border-bottom: 1px solid grey; She also taught at Edna Brewer Middle School this summer, and the food was consistent there as it was at the middle school I went to, I forget its name, where I made a big noise about the food quality. Official website. People love that stuff. var t = '125522'; My partner teaches at Castlemont with children on the spectrum in special ed. We did not find any criminal cases involving any other candidates running for mayor this year. San Francisco doesnt deal with that. [Editors note: according to Edsource, The cost of housing in Oakland and the Bay Area is among the highest in the state, and Oaklands salary scale, as of 2020-21, was among the lowest in Alameda County, from $50,600 for new teachers to $95,000 for the highest-paid veterans.] How do you fix that? } Round 8 Weve got some City of Dodge stuff going on in Oakland and once again theres escape-avoidance behavior and normalcy bias. Check out Bay Area safety tracker, Tracking the drought: Map shows conditions across SF Bay Area, Bay Area Life; Sundays at 6:30 p.m. on ABC7, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf wins re-election. } letter-spacing: .04em; } padding-left: 16px; $("#round640055b707964").change(function(){ @nikki4oakland. background-color: green; } Elections 2022 See also: Mayoral election in Oakland, California (2022) General election General election for Mayor of Oakland Select round: The ranked-choice voting election was won by Sheng Thao in round 9 . We amplify community voices, share information resources, and investigate systems, not just symptoms. .widget-img { } } var ex_votes = t - abcde[l].votes; } font-size: 12px; The officers made contact with Scott and noticed the handle of a firearm sticking out of his vest pocket. Check the latest city audit that shows $69 million was spent on housing people, and [the city didnt] track any of that. }) width: 100%; Because thats criminal. This is an illegal encampment under the Encampment Management Policy. The other day you also connected the first fire on 35th Avenue to homeless camps within minutes of the fire. I bike. background: #4c4c4c; } color: white; We need 900. background-color: #f9f9f9; jQuery(item).html("Scroll for more "); Second, we need more California Highway Patrol. Thats not just wasted food, its wasted energy used to produce that food and ship that food and wasted fertilizer thats often petroleum-based. font-weight: 300; .widget-row.heading { RELATED: Activist Seneca Scott announces run for Oakland mayor "We have to be innovative with different designs, different models. Federal courts | var ex_votes = t - abcde[this.value].votes; When you talk about waste, 40-50% of our food ends up in there. The man told the officers that he and another person had been confronted on the sidewalk by a third person, Scott, who had brandished a handgun at them, according to a police report. It has to be about things connecting us, and I think an investment in that is paramount right now. Round 7 .contact_entity {font-size: 1.0em ;margin-top: 0.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-right: 0.5em;} top: 0px; He graduated from Oakland High in 1998. He negotiated contracts for city . We know that public schools in Oakland are run by the Oakland Unified School District and charter school organizations, but Mayor Libby Schaaf has made education a big component of her tenure, spearheading efforts like Oakland Undivided, Oakland Promise, and the Oakland Teacher Residency Program. font-size: 1.2em; } width: 150px; A co-founder of local entertainment company OakHella, which distanced itself from Scott this past weekend, and co-founder of Bottoms Up community garden, which is where the alleged incident with the gun occurred, Scott ran for the District 3 City Council seat in 2020 and came in third with 7% of the vote. Because some would argue that since the police department consumes more than 40% of the citys general fund, theres not enough money left over for root-cause programs. top: 2px; A donation to The Oaklandside goes beyond the newsroom. }) $('.hideResponses').show();
@media screen and (max-width: 411px) { } .results_table { Why would you invest in a city that is closed to business when everyone else is not? } Would expanding affordable housing in Oakland be a goal of yours? We have a need for the arts. } When contacted by The Oaklandside today, Scott provided the following written statement: Early evening on October 30, 2021, just hours after one of my immediate neighbors was shot in the face in his home while holding his infant, and still processing those emotions, I had received a report that two men were inside our community garden attempting to steal our water heater. Are there any accountability measures involved? } The issue is, are you a good neighbor, or are you not? }) .rcvrace_header { goto senecascottforoaklandmayor2022.com 12 months ago . Los Angeles doesnt deal with that. .key-messages li {margin-bottom: 10px;} (KGO) -- Community activist Seneca Scott is the founder of grass roots organization that sued the City of Oakland over its homelessness policies. So what do you do in that case if someone doesnt want the services? } According to a 2020 USA Today analysis of U.S. cities with a population of 65,000 and above, Oakland has 235 law enforcement employees (officers and civilian staff) per every 100,000 residents (ranking it 176th highest out of 634 cities), and Oaklands violent crime rate was 19th highest out of all these cities.]. So just to be clear, are you saying you feel like the police department financially hasnt been supported enough, and you would provide more support? But at the end of the day, these are private investments. padding:7px 8px 8px; And I love that we now have grants for people to have block parties. margin-top: 1em; text-align: center; $('.collapse').collapse('show'); If you go back to that report, the footage of people shooting up vehicles with assault rifles and setting them on fire, my neighbors sent me that. margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0; .rcvrace_header.Republican { Oakland spends a few million dollars a year on arts and culture through the city budget. letter-spacing: .04em; display: block; What role should the mayor play in public education issues? Cutting the arts to Oaklands high schools is a reason why youre creating a new root cause every day, where you lose your children, right, who dont have anything to do to express themselves, and they start to express themselves in ways that are unhealthy and desperate cries for help. Current mayor Elizabeth Schaaf is terming out. I want to have a department of agriculture. Mayor Ignacio De La Fuente, fmr Oakland councilmember Gregory Hodge, attorney Tyron Jordan, fmr library commissioner Peter Liu Treva Reid, councilmember, Oakland John Reimann Seneca Scott Loren Taylor, councilmember, Oakland Sheng Thao, councilmember, Oakland Allyssa Victory Villanueva, attorney. We need to follow that encampment policy. BondGraham's work has also appeared with KQED, ProPublica and other leading national and local outlets. Arts is the fabric of quality of life. if(document.getElementsByClassName("reference").length==0) if(document.getElementById('Footnotes')!