Attachment D FY 2024-25 Policy Directive
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1 Direct the City Administrator to explore a quarter and half-cent sales tax increase for either a special election or the 2026 general election, including the potential
dollar amount such a tax could raise. The results of
these findings should be presented at a Finance and
Management Committee meeting no later than March
2025. (CM Jenkins)
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CAO/Finance Complete The half-cent sales tax increase is on the April Special Election ballot.
2* Direct the City Administrator to develop alternatives for the City Council to achieve full implementation of
a fully funded Democracy Dollars program by 2028.
The plan should include recommendations for a
sustainable funding mechanism to ensure the
program's ongoing success. If the analysis fails to
identify a suitable funding formula, the City
Administrator should present options to either scale
back the Democracy Dollars program or propose an
alternative program. (CM Jenkins)
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CAO/Finance In Progress In February 2026 staff presented a muti-year plan as one option for Council to achieve compliance with vote-mandated
requirements, including the Democracy Dollars program. Under this scenario, full funding for the program would be achieved by approximately FY 2032. However, the timing is not fixed and could be accelerated if City Council chooses to prioritize the program over other obligations, subject to available resourves and tradeoffs through the budget process.
3* Direct the City Administrator to conduct a 10-year
Capital Plan and Asset Inventory – a centralized,
comprehensive report of fixed assets, including
buildings and facilities, and evaluation of costs
associated with maintaining, repairing, or replacing
each facility. This asset inventory should incorporate
equity principles, align with the city’s financial
bonding capacity, and promote efficient delivery of
capital improvement projects. (CP Bas)
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CAO/OPW In Progress The FY 2026/2027 budget includes funded projects for facility condition assessments that will identify a comprehensive list of improvements required at our facilities and will incorporate equity principles, align with the City's bonding capacity, and promoted efficient delivery of capital projects.
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4* Direct the City Administrator to consider equitable
senior services to the AAPI and Latinx communities as
the City conducts its strategic planning. Evaluate grant outcomes and incorporate ongoing systems and
collaborations to ensure culturally and linguistically
accessible senior services for recent immigrant and
refugee AAPI and Latinx communities, building on
over 20-years of partnership with established
institutions and providers with a proven track record
of dedicated programming and services. Over the past
two decades, these partnerships have supplemented
the services of the City’s four Senior Centers. (CP Bas) Improve Quality of Life HSD In Progress Conducted listening session with AAPI older adults at Family Bridges/Hong Fook with 90 people attendance. Conducted
listening session with Latine older adults at Unity
Council/Fruitvale Senior Center with 39 people in attendance.
Thematic summaries of these meetings will be shared with City Administrator and Assistant City Administrator by the end of March. The results of all of the listening sessions will be provided at the Mayor's Commission on Aging meeting on April 2, 2025.
UPDATE (3/23/2026): Working with the Mayor's Commission on Aging, HSD's Aging and Adult Services division has launched three subcommittees to address the areas of transporation, safety and violence prevention, and health and nutrition informed by the needs assessment and community listering sessions. Starting in April, 2026, these subcommittees will meet to develop specific, measurable, and equitable actions steps and projects to adress these areas of need. The action and implementation planning process will involve senior center advisory councils and member of the public. Outreach with AAPI and Latinx communities, including representatives from Family Bridges/Hong Fook and Spanish-Speaking Unity Council, will be invited to serve on the subcommittees. Identified projects will commence in FY 2026-27 and will be evaluated after a full year of implementation. 5 Crime Lab positions which existed previously, but are not funded in this budget, will remain frozen instead
of being deleted, to allow hiring in the future. (CM
Kaplan)
Holistic Community Safety OPD Complete The positions remain frozen with the option to fund them in the future when funding is available.
6* (From June 2023 Budget) Direct the City Administrator to research and apply for local, state, and federal
grants/programs that accelerate the City’s efforts to
procure, operate, and manage a zero-emission vehicle
fleet and build out the City’s zero-emission charging
and fueling infrastructure as outlined in the City’s Zero Emission Vehicle Action Plan, Action CL-8 – Accelerate
City Fleet Vehicle Replacement. (CM Kaplan)
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OPW Complete Prior to 2023 the City of Oakland recieved approximately $1,000,000 in grants to electrify the fleet. Since the Council adopted the follwing policies (Zero Emission Vehicle Action Plan; Equitable Climate Action Plan; and the Environmentally
Preferrable Purchaseing Policy), the city has been awarded over $5,000,000 in grants from local, state and federal governments for electric/alternative fuel vehicles and associated
infrastructure.
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7* Direct the City Administration to collaborate with the Budget Advisory Commission, Finance Department,
and Finance And Management Committee to increase
the frequency of informational reports, including
departmental staffing matrixes to the City Council, to
ensure accountability and real-time reporting on
departmental spending, maintaining a structurally
balanced budget. These reports should update the
public on the progression of the City's efforts to
address our structural deficit for future years and
provide insights into the impacts on staff and
operations. (CM Ramachandran & Reid)
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CAO/Finance In Progress Staff have provided regular reporting to the City Council, FMC and BAC, including quarterly R&E reports and other fiscal updates on the City's financial condition and structural deficit. In response to this directive, staff will evaluate enhancements to existing reporting, including potential incorporation of staffing metrics, which would require coordination with the Human Resources Department. Real-time reporting or dashboarding would require additional system development and is currently constrained by existing budget and financial system capabilities. *This item was updated in March 2026 since the last status provided to the Finance and Management Committee in April 2025. 3 of 3