Stories that you shouldn’t miss:
1. The Oakland City Council will consider tonight putting an $18 million parcel tax measure on the November ballot to avoid laying off more than 100 cops, the Trib and Chron report. But the proposal may fail to garner enough votes because several councilmembers want the police officers’ union to agree to compensation cuts first. The union, however, says that’s not going to happen because it agreed to givebacks last year.
2. The Oakland teachers’ union went on a one-day strike today, but the school district kept schools open and is staffing them with substitutes and administrators. Last night, the school board considered a plan to slash 460 positions, including more than a 100 teaching jobs, to help bridge an $85 million total budget deficit. The board has also asked the teachers’ union to begin a new round of negotiations, although it does not plan to rescind the no-raise contract it implemented on the union last week.
