Im noelle bellow and im grant lotus in just 90 minutes from now, the Oakland Police commission will host a forum where for police chief candidates chosen by the commission will field questions from the community. However, the mayor says this is not creating an environment to get the best candidates and she hopes the change. To change the process before the end of the year. Kron fours dan kerman reports. Hours before these 4 police chief candidates face public questions at a Police Commission sponsored Community Forum. Mayor sheng thao made one thing clear. These 4 candidates, theyre not the finalists. Actually, theyre going through this forum where they publicly announced all of the names, the potentials and then i dont know out of the 4. I dont get a say. At some point after thursdays forum, the Police Commission will give the mayor a list of at least 3 finalists. And then from that 3 list, i can then did michael interviews. I can didnt do my one on ones and pick from those 3 and the
Overturn the denial of the Building Permit and approve them with a scope of work that was approved by the variance because if you approved it for a larger scope of work that would not make sense because the variance would have been approved already for that limited scope of work. So essentially if the variance is upheld tonight a maximum extent is locked in. And if the variance is denied tonight, then well see them in another year when they come back they would have an option so the city charter allows, basically if you have a project disapproved, you can, one year later, basically apply for essentially the same project. Or change the project, yeah. Yeah, and right now, youd have to change it in a way that would be significantly different from the original project. You cant tweak the project and say its a different project. It has to be a significantly different project. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioners the matters submitted. Variance commentator. Because i always comment . Ex
Maybe one meeting didnt happen so it looks like our schedule is slipping so do outreach to the public so let them know the meeting and whatevers happening in january, february and march. Commissioner thank you. The next item . The clerk item nine, announcements and items for discussion. Commissioner commissioners, any announcements . Public comment on no announcements . Hearing none, next item. The clerk the next item is new business and future agenda items. The speaker is valdez and the document is the 2018 push on the environment meeting schedule the item is for discussion and possible action. Commissioner is this any discussion on item 10 . The commission on the environment . The calendar for next year . The clerk in your pack eth packet for the 2018 meeting. The next Commission Meeting is january 23, 2018. The focus will be on the 100 and the citys routes and having the city powered by Renewable Energy and well have local guests to discuss projects on energy if, and zero Mission Ve
That they were wanting to push it the Commission Secretary recommended if we did continue in december that december 21st be the day but well deliberate so if you have concerns on dates nows the time to tell us. Well, thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners. Im lisa aubrey. Im with affordable divis. And it was proposed to a continuance to today which got unanimous approval from this commission. However, the item is not on todays agenda. Not even under the continuance calendar. Affordable divis has asked many time to be included in mote no notifications and here to ask again, please, how is the public going to follow when the process is not transparent . Since the agenda was not posted until the friday after thanksgiving we had to contact the planner for this project to find out the new date and he was unable to confirm the new date until this past monday. We request that the item be placed on the continuance calendar on december 14 so that proper notice
Very sad to hear this news and hope that bryant is back with us soon. We will let people know about donations and Memorial Services and stuff like that. Our condolences. Can we have a roll call . roll call Vice President thomas the first item of business is general Public Comment. Members of the public may address the commission on items not on our agenda today. Is there anyone who would like to make Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. The second item, approval of meeting minutes, approving the minutes of the january 16th meeting. Are there any corrections or edits, comments from commissioners . I love to approve. Vice president thomas is there a second . Second. Vice president thomas the motion is made and seconded. Can we have a vote, please . Clerk voting. Vice president thomas the minutes are approved. Item three report from the acting director. Thank you. Hello commissioners, good evening. We have a very similar acting director update for this week as we had at