CITY of OAKLAND
CITY HALL 1 FRANK H. OGAWA PLAZA, 3rd FLOOR
CALIFORNIA 94612
OAKLAND,
Office of the Mayor
Flonorable Libby Schaaf
Mayor
(510) 238-3141
Fax (510) 238-4731
Letter of Appointment
April 5, 2022
The Honorable City Council
One Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Second Floor
Oakland, CA 94612
Dear President Bas and members of the City Council:
Pursuant to City Charter Section 601, the Mayor has appointed the following persons as members of the following board or commission, subject to City Council confirmation:
Public Safety and Services Oversight Commission
Billy Dixon, to the Public Safety and Services Violence Prevention Oversight Commission, serving as the District Seven representative for the term beginning April 21,2022 and ending April 20, 2024, filling the seat previously held by himself.
Paula Hawthorn, to the Public Safety and Services Violence Prevention Oversight Commission, serving as the District Three representative for the term beginning April 21,2022 and ending April 20, 2024, filling the seat previously held by herself.
Beth H. Hodess, to the Public Safety and Services Violence Prevention Oversight Commission, serving as the at Large representative for the term beginning April 21, 2022 and ending April 20, 2024, filling the seat previously held by herself.
Sydney Thomas, to the Public Safety and Services Violence Prevention Oversight Commission, serving as the District 1 representative for the term beginning April 21 2022 and ending April 20, 2024, filling the seat previously held by herself.
Thank you for your assistance in this matter.
Sincerely,
City of Oakland Boards & Commissions Submit Date: Jan 24, 2022 Profile
Billy G Dixon
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Street Address Suite or Apt
Oakland CA 94603
City State Postal Code
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Retired
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Public Safety & Services Violence Prevention Oversight Commissions - 2014: Submitted Interests & Experiences
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It’s born and raised in Oakland. I attended and graduated from the McClymonds High School. I served 4 years in the U.S. Navy and was honorably discharged as a Interior Communication Electrician Petty Officer Third Class. I retired after 28 1/2 years from the Santa Clara County Sheriffs Office as a Correctional Officer, i am currently the Senior Pastor of At Thy Word Christian Center Church Of God In Christ. I was a borax member for Oakland Community Organization (Now Faith in Action). I been working with ceasefire since 2012 and was part of organizing the Night and Day walks. I also have been the community partner along side OPD at the ceasefire call-ins. I have been on several custom notification in working with ceasefire. As a Deputy Correctional Jail Training Officer have helped to write policy involving working with in custody mental health patients. I was the Classification Officer in charge of interviewing and placing people that were in custody into programs to give them a better opportunity when they returned home. I’m currently the Superintendent of The San Francisco Bay Area District. I have the responsibility to help Pastors from 4 other church to meet their goals and objects. I was the Youth President of California Northwest Jurisdiction. California Northwest Jurisdiction is from Weed to Bakersfield California and consisted of 85 churches. I was in charge of organizing and training youth leaders and young people. I started programs and held conventions consisting of hundred of young people. I also held appointed position in our national churc The Church of God In Christ is 5 millions strong in overv70 countries. My participation would bring a pair eyes would look for the question would this work in Oakland.
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Paula Hawthorn
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Oakland CA 94618
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Current member of the CPAB, term expiring
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Present Mostly retired; on occasionlndependent Consultant Consulting with early-stage companies onsoftwarearchitecturalanddevelopmentprocess issues.
Fall, 1999 Visiting Lecturer, EECS, UC Berkeley
Taught CS 186, the undergraduate database course.
1997-1998 Vice President, Product Development, Andromedia, Inc Andromedia was a click-stream analysis start-up. Managed the development, support, QA, IT, documentation and product management groups..
1996-1997 Vice President, R&D: Tools, Informix
Managed the Palo Alto tools group, who were responsible forthe Informix Tools set:
NewEra, Java development tools, and Visual Basic developmenttools; the Lenexa, Kansas, Database Utilities group; and the Oakland DataBIades group 1992-1996 Vice President, Product Development and Support, Illustra One of the founders of Illustra. Staffed and managed product development, QA, documentation, intemaltraining, IT and support groups. Grew these groups from 9 to 140 people. Illustra was acquired by Informix, and the groups were merged with the appropriate Informix groups. Illustra won “product of the year” awards, was well-recognized asan innovative, technically successful database product, and the team was recognized as a team of super-stars.
1991-1992 Manager, Distributed Operating Systems Dep artment, Hewlett-Packard Labs Department responsible for three projects: Performance Evaluation, LAN-based parallel systems, and tightly-connected parallel systems. Responsibilities included helping devise HP’s OS strategy.
1989-1991 Member of Technical Staff, Research Projects Group, Hewlett-Packard Responsible forfinding university research that directly benefited HP product divisions, funding that research, and assuring its transferto HP product divisions 1984-1989 Vice President, Software Engineering, Britton Lee/ShareBase, Inc (8 7-89) ShareBase (name changed from Britton Lee, 5/89) was a manufacturer of integrated hardware/software database machines.
Director, Advanced Development, Britton Lee/ShareBase (84-87) Managed the Server/300 product, including all hardware, software and packaging.
Fall, 1988 Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley
Concurrent with above, taught the undergraduate database course. 1983-1984 Manager, Database Systems, Hewlett-Packard
Managed the HP people porting a DBMS to two HP operating systems 1980-1983 Assistant Director, Computer Science and Mathematics Department, Lawrence Berkeley
Lab
Coordinated research applications with funding agents. Managed the LBL/Darpa Seismic Data Centerproject. Research in Database Machines.
