About

Eastmont Neighborhood Council

Neighborhood Councils are local resident that work together to form the grassroots level of the City of Oakland government. The system was created to connect Oaklands’s diverse communities to City of Oakland offices and services. While Neighborhood Council board members are volunteers, they are public officials elected to office by the members of their community.

The Neighborhood Council system tailors Oakland’s municipal government to the City’s communities, ensuring that recognition and accommodation of these communities’ diverse needs is built into City governance.

As a result, each Council is unique. Though every Neighborhood Council is held to the local, state, and federal standards that other City officials and agencies must observe, each Council has its own board structure, with seats representing the particular type of stakeholders which that Council serves.

Neighborhood Councils advocate on issues like crime, illegal dumping, homelessness, housing, land use and maintenance, public safety, parks, transportation, and sustainability. They also provide local expertise and a local voice on the delivery of City services to their respective communities.

Each Council holds monthly meetings of their full board, in addition to monthly Steering Committee meetings with a more targeted focus on key issues or projects, like public safety, transportation, homelessness, or land use. All meetings are open to the public.