Berkeley Public Transit

Podcast: Transportation Commission meeting 6/16/11

2011-06-20T10:08:00.000-07:00

Joint Workshop with Public Works Commission on Right of Way Modernization and Better Streets Program; Electric Vehicle Charging; Update on West Street Path Project. (3 hours, 55 minute stereo recording, 432MB). Listen.

Podcast: Transportation Commission meeting 7/15/10

2010-08-27T21:17:00.000-07:00

Caldecott 4th Bore Settlement Fund Projects; Transportation Demand Management Subcommittee (40:04 stereo recording, 73MB) Listen.

Podcast: Transportation Commission special meeting 7/15/10

2010-08-27T21:15:00.000-07:00

Joint Meeting with West Berkeley Project Area Committee: West Berkeley Transportation Services Fee Nexus Study; West Berkeley Parking and TDM (2:04:48 stereo recording, 228MB) Listen.

Above-ground Berkeley Bike Station opens

2010-07-15T12:25:00.003-07:00

SF Streetsblog has the story. That's me holding my daughter's pink coat in the photo at the bottom.

Podcast: Transportation Commission 6/17/10

2010-06-19T08:32:00.000-07:00

Angled parking on North Shattuck Avenue; Caldecott 4th Bore settlement fund projects. (2:52:29 stereo recording, 315MB) Listen.

Podcast: Transportation Commission 4/15/10

2010-04-16T19:07:00.000-07:00

Residential Parking Permit Program Modifications in the Vicinity of Trader Joe's Project; AC Transit Bus Stop Changes and Impacts on On-Street Parking; Caldecott 4th Bore Settlement Fund Projects; Back-in Angle Parking on North Shattuck Avenue; Draft Transportation Division Work Plan for 2010 (3:11:48 stereo recording, 176MB) Listen.

Podcast: Transportation Commission 3/18/10

2010-03-26T11:22:00.000-07:00

Staff update and discussion on Locally Preferred Build Alternative for Bus Rapid Transit; downtown area plan; referral from council re: AC Transit service improvements (1:43:16 stereo recording, 95MB) Listen.

Podcast: Planning Commission 2/10/10

2010-02-15T00:37:00.000-08:00

Locally Preferred Build Alternative for Bus Rapid Transit (3:02:29 stereo recording, 167MB) Listen.

Podcast: Transportation Commission 2/4/10

2010-02-05T11:37:00.000-08:00

Final 2 hours of 3 1/2 hour-meeting: Commission discussion and vote on Locally Preferred Alternative for Bus Rapid Transit. (1:20:20 stereo recording, 74MB) Listen.

Berkeley TC BRT subcommittee 2/2/10

2010-02-03T16:00:00.000-08:00

Final 93 minutes of two-hour Berkeley Transportation Commission (transit subcommittee) meeting, February 2, 2010. Presentation and discussion of the Locally Preferred Alternative (LPA) for Bus Rapid Transit. (1:32:46, 85MB). Listen.

Podcast: Bicycle subcommittee 1/28/10

2010-01-29T12:50:00.000-08:00

Bike station update; presentation and discussion about 9th Street Bicycle Boulevard extension (1:22:28, 75MB stereo) Listen.

Podcast: Transportation Commission 1/21/10

2010-01-25T12:40:00.000-08:00

BRT and emergency vehicles on Telegraph Avenue; Caldecott Tunnel 4th bore mitigations; reschedule Feb. 18 meeting to Feb. 4; referral from council re: AC Transit service improvements. (1:13:14 stereo recording, 67MB) Listen.

Podcast: Planning Commission 12/9/09

2009-12-13T20:15:00.000-08:00

Locally Preferred Alternative for Bus Rapid Transit (3:19:50 stereo recording, 183MB) Listen.

Podcast: Berkeley bike subcommittee 12/3/09

2009-12-07T13:53:00.001-08:00

Final hour of 110-minute meeting, including West Street Pathway; Class I Multi-Use Design Standards; Hearst Ave. Bike Lane; Status of Bike Plan recommendation going to Council; Bike to Work Day 2010; Cool Your Commute proposal to implement Climate Action Plan (1:00:41, 56MB in stereo) Listen.

Podcast: Transportation Commission 11/19/09

2009-11-24T22:20:00.000-08:00

Locally Preferred Alternative for Bus Rapid Transit (3:32:08 stereo recording, 194MB) Listen.

