FY 2026-27 Proposed Midcycle Budget

Restores 1.0 FTE Animal Control Officer (ACO) which will bring the total to 7.0 FTEs. A staffing study determined OAS should have between 10-12 ACOs and this proposal gets OAS closer to that goal. It will increase ACO field activity, reduce the response time to priority calls, and allow ACOs to perform follow-up investigations more completely to prevent animal cruelty and neglect from continuing.  Equity Consideration: The majority of the 3,886 field calls and 432 additional calls for service that ACOs respond to each year are in zip codes representing Oakland's high priority racial equity neighborhoods. By increasing staffing, these communities will be served more carefully and quickly which will improve public safety outcomes.  2. Restores 1.0 FTE Senior Public Service Representative to allow OAS to open to the public seven days a week (as opposed to the five it is open now). This will also create a promotional opportunity and better leadership structure for the Public Service Representative Staff. Animal Shelters need to be open seven days a week to allow residents access to reunite with lost pets, seek critical services, and reduce the length of stay in the shelter for animals that are impounded. This increases the likelihood that owners and pets will be reunited.  Equity Consideration: The majority of people seeking OAS services are in the 94601, 94605, and 94621 zip codes where Oakland's high priority equity neighborhoods are located. Working families in these communities need a shelter that is open when they are available to come in for help or to find a missing pet. This will make that possible.  3. Restores 1.0 FTE Animal Care Attendant (ACA) to allow OAS to provide the minimum amount of daily care required for the animals in its care and reopen 7 days per week. ACAs clean the kennels, feed the animals, and perform intake on new arrivals every day at OAS. Best practices state that each animal in care should have a minimum of 15 minutes of attention per day and that is not possible with current staffing levels. Volunteers try to make up the difference but are not always available. Also, to perform intake 7 days per week, an additional ACA is needed, as that service is essential.   Equity Consideration: The majority of animals OAS serves come from Oakland's Equity Neighborhoods, with a significant number coming from homeless encampments. These animals deserve humane treatment.  4. Economic & Workforce Development Restorations   Other Impacts & Changes Strengthens the City’s capacity to inspect, investigate, and enforce special activity permit regulations through the support of 3.0 FTE Special Activity Permit Inspector and $100,000 for vehicle equipment.   These positions support oversight of regulated activities including, including cannabis businesses, mobile vending, cabarets, and special events.   Equity Consideration: This funding will allow for better distribution and coverage of inspectors across the City. Inspectors focus first on education about the rules, regulations, and the path to compliance. A disproportionate number of unpermitted mobile food vendors are non-white and do not speak English as their primary language, an additional inspector means more resources will be available to help entrepreneurs establish compliant business practices in the City of Oakland.  1. Supports continuity in the management and development of the Oakland Army Base and provides specialized right-of-way services for transportation infrastructure projects through personnel funding to retain temporary service contracted employees.  The staffing supports senior-level right-of-way services on an as-needed basis for the delivery of bicycle, pedestrian, bridge and roadway projects. Equity Consideration: This position would help to ensure that the West Oakland community's interests related to the former Army Base (e.g., with respect to air quality, economic opportunity, and community benefits), as expressed over multiple decades of community engagement, continue to inform the management and development of this area. The Right of Way TCSE will enable delivery of transportation infrastructure projects that are prioritized by the Department of Transportation's equity-based criteria.  2. Restores 1.0 FTE Real Property Asset Manager. This service enhancement provides day-to-day management of real estate transactional staff and oversight of the City's real property portfolio to reduce risk, increase transaction revenue, and increase the rate at which transactions are completed. This will also increase the City's capacity for initiating and delivering complex real estate projects.  Equity Consideration: Unfreezing a Real Property Asset Manager will accelerate the completion of real estate transactions, the majority of which enable community- based partnerships that activate and secure public lands in historically underinvested neighborhoods or provide direct service to marginalized communities (e.g., shelter programs).  3. Restores the Mayor’s Summer Youth Program by adding $200,000 to support the Oakland Workforce Development Board (OWDB), designed to provide free, enriching experiences for Oakland youth.  Equity Consideration: This program partners with local nonprofits to provide work-readiness training, career interest assessments, and paid work experiences for youth ages 16–21, with a focus on Black, Latinx, Native American, and Pacific Islander youth in East Oakland, Fruitvale, and West Oakland.  4. Restores the Film Rebate Program by providing $250,000 in the midcycle budget, this will allow the City of Oakland to provide film rebates to productions filming locally in Oakland.  Equity Consideration: Depending on eligible rebate amounts, a significant portion or all of the allocation could potentially be utilized by a single production.  As a result, the limited funding pool may constrain broader access to the program.  5. Converting an Administrative Analyst II position and replacing it with a Prog