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Alameda County Grand Jury
• 2024-2025
Oakland’s Potholes: a Bumpy Road and Inadequate Oversight
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Findings and Recommendations 16 findings
F25-1
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Potholes and other street pavement failures have been a prevalent problem in the City of Oakland for many years.
No recommendations for this finding
F25-2
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The City of Oakland needed to repair over 53,000 potholes or similar pavement failures in the most recent 2023-2024 Fiscal Year.
No recommendations for this finding
F25-3
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Historically, liability claims and lawsuits from potholes and pavement failure have cost the City of Oakland millions of dollars.
No recommendations for this finding
F25-4
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Complete repaving of streets costs the City of Oakland approximately $1 million per mile.
No recommendations for this finding
F25-5
Page 38
The City of Oakland has not met its goals for significant repaving under its 2022 Five-Year Paving Plan, with no foreseeable date for completion.
No recommendations for this finding
F25-6
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Without money from the sale of authorized Measure U bonds, the City of Oakland will not be able to undertake significant additional street repaving.
No recommendations for this finding
F25-7
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High employee vacancy rates and the delays in approval of hiring slowed the City of Oakland’s in-house street repaving and repairs.
No recommendations for this finding
F25-8
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The City of Oakland’s Local Business Enterprise and Small Local Business Enterprise programs limit the competition for Oakland’s Department of Transportation contracts for paving and street work, causing Oakland to not receive multiple bids, which could result in lower costs.
No recommendations for this finding
F25-9
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The City of Oakland’s Department of Transportation lacks adequate control over change orders on paving and street projects, including failure to first identify approved funding.
No recommendations for this finding
F25-10
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The City of Oakland has not conducted any audits under Measure KK or Measure U, as required by the measures. 37 2024-2025 Alameda County Grand Jury Final Report ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
No recommendations for this finding
F25-11
Page 39
The City of Oakland’s I-Bond Oversight Committee has not met regularly since at least December 2022, as required.
No recommendations for this finding
F25-12
Page 39
The City of Oakland (Mayor) has failed to fill the current vacancies on the I-Bond Oversight Committee.
No recommendations for this finding
F25-13
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The I-Bond Oversight Committee has not provided regular or annual reports on Measure KK to the Oakland City Council since September 2022, nor on Measure U since its approval in November 2022.
No recommendations for this finding
F25-14
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The website for the City of Oakland’s I-Bond Oversight Committee lacks complete information including most committee reports, and not all agendas, minutes, or recordings.
No recommendations for this finding
F25-15
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The City of Oakland’s I-Bond Oversight Committee failed to conduct a self-evaluation, as required by its bylaws.
No recommendations for this finding
F25-16
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The City of Oakland has failed to ensure that the I-Bond Oversight Committee has been fulfilling its duties, including meeting regularly, reporting as needed, and conducting self- evaluations as required.
No recommendations for this finding