Podcast: Transportation Commission 10/29/09

2009-11-24T22:15:00.000-08:00

Audio from the October 29, 2009 Berkeley Transportation Commission meeting: Update on Process Timeline of Berkeley's Locally Preferred Alternative for Bus Rapid Transit; Quiet Zone Feasibility Stody & Follow-Up Discussion and Recommendation; Water Emergency Transit Association (WETA) presentation on Ferry Terminal; Discussion re Commission on Disability Recommendations on vertical Deflection Devices; Ashby/Highway 13 Corridor Projects (3:33:27, 195 MB) Listen. (Originally posted at Central Hillegass Neighborhood blog)

Podcast: Berkeley bike subcommittee 10/22/09

2009-10-25T13:25:00.000-07:00

Bike station update; current and future staff projects; Caldecott status; Hearst Ave. bike lane, Shattuck to Arch; bike plan update; Bike to Work Day 2010; Cool Your Commute proposal. (1:31:45, 84MB) Listen.

Podcast: Berkeley bike subcommittee 9/24/09

2009-10-11T16:37:00.000-07:00

Partial recording of meeting includes Updates on Bike Station, Bicycle Parking, 9th Street Blvd. Extension, West Street Pathway, Ohlone Greenway/BART Seismic Retrofit, Safe Routes to Schools and Caldecott Funding Status (37:34, 34MB) Listen.

Podcast: Berkeley bike subcommittee 8/27/09

2009-08-29T00:11:00.000-07:00

BART Ohlone Greenway Reconstruction; Bicycle Pavement Markings Maintenance; Bike Station; Bicycle Parking; Safe Routes to Schools Grant Award; Safe Routes to Transit Grant Application; Caldecott Tunnel bike/ped safety mitigations. (1:25:55, 79MB) Listen. (Note: Some audio problems due to cell phone signal interference with recording equipment.)

Dysfunctional BART labor negotiations

2009-06-13T17:11:00.000-07:00

I guess I don't understand public agency labor negotiations. At Thursday's BART meeting, a long line of BART union representatives complained that BART had yet to bring a real offer to the table. Apparently a one-page offer cannot be considered an offer. The BART board didn't appear to have too much to say in response, but in the press, BART spokesman Linton Johnson said that the unions had not responded to that offer, however brief it was. The details of negotiations aren't made public. Maybe they should be. (I know, that would probably require a complete revision of state labor law.) Then the public could see what's in BART's offer, and decide for themselves if labor was being unreasonable not to respond.

There's a lot I don't know about labor negotiations. It could be that BART's high-paid negotiator is trying to get the union to agree to a group of general principles in hopes that through a series of such agreements, the unions end up making large concessions. Certainly the unions are still sore about things they say they conceded years ago that ended up badly for them. But times are tough in an unprecedented way, so is it really fair for the unions to bring up slights from long ago?

Podcast: Transportation Commission 5/21/09

2009-05-22T16:30:00.000-07:00

Audio from the May 21, 2009 Berkeley Transportation Commission meeting: Audio from last week's Transportation Commission meeting: Workshop on Ashby/Highway 13 Transportation Mitigation Projects (2:10:34, 120 MB) Listen.

Podcast: Transportation Commission 3/19/09

2009-03-24T12:48:00.000-07:00

Audio from last week's Transportation Commission meeting: Caldecott 4th Bore Settlement; AC Transit Line 51 Reliability Study; Permeable Pavers; Elmwood 90 min Parking Request; Gilman/I-80 Interchange Project Update; Ferry EIR Update (3:14:46, 93 MB). Listen.

Podcast: Berkeley bike subcommittee 2/26/09

2009-02-28T10:48:00.000-08:00

Final 53 minutes of Feb. 26, 2009 meeting of the Bicycle Subcommittee of the Berkeley Transportation Commission: Dooring prevention, bikeway crossings of Ashby Ave. (25MB, 53:04). Listen.

BART police shooting must be investigated

2009-01-05T13:18:00.001-08:00

There should be a thorough investigation of BART police following the death of Oscar Grant. Watch this 22-minute video from KPIX.

