Oakland misses out on $267million to combat retail theft after inept city leaders MISS DEADLINE to file grant application

Daily Mail ^ | 9/16/23 | Kamal Sultan

[Libloather]

Talk about a blunder!

Oakland has missed out on funding from a $267million grant to combat retail theft after its leaders missed the deadline to file an application.

California planned to distribute the money to cities struggling to deal with the rampant looting, which has plagued the state.

But Oakland missed the July 7 deadline to apply for the grant due to alleged technical difficulties - and it has left businesses and residents furious.

Local pastor and community leader Bishop Bob Jackson slammed the city officials and said: 'You didn’t have to be a rocket scientist to fill out the grant.'

Oakland Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas admitted she was 'extremely disappointed' to miss out on the grant and added the city administrator was investigating how the mistake happened.

The office of California Governor Gavin Newsom announced plans to distribute $267million in grants to cities to help deal with the rising organized retail theft issue.

It publicized the deadline to maintain a 'level playing field'.

But following a legal review, the California Board of State and Community Corrections determined 'the City of Oakland did not meet the necessary requirements for a successful application submission and will therefore, not be eligible for funding consideration.'

The city's Economic and Workforce Development Department collaborated with the Oakland Police Department and community partners to put an application together for the governor’s Real Public Safety Plan grant opportunity, the City Administrator’s office told local website SFGATE.

While the police and community partners handed in their materials on time, the development department did not.

'Obviously this outcome is unacceptable,' the City Administrator’s office said in a statement.

Council President Bas said: 'Community safety is Oakland’s top priority, and I am extremely disappointed we missed a grant opportunity to bring more resources to our city.

[Libloather]

That's a shame. I suggest Oakland change it's name to Ukraine.

[Night Hides Not]

I expect to see multiple resignations for these failures.../sarcasm.

[kearnyirish2]

They’ll get the money; as a friend put it, “You can’t use report cards with these people.” In other words, you can’t have expectations, deadlines, etc.; just placate them and pretend everything is working fine.

[DeplorablePaul]

Sense of urgency and punctuality are characteristics of white supremacy culture. It is racist to expect blacks to finish tasks on time.

https://www.thc.texas.gov/public/upload/preserve/museums/files/White_Supremacy_Culture.pdf

[AnthonySoprano]

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Reclaiming my time. Reclaiming my time.

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[ComputerGuy]

...a $267million grant to combat retail theft...

For that kind of money they could just buy the stuff and then give it away to their downtrodden masses.

[joma89]

Can I guess the skin color of these inept leaders before going to the article?

[fso301]

inept city leaders MISS DEADLINE

Why did the author not consider the possibility that leaders carefully chose, or were told to miss the deadline?

[lavaroise]

This is not for retailers, this is a looting subsidy. Money in exchange for police defunding just like paying famers to not farm. wtf

[lavaroise]

More like hair color, but, yeah, plantation mentality is never far off

[SaveFerris]

[to help deal with the rising organized retail theft issue.]

Meanwhile at a WalMart a few years ago:

Job applications were apparently not stolen during the melee. The deals were a steal!!











(These are not my memes but I found these while searching fo above)

[Terry L Smith]

It could be that the city leaders wereof the mind that they were osrd the money, and the registration meant nothinh?

[SMARTY]

Stupid AND crooked!!

[Recompennation]

May have run counter to their own shopping hour wishes.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

How would would laundering $267-million of kickbacks... I mean taxpayer funds... to corrupt Oakland bureaucrats stop “retail theft?”

[j.havenfarm]

This is CA. That’s a more likely purpose to which the money would be put than the effective solution of hiring more cops and deputy DAs who will actually enforce the law

[3RIVRS]

By design.

[VicVanleeuwenhoek]

It is absolutely incredible that massive theft can’t be
handled by armed guards and Police Depts. anymore.

It’s almost like the Left has decided that the idea of
“ good and evil” is just a social construct, so when
crime gets ,out of hand, you can throw large amounts of money at the problem and then it will all go away.

[logi_cal869]

[Vaduz]

Oakland appears to have a population growth of unwashed feral heathens who knew.