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Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf today announced the appointment of Edward Reiskin as Oakland’s new City Administrator.

Playgrounds, dog parks, picnic areas, outdoor recreation areas closed, and construction prohibited until at least May 3.

Oakland is one of first cities in the nation to expand testing to all employees.

Emergency order suspends certain provisions of local laws, policies, regulations.

GovLoop put out a call for weekly contributors and Brandon Greene was selected as one.

Updated report of the Cannabis Equity Permit Program including the Equity Applicant Survey and current permit application statistics.

The mere availability of applications for loans does not alter the requirement that half of all permits and local authorizations for a temporary state license go to equity applicants, nor the fact that general applicants who incubate equity applicants receive the next available general applicant permit or local authorization for a temporary state license.

The City of Oakland is excited to announce that applications for no-interest business start-up loans for cannabis equity applicants are now available. The loan applications will be processed by our Consultant, Elevate Impact Oakland.

On October 2, 2018 the City Council passed a handful of cleanup amendments to the City's cannabis permit ordinance. The updated ordinance can be found here: https://www.oaklandca.gov/uplo...

Representatives from all three state licensing agencies, the Bureau of Cannabis Control, the Department of Public Health, and the Department of Food and Agriculture, will be presenting at our equity applicant technical assistance workshop re the state licensing process on Wednesday September 26th from 10am-noon at Oakland City Hall, 3rd Floor Council Chambers.