Podcast: Districts 2/3 Town Hall on Climate Change

2008-12-19T13:29:00.000-08:00

A Town Hall Meeting on Berkeley's proposed Climate Action Plan with Council Members Darryl Moore (District 2) and Maxwell Anderson (District 3), held at Frances Albrier Community Center, Berkeley, California, December 18, 2008. Listen. (1:17:37, 37MB)

Podcast: AC Transit BRT meeting with Willard neighborhood

2008-12-17T10:35:00.000-08:00

AC Transit answers questions regarding proposed Bus Rapid Transit from residents of the Willard neighborhood in Berkeley, California, held at Willard Middle School, December 16, 2008. Listen. (1:09:38, 33MB)

Podcast: District 8 Town Hall on Climate Change

2008-12-16T10:56:00.000-08:00

A Town Hall Meeting with Council Member Gordon Wozniak (District 8), held at St. John's Presbyterian Church, December 15, 2008. Listen. (1:28:18, 42MB)

Podcast: Berkeley bikestation controversy, 9th street plans

2008-12-05T12:43:00.000-08:00

The city of Berkeley's city manager has abruptly decided to drop support for expanding the downtown BART attended bike parking ("bikestation") in favor of a cardkey-access-only bike cage to be built in the Center Street garage -- an option opposed by most bicyclists. The controversy came to a head last night at the Berkeley Transportation Commission's bike subcommittee meeting. I recorded it in its entirety. The matter is agendized as an information item at next Monday's city council meeting. Also discussed during the bike subcommittee meeting are plans to complete the 9th St. bike corridor past the new Berkeley Bowl site in West Berkeley. Listen. (2:20:20, 67MB)

Where Kriss and I agree

2008-10-30T22:22:00.000-07:00

I'm with Kriss Worthington on at least two issues: No on KK, and Yes on Proposition 1.

Climate Action Plan needs congestion pricing policy

2008-02-28T11:43:00.000-08:00

Berkeley's Climate Action Plan (CAP) needs a congestion pricing policy. I will be submitting comments about this before the March 7 comment deadline. Meanwhile, Bern Grush's Grush Hour blog has some good background on arguments to add congestion pricing to Toronto's CAP.

Flagspotting

2008-02-06T11:26:00.001-08:00

Bicycling my daughter to school yesterday, I told her to watch for an American flag, as it would indicate a polling place. Although we passed several likely locations, we saw no flags, until, just before we arrived at her school, she pointed out a flag on a city garbage truck! Fortunately I was able to convince her that ballots weren't being deposited there.

Let's follow Sweden's example

2007-08-09T13:23:00.001-07:00

Expanding bus service won't take nearly as many cars off the road as congestion pricing will. Sweden is the latest example.

Audio of Transportation Commission workshop, 7/24/07

2007-07-25T15:17:00.000-07:00

Audio of Berkeley Transportation Commission Bus Rapid Transit Working Group public workshop to discuss impact of BRT on southside of UC Berkeley campus. Audio edited to remove inaudible portion when small groups were meeting. 1 hour, 47 minutes, a 51.4MB MP3 download. Listen.

Audio of Transportation Commission meeting, 6/21/07

2007-06-22T13:33:00.000-07:00

Audio from last night's Transportation Commission meeting, 3 hours and 12 minutes, a 92.5MB MP3 download. Listen.

Bus Rapid Transit EIR meets the Berkeley public

2007-05-25T14:54:00.000-07:00

EIR, meet Berkeley. Berkeley, meet EIR. Audio from last night's Planning Commission/Transportation Commission/Downtown Area Plan Advisory Committee meeting, about 2 hours, a 57.5MB MP3 download. Listen.

Revenge of the bollards

2007-01-29T12:21:00.000-08:00

Jeremy Wagstaff: "The UK city of Manchester has introduced something called 'retractable bollards' (non UK folk may call them posts) that sink into the ground when an approved vehicle approaches...the only problem is other drivers." Great video.

Cool site shows next BART trains overlaid on Google Maps

2007-01-22T10:44:00.000-08:00

I study Web site "mashups" but I don't know exactly how this site was created, or how it's maintained. But it's COOL! It overlays the BART stations on Google Maps and then pops up a list of the next trains coming to each station, and where they're headed. I'm sure this is based on BART's printed schedules and not real-time information. But wouldn't it be cool if BART created something just like this where the info was updated every few minutes?

