The Berkeley Activist's Calendar
Worth Noting – lots of surveys:
Berkeley Redistricting Submission Deadline November 15, 2021. The City Council Districts must be redrawn to adjust for growing and shifting population. You can submit your own proposal for consideration https://www.cityofberkeley.info/redistricting/
Housing Survey to plan for where to put 8934 units as required in the Housing Element: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/berkeleyhousing
Vision 2050 Survey – the City is planning for a major bond measure in 2022 on infrastructure: tinyurl.com/2050survey
Reimagining Public Safety Public Meetings – the final NICJR is available: www.berkeley-rps.org
Complete Streets Survey is for the Southside, but this has implications for the rest of the city: https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/6575124/Berkeley-Southside-Survey-October-2021
Deadline to submit response to the DEIR for the Ashby and North Berkeley BART Station Housing Projects is December 1, 2021 at 5 pm https://www.cityofberkeley.info/bartplanning/ (395 pages)
Monday – Youth Commission at 5 pm,
Tuesday – Regular City Council meeting is at 6 pm with 20. Objective Standards - should solar panels be blocked by shadows from new construction? 21. Should Hotel tax from the waterfront go to the starving waterfront budget or the general fund? 22. Officeholder accounts – should councilmembers receive donations to special spending account and if so what are the rules, 23. Should the budget committee consider a pilot program for free AC transit on Sundays to encourage use of transit?
Wednesday – At 6 pm Reimagining Public Safety report from the consultants for Districts 1,2 and the Southside Complete Streets with several designs to improve walking, biking, driving, and transit safety. The Homeless Commission, Parks Commission and Police Accountability Board all meet at 7 pm.
Thursday – Veterans Holiday followed by reduced service day on Friday - no meetings.
Saturday – Berkeley Neighborhoods Council at 10 am.
The November 9 council agenda is posted at the bottom and available for comment. Note items moved to November 9 from last council meeting which ran until after midnight: 20. Objective standards, density, design, shadows (with an absence of residential neighborhood solar protections), 21. Marina hotel tax (will tax go to the Marina or general fund), 22. Officeholder accounts and 23. free Sunday AC transit are on the agenda under ACTION.
The November 16 City Council regular meeting agenda is available for comment. Item 12 is the proposed 28.11% raise for the City Manager. The City’s Salary survey has been expanded with population and land area added. You should find these two additional components very interesting when comparing salaries. The expanded table is with the November 16 agenda.
Save Solar Petition https://www.savecaliforniasolar.org/sign-petition?utm_source=personal&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=organization
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