Oakland
From the meeting · City Council, · 0:51
Why can't the council vote on just one nominee?
One Police Commission nominee has withdrawn and then asked to take the withdrawal back, and the city attorney's office has advised rejecting the two-person slate; a member asks why the council can't simply vote on one name.
a councilmember and an official
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a councilmember So can you explain why we can't just have a slate of one person that we vote on today?
a councilmember Because six zero four is so poorly written that we have to have a slate.
a councilmember It's the same issue that we've been going through.
a councilmember I think it was well intentioned when it was written that they didn't wanted to take politics out of it, but we only accept slates or reject slates.
a councilmember We cannot bifurcate or have one candidate outside....
a councilmember Just one person now?
a councilmember No.
a councilmember It would be...
a councilmember Oh, city attorney, would you like to apply?
an official Ryan Richardson, Oakland City attorney.
an official So the way the charter is written is all of the selection panel seats that are up for...
an official To be filled at a given time have to be brought forward as a slate of names, plural, and the council has to accept that entire slate or reject the slate.
an official They they can't bring forward one name at a time.
Where it's from
- Police Commission slate rejected and sent back to selection panel Item 5.2: what happened
- The episode: Council rejects Police Commission slate, advances higher nuisance fines
- The full recording from here