Casual carpool attempted carjacking

2007-01-10T10:39:00.000-08:00

A guy in a casual carpool from Hercules to San Francisco tries to carjack the car. This story may drive a few people back to public transit.

AC Transit introduces TransLink

2006-11-22T20:37:00.000-08:00

AC Transit introduces TransLink to Transbay Riders. Speakers: Victoria Wake (AC Transit marketing and community relations manager), Lisa Fine (AC Transit senior marketing representative), and Ken Rhodes (AC Transit customer services manager and TransLink project manager). Recorded November 14, 2006. Listen. (51:29)

Berkeley Candidates: District 8

2006-10-19T17:33:00.000-07:00

Broadcast-quality audio from Tuesday night's Willard Neighborhood Association Candidates' Forum. District 8 pits incumbent Gordon Wozniak versus challenger Jason Overman. Listen.

Berkeley Candidates: Mayor

2006-10-19T17:28:00.000-07:00

Broadcast-quality audio from Tuesday night's Willard Neighborhood Association Candidates' Forum. The Mayor's race pits incumbent Tom Bates versus challengers Zelda Bronstein and Zachary Running Wolf. (Another mayoral candidate, Christian Pecaut, did not participate in the forum.) Listen.

Berkeley Candidates: District 7

2006-10-19T17:23:00.000-07:00

Broadcast-quality audio from Tuesday night's Willard Neighborhood Association Candidates' Forum. District 7 pits incumbent Kriss Worthington versus challenger George Beier. Listen.

Parking should cost more in Berkeley

2006-09-22T20:50:00.000-07:00

I'm not the only one who thinks so.

Welcome to Berkeley: We're full

2006-07-06T14:02:00.000-07:00

...of cars. that is. But there are more on the way, courtesy of an expanding Caldecott Tunnel. What's wrong with this picture?

Podcast: NextBus meets AC Transit riders

2006-03-27T12:19:00.000-08:00

Last month, NextBus briefed the AC Transit Task Force and Transbay riders at their monthly lunchtime meeting in San Francisco. NextBus is a service that provides information about future bus arrivals. I made an audio podcast of the meeting, available in two parts, here and here. Recorded Feb. 14, 2006.

Berkeley red light camera warning phase begins

2005-05-24T14:54:00.000-07:00

Those new digital cameras going in all over Berkeley are being turned on this Friday, May 27. For the first 30 days, the city will send out warning letters. After that, red-light runners can expect to receive minimum $331 penalties in the mail.

These cameras are not perfect, and it'll be interesting to see how long it takes for the first court challenge to occur -- either on the accuracy of the cameras, or (especially in Berkeley) on privacy grounds (this is a town where putting RFID chips in library books has ignited a firestorm). There are also lots of email spammers out there offering to sell folks something to put over their motor vehicle's license plates to thwart cameras from getting a clear image of the plate.

Is public safety worth it? I think so. It might also keep intersections clearer and thus facilitate the movement of buses around town. We'll see.

BART moves toward daily parking charges in the East Bay

2005-04-26T13:57:00.000-07:00

A welcome development: BART will hold a public hearing Thursday on implementing daily parking charges in some or all of its East Bay stations. Too bad it took a fiscal crisis.

More details here.

BART plans fare increase, may add more parking charges

2005-04-02T16:38:00.000-08:00

Yesterday BART posted a preliminary budget for 2006. The budget proposes an expected 3.7% fare increase. The current proposal does not include any new charges to park at BART parking lots, but at a public hearing on April 28, the BART board will consider adding such charges at six unnamed stations. The preliminary budget states: "New Paid Parking Programs under consideration include: Single Day Reserved and Reserved Parking Area Expansion/Daily Paid Parking at six stations/West Bay Long Term/Airport Parking."

BART staff is projecting the system will run a deficit of $30.4 million in Fiscal Year 2006. Currently, to close that gap, staff is proposing eliminating 115 positions, half of which are currently vacant. No reduction in train frequency is proposed except perhaps in the West Bay "depending upon the outcome of discussions with SamTrans," but train lengths may be shortened according to BART load factor policies.

In addition to the public hearing April 28, BART will discuss the budget during its administrative committee meeting on April 14. It will consider approving revenue enhancements, such as parking charges, on May 12. Finally, on June 9, the board will adopt the final budget.

More information available at http://www.bart.gov/news/press/news20050401b.asp. The preliminary budget document is downloadable as a PDF at the bottom of this page.