==null) document.getElementById('Footnotes').parentNode.style.display = 'none'; What's on my ballot? It was a unanimous vote from City Council. It was due to a lack of traffic-calming measures as well as a lack of community support because we had options in Emeryville. color: white; if (typeof $ != 'undefined') { There have been 320 firearms assaults and just over 1,800 robberies this year. } You make it a union project, it [a CEQA objection] goes away. What kind of crap is that? overflow-y: hidden; .results_row td:first-child { text-align: center; .widget-row.Independent, .widget-row.Nonpartisan, .widget-row.Constitution { During that campaign, he told The Oaklandside he felt OPDs budget was too bloated and that some neighborhoods are over-policed, but he also said he feels there isnt enough enforcement of laws in the city. font-size: .9em; Your support is powering our newsroom! .widget-key { How would they help the City Council and the city administration work together better? OPD also already uses license plate reader cameras, although the Privacy Commission has expressed concerns about the departments failure to hand over records showing how theyve used this technology.]. } And right now, unless those policies are supported by a majority of the City Council, the answer is no. Should the city be funding the arts directly? We need to finish the job on that. background-color: white; And there are some other reasons too that I believe are speculative that I wont mention. But to this day the fire department has not determined a cause, and in fact, the second fire was arson unrelated to homeless camps. font-weight: bold; Im a rather poor person, actually. } Were hearing that you would address root causes, but you also just spent a long time talking about allowing the police to use surveillance and arrest a bunch of people. } $('.hideResponses').hide(); But the problems are back. The reporters and editors on The Oaklandside are dedicated to sharing the mic, reporting on systems, not symptoms, and providing you with the information you need to be an informed resident of our city. And we need to stop playing games with the CEQA. .electionsectionheading { It was performative. Seneca Scott is the founder and CEO of Bay Area Nonprofit, Neighbors Together Oakland and is currently a candidate for Oakland Mayor. margin-bottom: 4px; If youre not at the farmers market, you lose up to 30% of the nutritionin even the highest quality produce you buy in a Whole Foods or Berkeley Bowljust due to the time that [produce has] been off the vine or uprooted. Weve shown that. When you have an independent office of the controller has a say in how the city is spending money. Incumbents are bolded and underlined. font-size: 0.9em; Oakland mayoral candidates, from left to right: Ignacio De La Fuente, Treva Reid, Gregory Hodge, Loren Taylor, Allyssa Victory Villanueva, Sheng Thao, Seneca Scott, and Peter Liu. padding-bottom: 8px; $("#round640055b6cc5e4").change(function(){ Polls closed in the state at 8 p.m. local time, or 11 p.m. EST. margin-right: 12px; Right? Its [the citys] job to provide services that are not arbitrary and capricious. } }) Where will the funding come from? Im a member of Safe 8th Street, where we used speed trap cameras to get roundabouts, which everyone thought was impossible, but Tim Courtney [an 8th Street resident] is such a badass; he made it happen because he was relentless in his advocacy for traffic calming measures. That does harm to both the housed who are expecting the problem to go away and the unhoused people who are in fear of eviction and losing their stuff every single month. Credit: Amir Aziz. font-weight: bold; Market rate. z-index:100; Explain your thinking on the issue of police staffing. } I would say, has anyone reported the frequency of dead bodies found in homeless encampments when they abate them? Despite the Silesian Voivodeship's name, most of the historic . .image-candidate-thumbnail-wrapper .image-candidate-thumbnail { Co-founder of OAKHELLA and Bottoms Up Community Garden. According to Scott, they were attempting to steal a water heater from a community garden he manages. .non_result_row th { .widget-row.Green { .indicate_scroll { color: white; 279 likes. Union organizer and negotiator. }) Im on the Oakland Builders Alliance board. padding-bottom: 5px; .race_header.democratic { Phase one is clean it up and start working with local neighbors and businesses, and the unhoused. height: 56px; font-weight: bold; True, he'd run for City Council two years previously, but lost, and in the intervening period Seneca had very little public visibility. .rcvrace_header.Libertarian { In phase one, we send the Urban Compassion Project and other light-hearted organizations that arent going to waste money and know how to account for it, who have a work plan and accountability structures with the city with the money were paying them. All they do is prey on poor people for their licenses [and] tags to keep the cycle of poverty going. .votebox-results-metadata-p { Silesian Voivodeship, or Silesia Province [3] ( Polish: wojewdztwo lskie [vjvutstf lsk]) is a voivodeship, or province, in southern Poland, centered on the historic region known as Upper Silesia ( Grny lsk ), with Katowice serving as its capital. $('.hideResponses').on('click', () => { People crash into people at taco trucks and stuff. Seneca Scott: An Appreciation When Seneca Scott announced for Mayor, few Oaklanders had ever heard of him. padding-bottom: 8px; } .panel-heading:hover { cursor: pointer;} We waste money in Oakland. We have a need for third spaces. .electionsectionheading { The amount of footage and stuff I get from neighbors would shock you. $('.showResponses').hide(); We need to set things up so we can have healthy communications between these departments. 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