Gran Jurado del Condado de Alameda
2011-2012
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12-26:
Whenever there is a reasonable expectation of benefit to the public from a consolidation of districts (or merger with a city), the Alameda County LAFCO must perform sufficient, objective financial analysis (or require it to be provided by the entities) to quantify potential savings and risks of the proposed consolidation. Such results must be made readily available to the public potentially affected by a consolidation, with or without support by the respective boards of directors.
12-27:
Alameda County LAFCO must require all districts and entities within its authority to identify opportunities for savings from sharing services with other such entities and that LAFCO monitor their progress in objectively evaluating and pursuing such opportunities.
12-28:
Alameda County LAFCO must require that all districts and entities within its authority include in their constituent communications information about how the public can influence the entity’s governance, including petitioning LAFCO.
12-29:
The Alameda County LAFCO must establish, by January 2013, an unpaid standing or ad hoc citizen’s advisory committee of 7 to 11 public members to work with the LAFCO and staff to improve LAFCO’s identification and enforcement of recommendations which reflect citizens’ priorities of achieving cost efficiencies and reductions in fees and taxes collected for special districts.
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12-10:
The Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board must reduce the high rental unit registration fees.
12-11:
The Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board must allow landlords to pass through a larger proportion of the registration fee to tenants.
12-12:
The Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board must ask the city of Berkeley Human Resources Department for a thorough position-control audit to evaluate the number of staff, the classifications and workload.
12-13:
The Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board must ask the city Human Resources department to provide more comprehensive salary comparisons regularly and use them in setting salaries and benefits, including those of the executive director and the board members.
12-14:
The Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board must conduct annual performance reviews of the executive director to provide more effective oversight.
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12-15:
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors must require evidence-based evaluations of contract performance of community-based organizations funded by the Social Services and Health Care Services Agencies.
12-16:
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors must require evidence-based metrics be provided to them when considering renewal of community-based organization contracts.
12-17:
The Alameda County Social Services Agency and Alameda County Health Care Services Agency must require under-performing community-based organizations receive training to improve financial and programmatic performance.
12-18:
The Alameda County Social Services Agency and Alameda County Health Care Services Agency must structure community-based organization contracts to include financial incentives for meeting performance standards.
12-19:
The Alameda County Social Services Agency and Alameda County Health Care Services Agency must develop reasonable standards to ensure staff members spend more time with community based organizations to improve their evaluations of performance.
12-20:
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors must authorize the Health Care Services Agency to include evaluations of Measure A programs as part of its initiative to improve oversight and outcomes in all its programs.
12-21:
To avoid another situation like ACAP, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors must ensure that joint powers agreements (JPA) specify that the auditor/controller maintains financial oversight of joint powers authorities in which the county participates.
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12-4:
General Services Agency must require written evidence-based evaluations of vendor performance in large dollar contracts.
12-5:
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors must require evidence-based evaluations to be provided to them when approving the renewal of contracts.
12-6:
General Services Agency must add a vendor evaluation field to the Alameda County contract database so that formal evaluations can be available to other county departments.
12-7:
General Services Agency must conduct annual audits of large-dollar contracts to verify that the vendor is meeting evidence-based measurements.
12-8:
General Services Agency must appoint staff to provide mandatory contract administration training to departments.
12-9:
Alameda County Board of Supervisors must encourage county departments to incentivize outside vendors/consultants to assist General Services Agency in determining methods to further reduce costs of contracts.
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12-1:
The Alameda County Chiefs of Police and Sheriff’s Association must meet, confer and develop a written proposal to establish one consolidated Crime Lab in Alameda County.
12-2:
The Oakland Police Department Criminalistics Division must immediately clear its forensics-testing backlog.
12-3:
The Oakland Police Department must immediately acquire a department-wide case management database that integrates the Oakland Police Department Criminalistics Division and county-wide criminal data bases.
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12-22:
Alameda County Office of Education must continue the process of revoking FAME’s charter.
12-23:
Alameda County Office of Education must take a more proactive role in its oversight of charter schools.
12-24:
Alameda County Office of Education must mandate that charter school leaders attend FCMAT charter school training when a charter is approved or renewed by the Alameda County Office of Education.
12-25:
Alameda County Office of Education must ensure that each charter school includes a conflict of interest policy in its charter and follows it.
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12-30:
The city of Oakland must adopt a policy of stringent economic evaluation of affordable housing investments, including rehabilitation of existing units, that ensures each project is sustainable without “soft loans” or continued infusion of public money.
12-31:
The city of Oakland must accurately and publicly document all costs which must include direct, indirect, and ongoing monitoring, before voting to invest public dollars in affordable housing projects so that decision-makers and the public understand the cost of the city’s social policy.