Did Supremes embolden TSA?

2004-11-18T13:40:00.000-08:00

Perhaps the Supreme Court emboldened the TSA to order Amtrak personnel, starting November 1, 2004, to randomly check IDs on board trains. I'm thinking back to this June 2004 story:

The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a state law that makes it a crime to
refuse to tell the police one's name when stopped for suspicious behavior.

Or is it possible that the Supremes now would have to throw out the TSA Amtrak directive as unconstitutional under the fourth amendment, because there's no supicious behavior test, just random checks?

This Amtrak mess should be a cause celibre for the Libertarian Party, but they're strangely silent on the issue.

Amtrak random ID checks: Outrage, and finally, press notice

2004-11-18T09:58:00.000-08:00

The day after my father's passing, I was made further distraught by being randomly selected to produce I.D. "or else" on board Amtrak, on a short trip between Oakland and Santa Clara. I'm glad my father didn't live to see the United States impose the sort of Communist-state "your papers please" confrontation that typifies many bad old movies, and is precisely the sort of thing he enlisted in the Army, to fight in WWII and Korea, in order to prevent.

My anger was compounded by discovering that the TSA directive that implemented the random checks was secret, and the further the realization that the press had ignored the story, and continued to do so.

I took two steps. First, I posted to an Internet newsgroup, ba.transportation, where rail advocates supposedly congregate. There, Richard Silver, executive director of RailPAC, the Rail Passenger Association of California, said that my concerns meant I was being more anal than he was. In other words, what's my problem with a little more security?

The black-helicopter crowd at ba.transportation then began to rail against FasTrak, having to produce I.D. when checking in at the airport, or when buying Amtrak tickets in the station, for that matter. But a FasTrak transponder can be placed in a provided mylar bag to avoid detection outside of a toll plaza. And everyone understands why the airlines are checking all I.D. What I want to understand is why random checks on Amtrak make us safer, and exactly why catching bad guys on Amtrak is as important as it is on board airliners. Sorry, the TSA directive is secret. How about a little discussion, debate, discourse? At least the discussion at ba.transportation has continued for several days.

Next, I sent email to Dave Farber's Interesting People mailing list, where a discussion about secret TSA directives was already underway. Dave found my email interesting and posted it on November 16.

Lo and behold, on November 17, the Associated Press runs a story about the random ID checks on Amtrak.

I'm appalled at any passenger association which itself is not appalled by this new infringement on the fourth amendment (and the negative impact it will have on rail ridership), and to the traditional "fourth estate" for missing one of the biggest civil liberties stories of the year, until (apparently) a lone blogger beat them to it.

Picking up the pieces

2004-11-07T21:14:00.000-08:00

I'm not even talking at all about the presidential race. Roy Nakadegawa's defeat by Bob Franklin for the BART District 3 seat is a blow for quality public transportation in Berkeley. Franklin, now certainly beholden to the unions who financed much of his campaign, will be distracted carrying their water into upcoming bargaining talks. Meanwhile, the initiative to charge for all parking at Berkeley BART stations will be fully shelved. About the best thing I can say is that the whole experience made me sit up and look around for more resources regarding disclosure of local campaign financing. Here's one I learned about this weekend at Bloggercon III. Unfortunately, it only delves down into the U.S. Congressional races -- no more local than that. (You can query the data they do have by zip code, which is fascinating.)

Now, imagine an army of bloggers, posting all the financing data for all the races in local districts everywhere, much as I did in the BART District 3 race. Chris Nolan thinks it's an interesting idea. So does Staci Kramer of the Online Journalism Review. (Both of whom I talked to at Bloggercon.)

With few newspapers publishing any campaign contribution data, and practically no one bothering to interpret the data so you know (as I attempted to communicate) what the data means, this is fertile ground for bloggers to cultivate, maybe even as a source of income.

Why I support Roy Nakadegawa

2004-10-29T13:40:00.000-07:00

Before I voted for Roy Nakadegawa via absentee ballot today, one of the most important things I did, as any voter should, is to compare him to his challengers.

Bob Franklin presents himself as the fresh-blood liberal candidate for the BART District 3 seat. Indeed, the Alameda County Green County's dually-endorsed both Franklin and incumbent Roy Nakadegawa. Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates endorsed Franklin. Franklin also touts his membership in the Transportation and Land Use Coalition, and the Bicycle-Friendly Berkeley Coalition (neither of which endorses candidates).

