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The Berkeley City Council approved a proposal that would allow the city to close unhoused encampments without offering interim housing in a meeting Tuesday. The proposal, authored by Councilmember Rashi [...]

The Berkeley City Council approved a proposal that would allow the city to close unhoused encampments without offering interim housing in a meeting Tuesday. The proposal, authored by Councilmember Rashi [...]

In its Tuesday meeting, the Berkeley City Council approved the expenditure of up to $500 per council member to support the Berkeley Student Cooperative, or BSC, in repairing the damaged [...]

Berkeley City Council unanimously approved the city's budget for fiscal years 2025-26 at Tuesday's meeting after an extended period of public comment and discussion on items from the meeting's consent [...]

The Berkeley City Council approved a contract Tuesday with the Housing Consortium of the East Bay, or HCEB, as a contingency plan for interim housing at the Rodeway Inn. Peter [...]

The Berkeley City Council approved a contract Tuesday with the Housing Consortium of the East Bay, or HCEB, as a contingency plan for interim housing at the Rodeway Inn, which [...]

Byline: Ani Tutunjyan Berkeley City Council members and budget manager Sharon Friedrichsen discussed updates to the proposed budget for the 2024 fiscal year during a special meeting Tuesday. Friedrichsen began [...]

Byline: Riley Cooke' rel='author'>Riley Cooke | Senior StaffLast Updated 1 hour Ago Several proposed bus improvements could come to Durant Avenue bus stops in the future, funded through the recently [...]

Berkeley City Council unanimously approved the city's budget for the fiscal years 2023 and 2024 during Tuesday's meeting. The budget, which is determined every two years, came just days before [...]

Byline: Rachel Barber The Berkeley City Council authorized the sale of $40 million in general obligation bonds to support affordable housing and separately referred millions of dollars to address houselessness [...]

Byline: Rachel Barber The Berkeley City Council determined funding allocations for fiscal year 2022 and the city's legislative platform for next year at its regular meeting Tuesday. The council unanimously [...]

Byline: Alexander Wohl The Berkeley City Council voted to advance several housing initiatives at a special meeting Dec. 14. The council moved forward with an application for state funds to [...]

Byline: Phoebe Chen The Berkeley City Council approved a $180,000 state-funded grant for the Berkeley Police Department, or BPD, on Nov. 9 to bolster traffic safety efforts. The yearlong grant [...]

Byline: Lauren Cho Berkeley City Council requested $15 million Oct. 26 for one-time funding in the fiscal year 2022-23 state budget for replacing infrastructure at the Berkeley Marina, as first [...]

Byline: Jasmine Lee The Berkeley City Auditor's office released the Fiscal Year 2022 Audit Plan, which aims to evaluate specific city functions and help the city recover from financial issues [...]

In June 2011, then Berkeley City Council member Jesse Arreguín was involved in the passage of the city's budget for fiscal years 2012 and 2013. At the time, 54% of [...]

Byline: Lauren Huang The Berkeley City Council approved its fiscal year 2022 budget proposal Tuesday, prioritizing economic recovery from the pandemic. The approval process for the $673.6 million budget, addressing [...]

Byline: Christopher Ying Berkeley City Council met Tuesday to discuss the city's 2022 fiscal year budget, police reform, housing assistance and funding for the arts. At the beginning of the [...]

Byline: Eric Rogers During its regular meeting Tuesday, which started nearly two hours behind schedule and adjourned at 11:45 p.m., the Berkeley City Council discussed the 2022 fiscal year budget [...]

Byline: Katherine Shok Berkeley City Council approved a $53 million investment in building housing around the Ashby and North Berkeley BART stations to ameliorate the city's long-standing affordable housing crisis. [...]

Byline: Jessica Li Following the Berkeley City Council's decision early Wednesday to finalize a police budget cut of 12%, the city will seek to introduce community safety reform through the [...]

Byline: Eric Rogers Following the Berkeley City Council's decision Wednesday, police officers will be removed from traffic enforcement in Berkeley and the Berkeley Police Department's budget will be cut by [...]

