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Gerard, Jennie
From: Kernighan, Pat
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2014 11:20 AM
To: Gerard, Jennie
Subject: FW: Revised Measure Y renewal poll draft


Pat Kernighan
Oakland City Council President
And Councilmember for District 2
1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza
Oakland, CA 94612
510-238-7002
pkernighan@oaklandnet.com

From: Ruth Bernstein [mailto:ruth@emcresearch.com]
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 8:25 AM
To: Kernighan, Pat; Cook, Brigitte; Sanchez, Arturo M; Cotton, Chantal; Farmer, Casey; Amy Fitzgerald
Cc: lynettemcelhaney@gmail.com; tom@cliffordmoss.com; Emily Kirby
Subject: RE: Revised Measure Y renewal poll draft

I agree with you completely, thank you very much for reorganizing it in a way my brain couldn't come up with. I made
some minor tweaks to stay within the word limit, so here's what I came up with for the 2 versions. Unless anyone
objects, this is what we will use for the meeting today:

Without increasing tax rates, to reduce gun violence and violent crime, increase public safety in neighborhoods,
ensure faster 9-1-1 response times, and improve high-school graduation rates, shall the City of Oakland
authorize a surcharge on commercial parking and a parcel tax with no tax rate increase subject to annual
performance and financial audits by a citizens oversight committee to provide additional police officers and
effective community programs, including crisis intervention, job training, and support for at-risk youth.

To reduce gun violence and violent crime, increase public safety in neighborhoods, ensure faster 9-1-1 response
times, and improve high-school graduation rates, shall the City of Oakland authorize a surcharge on commercial
parking and a parcel tax subject to annual performance and financial audits by a citizens oversight committee to
provide additional police officers and effective community programs, including crisis intervention, job training,
and support for at-risk youth.


From: Kernighan, Pat [mailto:PKernighan@oaklandnet.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 9:59 PM
To: Cook, Brigitte; Sanchez, Arturo M; Cotton, Chantal; Farmer, Casey; Amy Fitzgerald
Cc: lynettemcelhaney@gmail.com; tom@cliffordmoss.com; Ruth Bernstein
Subject: RE: Revised Measure Y renewal poll draft

Dear team members,

Thank you for trying to coalesce the many opinions heard at the last meeting (a very hard task) and requesting our feedback.

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Here is my feedback on the wording of the Ballot question:

Forgive me, but I had a very strong negative reaction to the opening wording of this ballot question. I can't imagine people voting Yes
to a question that begins "To provide effective community programs to..." It sounds generic and bureaucratic.

One of the key concepts discussed by the group was that voters are interested in OUTCOMES, which in this case is "to reduce gun
violence and violent crime, increase public safety in neighborhoods, ensure faster 9-1-1 response times, and improve high school
graduation rates."

The METHOD to achieve those goals is to "provide effective community programs, including crisis intervention, job training, and
outreach and support for at-risk youth."

The following is my suggestion of how to reorganize the ballot sentence to make it more compelling:

"To reduce gun violence and violent crime, increase public safety in neighborhoods, ensure faster 9-1-1 response times, and improve
high school graduation rates, shall the City of Oakland authorize a surcharge on commercial parking and a parcel tax subject to annual
performance and financial audits by a citizens oversight committee in order to provide additional police officers and effective
community programs, including crisis intervention, job training, outreach and support for at-risk youth? "

I am not sure if this is within the word limit. Also note that I added mention of police officers, without which I think this measure will
fail. I am interested to hear and consider other ideas and proposed sentence structures that you all come up with.

With respect and friendship,

Pat Kernighan

510-912-5517








-----Original Message-----
From: Cook, Brigitte
Sent: Thu 02/20/14 6:01 PM
To: Sanchez, Arturo M; Cotton, Chantal; Farmer, Casey; Kernighan, Pat; Amy Fitzgerald
Cc: lynettemcelhaney@gmail.com; tom@cliffordmoss.com; Ruth Bernstein (ruth@emcresearch.com)
Subject: Revised Measure Y renewal poll draft

Hello Safety & Service Measure Team,



The attached poll draft came out of the discussion from last Friday. Please review as your input and feedback will be much
appreciated.



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Brigitte Cook, Community Liaison

Oakland District 3 - Councilmember Lynette McElhaney

1 Frank Ogawa Plaza s 2nd Floor, City Council Office s Oakland, CA 94612

Office (510)238-7245

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BCook@Oaklandnet.com



From: Ruth Bernstein [mailto:ruth@emcresearch.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 5:31 PM
To: Cook, Brigitte; lynettemcelhaney@gmail.com
Cc: Tom Clifford (tom@cliffordmoss.com); Emily Kirby
Subject: Revised Measure Y renewal poll draft



Lynette and Brigitte,

Attached is what our team, along with Tom, came up with following our discussion on Friday. Can you please distribute to the small
group so we can continue to gather input. Or let us know if you need our help with that.



Thank you,



r



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Ruth Bernstein

EMC Research, Inc.

Direct Office: 510-550-8922

General Office: 510-844-0680, x312

Cel: 510-913-9841

ruth@EMCresearch.com