{"id":364228,"date":"2026-06-17T13:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/364228\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T13:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:48:10","slug":"oakland-puts-strong-mayor-charter-reform-on-november-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/364228\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland puts &#8216;strong mayor&#8217; charter reform on November ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/qwynuv2qujvr538x.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland charter reform measure placed on ballot\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/qwynuv2qujvr538x.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland charter reform measure placed on ballot\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image\" data-v-62bd84fd=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; Oakland city leaders are pushing to restructure the framework of the city&#8217;s government, ultimately leaving the final decision in the hands of voters.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The City Council on Tuesday voted to place a charter reform measure on the November ballot that would significantly increase the mayor&#8217;s executive authority. If approved by voters, the new charter would grant the mayor direct veto power over both legislation and budget decisions passed by the City Council.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Under the current system, the mayor holds limited legislative influence, unable to vote on council matters except in the event of a tie. The current charter also gives the office less control over the city&#8217;s final budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Oakland City Council meeting<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/alameda-county\/oakland\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; Oakland city leaders are pushing to restructure the framework of the city&#8217;s government, ultimately leaving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,1184,100,143,145,144,1181],"class_list":["post-364228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-ca","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}