Byline: Eric Rogers Following the Berkeley City Council's decision Wednesday, police officers will be removed from traffic enforcement in Berkeley and half of Berkeley Police Department's budget will be redistributed [...]

Byline: Claire Daly For the first time in 11 years, the Berkeley city auditor's office will conduct an audit of the Berkeley Police Department's staffing and budget. The audit will [...]

Byline: Victoria Stafford In a unanimous vote, Berkeley City Council members opposed the Alameda County sheriff's request of an $85 million annual budget increase at a special meeting Tuesday. In [...]

Byline: Jacob Souza The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic downturn have created an uncertain and potentially long-lasting new reality for Berkeley residents and the city government, city officials said [...]

Byline: Kate Finman The pause on some economic activity to prevent the spread of COVID-19 has come with higher rates of vandalism to local businesses, many of which remain closed [...]

Byline: Marie Bellevue Berkeley City Council discussed a budget update for fiscal year 2021 and unanimously passed the Annual Appropriations Ordinance at its regular Zoom meeting Tuesday. The council members' [...]

Byline: Danielle Kaye At its regular meeting Tuesday, Berkeley City Council passed a package of proposals to help create more affordable housing. There are 23 proposed policies to implement the [...]

Byline: Jessica Lynn At its Tuesday meeting, Berkeley City Council unanimously authorized the city's acquisition of four parcels of land in West Berkeley to be used for affordable housing. The [...]

Byline: Edward Booth On Tuesday evening, representatives from the Department of Parks, Recreation and Waterfront and the Department of Public Works presented an update to the Berkeley City Council at [...]

Byline: Harini Shyamsundar The finalized 2017 city budget allocated by Berkeley City Council on Tuesday partially defunded several nonprofits in the city, leaving many organizations feeling shortchanged. The budget restructure [...]

Byline: Karim Doumar At its Tuesday meeting, the Berkeley City Council approved and adopted a compromise budget for fiscal year 2017, which requires roughly $1.5 million in reserve funding and [...]

Byline: Brenna Smith Berkeley City Council is scheduled to discuss funding for a new financial system software and vote on proposed city budgets for the 2017 fiscal year at a [...]

Byline: Hannah Lewis Berkeley City Council will convene Tuesday evening for a special meeting to discuss a proposed 2017 city budget update, as well as for a regular meeting during [...]

Byline: Jessica Lynn After deferring the measure four times since it was first introduced in September, Berkeley City Council voted against a proposed $1 million loan from the city's general [...]

Byline: Anna Dell'Amico The city will consider funding a study gauging costs for possible restorations of the Berkeley Municipal Fishing Pier -- which has been closed to the public without [...]

The city of Berkeley adopted the biennial budget for fiscal years 2016 and 2017 during its regular City Council meeting Tuesday. After a subcommittee, formed after last week's meeting, considered [...]

Berkeley City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to refer Mayor Tom Bates' budget proposal to the city manager for review, with Councilmembers Kriss Worthington, Jesse Arreguin and Max Anderson proposing additional [...]

Byline: Ivana Saric A recent proposal by Councilmember Kriss Worthington to the Berkeley City Council would, if passed, make Berkeley the eighth city in the United States to implement participatory [...]

Berkeley City Council approved nearly all Berkeley Police Department mutual aid agreements with military, law enforcement and private security entities at a Tuesday meeting. Mutual aid agreements, which detail the [...]

Byline: Sonja Hutson Berkeley City Council approved all Berkeley Police Department mutual aid agreements with military, law enforcement and private security entities at a Tuesday meeting. Mutual aid agreements, which [...]

Byline: Michelaina Johnson In response to a shortage in bed space, Berkeley City Council passed three resolutions Tuesday, reallocating $103,500 from a closed shelter that used to serve the city's [...]

Byline: Oksana Yurovsky At its meeting Tuesday, the Berkeley City Council voted to postpone discussion of the city's contentious mutual aid pact until next week despite a large gathering of [...]