Budget Meeting Today

A Better Oakland has a very good summary of the budgets cuts being considered by the City Council today. All council members, except for Nancy Nadel who represents HarriOak, are expected to be there. Accoring to A Better Oakland, Nadel is dialing in from Jamaica. Must be nice to get paid to deal with the public's business while sipping rum drinks on a beach, especially when you barely squeaked by your re-election. (Nadel was relected June 3, 2008 by 51.3 percent of the voters or 4,503 votes.)

Here is the budget proposal.