Incoming Oakland mayor Barbara Lee on Friday announced her transition team will be composed of more than a dozen well-known local political, labor, business and nonprofit leaders.
Lee, who won a special April 15 election to replace ousted former mayor Sheng Thao, said she has formed a transition committee to help implement her agenda in the first 100 days of her administration.
“Oaklanders demand — and deserve — transparency, accountability, and results. With the help of these dynamic leaders and residents, this is what we will deliver together,” Lee said in a news release.
The head of Lee’s transition team is Danny Wan, former executive director of the Port of Oakland.
Keith Brown, executive secretary-treasurer of the Alameda Labor Council AFL-CIO, and Barbara Leslie, Oakland port commissioner and the president of the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, will lead the transition committee.
Committee members include, among others, San Francisco Foundation CEO Fred Blackwell, former Alameda County supervisor Keith Carson, former president of the Oakland branch of the League of Women Voters Viola Gonzales, regional president for Kaiser Permanente Northern California Carrie Owen Plietz and the founding partner of Kapor Capital Freada Kapor Klein.
“Transition Committee members were specifically invited to provide leadership and perspectives in helping to execute Mayor-elect Lee’s 100 Day Plan and to help convene working groups to provide guidance on how the City can rebuild accountability and results for the residents of Oakland.” News release
Also, serving as advisors will be former Oakland city attorney Barbara Parker and Ben Rosenfield, former controller, budget director and deputy city administrator for the city of San Francisco.
“Transition Committee members were specifically invited to provide leadership and perspectives in helping to execute Mayor-elect Lee’s 100 Day Plan and to help convene working groups to provide guidance on how the City can rebuild accountability and results for the residents of Oakland,” according to Lee’s announcement.
Lee has published her 10-point plan for the 100-day transition period, which includes bringing police and business owners together to devise public safety strategies, inviting the CEOs of the city’s 10 largest companies to discuss public-private partnerships, initiating an audit of city contracts and appointing a task force to find ways to “modernize Oakland’s Charter and strengthen government accountability,” among other things.
She said she will also form working groups to focus on such things as housing and homelessness, economic development, good governance and arts and culture and the city’s youth.
