collector position due to decreased demand for coin collection.
   • Equity Consideration: By eliminating this position of low need, resources are freed up and may be re-directed to better serve underserved communities.

Non-Departmental

Enhancements

Other Impacts And Changes

1. Repay Over $21M in Longstanding Negative Balances in City Funds.
   • Equity Consideration: No impact.
2. Adds $11.5M in new funding from Measure AA to be dedicated to providing additional services in two respective areas: early childhood education and college readiness. These two areas are pre-determined from the ballot language of the Measure AA.
   • Equity Consideration: BIPOC children in Oakland have less access to quality preschool programming as well as services that prepare them for college. These new funds will help to close that disparity.
3. Adds $2.5M in position and O&M funding from the Development Services Fund (2415) for the Permit Center One-Stop Shop.
4. Adds $150,000 for Black New Deal Reparations Equity Impact Analysis.
   • Equity Consideration: This is a council amendment approved at budget adoption and an equity statement was not developed for this item.
5. Adds $7.1M for Labor MOUs.
   • Equity Consideration: Invests in the City's diverse workforce to keep wages competitive and implements equity adjustments to bring select classifications closer to market average.