FY 2026-27 Proposed Midcycle Budget

The 2024 Oakland Violence Prevention Act and Public Safety Act (Measure NN - Fund 2255) In 2024, Oakland voters approved Measure NN, a continuation of the City's commitment to public safety and violence prevention.  Measure NN continues a parcel and parking tax to continue many of the services funded under the City’s Public Safety and Services Violence Prevention Act, Measure Z. Measure NN authorized the City to extend and increase an existing parcel tax and a parking tax surcharge for a period of nine years to fund police, fire, and violence prevention services.  The projected annual revenue of Measure NN is approximately $47 million. Not counting any audit, financial monitoring, collection and tax levy costs, fees and the Oakland Fire Department allocation, the revenue from this tax was designed to be split as follows:   60% for police services: 10% specifically allocated to costs associated with operations and functions by non-sworn personnel such as 911 dispatch, maintenance and investments in technology, and operations and functions of the crime lab and associated administrative expenses; and 50% of the remaining amount shall be allocated to costs associated with sworn police officers and 40% going to community violence prevention/intervention programs.    40% for Violence Prevention services where at least 75% of the total amount allocated for Violence Prevention services shall be spent on grants to and contracts with community- based service providers.   Similar to Measure Z, these taxes were accompanied by certain police staff requirements that, if not met, would compromise the City's authority to levy the taxes.  Measure NN also prohibits laying off sworn police officers and firefighters below specified levels.    The FY 2026-27 Proposed Budget does not meet the minimum staffing requirement. Per the Measure NN language in section 6. (B) (2.); "If a severe and unanticipated financial or other event occurs which so adversely impacts the General Purpose Fund as to prevent the City from budgeting for the minimum number of sworn police personnel required by this Ordinance, the numeric requirements for budgeting and maintaining sworn police personnel shall be reduced by the numbers the City is unable to fund as a result of such event. The existence of a severe and unanticipated financial or other event must be established by the declaration of a state of extreme fiscal necessity via City Council Resolution for that annual or biennial cycle. Such a resolution shall also note the steps that were taken by the City to avoid the need to reduce the number of sworn police personnel and the steps that will be taken by the City in the future to restore sworn police personnel ". The resolution accompanying the Budget contains the necessary explanations for the need to suspend this requirement.   The full text of the measure language for the 2024 Oakland Violence Prevention Act and Public Safety Act (Measure NN) is available  here.   84