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Oaklanders,
A truly Oaklandish partnership between the City of Oakland and micro-lender Kiva.org, is providing Oakland entrepreneurs with crowd-sourced loans funded by everyday people like you and me. You can get in on the action and become a Kiva lender too by going to
Kiva.org/Oakland.
Currently there are over 25 Oakland-based businesses on the Kiva platform raising funds to expand or start new enterprises in Oakland, and our goal is to serve up to 600 Oakland-based businesses in three years.
Many of these small business owners are women and people of color who have historically been shut out from traditional bank loans. With crowd-sourced loans based on character rather than credit scores, we're able to support the growth of this vital economic sector.
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OUSD Superintendent Antwan Wilson, Oakland native and local entrepreneur Beast Mode owner Marshawn Lynch, Mayor Libby Schaaf wearing a "Beast Oakland" t-shirt from Kiva Zip loan recipient & apparel maker Beast Oakland, and former U.S. President Bill Clinton together for the 2016 Clinton Global Initiative
Day of Action, which was held in
East Oakland.
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I hope you will join me in becoming a Kiva lender this month. The first $225,000 lent to Oakland businesses from people like
you will be matched by generous companies and foundations. This makes it possible for your dollar to go even further in supporting the small business community that is the backbone of our local economy. With 90 percent of Oakland businesses employing 20 or fewer employees, it's vital to our continued growth that we get behind this effort.
Be the Bank of Oakland! You
can close out
Oakland Small Business Week
(May 1-8) by making a loan. It's easy and fun. Here's the plan. Make a loan to a local business then double down on your investment by shopping, dining or securing a service from that business on Small Business Saturday, May 7.
By being thoughtful and partnering wisely, we can maximize our resources and move Oakland forward in a way that serves us all.
I'll be looking for you on Saturday!
With Oakland-Love,
Libby
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A VICTORY FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN OAKLAND
With the addition of these fees tied to housing construction, we will be able to offer developers the option of paying fees per unit built, or including affordable housing in the development itself, fostering the mixed-income communities we cherish. For developers who opt to pay the fees, the dollars collected will go toward a much needed affordable housing fund, with smaller amounts also set aside for transportation and infrastructure improvements.
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o-Chair of the Oakland Housing Cabinet Heather Hood of Enterprise Partners, City of Oakland Director of Housing and Community Development Michele Byrd, City Council President Lynette Gibson McElhaney (D-3), Vice Mayor Annie Campbell Washington (D-4), City Councilmember Abel Guillen (D-2), City Councilmember Dan Kalb (D-1) and Co-Chair of the Oakland Housing Cabinet Assistant City Administrator Claudia Cappio join Mayor Schaaf for the release of the Housing Action Plan and Cabinet Report Oakland at Home.
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The way the City of Oakland is approaching the adoption of impact fees is smart and fair. I thank our City Administrator Sabrina Landreth for her leadership in doing the due diligence and community engagement needed to get us to the point of the Council's action. With this decision, the City Council has helped Oakland create a desperately needed source of funding for affordable housing, while still encouraging the construction of new units to increase our housing supply.
The decision to adopt fees was a key recommendation in the Housing Action Plan that came out of the Oakland Housing Cabinet I assembled last year. By dividing Oakland into three geographic zones, Downtown, Uptown and Lake Merritt will pay $7,000 per market-rate unit starting in September, increasing to $24,000 per unit by July 2018. In West Oakland and parts of North Oakland, impact fees will start at $5,550 per market-rate unit in September, increasing to $19,250 in July 2018. In the area stretching from east of 23rd Avenue fees will start July 1, 2017 at $750 and increase to $13,000 per market-rate unit by 2019.
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OAKLAND COMPETES FOR STATE FUNDS FOR HOUSING
The City of Oakland is in the running for nearly $80 million dollars in federal Cap & Trade money from the State of California. Five Oakland affordable housing projects have made it to the next round and been invited to submit full applications for money to support construction and related infrastructure. While we won't know until this summer if the Oakland projects will receive funding we've had success with accessing these dollars in the past and expect to be competitive again in 2016.
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MAYOR SCHAAF LEADS ON CALIFORNIA FIGHT FOR $15
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Mayor Schaaf, Bay Area workers and labor leaders call for statewide minimum wage increase in California.
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Taking action around housing is an important step in helping Oakland address the affordability crisis, but housing is only one side of the equation. We must also continue to make sure that Oaklanders from all backgrounds have the ability to compete economically.
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fforts like a statewide increase in the minimum wage, which is now
California law,
began with a push for a ballot measure brought by labor that I co-chaired with San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee.
Thank you SEUI for the congratulatory ad on Pandora and for all of your efforts on behalf of California workers.
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OAKLAND COMBATTING IMPLICIT BIAS &
RACIAL PROFILING
Around the country, there is a conversation taking place about what modern policing should look like and how departments can bring greater transparency and accountability to their profession.
