Oakland City Council
Nadel was elected to Oakland's District Three "Downtown-West Oakland" City Council seat in 1996. The district includes Adams Point,most of Oakland's Central Business District (CBD) including all of Downtown and the Lakeside Apartments District,but excluding the Civic Center district south of 14th Street,and Chinatown. District Three also includes Jack London Square,the Jack London District,Pill Hill,and West Oakland.
Nadel chaired the city council's public works committee.
2008 city council election
On Tuesday June 3,2008,in the 2008 District 3 city council election,Nadel was re-elected for her fourth consecutive term with 51.6% of the vote,narrowly avoiding a run-off election. Her two challengers,both West Oakland residents as is Nadel,were Sean Sullivan,Oakland Covenant House director,who finished with 27%,and Oakland attorney Greg Hodge,who was elected to the Oakland School Board in 2000 and 2004,who garnered 20% of the vote. Community building coordinator Africa Williams ran as a write-in candidate.
During the election,Nadel was the subject of ballot access controversy after one of her opponents,Greg Hodge,filed for ballot access with what a judge would later rule to be the required signatures. [2] On March 14,2008,two Nadel supporters, [3] one of whom is an Oakland Attorney who made a contribution to Nadel's campaign on March 7, [4] inspected the signatures on Hodge's petition to access the ballot. They scrutinized the address of one of the voters who signed the petition,which led to the City Clerk reversing her decision. [5] Nadel maintains she played no role in striking Hodge's name from the ballot [6] Hodge ended up filing suit for successful reinstatement to the ballot.
Policy initiatives
2009 youth curfew proposal
She was opposed to a proposal for a youth curfew to keep child prostitutes off the streets,claiming increased contact with the police will be traumatic for them and that instead increased youth services and activities would be of better use. [8] This explanation was decried as "absurd" since other council members said it was "ridiculous" to expect youth centers to be open at 2 or 3 AM and that there was no good reason for minors to be out that late at night. [8] The curfew would have allowed police to take minors to their guardians or to a reception center with counseling services between the hours of 10PM (11PM Friday and Saturday) and 5AM. [8]
Anti-cronyism
During the context of the 2008 Anti-Nepotism ordinance,Nadel wanted the ordinance to go beyond nepotism to include "cronyism" or any questionable relationship involving city workers. "I personally know about cronyism things that have occurred so I have no problem putting that in. The cronyism and nepotism is legendary and it goes back for 30 years." [9]
After initially opposing [10] an earlier version of the anti-nepotism ordinance along with fellow Councilmember Jane Brunner,which died in the Finance and Management Agency Committee in September 2008,a revised version of the ordinance proposal passed the full Council on November 18,2008 on a 6-0 vote with the cronyism amendment attached. [11]
West Oakland Youth Center
In 2008,Nadel attempted to unilaterally approve her pet project,the West Oakland Youth Center, [12] which was finally built for a cost of 8 million dollars and remained empty in 2013 due to the inability to produce operational funds. [13] .
Staff
Nadel's official City Council staff of three full-time public servants included a scheduler,a constituent liaison,and a policy aide.
Constituent outreach
For several years,Nadel scheduled monthly "Constituent Coffee Hours" at World Ground Cafe in the Jack London District. In the fall of 2008,Nadel ended these open monthly meetings,preferring instead to meet directly with the Board of the Jack London District Association (JLDA),a neighborhood association. Her last Coffee Hours was scheduled for Saturday,October 25,2008. [14]
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