But as I discovered last week, Franklin's money comes from the very organized labor that's been a major thorn in BART's side, by grabbing too much of a shrinking pie at a time when all who ride and support BART have been asked to sacrifice.

But my dissatisfaction with Franklin's campaign goes deeper. Franklin's been a part of a number of direct mailings originating from southern California. "Early Voter Guide" and "Parents Ballot Guide" are some typical names for these direct mail pieces. Read the fine print and you discover that each candidate listed has paid for the opportunity to be listed in these guides.

But then there's the case of the COPS Voter Guide. COPS, short for the California Organization of Police and Sheriffs, is a 28-year-old advocacy organization with a 909 area code, which places it in southern California. The fine print on the COPS Voter Guide reveals that candidates pay for their placement in the guide. So what does it mean, then, that the listings are presented as "OFFICIAL ENDORSEMENTS"? Are the COPS for sale? I don't trust a candidate who participates in such a deceptive political campaign. (It's also interesting, and a little curious, that the COPS Web site and the COPS Voter Guide do not provide Web links to each other.)

Even if all those hijinks were necessary to get a good candidate elected, Franklin is not that candidate. I had an exchange with Franklin over on the Berkeley BEST mailing list last week about about BART parking charges. Franklin said: "BART has been unable to charge for parking, except for reserve parking and 25 cents at the Lake Merritt station, for 32 years." By stating this, Franklin shows his ignorance, willful or not, of the successful daily BART parking charges at Colma and Daly City, now in place for more than a year, and yet parking lots there continue to fill up.

Franklin's command of the facts is as inadequate as is his willingness to carry out the wishes of the Berkeley City Council, which made it clear in June that it wanted parking charges for all spaces at the BART Ashby and North Berkeley stations.

The other candidate for this seat, Kathy Neal, sullied her reputation by making false accusations against Nakadegawa in her campaign literature. Her alignment with lots of developer dollars doesn't help either, and the only money she received from Berkeley was from her ex-husband and Oakland politico Elihu Harris.

Nakadegawa hasn't run a perfect campaign. He received the Sierra Club's endorsement, but this didn't make it into all his campaign statements. But his expertise and sterling reputation are such that the Oakland Tribune endorsed him this morning. His low-cost campaign also put him beyond the taint of money from developers and unions alike. Couple all that with his support of paid daily parking charges at BART, and he's still what Berkeley needs in a BART District 3 director.

Let's hope the blizzard of Franklin/Neal endorsements from outside of Berkeley, and the avalanche of direct mail pieces and signs from Franklin, and to some extent Neal, don't turn a good man out of office.

BART District 3 race: Whose money?

2004-10-23T09:32:00.000-07:00

This morning, let's look at whose money is fueling challengers Robert Franklin and Kathy Neal in the race to oust incumbent Roy Nakadegawa from the BART District 3 race. Nakadegawa, 81, says this is his last run for this office, and he's subsisting on previously-raised campaign funds, which certainly puts him beyond the possibly corrupting influence of an influx of new campaign dollars.

I gathered the following financial information yesterday morning at the Alameda County Registrar of Voters, where it is kept on file for public viewing. In the interest of brevity, I've omitted the donor's occuption or city of residents unless it was of particular interest.

Robert Franklin: $25,139 reported raised so far - none of it originating from a Berkeley address

Contributions of $1,000 and over:

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 790 has been Franklin's main financial engine, contributing $10,000 on October 21, 2004, as well as $5,000 earlier in the year. One of the main criticisms of BART management has been the lavish pay and benefits packages granted to SEIU to conclude a lengthy strike just prior to 9/11.
The BART Supervisory & Professional Union contributed $5,000 to Franklin.
Laura Kastanis, philanthropist, also donated $5,000. A Google search found no information about Kastanis.
Two apparent family members were donors: Sheldon Franklin ($5,000) and Elsie Franklin ($1,000).
Jeffrey Plaskett gave $2,004. No Google hits.

