The Oakland City Council is scheduled to vote tonight on a deal to sell city-owned land near West Oakland's BART station to a nonprofit that improperly obtained hundreds of thousands in county tax dollars,according to the Alameda County Grand Jury. The city would sell the land for a nominal (insignificant, trifling) price, even though it's worth $1.4 million, and in order to subsidize an affordable housing project on site.
[br] Further complicating the deal is the fact that the nonprofit's leader sued the City of Oakland final year,alleging that councilmember Desley Brooks attacked her at a barbecue restaurant.…
Source: eastbayexpress.com