Researchers like Stanford University professor Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt are looking at the science behind the unconscious bias that impacts decisions police make on the job, and are developing data-driven training to equip officers to combat it. With the Oakland Police Department as her research subject, Dr. Eberhardt is being given unprecedented access to Oakland Police Department stop-data. Stop-data includes uses of force, police pedestrian and vehicle stops, officer involved shootings and more, helping communities gain visibility into key information on police/citizen encounters.
When Dr. Eberhardt's findings are released in late spring, the Oakland Police Department will become one of the first police departments in the country to have analyzed and publicly shared this information. The Oakland Police Department has been a leader on data transparency as part of its on-going work with the
White House Police Data Initiative, a byproduct of President Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing. This effort is bringing open police data to the public and examining how departments like ours are using technology to build community trust and improve transparency.
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Map showing the select group of police departments, including Oakland, CA that have been selected to participate in the
White House Police Data Initiative. The open data project is a key part of the White House Task Force on 21st Century Policing Task Force.
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At upcoming Safe Oakland Speaker Series events hosted by Mayor Schaaf, Lynn Overmann of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) will discuss how through a system of transparency, public participation and collaboration, we can work together to ensure public trust of the police.
Stanford Professor Jennifer Eberhardt will follow up her previous talk on the science of implicit bias to delve into her pioneering in-depth examination of OPD's openly published stop-data. Dr. Eberhardt will provide analysis and share information on the Oakland Police Department's new implicit bias training and how Oakland is leading the nation in collecting and sharing police data with the public.
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The next event will take place at
Castlemont High School Auditorium
Thursday, May 19
7pm to 9 pm
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KEEPING OUR PROMISE
I am thrilled to share some of the first-year accomplishments of the Oakla
nd Promise, our cradle-to-career citywide effort to over the next decade triple the number of Oakland public school students who graduate college.
We opened Future Centers at Coliseum College Prep Academy (CCPA) and Oakland High School. At CCPA, applications to the University of California doubled and 100 percent of seniors applied for financial aid and/or the Dream App. At Oakland High applications to California State University increased by nearly 30 percent, and graduates are expecting to be awarded nearly ten times more in scholarship dollars through the East Bay College Fund.
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Mayor Libby Schaaf and Megan Smith the United States Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in the Office of Science and Technology Policy with Skyline High School student to announce the launch of President Obama's
Computer Science for All initiative to promote computer science education for all students, regardless of their race, gender or income.
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JOIN US FOR GRADUATION
On June 3, we will be celebrating 300 of our Oakland high school seniors at the East Bay College Fund Oakland Promise Awards Ceremony at the Scottish Rite Center. Please join me, Superintendent Antwan Wilson, and Reverend Jesse Jackson to celebrate these students a
s they embark on their journey through college. For more information and to RSVP, please visit
here
. Fifty of the students being honored will be recipients of scholarship dollars raised by my 50th Oakland Love birthday fundraiser for the Oakland Promise.
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SHOW YOUR LOVE FOR OAKLAND'S TEACHERS
I am excited to announce the inaugural Oakland Mayor's
Fulfilling the Promise Teaching Award, given to three outstanding teachers (K-5, middle, and high school) who are creating a college-going culture in their classrooms and are deeply committed to the community. Nominations are now open, and I will present the awards at the Oakland Public Education Fund's Teacher Appreciation Party at the Oakland Museum on May 26. Please nominate a teacher
here.
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UPDATE YOUR CALENDAR & JOIN MAYOR SCHAAF FOR
UPCOMING EVENTS
Monday, May 9, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Supervisor Wilma Chan's Alameda County Housing Bond Town Hall
Asian Health Services, 818 Webster St., 3rd Floor Conference Room, Oakland, CA 94607
To RSVP or for more information, please fill out this form or contact MJ Flores at [email protected] or (510) 272-6693.
Thursday, May 12, 7am-9am
Bike to Work Day Pancake Breakfast
Frank H. Ogawa/City Hall Plaza, 14th and Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612
Visit here for more information on routes and stations; or here for details on the pancake breakfast.
Thursday, May 19, 7pm-9pm
Safe Oakland Speaker Series: Open Police Data
Castlemont High School,
8601 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA 94605
Guest Speaker Lynn Overmann, Senior Advisor for Criminal Justice to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer at the White House office of Science and Technology Policy.
RSVP to
Sun Kwong Sze
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Saturday, May 21, 11am-7pm
Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival
San Antonio Park, 18th Ave. & Foothill Blvd. Oakland, CA
Sunday, June 12, 12pm-6pm
Telegraph Avenue between 40th and 51st
For more information on participating or becoming a sponsor click here
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BOWLING & BOCCE FOR THE OAKLAND PROMISE
Plank in Jack London Square is donating 20 percent of the proceeds of every Monday night game of bowling or bocci in the month of May to the Oakland Promise. Even if you can't volunteer, you can make your way down to this great indoor outdoor beer garden for happy hour with your co-workers or just some springtime fun with the family. So remember, no need to cook dinner Monday's in May. Head to Plank instead at 98 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94607.
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WHAT'S UP AT CITY HALL
Visit City Administrator Sabrina Landreth's webpage and read her Weekly Report for updates on jobs, requests for proposals and more information on what's happening in Oakland City government.
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