Contributions below $1,000:

Hyan Joe Shin, $500
Charles Plummer (Alameda County Sheriff), $250
Martin Walsh, $300
Mary Walsh, $250; both Walshes give a Hillsborough, CA address
David Barnett, $250
Ronald Overstreet, CEO of Open Horizons, $250
Harbhajan Agroia, BART engineer, $100
Daniel Bain, landlord, $100
Diane Leon, $100

Loans:

Franklin loaned his campaign $50,000 of his own money

As of Sept. 30, Franklin had $39,000 in cash in his campaign fund, and $54,000 in debts.

Kathy Neal: $17,168 reported raised so far - none of it from Berkeley with the exception of Elihu Harris, former mayor of Oakland, who gives a Berkeley address

Contributions of $1,000 and over:

Alan Dones, developer, $2,000
Mark Lindquist, developer, $1,000
Ron Cowan, real estate developer, $1,000
Frank Tucker, $1,000. CEO of Tucker Technology, Inc., an Oakland telecommunications firm

Contributions below $1,000:

Elihu Harris, chancellor, Peralta Community College District, $500
Gboyega Aladegbami, Akeo Consulting, $500
Franklin Arthur, real estate broker, $500
Sally Landis, $500
Patrick Maloney, $500
Katrina Powell, $500
Friends of Bill Riley, $500
Michael Baines, real estate developer, Baines & Robertson, Inc., $500
Alan Dones, developer/contractor, $500
National Women's Caucus PAC, $500
Thuy Thi Nguyen, attorney, Peralta C.C. Dist., $300
Anthony Batarse, president, Lloyd A. Wise, $250
Alton Jelks, administrator, Peralta C.C. Dist., $250
Rev. Harold Mayberry, $250
Collin Mbanugo, $250
Gwen Moore, executive, Gem Communications, $250
Samuel Wallace, consultant, Wallace-Williams, $250
Jack Wasserman, lawyer, Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP, $250
Paul Cobb, journalist, $250
Committee to Elect Johan Klehs, $250; Klehs is running for the 18th Assembly District seat, which stretches from San Leandro to Dublin
Ron Lumpkin, $250
Rich Sherratt, $250
Lonnie Dillard, $200
David Kramer, official, SEIU, $200
Sonja Willims, sales director, Time Warner, $200
Alona Clifton for Trustee-Area 7, $150; Clifton won a Peralta C.C. trustee seat in 2002
Becky Taylor, $150
Christian Dandrade, executive, CBX Technologies, $150
Karen Friedman, attorney, $150
Levine Fricke, $125
Richard Winnie, attorney, County of Alameda, $125
Tom Guarino, government relations manager, PG&E, $125
Cheryl Perry League, EEO officer, Port of Oakland, $125
Henry Mozell, $100
Richard Norris, lawyer, Archer Norris, $100
John Protopappas, Madison Park Financial Corp., $100
Carole Tolbert, consultant, Tolbert & Associates, $100
Connie Augustine, $100
Dennis Chaconas, $100; former superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District
Iona Gordon, $100
Mark Greenside, teacher, Peralta College, $100
Linda Handy, $100
Robert Harris, attorney, PG&E, $100
Brenda Hudson, $100
Paula Mitchell, $100
Anthony Pegram, BART engineer, $100

Loans:

California Waste, San Jose, $5,000
Kathy Neal, $2,702 + $500 + $676 + $676 (total=$4,554)
Ronald Lumpkin, Oakland, $10,000

As of Sept. 30, Neal had $21,000 in cash in her campaign fund, and $18,000 in debts.

I haven't done all the addition, so I don't know if these figures add up appropriately to match the totals reported.

BART District 3 race: Follow the money

2004-10-22T17:07:00.000-07:00

This morning I visited the Alameda County Registrar of Voters, to get a peek at who's contributing campaign funds to Robert Franklin and Kathy Neal, who are challenging incumbent Roy Nakadegawa for the board of directors' seat in BART District 3.

Franklin is clearly organized labor's candidate. He's received $20,000 from unions. Details to follow in a subsequent post.

Neal received hefty contributions from developers, consultants, and attorneys.

Nakadegawa has received no contributions. In a private email to me yesterday, he said his entire campaign is financed with what's left in his campaign chest from previous campaigns.

What's most interesting to me is that only $500 of the $42,000 contributed to Franklin and Neal's campaign so far comes from within Berkeley, and that's from Elihu Harris, who's more often associated with Oakland.

Full disclosure: I've just endorsed Nakadegawa in this race. I'll explain why in a future post.