… It’s clearly laid out in the budget that there’s future revenue provided for local governments, and it’s going to give local government more say in how the money is spent,” said the spokesman, Evan Westrup.
California’s redevelopment law lets city officials designate a zone as “blighted” and then earmark a portion of property taxes generated in that zone — money that would otherwise be divided among the state, county and cities — for redevelopment projects.
When Oakland moved those airport police officers onto the redevelopment payroll, it did so by classifying them as blight fighters and assigning them to redevelopment areas in East Oakland, Uptown, West Oakland and North Oakland. Along International Boulevard, the officers fight prostitution, drug dealers and counterfeiters. In West Oakland, they target violent crime. In North Oakland, they’ve been focusing on robberies.
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