Supervisors Miley, Haubert are still itching to end Alameda County's eviction moratorium

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Alameda County Supervisors Nate Miley and David Haubert.

COUNTY/CITY NEWS

—NO-ATORIUM—Alameda County Supervisors Nate Miley and David Haubert have make it quite clear in recent months that the long-running countywide eviction moratorium needs to go. But they are in the minority among the five-member board.

—The pair of supervisors failed to get the potential rescission or modification of the moratorium on the board’s agenda last summer. That move was bold, so perhaps Miley and Haubert are now attempting to work the edges?

—Upon hearing that Covid-19 rates are continuing to fall in the region, Miley asked Alameda County Health Officer Dr. Nicholas Moss how low rates would need to fall before Moss would recommend changes to local health protocols and, specifically, the lifting of the local health state of emergency.

—"I'm kind of monitoring this situation and that it's not going to be in perpetuity,” Miley said, somewhat coyly. “So I'm trying to get a sense for when we can make changes.” 

—The end of the countywide eviction moratorium is linked to the eventually lifting of the Covid-era state of emergency.

—Haubert later asked Moss if he would consider ending the county’s state of emergency if other nearby counties did so first? But Moss mostly avoided offering much of a response to either supervisor’s queries.

—However, Moss hinted that far more county residents need to receive a jab of the new bivalent omicron vaccine booster. So far just 50,000 Alameda County residents have done so.

—COVID-19 UPDATE—A potential spike in new Covid-19 cases is possible as winter comes closer upon us, but the rate of infections continues to fall. "Not an all-time low, but much better than earlier this year," Alameda County Health Officer Dr. Nicholas Moss told the Alameda County Board of Supervisors this week.

—The Center for Disease Control rates Alameda County at a “low community level,” Moss said, with just nine cases per 100,000 residents. Hospitalizations sit at 58 patients, in addition, to seven in Intensive Care Units. Since Jan. 1, there has been 466 Covid-19 deaths in Alameda County. The rate of monkeypox infections is also falling and appearing to plateau, Moss said.

SAN LEANDRO

—COUNCIL PAY RAISES—A proposal to increase San Leandro councilmembers pay is expected to come to the city council later this month. Last month, San Leandro Councilmember Fred Simon asked for city staff to study the issue. It’s not yet clear how much of a pay raise some councilmembers are seeking, but the timing is curious and raises the specter of political expedient, coming just weeks before Election Day.

—Simon is not up re-election this year (However, Simon is on the ballot as an elected member of the Oro Loma Sanitary District Board of Directors). The only current member on the ballot that could benefit is Councilmember Victor Aguilar, Jr., but he’s running unopposed this fall.

—WINTER IS COMING—The self-described “city of kindness” is trying to live up to the moniker. The city is in the early stages in creating a winter shelter for the unhoused, San Leandro City Manager Fran Robustelli said this week. Among the potential sites is a city-owned facilities. The city is also talking to local housing providers.

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