The Berkeley Activist's Calendar, May 8-15
Worth Noting:
Besides the introductory summary, to make scanning the list of city meetings easier and quicker key agenda items are both bolded and underlined in this edition.
The new City of Berkeley website at https://berkeleyca.gov/ continues with challenges. The Council closed session on Tuesday comes with a notice of “permission denied” instead of public notification of items to be covered so the public may prepare and comment in the public comment period at the beginning before the meeting is closed to the public.
Fair Work Week is the only item at the Health, Life Enrichment, Equity & Community meeting Monday at 10 am. The Agenda Committee meets at 2:30 pm to plan the May 24 council meeting agenda. Warrantless searches of persons on parole and TOT are in the draft agenda. The Youth Commission new meeting time is 6:30 pm instead of 5 pm.
Wednesday all meetings are at 7 pm. The Parks Commission presentation on butterflies looks terrific and the Marina Plan will be taken up later in the evening. The Homeless Commission will receive reports and respond to actions (taken & planned) at homeless encampments and allocation of Measure P fund recommendations. The Police Accountability Board also meets Wednesday evening.
Thursday morning the Budget and Finance Committee meets at 10 am and starts off with the auditor’s report on Pension and Infrastructure liabilities.
Don’t forget Day 2 of the Book Festival May 8, the Berkeley Neighborhoods Council May 14 at 10 am and the Green Home Tour May 14 & 15 from 10 am – 1 pm. The virtual Green Home Tour is free. If you register and can’t attend you will be notified when the recording of the tour is posted.
You can thank Erin Diehm for this website which gives estimates of migrating birds flying overhead the altitude of their flight and species of birds https://dashboard.birdcast.info/ . This is totally cool!!
The CalFalcons hatched and you can watch live at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nvCVS2TRRk
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