APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY
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CITY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE
OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL
RESOLUTION NO. ______________ C.M.S.
INTRODUCED BY MAYOR BARBARA LEE, COUNCILMEMBER
RAMACHANDRAN, AND COUNCILMEMBER WANG
RESOLUTION CONFIRMING MAYOR BARBARA LEE’S
APPOINTMENT OF DOUG WONG TO SERVE ON THE OAKLAND
POLICE COMMISSION AS THE MAYOR'S ALTERNATE APPOINTEE
WHEREAS, City Charter Section 604 establishes a seven-member Police Commission to ensure that the Oakland Police Department's policies, practices, and customs conform to national standards of constitutional policing; and
WHEREAS, City Charter Section 604(c)(2) requires the Mayor to appoint three Oakland residents as regular members to the Police Commission and one Oakland resident as an alternate member and provides that the Mayor shall fill any Commission vacancies that were prev iously filled by a Mayor's appointee; and
WHEREAS, City Charter Section 604(c)(3) established a nine-member Selection Panel to select candidates for the remaining four positions on the Police Commission, and
WHEREAS, City Charter Section 604(c) provides that the term for each Regular and Alternate Commissioner shall be three years and Commissioners are limited to two conse cutive terms, except that a Commissioner serving a term of less than one year shall be allowed to serve two additional consecutive terms; and
WHEREAS, City Charter Section 604(c)(2) provides City Council shall accept or reject the Mayor's appointments to the Police Commission; now therefore, be it
2 RESOLVED: That pursuant to City Charter section 604(c)(2), the City Council hereby accepts the Mayor's appointment of Doug Wong to serve as an alternate member of the Police Commission for a term beginning October 17, 2023 and ending on October 16, 2026, filling the seat formerly held by Karely Ordaz.
IN COUNCIL, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA,
PASSED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
AYES - BROWN, FIFE, GALLO, HOUSTON, RAMACHANDRAN, UNGER, WANG, AND
PRESIDENT JENKINS
NOES –
ABSENT –
ABSTENTION –
ATTEST:
ASHA REED
City Clerk and Clerk of the Council of the
City of Oakland, California
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