APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY
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CITY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE
OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL
RESOLUTION NO.______________ C.M.S.
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR TO ADD
TWO 1.0 FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT CASE MANAGER I POSITIONS
AND ONE 1.0 FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT PROGRAM ANALYST I
POSITION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF VIOLENCE PREVENTION FOR
THE PERIOD OF APRIL 1, 2024, TO JUNE 30, 2025, USING FUNDING
FROM A CALIFORNIA VIOLENCE INTERVENTION AND
PREVENTION GRANT ACCEPTED BY THE CITY IN JULY 2022
THROUGH RESOLUTION NO. 89367 C.M.S.
WHEREAS, there were 118 homicides and 1,537 shootings with injury in Oakland in 2023; and
WHEREAS, the City of Oakland’s Department of Violence Prevention (DVP) provides intensive life coaching and violence interruption services to individuals involved in group violence in order to prevent future violence; and
WHEREAS, the City of Oakland applied for and received a grant from the Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) through Cohort 4 of the California Violence Intervention and Prevention (CalVIP) grant program in the amount of Five Million Nine Hundred Ninety-Nine Thousand Nine Hundred Forty-Eight Dollars ($5,999,948) for the period of July 1, 2022, to December 31, 2025, to focus services and resources on individuals who are most likely to be victims or perpetrators of gun violence in the near term (Resolution No. 89367 C.M.S.); and
WHEREAS, the City of Oakland’s Cohort 4 CalVIP grant included funding for six full- time Case Manager I positions within the DVP to deliver life coaching services to group- affiliated individuals; and
WHEREAS, the BSCC approved a budget modification submitted by the DVP in March 2024 to repurpose CalVIP Cohort 4 grant savings to fund two 1.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) Case Manager I positions and one 1.0 FTE Program Analyst I position for the period of April 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025, to increase the DVP’s capacity to deliver effective and coordinated services to individuals who are most likely to be victims or perpetrators of gun violence in the near term; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED: That the City Administrator is authorized to add two 1.0 FTE Case Manager I positions and one 1.0 FTE Program Analyst I position to the DVP for the period of April 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025.
IN COUNCIL, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, PASSED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE: AYES - FIFE, GALLO, JENKINS, KALB, KAPLAN, RAMACHANDRAN, REID, 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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