Reducing the Oakland Police departments budget by 50 . A first of its kind for stress in the workplace for e. R. Doctors. What it says about bay area physicians and beyond. Confrontation over mask wearing at a walmart that has gone viral. Ill show you the changes that well follow in time for the weekend. Abc7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Document a marathon evening of Decision Making in oakland including plans to slash the Police Departments budget in half. It comes on the sail day the mayors home was vandalized. What role enforcement plays in our community is our focus on building a better bay area. Live from the newsroom, Tonights City Council meeting is still going on right now in. Thats right, ama and dan. It started at 1 30 this afternoon and its still going on right now. Now some of the big headlines, move the handling of special events to the administrators office. And creating a task force that they said would reimagine public safety. Councilmember taylor said there would be
Office. And creating a task force that they said would reimagine public safety. Councilmember taylor said there would be a 15member Task Force Made of nominees that come from each district of oakland. Theyre also open to having youth members be a part of the team. Next week they will vote on this task force. Before these items were decided, Public Comments stretched on for nearly three hours. Defund the opd by an additional 1. 4 million this year and form a task force which must be led by the most impacted Community Members . I was really appalled. Defund opd was the main message from speakers. Those exact words were graffitied on mayor schaafs house overnight. Police are calling it an act of vandalism. This statement, this attack designed to intimidate the mayor and strike fear into her family will not stop her from advocating for the policies she believes are in the best longterm interests of her beloved home town. We will keep you updated on the other items that were discussed at th
Stay longer than than the shortterm rentals that have past 90 days the option is still vail with a 90 day cap we have the Planning Department Ann Marie Rogers who is here to talk about how we currently apply the cu for folks who want to have a bedandbreakfast type of business in their home how often we actually approve and what are the rare instances we dont sea the types of conditions where the Planning Department didnt approve the cued. Thank you skoopz Planning Department currently before the Residential District other than the rh1 d you can seek the authorizations to become a hotel this is subject to the requirement the dwelling the process can take time but the quickest the is probably about 4 months with the anytime fee for a conditional use authorization is less than 2,000 despite the complaints weve received for shortterm rentals informing people the process most people dont choose to pursue that that i abate the violation we had one that was approved at the Planning Commission
Wide universe of Small Business owners who have not evicted anyone at all so thats where the southern i have in terms of the Hotel Conversion ordinance the sros see those sros as i understand are typically opposed their Large Properties typically those are significant Property Owners those are Business People this applies to any building of 3 units or more in other words, a lot of smopdz that live at that tha in their building to subject the homeowners to hire an attorney and potentially pay the oddss foes and subjecting the sros to that kind of liability and in terms of litigation and i you know, i before being elected to the board i spent 15 years as a litter our doing trillion work for almost a decade as the City Attorneys Office and prior practice so i spent a lot of time in court and dealing with the attorneys fees two things number one there are it is not uncommon at all for courts to award Attorney Fees bans small judgements and violations of the law that were not extraordinaril
By the way, this is not going to happen this amendment will not architectural gate that further but provide the opportunity for a narrow group of both targeted xochlt and also nonprofit organizations and i know that the amendment to make sure it the nonprofit in existence for six years helped to secure the universe of actors that will be able to take advantage of this amendment and i think we know who a lot of those actors are and we have seen very responsible litigation that goes against our worse actors and finally, i would say that you know, i really struggled a lot with this legislation not because i didnt want to legalize shortterm rentals but everyone agrees that legalizing shortterm rentals is the right direction for the city and if i dont i think as supervisor wiener said the jean i didnt say out of the bottle we have to regulate this my concern is also been about b be the cities enforcement of the legislation to make sure were supporting the positive activity out of shortterm