Twenty city workers face layoffs, and more than 100 vacant positions will be eliminated.

The 0.5% sales tax increase would patch a $9 million hole in the city’s budget, while the bond could be used to renovate the 911 dispatch center, prepare for sea level rise and more.

The City Council approved the extended meter hours and increased parking ticket fines, looking to bring in a projected $5 million more per year.

Hansel Aguilar, who was director of police accountability until February, warned that the tide is turning against civilian oversight of police agencies everywhere.

Council members broadly backed the city manager’s plan for plugging a $30 million budget hole, though they said they want to avoid closing a fire station and minimize layoffs.

The City Council is expected to vote Tuesday on a package of changes to parking rules that could generate nearly $5 million amid a budget crunch.

The City Council will seek other bids for a surveillance suite of cameras, drones and software, but will keep using the vendor’s license plate-reading cameras.

On the eve of a City Council vote to expand the police department’s tech arsenal to include drones, cameras and new software, oversight officials have also said BPD ignored competitive bidding rules.

Voters in four districts will elect their City Council representative this November, and two of the races won’t have an incumbent on the ballot.

Officials who pushed for Berkeley to require more citizen petitions to start the process said they were tired of dubious attempts to landmark properties that were eyed for new housing.

City warns it could close a fire station, lay off police officers and slash hours at pools and community centers if voters don’t pass a tax increase in November.

The City Council will take up two proposals Tuesday night that would require preservationists to collect more signatures to start the landmarking process.

In a rare win for the civilian police oversight board, City Attorney Farimah Brown said the City Council — which approved the use-of-force policy in 2020 — needs to sign off on changes.

After hours of debate, the council's final vote on a $2 million expansion of the city’s Flock Safety surveillance network was postponed until June.

The City Council voted Tuesday night to cover or remove signs bearing Cesar Chavez’s name, and launch a process to rename the waterfront park.

The City Council will consider proposals for renaming the waterfront park and holiday honoring Chavez. A similar process has been launched for UC Berkeley’s student center.

The City Council will vote Tuesday whether to sign off on an up-to-$2 million expansion of its partnership with the controversial vendor amid opposition from privacy and immigration advocates.

The City Council vote, rescinding a nearly three-decade-old directive, comes amidst broader changes to BPD’s access to surveillance technology and other hardware.

Kathy Lee, who was interim director of police accountability before Hansel Aguilar was hired in 2022, has been nominated to return to the role, again on an interim basis. Aguilar was abruptly fired by the council last month.

The City Council quietly and retroactively approved the purchase in 2023, according to a report through the city auditor’s whistleblower program.

The sudden ouster of Police Accountability Board director Hansel Aguilar, and recent protest resignations from the Police Accountability Board, are the culmination of years of mounting tension between those bodies and the city.

Construction unions had asked Berkeley leaders to shoot down developers’ attempts to exempt themselves from local labor regulations, but council members said they didn’t have that power.

Berkeley spent tens of millions of dollars on non-competitive contracts for deals that should have gone out to bid, the city’s auditor found, though there was no evidence of corruption or favoritism.

The sudden ouster of Police Accountability Board director Hansel Aguilar, and recent protest resignations from the Police Accountability Board, are the culmination of years of mounting tension between those bodies and the city.

Hansel Aguilar, the director of police accountability since 2022, has chafed against the city’s administration, drawn the ire of its council and sued its police chief over access to department records.