{"id":370286,"date":"2026-06-22T15:52:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/370286\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T15:52:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:52:24","slug":"city-council-leadership-city-of-oakland-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/370286\/","title":{"rendered":"City Council &#038; Leadership | City of Oakland, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"View of Oakland\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cc_banner.jpeg\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The eight members of the City Council are elected directly by the people of Oakland. The Council is made up of one representative from each of seven districts and one at-large representative. The Council sets goals and priorities for the City. The council approves the City budget, adopts ordinances to help the City serve its community members, and appoints members to various boards and commissions.<\/p>\n<p>Access public meetings, request a public record, find campaign and election services, or do business with the City of Oakland<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oaklandca.gov\/Government\/Meetings-Agendas\/KTOP\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"styled-button-calltoaction\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch KTOP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Services<br \/>\nCity Council<\/p>\n<p>Public Records<\/p>\n<p>Campaigns &amp; Elections<\/p>\n<p>Lobbyists<\/p>\n<p>Resources<\/p>\n<p>City Officials<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oaklandca.gov\/Government\/City-Council-Leadership\/Council-Members\/District-6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Jenkins<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tCity Council President and District 6 Councilmember<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n       &#13;<br \/>\n  &#13;<br \/>\n  &#13;<br \/>\n  &#13;<br \/>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail-image right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/screenshot-2025-06-24-at-12.57.45\u202fpm.png\" alt=\"\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n &#13;\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 The eight members of the City Council are elected directly by the people of Oakland. The Council&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-370286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370286","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=370286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}