1979-1980 Software Development, Britton Lee
One of the nine original employees of Britton Lee
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PhD, BECS, UC Berkeley
Thesis topic: performance evaluation of database machines. Advisor: Michael Stonebraker 1979
MS, Computer Science, University of Houston
Thesis Topic: performance evaluation of a CDC 6600
1974
1966 BS, Mathematics, University of Houston
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Member, National Academy of Science panel on Voter Registration Databases http://www8.nationalacademies.org/cp/CommitteeView.aspx?kev=48805 Co-author, ACM Study on Statewide Voter Registration Databases http://usacm.acm.or^usacm/VRD/
Member, ACM President’s Panel on Software Engineering
Co-Founder, UCB College of Engineering Reentry Program, UC Berkeley 1996UC Berkeley Distinguished Alumnus Award
1996 Women in Computing Top 100 Women Award
Member, ACM Committee on US Policy (USACM)
Member ofProgram Committee, 1998 VLDB, and several previous Member of Program Committee, 1998ICSE.
Member, UC Berkeley EECS Department Industrial Advisory Board, 1992-1999 Vice-Chair, ACM Special Interest Group on the Management of Data, 1985-1989.
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Beth H Hodess
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Email Address
OnPoint Legal Counsel, PC
Street Address Suite or Apt
Emeryville CA 94662
City State Postal Code
Mobile. Business:
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OnPoint Legal Counsel, PC President/CEO - Attorney
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I am a tax attorney whose practice focuses on the intersection of tax controversy and tax policy, a member of the Alameda County Assessment Appeals Board, and a community activist. I am eager to serve on a commission charged with overseeing the use of parcel tax and parking tax revenues to a program that applies a racial equity framework to inform violence reduction priorities across all departments toward a more comprehensive citywide strategic approach to public safety and violence prevention.
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Sydney Thomas
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Oakland CA 94609
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Precursor Ventures Sr. Associate
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I am a resident and homeowner in Oakland who cares deeply about my community. I started my career in New York City working in the Bloomberg administration to support initiatives that helped low-income New Yorkers increase their access to wealth creation opportunities and better education. Since moving to the bay area, I've transitioned careers into finance, but my excitement about the impact of the public sector remains. Through one of these boards, I hope to deepen my engagement in my community and ensure that the most underprivileged are safe and have shelter.
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APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY
CITY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE
OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL
RESOLUTION NO. C.M.S.
INTRODUCED BY MAYOR LIBBY SCHAAF
RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE MAYOR’S REAPPOINTMENT OF
BILLY DICKSON, PAULA HAWTHORN, BETH H. HODESS AND
SYDNEY THOMAS AS MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY AND
SERVICES VIOLENCE PREVENTION OVERSIGHT COMMISSION
WHEREAS, Section 601 of the City Charter provides that members of City boards and commissions shall be appointed by the Mayor subject to confirmation by the affirmative vote of five members of the City Council; and
WHEREAS, the 2014 Oakland Public Safety and Services Violence Prevention Act (the “Safety and Services Act”) adopted by the voters of Oakland, November 4, 2014 in the General Municipal Election creates the Public Safety and Services Violence Prevention Oversight Commission to evaluate, inquire, and review the administration, coordination, and evaluation of strategies and practices mandated by the Safety and Services Act; and WHEREAS, the Safety and Act specifies that the Public Safety and Services Violence Prevention Oversight Commission shall consist of nine (9) members, one member recommended by the Mayor and one member recommended by each City Council member, with all Commission members being appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the City Council in accordance with City Charter Section 601; and
WHEREAS, the Safety and Services Act specifies that at least two (2) members will have experience working with service-eligible populations, two (2) members will reflect the service- eligible populations, and two (2) members will have professional law enforcement or criminal justice background while all other members will have general experience in criminal justice, public health, social services, research and evaluation, finance, audits, and/or public policy; and WHEREAS, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 13303 C.M.S. establishing that Public Safety and Services Oversight Commission members serve two-year terms, and no more than three consecutive terms; now therefore be it
RESOLVED: That pursuant to City Charter Section 601, the City Council hereby confirms the Mayor’s reappointment of:
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Billy Dixon, to the Public Safety and Services Violence Prevention Oversight Commission, serving as the District Seven representative for the term beginning April 21,2022 and ending April 20, 2024, filling the seat previously held by himself.
Paula Hawthorn, to the Public Safety and Services Violence Prevention Oversight Commission, serving as the District Three representative for the term beginning April 21,2022 and ending April 20,2024, filling the seat previously held by herself.
Beth H. Hodess, to the Public Safety and Services Violence Prevention Oversight Commission, serving as the at Large representative for the term beginning April 21, 2022 and ending April 20, 2024, filling the seat previously held by herself.
Sydney Thomas, to the Public Safety and Services Violence Prevention Oversight Commission, serving as the District 1 representative for the term beginning April 21, 2022 and ending April 20, 2024, filling the seat previously held by herself.
IN COUNCIL, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA,
PASSED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
AYES - FIFE, GALLO, KALB, KAPLAN, REID, TAYLOR, THAO AND
PRESIDENT FORTUNATO BAS
NOES-
ABSENT -
ABSTENTION -
ATTEST:
ASHA REED
City Clerk and Clerk of the Council of the
City of Oakland, California
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