About this episode

The episode discusses the Oakland city council's recent budget meeting and the implications of rejecting Measure E.

Oakland Recap provides summaries of public meeting proceedings that catch our attention. In this installment, we review the comments made by Oakland city council members at yesterday’s special budget meeting. Editor’s note City Council special budget meeting, June 12, 2026 . Yesterday the Oakland city council voted to declare a “severe and unanticipated financial event,” ten days after voters rejected Measure E. Measure E was a $34-million-per-year parcel tax that was initially conceived and designed by city council members. It then dropped off the council’s agenda, and later reappeared as a ‘citizen-sponsored’ initiative — written and funded by the city’s public employee unions — that only required a simple majority vote instead of the two-thirds required by state law for council-sponsored special taxes. Oakland voters rejected the tax, with 54% opposed as of the latest tally. Yesterday’s city council declaration of an “unanticipated financial event” suspended voter-approved protections on previous voter-approved tax measures in order to divert those promised tax funds to other purposes. Read this related article: The council also voted to make amendments to mayor Barbara Lee’s…

Topics covered

• city council budget
• public meeting recap
• financial event
• Measure E
• Oakland politics

Keywords

• Oakland
• city council
• budget meeting
• Measure E
• financial event
• public comments
• tax measures

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Oakland city council, Measure E

Places: Oakland

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